Category: Education
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Contrast
Today is the Fourth of July. The anniversary of the day the Declaration of Independence was approved, it was signed later, by the Continental Congress. <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/">Read the document</a>. You want to talk about awe inspiring, this is it.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve…
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High Prices or Words Have Meanings
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_REFINERIES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Oil industry scales back refinery plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come.<br />n<br />nWith President Bush calling for…
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Choices
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/13/opinion/gazette/60-upsdowns.txt">Ups and Downs</a> from the Billings Gazette.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>DOWN: Fuel economy stalls. While gas prices soar above $3 a gallon across America, the U.S. Senate's Commerce Committee is diluting legislation that would mandate the first significant increases in fuel efficiency in 22 years. Consumers need vehicles that get more miles per gallon to stretch…
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Overrun
All the talk about banning Horse slaughter has an affect.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6481804,00.html" >Kentucky Overrun With Unwanted Horses</a><br />n<br />nYes, states shutting down slaughter plants and the continued propaganda about horse slaughter has led to exactly what I feared. People letting horses starve and/or turning them loose to suffer.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>“We had one horse we…
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Rewarding Bad Behavior
I have a little update on the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2417-Mixed-Message.html">Mixed Message</a> I talked about where the school was reinstating a basketball player over the objection of the coach for drinking, which was against the coaches rules. Obviously this happened while I was without Internet so I don't have the story but today's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/23/opinion/gazette/50-gazetteopinion.txt">Gazette opinion</a> sums…
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What Really Matters
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/16/news/state/25-lawmakers.txt" >Lawmakers out-of-staters: Do you care?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>More than a quarter of Montana's lawmakers didn't grow up under the Big Sky, a Gazette State Bureau analysis shows, and 10 percent moved to Montana after 1990.<br />n<br />nSome 29 percent – or 43 members – of the state's 150 lawmakers moved to Montana after they…
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Educators Out Of Control
<a href="http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/2007/010507WettingPants.html" >Handicapped Child Charged For Wetting Pants </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Prosecutors are declining to prosecute disorderly conduct charges brought against a 12-year-old special education student who school officials accused of deliberately wetting her pants at school.<br />n<br />nThe girl was charged with disorderly conduct after school officials reported an incident to police which occurred on…
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True Colors
<a href="http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3212" >Colorado Governor: PETA “A Bunch Of Losers,” “Frauds”</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As many as 340,000 cows and steers have been left stranded by southeastern Colorado's most recent snowstorm, and National Guard units are helping ranchers in a frantic bid to save the freezing animals. Faced with 15-foot snowdrifts, rescuers are airlifting bales of hay and…
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Wisdom of Cloning
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122800552.html" >FDA Says Clones Are Safe To Eat</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Taking a long-awaited stand in an emotionally fraught food fight, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday released a 678-page analysis concluding that milk and meat from cloned animals pose no unique risks to consumers.<br />n<br />nThe decision, subject to change after a period of public…