They Backed Down, But So What?

Good grief folks, you'd almost think the 0bama administration was actually on the side of the American family farm the way they're getting a pass on this "backdown" from outlawing chores for kids!
First off, they thought this was a good idea - they really did - it wasn't like they accidentally made a rule that surprised everyone by applying to kids on farms. These blowhards in DC really think they know how to raise kids on a farm better than the kids' own parents do.
Secondly, the retraction of the rules is done in conjunction with the development of a curriculum to be used in the government schools to train farm kids on how not to get hurt with equipment that won't be in the schools. Anyone care to guess how much of the "teaching" will be of the "your parents can't make you touch these dangerous machines that will likely kill or maim you, and they're evil and don't love you as much as the government does if they try to get you to do anything around the farm," as opposed to actual safety instruction? It seems like a pretty difficult thing to get a teacher to do, doesn't it? How are they going to train kids on how to safely use whatever particular stuff they have on their farm when there aren't any sample machines there at the school? That will be especially hard when you realize that they don't really have much time to spare for this kind of instruction when the time is already committed to learning the latest song in praise of our glorious leader president 0bama, how to put condoms on cucumbers and bananas, and which aggrieved group is most deserving of everyone else's money. I mean, there's not enough time to teach them how to read, add and subtract, that the Founding Fathers were actually a pretty smart bunch of dudes who knew better than to trust a powerful central government with any more power than is absolutely necessary, and that we have rights that were granted by our Creator, not by the feds (not even by the Constitution!).

Good grief, they're just going to go about it in an even sneakier way, so don't go giving them any credit for backing down - they haven't backed down any more than the roaches that scamper under the cabinets in the White House have backed down: they're just waiting until the lights go out again and we're not looking.

Posted by Lewis Cannon

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Mars and Water - Again!

1. A recent paper published in Science indicates that Martian valleys may not have been cut by running water.
2. The paper claims that features of the valleys are the result of lava flows under shear forces.
3. These coils are similar to lava coils found on Earth - near the Galapagos Islands.

One of the mystifying aspects to this story is the complete lack of reference to earlier discoveries of gypsum on Mars, which is typically a very strong indication of the action of water.
In addition, the lava coils on Earth which are mentioned as being similar to those on Mars are found under water - in the Pacific Ocean, to be specific.
When will our governments stop trying to "protect" us from the truth?
When will they tell us what's really out there?
We'll report back as we get more information.

Posted by Listener 43

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Martian Deception? Perhaps Not

My colleague, Listener 43, may have jumped the gun in posting his commentary on the discovery of life on Mars.

1. He does note that this was based on a study of only one experiment, ignoring the data from two other contemporary experiments.
2. He seems not to realize that this analysis runs counter to many others of the same data which found no evidence of life.
3. While sampling technology has certainly advanced in the intervening years, the analysis of this data has noting to do with updated sampling, but rather only with new analyses of the same samples.

Given the relatively short distances between Earth and Mars, there is little doubt that material from each planet can be found on the other - in fact, we have found Martian rocks in the antarctic - likely due to its being "splashed" out of the planetary gravity well by comet, asteroid, or meteorite impact.
It is much easier to believe - if any of this material really does represent the presence of life - that  its source was actually Earth rather than Mars.
Of course, there is still little reason to believe that there is the evidence of life in those samples at this point.

Clearly, my skepticism on this subject should not be taken to imply that I doubt the existence of any extraterrestrial life. It simply means that we haven't really found any evidence in these experiments, any more than we have evidence of global warming in the carefully curated sub-sample of tree-ring data.
In much the same way, I know that the Earth has warmed since the depths of the Ice Age; I simply don't know that the global fleet of HUMMERs is uniquely to blame, and would never use such a paucity of evidence to claim it to be so.

Posted by Procrustes 17

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How Dare They?

In the interest of full disclosure, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a stay-at-home Mom. Frankly, I'm not in the Potential-Mom half of the population anyway, so I'm able to comment on this whole brouhaha cum tempest in a teapot dome in a completely disinterested and abstract manner*.

So we hear over and over that the Republicans hate women. blah blah blah. Lefties can't say much else it seems.
Oh - wait a minute - Democrats hate women who don't dump their kids in some kind of day care operation so they can join the job market and make just barely enough to pay for the daycare and the gas or busfare or whatever that they need in order to get to work and then when they come home they're so exhausted that they expect their husbands (who apparently exist in some cases but not most from the way the statistics sound on the news) to actually do housework along with them while the kids do homework before they all collapse into bed after consuming hours of mind-numbing programming on television or their computers or tablets or whatever the device of choice might be in that household.

Isn't it obvious that these pundits and self-styled rulers (I thought we had a government of the people in this country, not rulers) don't want kids raised by families? Every policy coming out of DC seems calculated to make sure that kids are more and more dependent on the feds and less and less on their parents.
Ever read Brave New World by Huxley? All of this just sounds like we're on the way to a nation of Bokanovskified gammas, deltas,and epsilons being raised in the government creche to be productive cogs in society. For this we don't need education, we just need indoctrination, and that's more expensive because it costs money to distract kids from what's real long enough to fool them into believing the party line.

Makes my blood boil, I can tell you - worse than seeing some stuck up bureaucrat sitting on Dan Patch!
Hey, Feds, Leave Them Kids Alone!

Posted by Lewis Cannon

* OK, I'll fess up - I have a mother, and I had a part in making one as well. That proves nothing or less than nothing, and I stand by my sentiments and thoughts above regardless of how this revelation might make them look!

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More Mars-Related Deception

1. New analysis of data from the Viking Mars mission from 1976 has been undertaken.
2. Reports of the new results indicate that there was evidence of the presence of life on Mars.
3. Three experiments were undertaken, with these results being from only one of them.

Clearly we've been "protected" from the news that life was discovered on Mars nearly forty (40) years ago. The question is, "Why?"

While Martian microbes might seem innocuous - especially compared to the possibility of actual intelligent, potentially belligerent life - the news of such a discovery ought surely to have been widely circulated.

Why were Earth's citizens not informed?
What nefarious purpose did (or does) this cover-up serve?
Why were these results still kept out of the most popular scientific journals?
From what do our governments (or "rulers" as they style themselves) think to protect us?

We'll report back here as we get more information.

Posted by: Listener 43

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