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I think the medical term for this kind of mania is "bonkers."

 

Parents in Collier County heated at school board meeting after claims that textbooks teach critical race theory

 

Parents and taxpayers are getting fired up during a Collier County School Board meeting. Seed to Table owner Alfie Oakes has already been escorted out of the meeting.

 

All of this because, according to these parents, the school board is pushing a liberal agenda onto students. They claim that the district will be spending millions of dollars on textbooks that focus on critical race theory.

 

An AP article seeks to define critical race theory:

“Critical race theory seeks to show how historical inequities and racism affect current public policy and social conditions. Critics say it promotes a distorted view of American history and vilifies white Americans.”

 

Yet, Collier County Public Schools says those books have nothing to do with critical race theory.

 

A school district official pushed back on these claims of pushing politics in the classroom.

 

“There is no evidence of critical race theory in this resource or any of the HMH Florida inter-reading student materials, teacher materials or any ancillary materials,” they said.

 

School board member Stephanie Lucarelli agrees with this sentiment. “After going through all these texts and having four kids in our schools as well, anything in these texts was not, you know, a problem for me.”

 

That did not change the minds of those who came out to make their voices heard.

 

Monday’s discussion came after three people filed objections to the textbooks that were approved in April.

 

“Tenets of critical race theory and indoctrinates students with leftist ideology,” said one speaker at the meeting.

 

Collier County resident Rob Tolp said, “I’ll be damned if I will allow a Marxist revolution to take place in this country, and we need to reject our children even being taught it.”

 

 


 

 

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7 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

 

Unless he said something somewhere else, this comment is being wildly taken out of context.

 

In the interview I saw, I think posted somewhere here on HB, he was basically saying the orbit of the moon and the Earths current orbit around the sun are drivers of climate change.  He made a comment that if environmental groups think they can make changes to stop the warming it will have to include changing the orbits.  And he laughed that off knowing that it can’t be done.

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10 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Unless he said something somewhere else, this comment is being wildly taken out of context.

 

In the interview I saw, I think posted somewhere here on HB, he was basically saying the orbit of the moon and the Earths current orbit around the sun are drivers of climate change.  He made a comment that if environmental groups think they can make changes to stop the warming it will have to include changing the orbits.  And he laughed that off knowing that it can’t be done.

Ok, then his attempt at being witty in his irony was equally dumb.

 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/09/gohmerts-question-about-forest-service-changing-earths-orbit-was-dumb-not-reason-you-think/%3foutputType=amp

 

In the last few months, a number of questions have come in asking if NASA has attributed Earth’s recent warming to changes in how Earth moves through space around the Sun: a series of orbital motions known as Milankovitch cycles,” NASA’s website reads. Those cycles “cannot account for the current period of rapid warming Earth has experienced since the pre-Industrial period (the period between 1850 and 1900), and particularly since the mid-20th Century,” the NASA blog goes on to say. “Scientists are confident Earth’s recent warming is primarily due to human activities — specifically, the direct input of carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere from burning fossil fuels.”

In fact, it concludes, “if there were no human influences on climate, scientists say Earth’s current orbital positions within the Milankovitch cycles predict our planet should be cooling, not warming, continuing a long-term cooling trend that began 6,000 years ago.”

Oh, in another article, NASA debunks the idea that solar flares are a cause of global warming."

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4 hours ago, Scarlet said:

Ok, then his attempt at being witty in his irony was equally dumb.

 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/09/gohmerts-question-about-forest-service-changing-earths-orbit-was-dumb-not-reason-you-think/%3foutputType=amp

 

In the last few months, a number of questions have come in asking if NASA has attributed Earth’s recent warming to changes in how Earth moves through space around the Sun: a series of orbital motions known as Milankovitch cycles,” NASA’s website reads. Those cycles “cannot account for the current period of rapid warming Earth has experienced since the pre-Industrial period (the period between 1850 and 1900), and particularly since the mid-20th Century,” the NASA blog goes on to say. “Scientists are confident Earth’s recent warming is primarily due to human activities — specifically, the direct input of carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere from burning fossil fuels.”

In fact, it concludes, “if there were no human influences on climate, scientists say Earth’s current orbital positions within the Milankovitch cycles predict our planet should be cooling, not warming, continuing a long-term cooling trend that began 6,000 years ago.”

Oh, in another article, NASA debunks the idea that solar flares are a cause of global warming."

Feel free to blast him for that.  

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9 minutes ago, Decoy73 said:

I didn’t think there is a filibuster for SCOTUS nominees.   But yes, still kill the filibuster.   

That is what I thinking. The filibuster doesn't matter for any judicial nomination anymore. McConnell said IF he is majority leader. This means the only way we get new Scotus is if the President and Senate are from the same party. Or....the president nominates someone the other party can get on-board with. I don't see holding up a Scotus nomination for more than a year as being politically smart, although the repubs did it for 6 months.  That tactic will only escalate going forward, so we may reach 2 years soon.

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