Global warming is a sign to Mr. Looney that Judgment Day is approaching. Should it hit Seattle, I am sure he is planning to stand with a staff at Pier 63, part Puget Sound and walk to cooler climes across the water, maybe to Port Townsend.
The Federal Way Washington school board views non-controversial GLOBAL WARMING escape planHowever, that's not the story. The story is that the school board knuckled under. Teachers wishing to show 'controversial' films must get written approval from their principal. And Kay Walls, the teacher involved , is going to get a discplinary note because she didn't get prior approval because its a school board rule that before a "controversial' film shows in school, the teacher must get permission. Remember , one parent objected!
Controversial? Fugedaboutit!. Even the Chief Idiot of the USA finally admits its happening. He even mentioned it in his State of the Union address. The poor teacher did try to find an alternative view and found one, yes one, in Newsweek magazine.....from 37 years ago. Everybody else legitimate agrees.
There is one holdout still. He's the former chairman of The Senate Environmental Committee, James Imhofe, Republican of Oklahoma where the wind comes whipping down the plains...and through his ears. Don't blame him...blame the Okies who vote him in. We're supposed to compete in a global environment with every other country in the world and we can't even show a film to kids that quotes legitimate science.
When I was a kid, we had no trouble with that.
We watched The Living Desert which showed cute widdle prairie dogs and sidewinder snakes living happily where today there are housing developments. We watched Disney's "Our Friend, the Atom" ( not to be mixed up with the porno film about Eve in the Garden of Eden, "Your friend, the Adam") which showed how atomic energy when put into the right hands, ours, was very useful. and how, if it fell into the wrong hands, theirs, ping pong balls on mousetraps would all spring off, killing us all. If one goes, they all go.!
On the last day of school in my 9th grade year, with all the art supplies packed up for the summer, my art teacher showed the controversial 16 mm film called, so help me, "How to train your parakeet".
I remember because , as they showed parakeets riding atop model train cars with little engineer's caps on their feathered little heads, I started to get the giggles (I still do) and then started screaming laughing out loud so hard, he dropped my discipline grade in Art from A to D.
Trained parakeets cruelly are shown in their Halloween costumes. They're going out as fingers.Today I would have called PETA . Those poor parakeets!
As to the Federal Way School Board here's a non-controversial inconvenient truth: You're idiots and you've just done a major dis-service to your community! God, in case you haven't heard, is supposed to be a non-factor in public education!
