I think the Utah legislature is onto something big here.

[Jackpine Radical]

Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists'
The US's most Republican state passes bill disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are 'essentially harmless'

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 February 2010 18.20 GMT

Carbon dioxide is "essentially harmless" to human beings and good for plants. So now will you stop worrying about global warming?

Utah's House of Representatives apparently has at least. Officially the most Republican state in America, its political masters have adopted a resolution condemning "climate alarmists", and disputing any scientific basis for global warming.

I think this could be HUGH!!!!. I mean, WOW, think of the implications of legislating natural laws and scientific outcomes. Perhaps they could now pass a bill rounding pi off to an even 3. Think how much simpler math would then be in Utah.

They could become a Mecca for technological development and a veritabe Camelot in the desert. Like, next they could alter the gravitational constant to make things lighter there and save a lot of money on transportation costs. And they could end that nasty old evolution debate forever by outlawing natural selection and genetic drift.

[YOY]

1. What do you expect from the reddest of red states? Brilliance.

I personally love it when people who are not in a profession try to tell other professions about their jobs. Like when my doctor tells my top-school MBA ass about economics and I ask her if I can now write prescriptions.

[Catshrink]

2. Or when business people tell teachers how to teach.

Those guys wouldn't last a day in a classroom.

[YOY]

3. Dunno. Depends. I'm an MBA but have 6+ years of ESL Teaching.

Including High School kids. Now teaching theory. I'm all ears.

[Catshrink]

4. That's different...

You've taught HS kids and obviously have experience. Legislatures are telling teachers what to teach and how to teach yet have no clue how to do it and what it entails. But do they consult with teachers to learn what the best education practice are and what research shows is most effective? No. They think one size fits all.

What really sickens me is the Bill Gates/Newt Gingrich/Al Sharpton involvement. None of these men has ever had responsibility for a classroom and have no clue what works and what doesn't. The attempted movement to MBA-CEO-Principals is pure folly. Education cannot be done on an assembly line.

[RoccoR5955]

5. I say essentially the same thing to the doctor

who is a client of mine. I do his computers. When he tells me that he can fix things better than I can, I tell him that I can diagnose illnesses better than he can.
They don't understand the implications of their rudimentary knowledge, compared to someone who has been immersed in a field for 20+ years. They speak out of their bung holes, and think they are experts, when all their knowledge could fit in a thimble. I cannot stand this any more!

[ensho]

6. its embarrassing having such a stupid govt. of a State

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