Teacher Bonus

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

.....What the hell are they teachin them?

Recycling, save the rain forests, global warming, etc. You know, warm fussy feel good stuff. Secular Democrats in training. It’s called indoctrination.

(And you thought ID was indoctrination. I just had to throw that in.)

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Recycling, save the rain forests, global warming, etc. You know, warm fussy feel good stuff. Secular Democrats in training. It’s called indoctrination.

(And you thought ID was indoctrination. I just had to throw that in.)

Speaking of global warming, did you read the latest news that a new source of global warming gases was found? The answer:
























plants!

Now, I guess that means the vegetarians are destroying our planet. (Sorry, I just had to throw that in.)

[TexKan]

duhhhhh.......... and that's news?....... i believe gasses is the by product of photosysthesis........... sounds reasonable to me anyway.........

[Bubba]

It's been awhile since High School, but if I remember photosynthesis is the process that converts sunlight to "fuel" for the plant to produce chlorophyl to make the plant green and as a by product the plant produces oxygen from carbon dioxide. Or something like that....what researchers found was that plants give off methane as well which is a known global warming gas.

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

I watched the show too Bubba and felt ashamed of US schools. When the American students were asked about the Bill of Right the said "I don't know" when asked what the civil war was about they said "I don't know". What the hell are they teachin them?

I agree with you 100%. I saw it too. I was embarrassed. When step-daughter and I toured Germany a couple of years ago, we actually commented that the Germans had a better command of the English language than many American students. At some point, we need to get back to teaching the basics first. Then the touchy-feely, fuzzy-wuzzy things. I'm glad my kids are grown and out of the school system. I pray for my grandchildren that they'll at least have a fighting chance when they grow up.

[Lone Gunman]

On 20/20 last night Belgium students and American students took the same test. The Belgium students scored up in the 76% range while the Americans scored around 47%. One Belgium student said if Americans can't pass these tests they really are stupid.

[TexKan]

Well i figger everything has a by product of sumthin...

[Bubba]

I found that news article I read about plants causing global warming, here it is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060111/...ent_methane_dc

New source of global warming gas found: plants Wed Jan 11, 1:06 PM ET



German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change.

The culprits are plants.

They produce about 10 to 30 percent of the annual methane found in the atmosphere, according to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.

The scientists measured the amount of methane released by plants in controlled experiments. They found it increases with rising temperatures and exposure to sunlight.

"Significant methane emissions from both intact plants and detached leaves were observed ... in the laboratory and in the field," Dr Frank Keppler and his team said in a report in the journal Nature.

Methane, which is produced by city rubbish dumps, coal mining, flatulent animals, rice cultivation and peat bogs, is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in terms of its ability to trap heat.

Concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere have almost tripled in the last 150 years. About 600 million tonnes worldwide are produced annually.

The scientists said their finding is important for understanding the link between global warming and a rise in greenhouse gases.

It could also have implications for the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for developed countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

Keppler and his colleagues discovered that living plants emit 10 to 100 times more methane than dead plants.

Scientists had previously thought that plants could only emit methane in the absence of oxygen.

David Lowe, of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, said the findings are startling and controversial.

"Keppler and colleagues' finding helps to account for observations from space of incredibly large plumes of methane above tropical forests," he said in a commentary on the research.

But the study also poses questions, such as how such a potentially large source of methane could have been overlooked and how plants produced it.

"There will be a lively scramble among researchers for the answers to these and other questions," Lowe added.

[lurker]

If you really want to gas-up your car, eat a soyburger. Some veggies eat enough of 'em that gas comes out both orifices.... non-stop!

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by lurker

If you really want to gas-up your car, eat a soyburger. Some veggies eat enough of 'em that gas comes out both orifices.... non-stop!

Funny thing about those soyburgers they not only cause gas to come out both orifices but they keep the the good things from going in the ears.