Growing Food At School

School administrators prevent school-grown produce from being used in school lunches.  The children can grow the food, but not eat the food for lunch.


Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently toured a CPS school garden at the Academy for Global Citizenship on the Southwest Side. There, two second-grade girls showed her the eggplant, squash and tomatoes they grew, along with the chickens they kept for eggs.

"Ideally, all of those products would make it from the garden to the lunchroom," Merrigan said.

But rules created by CPS and its meals supplier, Chartwells-Thompson, prevent that from happening.

NASA Can't Measure Temperature Accurately

Their algorithm creates an imaginary hot spot at the North Pole (2-4 C based on no actual data within 800 km) and then weights it as heavily as a closer measured temperature reading, in the next step.

They appear to be using at least two steps of extrapolation/interpolation – which compounds error. In other words, their entire 21st century warming story is based on a defective interpretation of the Arctic.

“A likely explanation for discrepancy in identification of the warmest year is the fact that the HadCRUT analysis excludes much of the Arctic ….. (whereas GISS) estimates temperature anomalies throughout most of the Arctic.”

The GISS article with this statement has disappeared from their web site, but it used to be at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/paper/gistemp2010_draft0319.pdf.

Electronic Voting Twists

We have been told electronic voting machines are more accurate and convenient.  There have been many reports about irregularities with voting tallies.  In Nevada, voters are finding the machine automatically selects candidates for the voter!

Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls

Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines.

Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Will Cost Much More

Fannie and Freddie have huge problems with underwater mortgages and defaulting mortgages. Using their best case scenarios, they will have additional drawdown of "$142 billion to $259 billion."

"To date, the Enterprises have drawn $148 billion from the U.S. Treasury... "

This is going to get much worse at taxpayer expense.