Crist seeks 'an army of conservationists'

Surrounded by dozens of Cub, Boy and Girl Scouts in the state Capitol, Gov. Charlie Crist unveiled a new Serve to Preserve scout award Wednesday that was created in partnership with the youth organizations. Troops can earn an award insignia by completing programs that seek to protect the natural environment. Among the ways to earn the Serve to Preserve patch include learning about biofuels, the drought, or to "make a list of places in your neighborhood, camps, school grounds or parks that have pollution problems. Describe how these could be corrected."

Crist (pictured at left with 6-year-old Brady Vincent of Tallahassee) said his goal is to use the new award program with the state's half-million scouts to create "an army of conservationists" in Florida. The governor was not a scout as a boy, but three agency heads who were addressed the group. They were Monesia Brown, Linda South and Kurt Browning.

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Guess Charlies has been busy taking care of our state while helping other candidates.

Monesia Brown is a credit to the Governor's administration.

I bet Cristi and the Cub Scouts had a fun conversation about how they both think girls are yucky.

5:14 No they waited for you to bring it up. They knew you hate girls, but thats OK. We understand. Nothing to be ashamed about. Just get the knee pads on so you dont injure your knees.

Linda South was a Butch Scout

It's about time he came home. He is on so many pictures with McCain somebody is liable to think he's the security detail.

We love you Governor. Keep doing the right thing. The bad guys hate it.

I wouldn't be letting him touch my son.

Governor you have so much support and the bad guys do get so crazy because you do.

[George]

Charley has a long relationship with the West Central Florida Boy Scout Council in Pinellas-Pasco. The council honored him several years ago at a banquet in St Pete

[Fascisti]

The Fascists were completely against individualism in general and especially against individualism in a free-market economy. Their agenda included minimum-wage laws, government restrictions on profit-making, progressive taxation of capital, and “rigidly secular” schools.

Unlike the Communists, the Fascists did not seek government ownership of the means of production. They just wanted the government to call the shots as to how businesses would be run.

They were for “industrial policy,” long before liberals coined that phrase in the United States.

Indeed, the whole Fascist economic agenda bears a remarkable resemblance to what liberals would later advocate.

Moreover, during the 1920s “progressives” in the United States and Britain recognized the kinship of their ideas with those of Mussolini, who was widely lionized by the Left.

Famed British novelist and prominent Fabian socialist H. G. Wells called for “Liberal Fascism,” saying “the world is sick of parliamentary politics.”

Another literary giant and Fabian socialist, George Bernard Shaw, also expressed his admiration for Mussolini — as well as for Hitler and Stalin, because they “did things,” instead of just talk.

In Germany, the Nazis followed in the wake of the Italian Fascists, adding racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular, neither of which was part of Fascism in Italy or in Franco’s Spain.

Even the Nazi variant of Fascism found favor on the Left when it was only a movement seeking power in the 1920s.

W. E. B. DuBois was so taken with the Nazi movement that he put swastikas on the cover of a magazine he edited, despite complaints from Jewish readers.

Even after Hitler achieved dictatorial power in Germany in 1933, DuBois declared that the Nazi dictatorship was “absolutely necessary in order to get the state in order.”

As late as 1937 he said in a speech in Harlem that “there is today, in some respects, more democracy in Germany than there has been in years past.”

In short, during the 1920s and the early 1930s, Fascism was not only looked on favorably by the Left but recognized as having kindred ideas, agendas, and assumptions.

Only after Hitler and Mussolini disgraced themselves, mainly by their brutal military aggressions in the 1930s, did the Left distance itself from these international pariahs.

Fascism, initially recognized as a kindred ideology of the Left, has since come down to us defined as being on “the Right” — indeed, as representing the farthest Right, supposedly further extensions of conservatism.

If by conservatism you mean belief in free markets, limited government, and traditional morality, including religious influences, then these are all things that the Fascists opposed just as much as the Left does today.

The Left may say that they are not racists or anti-Semites, like Hitler, but neither was Mussolini or Franco. Hitler, incidentally, got some of his racist ideology from the writings of American “progressives” in the eugenics movement.

[Seeks an Army of children]

If only Crist read books he will see that he is following the progressives with the militarization of local issues and making the state the religion. You've lost me Charlie. also:Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Sally Bulinas is the latest distinguished scientist to declare anthropogenic global warming theory wrong. The Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph reports:

Dr. Sallie Baliunas shared her findings Tuesday at the University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Dr. Baliunas' work with fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Willie Soon suggests global warming is more directly related to solar variability than to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an alternative view to what's been widely publicized in the mainstream media.

"Some people argue solar influence is large; some argue it is small. I'm somewhere in the middle," she said during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

Her research goes back to time periods when the amount of carbon emission was small enough that it wasn't a major player.

"If you go back far enough you eliminate some of your variables," she said. "I've always been interested with the changes of the sun and how they impact the earth. I decided to look at a narrower time scale this time."

Baliunas asserts that increases and decreases in solar output led to historically warmer and cooler periods.

Baliunas said concerns for world energy poverty should be more significant than worrying about something 100 years from now.

With all the institutional weight behind anthropogenic warmist fears, it takes courage for scientists to stand up and point out the increasingly obvious link between solar activity and climate.

[FDR lives again]

FDR used the army of civilians to do the socialist deeds to change the world forever with centralized nanny statism. This is not Reagan at all--remember that Reagan said in the first years of his administration that fascists where in the New Deal--and he was right. Beware of Crist.

Crist wasn't a Boy Scout because their polivy then is the same as it is now and I think you know what I mean...

Beware of Cub scout masters AND governors!

So we they are trying to develop the Algore Youth....sort of like the Hitler Youth I suppose: A vehicle for indoctrinating children with party propaganda and keeping them subservient to the state.

COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FIND US A GOVERNOR!

Love,

Florida

[Crist become FDR/Wilson/LBJ but not REAGAN]

History shows that liberals/progressives sought to establish the religion of state with a militarized society. Children and workers belong to a unified state or industrial army and the economy is run by all-powerful central planning. the age of individualizm is over and one would never appoint strict constructionalists as judges if you have this philosophy as your reason for being.

[Voice from History Past]

Google Gleichschaltung---and see that Hilter made sure that every unit of society did it part, by coercive force, for the larger cause. Hilter had a "war of cancer" and banned smoking (sounds familiar, no?). Hilter had a war against alcoholism and promoted organic foods. Hilter focused on the unformed minds of CHILDREN--in 1933 Hilter banned alcohol advertising aimed at children. In 1936, foods were graded as fit or unfit for children (coca-cola was unfit). and there is more. go look it up--and beware of an all powerful state that will strive to keep that power at all costs--to the detriment of individuals and what made america great and unique.

9:34 - i'm reading that book now - jonah hit the nail on the head

We love you Governor. Seems the bad guys keep getting greener and greener. With envy that is.

If State Sen. Mike Fasano is around that Cub Scout, I'd be worried!!!

[Goose Stepping]

classes will be scheduled at the governor's mansion. and it will be your duty, as children, to inform the authorities on what carbon footprint your parents have and it is your duty to send your parents to the c. camp.

[Hilter's Youth]

and here we are trying to show liberals were historically the basis of fascists and communism. Thanks Charlie for being stupid.

[Liberalism run amock]

The ultraliberal CBC reports a truth that is mighty inconvenient for Al Gore.

There's an upside to the extreme cold temperatures northern Canadians have endured in the last few weeks: scientists say it's been helping winter sea ice grow across the Arctic, where the ice shrank to record-low levels last year. Temperatures have stayed well in the -30s C and -40s C range since late January throughout the North, with the mercury dipping past -50 C in some areas. Satellite images are showing that the cold spell is helping the sea ice expand in coverage by about 2 million square kilometres, compared to the average winter coverage in the previous three years. "It's nice to know that the ice is recovering," Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist with the Cryospheric Sciences Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, told CBC News on Thursday. [...] Winter sea ice could keep expanding. The cold is also making the ice thicker in some areas, compared to recorded thicknesses last year, Lagnis added. "The ice is about 10 to 20 centimetres thicker than last year, so that's a significant increase," he said. If temperatures remain cold this winter, Langis said winter sea ice coverage will continue to expand.

Will somebody please tell all the schoolchildren frightened by nightmares of drowning polar bears that Al Gore unnecessarily scared them