Since I started blogging I have blogged way too many cases of stupidity in our public schools, but every time I turn around, it seems like the schools are in a bid to out do each other.

Take this story, where at a middle school Virgina, they have a policy that forbids any form of contact between students.  No hand holding, no shaking hands, no high fives, nothing.

Va. School’s No-Contact Rule Is a Touchy Subject

Fairfax County middle school student Hal Beaulieu hopped up from his lunch table one day a few months ago, sat next to his girlfriend and slipped his arm around her shoulder. That landed him a trip to the school office.

Among his crimes: hugging.

When hugging is outlawed, only outlaws will hug?

All touching — not only fighting or inappropriate touching — is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: “NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!”

School officials say the rule helps keep crowded hallways and lunchrooms safe and orderly, and ensures that all students are comfortable. But Hal, 13, and his parents think the school’s hands-off approach goes too far, and they are lobbying for a change.

“I think hugging is a good thing,” said Hal, a seventh-grader, a few days before the end of the school year. “I put my arm around her. It was like for 15 seconds. I didn’t think it would be a big deal.”

Hal’s troubles began one day in March when he got up from his assigned cafeteria table and went to a nearby table where his then-girlfriend was sitting. He admits he broke one rule — getting up from his assigned table without permission — and he accepts a reprimand for that. “The table thing, I’m guilty,” he said.

Assigned tables?  Good lord…we have assigned tables at lunch time and you have to only get up on cue? 

What the hell?

The fun part of blogging the Global Warming pseudo drama is that the links and stories go in so many wacky directions.

Take this first one for example.  Most Global Warming alarmists are focused on effecting the changes to mankind’s daily CO2 use, as they see that as the only way to stop Global Warming.  To them we caused it and we can not only stop it, but reverse it.

While there is plenty of evidence showing that that theory and the solution they propose is unworkable and unscientific, this bunch takes the alarm and kicks it up about 47 notches.  Not only is Global Warming man made, inevitable and unstoppable, we need planetary rescue of unheard of proportions or we will all die:

The Earth today stands in imminent peril…and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

This reads like a Sci Fi script.  Enter an ensemble cast feature Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and Bruce Willis to save the day by:

“We conclude that a feasible strategy for planetary rescue almost surely requires a means of extracting [greenhouse gases] from the air.”

Forget Willis and Jones and Eastwood, we need Mel Brooks.  We need Mega-Maid from Spaceballs to wield her mighty vacuum cleaner and suck all that nasty CO2 out.

I am used to Alarmists, but these guys are pros.  I means seriously…they are taking Gore’s exaggerations and raising him all in for good measure.

Speaking of the good prophet Al, he is taking more criticism for his Oscar winning train wreck.

High price for load of hot air

With understandable reluctance, Prime Minister John Howard recently donned the political hair-shirt of a carbon trading system.

On the same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a US radio interview that “I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with”.