I took my oldest daughter to see Pride and Prejudice tonight for her birthday. It was the best movie I have seen in a long long time.
I’ve read Jane Austin since I was a child, this movie captured the characters better than any former rendition of the book.
Jenny Hatch

Bill Gates Teams Up With UNESCO
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Nov 28, 2005
“It’s hard to see any difference between the 2004 National Governors Association plan and the earlier plans floated when Clinton was president. The plan uses a lot of mumbo jumbo to change the United States from free enterprise to a planned economy, and to turn public school students into a compliant work force for multinational corporations.
The new buzzwords are “career pathways,” “education pipeline,” “redesigning high schools,” “smaller learning communities,” and “cluster-based economic development strategies.” Recycled buzzwords from prior years include “school-to-work,” “work force development system reform,” “business-education partnerships,” and “meaningful outcome measures.”
Six public hearings on the proposals were held in Idaho in October, and 500 people showed up at the Boise hearing. The reaction was overwhelmingly negative from both parents and teachers.
The Idaho Board of Education announced this month that after receiving “hundreds of comments,” it has made “modifications to Idaho’s plan to redesign high schools and middle schools,” but those changes are minimal. The original plan would have required all sixth-grade students to select their learning plan for a specific career pathway and choose “career focused electives” to enter the work force.
Under the revised plan, students will have to do this only by the eighth grade. But how many eighth-graders do you know who can (or should) map out their career pathway and narrow their education options to meet that single goal?
What about the colossal conceit of politicians and businessmen who think they can predict the jobs that eighth-graders can or will want to fill in their future years? Planned economies are always a failure. Students should be educated to reach their potential- whatever it is.”
Thanks Phyllis, for your clarity and consistency on exposing the socialists in our world. Bill Gates has formerly funded population control measures, and now with this move he is again exposing his conceit and need to control the economy and business as well as family life. Free Market Capitalism is the answer for our children’s future, not top down control of our schools by Corporations and the marxists at UNESCO.
Jenny Hatch

Excerpts from the essay entitled “Pro-life Feminism” in the text Conscious Conception.
“Arising from the Great Cosmic Song are the growing voices of feminists who respect life in all its forms–even down to the “unplanned” pregnancies.
For too long the spiritual communities of the pagans and the yogis, the two philosophies I have studied for many years, have neglected to re-vision abortion.”
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“Allow me first to first turn my attention to the Yoga community wherein it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies so that they can get on with the “real” spiritual work: i.e., a meditation practice. Babies are sometimes seen as a distraction to a heroic spiritual practice.
I have six children and have been practicing yoga for many years. I have received overt as well as more subtle condemnation for my “attachment to fertility” from the yogi community. Somehow being a mother is not viewed as spiritual as being able to go on solitary meditation retreats.
In Yoga there are two clear paths to liberation–the sadhu and the householder traditions. The path of the sadhu is to withdraw from the world, unravel our natural attachments and transcend ignorance/suffering by realizing the source of pain: attachment to the ephemeral. From the sadhu’s perspective, being sexual and reproducing is seen as adding to the load of attachments.
The path I am on is the one of householder–of being in the world, and yet not of the world at the same time.”
Jeannine Parvati Baker
Thanks Jeannine for your clarity!
Jenny Hatch

VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) vs Repeat C-Section – Help Deciding Between VBAC and Repeat Cesarean For Women with a Cesarean Scar
“How can this website help you learn about, decide on and plan for a VBAC or a repeat c-section?
This section of the Maternity Wise® website provides reliable information and support to help you understand the issues surrounding planned VBAC vs. planned repeat cesarean. In it, you will find:
An in-depth look at your options and the current medical climate for women in your situation.
Results of the best available research comparing risks of VBAC with repeat cesarean, including shorter- and longer-term outcomes in mothers and babies and risks for any future pregnancies.
Tips for reaching your childbirth goals, whether your birth plan is for VBAC or a repeat cesarean.
VBAC and cesarean resources: websites, books, and organizations for information and support.”
Jenny Hatch

U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty
That is not what the treaty envisioned, said David Doniger, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In the 1990s, he worked on the protocol as director of climate change for the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Nobody expected you would use the exemptions to cancel the final step of the phaseout or even go backward,” Doniger said.
With methyl bromide probably sticking around for several years, the EPA is re-examining its health and safety standards.
California, which grows more than 85 percent of the nation’s strawberries and other methyl bromide-dependent crops, launched regulations last year to improve its strictest-in-the-nation protections for farmworkers and others.