From Bill Murray in the classic film “Groundhog Day”: “It’s the same old
schtick every year...They pull the little rat out, they talk to him,
the rat talks back, then they tell us what’s gonna happen.”
"The "corporate bill mill" that is the
fossil-fuel-funded American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is alarmingly busy: It's pushing
bills
mandating
the “balanced” teaching of climate science - the hilariously named
”Environmental Literacy Improvement Act“ - in public schools in
Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona in addition to the 11 states it's
already invaded. Most egregiously, it's also
pushing
so-called Ag-Gag bills, or the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act,
making it an "act of terrorism" for anyone to point out the animal and
environmental
horrors of
factory farms, in New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska, having already
introduced them in 10 states. They've passed in three;
consumer and
animal-welfare advocates successfully fought them in the other seven.
With Groundhog Day this weekend, a suggestion to view ALEC and its
corporate sponsors as a microcosm of our political system."
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/01/31-0
