Monthly Archive for November, 2004

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OK, This Is Just Getting Out Of Hand

Published on 2004/11/25 in Politics. Closed

From Los Angeles (you know, the city with the recently modified crest):

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God — including the Declaration of Independence.

Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Cupertino, sued for discrimination on Monday, claiming he had been singled out for censorship by principal Patricia Vidmar because he is a Christian.


“It’s a fact of American history that our founders were religious men, and to hide this fact from young fifth-graders in the name of political correctness is outrageous and shameful,” said Williams’ attorney, Terry Thompson.


“Williams wants to teach his students the true history of our country,” he said. “There is nothing in the Establishment Clause (of the U.S. Constitution) that prohibits a teacher from showing students the Declaration of Independence.”


Vidmar could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose and claims violations of Williams rights to free speech under the First Amendment.


Phyllis Vogel, assistant superintendent for Cupertino Unified School District, said the lawsuit had been forwarded to a staff attorney. She declined to comment further.


Williams asserts in the lawsuit that since May he has been required to submit all of his lesson plans and supplemental handouts to Vidmar for approval, and that the principal will not permit him to use any that contain references to God or Christianity.


Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s journal, John Adams’ diary, Samuel Adams’ “The Rights of the Colonists” and William Penn’s “The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania.”

I can understand not teaching Creationism, but to not allow teachers to present their students with the text of the Declaration of Independence because the word “God” appears in it? That is just ludicrous. The left in this country have become so anti-Christian it is amazing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to discuss Islam.


This comes on the heels of not being allowed to discuss God in relation to Thanksgiving, despite the fact that the Pilgrims were giving thanks to God for surviving the past year. Hence the name of the holiday.


What’s next? Renaming all the cities in California that start with “San”? Good luck with that, guys. Boy am I glad I left that state.

Paging Dr. Mengele

Published on 2004/11/24 in Humor and Politics. Closed

What do you get when you cross Vanessa Kerry and Michael Moore?


You get this.


Warning: Don’t click it if you’ve recently eaten. And count yourself lucky I didn’t just post it here.


Yeesh.

When Your Candidate Loses…

Published on 2004/11/24 in Humor and Politics. 1 Comment

You usually remove their bumper sticker from your car. But sometimes, that may be a little harder than it sounds…



Funny, all those stickers somehow make me think the car is French…

I’ll Second That

Published on 2004/11/24 in Entertainment and Humor. Closed

Speaking of bad Christmas music, who’s getting the new Jessica Simpson album? It’s called “Rejoyce“. I’ll bet she named it. It could have been worse. Or better. I would have picked “Brainless Airheaded Slut With No Talent Sings Christmas Songs“. Then again, maybe that’s a little too descriptive…



She sure as hell ain’t Dean Martin. I like the Vman’s taste, but I’ve always preferred Francis Albert myself. However, Deano comes in a close second.


 

Time To Turn Off That “Feature”

Published on 2004/11/24 in General Stuff. 3 Comments

Did you ever finish up at your computer one evening thinking things were going great. Then you come back the next night and you realize that you left a browser open to Drudge’s home page, and thanks to his five-minute page refresh and two pop-up windows per refresh, you now have about eighteen million browser windows open?


I hate it when that happens…

Operation Rebrand Democrat

Published on 2004/11/24 in Humor and Politics. Closed

As soon as this was announced, you knew something like this was coming…


Here’s one of my favorites:


She Needs Killin’

Published on 2004/11/24 in General Stuff. Closed

I hope this woman gets the death penalty. Not in some easy, knock you out and then kill you method like a lethal injection. No, this woman needs to be drawn, quartered, and burned at the stake.


PLANO, Texas — Police in Plano, Texas, arrested a woman accused of allegedly cutting the arms off her 11-month-old baby girl and have charged her with capital murder.

Police said Dena Schlosser, 35, was detained for questioning Monday after calling 911 to summon officers to the apartment. Police say the woman told them she cut off her baby’s arms.


Police spokesman Carl Duke said the baby was taken to a Plano hospital, where she died.


A Child Protective Services spokeswoman said the agency had investigated the mother for either abuse or neglect involving the infant girl, shortly after her birth in January.


The spokeswoman told The Dallas Morning News that the mother had “postpartum depression.”


The woman has two other children who were in school at the time of the incident, reported KXAS-TV in Dallas. It is believed that they will be released to the custody of their father.


I just don’t understand how people can be capable of such things.

Not So Fair And Balanced

Published on 2004/11/24 in Politics. 4 Comments

Imagine for a minute that you’re the editorial board at the Virginia-Pilot, a newspaper in Norfolk, VA. You think that one of the columns you run is “too stridently anti-liberal”. So what do you do?


You drop the column, of course. And which columnist is so evil that the newspaper would resort to such measures? Why, none other than Michelle Malkin, one of my favorite daily reads, despite the fact that she never returns my emails  :(


From an article in Editor and Publisher:


Another editorial writer, Bronwyn Lance Chester, said: “I think she habitually mistakes shrill for thought-provoking and substitutes screaming for discussion. She’s an Asian Ann Coulter. I also think that, like Coulter, she says outrageous things just to get TV appearances and book deals. She’s the worst of what’s wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.”

He obviously hasn’t been reading her column. She adds much to the politicical discourse on topics ranging from illegal immigration to racism from the left.


And excuse me, but while we’re on the topic, what exactly does the fact that she’s Asian have to do with anything? “She’s another Ann Coulter” would have made the point. What if I were to describe Richard Pryor as a black George Carlin? Sounds sort of condescending, doesn’t it? It almost sounds like, “Richard Pryor would be just as funny as George Carlin, if he were only white“, as if Richard Pryor’s skin color somehow had any bearing on how funny he was. Mr. Chester probably thought the recent rash of cartoons aimed at Dr. Rice were funny, too. Odd how liberals are so conscious of race these days.


Perhaps I’m reading too much into Mr. Chester’s comments, but I’m certainly taken aback by them, I can only imagine what Michelle will have to say about this. Speaking of her thoughts on the matter, she has yet to make them public. As soon as I find her response, I will post an update.


UPDATE: Michelle weighs in, and David Limbaugh comes to the same conclusion I did.

Today’s Topical Haiku

Published on 2004/11/23 in Humor and Politics. Closed

Jack shot in Dallas
Country sad, I only hope
Teddy you soon see

Idiots On Parade

Published on 2004/11/23 in Politics. 1 Comment

Ted Rall is on Hannity and Colmes right now. What a waste of oxygen this guy is.