In a startling shift toward sanity, a Virginia school board has decided that maybe suspending 2nd-graders for a couple of week over their use of pencils as "weapons" isn't all that great an idea; the kids in question were observed by a vigilant vegetator as they pointed pencils at each other and said "bang". Following her decisive action in the wake of this violent activity, the board's changing their policy.
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How odd that we never see a heterosexual "Pride" day, with parades and stuff. But every year,
it's the same old, same old with the folks whose lives revolve around their sexual preferences. As usual, "Dykes on bikes" kick off the big parade.
You can't just ignore them, you have to applaud them, because they're special. It's astonishing that these folks think that everybody should make a big deal about them because they choose to make their homosexual proclivities the central and defining feature of what passes for their lives. It genuinely does not appear to ever enter their little heads that most of the rest of us just don't care.
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A brief article in Salon, of all places, notes the ongoing legal skirmishes in Florida by a bunch of self-important jerks who consider themselves atheists. The Freedom From Religion Foundation and a related organization calling itself the Central Florida Freethought Community had a hissy-fit when a Collier County judge ruled that it was perfectly acceptable for schools to allow a table with Bibles on it, free for the taking. Naturally, the Salon writer thinks that's a stupid move. Some 1700 copies of said Bibles were taken by passing students, and although neither the Salon writer nor the two atheist organizations have any idea as to why some of them may have been taken from the tables. Some kids may have taken one to burn, or otherwise deface, for all they know - but in any event, the mere presence of the tomes was Very Bad.
So they sought permission to distribute some books and flyers of their own. Most were permitted by the schools, though some were not, due to "incendiary content". Things with titles like "An X-Rated Book" and "Why I'm Not A Muslim" were apparently excluded. As might be expected, the groups are suing because not all of the materials were permitted for distribution. That's just being obnoxious.
Of course, they're all worked up as well because there's a Bible sitting right next to a Mayor's desk in a town in Florida:
Atheists are outraged that a Bible sits right next to the mayor’s desk, inside a Pinellas Park City Council chamber, and they’re demanding its removal.
City officials, however, say that’s a no-go. The Bible’s been there for more than 30 years, and laws don’t prohibit its presence, The Blaze reported. The book
was an Oct. 19, 1975, gift to council members from the Kiwanis club, and it’s been a traditional fixture ever since.
Freedom From Religion Foundation officials say they don’t care. They sent a letter to city officials, saying the Bible needs to go because it violates the principle of separation of church and state.
That's their problem, in a nutshell: there is no such "principle". In fact, the language is pretty clear: government is prohibited from establishing a religion; nothing more. And the mere presence of a Bible near the Mayor's desk is clearly not an "establishment". It's almost as though there's some sort of contest going on to see who can be the most pathetic jerks in the country.
If there is, then the atheists are on track to win it.
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Vaccines Cancer & Mutagenesis
The short version of the vaccine conspiracy theory (if you are stuck on the phone with RFK Jr., you will be subjected to the long version) is that a vaccine preservative called thimerosal causes autism when injected into children. Government epidemiologists and other scientists, conspiring with the vaccine industry, have covered up data and lied about vaccine ingredients to hide this fact. Journalists are dupes of this powerful cabal that is intentionally poisoning children.
Well, there's nothing much to add; the guy's got conspiracy theories shooting out of every orifice. Too bad, as with his name recognition he could do a lot of good - were he not so nuts. Hit the link for look into the mindset of pampered loon.
Of course, over in enlightened places like Pakistan, they're convinced that vaccinations are part of a diabolical Western plan to sterilize them. Would that it was so, but alas....
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De Vegetation Of 'Merika
Colorado state Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) says that democracy in our republic is racist. That folks who gathered signatures to recall her might be ticked off because of her gun-grabbing hysteria doesn't enter the equation, as far as she's concerned:
“I know it’s partially about me being a Latina and being in this position of authority,” said Giron.
Way to play the race card, Hon! There's just one tiny, leetle problem with it: none of the other four hispanics in the Colorado Legislature are facing recall - but then, none of them voted for gun-grabbing measures like you did.
But not to be outdone in the display of race cards, cash-strapped Porkland Public Skulez has spent over half a million dollars on providing brainwashing propaganda guidance to teachers and administrators, paying all that ash to one company:
Almost all Portland school leaders have gone through “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a week-long seminar on race that’s conducted by the Pacific Educational Group.
The Pacific Educational Group is the brainchild of Glenn Singleton, whose mission is to enlighten educators about how public schools promote “white culture” and “white privilege.”
In addition to teaching that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are racist, PEG trains educators to view “rugged individualism,” “adherence to rigid time schedules,” and the belief that “hard work is the key to success” as traits of the dominant white culture.
PEG teaches that minority cultures value “color group collectivism,” “interdependence,” group success, shared property, learning through social relationships, and making life choices based on “what will be best for the family or group.”
Upon receiving this revelation from PEG, educators are encouraged to create culturally sensitive lesson plans that make use of “group homework preparation,” “cooperative projects,” and “choral reading.”
So how's all that working out? Well, Dr.Verenice Gutierrez, who as principal at Porkland's Harvey Scott School, and who believes that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches symbolize racism, heads an institution that ranks among the lowest 15% in the state, in terms of overall academic performance - although it's probably racist to point that out.
Gosh, it almost makes you wonder if they might not need to spend less time and money on racism, and a little more on basics. PPS, by the way, got a huge bond measure passed by the gullible Porkland voters during the last election because It's For The Children™. Porkland voters always fall for that line.
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El Reno Oklahoma Tornado
El Reno, Oklahoma had an F5 tornado pass nearby, fortunately skirting most of the town. And while that's good news, the reports are disturbing:
Luck was on the side of El Reno, Oklahoma, on Friday as the widest tornado ever measured in the U.S. took a long detour around the city, according to the National Weather Service, which released its findings on the massive twister on Tuesday.
Wow! The widest tornado ever measured in the USA!
Question nobody asks: just how long has it been possible to "measure" tornadoes? Were folks measuring tornado widths 50 years ago? 40? 100?
While it may blow down what passes for records, the fact of the matter is that such assertions are completely meaningless.
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English: Rep. Albert Wynn (left) joins Gloria Feldt (right), President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, on the steps of the Supreme Court, to rally in support of the pro-choice movement on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Slated for June 15, a coalition of black leaders plan a march on DC to draw attention to both the high black unemployment rate and the disastrous effect that the proposed amnesty for illegal aliens would bring, as amnesty would likely be compounding the unemployment problem. Good luck with all that; Democratics are already well aware of it all; they just don't care.
Blacks are merely useful idiots, as far as they're concerned; most blacks have no clue that the KKK was founded by Democratics, nor do they have any idea of the fact that one of the Democratics' most favored institutions, "Planned Parenthood" was founded by a white woman who wanted to reduce the population of blacks and other inferiors. Blacks in general are unaware that, via abortion, PP has killed many times more blacks than the KKK ever lynched.
Most are unaware that it was Democratics who pushed blacks into Cabrini Greens and other ghettos across the country, Democratics who split black families via their "welfare" programs, and Democratics who've worked hard to marginalize them for the past 150 years. And so, when elections roll around, blacks in general can be relied on to vote for Democratics.
Given that history, Democratics don't need to care about them; they see hispanics as their Next Big Thing, and so out comes the goodie bag. Again.
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JR-Maglev
Over here in the USA, Porkland and other municipalities are busy throwing money away on "new" light rail trains, while nationally, the definition of "high-speed rail" has been revised to mean "anything that can go faster than 70 miles an hour". Not so in Japan, which debuted its first bullet train 60 years ago and is now in the testing stages of its new 310-mph. maglev train - look Ma! No wheels! Although America used to lead the way in technology, that was back before the Left took over public education and turned it into public vegetation.
Meanwhile, over on the east coast, some 30 agencies scrambled to locate a submarine which had surfaced on a highway. As it happened, the thing causing all of the panic and general alarum was a life-sized replica of the first successful combat submarine, the Confederates' Hunley. Bolted onto a trailer, it's been making the display rounds for about a decade, uneventfully cruising down the highways from coast to coast. Until now. Headed through New York, bound for a weekend stop in Connecticut, the sight of the thing got uptight New York lefties' panties in a twist, and 911 calls were duly made by folks convinced that it was a terrorist bomb. Or something.
They're doubtless related to the school staff who suspended a five-year-old for ten days after interrogating him for two hours until he wet his pants. His crime? Bringing a cap gun onto the bus to show his friend as they were on the way to kindergarten.
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