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News flash for Tennessee
Another person sees the light
Michael Moore opens his pie-hole again
Why wait?

News flash for Tennessee. Someone please tell the inbreds of "rural Tennessee" (talk about a redundant term!) in Union County that there's a "new" law called the First Amendment. This addition to the Constitution separates "Church" and "State". So, I guess sending students (in the middle of the school day) chaperoned by teachers (who are on the government payroll and during school hours) in school buses (run on gas paid for with tax dollars) shouldn't be allowed. Now, it's not bad enough that kids are being sent from school directly to a Baptist prayer service as a "school field trip". No, these knuckleheads have gone the extra miles. Thrown in prayers over the school loudspeaker, nativity plays, Bible handouts, and "other proselytizing activities", and you have what we like to call in civilization a "Federal lawsuit". It doesn't matter if the school buses are driven by "private contractors". You can't mix religion and government. It's a cardinal no-no. Oops. I said "cardinal". Of course, I'm no a government, so I can say it. But they are allowing a de facto religion to be established by allowing it to be a part of the school day. These people need to understand that they can spend all day every Sunday praying their hearts out. But once those kids hit the school system, all of that religion gets checked at the door. And their refusal to stop kids from persecuting non-Baptists shows two things: (1) they don't practice the shit they shovel (ever hear of turn the other cheek?), and (2) they are inviting a lawsuit by allowing one religion to beat down another religion. If you want to pray, do it on your time. Leave everyone else the hell alone. Please.

Another person sees the light. The Mayor of D.C. now agrees that school vouchers are the way to go. Duh. The best thing that can happen to public schools is that they close them down. We've thrown more and more money at them every year for the last 20 years. As a result, our money has netted more crime, grade inflation, lower test scores, and fewer graduates. Metal detectors are now needed at schools. The SAT had to re-score the test so that metrics didn't show a sharp drop in learning. In this State, at least, getting a "B" in a class means only that you show up. Teachers will give any student a "B", so as not to diminish the chances of that student receiving a Hope Scholarship. By the way, more and more students get the Hope Scholarships, and more and more of them are losing them when they hit college and realize that you have to do WORK to earn a "B" in college. We have students suing teachers for better grades, and the "right" to be a cheerleader. Schools bus kids to prayer services instead of teaching them basic skills. I get smarter (by comparison) every year that public (read: government) schools exist. I can do basic math, and my grammar ain't bad, neither. Government schools had the best of intentions. But unions, combined with diminishing teacher skills, multiplied by ritalin-drugged students, has resulted in a daily routine that doesn't even meet the criteria for poor baby-sitting.

Michael Moore opens his pie-hole again. Michael Moore opening his cavernous mouth and dumping his verbal diarrhea doesn't surprise me. His inability to see facts (as evidenced by outright fictitious claims in his "Oscar-winning film") tells me that his blathering is just more chaff to be ignored. The fact that Disney is offering money to this communist to make a "documentary" that (big surprise) criticizes Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 surprises me. How can those people offer money to Moore, knowing that his last "documentary" had inaccuracies that were easily verifiable, and had fictitious "facts" that were made up to support Moore's own personal biases? You'll get more education from watching "Police Academy 3,453: Citizens Doing More Stupid Things With People Who Would Never Be Cops In Real Life." The next "Friday the 13th" movie will have more realism than a Michael Moore documentary.

Why wait? Four bombs in Saudi Arabia. Why are we still there? We're planning on taking our 5,000 soldiers there and going home. I say why wait? Let's pack up tonight, and move out. Any businessmen over there are at their own risk. If they want to train, send them to our country. We have no reason to be there right now. But before we go, let's drop a little "present" on Al Qaeda. Say, a Fuel Air Explosive. Then, let's bulldoze any standing buildings on the bases that we vacate. There's no reason to leave anything of value.

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