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Utah Eyes Axing Senior Year of High School to Save Money; "Most Utahans Are Way Too Overeducated as It Is," State Lawmakers Say
Utah Eyes Axing Senior Year of High School to Save Money; ###
We don't need no education
Sen. Chris Buttars
Utah State Senate
Dear Brother Buttars,
As much as I like your idea to save the state money by getting rid of the twelfth grade, I wonder why just the senior year. Kids have all the reading and ciphering education they need by the seventh grade. All that's left is the fancy math, like algebra, and that was invented by Muslims and scientists like Newton. Do we really want to expose our children to such influences?
They'd be better off learning a trade by serving as apprentices. Consider what such an influx of twelve-year-old apprentices would do for the economy. It could very well bring about the rebirth of such industries as haberdashery, barrel making, and narrow-vein clean-coal mining.
Of course, I'm just talking about the guys here. As priesthood holders, God entrusts young twelve-year-old men with more theological power and responsibility than their mothers will ever achieve. If they're old enough for the Aaronic Priesthood, their old enough to mine a few tons of coal, don't you think?
We can marry off the girls to widowers and returned missionaries.
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian
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You know what disturbs me? This is the part that worries me a little bit. [Palin] went to work for Fox News, and at the same time, she's fundamentally running for the presidency. At the same time. I mean, the last I checked, you can't do that. The last I checked is that you have to leave a media job in order to announce your candidacy. What is this? You can't have it both ways. Either you're running, or you're not. Don't play a game with the American people. We're not stupid.
Disturbing ads from the past
This is the America that the tea-baggers want back.
Hotel is ordered to remove Al Gore book, brown M&Ms from hick diva's room.
The customary copy of "An Inconvenient Truth" was conveniently missing from Sarah Palin's room at the eco-friendly Gaia Shasta Hotel & Spa, where the average hockey-mom and her daughter freshened up before Palin's appearances at a recent conference in Redding."She only reads books by the Founding Fathers, her own palms, and of course all of the newspapers," the staffer added, rolling her eyes.
"We were under strict instructions" to make sure the Gore books were removed from rooms used by Palin and other conference VIPs, a hotel staffer said last night.
Global Warming Denialism Explained2. It is more comfortable to believe that even if
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It's possible that Sarah Palin's best quality is that she has none at all. She exists for her friends and enemies as a fantasy figure. For the left, she is a harbinger of the hard-right government takeover they fear is coming. And for the right, she is the leader -- all instinct and no sophistication -- that they knew would someday lead America out of its current socialist wilderness. The pity for them both is that in reality, not to mention the polls, she sorely disappoints...
The lady from Alaska is a phony. She has sold out for money, quitting office so that she could cash in. She asserted her small-town bona fides, her antipathy both to the establishment and the mainstream media -- and then got herself a ghostwriter, a booking agent and a (Fox News) network contract. She is rich, famous for the metaphorical 15 minutes Andy Warhol allotted us all and, elbows swinging, is forging her way to oblivion. She was neither a threat (the left) nor an opportunity (the right), but just a fantasy -- until the American people
turned the lights on.
A Palin presidency would be a Bush-sized disaster for America but it sure would be a never-ending gold mine for people who make their living mocking the ridiculous.
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft.
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Joshua DuBois
White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Dear Mr. Dubois,
A fellow man of God needs our help. The Australian government fired psychologist Mark Edward Tynan for taking a faith-based approach with his patients. Apparently, the government objected to his work with fetuses who were being "programmed" by the Illuminati.
The programming consisted of exposing them "to 'hostile chemicals' [ingested] by the mother or by injecting it into the amniotic fluid and poking with needles." Additionally, the Illuminati applied electrical shocks the the pre-born. The shocks and the chemicals caused the fetuses to experience their "first death/near death experience and the first sense of intense fear or terror." In other words, the Illuminati are recruiting our unborn babies by scaring the Jesus out of them.
Let me assure you that Pastor Tynan acted professionally in his practice. He consulted with experts and invited demon exorcists to assist in his sessions.
It'd be a shame if all his knowledge and experience went to waste. I hope you will consider inviting him to serve on your staff.
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian, patriot
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Attempting to blow up a federal building is only an act of domestic terrorism if the guy is brown.
Also, anti-government anti-Obama nuts launch Facebook page to honor domestic terrorist who crashed his plane into IRS office ...
And you could write this off as just a few nuts on the Internet, except that new GOP Senator Scott Brown said tonight that the same anger that convinced this man to crash a plane into an IRS office, 9/11 style, was the same anger that got Brown elected last month. Perhaps not such an aberration after all.
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If you want to motivate people, hit 'em in the wallet:
UN report: cost of pollution could wipe out 1/3 of corporate profits
How much you wanna bet you're gonna see a big push by Big Business to "go green"?
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This is why we can't have nice things
Bipartisanshipness --
John Boehner: I demand you post the healthcare bill online!
Prez Obama: Good idea -- done!
John Boehner: What?!! Damn socialist commie, I cannot believe you posted the healthcare bill online. {weeping}
A new poll reveals that a majority of Americans consider the teabagger movement a "fruitless mix of racism and conspiracy theories."
A Fox Nooze poll.
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A state senator who floated the idea of commemorating Utah's most famous gun maker with a state holiday on the same date as that honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said he'll seek another date because of backlash he faced this week.Instead, Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Lehi, said he'll ask veterans' groups if they would like to share either Veterans Day or Memorial Day, and will ask the LDS Church if it's appropriate to share the July 24 Pioneer Day state holiday with the late Ogden gun inventor John M. Browning.
People Waiting in Line to Become the Next LeaderLet's roll! We'll get 'em dead or alive!
Just when you think their level of hypocrisy and hopped-up outrage couldn't be topped, they continue to surprise....Indeed. From Grey Matter.
The latest: President Obama is killing too many terrorists. Yes, he's been too successful at taking out those which we presumably want taken out.
[J]ust imagine if a piece like this appeared during Bush/Cheney's reign, accusing them of killing too many terrorists. Oh, the outcry that would've occurred from the screeching right, the fulminating condemnation riddled with labels like "unpatriotic," "enemy sympathizer" and "treason" to name a few. Yet here we are, this tripe published without a peep from the Country First crowd. Just crickets.
Kenneth Starr Converts from Church of Christ toWe already know that when an influential wingnut talks about "retards", it's satire. But let a cartoon show do a throwaway joke about the parent of a Downs Syndrome child being a former governor of Alaska, and all hell breaks loose.
But the actress who voiced the character knows the meaning of satire, even if Sarah Palin doesn't. And Andrea Friedman wrote to the media to let them know:
The father of the actress who provided the voice for the character of the young woman on the episode of Family Guy, which Sarah Palin described as "a kick in the gut", has sent this e-mail to a friend of palingates:
Below is a copy of a letter to the editor that Andrea has written and sent. Please feel free to circulate it on the web or in any other manner that you choose.
All best wishes,
Hal Friedman
My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine's day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in " Smudge" but I was a blonde in "Life Goes On". I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm".
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
Andrea sent her comment by e-mail to the New York Times
Andrea Friedman, you rock.
So what did the school district do? They (allegedly) used the webcams to spy on the students in their homes. We are at the point, I fear, where the title "school administrator" is becoming synonymous with "imbecile."
Feel safer yet? And if anyone has issued you a laptop, buy some electrical tape and cover up the bloody web cam. And the microphone.
So the editors of Newsweek would agree that the main mistake made by the British in the American colonies was that they did not do their utmost to make life comfy for the Colonists? No doubt the editors of Newsweek would concur that the slaves in the Old South would have not yearned for freedom if they were treated better. Oh, if only the Germans had been kind to the people of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc., etc.!!
The Newsweek article reads like it was a propaganda piece paid for by the Chinese government. The editors should be ashamed of themselves.
