Crus de Agnus Dei con quilon menthae - February 28th, 2006
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08:36 am
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A bit of sanity from a school board, for once.
New Jersey schoolboard flatly refuses to fire substitute teacher, in spite of parent's complaints that her existence violates their freedom of religion.
Also, speaking of decent news,
Dubai Ports World, the UAE state-owned-and-run company that bid to take over shipping security, has demanded that CNN stop reporting negatively on them and fire Lou Dobbs, or they will no longer allow CNN access to their facilities or people. CNN says: Screw you.
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09:37 am
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And that's all I have to say about that.
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09:55 am
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01:00 pm
[Link] | Bush's approval rating: 34%
Cheney's: 18%.
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Two-pound crimefighter: Training a chihuahua to be a drug-sniffing dog.
Also,
Real Live Preacher: A Texas baptist minister's blog, on the inherent hypocrisy in condemning homosexuality and then specific scriptural debunking of using the Bible to argue against homosexuals.
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02:48 pm
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05:57 pm
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06:03 pm
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07:01 pm
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It's so true.
If Microsoft designed the iPod's packaging.
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07:18 pm
[Link] | News crew with a hidden camera discovers that, in South Florida, if you want to file a complaint about a cop, 35/38 police stations will lie to you, give you the runaround, or outright threaten you. For example,tester: Yeah, I wanted to find out how to file a complaint against an officer. I just want to find out how you do it. Do you guys have a form or something that I could take with me.
officer: Well, you got to tell me first, and then I got to hear what's going on. You've got to tell me what the complaint is.
tester: Do you have a complaint form that I can, like, fill out or something like that?
officer: Might not be a legitimate complaint.
tester: Who decides that?
officer: I'm trying to help you.
tester: Like, if there's a form, why can't I just take it and leave, right?
officer: No, you don't leave with forms. You tell me what happened, and then I help you from there. Do you have I-D on?
tester: Why?
officer: You know what? You need to leave.
tester: Why?
officer: I'm going to tell you one more time, because I can't do this anymore with you, okay. You're refusing to tell me what you want to do, okay. You're refusing to tell me who's involved, where it happened, what transpired. You'e not cooperating with me one bit.
tester: I was just asking if you guys have a complaint form, like if there's some way for me --
officer: Out of my way.
tester: To contact Internal Affairs.
officer: You can do whatever the hell you want. It's a free country.
man" You're cursing at me.
officer: Where do you live? Where do you live? You have to tell me where you live, what your name is, or anything like that.
tester: For a complaint? I mean, like, if I have --
officer: Are you on medications?
tester: Why would you ask me something like that?
officer: Because you're not answering any of my questions.
tester: Am I on medications?
officer: I asked you. It's a free country. I can ask you that.
tester: Okay, you're right.
officer: So you're not going to tell me who you are, you're not going to tell me what the problem is.You're not going to identify yourself.
tester: All I asked you was, like, how do I contact --
officer: You said you have a complaint. You say my officers are acting in an inappropriate manner.
officer: So leave now. Leave now. Leave now.
tester: I'm not doing anything wrong.
officer: Neither am I. It's a free country.
officer: I'm not in your face. I'm standing on the sidewalk. It's a free country. One more step forward, and you'll see what happens. Take one more step forward. On the video, the officer in this case has his hand pointedly on his gun just the last sentence.
That officer, Sergeant Peter Schumanich of the Lauderhill Police Department, is suing the TV station for airing the story, after trying (and failing) to get an injunction against airing it in the first place.
For the record? The policy, in every last one of those stations, is to give the pre-printed complaint form to the requester, without question or comment, and allow them to do whatever they want with it. When they return, policy is to accept it back again, without question or comment beyond ensuring that all the required fields are filled out.
There's video of both stories. For those more familiar with *watching* American TV than I am, is that kind of way overdramatic swooping "news exclusive" with the voiceover guy doing buildup like it's live commentary on open heart surgery common? Is that standard for networks other than Faux?
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07:26 pm
[Link] | Comment of the day, from Tennessee Guerilla Women:
Newsweek and a host of other mainstream media manage to analyze the morality of abortion without ever touching on the morality of mandating forced motherhood in a nation that flaunts an anti-family, anti-life policy so harsh that it results in 46 million Americans without healthcare and the highest child poverty rate in the developed world.
And the leaders of this nation insist that it is the pro-choice women of America who are morally bankrupt? Hello?
Coming a close second but lacking a finely quotable fragment is We're All Dakotans - pointing out that, at the moment, you can't get an abortion in Minnesota unless you've got a shitload of money to burn.
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The Washington Post on California doctors who refused to participate in the execution of a convicted felon after a judge ruled that they must actively participate, by issuing sedatives and intervening to hasten death if there is evidence of pain. Naturally, it's a compare-and-contrast with pharmacists refusing to dispense birth control.
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08:14 pm
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The gawker finds Emma Watson (15) self-consciously posing with beer.
Does anyone else think this looks way, way too posed for that to be *her* beer?
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11:24 pm
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