FISHERS, Ind. — A Hamilton Southeastern elementary removed a mention of Allah in its holiday show after it drew the anger of a national conservative Christian group.

School officials removed a phrase saying “Allah is God” after the American Family Association launched a protest of the program on its electronic newsletter.

The change was made, Thompson said, because no other deities were directly named in the program.

Now, if he’d drawn Jesus getting *circumcised…*

If you search YouTube for “Larry Ochs”, you’ll see that although it’s probably nothing that needs to be settled in the courts, the jazz fan was definitely cheated.

Well, if we define mental deficient as “failing to achieve mental perfection” then anyone who believes anything silly is mentally deficient. Also, anyone who ever makes any error of fact would also be mentally deficient. So I’d also be mentally deficient on both of those scores, if that makes it any more palatable for you.

http://blogs.trb.com/entertainment/news/gambling/blog/2009/12/police_women_of_broward_at_coc.html

Secondly, I seriously doubt Chuck Norris would do the bidding of Obama given how crazy right wing he is. Cool pix nevertheless!

school district of Taunton

Is that located on Hoth?

I’m sure an interesting argument would be made that Tazer’s are designed to be non-lethal.

A taser isn’t non-lethal, as this means NO ONE has ever died from it being used on a person. This is clearly false if you examine the case data (and exclude this bullshit “excited delirium” excuse, which is a “look over here at this shiny object” method that only works on idiots). Therefore a taser is a less-lethal weapon than a firearm, meaning it is less likely to kill you when used, but it is still very much within the realm of possibility. However, I add that it’s more than just less-lethal, as it is quite often used as a torture tool under the guise of “compliance AKA respect my authoritah”. It’s hard to torture someone by shooting them.

Radley get comments section with an edit feature.
PLEASE! Pretty please.

He test drove LivePodium recently but that had too many problems, although the problems were being addressed in a timely manner. I’m sure Radley is on top of this and revisits finding a better solution from time to time. In the mean time, see #13 comments.

You know, as a Christian libertarian I understand why some are skeptical of, or even outright hostile toward, religion and I respect those views even if I don’t agree with them. But a statement like that is simply ignorant.

#11 | MacK | December 16th, 2009 at 11:06 am

I thought you were going for a “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-as-decided-to-use-even-go-want-to-do-look-more-like

“Mr. Wilburn, Mr. Wilburn! You need to come down here right away! Nathan is threatening to kill himself!”

“So, Nathan wants to kill himself. Setting aside his reason, for the moment, let me ask you – has he indicated how he intends to accomplish this suicide?”

“Yes – he said he was going to strangle himself with a sock.”

“I’ll be right down.”

Twenty miles I drove, so that I could explain, very patiently, that it was a physical impossibility for my son to strangle himself (to death) with a sock. I explained that, in the worse case scenario, he would momentarily interrupt the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain, causing him to pass out for 2 or 3 seconds, resulting in his releasing the sock. Subsequently, his involuntary reflexes would cause his diaphragm to expand and contract, and restart his breathing. Then, he would come to, and say “What happened?”

The short version is that my son, at a very early age, learned to use the system, to fuck the system – a system that is rife with confused individuals who honestly think that you can learn how to deal with children, from a textbook…

(The textbooks do have one use, though – you can beat on the kid with them…)

Almost always probation which is eventually overturned and back-pay is awarded.

Did the teacher give him an assignment to draw something that reminded him of Christmas? No.

As I wrote over at the Boston Herald forum, this is why bureaucrats are fucking scumbags.

If my kid is sent home from school and cannot return until some action is taken, that is a motherfucking suspension. If I go to the press and call it a suspension, if you work for the school district and go to the press and say, “This dad is lying, our administrative definition of a suspension is something different,” you are a disingenuous cunt who is deliberately employing bureaucratic obfuscation to try to cloud the issue.

None of your points have anything to do with the core issue in this matter, as you next post makes clear:

Uh. Drawing a Crucifix and putting and substituting “Timmy” for “Christ” would be a pretty good reason to follow up with the kid and see what’s goin’ on.

Uh. No, it wouldn’t. Identifying oneself with the crucified Christ has been part of the Catholic tradition since the motherfucking Apostle Paul.

The core issue here is that the school administration looked at this child’s action, which fits neatly into the history of Catholicism to the point where entire religious orders have been devoted to it, and declared it insane. It is the official position of the school district of Taunton now that mainstream Catholicism is evidence of psychological dysfunction.

I happen to think this is true, and ALL Christians are mentally deficient in one way or another. But no government body has the right to say so as a matter of policy.

Others may chime in with additional clarifications on this, but that’s my basic understanding. Personally, I usually triple-proofread before hitting “submit,” and occasionally post a quick clarification if I realize I either goofed substantially (typos ok, within reason) or could have been clearer or whatnot. This system seems to work well for the majority of posters here.