Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, left, right, center, or none of the above, if this doesn’t upset you, there is something wrong with you. Whatever happened to teaching children about freedom of speech? Heck, whatever happened to teaching chlldren to think for themselves rather than browbeating children to agree with the teacher?
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Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Inexcusable – UPDATED
November 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Maybe he meant to say “I am Captain Hook”
May 28th, 2008 · 11 Comments
When Nixon made his famous “I am not a crook” statement, he was standing in the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World.
Tags: Politics
McCain rejects Hagee endorsement.
May 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments
My estimation of McCain just went up by about 3000%.
Even before the weird comments about Hitler surfaced, McCain had a really, really good reason to reject Hagee’s endorsement:
Hagee is a nutburger.
I’ve never seen or heard Hagee preach that he wasn’t off on some nutty dispensational tangent. One of those charts-and-graphs-left-behind-hal-lindsey types.
I love this quote [...]
Being a good steward vs. just being plain cheap
August 15th, 2007 · 10 Comments
Ben Witherington has a great article today on the expensive cost of cheap goods. Read it. It’s worth your time.
When I was a teenager in the 1980s, it was common amongst Christians to hear the complaint that “we’ve become too materialistic”: that we’d become just like the world with respect to seeking [...]
Tags: Bible · Politics · Rants
Foreign Policy Coup
June 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments
President Bush, in a surprising move today, appointed an expert to a new position: Sub-Secretary of State for Middle East Relations. The President’s choice is a native of the Middle East who has lived in North America for many years, but who nevertheless has maintained close ties with her native land.
Tags: Fun · Humor · Politics · Silliness
Food (?) for thought . . .
March 20th, 2006 · 3 Comments
There has been a case of Mad Cow Disease reported in Alabama. Alabama, not England, not Canada. Good ole, two-states-away, we-dare-defend-our-rights Alabama.
When Mad Cow Disease started being reported in the UK several years ago, all I knew about the disease was what the newspapers reported, which wasn’t much.
Now I know that “Mad Cow [...]
George Says . . .
February 4th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Fun · Humor · Politics · Silliness
Super Bowl Sunday
January 27th, 2006 · No Comments
Super Bowl Sunday is, of course, next Sunday (February 5). Our youth will be joining youth around the country in the Souper Bowl of Caring. The Souper Bowl of Caring began in North Carolina in 1993 and has since spread to youth groups around the country. It is a grassroots, youth-led effort [...]