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• Guess what? Bill Clinton’s denial of sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky was “highly questionable.“*

  *AS ANALYZED AT REALSCOOP.COM

  Apr 18, 2008 · category: Humor, politics, random
  
  Posted by Tom Collins

• Separation of Church and State…

  So much for free speech and religious tolerance.

  Many people don’t realize that the separation of Church and State was not a way to keep Christianity or other religions out of schools. In fact, it was meant to have quite the opposite effect. The founders of this country had just come from a very religiously oppresive country, and they wanted to live in a country where anyone of any religion could practice freely.

  The separation of Church and State was, therefore, a way to make sure that no goverment agency could infringe on the religious rights of others. It was an effort to make sure that what happened in England wouldn’t happen in America.

  Over the years, however, the idea has become so twisted and misinterpreted that the Separation of Church and State actually does exactly what it should not. It puts limits on how a student may and may not express his religious beliefs at school. Well, if you’re a Christian that is.

  A high school student in Wisconsin was "expelled" after he drew a cross for an assignment in art class which, it seems, infringed on the rights of the other students.

  According to the lawsuit, the student’s art teacher asked his class in February to draw landscapes. The student, a senior identified in the lawsuit by the initials A.P., added a cross and the words “John 3:16 A sign of love” in his drawing.
  

  His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.
  

  Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.
  

  The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class. Later that day, assistant principal Cale Jackson told the boy his religious expression infringed on other students’ rights.

  You can read the rest of the article here. My only question is simple. If he had drawn a picture of the Koran, do you think the teacher would have given him a zero? My guess: No.

  Apr 2, 2008 · category: Articles, politics
  
  Posted by Tom Collins

• A Mosaic: 4,000 Americans Dead

  Really? George Bush is using our soldiers for his own agenda? And what exactly are you doing?

  Mar 25, 2008 · category: politics
  
  Posted by Tom Collins

• BBC tries to erase their obviously blatant attempt to ridicule President Bush

  There is something fishy going on at the BBC:

  Exhibiting a thoroughness worthy of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the BBC has been busy erasing all traces of the corporation’s blatantly dishonest reporting of President Bush’s speech on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion…
  

  …On Wednesday the BBC reported the speech under the headline ‘Bush speech hails Iraq “victory”‘. The headline was supported by the following sentence in the story:
  

  He said recent troop reinforcements had brought about “a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror”.
  

  However, this isn’t what Bush said. What he said was:
  

  The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around – it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror.

  Mike, over at The Monkey Tennis Centre, first blogged the incident on Thursday and emailed it around, namely to Little Green Footballs. After showing up on LGF, and getting a little press covereage, the BBC apparently realized that the public weren’t as stupid as they thought, and began quickly changing the quote anywhere they had referenced it (which, apparently, was in a lot of places.)

  Mike documents, with screen captures, all of the sly (or not-so-sly, depending on how you look at it) changes the BBC made to their website. It’s really quite an interesting read.

  (via Little Green Footballs)

  Mar 25, 2008 · category: Articles, politics
  
  Posted by Tom Collins

• Photos of Eliot Spitzer’s Hooker

  In the spirit of equal air time for all politicians and there hookers, here’s a link to pictures of Eliot Spitzer’s lovely hooker friend.

  Mar 14, 2008 · category: politics
  
  Posted by Tom Collins

• I was reminded recently of why I like George W. Bush. I was sitting at work, listening to This American Life – an old episode, from 2000. They were talking about the primaries and following around each of the candidates. At one point, a reporter is following Bush around, and she asks him about reading the Bible. She asks if there is anything special he’s reading right now that helps him. Bush replies that in fact he is reading the Beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5 right now.

  She asks him to show her the passage. He lightheartedly jokes and asks if it’s a test, and she replies that she’s never read it, so she couldn’t possibly test him. He follows with, “You’ve never read the Bible?” She says no.

  It is at this point that, for whatever reason, I started listening closely. And at this point that I was reminded why I like him so much. His reply to her “no” was quick and without hesitation. He simply said, “well that’s okay” in a cheery voice. He didn’t say something condescending like, “you know, you should read it.” He didn’t ask her why she hadn’t. He just accepted it. He didn’t make her feel left out because she hadn’t read it.

  I like that about him. He doesn’t encroach on anybody else. He tells his side, voices his opinion, and then accepts you whether you agree or not. Only in twenty or thirty years will we know if Bush’s presidency was a good or a bad one. But for now, I like the person Bush is.

  Mar 13, 2008 · category: politics
  
  Posted by Tom Collins