Schools Pave the Way to Hell

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Or at least that's what we are led to believe in this incredible post by Bill Wilson at Standing for God.
Bill starts off with the provocative title, "As Souls Hang In The Balance, Public Schools Pave The Way To Hell." 


He starts off by blasting the Cambridge, Mass public schools for including a Muslim holiday in next years calendar. He quickly devolves from there. Here are some choice quotes:

The public schools are generational brain-washing facilities for the Communist Manifesto which “abolishes eternal truths,” “all religion,” and “all morality.”

The brainwashing by the public schools is deeply rooted in the Hegelian Dialectic as brought into the schools by John Dewey, co-author of the Humanist Manifesto, a socialist and considered the “Father of Education” by the National Education Association. 

This guy is truly a piece of work. There is no critical thinking going on in the post. I have seen more coherent thoughts by conspiracy theorists.

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Several School Districts Violating Civil Rights of English Language Learners

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The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is looking in to eight school districts nation-wide for possible civil rights violations in their English Language Learner (ELL) programs.
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The following school districts are being investigated to make sure they are giving equal educational access to ELL students:

Los Angeles Unified School District
Hazelton (Pa.) Area School District
DeQueen (Ark.) Public Schools
New London (Conn.) Public Schools
Tigard-Tualatin (Ore.) Public Schools
Lake Washington (Wash.) School District 

Two other districts Tulsa (Okla.) Public Schools and Dearborn (Mich.) Public Schools are in the midst of compliance reviews.

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Be God and Perform a Chilean Miracle

From a Chilean programmer comes a flash based game, Los 33, where you get to save the 33 trapped miners.

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Jail Sued Over Reading Material

A South Carolina County Sheriff, Wayne DeWitt and county jail officials are being sued over denying inmates access to reading materials other than the Bible. The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the plaintiff, Prison Legal News, alleges that the jail does not deliver publications to inmate cells, violating the First Amendment right of free speech.

"Many detainees are held at the Detention Center -- and thus deprived of all access to magazines, newspapers and books other than the Bible -- for months and years on end," the lawsuit alleges.

The litigation goes on to say copies of the magazine and other materials from that company were returned stamped "Info not allowed," "Book not allowed" and "Magazines not allowed."

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Anyway They Can

Churches are so desperate for fresh meat congregates that they are willing to let them attend virtually. 

From Techie-Buzz:

In this day and age of technology, far less people visit places of worship than ever. However, a Tech Savvy Florida Church is tackling the issue with the help of technology by providing Live Worshiping for devotees on devices such as iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

The Northland Church has also been using the Facebook platform to allow users to worship from the comfort of their computers. And if that was not enough they have now launched a first-ever live church channel on the Roku set-top device.

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NYC is Not the Only City with a Mosque Dispute

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A fight has erupted over a new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN. What started as a zoning issue his now a fight over theology and the role of government in recognizing religion. Opponents say local Muslims want to replace the Constitution with an Islamic legal code called Shariah law and they want the 16th Judicial District to issue an injunction stopping the mosque.

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Evil Jewelry

A Fremont, Ca woman was scammed out of $5000 of jewelry by two people claiming to be able to cleanse her jewelry with prayer. 

WTF?!?

She could have bought jewelry cleaner from CVS for $5.99 and saved $4993.01.
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"One Nation Working Together" Rally on the National Mall

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Progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats. 


More than 400 organizations including labor unions, environmental groups and gay rights groups partnered for the event.

Among the speakers were: Ed Schultz, host of "The Ed Show" on MSNBC, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, and NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous among others


Ed Schultz said, "It is about the people standing up to the corporations".

"They don't need hateful rhetoric. They need real solutions," said Van Jones former White House energy advisor.

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