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Jul. 23rd, 2003 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsBy now you should be aware of the Boyd County, GA, school board's campaign to eliminate the Gay/Straight Alliance from their schools. In March, a judge sided with the ACLU and ordered the school to treat the GSA club as it would any student organization.
The school board has now reforumlated their policy on school clubs such that there are now two kinds of clubs: those that "advance the curriculum of the schools" and those that do not. The latter may not meet during school hours or have a faculty representative, and may be compelled to pay "rental fees" on the school property they use.
Athletic clubs, cheerleading, and "academically oriented" clubs are all curricular. Only one club currently at Boyd County schools falls into the "non-curricular" category. Guess which one.
The school board has actually had the chutzpah to ask the judge to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that its current policy is "uniform and non-discriminatory."
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technoshaman will find this one of interest: a hunter from Texas flew to Alaska for caribou season and mananged to score. When he got home, he found a nasty shock: the TSA had cut open the strapping tape holding shut two wet-lock boxes full of carefully handled, carefully packaged caribou roasts, steaks and burger and left a preprinted form from the TSA informing him his airline baggage had been "inspected."
Said hunter David Williams: "I don't know if the meat was stacked on the floor during the 'prohibited item search.' Was any of it swabbed by chemicals for explosive detection? Did any bomb-sniffing dogs lick the caribou meat? Did the TSA inspectors wear new, previously unused rubber latex gloves while handling our tenderloins, or had they just finished handling someone's dirty underwear?"
A school principal at a predominantly black public school in Tennesee had a fit when she saw how some students had dressed for their "graduation" from middle school. She denied several of them the right to participate in the ceremony.
Was it gang clothes? Low-cut jeans or tummy-revealing tunics? No, it was suits and ties for the boys, formal dresses for the girls. The principal felt they were "overdressed" and told one boy he "looked like a pimp." Several parents were "escorted off the premises" by police after the principal felt their protests were becoming loud and unruly. The parents are consulting lawyers.
So much for free trade. The Commerce Department has redefined the popular term "catfish" to refer to a single species, Ictaluridae, and all other catfish must use a different term. It has also redefined Vietnam as a "non-market economy," meaning "although we have no evidence that there is a policy of subsidization going on that would lead to unfair advantages, we're going to assume that something is going on anyway," and has slapped Vietnamese catfish farmers with huge tariffs.
I'm much more of a Republican than I am a Democrat, but everything I read about the current administration leads me to a simple decision: my vote will be for Anyone But Bush.
The school board has now reforumlated their policy on school clubs such that there are now two kinds of clubs: those that "advance the curriculum of the schools" and those that do not. The latter may not meet during school hours or have a faculty representative, and may be compelled to pay "rental fees" on the school property they use.
Athletic clubs, cheerleading, and "academically oriented" clubs are all curricular. Only one club currently at Boyd County schools falls into the "non-curricular" category. Guess which one.
The school board has actually had the chutzpah to ask the judge to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that its current policy is "uniform and non-discriminatory."
technoshaman will find this one of interest: a hunter from Texas flew to Alaska for caribou season and mananged to score. When he got home, he found a nasty shock: the TSA had cut open the strapping tape holding shut two wet-lock boxes full of carefully handled, carefully packaged caribou roasts, steaks and burger and left a preprinted form from the TSA informing him his airline baggage had been "inspected."Said hunter David Williams: "I don't know if the meat was stacked on the floor during the 'prohibited item search.' Was any of it swabbed by chemicals for explosive detection? Did any bomb-sniffing dogs lick the caribou meat? Did the TSA inspectors wear new, previously unused rubber latex gloves while handling our tenderloins, or had they just finished handling someone's dirty underwear?"
A school principal at a predominantly black public school in Tennesee had a fit when she saw how some students had dressed for their "graduation" from middle school. She denied several of them the right to participate in the ceremony.
Was it gang clothes? Low-cut jeans or tummy-revealing tunics? No, it was suits and ties for the boys, formal dresses for the girls. The principal felt they were "overdressed" and told one boy he "looked like a pimp." Several parents were "escorted off the premises" by police after the principal felt their protests were becoming loud and unruly. The parents are consulting lawyers.
So much for free trade. The Commerce Department has redefined the popular term "catfish" to refer to a single species, Ictaluridae, and all other catfish must use a different term. It has also redefined Vietnam as a "non-market economy," meaning "although we have no evidence that there is a policy of subsidization going on that would lead to unfair advantages, we're going to assume that something is going on anyway," and has slapped Vietnamese catfish farmers with huge tariffs.
I'm much more of a Republican than I am a Democrat, but everything I read about the current administration leads me to a simple decision: my vote will be for Anyone But Bush.
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Date: 2003-07-23 06:29 pm (UTC)If he can convience me that he can stick to his past behavior of telling the redistributionist factions and the ban-guns factions in his party to get lost and get bent, it's entirely possible he will get my vote.
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Date: 2003-07-24 12:39 am (UTC)