Notes of a Defeatist

The Associated Press

Wednesday, February 21, 2007; 11:56 PM

PHILADELPHIA —A Christian legal group has sued a school district on behalf of a 10-year-old boy who claims his rights to religion and free speech were violated when he was not allowed to wear a Jesus costume during Halloween activities.

The complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday by the [...]

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From the AP:

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — To an Arizona middle school, Batman! Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the [...]

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The Terrorist have won.

From the AP:

SAN DIEGO - Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday. In a notice published in this week’s Federal Register, the Navy said it needs to bolster security at Naval [...]

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tags technorati : G.I. Joe, animated, propagnda, military

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Nerd: 1, School: 0
Let’s not and say we did. Departed director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan work on extending the francise.

The cast for the new Aaron Sorkin play, The Farnsworth Invention, has been announced for the La Jolla Playhouse workshop.



Keeping it Real. Real stupid. Bradley Tech and Bay View fans can’t act like civilized [...]

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“You will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board.The computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming [...]

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Before you tune into tonight’s excuse filled State of the Union address, here’s a chance to take a gander into Bush’s Brain.

Only $4.95 allows you to download this fine partisan look behind the smoke and mirrors.

And, yes it’ll fit onto your hard drive with room to spare.

tags technorati : Bush’s Brain, politics, Karl Rove, documentary, [...]

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 Bush quietly authorizes the opening of Americans mail.

“President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the New York Daily News has learned.

The president asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that [...]

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Wouldn’t you be a tad pissed off if you were arrested for no good reason and sent to a foreign country and imprisoned for five years without ever being charged and then suddenly released?

You just might WANT to blow something up after that.

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Bush’s next mission: Putting The ‘America’ back in North America.

from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

“Alberta’s oil sands cover 54,000 square miles, about the size of North Carolina. There are an estimated 1.7 trillion to 2.5 trillion barrels of bitumen there, more oil than in the Middle East. The supply could help reduce U.S. dependency on overseas oil [...]

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