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Stupid Wins: NYC to Ban Churches from Renting Public School Facilities

So a New York City Appeals Court ruling banning churches from renting space in NYC public schools for Sunday worship has been upheld by virtue of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusing to hear the case.

“The Department was quite properly concerned about having any school in this diverse city identified with one particular religious belief or practice,” said Jane Gordon, senior counsel for the New York City Law Dept. “”The Court of Appeals correctly upheld the Department of Education’s policy not to allow the City’s public schools to be used as houses of worship.  This case has been litigated for 16 years, and we’re gratified that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear it.  We view this as a victory for the City’s school children and their families.”

The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the city’s policy.

The court case involved the Bronx Household of Faith – a church that paid weekly rent to hold worship services at a public school since 2002. The church, along with five dozen other congregations, was allowed to continue worshipping at public schools pending the outcome of the lawsuit.

It’s a sad day for religious liberty,” said Jordan Lorence, the church’s attorney and senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. “Churches and religious other groups should be allowed to meet in public buildings on the same terms as other community groups and they’re being denied that in New York City.”

You have to love this reasoning:

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that allowing churches to use schools resulted in an “unintended bias in favor of Christian religions” – since most Christian churches worship on Sunday.

“Jews and Muslims generally cannot use school facilities for their services because the facilities are often unavailable on the days that their religions principally prescribe for services,” Judge Pierre Leval declared.

Who knew Christians worshiped on Sunday, as opposed to Jews and Muslims? Amazing what you learn after 2,000 years.

Do you have any idea how many congregations use public school facilities on Sunday in New York City? For about ten years I sat in more public schools for Sunday worship than I did in traditional church buildings. Mainline churches are dying, many of them supporting paltry weekly attendance, yet vibrant evangelical congregations, which also provide aid to the homeless and needy regardless of religion, are now left homeless because they worship on Sunday. Redeemer Presbyterian rents Hunter College for two of its five services every Sunday. Will it have to move now? Does this ruling apply to public colleges as well as elementary and high schools?

And what about the income those schools get from the churches? Here was found money when the buildings were otherwise empty and dark. How stupid is this?

I think the real fear at work here has nothing to do with the “establishment” of a religious bias in favor of Christianity (puh-leeze) but that the continued and growing presence of Christianity in the halls of academia was depressing to those who keep waiting for the death of religion in favor of what a public school education has to offer. (crickets)

Via @seancurnyn.

 

Breakfast Links

Tobacco companies knew their product contained polonium-120, which is radioactive and causes cancerous growths in the lungs, as early as 1959 but covered it up, insisting they thought it was a special vitamin that gave you superpowers, like the ability to hack phlegm with shotgun-like velocity.

Michael Moore joins those protesting the rich on Wall Street, who turn on celebrity and beat him senseless until police come and drag his carcass away to cheers. Sorry. I was just thinking out loud.

Jimmy Carter, your malaise is ready, aisle 8: The president says America has gone soft. Does he mean in the head? Because, I was thinking the same thing about three years ago.

Should we fear China’s first space station? Yes. I don’t know why. But I fear General Tso’s chicken to such an abnormal degree that I will build a fort made entirely of pork to protect me from its deleterious effects should someone at the same table order it.

Cantaloupes are killing people left and right. You never hear these kinds of gruesome stories about Kit-Kat bars.

The First Lady was caught shopping at Target. Never too early to economize.

Unpaid interns on the 2010 Natalia Portman film Black Swan are suing the studio because they were made to do things that their employers derived some “immediate advantage” from. Can’t have that. More likely they were made to do things, full stop, when they thought they were going to just hang out and ogle Natalie Portman.

Looks like the iPod Classic is headed for the dustbin of history. Keep an eye out for the new iCephalopod. It’s just like the iPod you know only it has a bladder-like renal sac and bilateral body symmetry. Starts at $99.

And finally, in Tennessee, teachers are forbidden to bow their heads in silent prayer, even if students come at them with a knife. The ACLU insists it will know when they’re praying and when they’re just looking at the blood pooling at their feet.

 

NY Congressional 9th and the Smell of Fear

So yesterday I received in the mail a card from the Board of Elections in the City of New York. It was forwarded from my old address and marked SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE. It seems there is to be an election held on  Tuesday, September 13, for the 9th Congressional District seat.

The 9th was Anthony Weiner’s seat. Yes, ex-Representative Weiner was our congressman. What an honor, no?

What should have been a lock for a Democratic candidate is turning out to be a nail-biter. Alana Goodman, over at Contentions, had this to say:

The race for Anthony Weiner’s seat is now neck-and-neck, as President Obama continues to be a political liability in the reliably Democratic district. The Democratic candidate David Weprin has spent the past month trying to distance himself from the president, but apparently Organizing for America director Jeremy Bird didn’t get the hint. He sent out an email blast last week calling on Obama supporters to stump for his “strong ally” Weprin. …

Now, my SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE comes in several strange and exotic languages. How do I know that there isn’t a secret message buried in one of these scripts, something like “Vote for Weprin or a puppy dies”? Or “If the 9th goes Republican, garbage pickup is suspended indefinitely”?

I can’t vote in this race anyway. If I could, and the Prohibition Party was not running a candidate, I’d resort to Plan B: write in “The nice lady who helps my at the Stop N Shop.” She has been a candidate in more races than Eugene V. Debs, Harold Stassen, Lyndon LaRouche, and Pat Paulsen combined.

 

Hugo Chavez Blames Capitalism for the Destruction of Life on Mars and His Last Brain Cell

The destructive capacity of fascism, including the left-wing variety, is well-documented. Little did we know it is also responsible for early-onset dementia. I’m sure Chavez’s buddies Sean Penn and Oliver Stone were just joshing him about this one, but ideologues are not known for their senses of humor.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,” Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world’s problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.

I have begun hoarding bottles of Evian just in case he’s right. Damn plutocrats. Hey, wait a minute—I bet they destroyed life on Pluto, too! That’s how they got that name! They cratted all over Pluto! It’s all making sense now…

 

First Troy, Now Atlantis. Next Up: My Car Keys.

Lost City of Atlantis found! And it’s not far from Penelope Cruz’s house! “A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.” So much speculation about the wisdom of ancient, Utopian civilizations buried beneath the sea, now reduced to little more than a meteorological artifact. Next they’ll be telling us that El Dorado was nothing more than a Mayan gay bar in Chiapas…

Is NPR really a haven for miserable America-hating communists hell-bent on reducing our wondrous nation to a pathetic shell of its former greatness, crippled under the weight of a soul-killing bureaucracy controlled by a cadre of politically correct oligarchs? Or is it just boring? YOU DECIDE! Read the rest of this entry »

 

Mr. Incredible Is Mad as Hell and Is Not Going to Take It No More Times

So Craig T. Nelson — late of the TV series Coach and the phenomenal Pixar film The Incredibles — makes an appearance on the Glenn Beck Show and declares that he’s thinking of not paying his taxes as a protest against outrageous spending, a lack of accountability, and stupid-butt budget cuts.

My favorite cut:

We’re going to cut education. Why? That’s the most important thing in the world … and firefighters. We don’t have fires in California — (exasperated) they were within half a mile of my house three times!

And he likes sea otters. He wasn’t saying he didn’t like sea otters. He just wants the pro-sea-otter folks to pay for the sea otters. So I don’t want to hear from the pro- or anti- sea-otter people. I get enough of that mail.

 

Man Wins $1 Billion Judgment Against Castro, Guevara, Will Be Paid in Empty Symbolism Befitting Revolutionaries’ Legacy

I left my cash in my other beret

I left my cash in my other beret

So the architects of the Worker’s Paradise, Latin American Division, confiscated Gustavo Villoldo’s property and business, which is the most efficient way to get a decent Utopia going, don’t you know. The distress this caused Mr. Villoldo drove him to suicide.

His two sons, in what can only be described as a quixotic quest, brought suit against Castro and the graffito formerly known as Che.

And won.

”What the defendants did was torture this family and tear it apart,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien in ruling for Gustavo Villoldo, 73, who ironically became a CIA operative and helped track down Guevara in the jungles of Bolivia in 1967.

In keeping with its practice in a handful of similar lawsuits, the Cuban government did not respond to the suit or attempt to defend itself.

Despite the judgment, Villoldo may not receive the full payment anytime soon because it may take years for him to tap Cuba’s frozen bank accounts. Adrien acknowledged that, saying he awarded the eye-popping judgment following the one-day civil trial to ”get Cuba’s attention” and “make a statement.”

Now, apologists and fans of the diabolical duo will no doubt say that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

Fifty years on, Cubans are still waiting for the omelette.

I think they’ll settle for takeout right about now. Preferably not Chinese. (Indian, anyone?)

 

White House Tells Tardy Kindergarteners to Get Lost, Kids Vow to Vote Republican in 13 Years, Which Is When Party Should Be Viable Again

"I WANTED TO BE THERE FOR THE CLOTURE VOTE!"

"I WANTED TO BE THERE FOR THE CLOTURE VOTE!"

So these kids, these tykes, these munchkins, from Stafford County, Virginia — home of Thomas Jefferson, I might add — Virginia, I mean, not Stafford County, because I don’t know where that is – were on a school trip to tour the White House — the People’s House, I might add, but not in a commie way – when some big bad man tells them all to amskray.

Parents say they were just 10 minutes late for their scheduled tour. School officials say White House staff said they needed to get ready for the president’s event with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, so they couldn’t come in.

“I was angry cause they were disappointed,” parent and chaperone Paty Stine said …

A lot of preparing had gone into the trip. Conway Elementary teachers had been planning the trip for months, each child paid $20 for a seat on the chartered bus, and names were submitted to the White House for clearance.

Parents say they tried to make it on time, but their chartered buses hit heavy traffic that slowed them down substantially. They thought they were supposed to show up by 10:15, but they say they arrived at 10:25 instead, and couldn’t get in.

And O how they tried — scaling walls, smashing windows, driving the bus straight through the White House front door — but to no avail.

“Here we have President Obama and his administration saying, ‘Here we are for the common, middle class people,’ and here he is not letting 150 5- and 6-year-olds into the White House because he’s throwing a lunch for a bunch of grown millionaires,” Stine said.

The inglourious basterds!

I bet if they had all showed up clutching rolls of hundred-dollar bills in their teeny, tiny hands — contributions for the DNC – the president and his administration would have made an exception for them.

That’s it, I am never ever not not voting for the president again.

 

Congress Employs Speed-Reader to Race Through Bill, Still Gibberish at Any Velocity

And this is just menu from China Garden

And this is just menu from China Garden

So Republican Rep. Joe Barton threatened to force the Dems to read out in committee all 900 pages of some egregious bill regarding climate change and whether Mr. Freeze was a better supervillain than Egghead or some such thing. 

The Dems, frightened said Barton would follow through on his threat, and that the process would drag on like the Nuremberg trials, hired themselves a speed-reader, one Douglas Wilder. The Republicans suddenly confronted the truly horrific prospect of actually having a bill written by the Democratic Party read aloud — in public — and let the whole thing pass.

But Barton …

wanted to find out what a speed reader sounded like. He requested that one of the Republican amendments be read in full, and asked that the new hire take over for the full time committee clerk. Waxman obliged, and Douglas Wilder sat before the committee and began reading rapidly. He spoke so quickly it was impossible to decipher his words, as listeners began to laugh and applaud.

And they all laughed and laughed and laughed until they forgot why they were there in the first place and all went home early.

If only it were that simple.

 

RNC Will Not Rebrand Dems as Socialists, Will Refer to Them Instead as ‘Filthy Communist Overlords’ but Only in Press Releases

Honest Abe is watching. Always. Watching. Which is really creepy.

Honest Abe is watching. Always. Watching. Which is really creepy.

It seems that Michael Steele, RNC Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler, was never a fan of referring to the Democrats as the Democrat-Socialist Party, wanting to set a more civil tone and all.

Seems that he got his way. Instead, the GOP passed a resolution that stated:

“that the Democratic Party is dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals,” and it urged President Obama, the Congress, and the Dem Party to “stop pushing our country towards socialism and governmental control.”

I’m sure Obama is ready to do a 180 any minute now …

 
 
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