Opponents of a new federal hate crime law say the legislation could turn ministers into criminals.
“Our point is that pastors and others are not prosecuted as criminals for speaking out against homosexual behavior and the political agenda that promotes it,” said Gary Glenn, a Midland resident and president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
“It’s all about free speech,” Glenn said.
Glenn and three mid-Michigan ministers filed a civil rights suit challenging the constitutionality of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act that President Barack Obama signed in October.
The act makes it a federal offense to assault someone because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.
In other words, "WAAAAAH! We're skeered that we won't be allowed to vomit forth venom toward fags, queers, queens, trannies and other freaks whom our God hates with a passion of a thousand burning suns with impunity!"Ouellette said the ministers are concerned that the law has the potential to allow the government to prosecute ministers for the content of their sermons.
“We believe that the law will be used to stifle free speech and keep people from quoting scripture as it is written,” Ouellette said.
In other words, ejaculate all the hate you want. Just as long as you're not spewing it while killing off some effeminate looking boys, you're safe to be an asshole.(4) FREE EXPRESSION.—Nothing in this division shall be
construed to allow prosecution based solely upon an individual’s
expression of racial, religious, political, or other beliefs or solely
upon an individual’s membership in a group advocating or
espousing such beliefs.
(5) FIRST AMENDMENT.—Nothing in this division, or an
amendment made by this division, shall be construed to
diminish any rights under the first amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
(6) CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS.—Nothing in this division
shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected
speech, expressive conduct or activities (regardless of
whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief),
including the exercise of religion protected by the first amendment
to the Constitution of the United States and peaceful
picketing or demonstration. The Constitution of the United
States does not protect speech, conduct or activities consisting
of planning for, conspiring to commit, or committing an act
of violence.

The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills. He said the support of his family, and especially the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, had helped him to shake off suicidal thoughts: “I wanted to see her grow up.”
Jones has temporarily stood down as director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. He fiercely defends the unit’s science — “I stand by it 100%” — but now accepts that he did not treat Freedom of Information (FoI) requests for the data as seriously as he should have done. Jones believes that the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple FoI requests by climate change sceptics determined to disrupt its work.
In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change.
Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”
I submit to you, the reader, that Jones has no business calling himself a scientist. Real scientists have the integrity to face scrutiny of their work, and the open mind to admit that perhaps their research isn't all it's cracked up to be. Real scientists don't try to bury evidence contrary to their preconceived hypothesis. Real scientists don't manipulate their data and selectively choose only supporters to peer review their work, while banding together with other, like-minded scientific fraudsters to shun unfavorable or critical reviews. That is exactly what Jones and his cohorts did.
And now he has the unmitigated gall to try and garner some sympathy from the general public by dragging his granddaughter into the Phil Jones Pity Fest????Another glimpse into what the files and emails reveal was the report by Professor Deming. He wrote, “With publication of an article in Science (in 1995) I gained sufficient credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change.They thought I was one of them someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. So one of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said. “We must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” The person in question was Jonathan Overpeck and his even more revealing emails are part of those exposed by the hacker. It is now very clear that Deming’s charge was precise.They have perverted science in the service of social and political causes.



Ms. Kunin hit the nail on the head. Parents have abdicated their responsibility to the nanny state. Schools are expected to be mom, dad and educator. They're expected to teach morals and ethics in addition to the three Rs. And the more resources schools receive from the government, the more diluted their curriculum becomes.Democratic party leaders speak incessantly of limiting profits and regulating salaries.
It brings back to memory another Soviet line: You pretend you are paying us salaries, and we pretend we are working. If bureaucrats predetermine the value of your work, there is no incentive to be productive. This is the quickest way to kill a dynamic economy.
I never expected to hear this kind of rhetoric in the USA. Today,the American educational machine teaches exactly the same points the Soviets taught.
It idealizes Socialist societies and denigrates America, especially its economic system.
American students are brainwashed to despise economic freedom and to yearn for a big government state.
Freed from their parents' control, but intimidated by the relentlessly negative portrayal of America, young Americans look for politicians to show them the way.
As someone who experienced real government-approved anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, I am amazed by the obliviousness of American Jews,the most fervent supporters of left-wing politics.
They support a party that is obsessed with pitting one group againstanother, and that incessantly plays on envy and hatred for bankers,rich people, big business and doctors.
They fail to notice that the success of Jews, as well as otherminorities, in the sciences, business and arts is directly correlatedto their freedom from oppressive, centralized control. American Jews who support big government do not understand what their ancestors escaped from.
Persecutions of Jews throughout history all have one thing in common: a centralized power that manipulates and directs people's anger away from themselves onto an easy target.
No matter how much Jews align themselves with the power structure and work for noble causes, they will remain an easy target.
I never understood it either. I have experienced some nasty anti-Semitism in the USSR as well. I was shunned, ignored and borderline tortured by kids and teachers alike in kindergarten as the kid with the weird Jew name. Teachers encouraged students to bar me from group play. When we went outside to play, I was the one kid on a deserted set of monkey bars, while everyone else played in a group on the other side of the playground. I was the one kid who wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom after nap time and forced to wet my bed. I was the one kid who was constantly ridiculed about my last name.
And knowing all this, I could never figure out why it was that Jews here in America were so anxious to embrace the type of system that perpetually abused them and turned them into second class citizens.
My father, being particularly religious, finally shed some light on the subject. Jews are a naturally sympathetic people. Their faith directs them to fulfill mitzvah, a word that has come to mean "acts of kindness." This compels them to fall victim to cunning politicians who play on their natural tendencies to help when they can. This also many times prompts them to close their eyes to the natural consequences of the kind of policies they support, but instead focus on the immediate gratification of having done something that could help the poor and oppressed.Patrick Timoney, a fourth-grader at PS 52, South Beach, was nearly suspended yesterday after playing with LEGOs during his lunch period because one of the action figures was carrying a toy machine gun.You just can't fix stupid. You can eradicate it from the face of this earth, but you can't fix it. This dumb bitch terrorized a child for playing a harmless game with his friends, because she happens to lose bladder control at the mere thought of a firearm.
[...]
While the action figure was a standard LEGO policeman figure, the brand of the gun could not be determined.
"She took him into her office in the middle of the lunch period and he was crying," said the boy's mother, Laura Timoney. "He was afraid."The principal called Ms. Timoney and said she considered the toy suspension-worthy, and that she was going to double-check with a security administrator from the city Department of Education.


Based on a review of the available scientific data, Dr. Lippmann and co-authors conclude that the dangers of having a gun at home far outweigh the safety benefits. Research shows that access to guns greatly increases the risk of death and firearm-related violence. A gun in the home is twelve times more likely to result in the death of a household member or visitor than an intruder.The assumption here is that:The most common cause of deaths occurring at homes where guns are present, by far, is suicide. Many of these self-inflicted gunshot wounds appear to be impulsive acts by people without previous evidence of mental illness.Guns in the home are also associated with a fivefold increase in the rate of intimate partner homicide, as well as an increased risk of injuries and death to children.

It is correctly attributed, and in my opinion, dead on.
It comes from a Jennifer Sigrest who was appalled at Dr. Jones' letter. Incensed, I tell ya!
I’ve been stewing about an Aug. 23 letter to the editor ("Why pay for the care of the careless?") in which Dr. Starner Jones questioned the worth of a patient to receive Medicaid because of her gold tooth,tattoos, R&B;ring tone on a new cell phone, cigarette-smoking and beer-drinking.
This kind of personal attack is nothing new with the hateful rhetoric of late. But it’s a real slippery slope when one questions whether another human merits support for health care because of appearances and choices. There are a lot of folks in this state who make less-than-perfect choices about finances and health. We are the poorest, fattest state, after all.
Dr. Jones wasn't making a personal attack, but a simple, brutal observation - that someone who is mooching off the taxpayers shouldn't be spending their money on expensive cell phones, gold teeth and other luxuries.
Health care is a service - provided TO someone BY someone. In this case, it's the taxpayers who are providing this service, because the fat bitch is using her alleged "need" as a claim check to their earnings.
I've seen poverty. Stinking, rancid, wearing clothes discarded by other people in their trash, picking through garbage for scraps poverty. People living in poverty do not purchase gold teeth. People living in poverty do not purchase expensive cell phones. People in poverty do not spend hundreds of dollars on tattoos. People who are truly needy in this society spend every penny trying to survive. This fat bitch does not sound like one of those people.
And yet... we, the people, support her fat ass. We pay people like Dr. Jones to give her medical treatment - to use his years of training and hard work to give her a service she should be paying for on her own.
Screw that.
This is no “us vs. them” issue. We are all in this together.
No. We are not all in this together. Some of us work our asses off every day. Some of us work two jobs to ensure that our children have everything they need to grow up to be healthy, intelligent, stable adults. Some of us don't waste our earnings on frivolous crap such as tattoos and gold teeth. Some of us get up at 0400 and don't get home until well after 1800.
And those of us who do that, have to pay for someone who uses Medicaid entitlements at others' expense, who apparently has enough to purchase superfluous shit such as grillz for her teeth, body art, expensive, brand name shoes, and top of the line cell phones.
You know what it's called when those who work their asses off daily and make intelligent, responsible fiscal decisions are forced to support those who don't pay a thing for services, but are wealthy enough to make lavish purchases?
It's called slavery.
And when it comes to being a slave and supporting an indolent, wasteful, irresponsible minority (minority as in the minority of the population who are truly in need of public assistance, not racial minority - before anyone starts screeching RAAAAACISM!), it is "us vs. them."

Hell, I'd stay too if I was paid that much money for doing absolutely nothing!A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education "rubber room" working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated$7.8 million, The Post found.
Alan Rosenfeld hasn't set foot in a classroom for nearly a decade since he was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to junior-high girls and "staring at their butts,"yet the department still pays him handsomely for sitting on his own butt seven hours a day.
In 2001, six eighth-graders at IS 347in Queens accused Rosenfeld, a typing teacher who filled in for an absent dean, of making comments like "You have a sexy body," asking one whether she had a boyfriend and making others feel uncomfortable with creepy leers.
Because the Department of Education could not produce all the students as witnesses, he was found guilty in only one case. A girl testified that Rosenfeld stopped at her locker, where she was standing with a friend, and "said I love him because I talk to him so much."
A DOE hearing officer gave him a slap on the wrist -- a week off without pay -- for "conduct unbecoming a teacher." He was cleared to return to teaching.
Instead, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has kept the scruffy 64-year-old in a Brooklyn rubber room, deeming him too dangerous to be near kids, officials said.
The DOE can't fire him.
"We have to abide by the union contract," spokeswoman Ann Forte said.
So Rosenfeld simply collects his $100,049 salary -- top scale for teachers -- plus full health benefits and the promise of a fat pension,about $82,000 a year if he were to retire today.
His pension will grow by $1,700 each year he remains. He could have retired at age 62, but he stays.
A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a girl, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. The man told investigators he planned to make her his "sex slave," according to the arrest report uncovered by Local 6.
According to jail records, Charles Henry Bennett, 57, works as a TSA employee at Orlando International Airport, and was booked into the Orange County Jail early Friday morning after a 15-year-old girl came forward claiming Bennett touched her inappropriately when she was 12, deputies said.
A TSA spokesperson reached late Saturday night said it would not be possible for her reveal whether Bennett’s employment status with the agency was impacted by his arrest until Monday at the earliest.