Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Keep Bush's religion out of my Constitution!
"[Mr. Bush] has always strongly believed that marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman . . . There is widespread support in this country for protecting and defending the sanctity of marriage." - White House press secretary Scott McClellan, Feb. 24. 2004.When GWB asserts that it is his responsibility to help preserve the "sanctity" of marriage through a Constitutional amendment banning gays from enjoying that institution, he is doing so solely on religious grounds.
As even this linguistically and syntactically challenged president is undoubtedly aware, "sanctity" has a purely religious meaning, referring to holy, saintly, sacred or Godly.
Since his assumption of the presidency in 2001, Bush has managed to inject his religious beliefs into almost every aspect of his questionable policies, from his fight against "evil-doers" to his faith-based domestic initiatives.
This latest assault on the First Amendment's admonition that government be no respector of any religion goes too far and is too blatant an attempt to turn the greatest political and human rights' document in the history of mankind into an appendix to the Old and New Testaments.
Mr. Bush: If you dare to assume that your "Bush Doctrine" compares favorably with the Founders' Bill of Rights, then you are even less aware of your role in the history of this country than even your harshest critics charge.
This is Roger "You'll take my Bill of Rights When You Pry it From my Cold, Dead Fingers" Scimé a graduate student at the Reynolds School of Journalism, signing off!
Monday, February 23, 2004
This just in!
Acting on a tip from Secretary of Education Rod Paige, the Department of Homeland Security today carried out raids on more than 200,000 public schools, seizing textbooks and gradebooks and forcing thousands of handcuffed K-12 teachers on a "perp walk" before hundreds of bewildered students.
Paige, former head of the Texas School System and architect of that state's "Texas Miracle," accused the NEA (the national teachers' union) of being a "terrorist organization."
Speaking to the nation's governors at a White House meeting this afternoon, Paige's comments prompted Atty. General John Ashcroft to launch an all-out assault on that organization. Acting swiftly, agents immediately moved to freeze the NEA's assets and seize its membership records.
A short time later, George W. Bush designated the group's leaders "enemy combatants," and ordered they be held at Guantanamo Naval Base. Experts agree that it will take more than a "doctors' note" before they will be allowed back in a classroom.
Mr. Bush defended the action: "The most important job of anyone in public office is to protect the people of our country," he said.
It was not immediately known if the crackdown will be extended to include college professors, who are thought to be in a particularly vulnerable position, considering Mr. Bush's grades while attending Yale during the 1970s.
Paige, former head of the Texas School System and architect of that state's "Texas Miracle," accused the NEA (the national teachers' union) of being a "terrorist organization."
Speaking to the nation's governors at a White House meeting this afternoon, Paige's comments prompted Atty. General John Ashcroft to launch an all-out assault on that organization. Acting swiftly, agents immediately moved to freeze the NEA's assets and seize its membership records.
A short time later, George W. Bush designated the group's leaders "enemy combatants," and ordered they be held at Guantanamo Naval Base. Experts agree that it will take more than a "doctors' note" before they will be allowed back in a classroom.
Mr. Bush defended the action: "The most important job of anyone in public office is to protect the people of our country," he said.
It was not immediately known if the crackdown will be extended to include college professors, who are thought to be in a particularly vulnerable position, considering Mr. Bush's grades while attending Yale during the 1970s.
This is Roger Scimé, hoping for at least a B at the Reynolds School of Journalism, signing off!
Outrage!
Education Secretary Rod Paige called the National Education Association (NEA) a "terrorist organization" today, during a White House governors' meeting.
Paige, by the way, was the steward of the corrupt and discredited so-called "Texas Miracle" -- the model, by the way, for "No Child Left Behind."
By any measure, Paige has overstayed his welcome. I'd like to think we have a society that believes its leaders should strive for something better than a C.
Such reckless disregard for a) the truth, b) the safety of NEA members c) all sense of legal common-sense and decency cries out for Paige's resignation. In this post-9/11 world, to call an individual a terrorist is tantamount to accusing somebody of being a witch in 17th century Salem; to label an organization "terrorist" is to have its funding cut and assets seized, its members investigated and its officers provided lifetime food and lodging at Guantanamo Naval Base.
We can't let this go by. It's arguably the first salvo in Bush's reelection campaign.
Rod Paige has got to go!
Paige, by the way, was the steward of the corrupt and discredited so-called "Texas Miracle" -- the model, by the way, for "No Child Left Behind."
By any measure, Paige has overstayed his welcome. I'd like to think we have a society that believes its leaders should strive for something better than a C.
Such reckless disregard for a) the truth, b) the safety of NEA members c) all sense of legal common-sense and decency cries out for Paige's resignation. In this post-9/11 world, to call an individual a terrorist is tantamount to accusing somebody of being a witch in 17th century Salem; to label an organization "terrorist" is to have its funding cut and assets seized, its members investigated and its officers provided lifetime food and lodging at Guantanamo Naval Base.
We can't let this go by. It's arguably the first salvo in Bush's reelection campaign.
Rod Paige has got to go!
This is Roger "Not A Terrorist" Scimé, supporting the NEA as a student at the Reynolds School of Journalism, signing off!
