ACLU Takes One in the Jimmy

On December 20, a three-judge panel from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a public display of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse.

6th Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in the unanimous decision: “The ACLU makes repeated reference to the ’separation of church and state.’ This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation’s history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion.”

To recap for liberals, this is how the First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Note no mention of the words “church”, “separation” or “state”.

The opinion explained that the "reasonable person" remark is particularly important because the legal standard requires the court to determine whether a "reasonable person" would believe a display endorses religion, not whether it offends someone in the community.

So to recap: the Court deems the ACLU to be unreasonable, tiresome and constitutionally ignorant. That about sums it up.

Why You Shouldn’t Send Your Kids to Public Schools

Reason #1: They are run by brain-washing hippies who will exploit their professional status to use your kids as pawns for their own political propaganda.

Front Page Mag reports that at Frank Allis Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin, third graders we told to “write letters to their congressman and various media outlets calling for an end to the war in Iraq.”

Parents were sent a letter justifying this political indoctrination as a social studies lesson. “The Frank Allis third grade will be writing letters to encourage an end to the war in Iraq,” the letter explained. “The letter writing will teach civic responsibility, a social studies standard, while providing an authentic opportunity to improve composition skills and handwriting. If the war has not ended by the 12th day [of the letter writing campaign] we will start the whole sequence over again, writing to students in middle school, high school, and college.”

By “civic responsibility”, they mean serving as their political drones. Even though this exercise violated at least two district policies: one that bans teachers from promoting their personal political beliefs to students; and another that requires teachers to address opposing views when presenting controversial topics, it never occurred to administrators that this might be a bad idea.

Liberal bias and indoctrination in schools? Nah!

Vote Democrat: We're Smarter Than You

Every now and then, I like to see what the enemy is saying. Check out this post from the Democratic Underground:

What we MUST realize in order to win - Americans are stupid and uninformed

This is very important because in order to win we must understand the way the average American thinks. I'm afraid WE have nothing in common with them.

I came to the two following conclusions when I saw the large number of people who voted for Bush back in 2000.

#1 - I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright. They cater and pander to the masses. The Democratic Party tries to appeal to the population about "issues" that these people just don't understand.

I've heard it said that the reason that Clinton's sex scandal resonated so strongly among "the people" was because it was a scandal that the average American understood. The average person can't understand a financial scandal.

In addition, people of average or lower intelligence tend to not be as logical or reasoned as those of higher intelligence - they deal with emotion. Therefore they are more likely to get riled up about someone burning a flag rather than a illogical tax cut.

#2 - The majority of people do not read the newspaper OR listen to the news, CNN,
etc. Therefore -they get their news from the Tonight Show, Letterman, Oprah and Saturday Night Live. Or, they get their news from talking to their co-workers at the water cooler.

Also, for the few people who DO listen to the news - who do they hear it from? Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are the most popular. Most newspapers and media outlets are owned by Republicans.

THIS is what we are fighting against people. In order to win we will need to start pandering to the masses.

My guess is that is that “normal” Americans don’t vote Democrat because they think they are a bunch of elitist a**holes. But what do I know, only being in the lower 80 to 99% of the bell curve?

Also check out these responses in the thread:

I would prefer 20%-25% voter turnout!!!! There are very few people on either side of the aisle who understand the issues!

The masses can be so easily mislead that they really should not vote!

I know - maybe they should start giving tests to voters

You know, just like they used to do in the South when it was heavily Democrat.

I'm baaaack

After a long hiatus the Burque Boy is back. Now back to solving the World's problems...