The Boy Scouts are a Dangerous Gang

Thank God officials are on the ball and getting these dangerous hoodlums the hell out of our schools.

First this...

6-Year-Old Suspended for Bringing Knife-Fork-Spoon to School.
Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school, a folding spoon, fork and knife. Zachary wanted to use it to eat his lunch.

And, one day later , this...

Eagle Scout Suspended for Keeping a Pocketknife in his Car.
Matthew Whalen follows the Boy Scout motto, he's always prepared. He keeps a sleeping bag, water, a ready-to-eat meal, and a 2-inch pocketknife locked in the trunk of his car. The knife was given to him by his grandfather, a police chief in a nearby town.

"Rules are rules as any fool can see" - Kris Kristofferson

School Kids Taught To Praise Obama

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"



Here's the creepy - er - creepier part...

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

When I was a kid, I think we sang something like that about Jesus, in church of course, you can't sing about Jesus in school.

Stalin would be proud.

Read More: Another Indoctrination Video

When Bush Spoke to Students

By Byron York From The Washington Examiner

The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue. [continue...]

Read More: When Bush Spoke to Students Democrats Investigated.

World Record Radio Interviews

TJ Walker and Jess Todtfeld are on their way to setting a new Guinness World Record for doing the most radio interviews in 24 hours. The old record is 72 and they're shooting for 120. They started a 6 a.m. eastern time today and they won't quit until 6 a.m tomorrow. They're promoting their new book "TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations" by doing a presentation marathon - genius.

You can watch live at the FOXNews.com Strategy Room and, for 24 hours only, download a free PDF of the new book at TJWalker.com.

I've been watching all morning and it's been fun and quite an education, not only in public speaking, but also in talk radio and grace under pressure. TJ and Jess are both pretty entertaining fellows with very different styles. Jess was a stand up comedian and TJ is an ex-radio talk show host. This could get very interesting... I'd say around 3 a.m. or so. They're getting better and funnier as the day wears on. You really should check them out.

Good Luck Guys. I'm rootin' for ya.

Update: Record Broken at about 4.02 p.m. eastern time with well over 13 hours to spare! How long will they keep going? Will Jess change into his shorts? Will TJ take off his tie? Stay tuned to find out.

Right-Wing College Group Riles Campuses

From FOXNews.com

A student group that bills itself as "America's right wing youth movement" focused on countering radical multiculturism, socialism and mass immigration is causing a stir on a growing number of college campuses across the country.

The conservative political group Youth for Western Civilization is currently organized on at least seven university campuses. According to its Web site, the group hopes to inspire Western youth on the "basis of pride in their American and Western heritage," counter and ultimately defeat "leftism on campus" and create a social movement in which a right-wing subculture is an alternative to what it calls a "poisonous and bigoted" campus climate.

"A great part of college is definitely meeting people of different backgrounds, but a multicultural ideology teaches that we should appreciate things just because they're different from our culture with no regards to the quality of the culture and that all cultures are inherently equal," said Trevor Williams, president of YWC's Vanderbilt chapter. "I absolutely disagree."

Of course they're being accussed of hate speech and racism by their fellow students.

"Western is a veiled term that means white," University of North Carolina graduate student Tyler Oakley wrote in an e-mail to FOXNews.com. "I believe that our democracy is strong enough to allow extreme forms of speech, but YWC's message is essentially a negative one, an assault on not being white or non-Western, and is therefore hateful, if not blatant hate speech."

Finally, real campus radicals. Added to the conservative links page.

Read More: Right-Wing College Group Riles Campuses Nationwide
Their Website: Youth for Western Civilization

Take The News IQ Quiz

Found at Patterico's Pontifications

Here's a quick, 12 question, News Quiz from the Pew Research Center.

My Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 82% of the general public. I missed the Iraq War death toll. I think they're counting from 1991.

Not surprisingly: Republicans are More Knowledgeable

Troubling Texts at Virginia's Saudi Academy

From FOXNews.com

Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists."

The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.

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Fairness, Idealism and Other Atrocities

By P.J. O'Rourke

I've been a fan of P.J. O'Rourke since his National Lampoon days (yeah I'm that old). Here's his commencement speech to America.

Well, here you are at your college graduation. And I know what you're thinking: "Gimme the sheepskin and get me outta here!" But not so fast. First you have to listen to a commencement speech.

Don't moan. I'm not going to "pass the wisdom of one generation down to the next." I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

We were the moron generation. We were the generation that believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change everything -- which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for the sex.

My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth's resources of the weird. Weird clothes -- we wore them. Weird beards -- we grew them. Weird words and phrases -- we said them. So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act weird, all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your tongues. Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize.

So now, it's my job to give you advice. But I'm thinking: You're finishing 16 years of education, and you've heard all the conventional good advice you can stand. So, let me offer some relief:

1. Go out and make a bunch of money!

Here we are living in the world's most prosperous country, surrounded by all the comforts, conveniences and security that money can provide. Yet no American political, intellectual or cultural leader ever says to young people, "Go out and make a bunch of money." Instead, they tell you that money can't buy happiness. Maybe, but money can rent it.

There's nothing the matter with honest moneymaking. Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. In a free society, with the rule of law and property rights, no one loses when someone else gets rich.

2. Don't be an idealist!

Don't chain yourself to a redwood tree. Instead, be a corporate lawyer and make $500,000 a year. No matter how much you cheat the IRS, you'll still end up paying $100,000 in property, sales and excise taxes. That's $100,000 to schools, sewers, roads, firefighters and police. You'll be doing good for society. Does chaining yourself to a redwood tree do society $100,000 worth of good?

Idealists are also bullies. The idealist says, "I care more about the redwood trees than you do. I care so much I can't eat. I can't sleep. It broke up my marriage. And because I care more than you do, I'm a better person. And because I'm the better person, I have the right to boss you around."

Get a pair of bolt cutters and liberate that tree.

Who does more for the redwoods and society anyway -- the guy chained to a tree or the guy who founds the "Green Travel Redwood Tree-Hug Tour Company" and makes a million by turning redwoods into a tourist destination, a valuable resource that people will pay just to go look at?

So make your contribution by getting rich. Don't be an idealist.

3. Get politically uninvolved!

All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I'd be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. Imagine deciding the dinner menu by family secret ballot. I've got three kids and three dogs in my family. We'd be eating Froot Loops and rotten meat.

But let me make a distinction between politics and politicians. Some people are under the misapprehension that all politicians stink. Impeach George W. Bush, and everything will be fine. Nab Ted Kennedy on a DUI, and the nation's problems will be solved.

But the problem isn't politicians -- it's politics. Politics won't allow for the truth. And we can't blame the politicians for that. Imagine what even a little truth would sound like on today's campaign trail:

"No, I can't fix public education. The problem isn't the teachers unions or a lack of funding for salaries, vouchers or more computer equipment The problem is your kids!"

4. Forget about fairness!

We all get confused about the contradictory messages that life and politics send.

Life sends the message, "I'd better not be poor. I'd better get rich. I'd better make more money than other people." Meanwhile, politics sends us the message, "Some people make more money than others. Some are rich while others are poor. We'd better close that 'income disparity gap.' It's not fair!"

Well, I am here to advocate for unfairness. I've got a 10-year-old at home. She's always saying, "That's not fair." When she says this, I say, "Honey, you're cute. That's not fair. Your family is pretty well off. That's not fair. You were born in America. That's not fair. Darling, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you." What we need is more income, even if it means a bigger income disparity gap.

5. Be a religious extremist!

So, avoid politics if you can. But if you absolutely cannot resist, read the Bible for political advice -- even if you're a Buddhist, atheist or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those people who believes that God is involved in politics. On the contrary. Observe politics in this country. Observe politics around the world. Observe politics through history. Does it look like God's involved?

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. Observe the Tenth Commandment. The first nine commandments concern theological principles and social law: Thou shalt not make graven images, steal, kill, et cetera. Fair enough. But then there's the tenth: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."

Here are God's basic rules about how we should live, a brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts. And, right at the end of it we read, "Don't envy your buddy because he has an ox or a donkey." Why did that make the top 10? Why would God, with just 10 things to tell Moses, include jealousy about livestock?

Well, think about how important this commandment is to a community, to a nation, to a democracy. If you want a mule, if you want a pot roast, if you want a cleaning lady, don't whine about what the people across the street have. Get rich and get your own.

Now, one last thing:

6. Don't listen to your elders!

After all, if the old person standing up here actually knew anything worth telling, he'd be charging you for it.

P.J. O'Rourke, a correspondent for the Weekly Standard, is the author of "Parliment Of Whores"

Political Survey

I received this in my email the other day and it looks legit, so here goes.

The purpose of this survey is to examine how people think and feel about the political issues, parties, and candidates in the upcoming election. In the survey, you will be asked a series of questions about two political candidates, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. We are very interested in how individuals that find information on the web think about politics, and your participation would be greatly appreciated. In total, the survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is completely anonymous and you can skip any questions you do not wish to answer.

Click here to take the survey.

Please feel free to contact Chris Weber (crweber[AT]notes.cc.sunysb.edu) at Stony Brook University with any questions or concerns. Thanks for your help.

Chris stated in his message that this survey is part of his dissertation project so if you've got a few minutes do help him out.

Another Fake Hate Crime at GWU

Officials at George Washington University say a student who complained of swastikas being drawn on a dorm room door has admitted responsibility for them.

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Ideological Reeducation at University

At the University of Delaware, race politics has reached a dead end of absurdity and political correctness reminiscent of Stalinist Russia: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation.

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That Racist Swedish Flag

A school principal in southern Sweden has banned pupils from posing for class photos wearing national team shirts containing Swedish flags. Since national flags may be perceived by some as xenophobic, eighth grade pupils in Karlshamn have been ordered to wear less inflammatory garb for a photo to be published in the school yearbook.

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