Rep. Bachmann Raises Money for YCRBYCH

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You Can Run But You Cannot Hide is the name of a punk rock anti drug group who organizes strong anti-drug motivational programs in high schools.  Many school administrators have taken a great deal of heat from parents and the higher ups because this group is not quite honest about who they are.  They are also not very transparent about their evangelical nature.  Once they get into a school program some things have gone down that are not supposed to be happening with a captive audience. 

 

 

According to the Minnesota Independent News:

“They talked about influencing and brainwashing people. Be wise to the fact that is what they were doing. They were using the same tactics,” Neis told the students at the assembly. Neis said he contacted other schools in the area and found that they had no idea that YCRBYCH was a Christian ministry.

In 2005, at a Eureka Springs, Ark., high school, students walked out of the assembly; afterward, the principal took heat from parents. According to the local paper, The Lovely Citizen, Eureka Springs superintendent Reck Wallis, said, “I take responsibility. We had no idea about their religious, right-wing message. They misrepresented their program. We want [Eureka Springs schools] to be open and all inclusive. … They won’t be back.”

At Pequot Lakes High School in central Minnesota in 2007, the group stirred controversy when students reportedly ran out of the assembly crying after the group showed graphic images of abortion and told the students that God wanted women to be subservient to men. John McDonald, Pequot Lakes High School Principal, told WCCO, “We were expecting something a bit different,” he said. “The thing we apologized to students for is the program wasn’t to the expectation that we thought it would be.”

This entire business sounds deceptive and it should not be going on in schools as it involves a captive audience and smacks of indoctrination. Michelle Bachmann should know better! She should know the laws of this country and follow them if she is going to remain in the House of Representatives. She would be the very first person to be stridently shrieking “Rule of Law!”

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Democratic Super Majority? Doesn’t Seem To Mean Much.

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I know people who simply would not vote for Barak Obama because they were afraid of another government run by the same party in all three branches. Well, I guess their fears were unfounded.

I did not realize that abstinence only education was being funded….AGAIN. Research, time and time again, since the 90’s, has clearly demonstrated abstinence only education fails if it is taught as the ONLY form of sex education. And yet, THIS is funded bipartisan in the Finance Committee but the public option fails? Give me a break!

I really thought that real change was possible. If the Democrats are unable to unify on health care, comprehensive immigration reform seems more and more unlikely, leaving the disaster of “status quo” in its place.

Congressmen Shoot Off at the Mouth

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On the floor of the House of Representatives this week, Congressman Alan Grayson, (D-Fl) has his own media show on health care, using 2 story board size prints.  Republicans have called for him to apologize.  So far, like Joe Wilson, that has not happened.  Republicans are said to be drafting a resolution calling out his behavior.

Should he apologize or is this just hyperbole?  Republicans equate his behavior to that of Congressman Joe Wilson.  Did Grayson interrupt anyone?  Is he exaggerating to make his point?  Are the Republicans being thin-skinned?

In another story, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az), while speaking before the How to Take Back America Conference, called President Obama an ‘enemy of humanity.’

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At one point, Franks demanded that Obama release his birth certificate to prove his constitutional eligibility to hold office. The bluntest charge, however, centered on the president’s position on abortion, which the congressman derided as “insane” and godless

He further stated:

“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” said Frank.[sic] “Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.”

I don’t know. That is pretty rough stuff to be saying about any President of the United States. Does everyone need to reign it in a bit?  Should Franks apologize or does the fact that he was ‘off campus’ mitigate his remarks to some degree?  Are Democrats being too thin skinned?

Full story at Huffington Post.

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Award Winning 9500 Liberty Screening at Asian Film Festival

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Opening night at the 10th Annual DC Asian Film Festival screens the critically-acclaimed 9500 Liberty! The 9500 Liberty documentary follows the ‘Immigration Resolution’ debate in Prince William County, VA and recently won the best documentary award at the Charlotte Film Festival! Tickets are selling out quickly, so I recommend that you BUY YOUR TICKET now!

According to the Festival’s website, there will be a reception immediately after the Opening Night Film presentation of 9500 Liberty on the rooftop terrace of 575 7th St, just a few blocks from E Street Cinema.

Hope to see you there!