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- Denver, Colorado~~Girl Scouts Allow 7-Year-Old Boy to Join Because He is ‘Living Life as a Girl"....The Girl
Scouts of Colorado are allowing a 7-year-old boy to join a local troop because he is “living life as a girl.”....“We make the
distinction that if a child is living life as a girl and the family brings the child to us and says my daughter wants to be a Girl
Scout, we welcome her,” Rachelle Trujillo, vice president of communications with Girl Scouts of Colorado....said boys who
are living like boys will not be admitted....“The child must be living life as a girl,”....This is just more proof that the
flushing sound you hear so loudly is that of our society going down the toilet....
- Atlanta Georgia~~'Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone'....A west Georgia the trucks roll up and
down roads, highways and interstates: "New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone."...."Can't afford it,"
explained the employer, Bill Looman..."I've got people that I want to hire now, but I just can't afford it. And I don't foresee that
I'll be able to afford....
- Brighton, Colorado~~Deaf Man Held on Noise Complaint for 25 Days Because County Didn't Have Sign Language
Interpreter...A lawsuit claims Adams County authorities detained a deaf man for 25 days in jail without providing a sign-
language interpreter before domestic assault charges were eventually dropped...
- Atlanta, Georgia~~For the first time ever, student test scores will soon factor into evaluations for teachers and
principals across Georgia under a new statewide program...The state will roll out a pilot of its new educator
evaluation system in January, starting with the 26 school districts that signed on to Georgia's application for the federal
"Race to the Top" grant competition. The state won $400 million last year to launch a host of programs aimed at improving
- Hickory Point, Tennessee~~New immigration laws could hit farmers, drive up food prices....A set of tough new
immigration laws that went into effect this year in Georgia and Alabama has highlighted the degree to which farmers in the
Southeast have come to depend on foreign-born labor. And now, as Tennessee rolls out similar reforms, some in the....
- Pike County, Kentucky~~Kentucky church bans interracial
marriage....A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and
even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill
Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a
longtime member who is engaged to a man whose birthplace is in
Zimbabwe...
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina~~New York pastor arrested in connection with Myrtle Beach area robbery....A
Rochester, N.Y., pastor who was arrested Friday at his church will also face charges in Horry County stemming from a
November robbery at the Carolina Forest Buffalo Wild Wings, police said....Upon his return to Horry County, Anthony Lee
Drumgoole, 23, will be charged with kidnapping and robbery and four counts of financial transaction card fraud, according to
Sgt. Robert Kegler of Horry County police. He has family ties in the city of Conway....
- Elkton, Maryland~~Authorities: Abortion Doctors Charged With
Murder...Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform
late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts
of murder under the state’s viable fetus law...Dr. Steven Brigham, of
Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being
held in the Camden County jail, according to police in Elkton, Md.
Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Riley in Salt Lake City and she is in
jail in Utah. Each is awaiting an extradition hearing....A search of the
clinic after the botched abortion revealed a freezer with 35 late-term
fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks
- Washington, DC~~They’re coming for your children! They’re coming for the womenfolk! Then they’re coming
after you!....Norman Lear, the famous television show producer, offered this hysterically paranoid assessment of the
allegedly growing and presumably insidious power of “the right”:I want to suggest that we lefties start laying claim to what we
see as “sacred” and serve it up proudly to the religious right – to the James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Karl
Rove....Let’s look at the mainscream media. In “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind,” UCLA
economist and political science professor Dr. Tim Groseclose uses three different methods to determine the SQ or slant
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- New York City, New York~~A top Department of Health official has criticized a free breakfast program in city
schools, saying it makes poor kids fat....Obesity czar Gretchen Van Wye (pictured) says in-class meals result in a
whopping 21.2 percent of kids gobbling up two breakfasts, arguing that “further evaluations” are needed to weigh caloric
consumption in schools with the program versus schools without...“Special care should be taken to ensure that children are
not inadvertently taking in excess calories by eating in multiple locations,” she writes in a research paper recently presented
to her agency co-workers...Some of her colleagues are losing their lunch over the controversial study, fearing that the Yale-
educated scientist’s findings could lay the groundwork for scrapping part or all of city’s free breakfast program...
- Washington, DC~~Michelle Obama says people have inaccurately cast her as an "angry black
woman".... First lady Michelle Obama is challenging assertions she's forcefully imposed her will on White
House aides and says people have inaccurately tried to portray her as "some kind of angry black woman."...
book portrays a White House where tensions developed between Mrs. Obama and former White House chief
of staff Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary and presidential adviser Gibbs...
- Columbia, South Carolina~~SC unemployment agency toughening benefit rules...Carolina's unemployment agency
says a new policy will get tougher on people laid off from work for misconduct.... the agency plans to reduce the number of
weeks someone can receive unemployment benefits if they were let go for absenteeism, poor attitude, violating policy or
poor work quality
- Long Island, New York~~NY schools to 'spy' on fat kids...A group of Long Island students will soon be wearing
controversial electronic monitors that allow school officials to track their physical activity around the clock....The athletics
chair for the Bay Shore schools ordered 10 Polar Active monitors, at $90 a pop, for use starting this spring. The
wristwatchlike devices count heartbeats, detect motion and even track students’ sleeping habits in a bid to combat obesity...
Big Brother is joining the battle of the bulge.....
- Yukon, Oklahoma~~Garth Brooks’ courtroom battle splits star’s Oklahoma hometown.... A water tower proudly
proclaims that this is the hometown of country music star Garth Brooks. The main road through town? Garth Brooks
Boulevard. So when the signer was awarded $1 million this week after suing the local hospital - whose logo is on a slightly
larger water tower across town - residents felt torn....A jury in the Oklahoma county where Brooks now lives agreed that the
hospital, which sits along Brooks' namesake street, reneged on a pledge to use his $500,000 donation to build a women's
health center in honor of his late mother....
- Sumner County, Tennessee~~High School Coach and Math Teacher,Darrell Allen Keen, 32, was arrested on
charges of sex with teen...charged with one count of aggravated statutory rape of a female student....The arrest affidavit
shows Beech’s school resource officer Darren Roseberry received a report from school officials Tuesday that Keen might
be having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.....
- Mustang, Oklahoma~~Student takes picture of sleeping teacher and gets suspended!...A
teacher's nap in class ended up becoming a rude awakening for a student...Public Schools
officials said a ninth-grader snapped a photo of a snoozing substitute with a cellphone...The
student was later suspended....What???? Are they kidding? This kid should be
commended. I hope this child's parents don't take this sitting down....
- New York City, New York~~Not even 40 years can erase the pain and sorrow of the
coldblooded, racially motivated public execution of two NYPD cops...Children were left without
a father. Wives were left without husbands. And a city was left without answers...New York City Police
Officers, Rocco Laurie, 23, and Foster, 22, were killed by three members of the Black Liberation
Army, a radical, violent outgrowth of the Black Panthers...As Laurie and Foster — Marines who had
served in Vietnam — lay dying, the gunmen continued pumping bullets into them...No one has ever
been convicted for the slayings...The Black Liberation Army, The BLA took responsibility for the
murders..And to think, they call the NYPD racists.What do they call these murderers?...