On this day after the New York Times printed a longstanding rumor of John McCain's extra-marital affair, we at Today's Cool News feel the need to revive another old rumor of sexual indescretions, namely that Texas Governor Rick Perry might be "a little light in the loafers."
Texas Governor Rick Perry describes his attachment to the Boy Scouts as “intensely personal”. That’s why he’s decided to pen a book - On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For - that defends the group’s anti-gay attitudes
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Perry makes sure to celebrate the gays, saying he values our little pink lives, but insists the Scouts should eschew sexual discussions of all types, which is really just a way of telling gay folk to keep a lid on it
There is no confirmation so far to the rumors that Sen. Larry Craig will write the introduction....
I took my fight for Matthew to KRON4 television in San Francisco today:
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Update2:
I just wrote Matthew through his MySpace to congratulate him on getting to transfer. With his permission, I'm quoting his response to me.
Thank you Brian. Even though I am attending another school that will
allow me to have my hair down, or up, which ever I prefer, I will still
fight against Kerens. What they are doing is wrong. There is a prison
in Texas that allows prisoners to have long hair...Kerens has stricter
rules then a prison. To me, that's down right wrong. Teachers and
admin. are supposed to show us how to accept different people, not tell
them "Your different and because of that, you won't be as successful in
life." I had a teacher who I really liked, I was helping direct the
play, and was the lead in it, the teacher told me if I didn't conform
to what Kerens wanted, I wouldn't get any recommendations for
scholarships or colleges because of all this. Nice to see how people
can turn. I thank you for your support Brian, I will continue to fight
for the right that us kids and adults deserve.
I have a feeling we're going to be hearing good things from Matthew in the future. Good for him.
Matthew Lopez-Widish, one of five students suspended from Kerens High School for not cutting their hair, has transferred to another high school that will allow him to wear his hair down.
After a disciplinary hearing at the Kerens ISD campus today, Matthew will attend Trinidad School, which is in another school district and about nine miles east of his current high school in Navarro County.
"They actually said he could wear his hair down," said Linda Lopez, Matthew's mom.
Whatever punishment Kerens ISD hands down, Trinidad School will have to honor all or part of it, Mrs. Lopez said. Kerens ISD Superintendent Kevin Stanford said last week that the students could face alternative school until they cut their hair.
Another student who was suspended, Derek Divetta, said he was thinking about following Matthew to Trinidad School. He still was considering the decision with his dad Wednesday night.
"I'm going to say that there's a good chance that I will transfer," he said.
Okay, here's a story that's really making me mad. Have we really not accomplished anything over the last 40 years when guys are still getting suspended from school for having long hair?
We need to start a movement to show support for Matthew Lopez-Widish and his friends in Kerens, Texas... not too far from Corsicana, home of the world's largest fruitcake factory. I ain't makin' this up.
KERENS, Texas – Matthew Lopez-Widish hasn't cut his curly brown hair in four years, and he doesn't plan to despite an ultimatum from high school administrators.
Matthew Lopez-Widish was told by Kerens officials to cut his hair before returning to classes, per the policy that forbids male students from having hair that extends past the collar.
A few days before Christmas break at Kerens High School, about 15 miles east of Corsicana in a tiny town known as the birthplace of Big Tex, the straight-A student and at least four other students were called into the principal's office.
Cut your hair by the time you return to school in January or be sent to alternative school, be removed from all extracurricular activities and risk not graduating, Matthew said the principal and assistant principal told him.
Classes in the Kerens district resume today.
"I told them that I'm not going to cut my hair," said Matthew, 18, whose hair, when uncurled, reaches the middle of his back. "It may seem kind of stubborn, but to me, it's part of who I am."
Matthew says that his rights are being stripped and that he's going to take his concerns to the school board meeting Monday.
"I just want the school board to notice that just because I have long hair doesn't mean I'm going to quit learning or obstructing people from learning," Matthew said.
From his Myspace Page, it appears he's an AC/DC fan.
If you think this sucks as much as I do, contact the Kerens High School District. at:
Kerens Independent School District P. O. Box 310, 200 Bobcat Lane Kerens, TX 75144-0310 Telephone: (903) 396-2924 Fax: (903) 396-2334 webmaster email admin@kerens.k12.tx.us
Seriously folks, of all the challenges facing American education today, why are we even talking about long hair other than schools are still more about power play mind games with kids than about actually educating them.
Are you as mad as I am that the people who seem to run our schools are COMPLETELY BIASED against the TRADITIONAL BELIEF that the Sun and all the planets revolve around the earth?? Ptolemy said it. I Believe it. That settles it.
Look, I'm a firm supporter of the "Right to Be Wrong" but someone shouldn't lose his or her job for standing up to the wrong crowd. That's just what's happened in Texas where the chief science teacher in the state appears "biased" against superstition, er... I mean "Intelligent Design"
The state's director of science curriculum has resigned after being accused of creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design.
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Comer was put on 30 days paid administrative leave shortly after she forwarded an e-mail in late October announcing a presentation being given by Barbara Forrest, author of "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," a book that says creationist politics are behind the movement to get intelligent design theory taught in public schools. Forrest was also a key witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case concerning the introduction of intelligent design in a Pennsylvania school district. Comer sent the e-mail to several individuals and a few online communities, saying, "FYI."
Agency officials cited the e-mail in a memo recommending her termination. They said forwarding the e-mail not only violated a directive for her not to communicate in writing or otherwise with anyone outside the agency regarding an upcoming science curriculum review, "it directly conflicts with her responsibilities as the Director of Science."
The memo adds, "Ms. Comer's e-mail implies endorsement of the speaker and implies that TEA endorses the speaker's position on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral."
That's right. She should be neutral on the big controversial science subjects of the day including whether Ptolemy was right after all, whether that Galileo guy was a heretic, whether lightening should be taught to be the result of charge imbalances between the clouds and the ground since you might offend followers of Zeus and Thor...
That's right neutrality is very important in eduction.
You may have heard the two great fears many Americans have about the two extremes of U.S. Politics.... The Republicans want to impose Big Brother while the Democrats want to turn the government into Big Mother.
I'm not sure what I think about the growing effort from the left to force me to be a good citizen. Sure, I have to pay my taxes and stop at the red light. I have no problem with that. But should I be required to be a responsible actor in our civic drama?
Mandatory voting. This sounds bad, but it really isn’t. Australia’s been doing it with great success for some time now. It works like this: Every citizen is required to show up at the polls and have his or her name checked off; if you don’t show up, you’re fined something nominal, like twenty bucks. In Australia, the turnout is often as high as 95 percent, and political corruption is much less of an issue than it is here. If we had mandatory voting in Texas, I’d be in the Governor’s Mansion right now with my five dogs, the Friedmans, and we’d all be smoking Cuban cigars around the poker table.
A 27-year-old Corpus Christi passenger recently found himself in sticky situation.
The
disheveled passenger was arrested in Terminal B after police found him
sitting on an American Eagle jet bridge covered in salad dressing,
according to police reports released this week.
Speaking in a
"thick-tongued manner," the man -- who couldn't stand without
assistance -- expressed confusion about why he was being prevented from
boarding a Halloween day flight, records show. The man also seemed
unaware that he was missing a shoe.
Officers figured out pretty
quickly where the dressing, also on the jet bridge walls, had come
from. The man was holding a food box, which was spilling open with
food, records show.
Upon further questioning, police indicated
the man told them he had been drinking vodka in an airport restaurant.
He was held on suspicion of public intoxication.
On this day after the New York Times printed a longstanding rumor of John McCain's extra-marital affair, we at Today's Cool News feel the need to revive another old rumor of sexual indescretions, namely that Texas Governor Rick Perry might be "a little light in the loafers."
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