A Nod To The Gods

So it is not OK for a christian prayer or the Pledge of Allegiance to be honored, but OK for a minority group of muslims to pray for political correctness? Total bullshit! Excuse my language but this one fries my bacon (pun intended). Considering who we have been at war with for the past twenty some odd years, the last thing I would want is to accommodate these assholes. Sorry.

A high school near Washington DC has taken a rare step of accommodating Muslim prayer during class hours. Parkdale High School now allows a handful of its students to be excused to pray. The decision has made some Christian staffers “unhappy”.

Prince George County High School Principal Cheryl J. Logan said the initiative is in response to the “needs of the growing Muslim community,” the Washington Post reported. To be able to leave class each day all you need is a parental permission and high grades, Logan said.

Currently, about 10 Muslim students have earned the right to pray, and are reportedly allowed eight minutes each day for a joint prayer on campus. Another high school student is working hard to raise his grades to join the group, all of whom belong to Muslim Students’ Association, Logan said.

It is hoped that allowing prayer will motivate Muslim students to improve their overall school performance.

The move has already upset several of the school’s Christian staffers, many of whom remember when the school was a Christian institution.

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“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America, Volume II (1840); Book Four, Chapter VI

 

 

Nothing surprises me anymore, but the fact that they do this knowingly, and the story will come out eventually, shows that these people don’t care about how they are perceived after an election, only that they are elected.

This liberal attitude is telling and is exactly what Obama did with the IRS scandal, keep it under wraps until after the election.

A 20-year-old Virginia resident had possession of marijuana charges dismissed Wednesday morning following a brief appearance in a Fairfax County courtroom.

Charles Ziller Hagel, a.k.a. “Zilla Thrilla,” the son of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, appeared before Fairfax County Judge Thomas E. Gallahue during a brief criminal court appearance relating to the drug charge.

Hagel was arrested on May 19, 2012, and charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor charge, according to court records.

The arrest came just months before Hagel’s father was nominated to replace former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Ziller was originally scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 8, 2012, but a continuance was granted.

Three additional continuances were granted over the next several months as Hagel’s father faced a contentious nomination process on Capitol Hill before his confirmation in late February.

Hagel’s case was postponed on Aug. 27, 2012; Dec. 3, 1012; and on March 6, 2012 before Hagel finally appeared in court with lawyer on Wednesday.

Hagel, wearing a light blue dress shirt, sat next to his lawyer Nina Ginsberg until Judge Gallahue dismissed the charges in a proceeding that lasted mere seconds.

The courtroom was packed with more than a dozen other lawyers and clients waiting to have their criminal cases heard.

Asked why multiple continuances had been granted in the case, Ginsberg told the Washington Free Beacon that it “happens all the time.”

When pushed for a specific reason, she declined to discuss the matter further.

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There goes the emergency funding for Moore.

“It is my right to be uncommon…if I can. I seek opportunity….not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficience nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” All this is what it means to be an American.”

— Dean Alfange

 

 

Alfange was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, to two ethnic Greek parents.^[2] His parents moved to New York when he was still an infant, where they raised him in Utica, New York.^[1][2] He graduated from Utica Free Academy in 1918, and joined the United States Army during World War I.After the war, he attended Hamilton College and graduated in 1922 with honors in philosophy, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.^[2][3] Alfange remained active at the college, and when he received the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award for his book The Supreme Court and the National Will, he donated the prize to Hamilton College, establishing the ongoing Dean Alfange Essay Award, given to two students each year for essays on American constitutional government.^[4] He received a juris doctor from Columbia University Law School and became a lawyer in Manhattan.^[2]

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