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RECALL THE BOARD

Posted on December 5th, 2004 at 12:48 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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The purpose of this site is to provide an information exchange for all* citizens concerning the recent actions of the Montgomery County School Board with the possible recall of these board members in accordance with applicable statutes.

* Please note that “all” is used here in its little known sense of everyone afraid of rubbers and homos.


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To dance, gay teen needs OK of parents

Posted on December 5th, 2004 at 12:46 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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The story began innocently enough. A high school dance. A teenage romance. And a boy who wanted to attend the event with his boyfriend.
But Jason Atwood, a 17-year-old senior at Copper Hills High, knew better than to show up at the November dance unprepared. He had been openly gay for four years, and his experiences had taught him that peers could be cruel. Screams of “faggot,” warnings that he would burn in hell, taunts in the hallway. He had heard it all.
So he asked to see the chaperone list to make sure he and his boyfriend would be watched over. “I was worried about my safety,” Atwood said.
And so was the school – which is where the conflict arose.
Principal Tom Worlton, who acknowledged that harassment was an issue in his West Jordan school, told Atwood same-sex couples would need parental permission to attend the dance.


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Some Abstinence Programs Mislead Teens, Report Says

Posted on December 5th, 2004 at 10:42 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person’s genitals “can result in pregnancy,” a congressional staff analysis has found.

Those and other assertions are examples of the “false, misleading, or distorted information” in the programs’ teaching materials, said the analysis, released yesterday, which reviewed the curricula of more than a dozen projects aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

Check it out for yourself. Some brochures are indeed jaw-dropping stupid.


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From Guernica to Fallujah

Posted on December 5th, 2004 at 10:21 by John Sinteur in category: Mess O'Potamia

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“It’s difficult to believe that in this day and age, when people are blogging, emailing and communicating at the speed of light, a whole city is being destroyed and genocide is being committed – and the whole world is aware and silent. Darfur, Americans? Take a look at what you’ve done in Fallujah.”

- Female Iraqi blogger Riverbend


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Stoute Meisjes

Posted on December 5th, 2004 at 9:40 by John Sinteur in category: Cartoon

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