A Spanish speaking bi-lingual school secretary in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District has been fired for .. ehem .. speaking Spanish to Spanish-speaking parents.  Latina Lista, carried by Think Progress reports:

The lawsuit against Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools is now in federal court because a former employee said the CMS violated her civil rights because she spoke Spanish to parents even though she was hired to be the school’s bilingual secretary…

She claims in September of 2008, when a new principal came to the school, a new rule was given to all staff members to not speak Spanish to parents. The lawsuit claims Mateo, a bilingual secretary, continued to speak Spanish to many parents, after all, the school is more than a third Hispanic, well above the district average…Within a month of the alleged new rule, Mateo was told the school accepted her resignation, even though she says she never offered to resign.

Does anybody find the irony in the hypocracy in an institution of learning prohibiting a fundamental right in the United States?  I didn’t see the footnote in the United States Constitution that the Right to Free Speech mean English only.  It’s a good think my Grandma is dead:  She spoke German!  And sheeshe!   We all know how dangerous those Germans can be!

If we’re going to celebrate the New Year – we may as well celebrate it like hetero-white homophobes!

PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It’s cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come. But right now, we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.

KRISTI WATTS (co-douche bag): Absolutely, Pat.

Absolutely, Pat.

Haitian people deserved this?

Seriously?

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How can any journalist, without playing to the Republican Propaganda Machine, sit there and let Giuliani get a free pass on a statement like that?

Doesn’t Rotten Rudy remember Richard Reed, the shoebombers attempt and domestic terrorism?

It’s those Republicans, ya know!  They’re the party of “Family Values” and “Spiritual Virtues”. From Talking Points Memo:

John Michael Farren, who served as deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, has been charged with strangulation and attempted murder after allegedly choking his wife and beating her with a flashlight.

Police said Farren attacked his wife at their New Canaan home Wednesday night. According to police, she passed out during the attack but regained consciousness and fled with their children to the house of a neighbor, who called 911. There, police found her bleeding from her head, face and body.

What a creep!  In the hospital, the wife is reported to have a broken jaw and a broken nose.

Meanwhile, he’s on suicide watch and a $2M bond.  He attacked his wife two days after receiving divorce papers from her.  Of course, the assumption here is that she got tired of getting beat up, so he had to have one last go at it before he couldn’t do it to her anymore.

Can anybody remind me about the “Holy Sanctity of Marriage” and why gays can’t have it?

When one meth pipe isn’t enough.
When one 49-year old male prostitute isn’t enough.
When one hate-filled sermon against homosexuality isn’t enough.
When one adulterous affair isn’t enough.
When one prayer session with the President of the United States isn’t enough.
When one congregation of three million souls isn’t enough.
When that isn’t enough…

…You find a new church and you start it all over again in your barn.

h/t Joe.My.God.

Orly Taitz, Esq is the Phyllis Schaffley of failure. Corruption and the Den of Inequity are lost onto religious zealots who would rather the American public write in Cyrillic and subversive Catholic-controlled Russian Orthodoxy

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The GOP has latched on to political clowns like Orally Taitz and the..ehem “Liberal” press has given a free-pass for their efforts.  Progressive politics can hail and waive the success of the Limbaugh-version of Gomer Pyle politic for decades to come.

Signed: “Orly Taitz DDS Esq.”

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Two white guys sympathising over the political demise of a washed-up beauty queen from Alaska.  It’s the essence of pot smokers everywhere from the mayor of Alaska’s going up in flames with a Bic and a metal-spoon.

I’m all a sniffle… Poor Sarah! <— NOT!

h/t Joe.My.God

GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network has produced a theatrical play to raise funds. Please note: These are students, both gay and straight who’ve come together for the production in NYC.  Let’s keep a perspective, people!

The topic du jur of the play is that Santa Clause has admitted that he’s in love with imaginary Italian toy-maker Giovanni Geppetto.  <- Lame, I know.  But this is a play written by students…  So, we grin and applaud and cheer them on for their achievement(s).

The play, and its subject matter has come under scrutiny from James “The Scrooge” Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” who went out front and center by saying:

Yet more evidence revealing the dark side of GLSEN–the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network—has surfaced. (GLSEN is the group founded by President Obama’s “safe school’s czar,” Kevin Jennings.) At issue this time is a GLSEN fundraiser featuring a theatrical play called Santa Claus is Coming Out! GLSEN’s fundraiser invitation says the play depicts “Santa in his heartfelt struggle to reconcile his romantic relationship with Italian toy maker Giovanni Geppetto.” Pictures on a Web site promoting the production depict Santa in not-so-subtle sexually suggestive situations. The play also mocks those who support traditional values. It’s sad that GLSEN, which claims that it wants to protect kids, has chosen to use a fundraising tool that perverts the innocence of Christmas and sexualizes the longtime, child-revered icon of Santa Claus.

Nice.  As if the uber-religious freak-a-zoid Asshole-Dobson could give a shit about Santa Clause, or some Disney character named Giovanni Geppetto.

Notice… “the Dark Side” description.   <– What a joke.  Reminder: We’re talking about kids producing a play.  Dobson lost the argument by trying to spin the topic into a conversation about “the Dark Side”.   Nobody has questioned Dobson if he isn’t the very same “dark side”, yet.

If Dobson can claim the ability to identify it: Isn’t he throwing himself out there on his own behalf?  (“James Dobson is a Salamander who eats raw baby shit!!”  I’ve never tasted baby-shit, but Dobson eats baby shit all of the time… Because I’ve decided to go public with the “fact”!)

…It would appear that the baby shit has hit James “I Hate Everybody” Dobson’s fan.

Sean Chapin, a GLBT activist and film-maker, has produced a YouTube that follows the same genre about Santa coming out of the closet, just to piss Dobson off even more.

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Sean Chapin has a Facebook page that can be found here. Chapin is a gay activist who has a long history for being persecuted for his effectiveness “Vlogging”

…Leave it to the Gays who understand how to play under the (political) wire better than “Them”.

Another h/t to Joe.My.God.