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!

From Huffington:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) offered a rare defense of Barack Obama on Sunday — and an even rarer rebuke of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — after the Arizona Republican accused the president of “leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America.”

In what was a reversal of the role he played during the presidential campaign — when he stumped on McCain’s behalf and spoke at the Republican convention — Lieberman said he disagreed with the anti-Obama radio ads McCain is running in his home state.

“You know every now and then John McCain and I disagree sometimes, and that’s one of the cases,” Lieberman said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “So I don’t agree with that. I think the president understands the importance of bringing our government back into balance. Look he came in, in a most difficult economic time, inheriting a national debt that had doubled in the preceding eight years. I think you are going to hear from the president in the State of a Union, maybe earlier, about some tough medicine for our economy. We need it and I hope that there will be bipartisan support in Congress for doing that.”

I love it when Republicans New England douche-bags throw boomerangs into American politics.   Especially when they’re cashing in on future 2012 presidential campaigns.  Kudos to Lieberman for playing an Ace that he has zero-ownership.

Pretending to befriend Obama is nothing short of a sock-puppet of stupidity.  But we already knew that, of course.

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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

From BAGNewsnotes.

From Michael Shaw  (author of BagNewsNotes):

“And then, since I’m not aware Obama and Tiger ever played golf together, what justifies these two superstars juxtaposed in the first place, except maybe … skin color?”

He’s absolutely correct  – there is no disconnect between the two.  Shaw makes an excellent point in suggesting that the abstract is far above the obvious:

Golf Digest fans: I have items that you left out of your front page:

If it’s Rush playing “Barack, the Magic Negro“, or if it’s Glenn Beck whining that the President is a “racists and has a problem with white people“. You can leave it up to Golf Digest to add to the racial damage by throwing Obama into Tiger Wood’s current sexual nightmare in an effort to squeeze nickels and dimes from the stupid and the ignorant.

And yes  — You’re ignorant and stupid if you buy Golf Digest.  <– My own personal stereotype.

Oh! I forgot one!  I forgot the pathetic orgasm!

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.

Those French Communists over at Minnesota Progressive Project are at it again. Leave it to that Satan worshipping Two Putt Tommy to expose the Holy Father’s hand-selected political children wandering deep inside the wilderness while supporting erectile dysfunctionality…

…Apparently, the gods on Mt Google aren’t participating…

Since Michael Brodkorb has fallen off the map to join the Minnesota GOP, his precious website has fallen into complete obscurity.  Who’s reading that cobweb these days?