What in God’s name is this? Is this how our representatives comport themselves? Seriously?

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-Your friendly neighborhood Editors

As I sit in the airport waiting to catch my flight home, half of my sophomore year of college done and behind me, I finally have the opportunity to look into the biggest story no one is covering: Kevin Jennings’ reading habits.

Much has been written in the blogosphere over the past few days about ‘Safe School’s Czar’ Kevin Jennings–an individual whom I covered extensively a few months back. While the previous scandal has been since laid to rest, the newest round of craziness from GLSEN founder is just as insane-–if not more so.

Recently GatewayPundit ran a story about Kevin Jennings’ organization GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) and the books that the organization recommends that young children read. The list is broken up into three different categories–books for kids grade K-6, 7-12, and teachers. The list of books contains literature that covers many and varied genres, from non-fiction to poetry. Supposedly the books are meant to support the stated mission of GLSEN, reproduced below.

From GLSEN’s website:

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

We believe that such an atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, which is the basis of educational achievement and personal growth. Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, we work to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike. We recognize that forces such as racism and sexism have similarly adverse impacts on communities and we support schools in seeking to redress all such inequities.

GLSEN seeks to develop school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes in creating a more vibrant and diverse community. We welcome as members any and all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or occupation, who are committed to seeing this philosophy realized in K-12 schools.

That’s all well and good, except some of the books GLSEN recommends are pornographic. The book list is intended to [sic] “furthers our (GLSEN’s) mission to ensure safe schools for all students.”; ostensibly implying that children who identify themselves as homosexual should read these books as a way to empower themselves, and straight children and teachers should also read the books to come to a deeper understanding and develop a respect for their homosexual peers. On its face that is a responsible, well-intentioned goal. However, if one examines even a small sampling of the books on the list, the real goal of the suggested readings become readily apparent. GLESN is not trying to empower anyone, or raise awareness, rather they are using the facade of awareness and concern to promote their twisted hypersexualized agenda, what I can only assume is a twisted aberration of the goals that reasonable that gay men and women aspire to. As an aside, I do not think, nor am I implying that the poison that GLESN is peddling is representative of the entire gay community, rather this is a reflection on Kevin Jennings and the fanatics that staff his loony organization.

The books and the list can be accessed though a portal on their site called “BookLink“, which provides an all-in-one system for parusing and even purchasing in bulk books that teachers are encouraged to make mandatory classroom reading.

Just a few of the books on the list:

Queer 13

Being Different

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian

The Order of the Poison Oak

Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth

Thus far I have been slightly obtuse in my explanation of exactly what the books contain, after the jump there will be an excerpt from one of the selected books, Queer 13. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Read–BigGovernment

Read–GatewayPundit

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I don’t quite know what to say about this.

The House–the Democratic-controlled House–quietly passed their version of ObamaCare on Saturday, providing the beleaguered Obama administration a victory they could point to.

The bill was passed by an extremely close margin, 220-215, a 5 vote margin. The vote was passed by 219 Democrats and one Republican (Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican who holds a decidedly Democratic office in New Orleans) against a coalition comprised of 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats. So much for an era of bi-parsianship…

The bill will now move to the Senate were heavy debate is expected. Hopefully the senate won’t vote on the bill in the dark of night so they could sneak it by the public without anyone knowing.

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Seven companies that received bailout money will have their top 25 executives pay cut by about 90% on average.

The treasury Department will announce this in the next few days, according to Yahoo! Finance.

The companies are Bank by America, Citi, AIG, Government Motors, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial.

Read–Yahoo!

I told you this would happen…

UPDATE:  CNBC is reporting that the overall pay–including benefits, bonuses, and crap will drop about 50%.

Also, check this out:

“And at all of the companies, any executive seeking more than $25,000 in special perks — such as country club memberships, private planes, limousines or company issued cars — will have to apply to the government for permission.”

I told you.

I goddamn told you!

This is corporate fascism at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.

Kenneth Feinberg is running the show.

Read–CNBC

The Senate has passed S.251, or the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 Monday, allowing for prisons to employ cell-phone jammers to prevent inmates from using smuggled cellular devices to make unauthorized contact with the outside. So no longer will inmates be able to conduct criminal activities from inside the walls of the prisons in which they are confined, or renew their subscriptions to Cat Fancy.

The bill will now move to the House of Representatives for approval.

The bill would prove to be a major coup for prison security if passed, as the number of confiscated cell phones in prisons has increased dramatically over the past few years. In 2008, 847 illegal cell phones were confiscated in Maryland, 2,809 in California and 1,861 in Mississippi.

Currently, the FCC prohibits the operation of all cell phone jamming devices, but the bill would provide a means for either the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons or a State Governor to petition the FCC with a request to use a jammer in a prison. The FCC would then test and approve wireless jamming devices.

However, there are some considerations to be made. The jamming devices cannot in any way interfere with emergency or public safety communications and would have to operate only within a prison’s walls at the lowest possible transmission power and be capable of directionalized operations. If a device were to interfere with wireless communications outside a correctional facility the jamming devices would have to be shut down pending investigation by the FCC.

And should such interference occur, then it will be Cat Fancy time once again.

Read — WBAL

The Politico is reporting that the common chant of the Average American, “Read the Bill!” could actually be asking for counter-production.

Politico:

“But reading actual legislative text is often the least productive way to learn what’s actually in a bill.”

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“And however naive the call for members to read each and every bill sounds, it touches on what congressional observers across the political spectrum say is a very real and very dangerous trend.”

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“These bills are not written for even the educated layperson. They are written for specialists,” said Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers.”

The problem with this argument is false because specialists are not the only people affected by these bills…

This sort of thinking is dangerous…

Obviously, if the language is too complex for those writing it to understand…it is too damn complex.  Let’s be serious, folks.

Read–Politico

Folks, this video includes Barack Obama saying he is for a “single payer system.”  He also says that the government run “public option” will eliminate private insurance.  The video also shows Jan Schakowsky bragging about tearing down the health insurance system–you may remember my post on that earlier this year…

Watch the explosive video here:

Click here to read all my posts on health care.

UPDATE:  August 4, 2009:

The White House goes to the web to attack the Drudge Report.

Apparently the above video just cherry picked certain statements…but its pretty damning that he said that it will eliminate private insurance…

They’re in damage control here, folks.

Also, I think it is wrong that they are attacking the Drudge Report…calling it “misinformation.”

Oh, and, Happy Birthday, Barry!

Botox, face lifts, tummy tucks, hair transplants, etc., may be taxed 10% in order to pay for the $1 trillion health overhaul.

From Congress Daily: “Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucustold reporters he had heard some ‘interesting,’ ‘creative,’ and ‘kind of fun’ ideas.”

Fun taxes?  Is this guy a loon?

The only state that taxes cosmetic surgery is New Jersey.

Developing…

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Folks, The healthcare bill–in both the House and Senate–have provisions to spend billions of dollars on “infrastructure.”

Walking paths, lighting for playgrounds, all stem from the healthcare bill.  Uncle Teddy’s handlers said that it is needed to improve the overall livelihood of folks that use the parks.

I call it an excuse to spend more money they don’t have.

The limit for spending in the Senate version of the bill is up to O-Man himself.

The limit for the House version of the bill is $1.6 Billion a year…

And, no, they don’t know where they’re going to get the money.

The group, Trust for America’s Health is behind some of the language in the bill:

The spending is needed to “create the infrastructure to support active living and access to nutritious foods in a safe environment.’’

Obama said that this is needed as “preventative care.”

This is “the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that’s one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.’’

Yeah…you don’t have to do tests anymore…Cuts costs…

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Yes, folks.  According to Yahoo News, Tim Geithner wants to impose new guidelines for publicly traded companies to better match pay with long-term performance.

He said that he does not want to put caps on the pay…but that sounds like what they’re going to do…but just call it something else.

What gets me about this is how they support unions and a minimum wage…in short, not being paid by your performance, while wanting that for executives…

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