School board president’s classroom visit turns political – Pasadena Star-News.
Peppering him with questions..!
Flex your rights or lose them.
// April 10th, 2010From a newmindpsace email:
Compare these two passages:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -First Amendment to the United States Constitution
vs.
“Special events permits are required for events/activities where twenty or more people will be present. School picnics, birthday parties, and field days all require a special events permit.” -NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation website
By any measure of reason, the Constitution explicitly prohibits the NYC Parks rule. I mention it is a rule, not a law, because it was actually written by a bureaucrat, not an elected official. This NYC Parks rule is the very definition of abridgment of the right to assemble. The Supreme Court has upheld in numerous cases that similar municipal laws have no weight and are therefore null and void.
Part of the reason we have these events is because the medium is the message: having an unpermitted event demonstrates that we, as citizens, assert our right to assemble by breaking this unjust rule.
Flex your rights – or lose them.
Polish president dies in air crash
// April 10th, 2010“The fact that much of the Polish political establishment appears to have been wiped out on this single flight has really come as a profound shock to the Polish nation.”
I wonder what Poland will do next. What a sad and odd occurence…
via Al Jazeera English – Europe – Polish president dies in air crash.
American Airlines planes have a lot of “mechanicals”
// April 5th, 2010American Airlines sucks. I’ve just sent them the following letter:
On Thursday, April 1, I flew on AA Flight 329 from New York to Chicago.
On Tuesday, April 5, I flew back on AA Flight 382.
Both flights ere delayed for over two hours due to mechanical errors, and in each instance, I was deboarded, then reboarded. In the second instance, I even had to walk to a completely different terminal.
Had I known I would encounter these significant delays before buying my tickets, I would not have flown with AA. I’m not sure that I would again, unless I can be somehow compensated and/or made confident that the planes are safe and in a good enough state of repair that I won’t encounter a delay each time I fly.
Please respond at your convenience,
Jonthon Coulson
Hussein
// April 1st, 2010Hussein is the middle name of our President. But before he was our President, he was attacked by radicals (not the good lefty ones) for being Muslim, and thus a terrorist (he is, in full disclosure, neither (as best we know))(aren’t parentheticals phun?!). Radicals (the good lefty ones) started declaring “Hussein” as their middle name to show of solidarity. I just never changed mine back.
My middle name is actually Vincent.