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This Week’s DoDo Bird Award Winner is: I (heart) boobies Bracelets

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This whole story flew over the cuckoo’s nest. First we have the designer of the I (heart) boobies bracelet being marketed to teenaged girls. Wasn’t the pink bracelets good enough? And then to add insult to injury we have this lawsuit against the school district who overreacted by suspending the girls. But if the suspension was an over reaction what can we say about the lawsuit? COME ON PEOPLE use some common sense. Didn’t anyone stop to think that a young teenage girl wearing a bracelet that says I (heart) boobies wouldn’t cause a stir? So for all those involved in this STUPID marketing endeavor, for the school officials who over reacted, and for the ACLU stupid lawsuit this incident wins this week’s DoDo Bird award handsdown

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(AP) – A free-speech lawsuit is being filed against a Pennsylvania school district that bans the popular “I (heart) boobies” bracelets.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the Easton Area School District ban violates students’ First Amendment rights.

The suit filed Monday says two middle school students received in-school suspensions last month for wearing bracelets that say, “I (Heart) Boobies. Keep a Breast.” The bracelets are sold by a nonprofit to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer organizations.

School officials call the rubber jewelry distracting and demeaning.

The ACLU says the bracelets are perhaps irreverent, but not indecent.

School districts across the country have run into similar disputes.

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ACLU trying to control public prayer

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clipped from www.onenewsnow.com

businessman prayingThe American Civil Liberties Union is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to tell private citizens how and what they can pray before meetings of the Cobb County, Georgia, Board of Commissioners.
The ACLU actually suggested to the court that Cobb County officials be ordered to send letters to invited clergy telling them “not to invoke religious messages” in their opening prayers and the commissioners’ meetings.
This is religious bigotry; it’s anti-free speech; it’s everything that they’re supposed to be against. The idea that the ACLU would want the government to tell people how they should or should not pray is outrageous.”
the fact that the ACLU is trying to use the power of the government to tell people how to pray is just an incredible invasion of freedom, and [it] shows that they are not about freedom and liberty at all. They’re about oppression and trying to stamp out religious speech.”
I thought the ACLU sought to protect people from the overreaching government and discrimination against religion, race, or creed. I guess I was mistaken.The mission statement of the ACLU states:

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

Your First Amendment rights – freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

I wonder what changed?

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Underage Strip Performance deemed ‘artistic’

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courtroomAn Iowa county judge has ruled that a nude dance by an underage girl at a strip club is an artistic expression protected by the First Amendment.
Strip clubs are illegal in the state of Iowa. But numerous such establishments operate under a loophole that allows nudity in theaters, museums, and other venues featuring works of art, dance, and theatrical performances.

Prosecutors only filed charges after learning that a 17-year-old girl, who had entered the club illegally, was allowed to strip for patrons. But the club’s owners claimed the “artistic nudity” loophole protected them and that they were not responsible for the actions of the child. The local judge agreed, but Trueman does not.

“That’s really stretching it. It was a bar. It was a minor child that got up, spontaneously, to do a nude dance. That is not protected,” he argues. “This is a tragic situation because a minor was involved.”

Another example of a society adrift. A 17 yr old girl strips in a BAR serving alcohol and judge finds nothing ‘illegal’ about this?

After reading this story I have to sit here and wonder what the heck happened to common sense and decency and to think there are actually people who do not see the harm this type of behavior has on our society.

This one certainly belongs in the Cuckoo’s nest.

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National Anthem Not welcome in California State House

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Launch into an�a cappella version of the Star Spangled Banner in the California State Capitol and a group could find themselves facing Capitol Security and officers of the California Highway Patrol. And that is what happened, says Brad Dacus, president of the�Pacific Justice Institute, when a group of students touring the capitol, as part of the “City on a Hill” education program, spontaneously began to sing the national anthem.

He argues that “[s]uch spontaneous expression of love for…country should never, ever be stifled by government when it’s in no way creating a disturbance of any kind….”

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Pacific Justice Institute sent a letter to the Chief Sergeant at Arms for the Capitol informing him that citizens have a First Amendment right to express themselves in the capitol rotunda as long as they are not being disruptive, and that any future attempt to interfere with that right will result in appropriate legal action.

Sometimes I wish that California would be hit with the “BIG ONE” and send it into Pacific Ocean. Thank God the children did not break out into a spontaneous chorus of Amazing Grace, they might have been tarred and feathered.

For this unpatriotic display on the part of the California State capital this story belongs in the Cuckoos nest for sure.

No wonder they call Cali the ‘Left Coast’ apparently the people who live out there have taken leave of their common sense.

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