This past weekend, Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago), a pastor at Salem Baptist Church on Chicago’s South Side, brought more attention school funding in Illinois. Meeks’ has called on Chicago parents to boycott the Chicago Public Schools, keeping children out of school until the funding issues are resolved. To make things worse, nearly 50 other Chicago ministers yesterday announced their support for Meeks’ boycott.
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There has been a bunch of celebrity news that I have heard this weekend. Here’s a quick wrap up of what I have heard:
- Morgan Freeman is alive, but getting a divorce from his wife of 24 years.
- John Edwards admits to having an affair while his wife is sick with cancer.
- Clay Aiken is the father of a newborn baby boy.
- Bernie Mac died from complications with pneumonia.
- Isaac Hayes died after collapsing at home.
In other news, Russia and Georgia entered into war with each other at the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. At least the two countries’ Olympic shooters are friendly.
I kid you not! A 9-year-old girl went to the hospital in Greece with stomach pains. Doctors found a growth next to her stomach. Inside the 6-centimeter growth, doctors found a head, hair and eyes, but no brain. The growth contained the girl’s embryonic twin!
The Florida Senate recently passed SB 2692 with a vote of 21-17. One Democrat voted for the bill, while five Republicans voted against it. SB 2692 is yet another proposed piece of legislation favoring teaching creationism and intelligent design as science (what I will call CIDS). A similar bill is in the Florida House, but a bill must pass both the House and Senate with identical language before it can go before Gov. Charlie Crist (I’m hoping it’s pronounced with a short ‘i’ and not a long ‘i’).
I’m not going to pretend that I understand Florida, because I don’t. However, I also would not have pegged the home of NASA as being a state in support of CIDS. I can only hope that the bills do not pass the Florida legislature. I could not agree more with Florida’s Senate Democratic Leader when he says, "In 2008, it is embarrassing for us to be debating evolution." When will this idiocy stop?
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