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To: TideGlider who wrote (319621)	8/14/2009 9:08:53 AM
From: Justin C	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

The CNN article doesn't mention that Betsey Wright also was involved in Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, as described in a Wikipedia bio: As deputy chair of the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign, Wright established the rapid response system that was responsible for defending Clinton's record in Arkansas and promptly answering all personal attacks on the candidate. She coined the term "bimbo eruptions" to describe the series of women claiming they had had affairs with Clinton. en.wikipedia.org

To: TideGlider who wrote (319621)	8/14/2009 11:21:18 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

School prayer charges stir protests Educators face jail in Florida By Julia Duin (Contact) \| Friday, August 14, 2009 Students, teachers and local pastors are protesting over a court case involving a northern Florida school principal and an athletic director who are facing criminal charges and up to six months in jail over their offer of a mealtime prayer. There have been yard signs, T-shirts and a mass student protest during graduation ceremonies this spring on behalf of Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and school athletic director Robert Freeman, who will go on trial Sept. 17 at a federal district court in Pensacola for breaching the conditions of a lawsuit settlement reached last year with the American Civil Liberties Union. "I have been defending religious freedom issues for 22 years, and I've never had to defend somebody who has been charged criminally for praying," said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the Orlando-based legal group that is defending the two school officials. An ACLU official said the school district has allowed "flagrant" violations of the First Amendment for years. "The defendants all admitted wrongdoing," said Daniel Mach, director of litigation for its freedom of religion program. "For example, the Pace High School teachers handbook asks teachers to 'embrace every opportunity to inculcate, by precept and example, the practice of every Christian virtue.' " The fight involving the ACLU, the school district and several devout Christian employees began last August when the ACLU sued Santa Rosa County Schools on behalf of two students who had complained privately to the group's Florida affiliate, claiming some teachers and administrators were allowing prayers at school events such as graduations, orchestrating separate religiously themed graduation services, and "proselytizing" students during class and after school. In January, the Santa Rosa County School District settled out of court with the ACLU, agreeing to several things, including a provision to bar all school employees from promoting or sponsoring prayers during school-sponsored events; holding school events at church venues when a secular alternative was available; or promoting their religious beliefs or attempting to convert students in class or during school-sponsored events. Mr. Staver said the district also agreed to forbid senior class President Mary Allen from speaking at the school's May 30 graduation ceremony on the chance that the young woman, a known Christian, might say something religious. "She was the first student body president in 33 years not allowed to speak," he said. In response, many members of the 300-plus-member student body taped crosses to their mortarboards and stood for an impromptu recitation of the Lord's Prayer during the ceremony. washingtontimes.com

To: TideGlider who wrote (319621)	8/14/2009 12:51:52 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Trying to smuggle a knife and boxcutter into a high security prison? Gee, thats a high-minded thing for an "advocate" for prisoners to do. The more I think of it, the reason Obama beat out Hill may h/b that so many people just don't want anymore of the Clintonian drama. They and the whole bunch around them are disgraces. Course, now we have Chicago thugs instead of bubbas - not an improvement. But a lot of voters didn't realize that last year.