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To: Brumar89 who wrote (54495)	10/5/2013 8:27:38 PM
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"Duck Dynasty" star: Editors cut mention of Jesus from show to avoid offending Muslims Because everyone knows what happens when some Muslims get offended. So this is yet another reinforcement of the idea that terrorism works, and jihadist intimidation and thuggery work: cowards start falling into line even without any explicit threat. "‘Duck Dynasty’ Star: Show Adding ‘Fake Bleeps’ Despite No Cursing," from CBS Houston, October 4 (thanks to Kenneth): MONROE, La. (CBS Houston) — Popular A&E reality show “Duck Dynasty” continues to smash competition in the ratings on Wednesday nights, but one star has spoken out about how the show is portrayed. In an interview with Sports Spectrum TV earlier this year that’s only recently gone viral, Phil Robertson admitted that fake bleeps were inserted into the show even though there was no cursing happening. “The inserted fake bleeps … like somebody had used profanity, but no one had used profanity,” Robertson said. “I ask those guys that produce the show … ‘What’s the point of the fake bleeps?’” Robertson admitted that there are up to 20 editors who are “arranging the scenes” on the show so they might think that’s where cursing likely happened. “Of course these people probably thought that there was some profanity going on which there was zero,” Robertson stated. “If we’re not using profanity, why make it look like we’re using profanity? What is the point? Why don’t you just run it and say what we say?” Robertson also said that the name Jesus has been cut out during the family’s prayer scene at the end of the show. “So they would just have me saying, ‘Thank you Lord for the food, thank you for loving us. Amen.’ So I said, ‘Why would you cut out ‘In Jesus’ name?’ They said, ‘Well those editors are probably doing that. They just think that they don’t want to offend some of the Muslims or something.’” Robertson said that since that conversation the show has been leaving “Jesus” in the show. “So I notice now they are … leaving it in there, but you got to remember, spiritual warfare,” Robertson said. “I mean you have people with no moral compass, it ain’t there.”...

To: Brumar89 who wrote (54495)	10/5/2013 10:45:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Just cuz I can't roll one doesn't mean I don't know it is.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (54495)	10/5/2013 11:06:18 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 85487

Tip of my hat to Big D All Students In The Dallas School District Will Now Get Free Meals By Bryce Covert on October 3, 2013 at 2:55 pm CREDIT: AP Starting Tuesday, all students in the Dallas Independent School District will be able to get free breakfast and lunch, regardless of family income. Nearly 90 percent of the students in the district qualify for free or reduced meals, although in many districts paperwork can be a hurdle to actually getting enrolled and many other students fall just outside the eligibility limits. A family previously had to earn less than $30,615 a year to qualify. The district made the move anticipating that it will end up saving it money in the long run. As more students qualified for the subsidized breakfast and lunch programs, the district had to hire more workers to keep up with the paperwork while sending out more information and making more calls to families. All of that cost it about $300,000 a year. The program will of course also save families money. While there are not yet estimates for people living in Dallas, Boston made the same move in September and predicted that families who hadn’t previously qualified for free breakfast and lunch would save $230 per child a year for the former and $405 to $455 for the latter. Dallas and Boston are the latest to participate in a national program called “Community Eligibility Option” that waives meal fees for all students. Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, and parts of New York City are also implementing it. Yet across the country just half of the students who are eligible for free breakfast receive it. The ability to opt into free meals for all students comes at a time when many are going hungry. All told, more than one in five children lack steady access to food, and that problem shows up at school. Three-quarters of the country’s teachers say they have students who routinely come to class hungry. Half of them say hunger is a serious problem in their classrooms. Yet hunger has a huge impact on students’ academics. Students who struggle with hunger fall quickly behind their classmates. If 70 percent of the children who are eligible for free breakfasts actually received them, 3.2 million students would achieve higher test scores, there would be 4.8 million fewer absences, and 807,000 more students would graduate high school. Hunger also leaves them far more susceptible to mental illness, a more significant factor that poverty or the education level of their families. thinkprogress.org