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Children as young as five years old are being forced by one Calif. school district to watch propaganda movies touting the virtues of homosexuality. Vallejo Unified School District officials say the so-called "anti-bullying" curriculum is mandatory for grades K-5 and parents can not opt-out their impressionable youngsters. “We do not feel that this is an area that students can opt-out and we feel that this is an area that we do not have to give prior notification,” Superintendent Floyd Gonella told KNTV-11 after a recent school board hearing. Young students whose parents might not have breached the topic of homosexuality...

WBTV-3 in Charlotte, N.C., is reporting that a flight attendant who is also a breast cancer survivor was forced by TSA creeps last August to expose her prosthetic breast during one of their so-called pat-downs: [Cathy Bossi] says two female Charlotte T.S.A. agents took her to a private room and began what she calls an aggressive pat down.  She says they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast… the one where she'd had surgery. "She put her full hand on my breast and said, 'What is this?'.  And I said, 'It's my prosthesis because I've had breast...

A doctors' group is scheming to fundamentally change the way high school football is played in New Jersey. They claim kickoffs are "the scariest part of the game" and must be banned immediately. The Medical Society of New Jersey’s Committee on Medical Aspects of Sports will announce today their plot to spike kickoffs in high school football games played statewide, reports NorthJersey.com's Darren Cooper. It is anticipated that the doctors will suggest teams start possessions at the 20 or 25-yard line so no bodies collide on returns. "The kickoff is the scariest part of the game," said committee chairman Dr. Vin...

Anyone seeking low-wage employment as a fry cook or burger flipper at fast food restaurants in Calif. will soon have to pass a state-administered licensing exam to assure they are skilled in their 'trades.' Sen. Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) was the mastermind behind the Food Safety law that stands to bankroll the fiscally irresponsible state with $105 million in "food handler" licensing and training fees in 2011 alone. "Food handlers" charged with "preparation, storage or service of food" will be required as of June 1, 2011 by S.B. 602 to possess the licenses that will cost "no more than...

Driving While Fat' (DWF) increases the risk of automobile accidents and is taking a heavy toll on our nation's oil stockpiles as well, according to government reports. It's just another reason for nanny state bureaucrats to force plump Americans to slim down in the name of defeating the so-called obesity 'epidemic.' "Obesity has caused more people to buy larger vehicles, which increases gasoline consumption in the U.S. and fuel consumption increases with more weight in cars either from people or cargo," warns ConsumerReports.org. "One other result of the obesity problem is the increase risk of crashes as noted in a recent...

The damage inflicted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill keeps on growing as it is now claiming young children among its innocent 'victims.' Faith-based organizations and bureaucrats are rushing to help limit the psychological damage that the disaster has wreaked on youngsters who are said to be exhibiting "behavioral changes" due to stress and anxiety, but it seems federal funds are being improperly used by Florida officials to pay for a portion of the mental 'relief' efforts. Beginning this week, children in grades K-6 who have shown signs of emotional stress and anxiety due to the oil spill are...

Atheist techies fearful of the Word of God 'corrupting' young and impressionable minds are hoping that when school resumes in September, their revolutionary new Internet filtering software will keep kids safe in the classroom from the ultimate online predator, namely, God. "GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content," states the company's website. "It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions." Not even the...

Check out our daily dose of Nanny State insanity plucked from deep under the radar of the liberal media. We serve it up hot and fresh daily, so be sure to bookmark us.Judge Schools Cop for Violating Citizen's 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights Reason.com; July 9, 2010"[T]he First Amendment protects the sole individual who may be a gadfly, kook, weirdo, nut job, whacko, and spook, with the same force of protection as folks with more majoritarian and popular views," U.S. District Judge Mark W. Bennett disciplined Osceola County, Iowa, Sheriff Douglas Weber for violating a citizen's right to freedom of...

In wake of a leaked British Petroleum (BP) internal memo that says "the company's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could be gushing as much as 100,000 barrels of oil a day," President Barack Obama has declared a massive crackdown on American citizens who illegally download music and movies from the Internet. "Now, more than ever, we need to protect the ideas, artistry, and our reputation for quality, provide our businesses with the incentives to make each new product better, reduce crimes related to intellectual property infringement and keep dangerous counterfeits out of our supply chain to protect...

In case you missed it, last week (June 13-19) was declared by a congressional resolution to be “High-Performance Building Week.” It wasn’t quite the most creative or intriguing name for a national ‘holiday,’ but properly referring to it as “Go Broke Trying to Green Your Office, School and Other Buildings Week” was too long-winded and probably would have generated unwanted attention to a handful of congressional tree-huggers’ plans to bankrupt builders before they even lay the foundations. According to H. Res. 1407, High-Performance Building Week recognizes “the importance of high-performance buildings through the inclusion of a definition of high-performance buildings...

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, "You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” Well, the Obama Administration certainly has not let the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig crisis go to waste, using it as a smokescreen to silently assault and further diminish American citizens' personal freedom. While the nation has its eyes and ears focused on the BP spill blame game ping-pong match between President Obama and BP top brass, President Obama on Thursday, June 10, quietly announced...

If you're hoping to hear the Word of God being preached from the pulpit next time you go to church, you might want to brush-up on your lip reading skills. A new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that goes in to effect on June 12 mandates that anyone or organization that uses a wireless microphone operating in the 700 MHz band must cease and desist. Countless ministers across the nation will likely be struggling to amplify their voices for their congregations to hear this weekend. Do not be alarmed if your church minister is suddenly arrested by federal agents during...

"Immigration is certainly a difficult issue. When we first tried to fix the system last year, it was a time when hundreds of thousands of immigrants were protesting in the streets, while self-proclaimed vigilantes known as the Minutemen were rushing to defend our Southern border. In Congress, a good-faith attempt at reform that I helped construct passed the Senate but ultimately failed in the heat of election-year politics..."