My Daily Domestic Diigolet 04/24/2009

• Perez Hilton smackdown.tags: current, events
• RealClearPolitics – Articles – Obama Has Been a Divider, Not a Unitertags: obama, current, events, areyousorryyet?
  • No, that honor belongs to President Barack Obama. According to the Pew Research Center, the gap between Republican and Democratic approval ratings for Bush a few months into his first term was about 51 percentage points. For Obama, this partisan gap stands at 61 points. Obama has been a unifier, of sorts. He has united Democrats and united Republicans — against each other.
• Obama Youth Brigade: Church Attendance ForbiddenLovely. If you accept school loans under HR 1388 you have to spend three months in the Obama Youth Brigade. While in the brigade you would be forbidden to engage in religious instruction, worship services, etc.

  More change you can believe in. tags: obama, current, events, areyousorryyet?

  • his bill’s title is called “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education” (GIVE). It forms what some are calling “Obama’s Youth Brigade.” Obama’s plan is require anyone receiving school loans and others to serve at least three months as part of the brigade. His goal is one million youth! This has serious Nazi Germany overtones to it.
    The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.” That means no church attendance or witnessing.
• Interactive ebooks for childrenFREE resources for reading starting May 1tags: reading, resources, phonics

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