Antonin Scalia goes completely over the edge of sanity at nation's oldest synagogue

Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government. Scalia then went so far as to suggest that the reason Hitler was able to initiate the Holocaust was because of German separation of church and state.

"Did it turn out that," Scalia asked rhetorically, "by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America?" He then answered himself, saying, "I don't think so."

Scalia has an extraordinary way of not letting facts confound his arguments, but this time he's gone completely over the top by suggesting that a separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust.

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10 year old arrested, handcuffed over scissors

PHILADELPHIA - A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school.

School district officials said the fourth-grade student did not threaten anyone with the 8-inch shears, but violated a rule that considers scissors to be potential weapons.

Administrators said they were following state law when they called police Thursday, and police said they were following department rules when they handcuffed Porsche Brown and took her away in a patrol wagon.

“My daughter cried and cried,” said her mother, Rose Jackson. “She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh.”

Police officers decided the girl hadn’t committed a crime and let her go.

However, school officials suspended her for five days. Administrators will decide at a hearing whether she may return to class, or be expelled to a special disciplinary school.

The scissors were discovered while students’ belongings were being searched for property missing from a teacher’s desk.

School district officials have promised a crackdown on unruly students this year, and new policies give administrators the power to expel students for infractions as minor as violating the dress code, chronic tardiness or habitual swearing.

Administrators say the steps are needed to regain control over a notoriously unruly school system, but some parents have complained that discipline has been overly harsh and that school officials have been too quick to call police about minor problems.

It gets WORSE:

(snagged from kansas_dave)


NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Louisiana police Wednesday were testing Jell-O
snacks brought to school by an 8-year-old, which officials said resembled a
popular tavern drink.

The Terrytown girl was suspended from her elementary school for nine days under the school's drug policy, Jefferson Parish public schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski told the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

He said the snacks resembled an alcohol mixture known as "Jell-O shots," and
whether or not they actually contained alcohol, the youngster violated the drug policy banning "look-alike" drugs and intending to distribute them.

The girl's mother told television interviews there was no alcohol in the 30
Jell-O snacks she prepared for her daughter to sell to schoolmates to raise
money for Christmas presents.

The girl will have to undergo a drug assessment program, counseling and drug
testing before she can come back to school, Nowakowski said.

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IT'S JELLO, YOU GIBBERING FUCKING FOOLS! Jesus, fuck and Liberace this is beyond pathetic!