Wednesday, April 11, 2007

WWJD

Luckily, the feeder of 5,000 (with a few loaves and fishes) isn't around today, because, as noted by Left I: "[I]in some places in the United States, attempting to feed the poor is an arrestable offense."

Eric Montanez, of Orlando's Food Not Bombs, was arrested for violating a local ordinance against feeding more than 25 people in the park. He fed 30.

Eli at Left I wonders, beyond the ordinance itself, about the under cover cop whose job it was to keep count.

Jeb's Florida is serious about crime, eh?

Two thousand years apparently isn't enough for messages like "love thy neighbor" to really sink in.

Nearby in Georgia at prom time....

When the four [Ashburn, Georgia] senior class officers — two whites and two blacks — met with Principal Chad Stone at the start of the school year, they had more on their minds than changes to the school‘s dress code.

On April 21, they‘ll have their wish. The town‘s auditorium will be transformed into a tropical scene, and for the first time, every junior and senior, regardless of race, will be invited.

  Raw Story article

What year is this anyway?


2 comments:

  1. Technically, it's no longer Jeb's Florida. Charlie Crist was sworn in on January 2 as the 44th governor of the taser state. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_Governors)

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  2. ooops. i forgot. i made a mistake. (what are some of the other republican excuses? i'm sure "clinton did it" won't work here.)

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