It is soooo very niiiice. Now she can roam free in her new home in California. All the little field mice will sing her lullaby's at night before she goes to bed. There will never be a day without the beautiful little fluffy white clouds with smiling baby faces overhead to greet her in the morning. There will be hugging and rejoicing between all the other wonderful animals from the world over, and the militant activists can now sleep peacefully, knowing they will be offered golden harps in heaven no matter what they do from here on. The San Andreas fault which will run directly under her feet will now quiet forever knowing that Maggie is treading softly overhead.
It is such a wonderful happy day.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Religious holidays at ASD
I think that instead of adding new days to the list maybe there should be a select number of days alloted during the school year for religious holidays. We'll just keep the current original 7 and just rotate them each year. for example, One year we'll have Easter and the next well have Passover instead. Christmas one year and Eid al Adha the next etc. etc. But not to leave anyone left out for a whole year, the ones that don't have their special day in a given year will be grouped together with all the other ones which will have to wait their turn in their rotation year. We'll add 1 day to the end of the school year, make that the group holiday and give the kids that day off.
We can observe not just christian, Islam, and Jewish but all the religious faiths being represented in our schools by children of families of all walks. Including but certainly not limited to Buddhism, Pagan, Hinduism, Of course any of the Alaskan native practices should be observed because dammit, they were here not just 1st but in large still.
Now, all the other religions have every right to feel left out now so they can start raising their voices to be included as well. If we don't start rotating them pretty soon or putting together that group day on the last day of school we'll have to put a stop to after school activities all together because every day will be one religious holiday or the other. Or maybe school can start at the same time it does now but football, band, soccer, etc. will now start at 4:00 A.M. We can put our kids to bed now at 5:00 p.m so they still get plenty of sleep and we'll all have more time to ourselves to come up with more holidays.
"All praise he's found the awful truth, Balthazar. He's found the saucer news!"
LINKS
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We can observe not just christian, Islam, and Jewish but all the religious faiths being represented in our schools by children of families of all walks. Including but certainly not limited to Buddhism, Pagan, Hinduism, Of course any of the Alaskan native practices should be observed because dammit, they were here not just 1st but in large still.
Now, all the other religions have every right to feel left out now so they can start raising their voices to be included as well. If we don't start rotating them pretty soon or putting together that group day on the last day of school we'll have to put a stop to after school activities all together because every day will be one religious holiday or the other. Or maybe school can start at the same time it does now but football, band, soccer, etc. will now start at 4:00 A.M. We can put our kids to bed now at 5:00 p.m so they still get plenty of sleep and we'll all have more time to ourselves to come up with more holidays.
"All praise he's found the awful truth, Balthazar. He's found the saucer news!"
LINKS
The Anchorage Daily news article that brought this to our attention
The deeply hidden Pdf on the school districts site of the amendment that they passed without allowing comment from anyone .
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