Not only is Jay Bennish an unhinged, America-hating liberal, but he’s a liar as well. Perhaps I’m just repeating myself. On March 7, 2006, trying to defend his idiotic anti-American rant on a Today Show lovefest, told Matt Lauer:

“My job as a social studies teacher is to argue alternative perspectives and viewpoints so that students are aware of those point of views. They do not necessarily reflect my own views. They are simply thrown out there to encourage critical thought.”

They don’t reflect his views? According to his lawyer, Bennish’s only regret is that, “He wished he’d picked a different dictator.” It’s obvious what his views are, and they were on full display in that classroom.

Despite claims by Bennish that he had presented a balance of information, his lawyer admitted he was lying:

From now on, however, “when he puts out something controversial, he’ll put the other side out right then and there,'’ Lane said.

But seriously, if you’re heard the tape or read the transcript, you can tell this was not a case of presenting a balanced lesson… he wanted to make sure the students believed the way he does. He wanted to convince them that his warped view of the world is the only view of the world. It’s blatantly obvious in just this one particular response to Sean Allen’s question:

“If you were Palestinians, who are the real terrorists? The Israelis, who fire missiles that they purchased from the United States government into Palestinian neighborhoods and refugees and maybe kill a terrorist, but also kill innocent women and children. And when you shoot a missile into Pakistan to quote-unquote kill a known terrorist, and we just killed 75 people that have nothing to do with al Qaeda, as far as they’re concerned, we’re the terrorists. We’ve attacked them on their soil with the intention of killing their innocent people.”

So what balance did he provide earlier in class, or later in class, or at any moment in the history of the world to offset his claim that we intend to kill innocent people?

So the UAE company Dubai World Ports has agreed with the port deal deciding, instead, to “transfer port operations to U.S. ‘entity’”.Wanna see Democrats go crazy? What if that “U.S. entity” is them?

From Central Florida News 13:

Big NASA Announcement Today

NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life in our own solar system.

Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.

Official word is expected this afternoon at 2 p.m.

If it’s intelligent life, at least this would offset the lack of such in parts of our own planet, like Hollywood, San Francisco and much of New York City.

Update: Correction: Apparently there is no intelligent life to be found… and not just in Democrat strongholds.

Looks like the topic is surfacing again as a men’s rights group is launching a legal campaign under the equal protection clause. I wrote a paper about this in law school (and reposted it on this blog in October) and laid out the case under ethical aspects, legal aspects and religious aspects.If the pro-abortion lobby is going to argue it’s just a case of “a woman’s body” in lieu of recognzing the separate life within that body, then maybe it’s time men enjoyed the pro-choice life when it comes to any financial support for raising the “mass of tissues” that’s later delivered from that woman’s body.

Data mining by politicians to track terrorists is bad, but data mining by politicians to track Democrat voters is good?

Ok, just so I’m clear on that.

The polls have now closed and there’s nothing left but the countin’. Here are the AP results via the Houston Chronicle.

Many are calling this primary a “referendum on Tom Delay“. I’m sure they’ll come up with something different if he wins… especially by a large margin.

As of 8:30pm central, only early voting is in and Delay has 66.5% of the vote and Campbell’s in second with 24.5%.

More to come…

9:30pm (10% reporting): Delay 63.8% - Campbell 26.3%10:00pm (14% reporting): Delay has been declared the winner. What does that say about the referendum?

Final Results: Delay 62% - Campbell 30%

Some lawyers who represent deserters say the war in Iraq is driving more soldiers to question their service…

Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers, 3,454 Navy sailors and 82 Air Force personnel have deserted. The Marine Corps does not track the number of desertions each year but listed 1,455 Marines in desertion status last September, the end of fiscal 2005

Lauer: “The family here, the student’s family, didn’t go to the school board with this tape.”

Bennish: “They never contacted me.

Lauer:”They shopped it around to conservative media outlets and finally released it to one and created an uproar. On the tape you can hear Sean Allen [the student in question] asking you questions that seem to be egging you on a little bit. Do you feel you were set up?”

After the student’s father complained to school officials, he took the recording to KOA radio talk show host Mike Rosen, who put it on the Internet and played parts of it on his radio program.

Sean Allen recorded about 20 minutes of Bennish’s class during a February 1 discussion about Bush’s State of the Union speech and gave the recording to his father, who complained to the principal, Amole said.

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