Why does this come as absolutely no surprise to me?

Senator Awaiting Records of Ministries’ Finances

By NEELA BANERJEE
Published: December 24, 2007

Six weeks after Senator Charles E. Grassley asked six well-known evangelistic ministries to provide information on how they spent donors’ money, only two have complied.

The lawyers for one ministry have asked for more time from Mr. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, who sent letters to the organizations in early November. Three other ministries have not been in recent contact with the committee or have said they will not cooperate.

“This is early in the process,” Mr. Grassley, of Iowa, said in an e-mail message last week. “If the ministries indicate a willingness to cooperate, I’ll be glad to work with them on a rolling production of information. I hope all of the ministries will see that transparency is part of enjoying tax exemption and that they’ll share information in that spirit.”

The ministries contacted by Mr. Grassley’s office preach a so-called prosperity gospel, among the most popular evangelistic messages on television and the Internet. Prosperity gospel assures followers that the more they give, including in the form of tithes to the church, the more they will receive from God. Some prosperity gospel preachers live lavishly, as proof of the abundance God can bring.

I just have one question - at which major chains would Jesus shop? The ones that donate heavily to the GOP? Why, of course, how silly of me to ask.

Hat tip to Prometheus 6!

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Always fun when the wingers screw up.

We didn’t mean what we wrote, School District says

By Emily Richmond
Published in the Sun on Dec. 24, 2007

Tucked into the Clark County School District’s new in-house report card is a list of potential postgraduation goals for students. By 2009, the district wants to increase the percentage of students enrolling in four-year colleges and universities, as well as those signing up for two-year programs and those entering the workforce.

The district also wants to increase the percentage of students who intend to enlist in the military, taking it from its current 3 percent to a high of 7 percent in the next two years.

Why would the School District set such as goal?

It turns out it didn’t, at least according to officials contacted by the Sun.
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The ACLU has long fought to hold military access to public schools to the bare minimum required by law. Gary Peck, executive director of the Nevada ACLU, said he was troubled that the assessment even made it into print.

“Either this instrument was drafted incompetently, or they are being disingenuous,” Peck said. “There really isn’t a third option.”

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