March 2007
February 2007
Monster Trucks :: Historias del Motor ::
by HistoriasDelMotor
La historia de los Monster Truck se remonta a 1975 cuando de las competiciones de drag racing de coches modificados, tambien conocidos como hot rods, surge una nueva vuelta de tuerca, coches reformados con ruedas extremadamente grandes que son capaces de
January 2007
Lawmaker pushes medical marijuana use
by jasontromm (via)
A state senator whose first wife suffered a painful death wants the state to legalize medical marijuana use.
Sen. Bill Mescher of Pinopolis says the issue has been on his mind for about 20 years.
“My first wife died of lung cancer -- a long, agonizing death,” the Republican lawmaker said.
A doctor said marijuana might help ease her pain and nausea from chemotherapy, but South Carolina law wouldn’t allow it, Mescher said.
People won’t let dogs die with that kind of suffering, he said. “It’s been on my mind ever since.”
October 2006
Abortion Activists Pelt Pro-Life People With Eggs at North Carolina Life Chain
by jasontromm
More than 1,100 people participated in the 16th Life Chain in Wilmington and they lined the streets with non-graphic pro-life signs saying women who have abortions can be healed and that they are praying for abortion to stop in the United States.
However, some abortion advocates pelted participants with eggs and some activists took the signs away from the people holding them.
March 2006
A good idea suddenly has become a bad idea
by jasontromm
Earlier this week, Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Crapo of Idaho proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Resolution that would have created a reserve fund to protect the Social Security surplus.
State education board rejects challenge to evolution teaching
by jasontromm
The state Board of Education voted today to reject a challenge to how evolution is taught in South Carolina high schools.
On an 11-6 vote, the state board upheld its previous evolution-only science curriculum for 10th grade biology. Last month, the state's Education Oversight Committee voted to add the phrase "critically analyze" to the evolution guidelines.
[soap] Gee, that's really intelligent. Discouraging students from critical thinking. Guess, it's true. Public schools want mind-numbed little skulls full of mush. What's wrong with asking students to talk about the holes in Darwin's theories?
