I watched it. I think that the only one I haven't seen was the one after the pilot.

Wasn't AB excellent in this week's episode? Also, I loved TD telling the guys to call whatisname and they do and they get him on the phone from where he is in the trunk of the car. Very funny.

Adam Baldwin is rocking. Damn, he's good. Taye's good, but Adam gets to play more.

I loved that bit, sumi, but what made me really laugh was Hopper leaving his share of the coffee money in exchange for the murder book. I like it. They've gotten me to buy the urgency and sense of danger that might otherwise be missing with a groundhog day scenario.

Alright. Ep watched, laundry sorted, off to the laundromat with the book on TCP/IP network admin.

Hahahaha! Jerry Falwell accidentally helps pagan student group:

A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it.

The dispute started last summer when Gabriel and Joshua Rakoski, twins who attend Hollymead Elementary School, sought permission to distribute fliers about their church’s Vacation Bible School to their peers via “backpack mail.” Many public schools use special folders placed in student backpacks to distribute notices about schools events and sometimes extra-curricular activities to parents.

School officials originally denied the request from the twins’ father, Ray Rakoski, citing a school policy barring “distribution of literature that is for partisan, sectarian, religious or political purposes.”

A Charlottesville weekly newspaper, The Hook, reports that Rakoski “sicced the Liberty Counsel on the county,” and the policy was soon revised to allow religious groups to use the backpack mail system. Liberty Counsel is a Religious Right legal group founded by Mathew Staver and now affiliated with Falwell.

Some local Pagans who attend Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, a Unitarian-Universalist congregation in Charlottesville, decided to take advantage of the new forum as well. They created a one-page flier advertising a Dec. 9 event celebrating the December holidays with a Pagan twist and used the backpack system to invite the entire school community.

The flier invites people to “an educational program for children of all ages (and their adults), where we’ll explore the traditions of December and their origins, followed by a Pagan ritual to celebrate Yule.”

Suddenly not everyone was pleased by the open forum. Jeff Riddle, pastor of Jefferson Park Baptist Church in Charlottesville, wrote on his personal blog, “If the school allows the Baptist or Methodist church to send home a note to its students about Vacation Bible School, it also has to allow the Unitarian Church to send home a note about its ‘Pagan ritual to celebrate Yule’….This kind of note adds weight to the argument that it is high time for Christians to leave public schools for reasonable alternatives (homeschooling and private Christian schools).”

Another conservative Christian blogger in the county complained about finding the flier in her child’s folder. Apparently unaware of Falwell’s role in bringing it about, the blogger who goes by the name Cathy, noted disclaimer language at the bottom of the flier noting that the event is not connected to the school and wrote, “They [the school officials] aren’t endorsing or sponsoring this? Then it shouldn’t have been included in the Friday folders. The Friday folders have never been used for any thing other than school work and school board and/or County sanctioned/sponsored programs.”

She then fumed that a “pagan ritual” is “an educational experience my children don’t need.”

She then fumed that a “pagan ritual” is “an educational experience my children don’t need.”

Sooooooooo...... they don't have to go. Seems simple to me?

Ailleann, why do you hate America?

One of us! One of us!

If it's in their backpacks, they'll think it's required by the school, and then their pore little pea brains will be taken over by the Pagans!!

The real issue here is that childred should be protected from the knowledge that such things as paganism exists. See, even if the kids don't have to go to the pagan rituals, just the knowledge that there are such things will inevitably lead to the kids having gay abortions.

I'm just thinking about the original policy. It seems like if the backpack folder system is for official school stuff then religious material shouldn't be allowed and I can't see that being struck down in court (of course the school wouldn't want to end up in court). But if the system is for any student organization, then it should be open for Pagan and Christian alike.

But if the system is for any student organization, then it should be open for Pagan and Christian alike.

Yes, that seems to be the petard they're hoist upon.