Daily Archives: June 6, 2007

Galesburg H.S. Diploma Nazis Have Change of Heart, Give Students Their Rewards

If they would have apologized, it would have been better. – graduate 

Associated Press
June 6, 2007 – TheScroogeReport.com Post

GALESBURG, Ill. – Five students will get the diplomas they were denied when cheers erupted for them at a high school graduation, and school officials said Wednesday they would review a get-tough decorum policy.

Galesburg High School officials had said they would not hand over the keepsake diplomas unless they received apologies. But the stalemate over the diplomas and the media attention it attracted have taken valuable time and energy, they said.

“It is time for the good of the community, the school district, the families and the students involved to move on,” Superintendent Gene Denisar said in a written statement.

The diplomas were withheld because the school said cheering violated a school policy aimed at restoring graduation decorum. The students still were considered graduates on paper, but they didn’t have a diploma.

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Note: The Nazi reference in headline refers to the TV sitcom Seinfeld episode about a man called the “Soup Nazi” because of the strict ordering, often exclaiming, “No soup for you!”

When Faith Was Bold: FDR leads nation in prayer again

Video resurrects D-Day plea to ‘Almighty God’

I couldn’t believe I was hearing a president of the United States praying the way FDR did. – FDR video creator

WorldNetDaily.com
June 6, 2007 – TheScroogeReport.com Post

From another era, an unwavering voice speaks slowly, its gravity punctuated by ministerial pauses: “Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. …”

It was June 6, 1944, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt first addressed a nation beset by war. While American, British and Canadian troops fought to establish beachheads on the coast of Normandy in France, American families adjusted their radio dials to hear the president pray.

Now, exactly 63 years later, Roosevelt’s voice once again speaks, this time to a nation divided over a war.

In honor of D-Day’s anniversary, Arkansas e-card creator Scott Kinney, operator of interviewwithjesus.com, has resurrected President Roosevelt’s prayer to encourage support and prayer for U.S. troops abroad. The flash movie maker’s newest production features audio of Roosevelt reading his prayer streaming in synch with corresponding photos of the Iraq war effort…

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Hungry Americans cost 90 billion dollars?

Homeless man

A homeless man eats hot soup on a street after volunteers from the Coalition for the Homeless handed out hot food packages, February 2007 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The 35 million under-nourished Americans cost the United States 90 billion dollars worth of lost annual economic output, according to a study. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris McGrath)