State Senator Tom Reynolds to School Children: Eat This Calendar, Fool

Wisconsin State Senator Tom Reynolds has introduced a bill that would prevent the state's school boards from adopting textbooks unless the books use the B-C designation.

WBAY in Green Bay reports:

There's already a debate over whether to say "Happy holidays" or "Merry Christmas." The next step of the controversy could be whether textbooks designate ancient years as B-C or B-C-E...

...B-C stands for 'before Christ.' Increasingly authors and historians are using the religiously neutral term B-C-E, which stands for 'before the Common Era...'

...Reynolds says schools shouldn't use books that use the revisionist dating method. His bill would impose a fine between 25 and 100 dollars.

Meantime, back on planet earth, we see this headline:

Wisconsin Last in School Breakfast Ranking

Wisconsin is listed last among the states again this year in the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in schools who also get school breakfasts.

The Food Research and Action Center, a private, nonprofit group, said 26.5 percent of Wisconsin students eligible for the school lunches also got breakfast, while it was more than 50 percent in 13 states.

Wisconsin ranked next to last at 50.4 percent in the percentage of eligible schools taking part in the breakfast program, with Ohio last at 49.2 percent.

You have to wonder how a legislator like Reynolds can get away with this nonsense.   He has the time to deal with intelligent design and worry about B. C. in school text books.  In the meantime, Wisconsin, and that includes his district, tops the list with the highest percentage of eligible kids for free breakfasts starting the school day hungry.

The people of his district deserve better than this. Reynoldisms from the past year, for which I thank Cary Spivak & Dan Bice of the Journal Sentinel:

• Create a privately owned Autobahn in Wisconsin, parallel to I-94, on which you could drive as fast as you want, for a fee.
• Bar cops from pulling over speeders if they are part of a pack of cars traveling at high speed.
• Survey the worst of the worst inmates to ask them if they would have committed their awful crimes if the state had adopted a death penalty for anyone convicted of the unholy trifecta of rape, murder and dismemberment. (No one in Wisconsin presently doing time has committed all three of the atrocities in question.)
• He attended the rabidly anti-gay 2003 International Conference on Homo-Fascism.

The Conference on Homo Fascism probably deserves its own mention. If you are still with me, these folks say:

• Ask any EMT in any city with a sizable homosexual community what sort of domestic abuse calls occur: a disproportionate amount of calls result from homosexuals beating each other up.
• "The purpose of Homo-Fascist Watch is to act as a firebell in the night, alerting and reminding all lovers of true liberty bounded by God's immutable laws of the relentless advance of a form of fascism which tolerates every sort of sexual deviation, but no deviation from the party line of a totalitarian, sexually perverse elite."

If the children are still up, it's time to put them to bed.

If the good voters of West Allis are awake, it's time to put Tom Reynolds back into the private sector.