Triumph, the dog not the band, messes with Bon Jovi

IFILM: Triumph mocks Bon Jovi.

This 2 minute clip is just too funny. The quote about Cher at the end is priceless. Don't worry, they don't actually play any Bon Jovi music.

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Teachers aren't getting raises, but Governor Perdue's staff is!

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Officials' 6-figure salaries draw fire.

Perdue has said that there is no money for teacher's raises, but has brought 7 people onto his staff making over $100,000 a year- one making almost a quarter dollars a year. In comparison, former Governor Barnes, whom Perdue thinks is a spendthrift, had no staffers making a 6-figure salary. Perdue said Barnes practiced cronyism?

Democrats criticized the salaries in a flier they circulated at the Capitol this week.

"At a time when Georgians from all across the state are asked to sacrifice and pay more taxes . . . salaries for bureaucrats in the office of the governor have risen dramatically and new, lucrative positions have been created," the flier said.

Looks like Perdue is going to run the state more like a business after all! Maybe he can replace the St. Andrews Cross on our flag with a crooked "E"?

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Georgia GOP trying to get tough on abortion.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Perude, GOP pledge to curb procedure.

Cope said Perdue wanted to go beyond cutting off public funds that could be used for abortion -- to eliminating funding for family planning programs.

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"We will find and root out any money going to groups like Planned Parenthood," Johnson said to cheering abortion protesters, including children.

So anti-abortionists will do anything to eliminate abortion, including harrassing women, massive protests, and even killing doctors, but they won't allow the teaching of family planning and sex education? If they really want to stop abortions, making sure all people are well educated about how pregnancy actually occurs and how to prevent it seems to be the most logical answer. When we try to cut down on the number of pets put to sleep each year, we don't do it by killing animal shelter employees and bombing the local human society. We do it by preventing pet pregnancy.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Cynthia Tucker.

Of all the flashpoints in the culture wars, few are more frustrating than the conflict over legal abortion. With effective, easy-to-use contraceptives widely available, abortion ought to be, as Bill Clinton once put it, "safe, legal and rare."

However anti-abortionists want it "unsafe, illegal, and frequently needed." Abstinence is a great idea for teenagers. It should be incouraged by parents, school, and church. However it needs to go hand-in-hand with planned parenting and sex education. Teenagers have always had sex. They always will. If they do, we need to make sure that they are not going to cause an unwanted pregnancy and also make sure that they are not going to get a STD. Both can change young lives, and the later can also kill.

We encourage teenagers not to speed in automobiles. We show them films at school about accidents. We talk about tickets and insurance rates. We show them articles about teenagers dying in accidents. We do all we can to show them the dangers of speeding, and how on little mistake can change or end a life. In the end, they still are most likely to drive too fast sometime during their teenage years. At that point we can only hope they also heard us preaching about seatbelt use, and hope they are wearing one.

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