A multibillion-dollar bill has passed the US House.  The bill - America Competes Act (short for the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act) - will increase the available grants of many education related agencies.  Some of the agencies affected are: National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy’s science programs and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

This bill has a wide berth - not only does it cover basic technology in schools, but it has provisions for “obsticles to development of new energy technologies” and a government funded summit to “examine the health and direction of the United States’ science and technology enterprises.”

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Add a new T-shirt to the “banned list.”  Anything with the American Flag.

 ”Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.”

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State Senator Ernie Chambers of Nebraska has taken the fight against frivolous lawsuits to a “higher” court.

Senator Chambers has filed a lawsuit against God.

“Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is omnipresent.

In the lawsuit, Chambers said he’s tried to contact God numerous times.”

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