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Magic trick costs teacher job

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.

But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

“I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers.  He says, ‘Jim, we have a huge issue, you can’t take any more assignments you need to come in right away,’” he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell and went much farther than he’d hoped.

“I said, ‘Well Pat, can you explain this to me?’  ‘You’ve been accused of wizardry,’ [he said]. Wizardry?” he asked.

The school plans a barbeque and witch burning next week.

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Some of the far Right blogs, news columnists and of course Fox and a few talking heads at CNN have tried to paint Rev Wright as a little extreme. Interpreting one sermon that has had snippets run over and over again as Wright blaming America for 9-11. That interpretation seems debatable, but what is not debatable is that far Right Republican ministers did explicitly blame America for 9-11 and these same right-wingers that are condemning Weight never said a word to condemn the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, The Violent Language of Republican Pundits Poisons Our Democracy

Speaking in the days after the events of 9/11 on the 700 Club, the flagship daily broadcast of his Christian Broadcast Network, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blamed the death and destruction on liberal groups in America:

FALWELL: The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this.

ROBERTSON: Well, yes.

FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, “You helped this happen.”

ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

All covered in the legal realm by free speech protection, but where was the cultural outrage. Where was the endless loops of this video on mainstream media networks. Why are the same people that support the Robertson’s ( who was once a Republican presidential canidate) applying a different standard to Wright.