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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  BSA Discrimination.org:Home -> BSA & Religious Belief -> Scalise v Mt Pleasant
Scalise, who had volunteered to be a Scout leader after his son joined in 1997, said the declaration's requirement that he make an affirmation of a belief in God offended him.
A year ago John Scalise and his son Benjamin won a partial victory when an Isabella County judge agreed with their charge that Mt. Pleasant Schools and the Boy Scouts of America ought not be recruiting new Cub Scouts during school hours.
Scalise sued the district and the Boy Scouts in October 2000 for religious discrimination.
www.bsa-discrimination.org /html/scalise.html   (1096 words)

  
 Frank Scalise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Scalise ran into trouble with the Commission in 1957 when he was found to be selling Mafia memberships for as much as $50,000 apiece.
Joseph Scalise swore revenge for the killing, apparently unaware that his brother's death had been ordered by the Commission, and was himself eliminated.
Scalise and Anselmi were believed to have taken part - with Brooklyn's Frankie Uale (who put his expertise at the disposal of the nation's Unione Siciliana members and may have been doing the Gennas, rather than Al Capone, a favor here) - in the assassination of Dion O'Banion.
www.onewal.com /w-scalis.html   (381 words)

  
 John Scalise (1900 - 1929) - Find A Grave Memorial
Born in Castelvetrano, Sicily in 1900, John Scalise became involved with the Mafia early in his life.
Not yet thirty years old, Scalise had come quite a ways, allegedly boasting that he was "the most powerful man in Chicago." After the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of February 14, 1929, the "Murder Twins", as they were now called, fell under suspicion.
One of Scalise’s numerous wounds was a gunshot into his glass eye, the fragments lodging in his face.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12229   (810 words)

  
 New Jersey Herald
Scalise also had to deal with Wallkill Valley's Kodie Silvestri — the No. 1 seed with only four losses on the season.
Scalise (30-7) was named Outstanding Wrestler in District 3, and High Point took home its first district title in seven years.
In the Region 1 Tournament, Scalise had a bye into the quarterfinals because he was a district champion.
www.njherald.com /285537153526834.php   (503 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: news
John Scalise had asked the Court to bar public schools from opening their doors to Boy Scout recruiters and promoting membership, arguing that the group discriminates against nonreligious boys and parents by denying membership unless they swear to religious oaths.
Scalise's dispute with the Scouts dates back to 1998, when his son was a third-grader in Michigan.
Scalise argued that his son, Benjamin, was taunted by classmates and humiliated by a Boy Scout recruiter in front of other students.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=16955   (421 words)

  
 Father, Son Sue School Over Scout Bigotry, Freethought Today, December 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Foundation member John Scalise, a former city commissioner in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and his young son Benjamin, filed suit against the Boy Scouts of America and Mt. Pleasant Public Schools for discrimination on religious grounds on Oct. 20.
John, a former Scout himself, and his son were excited about the invitation, and attended the recruiting meeting in December.
Scalise alleges Boy Scouts and Mt. Pleasant schools are violating Michigan's constitution and the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act by unlawfully discriminating on religious grounds.
www.ffrf.org /fttoday/2000/december2000/scalise.html   (175 words)

  
 The Revealer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A Michigan atheist, John Scalise, is appealing to the Supreme Court to review a ruling that allows Boy Scout recruitment posters inside schools.
Scalise argues that the Scouts discriminate against nonreligious boys and parents and the schools are therefore sponsoring religious discrimination.
In 1997, Scalise volunteered to be a troop leader when his son joined the Cub Scouts, but his membership was revoked when he refused to sign a declaration recognizing an "obligation to God."
www.therevealer.org /archives/feature_print.php?printid=1697   (105 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
Scalise threw up his hand to cover his face and a bullet cut of his little finger, crashing into his eye.
The remains of Anselmi and Scalise were returned to their families in Sicily for burial - Anselmi in Marsala and Scalise in Castelvertrano.
Guinta was taken to the funeral parlor of famed mortician and politician John Sbarbaro.
www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_11-13-00.html   (3079 words)

  
 Chicago Outfit
OHN Scalise and Albert Anselmi were boyhood friends in Marsala, Sicily before coming to Chicago in the early 1920's.
Accordingly, Anselmi, Scalise and Giunta were lured to a testimonial dinner at the Hawthorne Inn on May 7, 1929.
The bodies of Scalise and Giunta were found in a car; Anselmi was lying nearby.
www.ganglandnews.com /column47.htm   (471 words)

  
 DAD WANTS SCOUTS BANNED FROM USING SCHOOL BUILDINGS [Free Republic]
Scalise, who had volunteered as a Scout leader after his son joined in 1997, said the declaration's demand that he affirm a belief in God offended him.
FREEP John Scalise, the anti-Boy Scouts plaintiff in the above case, head of the Great Lakes Humanist Society, which "promote(s) humanism, atheism and freethought" and is a member society of the Atheist Alliance.
John Scalise and his son, Benjamin, claim in a suit that the Scouts are a "national and international private, religiously-oriented youth organization" that "expressly and openly discriminates against atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other minorities."
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a2bfb427c2d.htm   (3451 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Scalise had asked the court to bar public schools from opening their doors to Boy Scout recruiters and promoting membership, arguing that the group discriminated against nonreligious boys and parents by denying them membership if they don't swear to religious oaths.
Scalise's dispute with the Scouts dates to 1998, when his son was a third-grader in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Scalise's attorney, Timothy Taylor of Mount Pleasant, said taxpayer-funded schools were too cozy with the Boy Scouts.
www.nwherald.com /print/286219539500499.php   (271 words)

  
 Women's Voice: Two Women Capture Suspects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Fairchild's wife, Dana, was on her way out of town when she noticed something going on at her neighbor's house, John Fairchild said.
John Fairchild said his wife always carries a weapon when traveling.
Scalise said the two men admitted to stealing tools and several fishing rods and reels to buy crack cocaine.
www.gunowners.org /wv37.htm   (504 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 156
     It was Anselmi and Scalise who introduced the idea to Chicago gangland that rubbing bullets in garlic would assure a kill, since the garlic would enter the blood system and finish the victim off if the gunshot didn't.
Anselmi and Scalise lured one Genna into a trap where he was killed, and personally killed another brother.
To prove it, he and Rio rigged a fake argument that ended with Rio slapping Capone across the face and ran out of the room, while Scalise and Anselmi watched.
www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_156.html   (509 words)

  
 uExpress.com: Covering The Courts by James J. Kilpatrick -- (05/10/2006) BACK TO THE BOY SCOUTS
When the position is at odds with the group's advocated position, applying an anti-discrimination statute to require the group's acceptance of the individual in a position of group leadership could so modify or muddle or frustrate the group's advocacy as to violate the expressive associational right." Whatever.
Against that background, the Scalises, father and son, turned up at the Fancher Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, Mich., and signed on for the Cub Scout program.
Then John read the Scout Oath and asked to be exempted: The oath, he explained, was repugnant to his beliefs as a secular humanist.
www.uexpress.com /coveringthecourts/index.html?uc_full_date=20060510   (734 words)

  
 Albert Anselmi and John Scalise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Al Anselmi and John Scalise fled from their native home of Marsala when murder charges were brought against them and they came to Chicago.
Anselmi and Scalise eventually broke from the Genna Gang when they were ordered to hit Al Capone.
When Capone finally turned on Anselmi, Anselmi pleaded with Capone saying it was all Scalise and Guinta's plan and he had nothing to do with it.
www.gambino.com /bio/albertanselmi.htm   (649 words)

  
 Digital Filmmaking: The New Alternative?
Although planning to customize the festival with local discussion panels and musical performances, the two-day event maintains a collection of this year's best digital short films as well as Cinema Electronica, a group of digital films that showcases electronic music.
In describing the festival's intentions, Scalise promoted the notion of digital filmmaking as its own genre, an intriguing idea basing the work's creative achievement on how it best exploits its digital environment.
The response elaborates John's hope to become the next major festival that premieres innovative cinema.
www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_97ResFest_970819_LA.html   (994 words)

  
 John Torrio (The Brain)
Torrio sent for Frank Yale and he came from New York with Albert Anselmi and John Scalise.
It was after this close encounter with death that John Torrio passed the organization over to Al Capone.
In April, 1957, John Torrio suffered a fatal heart attack at his barbers in Brooklyn.
www.gambino.com /bio/johntorrio.htm   (747 words)

  
 Johnny Torrio and the Dream of Real Organized Crime
Angelo Genna was the first to go, when he wrecked his car after a high-speed car chase, was trapped in his auto and could only watch as gunmen approached to finish him off.
Mike Genna was next when he was taken for a ride by two of his own men, Albert Anselmi and John Scalise, who decided to switch over to the Torrio camp.
Tony Genna was betrayed in much the same manner and the remaining three brothers decided that Chicago was no longer a town in which they wished to remain.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/20722/3   (722 words)

  
 Albert Anselmi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Anselmi and John Scalise) were plotting to kill him.
Anselmi and John Scalise fled from their native home of Marsala when murder charges were brought against them and they came to Chicago.
Anselmi i John Scalise byli dwoma najbardziej morderczymi istotami w historii...
www.jolt12.co.uk /albert_anselmi.html   (261 words)

  
 Atheist Threatens Criminal Complaint Over Free Republic Posting [Free Republic]
John Scalise is another of the socialist liberal idiots!
They are hypocrites, socialists and are going to get eaten up by their own hate and lies little by little.
This John Scalise is lacking gray cells and has nothing to stand on.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a3118d54ed7.htm   (2795 words)

  
 Center for Consumer Freedom - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In a May 11, 2002 San Francisco Chronicle article, CCF spokesman John Doyle responded to questions about nationwide radio ads put out by the group.
John Doyle, communications director for Berman and Co., also doubles as a spokesman for the CCF, the Employment Policies Institute and the American Beverage Institute.
On February 24, 2000, the Washington Post reported that Tom Lauria, "who helped peddle the tobacco industry's message at the Tobacco Institute before the lobby group was dismantled last year as part of an agreement with the states," had been hired as director of communications for CCF (then named the Guest Choice Network).
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom   (2011 words)

  
 BSA Discrimination.org:Home -> BSA in the Courts -> Scalise v Mt Pleasant
BSA Discrimination.org:Home -> BSA in the Courts -> Scalise v Mt Pleasant
He cited the group's Declaration of Religious Principles, which BSA requires Scout leaders to sign.
On January 21, 2005, the Michigan Court of Appeals let stand Chamberlain's ruling that the Mount Pleasant Public Schools' ties with the Boy Scouts of America did not violate the state constitution
www.bsa-discrimination.org /html/untitled194.html   (437 words)

  
 Inquiring Minds Educational Resource Area
Collect 20 names on a sheet of paper swearing or affirming that an obviously false statement is true.
For example, the paper may begin, "We, the undersigned, swear or affirm that Professor Scalise is a visitor from the planet Fringus in the distant galaxy Fstmff.
John Edward - Cold reader and TV personality
www.inquiringminds.org /education/syllabus-cotton-scalise.html   (2111 words)

  
 2005-2006 NJ Region Results
Braden Carter (21-10), Pope John, vs. 1-3 Jr.
John Dack (Don Bosco) dec. Tony Cariddi (River Dell), 6-2.
Ken Wilkinson, Cherokee, d John McCloskey, Audubon, 5-4 OT.
www.enter.net /~jkopesky/06r1.htm   (3486 words)

  
 Denver Journal - 9:0101 - Annotated Old Testament Bibliography
Westminster John Knox, 2001 Important principles and a guide to other studies for interpreting the Hebrew text and applying it to sermons.
Rogerson, John W. Anthropolgy and the Old Testament.
Keown, Gerald L., Pamela J. Scalise, and Thomas G. Smothers.
www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles2006/0100/0101.php   (7008 words)

  
 Mister Capone - Outline Bio
In fairly rapid succession, Theresa bears three more sons, Amadeo Ermino (John, nicknamed "Mimi"), Umberto (Albert John), and, in 1908, Matthew Nicholas (so baptized), then two daughters, Rosalia (Rose) and Mafalda.
– The combination falls apart, Capone now battles the Gennas, lures Scalise and Anselmi away from them, and has two of the brothers killed (the cops get a third), the other three fleeing to Sicily; all the gangs are battling each other.
– Capone discovers Scalise and Anselmi plotting with Joseph "Hop Toad" Guinta, new Unione head, to kill Capone and take over; he personally bludgeons each at a banquet, then three or four gunmen shoot them.
www.mistercapone.com /outline.htm   (2235 words)

  
 St Jerome Croatian Catholic Church - Bulletins
Please join us the June 13th in celebrating in honor of this popular and dear saint.
Mary John Goles who has served our parish school faithfully and lovingly with true dedication for many years.
We also acknowledge the many other sisters, members of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, who served selflessly and untiringly for almost 80 years.
www.stjeromecroatian.org /eng/jun10.htm   (467 words)

  
 SHO NUFF MOB STUDY - JANUARY 17, 2006
Albert Anselmi, James 'Jimmy the Gent' Burke, Robert Carey, William "Wild Bill" Cutolo, Vito Cascioferro, Anthony 'Tony Ducks' Corallo, James 'Jimmy' Hoffa, Seymour 'Blue Jaw' Magoon, John Scalise, Henry Shorr, Anthony 'Tony Bender' Strollo, Albert Tannenbaum and Abraham 'Bo' Weinberg are a not exhaustive list of organized criminals whose mortal remains have done 'The Houdini.'
May 26, 1999 (?) "The feds indicted Little Allie Boy and John 'Jackie' DeRoss, the Columbo Crime Family underboss, on October 14, 2004 for the May 26, 1999 murder of Columbo Family underboss William 'Wild Bill' Cutolo, and for obstruction of justice related to the investigation of Cutolo's murder.
On that day, William Cutolo had been picked up and driven to what he was told would be a top-level meeting of the Columbo Cosa Nostra Family.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoJan1706.html   (1611 words)

  
 1/7/06
145- John Persong (B) dec. Josh Arnau, 10-4.
Hwt.- Pete Zamirski (S) dec. John Rodriguez, 4-3.
152- John Cordasco (MK) dec. Kingsley Viscara, 5-3.
www.enter.net /~jkopesky/012306-012806scores.htm   (5151 words)

  
 Blog from the Capital: Supremes Won't Hear Boy Scout Case Appeal
Via Religion Clause, AP reports that the Supreme Court denied to hear the appeal of a Michigan father.
John Scalise had been seeking a court order prohibiting the Boy Scouts from recruiting at public schools because they require an oath to God.
Posted by Don Byrd on May 30, 2006 04:02 PM
www.bjconline.org /cgi-bin/2006/05/scotus_wont_hear_boy_scout_cas.html   (128 words)

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