I think this is really, really wonderful.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Scathing
And understandably so. It's worth watching.
“Is there really something to quibble about in how powerful a bullet is when it is heading toward a six-year-old at the speed of 3200 feet per second? What kind of desperate, cornered rat would dare to mention that the Sandy Hook shooter could have used a more powerful bullet? Could have what? Done more damage? Made the bodies of six-year-olds even more difficult to identify?"
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“Is there really something to quibble about in how powerful a bullet is when it is heading toward a six-year-old at the speed of 3200 feet per second? What kind of desperate, cornered rat would dare to mention that the Sandy Hook shooter could have used a more powerful bullet? Could have what? Done more damage? Made the bodies of six-year-olds even more difficult to identify?"
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
"Obama derangement syndrome"
Oh, good grief. Please watch it.
Honestly!
Of course. it's fine with Bush and Reagan did the same thing....
Honestly!
Of course. it's fine with Bush and Reagan did the same thing....
Monday, December 10, 2012
Something I just learned...
I had not come across this passage (by John Tyler, tenth president of the U.S.) before today:
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent — that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma, if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions.”
So, it's not only Thomas Jefferson who understood the Constitution to be establishing a "separation of Church and State."
Of course, I don't see how the First Amendment and Article VI ("no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust in the United States.”) can reasonably be interpreted any other way.
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“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent — that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma, if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions.”
So, it's not only Thomas Jefferson who understood the Constitution to be establishing a "separation of Church and State."
Of course, I don't see how the First Amendment and Article VI ("no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust in the United States.”) can reasonably be interpreted any other way.
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Friday, December 07, 2012
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Are we really civilized?
Countries still having the death penalty are in red.
(click to enlarge)
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
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