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Given the coherence of that last statement, it really wouldn't surprise me to discover that he doesn't know where he is.
It's okay, lie down and try to stay calm. The little purple men will disappear eventually.
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Personally, I prefer Mark Twain's quote "When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reconsider.".
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too bad that federal judge made his ruling against a supreme court ruling and without a basis in fact. the federal death penalty will be reinstated soon enough.
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Honestly I think it's more dumb for this idiot to make a big deal of such a minor thing. To me seperation of church and state simply refers to a state enforced religion. By putting "In God We Trust" it's not enforcing anyone to believe in God.
It's just a personal opinion of course and I don't expect everyone to agree with it either. I just hate when some people try to force their views and opinions on the general population. Sometimes I think America is too politically correct for it's own good.
I was at some other forum and someone had a pic of this jackass in this sig calling him an "American hero".
I'm not the most religious person, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go to the Supreme Court and whine that currency doesn't reflect my opinion.
I first found out about this on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart who also had to make fun of this guy and what he was trying to do. Saying now the pledge would include corporate sponsers in place of "One Nation, under God..." to "One Nation, under Sprite�" or something along those lines.
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quote:I just hate when some people try to force their views and opinions on the general population.
If you believe what you just said, then you should support the removal of "under God," because it was 'forced' upon the general population when it was artificially (and poorly, from a grammatic standpoint) inserted into the pledge by Congress in 1954 in the FIRST place.
DUH.
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Well, aside from the opinion "This paper has an agreed upon value and can be exchanged for goods and services."
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Yes, well, okay. But that's the government's opinion. And they make the money, so they can put that on there. However, the government is not allowed to hold an opinion on the existence or nonexistence of any god, much less the trust placed therein by an undefined "we".
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Well, not so much the government as the people, I think, who, if they are not of an opinion that a dollar is worth something, will switch to using something that they think is, regardless of how many gods we can squeeze onto the currency.
I'm not sure why we're spending our valuable attention dollars on my small joke, though. Or rather, I am, because I am attention wealthy!
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