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<p>I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4362858', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rachel Perry Cosmetics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel Perry Cosmetics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Rachel Perry Cosmetics&lt;/strong&gt;

Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..</description>
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<p>Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4322608', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mstapletonpe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You people do realize that Jefferson declared war on the Muslim Barbary States in 1800.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people do realize that Jefferson declared war on the Muslim Barbary States in 1800.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1769451', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: raised eyebrow</title>
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		<dc:creator>raised eyebrow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting how the land of the free is full of people whose minds are imprisoned, ones who think that knowing a few facts about Muslims who exhibit the same human failings that are on display on prime time TV and the multiplex eqauls being an expert on 14 centuries of Islamic civilization. If your minds were truly free, they would be open enough to see that we are all in this together, and allegiance, or lack thereof, to any religion should not lead to prejudice in how we treat one another. Just be good, y&#039;all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting how the land of the free is full of people whose minds are imprisoned, ones who think that knowing a few facts about Muslims who exhibit the same human failings that are on display on prime time TV and the multiplex eqauls being an expert on 14 centuries of Islamic civilization. If your minds were truly free, they would be open enough to see that we are all in this together, and allegiance, or lack thereof, to any religion should not lead to prejudice in how we treat one another. Just be good, y&#8217;all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1553181', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cooter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cooter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Canâ€™t scream at the Democrats about how they always lose elections&quot;

I wouldn&#039;t be as confident that the Democrats won and election as I would be that GW and the Republicans lost one - the dems just happened to be the &quot;other&quot; choice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Canâ€™t scream at the Democrats about how they always lose elections&#8221;</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be as confident that the Democrats won and election as I would be that GW and the Republicans lost one &#8211; the dems just happened to be the &#8220;other&#8221; choice.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1492857', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;whats this country comming too!!! this country was founded on Judeo/Christain values, now we have an islamic congressman and UN rep. these are the very people that want us dead. do you honestly think that his religon won&#039;t have an effect on how and what he votes let alone what american values he is able destroy....   what next openly homosexual cabinet members?

Mr. Clinton ah I mean Bush,,, what going on?&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>whats this country comming too!!! this country was founded on Judeo/Christain values, now we have an islamic congressman and UN rep. these are the very people that want us dead. do you honestly think that his religon won&#8217;t have an effect on how and what he votes let alone what american values he is able destroy&#8230;.   what next openly homosexual cabinet members?</p>
<p>Mr. Clinton ah I mean Bush,,, what going on?</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1423122', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Calista</title>
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		<dc:creator>Calista</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Ancient Roman times, the pater familias, or senior male within a household, retained the right to kill an unmarried but sexually active daughter or an adulterous wife. Even in the United States, until recent times, wife-killings by husbands (especially against adulterous wives â€” whether or not they were premeditated) were not considered a crime in some jurisdictions.&lt;/strong&gt;

Honor killing is forbidden in Islam.&quot;Kecia Ali: Honor Killings, Illicit Sex, and Islamic Law, The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, June 10, 2003&quot; 
 An honor killing, in Islamic definitions, refers specifically to extra-legal punishment by the family against the woman, and is technically forbidden by the Sharia (Islamic law)&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>In Ancient Roman times, the pater familias, or senior male within a household, retained the right to kill an unmarried but sexually active daughter or an adulterous wife. Even in the United States, until recent times, wife-killings by husbands (especially against adulterous wives â€” whether or not they were premeditated) were not considered a crime in some jurisdictions.</strong></p>
<p>Honor killing is forbidden in Islam.&#8221;Kecia Ali: Honor Killings, Illicit Sex, and Islamic Law, The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, June 10, 2003&#8243;<br />
 An honor killing, in Islamic definitions, refers specifically to extra-legal punishment by the family against the woman, and is technically forbidden by the Sharia (Islamic law)</em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1418143', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
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		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Islamic religion and culture is stuck in a time warp and can&#039;t get up.

&quot;Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family &quot;honor.&quot; It&#039;s difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.

Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women&#039;s Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Reports submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights show that honor killings have occurred in Bangladesh, Great Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda. In countries not submitting reports to the UN, the practice was condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan, and has been reported in Iraq and Iran. &quot; - Hillary Mayell 

- From National Geographic News, Feb. 12, 2002</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Islamic religion and culture is stuck in a time warp and can&#8217;t get up.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family &#8220;honor.&#8221; It&#8217;s difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.</p>
<p>Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women&#8217;s Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.</p>
<p>Reports submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights show that honor killings have occurred in Bangladesh, Great Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda. In countries not submitting reports to the UN, the practice was condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan, and has been reported in Iraq and Iran. &#8221; &#8211; Hillary Mayell </p>
<p>- From National Geographic News, Feb. 12, 2002<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1417994', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Calista</title>
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		<dc:creator>Calista</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>â€œâ€¦.the first step to becoming backwards always starts with the women. 

Cover the women, ban the women from going in public areas, cut the womenâ€™s genitals, stop them from working or driving or shopping.

Actually, it was Islam that empowered the women in the days of early Islam. Modest dress is requirement for men and women alike, women are allowed to work (and keep their own money and property) circumcision is not an islamic concept but pre-islamic, more african and unfortunately it has become mistakenly entwined with the cultures who perform it and women cant drive in saudi arabia.....thats culture not religion...and furthermore...kings are not allowed in islam so the KINGDOM of saudi arabia already has a huge problem there....and there is no where in the quran or sunnah that says a woman cant go to buy some new threads. 

its amazing how little people know but how much they espouse to know about women in islam. 




heh heh....1.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>â€œâ€¦.the first step to becoming backwards always starts with the women. </p>
<p>Cover the women, ban the women from going in public areas, cut the womenâ€™s genitals, stop them from working or driving or shopping.</p>
<p>Actually, it was Islam that empowered the women in the days of early Islam. Modest dress is requirement for men and women alike, women are allowed to work (and keep their own money and property) circumcision is not an islamic concept but pre-islamic, more african and unfortunately it has become mistakenly entwined with the cultures who perform it and women cant drive in saudi arabia&#8230;..thats culture not religion&#8230;and furthermore&#8230;kings are not allowed in islam so the KINGDOM of saudi arabia already has a huge problem there&#8230;.and there is no where in the quran or sunnah that says a woman cant go to buy some new threads. </p>
<p>its amazing how little people know but how much they espouse to know about women in islam. </p>
<p>heh heh&#8230;.1.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1411454', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cartoons Fans Lounge</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cartoons Fans Lounge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ellison swears in on Koran at Crashweb.net</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ellison swears in on Koran at Crashweb.net</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Richard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;halbert holmert&lt;/strong&gt;, your comments about Islamic dogma and its incompatibility with democratic ideas raise an interesting conundrum. Itâ€™s associated with the American fantasy that religious people are &lt;em&gt;ipso facto &lt;/em&gt;moral; i.e.: If moderately religious people (pick any faith) mean well, shouldnâ€™t fundamentalists (pick any religion, again) be even more well-meaning?

The fact is, religion is a scourge that threatens humanity on every level -- from jihads (once again, name a religion) to its war on human knowledge, reason and the Golden Rule. Religious political correctness is going to kill us all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>halbert holmert</strong>, your comments about Islamic dogma and its incompatibility with democratic ideas raise an interesting conundrum. Itâ€™s associated with the American fantasy that religious people are <em>ipso facto </em>moral; i.e.: If moderately religious people (pick any faith) mean well, shouldnâ€™t fundamentalists (pick any religion, again) be even more well-meaning?</p>
<p>The fact is, religion is a scourge that threatens humanity on every level &#8212; from jihads (once again, name a religion) to its war on human knowledge, reason and the Golden Rule. Religious political correctness is going to kill us all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1392913', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ellison takes swearing-in photo with Koran &#124; Semi-Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ellison takes swearing-in photo with Koran &#124; Semi-Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jesus Christ</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesus Christ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, I don&#039;t know who this &quot;Hal Holmert&quot; idiot is, but he surely does not speak for Me!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I don&#8217;t know who this &#8220;Hal Holmert&#8221; idiot is, but he surely does not speak for Me!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1391878', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: nanlichi</title>
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		<dc:creator>nanlichi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the answer Halliberto, that&#039;s what I thought.  

So it did stink, and the Bible is not divinely inspired.  You don&#039;t know how relieved I am to hear that.  I was just about to whack my neighbor for working last weekend, and sacrifice my daughter for talking back, and my wife for wearing cotton and wool to the Xmas party.  Like the Book says to do.

How about if we just cut out the part that says love thy neighbor and throw the rest of the shit in the trash?

By the way, I think all religions are myths, not just picking on you Xians.

Read Sam Harris&#039; &quot;Letter to a Christian Nation&quot; and get a life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the answer Halliberto, that&#8217;s what I thought.  </p>
<p>So it did stink, and the Bible is not divinely inspired.  You don&#8217;t know how relieved I am to hear that.  I was just about to whack my neighbor for working last weekend, and sacrifice my daughter for talking back, and my wife for wearing cotton and wool to the Xmas party.  Like the Book says to do.</p>
<p>How about if we just cut out the part that says love thy neighbor and throw the rest of the shit in the trash?</p>
<p>By the way, I think all religions are myths, not just picking on you Xians.</p>
<p>Read Sam Harris&#8217; &#8220;Letter to a Christian Nation&#8221; and get a life.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1391496', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: nanlichi</title>
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		<dc:creator>nanlichi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hal, you cut and paste with the best.  You rule.  Original thought is tough, but blindly following another&#039;s lead is routine for the Christians isn&#039;t it?

You could help me out though, if you would.  You seem to be a pretty hard core Christian and I have a question that has been bothering me for years.  I have asked several pious Christians, but never got a straight answer.

Did Jesus&#039; shit stink?

Because mine does.  And if Jebus&#039; did too, he might have been just a human being and not divine.  And the Bible might just be another self help book.  Although, honestly, it&#039;s a little self contradictory and violent for me.

Thanks for your help little buddy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hal, you cut and paste with the best.  You rule.  Original thought is tough, but blindly following another&#8217;s lead is routine for the Christians isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>You could help me out though, if you would.  You seem to be a pretty hard core Christian and I have a question that has been bothering me for years.  I have asked several pious Christians, but never got a straight answer.</p>
<p>Did Jesus&#8217; shit stink?</p>
<p>Because mine does.  And if Jebus&#8217; did too, he might have been just a human being and not divine.  And the Bible might just be another self help book.  Although, honestly, it&#8217;s a little self contradictory and violent for me.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help little buddy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1391113', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Obie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He wasn&#039;t sworn in using the koran.  Every congress person was sworn in without placing their hand on any book.  This picture is just a photo-op, much like your yearbook pictures.  Every congress person gets one.  Something to take home and hang on the wall.  That&#039;s why the families are in these pictures.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He wasn&#8217;t sworn in using the koran.  Every congress person was sworn in without placing their hand on any book.  This picture is just a photo-op, much like your yearbook pictures.  Every congress person gets one.  Something to take home and hang on the wall.  That&#8217;s why the families are in these pictures.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1391078', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jerryxpgh</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/04/ellison-koran/comment-page-4/#comment-1391057</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do not like the fact that he was sworn in with the Koran.  Whats next, witches swearing in on a Harry Potter book  ... scientologist with an L.Ron Hubbard book?  This is making a mockery of american traditionalism for the interest of a single person.

This is America and everyone has sworn in using the New Testament.  I do not see Jewish/Mormon congressman requesting to use the Torah/BookOfMormon.  Therefore, if your going to represent America and American values then you should be required to be sworn in using what has always been used.

This is america slowly being taken apart by liberalsim and its ashamed to see it happening so easily.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not like the fact that he was sworn in with the Koran.  Whats next, witches swearing in on a Harry Potter book  &#8230; scientologist with an L.Ron Hubbard book?  This is making a mockery of american traditionalism for the interest of a single person.</p>
<p>This is America and everyone has sworn in using the New Testament.  I do not see Jewish/Mormon congressman requesting to use the Torah/BookOfMormon.  Therefore, if your going to represent America and American values then you should be required to be sworn in using what has always been used.</p>
<p>This is america slowly being taken apart by liberalsim and its ashamed to see it happening so easily.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1391057', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: chimpeach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#184 correctwing

&lt;em&gt;you guys got some fâ€™d up ideas about what â€œconservativeâ€ actually means. lemme give you a clue, conservative != republican
they havenâ€™t been conservative for REAL in a long time.&lt;/em&gt;

I would encourage the real conservatives (not the warped, repressed bluenoses that call themselves social conservatives) to take back the Republican party soon or there won&#039;t be one left to take back.

If the word &quot;conservative&quot; has been redefined, you can thank the idiots who redefined &quot;liberal&quot; and turned it into an insult for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#184 correctwing</p>
<p><em>you guys got some fâ€™d up ideas about what â€œconservativeâ€ actually means. lemme give you a clue, conservative != republican<br />
they havenâ€™t been conservative for REAL in a long time.</em></p>
<p>I would encourage the real conservatives (not the warped, repressed bluenoses that call themselves social conservatives) to take back the Republican party soon or there won&#8217;t be one left to take back.</p>
<p>If the word &#8220;conservative&#8221; has been redefined, you can thank the idiots who redefined &#8220;liberal&#8221; and turned it into an insult for that.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1390637', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: chimpeach</title>
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		<dc:creator>chimpeach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#167 halbert holmert

&lt;em&gt;I have a copy of mein kampf does that make me a nazi ?&lt;/em&gt;

Yes. Normally it wouldn&#039;t. But, in your case, considering that so many of the passages in it are highlighted with &quot;Yes!&quot; or &quot;Awesome!&quot; scrawled in the margin and a number of the pages are stuck together, I&#039;d have to say yes, you&#039;re a nazi.</description>
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<p><em>I have a copy of mein kampf does that make me a nazi ?</em></p>
<p>Yes. Normally it wouldn&#8217;t. But, in your case, considering that so many of the passages in it are highlighted with &#8220;Yes!&#8221; or &#8220;Awesome!&#8221; scrawled in the margin and a number of the pages are stuck together, I&#8217;d have to say yes, you&#8217;re a nazi.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1390615', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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