I think it is a fair question – he is taking an oath to defend you and me, your children and my grandchildren.

– the fireside post.

“Nor has one Mormon official demanded to put his hand on the Book of Mormon.”

I opposed substituting the Bible with any other book, holy or secular.

Moreover in my very next column, I wrote:

“I would vote for any Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Mormon, atheist, Jew, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Wiccan, Confucian, Taoist or combination thereof whose social values I share. Conversely, I would not vote for a fellow Jew whose social values I did not share. I want people of every faith and of no faith who affirm the values I affirm to enter political life.”

They ignored almost everything I wrote to fabricate an inconsistency.

All the best,

Dennis Prager

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Is that the one on which Dweezil plays a solo? He’s pretty damn good in his own right.

I may be vile and pernicious
but you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
With the stuff that I say.

I’m the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I’m the slime oozin’ out of your TV set.

He gets his info from the RNC. In his mind, if his RNC masters tell him it is true, then it must be true. Like their lord and master Bush, all Republiscum trolls are not curious and can’t be bothered to do research to see if something they are being fed is actually true or another lie.

Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do what you are told
Until the rights to you are sold.

I am the slime oozing out of your TV set.

That’s still relevant, especially for those who can’t block Faux News.

Remember the cut ‘It Can’t Happen Here’? Prescient? Visionary? I’m not sure, but that song means more today than it ever has.

Folks, if you want to hear a vision of 2008 America written in 1967, google Zappa & ‘It Can’t Happen Here’.

We miss you, Frank.

bitblt in June of this year: “The creator didn’t design humans to be homosexual.”

See, he even knows the “creator’s” design parameters. What a genius!

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

When I was younger, a friend played an early Zappa record for me. I thought the record player had broken (you remember record players, right?) The music was – to me – not very musical. As I grew older, the noise Frank was making began to make much more sense. I miss his sense of adventure.

Clapton recorded a bunch of stuff at Zappa’s house one night a long time ago. Clapton thought a lot of Zappa.

Comment by bitblt — December 18, 2007 @ 3:07 pm

you do?

James Madison: “During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

Thomas Jefferson: “I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”

John Adams: “”But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed.”

You won’t find Madison or Adams on that site. They’re generally thought of as more conservative founders.

Of course it comes with an agenda. What’s your point. Do christian sites not come with an agenda? Six Histories agenda appears to be to argue that we live in a secular society in spite of the revisionist ravings of christians who call this a “christian nation.” Besides, does the fact that there is an agenda change the nature of the quotation? It’s a fact that most of our nation’s Founders had a profound distrust of organized religion. If I have an agenda, does it change that fact?

Comment by bitblt — December 18, 2007 @ 3:07 pm

religious freedom is a rather important agenda for real Americans. how about joining us, instead of the nutcases? or is it too late?

Well, that would explain why the Democratic members of Congress are all atheists….

Yep, not a Christian or Jew among the whole lot.

“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Alice in Wonderland.

Check your critical intellect at the door and accept the hive-mind, and you too could be a “true believer”.