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(6 replies, posted in Politics)

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. --Does a fork or dinner knife pose an unacceptable danger to President Barack Obama?

One wouldn

This has never been the Kingdom of Jefferson.  There were over 80 other guys at that Convention.
Revisionists like you have never been able to explain how the Supreme Court was built with the 10 Commandments on the wall, the Washington Memorial went up in the 1880s with Bible verses on each step, National Parks had Bible verses posted on lookout points, every public school in the United States opened with prayers...and all that started to change no sooner than the 1960s...but you claim that Thomas Jefferson ordered a separation of church and state when we had 13 states, and somehow nobody listened to him for 160 years.
Kind of like how the Congress and 33 states legalized sodomy with the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1867, but we didn't catch on until 1992.

Second, the argument is not that government has to keep funding religious charities.
The argument is that government is not free to destroy existing religious charities if they refuse secular regulation.

There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution, for one thing.  It's an invention of judges since then.

There IS a guarantee of free exercise.

AND, the churches have everywhere been doing adoption, teaching and education before the federal government set up shop.  Even before the US government had jurisdiction.  (maybe that leaves out Scientology and their AlAnon, too bad).

Yeah the government can set up alcohol stores in competition with grocery stores...then declare a government monopoly on the sale of alcohol...there's no specific guarantee of the sale of alcohol in the Constitution.

I know the Democrat party is confused about this...they're about to get straightened out.

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(51 replies, posted in Politics)

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.powerlineblog.com/admin/ed-assets/2012/06/800x558xRAM1stclr-062212-nixonian-I.jpg.cms_.jpeg.pagespeed.ic.EXeOLukHim.jpg

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(11 replies, posted in Politics)

if you allege human rights violations you can sue them in Spain

This is one reason the oldsters called the welfare state "unAmerican"

the Constitution guarantees "Free Exercise" not "free worship".  Worship is something limited to 1 day a week, exercise is 24/7/365

The Church is guaranteed the freedom to operate charitable instutitions.
It's secular welfare organizations that are limited.
To ban religious outfits unless they obey secular requirements is unconstitutional.

3,357

(11 replies, posted in Politics)

dpenguins? bizness calls

3,358

(9 replies, posted in Politics)

"Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?

Let your friends know how important this election is to you

3,359

(4 replies, posted in General)

this seems lost in translation

3,360

(51 replies, posted in Politics)

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/853cf4b0706f012f2fdd00163e41dd5b

http://www.gocomics.com/patoliphant/2012/04/16

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(4 replies, posted in General)

A fun game thread where you offer explanations of slang and ask others to come up with translations or approximations.

I'll start!

"You bet your ass!"  = Total agreement with something so certainly true, you could wager your own butt that it was true, and feel no risk of injury.

How would you translate "you bet your ass!"  ?

"Herr Rugen, it's Rolf"
"Yes Rolf, how is Majorca?"
"I've FALLEN...and I CAN'T GET UP"

then the book deal

So, get pregnant then go on vacation and then get alcohol poisoning...


Endless Summer IV...

If the problem is personal, the Church tries to outlive it.  I think Barack Obama is more extreme than most Democrats when it comes to giving orders to the Church; therefore when he steps down the problem should be resolved; therefore their first inclination was to try to ride it out til Obama left.

So I don't know there will be a lasting trend of resistance once the idiot who demanded immediate compliance goes away.

There IS real improvement in messaging.  The Bishops' opposition to Obamacare was read out the Sunday after the Wednesday it was passed in the House.  Now they're ahead of the legislatures with their reports.

BRUSSELS

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(19 replies, posted in Politics)

Actually that makes sense, if you don't trust the party of Einstein and your hero Obama is being shown up as the stupidest crook since Gotti Jr. said he was arrested wearing somebody else's pants, you're gonna stay home

3,368

(2,141 replies, posted in General)

>.It's probably some BS indie BS or some retarded airy fairy BS a la Bjork.<

yeah he nailed it

though she has good singing voice

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(2,141 replies, posted in General)

ohhhhh--HUH???

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(19 replies, posted in Politics)

yup

Remember, the President didn't know and never approved, the AG didn't know and didn't approve, they don't approve now, they don't know who ordered it be done, they don't know who wrote the Congress on DOJ letterhead to tell them false info about it, and when staff get together behind the boss's back like that, that's so important to govt operations, that it has to be secret.

i like the fake radio ad Phil Hendrie did

"Gateway Care Center...a modern and humane terminal care facility...where your loved one will spend their final hours in one of our expertly landscaped gardens overlooking the Pacific Ocean, as our experienced and caring staff team sneaks up and puts one shot from a .45 right into the base of the skull"

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(19 replies, posted in Politics)

my argument is sealed by executive privilege

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(16 replies, posted in General)

here Einstein, stencil this on yourdoor

http://www.dezignwithaz.com/images/bambi-wall-decals-sm.jpg

apparently with the Liverpool Care Protocol, the Brits are cracking that disgraceful life-expectancy gap from a whole new direction

It