Now This is a President!!

[charlie_the_tuna]

sorry pal, you lost my vote. since i'm a j e w and an agnostic one at that i believe the bible belongs in the fiction section. i'm also pro-choice. i'll not tell you what to do with your body, dont tell me what to do with mine.
that being said i'm with you and i'm with prime minister kevin rudd.

GO RUDD!!!

[spareparts]

didn't austrailia jsut recently outlaw the private ownership of guns?

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by spareparts

didn't austrailia jsut recently outlaw the private ownership of guns?

Handguns except under certain circumstances. People can still own shotguns and rifles. I have two friends that live in Aus and they explained it to me a while back.

CTT... (and others)... let me remind you all that when I was growing up in public school we did exactly that. We saluted the flag and a student read a passage from the bible.. usually "though I walk throught he valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil"..etc. It wasn't Catholic, Protestant, ***ish, Hindu or anything else.. it was inspirational words...Don't you guys see that? Take the labels off of things and they work for every religion. (WHY does the server filter out J ew, but not Catholic or Protestant or any other religion? Isn't that reverse discrimination?) :p

I'm also pro-choice.. I believe that everyone has the choice to say yes or no to having sex.. but once that sex makes a baby, and you kill that defenseless baby, it's murder. I know others have different views, and they are entitled to them... This is just my view. (I'll bet that if you let that child be born, and allowed it to grow old enough to make an intelligent decision.. (a choice).. it would tell you that it wanted to continue living. It didn't want to be killed because someone else didn't want to be inconvenienced)

And don't get me started on Saluting the flag... Too many people in our history have died defending that piece of cloth... it represents our nation, and the people that sacrificed everything so that others might live in freedom. Saluting the flag is nothing more than an affirmation, honoring them and pledging oneself to do the same, if need be, so that others may live freely. I would lay down my life for anyone in my family.. Mother, brother, sister, wife, kids, etc. What's wrong with extending that family out to include all peoples in our nation? Other people have died for me.. for everyone reading this.. can I, as a citizen of this nation, do less?

Willy, I wasn't advocating governemnt establishing a religion. Far from it. It would be the last thing I wanted.. But understand the mindset of the framers of our constitution.. They had left England to be free from state established religion. But all of them believed in God. They just wanted to be free to practice that belief as they saw fit.

I did notice that no one objected to the 2 martini lunch or the mandatory 3:30pm happy hour or the 4 day work week...

[macojoe]

I have no idea why it edits ***?? I have set all the words and they are very few, I will look into it, Don't want CTT to feel left out!

[parishht]

I was watching a show this morning on the History channel.
It was some gibberish about Hitler being prophecized in the bible.
It struck me that we are living in a time when a lot of parallels are happening.
Good people out of work, poor people struggling, economy, etc.
All it would take is some articulate person with a hidden agenda to start joining together all the downtrodden groups and BAM...

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by parishht

I was watching a show this morning on the History channel.
It was some gibberish about Hitler being prophecized in the bible.
It struck me that we are living in a time when a lot of parallels are happening.
Good people out of work, poor people struggling, economy, etc.
All it would take is some articulate person with a hidden agenda to start joining together all the downtrodden groups and BAM...

A lot of people think we are living in the end times... I don't know, and nothing I can do about it anyways... If God has decided that it's time to take his football and go home... well.. then I guess that's what he's gonna do. Game called on account of God. Keep yourself honorable and honest and you won't have anything to worry about.

[valiant_200]

The quote that sparked this interesting thread is actually a mix of quotes from several sources. The bit about "We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian," etc., was cribbed straight from a 2001 essay by Barry Loudermilk, who wrote those words for an essay in a local Georgia newspaper.

You can learn more about this 9 year old internet meme here. The piece posted at the head of this thread appears about half way down the page.