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By Antigone on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:35 pm:

    check it

    This is more important than anything else in the current political news.

    Read it.

    Seriously.


By Spider on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:47 pm:

    "In other words, the law would forbid any court to review cases involving the invocation of God in the courtroom, or the placement therein of the Ten Commandments."

    Isn't that kind of like a sign reading, "It is forbidden to read this sign"?


By kazu on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:50 pm:

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By Antigone on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 01:36 pm:

    I think this amendment could be interpreted to prevent courts from reviewing any law that used God as a justification.

    Isn't that a touch alarming?


By dave. on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 01:57 pm:

    is it wrong for me to thirst for their blood?

    christian blood is still lo-carb, right?


By TBone on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 02:19 pm:

    Actually, Sweet Jesus is pretty high is sugar.


By TBone on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 02:30 pm:

    Holy crap, that's scary.


By J on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 02:32 pm:

    So this must mean Hal's Christ on a cracker would be high-carb?


By semillama on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 03:08 pm:

    Another reason why my friend's family philosophy that all republicans should be shot on sight keeps sounding more and more attractive...

    Welcome to Tehran, USA!


By Spider on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 03:23 pm:

    Wait, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of a law forbidding the courts to review another law.

    They couldn't really do that, could they?


By Paul Reubens on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 07:12 pm:

    todays secret words are

    "theocratic fascism"



    if you hear anyone say "theocratic fascism", scream real loud!


By Spider on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 10:45 am:

    Say...I had originally closed my post with a reference to 1930s Germany but thought that was too over the top. But no, it wasn't. Theocratic fascism, right on.


By dave. on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 12:26 pm:

    i need to qualify my above remark about christian blood. i should distinguish between all christians and spider-like christians.

    sorry, spider. i forget.


By Spider on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 12:54 pm:

    It's okay, I'm as angry at them as you are.


By kazu on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 02:03 pm:

    "spider-like christians"


    that looks funny out of context.


By The Watcher on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:01 pm:

    To long.

    My mind's still to fuzzy to comment.

    Other than to say I don't like either the religious right or the marxes left.


By TBone on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:32 pm:

    Did you know that Marx hated Socialism? Not a lot of serious Marxists around.


By dave. on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:34 pm:

    damn, watcher. i know you're a "product of public education" and all, but so am i. given that my high school gpa was a solid "d" and my complete lack of "higher education", i freely equate my current pathetic situation with my own lack of achievement in public school.

    but i think you have to place the blame for your horrible spelling on something other than public education.

    marxes? i have to think that if you knew at all what the word meant, you'd know how to spell it.

    whatever. i get this all the time from colleagues, most of whom are college graduates. it's jaw-droppingly unbelievable to me how some of these people earned a degree in anything.

    i need a midol.


By Spider on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:35 pm:

    BTW, I wouldn't consider myself a shining example of Christianity. I'm pretty damned lazy and selfish.


By Spider on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:41 pm:

    I periodically lurk on the messageboard for the Song of Ice and Fire series, and it never ceases to amaze me how people consistently spell the characters' names wrong. If you've read the books, you've seen these names printed 198,287 times...how can you not know how to spell them?


By Dougie on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 03:43 pm:

    No, you know he meant the Marxes -- Harpo, Chico and Gummo.


By semillama on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 04:10 pm:

    Spider I finished the third book! I'll go find that thread to talk about what I thought though. Don't need to hijack this one.


By kazu on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 04:13 pm:

    "Did you know that Marx hated Socialism? Not a lot of serious Marxists around."


    I knew that. I had a serious Marxist professor in college. Way too serious.


By TBone on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 04:40 pm:

    I had a professor who many took to be a serious Marxist at first, but people who thought that would then be confused as he went on to be a serious Socialist, a serious Capitalist, a serious Imperialist, a serious Anarchist, etc.
    .
    He was just a serious historian. He was an amazing speaker, and his powerful lecture style caused a lot of people to think he was expressing views that he strongly agreed with.
    I don't have a clue what his true leanings were.


By The Watcher on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 02:00 pm:

    You forgot Groucho and Zeppo!


By The Watcher on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 02:05 pm:

    Dave,

    Don't you believe in capitalization?

    I had to look that spelling up. I didn't want to confuse you.;-)


By semillama on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 12:30 pm:

    Hey, did someone say theocratic fascism?
    not that this is surprising, but it still is really really troubling.


By dave. on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 12:35 pm:

    i just read that earlier.

    i don't wanna live in fairy-tale land!


By Gee on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 01:06 pm:

    you guys are really getting carried away with the wild and wolly font types. It's not so special if someone's doing it in every other post.


By dave. on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 01:11 pm:

    bite me.


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By The Watcher on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 03:36 pm:

    The only really good part of that law is that the courts could not invoke decisions of other nations courts in basing their own legal opinions.

    This is supposed to be a sovern nation. In other words the laws of Grease, Gremany, Antigua, etc. do not applie to US law. Only the Constitution and case law based upon it do. After all the Supreme Court is supposed to rule that way. They should not look for support to foriegn governments to intrept (spelling I know) US law. That in itself would be unconstitutional.


By dave. on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 04:24 pm:

    mmmmmf! mm fmmm fmmmm mmffmmmfmmf!!

    fmmm!


By patrick on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 04:27 pm:

    ahhh

    the sound of freedom.











    i have no idea what the watcher is talking about


By Antigone on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 05:16 pm:

    He's talking about the subject of this thread, d00d...

    So, Watcher, you think we should never be influenced by foreigners? And that we shouldn't be able to question laws based on god's law?


By The Watcher on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 05:26 pm:

    I'm sorry, there was a recent Supreme Court decision in which one (emphasize the word one) of the reasons stated for the majority opinion was because of what other nations courts had done. I wish I could remember which case it was. But, the logic still was such that it stuck.

    However, any decision by the Supreme Court should be based only on the US Constitution and precedent case law. Not what another countries courts decide. That is irrelevant to the question of wether the laws they are deciding on are valid under the US Constitution. And, that is their only function.

    U.S. Constitution Article III Section 2:

    "The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority"


By Anitgone on Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 12:48 pm:

    In similar news, a Unitarian church near me was denied tax exempt status because it "does not have one system of belief."

    So apparently in Texas now a church that has tolerance of all beliefs is not really a church. How refreshing.

    The Unitarian church I go to most frequently has been in Dallas for over 100 years. I wonder if the state is going to fuck with them next...


By TBone on Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 02:12 pm:

    Criminy.


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