Odds & Ends

9 Comments

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   Kamakhya on January 2, 2009 at 5:33 am

   I think the atheists have a point.  It is high time the addition of xtian religious dogma be taken out of public office.  As noted in the article, it was not there to begin with and it should not be there now.  Does the suit have any chance?  Hell no.  But, it is high time people begin questioning the christian doctrine slipping into our government.

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     Omir the Storyteller on January 2, 2009 at 7:46 am

     There’s a list as long as your arm of things people should be doing but they aren’t.

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     ask on January 2, 2009 at 9:10 am

     From the end of the article:

     A quote attributed to the 1st century A.D. philosopher Seneca rings as true today as it likely did 2,000 years ago:

         “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

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       on January 2, 2009 at 11:26 am

       Boy, that is a great quote. Wilhelm Reich said the same thing, but it took four hundred pages of text badly translated from German to English.

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     chocolate ink on January 2, 2009 at 1:33 pm

     Standing up for the constitution is never annoying.

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   MikeInOhio on January 2, 2009 at 8:48 am

   All I can do is just shake my head when I see something like this.

   A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.

   Atif Irfan said federal authorities removed eight members of his extended family and a friend after passengers heard them discussing the safest place to sit and misconstrued the nature of the conversation.

   …

   Family members said FBI agents tried to work it out with the airline, but to no avail.

   “The FBI agents actually cleared our names,” said Inayet Sahin, Irfan’s sister-in-law. “They went on our behalf and spoke to the airlines and said, ‘There is no suspicious activity here. They are clear. Please let them get on a flight so they can go on their vacation,’ and they still refused.”

   “The airline told us that we can’t fly their airline,” Irfan said.

   (…Sighhh….)

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     on January 2, 2009 at 11:27 am

     I smell lawsuit.

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   JoshNelson on January 2, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   I thought the points of Newdow’s challenge were pretty apparent.

   1.  It is unconstitutional for Roberts to arbitrarily add language about God to the oath.
   2.  Religion is dangerous.  Casual references affirming or denying the validity of Christianity shouldn’t be included in Government ceremonies.

   Pretty inclusive inauguration they’ll have, with the gays and atheists out of the way.

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     on January 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm

     Regarding atheists, imagine how the Gaza problem would be revealed if religion were removed from the equation. Oppressors and victims are both blinded by and hiding behind what they imagine is going on in their imagined heavens. People here on earth are dying as a result.