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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish -- where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source -- where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials."
He later collaborated with Madison to write the Religious Freedom act in Virginia, which was explicit about a separation. At the writing of the Bill of Rights almost every colony had a State church. Jefferson himself as President funded Christian missionaries. This type of Federal support for Christian institutions continued until the beginning of the 20th century. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment, or free exercise, of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the US Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." Kennedy uses invokes this decision since Justice Black was radically anti-Catholic and even a former member of the KKK.
JFK's statement is an expression of what America OUGHT to be rather than what it is (or is required to be under the establishment clause). There is nothing wrong with his belief that America should have more religious separation than the constitution requires.
Or at least that a simple way to defeat it is to edit the motd without a lock and background the editor (reloading inside the editor when I want to add a change).
So that each topic is broken into its own colored sections. Also, fonts such as Arial would probably be easier to read. How about move the "clock" to the front in its separate column? Remove the extra line above and below the highlighted section. And if you are really bored, reformat each reply so that it is perfectly indented.
You can break a filibuster with endurance if you're willing to stay up late. And if the other side is willing to stay and fight it, maybe the majority should reconsider. On the other hand, I think the Dems are going nuts blocking judges.
Of course, the Republicans blocked 16 of 51 Clinton second term appellate nominees too. So the Democrats are slighly less accommodating, but both sides play this game.
Considering you have 55 Republican senators, all you need are 50 rubber stamps to pack the courts. Filibustering is rarely used, because who wants to stay up all night when you could compromise? However, you can also get 50 votes to make a rule that says you can't filibuster anymore on judges. In which case, you can then employ 50 rubber stamps on any judge you want.
The use of filibusters to prevent nominations is historically rare, until Bush's 1st and 2nd term. A Senate majority is allowed to change procedural rules, and so they should.
Also, I think there's generally a lot more anger in China and Korea than over just the issue of sex slavery; there were a whole slew of war atrocities commited by imperialist Japan--sex slavery simply appears to be either the only one well vocalized or the only one covered by the media.
I don't really think Japan has to continue to atone for it's past sins, but it shouldn't try to deny them either. However, by allowing it's citizens to riot and damage the Japanese embassy, China was in direct violation of it's signed treaties.
I'm not saying the Chinese approach is anything less than reprehensibly opportunistic, but there's sure a lot of potential for Japan to take the moral high ground.
org/u/btc (sfexainer) A great column exploring the roots of some of the fundamental problems we face in America (expensive housing, traffic congestion, obesity) and what we can do about it.
But the railroads became oppressive monopolies, which along with the oil companies brought Teddy Roosevelt into power as a "trust-buster". Extremely harsh restrictions on rail monopolies, never revisted over time, squeezed the life out of the industry over the next 30 years, and rail in the US has never recovered.
That's what pisses me off when Bush says shit about how Amtrak needs to support itself. Amtrak can't compete against a road network that gets insane amount of tax money for expansion/support.
story_id=3886356 "n IMF study on asset bubbles estimates that 40% of housing booms are followed by housing busts, which last for an average of four years and see an average decline of roughly 30% in home values."
As opposed to maybe prices increasing faster than any realistic notion of valuations? It's as if the problem lies with how poor the people are who are buying the houses rather than how expensive the houses have become relative to people's incomes.
I'm pretty sure if the severed head of the last parasitic fuck who bought land in my neighborhood just for profit were on a spear at the major intersection it would deter further speculation pretty fast.
Neglecting the damping effects of air and any echo effects, moving twice as far away from a point sound source gives 4x less power, or -6dB. If you're moving away from a line sound source, such as a long narrow air vent, then if you're 2x as far away you are also exposed to 2x as much sound producer, so it would be -6dB+3dB=-3dB quieter.
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