Posted on 08/25/2006 5:15:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Gary Who?
100% incorrect. The prohibition of a national religion was specifically intended to not interfere with the establishment of individual state official religions; it was never intended to prevent religious people from participating in government.
Yeah... imagine that... the Commander in Chief is in charge of the miltary. Boy, I'm worried now!
years we have seen an effort by the current government to control the American judicial system by the appointment of ideologically selected judges
I am shocked, shocked! I tell you, that the President, who has the authority to appoint judges, is appointing judges who share his basic philosophy. This is unprecendented. Well, except for the 42 guys who did it previously.
The unprecedented submission of social policy, and foreign policy in the Middle East, to religious fundamentalists violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
If social and foreign policy were subjected to religious fundamentalists, Mecca would be a sheet of glass and homosexuals would be interred in re-education camps. Oddly enough, neither has happened. In any case, this would not violate the First Amendment -- there is nothing the prevents Presidents from acting on their own beliefs, within the boundaries of the law. Which not even you are dumb enough to imply has been violated... are you?
Oh please. It was a mix of false sympathy and a secret joy as seeing the US as a victim.
I'm surprised nobody has yet caught the bit about the 300 Spartans marching on Rome. I burst out laughing when I read that.
Yeah, just like the 2002 and 2004 elections were cancelled. Oh, wait a minute...
Gary Hart is sadly typical of the Democrat Party: an ignoramus masquerading as an intellectual.
For what it's worth, if a neutral observer were looking for a parallel to the Roman Empire, he might well find it in Hart's famous sex-booze-and-rock-and-roll debauchery aboard the Monkey Business, which led to his salutary retirement from public life.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015103.php
This HUFFing piece of junk could have easily been ghost-written by Pitt -- with all of the strecthed and selective historical (and hysterical) connections -- except that it's nowhere near long and boring enough.
We have a more sinister and cruel alternative - we isolate them into fever swamps called DU & Kos.
Only liberals are stupid enough to be for both revolution and gun control.
...The army, the courts, and religion. The keys to the creation of the Roman Empire.
Un momento Gary, If he controlled these segments which you claim were "The keys to the creation of the Roman Empire", how were they also the keys to ending the "republic"?
When it comes to an analysis of ancient history, I would sooner trust Johnny "B.C." Hart than Gary "B.S." Hart.
Is that Univ. of Florida Tower in that pic?
When someone is talking "BC" and the years are getting smaller in number, you know somewhere along the line there's been "some Revisionist History Going on"...Now, about this "CE" (Common Era) thingy....
By a Twentieth Century Rogue
Nope. MSU campus tower (whose nickname escapes me right now...)
To control the legal system was to control the entire nation...Wait, I thought Control of the army was "control of state power.
Augustus understood that the integration of the state with religion was the key to control of the nation...
WTF? I thought control of the ar...no, control of the legal sys...no control of the army and the legal sys...no, control of the legal system and the ar...Oh, the hell with it.
Gary must know what he's talking about. Looks like he's got Roamin' hands:
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