Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an unidentified object with five aliens
aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and the federal government.
However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, nine months after that historic day, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Hillary Rodham, John F. Kerry, William Jefferson Clinton, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles E. Schumer, and Barbara Boxer were born.
Probably what happens when aliens breed with sheep. This piece of information should clear up a lot of things.
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This is the sole point I'd disagree with....one of the core principles behind Separation was that human society and intelligence had evolved to the point that men could govern their own affairs based upon reason and consideration. Jefferson made this point specifically, referring to atheists and Deists who were unquestionably among the great men of that era:
If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such being exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to-wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
-Eric
But in contrast, look how far our Party has fallen. The 109th Congress, somehow under the spell of its extreme right base, left all of its greatness behind, as it's focus was anything but continuing the greatness of the Party and our Nation.
That focus included Terri Schiavo, pushing amendments to restrict gay marriage decisions by individual states, and restrict the freedom of speech for political dissent, arguing stem cell research, abortion, prayer in school, evolution and a host of other issues of importance to the "social" conservative (RR) segment, but of little interest to the rest of the Nation.
And where was budget control, immigration reform, social security reform, tax reform, energy independence, all issues of importance to the Country, but not to the RR. And with both Congress and the White House under the control of the Republican Party, how many appropriations bills were passed during the fiscal year? And how have they controlled the earmark process? 11,000 in the current budget? But they certainly led in the area of sex and financial scandals.
Hopefully, the Republicans can put their recent pathetic history behind them and reacquire their greatness. But until they realize that the social issues of a relatively small group represent neither the desires nor the interests of the Nation, they may remain a minority for some time to come.
This one, though, doesn't hit the mark:
---That the 55 mile an hour speed limit totally, clearly, and unimpeachably sucked. (With apologies to Liddy Dole who zealously enforced that as Secretary of Transportation. She was clearly not up to speed on that one.)
Saying that this or that policy "sucked" is pretty juvenile. A 55 mph speed limit may have been justified by the circumstances at the time. It might be imposed again, and saying that it "totally, clearly, unimpeachably sucked" isn't a very good argument against it. Legal minimum ages for drinking and smoking "suck" too, if that's what you want to do, but that's not a convincing argument against them either.