[ought-six]

"This guy is practically sprouting red-flags out his ears. Shame he made it through the recruiting process."

You can thank Political Correctness and its demand for "diversity." That philosophy has sown the seeds for more strife and tragedy than almost anything else in America's history. Cataloguing Americans into specific interest groups, with special favors and preferences (which is what PC and the "diversity" movement are all about), makes a mockey of the American credo "E Pluribus Unum (From Many, One)." Rather, it has tortured that credo to one stating the exact opposite: "E Unum Pluribus (From One, Many)." America's greatness has been its unity as ONE people, made up of many individuals of wide and varied heritage whose common bond was their desire to BE an American. Political Correctness and its "diversity" abomination insists on just the opposite.

[HIDEK6]

Actually, "E Unum Pluribus," means the same thing as "E Pluribus Unum."

Latin uses the case of the noun to indicate its relationship to the preposition.

Pluribus is the ablative case of the adjective that means "many". "E" is a preposition that takes the ablative case. "Unum" is the accusative (objective)case of the noun that means "one". A transitive verb (in this case the understood verb meaning "comes") takes the accusative case.

Therefore, you can say, "Pluribus Unum E," and it will mean "Out of many comes one." This might not be pretty Latin, but I think you get my point.

All you Latin scholars out there, please don't nitpick this. It has been 35 years since I have tried to translate Latin. That's why I can't remember the root of "pluribus."

[gridlock]

Abdul Karim Hasan, the imam at the Bilal Islamic Center in Los Angeles that Akbar and his family used to attend, described Akbar as a ''quiet, mild-type person."

So, what lesson is your average Joe to take from this incident? That even you most mild-mannered Muslim is a ticking time bomb who may at any moment lob grenades at his sleeping comrades and open up on them with an M-16? Is that really the lesson that Abdul Karim Hasan wants us to learn here?

RE: "E Unum Pluribus (From One, Many)."

During the 2000 Campaign, Algore used the national motto E Pluribus Unum, and went on at great length about how it meant, "From One, Many", and how it was actually a statment of the value of diversity. He completely stood the motto on it's head. And (a tiny bit over) half the US voted for this guy. Thank the Founders for the Electoral College!

[aristeides]

Rather, it has tortured that credo to one stating the exact opposite: "E Unum Pluribus (From One, Many)."

Allow me to correct your Latin: "Ex Uno Plura (From One, Many)."