Yup, doing what the majority wants is a democracy. It's also not the form of goverment the US has.

Seriously, have you read the Constitution? Avoiding the tyranny of the majority was a big part of why it was written. Jesus, learn some civics.

Well then, it's a good thing we have a Republic that was (at least in theory) specifically fucking designed to avoid the big pitfall of democracy, which is the tyranny of the majority.

Seriously, learn some fucking civics. The US government IS NOT AT ALL supposed to work like you say it does. "Whatever the majority wants, the majority gets" IS NOT how our republic is supposed to work. That's just mob rule, and Plato knew thousands of years ago that it was a bad idea.

In a limited republic like what the US is supposed to be, there are certain rights and privledges that not even the government or "the majority" can ever take away. There are things the government is not allowed to do, no matter how many people think it should be able to do it. One of those things is teach a state religion, which is essentially what teaching "creation science" in the classroom is.

So yes, we DO need to keep religion completely out of education standards. And we DO NOT need to take a vote on this. And even if we did take a vote on this, and even if every single person in the country voted for it, it STILL would be unconstitutional and the government would have no right to implement it.

Here's your problem, bro:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Nice_guy_syndrome

Yahoo had glory years?

What part of "Jim Crow laws required public segregation" makes you think the government wasn't the problem?

I like how your own post admits the real problem is government, and yet you still blame the market in the end. Good job there.

Hey, remember before 9/11, when airport security was the business of the airport and the airlines, not the government? And nobody grabbed your nads or took pictures of you naked or made you endure a pat down to get on a plane? I do. It was way, way better than what we have now.

Then 19 assholes with box cutters fucked it all up, and the government jumped in and decided they needed to "make us safe." Fuck that, I'll go back to the box cutter risk, if it means I get to get on a plane without being molested.

You're just changing the subject to avoid a lie, though, and any person with more than two brain cells to rub together would call you out on that. The direct question was "Does this make my butt look fat." That's a yes or no question. You either lie to avoid conflict, or you tell the truth and suffer the consequences. Changing the subject isn't answering the question.

I was going to moderate this comment as funny, but then I realized, hey, I'm a sys-admin...

As far as a high-jacked airliner you do know that none of them have been shot down

This one was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Actually, there's a semi-good reason for it. The UN Charter expressly forbids war, except in the case of self defense. So we conveniently no longer "declare war" when we go to war, we simply have Congress "authorize the use of force." Semantics, but then again, the government has nullified most of the Constitution that way.

Bah, no way, he should try MINE! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005F7XZ82

It has all those problems, but it also has a bunch of footnotes making fun of it the whole way through!

Nobody voted for Ford for VP either. He was appointed VP by Nixon after Agnew resigned. So yeah, nobody voted for Ford for President.

That was "true" only before E = mc^2

In other words, in a purely Newtonian world, massless particles would travel at "infinite" velocity. In an Einsteinian world, they travel at the maximum possible velocity.

Ah yes, religion! Religion will save us! The same way it's always saved us in the past!