He's DESTROYING a proto STAR SYSTEM!

I'm not sure if COBOL is the best example there.

My kingdom for just one trackball with scroll wheel and a finer tracking resolution than those I had in the 80's. Please just one?! Hasn't it been long enough?

Erroneous bill is in error.

Seems like the best way to me...

So we're in agreement here? This is yet moar evidence of the elite liberal media slant!

.... and I can't stress this enough.

Fuck Farmville users in their stupid ears.

You're missing the point that's right under your nose. The Declaration doesn't say anything about the nature of this creator, only that whatever created people also gave them free will and the right to use it.

You're missing the point, which is right under your nose. The Declaration didn't say. It makes no claims as to the nature of the creator that endows such rights, only that whatever created people also created free will and the right to use it.

Very good points.

I'm often irritated by people who like to say "the founders were Christians so the USA must be a Christian nation". The founders did not have a completely homogeneous notion about the role religion in government in the first place, but I find it particularly errant when people talk about Thomas Jefferson's ideas about the USA being a Christian nation. Jefferson was a Christian and he was deeply absorbed in matters of faith--yes, he did publish his own edition of the Bible that was focused on the works and wisdom of Jesus Christ. These facts are evidenced by a large volume of his own writings.

The fact that he Thomas Jefferson was a Christian doesn't say ANYTHING about how he thought a government should work.

Jefferson's position on the role of any religion (Christian or otherwise) in government has been explicitly defined in his published writings. He knew that any institution of man is vulnerable to corruption and his objectivity allowed him to see that both governments and religions are institutions of man. He saw the influence of religion on government as a cancer to any free society. You can see this fact very clearly in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which was authored by Thomas Jefferson, that says it is not the right of the government to leverage religion and vice-versa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_of_Religious_Freedom

Jefferson, in particular, was a Christian and a founder who knew that intermingling of governments and religion was an abomination against both and he said so. To deny this and argue that the USA was founded as a Christian nation is to betray Jefferson's stated ideals and those of many other founders.

I believe I'm going to have to throw a giggity on that one--or at least a "that's what she said".

Now Obama wants to take all of your registered trademarks and redistribute them to Mattel!

Sick burn.

Religion is relevant to history and is any version of it that totally excludes religion is false. These Texans seem to like using God like a bludgeon, however. This always turned me off because it betrays the ideals it would otherwise seem to uphold--not to mention the commandment about not taking the Lord's name in vain.

Also, I think the word you're looking for is "drivel". Dribble is something done in basketball or while you eat (if you're a sloppy eater).