Nicely put....

No thanks, All Americans already have an ID, it is a soc... I can't keep that one straight, now they want us to have two!? So thats another 10$/month for ID theft prevention I'd have to shell out, and for my wife and kids.... Where does it end?!

A login/password worthy of the emperor would be: biggus dickus

The real reason they are underfire:

http://www.xkcd.com/829/

Laugh,
Love,
Peaceful day.

how about none of your business?? I pay for it, so nobody should care. Besides, where is the 1.21 gigawatts option? It's almost Christmas time, I've got to keep the lights going to annoy the neighbors!

Argue as you must... Your Wiki holds no water. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." Everything else is just inference about "what the definition of is, is.", etc...

"PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF..."

So AT MOST you could say that she was practicing a religion. At that point then they should NOT be trying to use her speech at all. But she was NOT practicing a religion. They wanted it removed for FEAR. FEAR OF OFFENDING SOMEONE OF ANOTHER RELIGION! If they like the speech so much, then they should of ASKED her to come IN PERSON AND GIVE THE SPEECH. Then she could of delivered it if she choose, without the God or Jesus. Short of that, it was an abuse of HER SPEECH. IT DESTROYED HER RIGHTS.

THAT is what I'm talking about.... Look, Take the religion out... She spoke, they wanted to play parts of it because they didn't like others. They wanted to "CLEANSE" the speech. JUST like CHINA and other repressive governments do to their citizenry.

WHY? Because we have to assume that they know better and can protect us from ourselves because we are too stupid to decide if we can handle when we hear something? This is a PC Bullshit that STOMPS on our free speech...

I am offended EVERYDAY by when I see people crumble to the PC establishment... YOU offend me. What if I asked for all your comments to be stricken from slashdot because you offended me?!?!? I would hope you would be abhorred at the very thought that it could happen, but at the same time you are suggesting that it should.

Instead, I won't ask for your offending comments to be removed. No, I'd rather buy you a beer and continue to have a civilized argument like we can because we have this free speech! THAT is how it should work.

My whole point was that they used religion to limit the free speech of an individual. The religious issue is an aside. Yes it was emotional, but more because they felt they had the RIGHT to remove the speech of a fellow citizen in the United States. The fact that it was religious or not was secondary.

Insubordinate? Would I be Insubordinate if I was asked to kill someone and refused? My contract was not to EDIT video. My contract was to maintain and control the users on the network. I was a network tech. The fact that I had the video editing software on my computer was from a completely different thing when I was testing the installs over the network. Other than that, I did not do editing, and the only reason they felt they could push the "contract" button was there was a clause that read something to the effect "and other duties as assigned..." Again, would raping someone fall under that? How about editing grades for the boss's kids? Yep, those are crimes... Why is violating someones speech NOT a crime? It is, so I refused. Insubordinate? Don't think so.

Separation of church and state... Nonexistent. It was inferred from letters by TJ and never made law. Trust me, I asked to see the LAW that said there had to be a separation of church and state and that this school sanctioned speech somehow then violated because she mentioned Jesus and GOD. They could not show me, just stammered about how they were "advised..." She did not PREACH that we would die if we didn't believe... or that her religion was better.. No, she THANKED her assumed Deity. How is that in need of removal? It happens on TV award shows and NFL games, etc... But COWARDS and ATHEISTS use the "Separation of church and state" as a test for EVERY REASON why you should not be allowed to express any religious thought in public. COWARDS.

In my previous employment, I was asked to edit the graduation speech of a young women, who in the middle of the speech thanked God and Jesus for her success. Rambled about couldn't have made it through the neighborhood without her faith, etc. Then went on to thank teachers, parents, etc... I was asked to remove ALL the religious comments because it was "FEARED" that it would offend someone of another faith. A specific faith was mentioned, but I'll let you jump to your own conclusions so people don't call ME the hatemonger.

I asked to refuse based on MY faith and my disbelief in the "separation of church and state" crap. My argument was that if the speech was that inspiring that the school wanted to play it in front of incoming class, that it should be played in the entirety and we had no right to edit the speech without her permission. It was my first REAL exposure to a "progressive" agenda. Usually I gave the benefit of the doubt, when I heard about stuff like this happening. But here I was, being told to remove these comments from her speech. I was abhorred to the idea of doing such an edit. I was practically in tears while I explained WHY I could not do this.

I told the boss he can use my computer because that is where the editing software was, but I refused to do it myself. He told me to leave and complete other work while he did it. I left to putz around, but couldn't keep a clear head after all of this. The rest of the day was shot.

Later I was told in an "unofficial" meeting of just me and the boss (no witnesses, He just came in to the office the next morning and sat down) that I was being insubordinate. That it was in my contract I had to do the job appointed to me and if I had problems to bring up a complaint about it later. I was then told that would be the expected results if it ever happened again that I had no other choice. I then told my boss that I DID have another choice, that was to NOT do it, and QUIT my job. He said that wasn't a choice and besides; was I ready, with two toddlers at home, to take that action based on the current economic conditions that I might not find a replacement job.

What he didn't know was that since my kid had started Kindergarten in our school district that I lived in (not the the one I worked for) and we were already contemplating one of the parents quitting a job to deal with the school issues and the two kids. I was drawing the short end of the straw because of my pay being less than the wife's.

So I quit my job later that week because of "the kids" but for me it was the this last straw that lead me to do it. Do I regret it... Nope. The only thing I regret is that I should of raised more of a ruckus about it. I should of brought it up in public and made them contact the girl who made the speech. But I was just happy to leave and not have anything added to my "file". Oh, He quit a few months after I did because I was carrying his butt and without me around to run stuff, he was slowly being exposed... But that is little consolation to the fact that they still have the video that was edited to take out Jesus. Yep, for some reason GOD was "ok" as it was a general acknowledgment to a supreme deity that is common in most faiths, but the JESUS part had to go. I'm actually glad I'm not in that boat anymore.

So, Yes, it is out there... There are people who are in a minority that have majority power to effect the rights of others. Simply because they are in a position of power and they abuse it.