Nancy Pelosi
Nancy
Pelosi is not the devil.She is a Congresswoman from California, one of the 50 states.
Axis of Evil
There is no "Axis of Evil".
The term "Axis of Evil" is an attempt to conflate the WW II Axis powers with the present day countries of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. The Axis powers of WW II had strong political ties and fought together as military allies. The countries in the Bush proclaimed Axis of Evil have little to do with each other, and could not be considered military allies in any meaningful sense. The phrase "Axis of Evil" is a politically motivated combination of fear mongering and vacuous ranting, fabricated out of whole cloth, its popular credence founded upon nothing more than ignorance and gullibility.
There is no Axis of Evil.
Iraqi Invasion Force
There is not now, nor has there ever been, any Iraqi plan to attack and/or occupy any part of the United States.
Iraq actually has less than a tenth of the US population, and is very far away.
Flag Burning
This
is one of those issues politicians will hit like Wayne Newton doing a crowd
pleaser show tune.A flag, even an American flag, is a piece of cloth. It is not sacred. It's a symbol, and like all symbols it has whatever significance a person attaches to it. If someone is so upset at the burning of a flag that they would actually amend the Constitution to outlaw it, if they think a symbol of freedom is of greater significance than the fact, then they need to either attach less significance to the symbol, or more significance to the thing it symbolizes, or both.
addendum:
OK, I've been outdone on this by a 6th grader-
What the American Flag Stands For
by Charlotte Aldebron
The American flag stands for the fact that cloth can be very important. It is against the law to let the flag touch the ground or to leave the flag flying when the weather is bad. The flag has to be treated with respect. You can tell just how important this cloth is because when you compare it to people, it gets much better treatment. Nobody cares if a homeless person touches the ground. A homeless person can lie all over the ground all night long without anyone picking him up, folding him neatly and sheltering him from the rain.
School children have to pledge loyalty to this piece of cloth every morning. No one has to pledge loyalty to justice and equality and human decency. No one has to promise that people will get a fair wage, or enough food to eat, or affordable medicine, or clean water, or air free of harmful chemicals. But we all have to promise to love a rectangle of red, white, and blue cloth.
Betsy Ross would be quite surprised to see how successful her creation has become. But Thomas Jefferson would be disappointed to see how little of the flag's real meaning remains.
Charlotte Aldebron, 12, wrote this essay for a competition in her 6th grade English class. She attends Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine.
Gay Marriage
I don't know who's more confused on this, the people who think it will destroy civilization or the people who think it's somehow guaranteed by the Constitution, but at the risk of further alienating both groups let me just say that we should be so lucky that this is the big pressing issue.
Evolution
When it comes to what politicians have the least of on this, it's a close race between legitimate authority, genuine expertise, and actual control, but is there any real chance that thousands upon thousands of talented, trained, knowledgeable, dedicated scientists working decade after decade with extraordinarily sophisticated instruments and phenomenally complex analytical techniques are wrong and South Carolina state senator Mike Fair is right?
No, not really.
And I probably shouldn't do this, but just to mud wrestle with Mike (my state senator) a bit here, when you say
"Evolution within a species is observable and is part of a plan. Evolution from one species to another is macro-evolution and is pseudo-science."
..... Mike, how does a species change over time yet remain the same? Does that make sense to you? Did you actually have any science classes in school? Did you get at least average grades in them? Do you deal with evolution a lot in the insurance business? Is there any reason in the world we should even listen to you on this subject, much less have you writing legislation about it?
And just to work this in here, when was the last time a group of scientists flayed the skin off someone for disagreeing with them, or burned somebody at the stake because they thought the speed of light wasn't constant? Have scientists ever once ransacked a religious library? Did they just have a dry spell during the Dark Ages? When you get right down to it, just exactly who ought to be complaining about whom here?
Whew.
OK, sorry. Just got going there.
The Attack on Religion
For
those who believe religion (by which they mean their religion) is under
attack-
CNN (9/17/2005)- "The non-binding resolution
(of the US Senate), approved by unanimous consent, states that the phrase
"one nation under God" in the pledge reflects the religious faith central
to the founding of the nation and that its recitation is "a fully constitutional
expression of patriotism."
....whatever that means exactly, but suffice it to say that if US Christendom
is indeed under attack then at least the attack hasn't penetrated as far
as a single solitary member of the US Senate.
I would also add that anybody who thinks the government needs to get into
the religion business should take a look at the other things the government
has decided to run. And don't imagine they'll know when to quit, because
they won't.
And while I'm on the subject of religion-
Religious myth debunking section:
For everybody who believes the US was founded as a "Christian nation", the
treaty of Tripoli, negotiated by George Washington in 1796, states
"... the Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian Religion". What George Washington knew about the founding
of the US government I leave to the reader to speculate.
"In God We Trust" was only made the national motto and added to US notes
in 1956, in reaction to "godless communism". And anyway, where did we get
the idea that God wants to be on our money, or are we just labeling it for
what it is?
"Under God" was only added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, again at
the height of the anticommunist red scare. The pledge is not actually sacred,
and was in fact written by a socialist. Also, political indoctrination of
children by forced group recitation is wrong.
The President's official oath of office contains no reference to God. Look
it up if you don't believe me.
The Constitution does not mention God. Download a copy
and word search it.
"E pluribus unum" does not mean "in God we trust".
(In fact, it actually means "land of the devil worshippers")
(OK, maybe not)
The god mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is the Deist god of
nature, not the Christian God of the Bible. Jefferson was actually a Deist.
The Attack on Christmas
Christmas
was originally a pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice. Appropriated
by the Catholic church in the fourth century as a celebration of the birth
of Jesus, it has in modern times become an annual orgy of gluttony and materialism.Any questions?
