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Post by Undecided on Oct 23, 2011 23:56:43 GMT -5
So I got into an argument with a Christian recently. Basically the Christian brought up the bullshit with the founders intending this to be a Christian nation, and I brought up the fact that no where in the Constitution is the word God mentioned, and that the declaration of Independence is not a law document and only mentions a creator not a specific God. She then went on to state that the state constitutions mention God, so therefore we are a country founded on Christian and Religious principles. The secular attitude of the Framers (and in particular the strong secularism of Madison and Jefferson) was rare for their time and anachronistically farsighted. The majority of their contemporaries saw the United States as a Christian nation and would have had no reservations using federal resources for the furtherance of Christianity in general were it not for religious differences among the populations of the various States. If challenged, those clauses would be struck down. "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." U.S. Const, Art VI. This, pretty much. No state constitution can contradict any article of the US constitution. Most of the time, things like this are left in simply because it is a hassle to change, and are simply left unenforced. This is not true. To be precise, this is not the reason that religious tests are illegal at the state level. For most of Supreme Court history, the U.S. Constitution has been interpreted as restricting the federal government. The First Amendment's religious clauses were not applied to the States until Everson v. Board of Education (1947). Religious tests were not found to be unconstitutional until Torcaso v. Watkins (1961): in this case, the Supreme Court deliberately ignored Article VI and instead based their argument on incorporation of the First Amendment protections as described in Everson.
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Post by Undecided on Oct 18, 2011 1:07:28 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I am actually in favour of this. While I do ideally oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, lethal injection needs to be abolished immediately. Doctors and nurses should never have any role in putting someone to death. Or at very least put their names up on a website somewhere. Killing is addictive. I don't want to go to a doctor who has developed a taste for blood. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp068042It turns out that the truth of the matter is rather tortuous.
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Post by Undecided on Oct 5, 2011 1:24:56 GMT -5
One day Mira ate a Jew then got in a brawl with before dying horribly then a carrot peeled itself while in another world penguins splashed happily. Suddenly menstral blood spewed forth from a seemingly innocuous flower of death shooting flaming dicks that proceeded to cut a mime into 36 pieces. It couldn't help giggling maniacally as nothing interesting happened. Art Vandelay exploded inside your mum and dad's house eating spoiled fruitcakes with a gaping maw that encompased a woolly mammoth made of concrete. Suddenly, porn stars began to gyrate which alarmed Japan and aroused China and titillated Mongolia but not Kazakhstan because everyone there fucks pink sheep because they can access superior potassium. Unfortunately, somebody there burnt down France and framed Hades like a boss. Lithp fucked Harley with a chainsaw then stuck his tongue into a French baguette with AIDS that had been marinated in urine. Meanwhile, in Scotland a highlander's caber thrown into gyeonghwa's vast pornography collection of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip inflation fetish laserdiscs goaded with Ironbite's delicious shrimp scampi burst into flames. Random guy inserted an atomic probe into a fossilized ascot which then became radioactive, killing Mira and Jews stock portfolio's value. Three days later disaster struck when Abraham Lincoln rose while still dead and fucked his chickens until they clucked in pleasure, then kicked lighthorseman in the balls. Purple monkey dishwasher complained about the angry transsexual walrus chewing pizza rolls smelling of farts, while messing up Harvestasha's personality. Ayatane tickled pink dinosaurs, which displeased many Jedi because they didn't find oil under Bono's fingenails. Suddenly, it was Judgement Day, and Ghost Rider was gathering children for his Apocalypse Army. Later that day, Jesus finally returned his library books on Juggalo culture and its ugly, smell and rather socially ambiguous metaphysics. This "juggalo culture" needed to be horny enough to cut the cheese into thin slices using their patented Apple icheese Knife with patented "ElectroStim" magic nipple tassels covered in menstrual blood from lemurs on meth.
Meanwhile, in another paragraph, shit went down.
"Fuck me!" exclaimed the Grand Dragon as he danced 'twixt shore and one-dimensional cubes which rained registry keys, long forgotten artifacts carrying the antimatter. Nam Myôhô Renge Kyo, thought Buddha, reminiscing about when Sleepy danced naked after ingesting meth with cum bubbles and vomited furiously into Heaven for Jesus's cum bubbles, for the protein. Buddha fought dinosaurs with his bellend covered in vomit from Sleepy, but Raptor Jesus attacked with a feather infected with Ebola. Freddie Mercury then a wop dug as ladybugs mimicked objectivists tripping balls on moose guts. Mecha Ayn Rand shat Rearden metal into Dick Cheney's face until Buddha screwed the pooch.
Rhino bucket potato ballsack aluminium syphilis man arrived at
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Post by Undecided on Oct 5, 2011 1:15:05 GMT -5
ROMNEY DEFEATS OBAMA. As an aside, there are actually a lot of useful Truman/Obama comparisons to be made.
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Post by Undecided on Sept 17, 2011 13:55:14 GMT -5
Wait, so the outrage at Marie Antionette was she wanted the poor to have a healthy diet? And what's with the bodonka butt and the bling? How can someone be ghetto AND Aristocratic? Is this one of those ironic cartoons? I think this cartoon completely backfires. It makes Michelle Obama look like some sort of time-traveling badass out to rid the world of unhealthy eating habits, like Captain Planet except more delightfully eccentric and less wimpy. Imagine Samuel L. Jackson stating, "Spinach, motherfucker. Do you EAT it?"
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Post by Undecided on Sept 16, 2011 23:47:39 GMT -5
The comments section disagrees, Undecided. faithinhumanity--
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Post by Undecided on Sept 16, 2011 18:23:14 GMT -5
I honestly find it annoying people focus on the fluorescence as if that was the important part of it. It's a standard molecular biology technique and has been in use for years now. There was even a Nobel prize awarded for it a few years back. This is not a novel thing anymore. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's not awesome, even if it's totally secondary. Besides, cat + other interesting thing = incredibly interesting thing. Public sees glowing animals --> public supports future fundamental research in molecular biology
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Post by Undecided on Aug 14, 2011 17:35:16 GMT -5
Herman Cain quotes Pokemon Donna Summer, the reigning queen of disco
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Post by Undecided on Jul 30, 2011 0:51:09 GMT -5
THOMAS indicates that both the House and Senate versions are still in committee. Still, the measures seem too much for me.
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Post by Undecided on Jul 27, 2011 20:54:28 GMT -5
What is the purpose of an immigration quota? To me, such a construct seems anti-globalization, and it's hard for me to understand how a position other than support of open immigration might be optimal.
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Post by Undecided on Jul 11, 2011 22:59:08 GMT -5
Exactly. And she's really damn good at it. No half-wit could engender quite the acrimonious reaction from liberals the way that she does.
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Post by Undecided on Jul 11, 2011 22:37:48 GMT -5
Ann is the silver-tongued master of her craft. It is safe to say that she is quite a bit sharper than many a liberal.
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Post by Undecided on Jul 6, 2011 23:13:36 GMT -5
The mind is like a tau neutrino. In both cases, when the superposition occurs, the physical reality of the uncountable ordinal becomes apparent. It is only due the quantum excitation that surrounds us all that we can participate in paradigm shifts. From this we know that the singular entity exists. Amasingly, a rare earth metal is the perfect analog to this phenomenon. This deep connection is the result of colloidal silver. It is synchronizing that there is a fundamental link between us and homeopathic resonances and that consciousness is always found in the decoherence!
Solid.
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Post by Undecided on Jul 1, 2011 23:59:13 GMT -5
It'd be nice to know what your opinion on this issue is if you feel it is important enough to be brought to the forum's attention.
Twice pi is a more fundamental mathematical constant than pi because the former represents a full cycle whereas the latter represents a half cycle. It would probably have made teaching trigonometry easier if things were first defined that way. Still, nothing is going to change in the near future. Nobody is going to use tau to represent that number, because it conflicts with too many established uses for tau (as an alternative, I've seen twice pi written by advocates of a change as three vertical strokes and one horizontal stroke in the style of pi). In any case, anybody with enough knowledge to recognize that twice pi is more fundamental likely recognizes that this debate is a complete waste of time.
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Post by Undecided on Jun 30, 2011 1:38:48 GMT -5
We know that children internalize gender inequalities early on from their role models: for example a young girl with a female teacher who acts uncertain when doing math will internalize this lack of confidence.
Given this I think it's important for gender equality to consciously dissociate gender and ability as much as possible, and that is what this preschool is attempting to do. I don't understand how it is "trying too hard" to reinforce the idea that everybody can be good at cooking or building or being a nurturing parent, that doctors and lawyers can have any gender whatsoever, and that it's okay to be part of a nontraditional family. In fact, nothing in that article strikes me as harmful, coercive, or over-the-top.
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