Shadowstrider

A lot. Probably as many as know "In God We Trust" is on the dollar. Does that make the complaint any less valid? Nope.

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It was locked once, purged once. Like a good troll, it'll only go down in a raging inferno.

For many people using Firefox isn't doable. My company, for example ONLY works with IE. My sister for example cannot login to her school's webserver with Firefox, or anything besides IE, for that matter. If she tries she is kicked from the server and sent to a page telling her to log in using Internet Explorer. Using Firefox isn't an option for some people.

Crap! Totally forgot about your problematic post. I'll look into it tomorrow or something. As for this week's episode, I loved it. Furthered the story magnificently while building the intrigue of every plot. I was disappointed that they didn't focus more on Titus and the female he rescued. However this was made up for by the other scenes, completely.

I read Beowulf quite often as well. Thats the primary reason England in Literature (Macbeth Edition) is in my bookshelf. Beowulf is one of the first pieces.

once a month? ... post-war french absurdists give us gas... but we agree that "the stranger" is worth reading at least once. HA! Good Fun! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can usually read it in about 2 hours, if that.

I read it once a month, so interpret how I like it as you will. In my opinion the book is short enough that everyone should read it at least once and see for themselves what they get from it.

The Mayor of Casterbridge The Stranger England in Literature (Macbeth Edition) Grammar and Composition The Elements of Style (3rd Edition) 3 text books. 2 fiction.

The show is a success, no doubt. The problem was the season that was being worked on was not up to par with the previous season, and he basically refused to work on it unless comedy central agreed to fine tune it, or some such. I don't recall the specifics, there was an article about it somewhere.

The entire IWD/HoW soundtrack rocks mah socks. If I had to pick one song from it, it'd be a toss up between the theme for the final visit to Easthaven ( ) or the svirfneblin village's theme (hell the entire Dorn's Deep musical score, even). Those two really resonate with me. I also really loved the Candlekeep theme from Baldur's Gate.

That turned out to be false, Alanschu, he was refusing to work on the series because the product wasn't turning out as well as he'd hope, or something.

Thats entirely possible, that doesn't mean I agree with it. I have no problem debating letter of the law rather than interpretation of intent. Eh? You've lost me here. How am I on the fence? I didn't say that the court should be swayed by public opinion. What I said was that most people tend to accept "seperation of church and state." That doesn't mean "the court should do what the people think." That'd be an instance of you misinterpreting my intent. The intent of my message was that since most people accept "seperation of church and state" that they shouldn't lobby congress for a law change, or even better that they should lobby and make it official. How does this make me wrong? I said Congress has the power to overturn a court's decision, albeit in vague language. Or do you mean I was wrong in that it never happened? Well sure. I thought I said I didn't know whether it'd happened before, not "its never happened, period."

Its not banned from schools, either. Its only banned from the morning announcement type situations. You can walk the halls saying the pledge all you like.

Uhm... what are you talking about? They're not forbidding anyone from saying "under God" by doing this. All they're saying is that having "under God" in an official, national pledge of allegiance violates the "seperation of church and state." No one is stopping you from saying "under God."

I've probably read the Qur'an more times than you've read the bible.

Uhm... wrong. If you had actually read the Qur'an, as you claim, and studied Islam you would know that Islam's Allah is the same god as Judaism and Christianity. It even acknowledges the prophets and important figures from Judaism and Christianity. Only halfway correct. I recommend you resume and/or continue your studies.

They may have spoken on an issue, that doesn't mean they covered it completely. Politicians have also been known to do strange things, like vote for something they thought was wrong and defend their decision. Thats not to say I believe the framers or founding fathers did this. Simply that people do crazy things, as you yourself said, thusly I don't really intend to debate intent. As the romans used to say, the public is a fickle mob. Generally speaking what I said was true, which was my point. Public opinion thankfully doesn't control law, either. I don't see how my notions are wrong, either.

This ain't a thread about President Bush, y'all.

They aren't here now to explain their reasoning, or what factors played in their mind. Its one thing to analyze the factors leading up to a decision and the decision itself, but the fact is we don't know ALL the things which played in their mind. Thus I'm not going to debate what someone's intent was. I never met George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, et al. so I'll restrain myself from saying "I think they thought." Polls support that most people accept the seperation of church and state arguement. It might not be an overwhelming majority, but neither was Bush's election. In all likelihood if you went to a breadbasket state to poll, most might not accept it. *Shrugs* I go by what the polls show.

It has a little in common, like a single block button and some very twitch-reactive playstyle. If the AI in that game wasn't so stupid, it could pass for a very, very bad fighting game.

1 - Gromnir is right about Jefferson in all regards. He was considered on the outer fringes of politicians. 2 - The "Wall" of seperation may not have existed in the original intent (which we really can't debate their intent), or the original wording. However we have come to a point where people believe that is the case, and most accept it. 3 - Socialization of young people is one of the main goals of public school.