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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:22 PM
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Poll question: Instead of a prayer, what would you rather hear at the inaugural?
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 06:49 PM by ColbertWatcher
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:23 PM
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1. Will the Fed marshals now take Mr's Bush and Cheney into custody....
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:24 PM
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2. You'd rather hear someone read Dumbya and Dick their rights? n/t




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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:24 PM
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3. Not sure how prayer violates the Constitution. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:29 PM
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8. In the U.S., we have a separation of church and state. n/t
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:34 PM
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19. I think you need to understand what Church is, prayer is not the Church. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:47 PM
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35. Thank you for the kick, but the only response you'll get from me is ...
... no prayers at state functions.

Period.
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:55 PM
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40. Thats your opinion but it's not the Constitution. n/t
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 11:55 PM
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80. It most certainly is!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:11 AM
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82. Banning a prayer would be equal to prohibiting the free exercise.
Since it's a voluntary prayer and there is no law requiring it to be part of the ceremony nor requiring attendees to participate in it, it is completely Constitutional.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:24 AM
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84. Since there is no law requiring it
then there is no reason to have one, especially since it is against separation of church and state.
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:36 AM
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86. Sorry it's not against separation of Church and State.
Edited on Tue Dec-23-08 12:38 AM by MiltonF
A prayer is not a religious institution hence it's not the Church. And you are right there is no State reason to have the prayer only an individuals desire to have one which makes it a personal free exercise of the individuals right.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:38 AM
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87. Not at a state function
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:42 AM
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88. Yes at a state function. n/t
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dems_rightnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 05:06 PM
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101. Obama calls the shots.
He evidently wants a prayer. Forbidding him his prayer is unconstitutional. Requiring a prayer is likewise unconstitutional.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:25 PM
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4. The Bad Brains


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQAZDdl4LY
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:36 PM
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21. yeah baby! Loves me some Bad brains! n/t
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:37 PM
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Have you seen the Bad Brains/Obama t-shirt?
I had to do a double take!
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:53 PM
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38. No, I haven't!
Post it! :-)
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:38 PM
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64. Love it!


Found here:

http://10thingszine.blogspot.com/2008/12/bad-brains-barack-obama.html
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 10:37 PM
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79. grazie!
:thumbsup:
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:25 PM
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5. Warren Zevon
Find your own damn Youtube links since any that I posted would be suspected RickRolls.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:26 PM
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6. Hand Farts
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:28 PM
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7. Other: The bill of rights,
Along with an explanation of why the Founding Fathers thought those right essential to a free nation.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:30 PM
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10. Okay, but I think that's kinda like #1. n/t
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:41 PM
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28. Similar but not quite the same... n/t
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:00 AM
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81. OT
I love your sig line!

(Thank you Dave Letterman for teaching me how it is spelled.)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:29 PM
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9. I think the Preamble of the Constitution should be read
Just a reminder to everyone saddling up.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:30 PM
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11. And everyone could sing along! Great idea! n/t
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:32 PM
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15. There's music? Cool. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:38 PM
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23. You haven't heard Schoolhouse Rock's version of the Preamble!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:59 PM
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42. No. Thank you, but I endured too many of those kiddie vids
when I was aiding at the local elementary. They tend to turn into ear worms.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:01 PM
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44. Exactly.
Which is why many people can actually recite the Preamble--they learned to sing it from watching Schoolhouse Rock!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:03 PM
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46. OK. Point taken. It is a good way for the little heathens to learn - by singing n/t
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:31 PM
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12. The University of Chicago Kazoo Band. Seriously.
:hi:
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:31 PM
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13. A loud stage whisper exhorting everyone to "hurry this thing along. . .
"hurry this thing along so we can clear BushCo out of our house and get on with the business of a new government". . .
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:32 PM
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16. Oh, and the Kazoo Band, too (sounds like a lot of fun). . .
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:32 PM
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14. Other: I would like to see Stephen Colbert speak to the country as he spoke to the media
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 06:32 PM by tom_paine
at the White House Toadies Dinner in 2006.

He needs to speak as honestly, in his intimitable style, to the entire nation, as he did to the White House Toadies.

My favorite line, a variant of which desperately needs to be said to the American Subject Populace at large:

"The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration? You know, fiction! "


Yes, Colbert for the Invocation!
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:46 PM
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31. I would love to see Dr. Colbert at the inaugural!


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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:32 PM
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17. the star spangled banner by Jimi Hendrix
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:40 PM
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25. Good one!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:33 PM
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18. "Space... the final frontier..."
:D
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:35 PM
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20. Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedy's rendition of
Too Drunk To Fuck. :evilgrin:
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:38 PM
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24. I love Jello!
I'm sure there's some spoken word recording out there that would fit perfectly! That man is a freaking genius!
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:49 PM
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37. oh yeah -- I'm going to get my kid on that assignment
Jello would be AWESOME and would get huge numbers of people to listen.
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Shiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:37 PM
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22. Tori Amos
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:41 PM
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26. "Pump" by the B-52s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ASUTwbxmoM

:D
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:41 PM
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27. A Rick Roll nt
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:43 PM
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This
http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2008/12/stairway-to-stardom-joey-marlowe.html
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:43 PM
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29. I'd really love to hear . . .
. . . BFEE, we're coming after you!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:46 PM
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30. Bruce Springsteen playing Born to Run
On an *electric* guitar. Not that slowed-down acoustic version.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:46 PM
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32. "What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding..." by Elvis Costello....
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 06:47 PM by cliffordu
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:48 PM
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36. That would be a great one. n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:47 PM
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33. music
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 06:47 PM by leftofthedial
maybe some Steve Earle or some Todd Snider
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:47 PM
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34. RICKROLL! n/t
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:53 PM
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39. "Life during wartime" by the Talking Heads.....
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:05 PM
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47. I Vote For That
I sang that song in my band for nearly 15 years! I'd love to hear that.
GAC
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:59 PM
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41. "Beautiful World" by Devo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65HuARUZzY
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:00 PM
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43. Prayer is not a "tradition of violating the Constitution"
Prayers have been part of the opening ceremonies of American governmental ceremonies since the time of the Founders. To call an invocational prayer unconstitutional, you'd have to call the authors of the Constitution unconstitutional, too.

In fact they would've had daily prayers at the Constitutional Convention itself if the convention hadn't run out of funds for hiring a preacher.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:02 PM
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45. And then the slaves would have cleaned up after they were done.
The Constitution is a living document, it evolves as we evolve.

Prayers should be banned from state functions because they are unconstitutional.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:23 PM
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54. That's a good argument. Of course the slavery bits of the Constitution have been expunged
The only part of the Constitution dealing with religion (no establishment) has stood side by side with public prayers from 1791 to now without either impinging on the other. By standing tradition, prayers have been nonsectarian and thus not establishmentarian. People can pray in public together without favoring creation of a state church.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:31 PM
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58. "without either impinging on the other" I disagree.
Religion is always impinging on the government.

"By standing tradition"
That's not good enough for me anymore, nor does it seem like it's good enough for people who want to shove their Christianity into American government.

"People can pray in public together without favoring creation of a state church."
People could do that, but people don't.

It's time we end the charade and cut all religious pronouncements from every state function.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:39 PM
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65. Have at it & good luck.
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 07:39 PM by Bucky
I think you'll find support for this concern less than urgent. But then again, all new traditions in a culture begin as fringe concerns. Opposition to child labor once started off as a few Quaker crackpots in the 19th who'd run out of steam after their previous bugbear, slavery, had disappeared as a rallying cry. Today those crackpots are hailed as visionaries.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:09 PM
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71. I've always had a great deal of respect for Quakers and ...
... it always seemed that a Friend was always behind the recognition of rights for more people throughout our history.

I don't know what their stand is on homosexuality, but I would be deeply disappointed if it was anything less than what I have already seen from them.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:16 PM
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52. It's a stupid tradition, exclusionary by its very nature
No disrespect intended to DU's many theists, but any prayer at all is unacceptable, and I don't care which of the Founding Fathers liked it or not.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:32 PM
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60. Exactly, especially when it's lead by a Dominionist like Warren. n/t
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:06 PM
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48. a limerick? n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:12 PM
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49. LOL! I think we need to start a new thread! limericks about Rick, the Hater! n/t
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:26 PM
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55. A lame first attempt
Regardless of how you might spell it,
Obama's got no way to sell it
Now, with egg on his face,
He's offended his base
By picking a bigoted zealot.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:34 PM
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62. Well done! n/t
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:14 PM
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50. A sentencing hearing for his predecessors. n/t
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:14 PM
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51. No one else voted for SILENCE - but wouldn't that be a decent choice?
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 07:14 PM by truedelphi
The time could be spent thinking about the bad that went down for eight years, and the hope we should all participate in so we can get the most out of the next eight years. Then maybe we could release a bunch of colored bubbles into the air.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:16 PM
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53. I'm fine with a prayer even though I don't pray.
I'm not fine with this huckster when there are so many other people who are more genuine in their practice of their faith.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:27 PM
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56. I figure the easiest way to get rid of him is get rid of the reason why he'd be there: the prayer.
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 07:27 PM by ColbertWatcher
Prayers (and all recognition of religion) during a state-sponsored event is unconstitutional as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe after dumping the prayer this time, Obama can reinstate in in 2012 with someone who isn't so disrespectful.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:29 PM
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57. I'm OK with prayer.
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antipode Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:32 PM
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59. I'd be okay with a rousing rendition of "Plastic Jesus"
:D
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:56 PM
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68. ...






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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:33 PM
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61. our long national nightmare is over, the fbi has just taken mr. bush and mr. cheney into custody
Edited on Mon Dec-22-08 07:35 PM by pitohui
they will stand public trial for the following charges...<very long list>

you did ask what i would RATHER hear

many of the musical selections are also cool (esp. "plastic jesus" just one up from me) BUT my first pick would be "our long national nightmare has come to a close, the fbi has just taken mr. bush and mr. cheney into custody on the following charges<listed> and you will be getting the answers and the closure you seek at the upcoming public trial."
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:16 PM
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72. That would be wonderful. n/t
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:34 PM
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63. Bagpipes and zydeco n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:58 PM
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70. That would be fun. n/t
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:24 PM
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77. there once was a scottish zydeco band
that got airplay on NPR. I commented online in a forum about it, and ended up talking to one of the members, in Scotland. Early 1990s. Pure coincidence.
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:44 PM
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66. A multi-million voice chanting of "YES WE CAN!" n/t
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:43 PM
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78. I like that! Drown out any BS with that chant.
Maybe - just possibly maybe - give Rick Warren a chance to rise above the level of crap he is used to dishing out to his sheep. But if he tries to shovel any bull shit to the country and world at large while being given a world wide audience, drown him out.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:49 PM
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67. A confession from the outgoing President for stealing elections, lying
and committing war crimes.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:57 PM
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69. That would be nice to hear, but sadly, not likely. n/t
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 02:48 AM
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89. Really not likely, actually impossible, but you did ask what we would like.
:-)
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 06:28 AM
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91. True! n/t
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:57 PM
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73. This poem
Democracy

Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.

I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

Langston Hughes
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:16 PM
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75. Nice pick. Thank you for posting. n/t
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:04 PM
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74. An announcement that Warren came down with severe laryngitis,
followed 30 seconds later by the sound of Darth Cheney's pacemaker shorting out.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 09:17 PM
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76. LOL! Good one! n/t
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:11 AM
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83. A medley of songs by The Byrds
Maybe some Carlos Santana.

Half an hour of Tito Puente.

Show tunes would be okay.

How about some Cab Calloway?

I know :snap: ...... The entire Janis Joplin songbook.

Tommy Tunes sings Liza.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 12:30 AM
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85. the sound of the gallows opening up for cheney and piss-pants.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 03:18 AM
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90. A fart
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Unrepentant Fenian Donating Member (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 08:20 AM
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92. Sen. Al Franken doing stand up comedy.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:57 AM
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93. Norm Coleman doing stand up comedy.
:yoiks:
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 09:59 AM
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94. I like your first option
Every four years, the nation could make a symbolic affirmation of our continued commitment to the Constitution. The inauguration would be an ideal time to affirm that no leader is above the law.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 04:43 PM
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98. "an ideal time to affirm that no leader is above the law" That would be nice. n/t
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:03 AM
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95. Maya Angelou repeating Clinton's inaugural poem
A Rock, A River, A Tree
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:03 AM
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96. Obama with a jet pack! n/t
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NaturalHigh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 10:22 AM
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97. Actually, I'm happy to hear a prayer.
This country certainly needs one.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 04:46 PM
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99. Jello Biafra and The Melvins covering "The Stars and Stripes of Corruption"
... but I'd settle for Springsteen singing "This Land Is Your Land"
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 05:02 PM
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100. "Springsteen singing 'This Land Is Your Land' " That would be awesome. n/t
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varelse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 05:07 PM
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102. A pledge to abide by the US Constitution
and to restore our rights to privacy, equal protection under the law, and the separation of church and state.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-25-08 05:10 PM
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103. That would be nice. n/t
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