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Elections 2012 -- Carrion My Wayward Son!

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joecct said:
Up until 1960 we prayed in public schools. Heck, even Romper Room said a prayer "God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen."

That sure rattled the foundations of the Republic.
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When my dad went to public school they didn't pray (he split time between public and parochial school). Heck, back then, God wasn't even mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance. And that didn't seem to hurt anyone either.

Edit: frankly, geezer is right about this. While I think it was silly to add God into the Pledge, and I would like to see it taken back out, it certainly isn't a big issue.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Guys, it's a bit. I'd bet money that he has another username and posts rationally. He's only trolling.
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You made me realize that TimP in fact sounds just like Rover, but with slightly less rage suppression. Interesting.
 
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duper said:
When my dad went to public school they didn't pray (he split time between public and parochial school). Heck, back then, God wasn't even mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance. And that didn't seem to hurt anyone either.
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Prior to the SCOTUS ruling forbidding it, I wonder what percentage of schools actually did pray every morning. We certainly didn't in suburban Chicago. I would guess the practice was popular in the South and maybe Southwest. But I'd imagine kids in, say, Boston weren't exposed to Gawd in class. It's moot now, of course.

Remember a few years ago some high school in Texas (where else?) devised a plan to have prayers before football games (is there a more secular activity in a small Texas town than football?). The students would have "elections" every week to determine which student was going to deliver the prayer before each game. No input from adults. This was an entirely student led enterprise. What do you suppose the odds were that the kids would select a Jew to deliver the prayer? Or even a Catholic?
 
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joecct said:
Up until 1960 we prayed in public schools. Heck, even Romper Room said a prayer "God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen."

That sure rattled the foundations of the Republic.
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And on Fridays, Buffalo Bob Smith used to remind the kids to "be sure to worship in the church or synagogue of your choice" before signing off. How did we ever survive THAT?
 
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Old Pio said:
Prior to the SCOTUS ruling forbidding it, I wonder what percentage of schools actually did pray every morning. We certainly didn't in suburban Chicago. I would guess the practice was popular in the South and maybe Southwest. But I'd imagine kids in, say, Boston weren't exposed to Gawd in class. It's moot now, of course.

Remember a few years ago some high school in Texas (where else?) devised a plan to have prayers before football games (is there a more secular activity in a small Texas town than football?). The students would have "elections" every week to determine which student was going to deliver the prayer before each game. No input from adults. This was an entirely student led enterprise. What do you suppose the odds were that the kids would select a Jew to deliver the prayer? Or even a Catholic?
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Since the Southwest is where the Catholic Church is expanding in the USA, good odds for one of us Papists. Not sure about our founders since the games are happening during the Sabbath.

And I would not call Texas HS football a secular activity.
 
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joecct said:
Since the Southwest is where the Catholic Church is expanding in the USA, good odds for one of us Papists. Not sure about our founders since the games are happening during the Sabbath.

And I would not call Texas HS football a secular activity.
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Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. And so is the wishbone offense.
 
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Wasn't there a couple more expensive HS stadiums built in Texas in the last few years?
 
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I thank the aqua buddha every day I didn't grow up in some hick town where high school football is the only thing to do.
 
geezer said:
The one good reason to vote Romney is to **** off the true believers like TimP and Rover who add so much hate to our politics. Otherwise be sensible and vote Obama in spite of his more liberal supporters, or stay home.
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I think you have me figured wrong. I just like to **** knuckledraggers off for my own amusement, sorta like the guys in Delta House didn't hate the other dorky frats but liked to have fun at their expense!
 
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Unfortunately for those sittin in the stands, TX education didn't get a ticket to the game.
 
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geezer said:
You made me realize that TimP in fact sounds just like Rover, but with slightly less rage suppression. Interesting.
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To add to the conspiracy, TimP is a "BC fan" and Rover is a BU fan. Could it be that TimP is just Rover's trolling alter ego? :D
 
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TimP said:
I thank the aqua buddha every day I didn't grow up in some hick town where high school football is the only thing to do.
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And we thank the aqua buddha that hardcore Bostonians are rarely found west of New York. Your ilk are often worse than the hated "New Yawkers". :D

bronconick said:
That's genius!

So, which Badger or Sioux fan is actually Jdubbs?
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No self-respecting Whioux fan would impersonate a Goofer fan. Unfortunately, I think JDubbs really is the ultimate extremist Goofer/Minnesotan.
 
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Almost hard to believe that Mitt Romney fell into the trap of making this a choice election. He had it sewn up as a referendum election.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Almost hard to believe that Mitt Romney fell into the trap of making this a choice election. He had it sewn up as a referendum election.
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Now it becomes a philosophy election -- with something like 50% of the population (but not the voting population) sucking on the government teet.

Still going to be interesting - does the American public want the government to do it all for them, or do they want to build it themselves?

Food for thought...
 
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Are you guys really buying the line that this is now going to turn into an election about "issues"?

In the incredibly unlikely event that the campaigns actually did this instead of continuing WWI style trench warfare complete with gas shells, the media wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to cover such a thing and it would get lost in translation to 95% of the country who still needs to be spoon fed.
 
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bronconick said:
Are you guys really buying the line that this is now going to turn into an election about "issues"?

In the incredibly unlikely event that the campaigns actually did this instead of continuing WWI style trench warfare complete with gas shells, the media wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to cover such a thing and it would get lost in translation to 95% of the country who still needs to be spoon fed.
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No truth to the rumor that R&R have hired Heinz Guderian as a strategist.
 
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bronconick said:
Are you guys really buying the line that this is now going to turn into an election about "issues"?

In the incredibly unlikely event that the campaigns actually did this instead of continuing WWI style trench warfare complete with gas shells, the media wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to cover such a thing and it would get lost in translation to 95% of the country who still needs to be spoon fed.
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We're saying that in addition to the Horserace idiocy on the networks, and the derp fed to the masses, there is now at least an opportunity to compare economic philosophies. Before it was just a referendum on Obama's Kenyan blackness and Romney's Upper Class Twit of the Year candidacy.
 
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