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Loved that Bible you wrote, too.
The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
...Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. In compiling what has come to be called "The Jefferson Bible," he sought to separate those ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels. He presented these teachings, along with the essential events of the life of Jesus, in one continuous narrative.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
...In 1895, the National Museum published Thomas Jefferson's Bible based on an edition provided by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Beginning in 1904 and lasting through the 1950's, every new member of Congress received a personal copy of the Jefferson Bible. The influence of Thomas Jefferson and the Bible version he drafted exists on both sides of the political spectrum today. Libertarians might draw on the independence of Jefferson's views from the oppressive theocratic monarchies of the time, while liberals can also observe the secularism apparent in his work...
http://aboutthomasjefferson.com/jefferson-bible/211/
Jefferson said on slavery, and it is reportedly written at the Jefferson Memorial:
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Commerce between master and slave is despotism.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Eye-Opening_Highlights_From_a_Creationist_Science_Textbook
The Idiocracy won't build itself, you know. But with the help of Rand and his ilk writing 'scientific papers' for the youth of America, we're galloping on the road to it now.
Carl Sagan wrote The Demon Haunted World in 1996 as “a personal statement, reflecting my love affair with science. But there’s a second reason:
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”
It has come to pass, even worse than he wrote:
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan - a review
Carl Sagan may have believed in extraterrestrials, but he knew that belief is meaningless without testable evidence...
Oh, and the dumbing down of America was "most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second soundbites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." And that was before Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News channel...
Nor is he afraid of going back to the things that matter, arguing in the next essay that Thomas Jefferson "believed that the habit of scepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves..."
Meanwhile, according to the most recent New York Review of Books, a Texas legislator is quoted offering this reasoned argument on the state's responsibility for education: "Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell."
Are we in such a very different world?
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/20/demon-haunted-world-carl-sagan-review
Is he going to duel whoever is scrubbing the website, too? 
It is also a form of admission to go in later and change them.
If in the course of giving a speech one can attribute another person's work and
or words so as to give the person who did the work credit for said work but you
can't give footnotes ..... now if you have a transcript of that speech you can have
it with footnotes but then you must also attribute the author of the work when you
are giving the speech too.
Attribution is for when you are speaking and footnotes are for when you are writing.
“I will admit, sometimes we haven’t footnoted things properly,” the Kentucky Republican said.
“I’ve written scientific papers. I know how to footnote things. But we’ve never footnoted speeches.
And if that’s the standard I’m going to be held to, yes, we will change and we will footnote things.”
He says you stole his hair.
Bwaaahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa
...put up with it."
Oh yeah!!??
What are you going to do about it?
A fistfight, more name calling, kick dirt on them during recess?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Big Baby...
- K&R
- Maybe that's why he became interested in Buddhism. He was probably thinking of becoming a Shaolin monk, like Kwai Chang Caine since he was already bald. But he gave it up on it when he found out he'd have to be humble, so he bought a toupee instead.
