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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:27 PM Original message |
House votes to put 'under God' in Texas pledge |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. It was a rightwing Congress that put "Under GAWD" in what was a secular pledge |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. We won WWI and WWII without saying "Under GAWD." Go figure. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. And we have been losing wars ever since! |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Wow, then we lost all the wars after they put it in. n/t |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's because too many of the talibornagain are too lazy to get out of bed |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Did you just make up "talibornagain"? |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I've seen it used by other posters here at DU. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. That's the kind of legislation you pass when you know you've failed at everything else. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yeah, that'll keep the hurricanes away. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. There is an Invisible Man in the Sky hovering above Texas. |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. If you look in your Bible, it'll say in plain English that on the 8th day, |
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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. Text of the pledge FYI: |
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hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 03:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Text of the pledge |
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silverweb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. A Texas pledge? |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. i don't get it either |
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DaHoot (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. yep |
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pop goes the weasel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. refuse and resist |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 02:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. That's what struck me too |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
14. are you ready to have a good war with iraq under god? |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
16. LOL. First they vote to take Bush off their state signs |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. Undergod? Any relation to Underdog? . . . |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 11:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. There's no need to fear... |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-14-07 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
19. In some ways, Texas is the greatest place on Earth |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. I pledge allegiance to: U.S., Texas, Harris County, City of Houston, and |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
23. it wasn't already there? what took the heathens so long to recognize their true master? |
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maxrandb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
24. That will solve everything! |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
25. we have to put it in... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
26. They can put it in, but I won't say it. |
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semillama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
27. What, it wasn't in there already??? n/t |
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DFW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
29. For her high school semester abroad, my daughter went to Texas |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
30. pushing theocracy off on people... |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
32. do they really think this will be enough to propitiate their angry sky god? n/t |
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DFW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
33. The country that forces its children to say "under God" |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
34. When did Texas become its own country? |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-16-07 01:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. When did it ever stop? nt |
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callous taoboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-15-07 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. We also have a "moment of silence" in the schools here, during |
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Massachusetts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-16-07 06:12 AM Response to Original message |
36. Sounds like a good use of time and taxpayer $$$$$$ |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-16-07 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
38. I didn't even know before this that Texas had a pledge |
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