Toby'sFriend said:
thank you - interesting to see that this actually happened in January 1996 - nearly 10 1/2 years ago.
Which is pretty much when the marriage of the GOP to the radical right pseudo-Christians really hit its stride.
That part about welfare? Good grief.
I'd love to see someone try and live on welfare for their entire life. Go ahead, give it a whirl!
My ex-wife luckily just found a job as her unemployment had run out (after only several months) and was about to lose her apt. I was laid off last month and in filing my initial claim for unemployment, I found I would exhaust my benefits in a matter of months, too. Luckily I landed a new and better job a couple weeks later (one that's allowing me to even have my trip to WDW this summer
)
FWIW, some Founding Father quotes:
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." - John Adams, 1823
"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802
"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion. - Treaty of Tripoli, 1796
