It's worth it to preserve the rule of law. Desperate terrorists scoff at the law. If we do the same, we go down to their level. (Still, I admit this "plan" is fraught with real peril.)

Maybe the coach trained under Steve Spurrier.

Obama was never that poor. He could always goto Kansas, racist though it was at the time. It is our great, good luck that he grew up in Hawaii (where he was nursed in the aloha spirit) and lived in Indonesia (so that he, unlike George Bush, knew that there really were OTHER people inthe world who (Guess what!) did not live exactly the way we do. Gol-lee pete! Jeez! Who'd a thunk it? Them folk...more

Obama was never that poor. He could always goto Kansas, racist though it was at the time. It is our great, good luck that he grew up in Hawaii (where he was nursed in the aloha spirit) and lived in Indonesia (so that he, unlike George Bush, knew that there really were OTHER people inthe world who (Guess what!) did not live exactly the way we do. Gol-lee pete! Jeez! Who'd a thunk it? Them folks is, uh, differrnt.less

"This doesn't make sense when you crunch the numbers. It's cheaper to feed the child than to abort it." I am neither pro- nor anti-abortion, as I've said (mainly because I do not have a vote, which only belongs to the pregnant female). But I disagree with the statement above. Feeding a poor child until he can barely live to 25? or 35? just to die in the same misery i...more

"This doesn't make sense when you crunch the numbers. It's cheaper to feed the child than to abort it."

I am neither pro- nor anti-abortion, as I've said (mainly because I do not have a vote, which only belongs to the pregnant female). But I disagree with the statement above.

Feeding a poor child until he can barely live to 25? or 35? just to die in the same misery into which he was born? To me, THAT is too expensive - on several levels.less

"Onve you get there, you'll forget all about "spending time with 'good people' like Ghandi and the Dali. You won't even be aware of anyone else there." You mean, like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Weird.....

"I wonder where John Hagee, Donald Wildmon, James Dobson, and Pat Robertson, among a large quantity of like-minded travelers, will end up in death." I wonder, too. If you die and get somewhere first - and those people you mention are there - please let me know. I want to go to another place, please.

Very interesting, msn, but much ado about nothing, really. I was actually just talking about the typical Russian, True (Prava-) way (slavia), or Greek, True (Ortho-) way (dox), church member that any of us might bump into around the world today. That being said, I would side with believer in this one. Those criteria are points on which men are welcome to argue - but to which God (I suspect) would...more

Very interesting, msn, but much ado about nothing, really. I was actually just talking about the typical Russian, True (Prava-) way (slavia), or Greek, True (Ortho-) way (dox), church member that any of us might bump into around the world today. That being said, I would side with believer in this one. Those criteria are points on which men are welcome to argue - but to which God (I suspect) would pay scant attention.

On another note: The SBC should not even HAVE creeds. It abandoned its historic roots when it forced conformity on its hapless members (again, in my opinion).less

That's quite a photograph. Would you buy a used car from this man?

DP, I agree, and most people would agree, with you - stopping just before this: "Given the choice I would call "science" a lie before I would call God a liar. Like the saying says...I'll wait for the movie. One day we will live beyond the book and be face to face with the author. Then I will know for sure how He created the world." I do not dispute that this is tr...more

DP, I agree, and most people would agree, with you - stopping just before this:

"Given the choice I would call "science" a lie before I would call God a liar.

Like the saying says...I'll wait for the movie. One day we will live beyond the book and be face to face with the author. Then I will know for sure how He created the world."

I do not dispute that this is true FOR YOU (and, to a degree, for me). But our secular country's education system cannot be based on your or my faith, whether we are Christian, Buddhist or Hindu.

I think a parallel might be seen in what I said to my sister a few years ago: It's fine for President Bush, as an individual and even a type of Christian, to believe in Armageddon, but he should not base U. S. foreign policy on his personal leaps of faith.less

Sorry....just my opinion, of course.

Sue 'em, Christian girl! I like some of Dottie Rambo's songs, but sometimes she looked like a warmed-over witch. Did she not have any friends who loved her enough to clue her in about all that make-up? She might have been quite beautiful without it.

Charming....and loving, too....

All of you posters who think that YOU go to the ONE TRUE CHURCH could talk until you were blue in the face - and never convince an Orthodox believer that his was not THE one true church. They think the Roman Catholics pulled out, then the Protestants pulled out of the RC, then the sects of Protestants kept hiving off. And yet - steady as she goes - the Othodox church continues, unbroken, from the ...more

All of you posters who think that YOU go to the ONE TRUE CHURCH could talk until you were blue in the face - and never convince an Orthodox believer that his was not THE one true church. They think the Roman Catholics pulled out, then the Protestants pulled out of the RC, then the sects of Protestants kept hiving off. And yet - steady as she goes - the Othodox church continues, unbroken, from the very first.

I have no connection with Orthodoxy, but I do know how those people feel. Actually, they pity most of us. They think we have lost our way, the true (ortho-) way (dox).

Each group is so sure it's right. God must laugh at us sometimes.less

DP, that's for our federal government to decide. That's why we elect people to federal office. We will simply have to accept these thugs into our different states. People rarely welcome a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen, either. But they have to be built SOMEwhere.

Even when you are short on funds, charity should be practiced - whether that's in your own home or in your nation.

Good grief! Why would anybody expect "Christians" in a "Christian" school in Texas, of all places, to behave in a Christ-like manner? If each team played its best, that game is over. Move on.

ID is based on faith, which is a wonderful gift. But it is NOT science. Sensible Americans will continue to turn away from this sham.

"ID is based upon rational and logical scientific interpretations of evidence." I doubt this.

I pray that some day, star, you will be released from this literalist view of scriptural Heaven and Hell that you posted. In certain (but different) ways, the scriptures you quote could be terrifying - especially to a young child. Imagine the fear that such writing has pushed into impressionable young (and old) people's minds over the centuries!

It's an embarassment. That county is named for our family, and it is always in the national news for some throw-back idea they've had!