Thomas Jefferson, a real founder of our country, would be horrified at these moronic claims by the Knox County Commission. But I suppose God, like patriotism, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

These things are so confusing. Here's a little test to help.

well, at least I'm original and i don't smiteth folks without a good reason...or unless they "buffoon" me with "inquisitions".
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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

As usual, it's time for Pastafarians to besiege commission.
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You are Budha. You are a very peaceful person, you love all who love you. You are a cheerful personality, and you have a great sense of humor. Congratulations!! You are Budha!!

Closely followed by the Christian God.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

I just sent out the following email to Knox County Commission (and Mr. Lambert specifically):

Dear Knox County Commission,

I read today with dismay that a proposal is being offered on Monday to "honor the faith of our founding fathers."

I sincerely hope that you will take the time to read each of the links below as they are filled with discussions concerning the faith of our founding fathers.

You will see that many of the famous ones (including Washington, Jefferson & Franklin) were actually Deists or Unitarians (and NOT Christians) and some were quite vehemently opposed to organized religion.

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It should be obvious to any rational person that commission should NOT pass the motion. However, I sincerely doubt many of you will be swayed by reason on this.

Therefore, if you do insist on passing it, please try to adhere to the way our founders' referenced God in our national documents.

- Obviously, you would not be modeling anything after the language of the U.S. Constitution, as there is no mention of God in it at all.

- More likely, you would need to leave out "Jesus", "Christ", "Lord", "God" (with no modifier), etc. and instead only reference God through the Deist terms of "The Creator" and "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" as our founders' chose to do in the Declaration of Independence.

Finally, in case you don't check out any of the links above, consider the Treaty of Tripoli ratified by Congress and signed by our second President (John Adams) - "Article XI: As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion..."

I do hope you will check out the links. There's some interesting discussion on this topic.

Sincerely,

Pan Walker
Knox County resident since 1995

Ivan and Lumpy have found the perfect missing ingredient to make a complete and total clusterf*ck of what's left of CC. Let's just fight over religion from here on out.

Now back to the national GOP debate: Who hates immigrants the most?

Who hates immigrants the most?

Isn't the debate over ILLEGAL immigrants? That's an important word. But, it seems to get left out by, well, many with a left point of view. Sorry, I know this is off topic.

What we have here is the establishment of a Knoxville Taliban by a group of snake handler.

Isn't the debate over ILLEGAL immigrants? That's an important word. But, it seems to get left out by, well, many with a left point of view.

Well, I've recently learned that there is no such thing as an "illegal" immigrant until adjudicated by a court. Apparently, there is no statute against living in the US without documentation.

But I could be wrong. I read it in a newspaper. I'd like to be educated by a lawyer or somebody who knows.

I personally don't like the term illegal immigrants because it's reprehensible to me that one can so callously write off the value of another human being.

Well, Bean, since you brought it up...

Larry Van Guilder

"Who hates immigrants the
Submitted by CBT on Wed, 2007/12/12 - 7:35pm.

Who hates immigrants the most?

Isn't the debate over ILLEGAL immigrants? That's an important word. But, it seems to get left out by, well, many with a left point of view. Sorry, I know this is off topic."

Of course it's off topic, so try to stick to the point...

As a loud and proud publically proclaiming Christian and Church-goer TM, how do you feel about government servants using the political process to further polarize local government?

WATE is doing another unofficial online poll. This time it is whether Knox Co. Commission should vote for the "God amendment"... Comments should be interesting.

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I thought this "elf yourself" thing was cute the first time I got one with the faces of their children, then I got three more. So we had a bit of fun with it....

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