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This administration has violated all 12 of the Scout Laws

Tue Feb 07, 2006 at 11:10:46 PM PDT

My letter to Todd Platts, PA-19:

A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to meet you at an Eagle ceremony for the son of a long-time friend. I, too, am an Eagle, and find myself among the one in a hundred who considers this achievement more important than his college degrees.

Watching you speak, I began to think about the Republican Party which you  represent, and which is so much different from the party of Scranton, Mathias, and Rockefeller, which is the one I registered to vote for when I turned twenty-one.

Here's how well the current Republican Party obeys the Scout Law:

Why We Believe

Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 06:50:07 PM PDT

The two diaries posted recently by DarkSydeand PastorDan bring to mind an article in this month's Atlantic Monthly  titled "Is God an Accident?  The premise of the article is this:

Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things:  the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe.  Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon.  One:  human beings come into this world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena.  And two: this predisposition is an incidental byproduct of cognitive functioning gone awry.

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