Comments on: Bill Analysis: Ten Commandments in Schools

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:51:28 +0000

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others…

By: Gordon Fowkes

Gordon Fowkes — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:46:13 +0000

Bad mouthing legislatures is always good for some angst mileage, as does trashing the court system and the current chief executive. Given that no part of any government is worthy of governance, what sort of governance does one recommend? Monarchy, aristocracy, dictatorship of the proletariat, or just plan Somali style anarcy?

Ours is a participatory democatic republic. Those who participae get the republic. Those that don’t can continue to grumble ineffectively.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:52:49 +0000

David. I once saw a legal brief where a person was charged with malfeasance, infeasance, imfeasance, disfeasance, and nonfeasance. The list had about 5 more such “feasances,” but I cannot recall enough prefixes to write them for you. This person was also charged with several other one-word counts, each of which was also preceded by all 10 or so prefixes. It was the most amazing thing I ever saw, and it occurred to me that the person charged must have been asleep 24/7.

By: David

David — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:06:15 +0000

Here’s the commandment the Texas Legislature and the nation’s GOP officeholders should respect but don’t.
“Thou shalt not waste the taxpayers’ time and money. ”

They are in egregious violation.

There is a massive $27 billion budget deficit in Texas. Rick Perry almost singlehandedly created it. He was able to hide the severity of the problem partly through the acceptance of federal stimulus dollars, which he made a “big show” of rejecting, initially.
The Texas legislature is destroying public education, they’re throwing away our kids’ futures, they’re gnawing away on the seed corn, they’re devastating our economic infrastructure, and they’re basically destroying civilization as we know it.
All of these other issues are intended to inflame the koolaid drinkers, distract the rational people, and divert attention away from their corruption, criminality, incompetence, and malfeasance.

By: Gordon Fowkes

Gordon Fowkes — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:02:56 +0000

Accusing the Bush Administration ipso facto as having violated a Commandment that does not apply to the US Government per the Constitution, argues that the Ten Commandments should apply to American govenment.

The Constitution spefically grants the US governmnet the power to wage war which usually results in someone getting killed, occasionally the ones being aimed at. Conservatives was eloguently on the sins of taxation which, in their view, is “taking” which is a form of Cosnervative theft. Lying by government officials is punishable in the context of a false official statement that only applies to Officers of the United States (Military or Civil), otherwise it is called public relations.

By: Robert Bohmfalk

Robert Bohmfalk — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:13:30 +0000

Violation of only 3 of the 10 Commandments can send a person to jail. They are for lying (bearing false witness), stealing, and killing. The Bush Administration violated those commandments also.

By: Gene Garman, Baylor '62

Gene Garman, Baylor '62 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:51:32 +0000

“It is the religion commandments in the Constitution which should be hung on every court room wall, posted and taught in every American public school, and monumentalized throughout America, not the Jewish commandments of Moses, or of any religion,” The Religion Commandments in the Constitution: A Primer, p. 19.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb7SbUWw9dM .

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:16:01 +0000

“Based on settled case law, schools could not exclude requests for postings of texts of other faiths, such that classroom walls could become a cacophony of religious items.”

Wisdom from my area of the United States:

“We can stop that. If any Muslim, Jew, or Hindu ever shows up to try it, we’ll burn his house down in the middle of the night with him and his family in it. We are Bible-believing Christians and by damn we are going to have Bible-believing schools. D’yall hear that joke Larry the Cable Guy. tol..”

By: Rocket Mike

Rocket Mike — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:56:58 +0000

Looking at the usual list of “ten commandments” I find that only three (murder, theft, false testimony) are regularly embodied in our laws and adultry is only sometimes prohibited by law. So what are we to do? Call them “The Three and Sometimes Four Commandments”? What about coveting? Would the current crop of greedy right-wingers go up in a puff of smoke?

By: Gordon Fowkes

Gordon Fowkes — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:15:07 +0000

While the Supreme Court has banned posting of the Ten Commandments in a classromm as such posting is establismentarianism, which sounds like disestablimentarianism which is not the same as antidisestablismentarianism. It would be then consistent with disestablishmenatiaraism to ban posting of times tables as they are indicative of Cartesian linearism in a world quite bereft of linear definition.