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11 Feb 2006 05:23:36 AM |
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Bring the Paine! |
Bring the Paine!
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=11539
Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be
celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there'd be no
America.
by Steven Wells
In Philadelphia," babbles the radio, "everyone is reading about Benjamin
Franklin ... "
The madness has been going on for months already, since the Greater
Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation first started shilling
Franklin's 300th-birthday festivities last year.
The greatest event in this nation's history has been reduced to a yearlong
birthday party for a jolly, jocular cartoon Unka Ben. A kinda
insurrectionary Kris Kringle. An avuncular saint, inventor and bootstrap
capitalist-a PG-friendly, George Bush-approved, sanitized, shrink-wrapped,
deboned and prechewed establishment revolutionary for the whole family to
enjoy.
We say bollocks to that. It's time for some Common Sense. It's time this
city celebrated working-class Philadelphia's real revolutionary hero.
Thomas Paine was a founder of both the U.S.A. and the French Republic, the
ideological father of democracy, the coiner of the phrase "United States of
America," the author of not one but two pamphlets that saved the United
States, probably the original author of the Declaration of Independence
and-on top of that-he was the original zinester, the first blogger and
(according to Wired magazine) the moral father of the Internet.
***************************************************************
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
***************************************************************
.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
****************************************************************
USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
*****************************************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
****************************************************************
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: Bring the Paine! |
11 Feb 2006 08:41:26 PM |
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wrote:
Bring the Paine!
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id539
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=3D11539&highlight=3DPaine
Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be
celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there'd be no
America.
by Steven Wells
In Philadelphia," babbles the radio, "everyone is reading about Benjamin
Franklin ... "
The madness has been going on for months already, since the Greater
Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation first started shilling
Franklin's 300th-birthday festivities last year.
The greatest event in this nation's history has been reduced to a yearlong
birthday party for a jolly, jocular cartoon Unka Ben. A kinda
insurrectionary Kris Kringle. An avuncular saint, inventor and bootstrap
capitalist-a PG-friendly, George Bush-approved, sanitized, shrink-wrapped,
deboned and prechewed establishment revolutionary for the whole family to
enjoy.
We say bollocks to that. It's time for some Common Sense. It's time this
city celebrated working-class Philadelphia's real revolutionary hero.
Thomas Paine was a founder of both the U.S.A. and the French Republic, the
ideological father of democracy, the coiner of the phrase "United States =
of
America," the author of not one but two pamphlets that saved the United
States, probably the original author of the Declaration of Independence
and-on top of that-he was the original zinester, the first blogger and
(according to Wired magazine) the moral father of the Internet.
***************************************************************
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS =B7 Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
***************************************************************
. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why =
"a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisne=
r,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
****************************************************************
USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
*****************************************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
****************************************************************
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| User: "VRWC10" |
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| Title: Re: Bring the Paine! |
12 Feb 2006 10:08:10 AM |
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:23:36 -0500, wrote:
Bring the Paine!
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=11539
Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be
celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there'd be no
America.
Of course, you overlook the fact that Thomas Paine was the "hired pen
of Benjamin Franklin -- and the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine."
-- from "Thomas Jefferson, A Life", by Willard Sterne Randall
(Princeton Historical Studies Fellow) Much of what Paine wrote was
influenced by Ben -- who deserves every imaginable honor we can bestow
upon him today, and then some.
by Steven Wells
In Philadelphia," babbles the radio, "everyone is reading about Benjamin
Franklin ... "
The madness has been going on for months already, since the Greater
Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation first started shilling
Franklin's 300th-birthday festivities last year.
The greatest event in this nation's history has been reduced to a yearlong
birthday party for a jolly, jocular cartoon Unka Ben. A kinda
insurrectionary Kris Kringle. An avuncular saint, inventor and bootstrap
capitalist-a PG-friendly, George Bush-approved, sanitized, shrink-wrapped,
deboned and prechewed establishment revolutionary for the whole family to
enjoy.
We say bollocks to that. It's time for some Common Sense. It's time this
city celebrated working-class Philadelphia's real revolutionary hero.
Thomas Paine was a founder of both the U.S.A. and the French Republic, the
ideological father of democracy, the coiner of the phrase "United States of
America," the author of not one but two pamphlets that saved the United
States, probably the original author of the Declaration of Independence
and-on top of that-he was the original zinester, the first blogger and
(according to Wired magazine) the moral father of the Internet.
***************************************************************
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
***************************************************************
. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
****************************************************************
USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
*****************************************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
****************************************************************
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| User: "Gray Shockley" |
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| Title: Re: Bring the Paine! |
17 Feb 2006 02:17:29 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:08:10 -0600, VRWC10 wrote
(in article <3tmuu1dld25bna8764uk1q1q07n9c4vt2p@4ax.com>):
Of course, you overlook the fact that Thomas Paine was the "hired pen
of Benjamin Franklin -- and the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine."
-- from "Thomas Jefferson, A Life", by Willard Sterne Randall
(Princeton Historical Studies Fellow) Much of what Paine wrote was
influenced by Ben -- who deserves every imaginable honor we can bestow
upon him today, and then some.
From a communist puppet like you, VC Boy?
Not hardly. Go back to North Korea, Puppet Boy.
Go back to licking your "very special friends in
North Korea's" ***** for another 30 years.
Pervert. Freak. Wacko. Psychopath. Deviant. Loon.
Gray Shockley
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The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.
- Aldous Huxley
_Ape And Essence_
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| User: "Gray Shockley" |
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| Title: Re: Bring the Paine! |
18 Feb 2006 04:27:15 AM |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:08:10 -0600, VRWC10 wrote
(in article <3tmuu1dld25bna8764uk1q1q07n9c4vt2p@4ax.com>):
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:23:36 -0500, wrote:
Bring the Paine!
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=11539
Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be
celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there'd be no
America.
Of course, you overlook the fact that Thomas Paine was the "hired pen
of Benjamin Franklin -- and the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine."
-- from "Thomas Jefferson, A Life", by Willard Sterne Randall
(Princeton Historical Studies Fellow) Much of what Paine wrote was
influenced by Ben -- who deserves every imaginable honor we can bestow
upon him today, and then some.
They were men; you're a pantywaist.
You make cowards look brave, you utter cowardly wimperer and whimperer.
I'm glad you're in Texas (and not Austin).
Are you a member of the Republic of Texas? If not, you should be. "ROT" is
what has happened to your brain when you traded in your backbone so that you
could be a cowardly creep who suckles and whines anonymously out your
Republican.
You're quite a bit less than a man or a woman. Are you drinking
ThunderRipple2006 with John Knight, you pathetic, whining cowardly leech?
And that's your good side.
You're sort of the piro Agnew of UseNet. An anonymous crook and creep who
thinks s/j=he/it/hey is some sort of magnificent work of art but, in reality,
you're just a cowardly punk who is a liar, theif, felon and doper who smokes
its brains out and gets on UseNet so that your pitiful ego has some effect of
trying to convince yourself that you're not a 100% loser.
PokieBoy: you're a 100% anonymous loser, yellow boy. Why don't you go back to
Glen Campbell?
Or, to quote Cary, BWAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HaHaHaHahahahahahah...<wheez> <snorfle> <smurck> <snlargle>
And
Viet
R
W
Cong
tries to sneak up on another of its betters.
VRWC is every bit as much a man as is *****-You Cheney, another real Texan -
just like VietRWCong.
When VietNam was a major topic, VRWC bravely faced its draft board in a
plain, everyday bra but wore its "special" panties and girdle to try and hold
in the gut it got from the "munchies" which it got from the bush -oops! I
mean "dope" - that it used everytime it thought of "manhood".
Other than being a gutless, yellow-bellied coward who would sell out the
United States for about three joints, our little Viet Cong VRWC is also
stupid and not very bright.
VRWC has dedicated its life (well, if you can call that irrational stupidity
"living") to avoiding ever speaking up when it has to take responsibility and
always being a rather indignant coward who uses big, "official" words, signed
by an anonymous little peckerhead who throws up everytime anyone looks its
way because it isn't even human, much less a man.
Peckerhead VRWC ("Viet Cong" for short) doesn't like to go outside in the
daytime because the seven-year-old neighborhood girls are more man than it
is.
If you want a description of the little commie, think of George W C Bush43,
subtract about 80 IQ points, lose about seven years of education, leave the
morals the same, cover with excrement and PRESTO!, you've got VRWC.
Do you have any marriageable sons or daughters that vote Republican?
And that's VRWC positive side. Just wait for its negative side!
Gray Shockley
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Put the Hammer in the Slammer
by Steven Wells
In Philadelphia," babbles the radio, "everyone is reading about Benjamin
Franklin ... "
The madness has been going on for months already, since the Greater
Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation first started shilling
Franklin's 300th-birthday festivities last year.
The greatest event in this nation's history has been reduced to a yearlong
birthday party for a jolly, jocular cartoon Unka Ben. A kinda
insurrectionary Kris Kringle. An avuncular saint, inventor and bootstrap
capitalist-a PG-friendly, George Bush-approved, sanitized, shrink-wrapped,
deboned and prechewed establishment revolutionary for the whole family to
enjoy.
We say bollocks to that. It's time for some Common Sense. It's time this
city celebrated working-class Philadelphia's real revolutionary hero.
Thomas Paine was a founder of both the U.S.A. and the French Republic, the
ideological father of democracy, the coiner of the phrase "United States of
America," the author of not one but two pamphlets that saved the United
States, probably the original author of the Declaration of Independence
and-on top of that-he was the original zinester, the first blogger and
(according to Wired magazine) the moral father of the Internet.
***************************************************************
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS á Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
***************************************************************
. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
****************************************************************
USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
*****************************************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
****************************************************************
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