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What a bunch of right wing, psuedo Christian Hokum!  Oh, let's all go =
and find something in the Bible that supports our favorite bit of =
bigotry or our right to "judge" other people because of their life style =
or because of some stupid desire to see the U.S. Constitution kept =
intact and not become the political dish rag for Neo-Puritans.  Moral =
decay!  Horse pucky!  We have "leaders" who willfully lie, deceive and =
create near-nuclear mayhem to support their golfing buddies all the =
while standing up with Bible's in their hands and tears in their little =
beady, coked-up eyes.  Americans think some Austrian weight-lifter who =
made a fortune doing B-grade science fiction is the fiscal equivalent of =
Moses.  Forget his "hi-jinks" he is a Republican.  Forget Dubya's =
fleeing the AF Reserve, he is the dumb-as scion of a family up to its =
eyeballs in International politics and paybacks.  Cheney can't decide =
from day to day who is his "friend" and who is his "enemy" unless silver =
crosses his palm!   The Rot Starts at the Top.  =20

Who needs a lot of hoked-up Southern Rhetoric and Bible thumping =
speech-a-fying.  Mark Twain is rolling in his grave with laughter at =
this pompous phoney.=20

Ptooey!

wj
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Frances Morey=20
  To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net=20
  Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:11 PM
  Subject: Senator Zell Miller on the floor of the United States =
Senate...

  I may not agree with all the details of what he says but he sure says =
it with style.
  Frances

  Sent by Margaret Mertone:

   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  Thursday, February 12, 2004
  Miller Delivers Floor Speech on 'Deficit of Decency' in America

  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today delivered=20
  the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate=20
  addressing=20
  several social issues facing the country:

  "The Old Testament prophet Amos was a sheep herder who lived back in
  the Judean hills, away from the larger cities of Bethlehem and=20
  Jerusalem.
  Compared to the intellectual urbanites like Isaiah and Jeremiah, he=20
  was
  just an unsophisticated country hick.

  "But Amos had a unique grasp of political and social issues and his=20
  poetic
  literary skill was among the best of all the prophets. That familiar=20
  quote
  of Martin Luther King, Jr. about 'Justice will rush down like waters=20
  and
  righteousness like a mighty stream' are Amos's words.

  "Amos was the first to propose the concept of a univ! ersal God and =
not=20
  just
  some tribal deity. He also wrote that God demanded moral purity, not=20
  rituals=20
  and sacrifices. This blunt speaking moral conscience of his time
  warns in Chapter 8, verse 11 of The Book of Amos, as if he were=20
  speaking
  to us today:
  That 'the days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a
  famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but =

  of
  hearing the word of the Lord.
  'And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the
  east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and =
shall=20
  not
  find it.'
  'A famine in the land'. Has anyone more accurately described the=20
  situation
  we face in America today? 'A famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'
  "But some will say, Amos was just an Old Testament prophet - a minor
  one at that - who lived 700 years before Christ. That is true, so how=20
  about
  one of the most influential historians of modern times?
  "Arnold Toynbee who wrote the acclaimed 12 volume A Study of History,=20
  once
  declared, 'Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19=20
  of
  them collapsed when they reached the moral state America is in today.'

  "Toynbee died in 1975, before seeing the worst that was yet to come.=20
  Yes,
  Arnold Toynbee saw the famine. The 'famine of hearing the words of the
  Lord.' Whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a =

  Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square. Whether it is
  eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge =

  of
  Allegiance. Whether it is making a mockery of the sacred institution=20
  of
  marriage between a man and woman or, yes, telecasting around the world
  made-in-the-USA filth masquerading as entertainment.

  "The Culture of Far Left America was displayed in a startling way=20
  during
  the Super Bowl's now infamous half-time show. A show br! ought to us
  courtesy of Value-Les Moonves and the pagan temple of Viacom-Babylon.
  "I asked the question yesterday, how many of you have ever run over=20
  skunk
  with your car? I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays=20
  around for a long time. You can take the car through a car wash and =
it's
  still there. So the scent of this event will long linger in the=20
  nostrils of
  America.
  "I'm not talking just about an exposed mammary gland with a pull-tab
  attached to it. Really no one should have been too surprised at that.
  Wouldn't one expect a bumping, humping, trashy routine entitled 'I'm=20
  going
  to get you naked' to end that way.

  "Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap-crap? =

  I'd
  quote you some of it, but the Sergeant of Arms would throw me out of=20
  here,
  as well he should. And then there was that prancing, dancing,=20
  strutting,
  rutting guy evidently suffering from jock itch because he k! ept =
yelling=20
  and
  grabbing his crotch. But then, maybe there's a crotch grabbing culture
  I've unaware of.
  "But as bad as all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the=20
  hardest
  was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a =
hole=20
  he
  had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about=20
  having 'a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch.' Think about=20
  that.
  "This is the same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag
  that is draped over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed=20
  while
  protecting Kid Crock's bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered,
  and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality=20
  show,
  there's one for you.

  "The desire and will of this Congress to meaningfully do anything=20
  about
  any of these so-called social issues is non existent and=20
  embarrassingly
  disgraceful. The American people are waiting and growing impatient=20
  with
  us.
  They want something done.

  "I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator=20
  Allard
  and others, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United=20
  States relating to marriage. And S.1558, the Liberties Restoration =
Act,=20
  which declares religious liberty rights in several ways, including the
  Pledge of Allegiance and the display of the Ten Commandments. And =
today=20
  I join Senator Shelby and others with the Constitution Restoration Act =

  of
  2004 that limits the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain ways.

  "In doing so, I stand shoulder to shoulder not only with my Senate
  co-sponsors and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama but, more=20
  importantly,
  with our Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and=20
  the
  terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us in.

  "Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution expressly
  provid! es for separation of church and state. Ask any ten people if=20
  that's
  not so. And I'll bet you most of them will say 'Well, sure.' And some
  will point out, 'it's in the First Amendment.'

  "Wrong! Read it! It says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an
  establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'
  Where is the word 'separate'? Where are the words 'church' or 'state.'

  "They are not there. Never have been. Never intended to be. Read the =20
  Congressional Records during that four-month period in 1789 when the
  amendment was being framed in Congress. Clearly their intent was to
  prohibit a single denomination in exclusion of all others, whether it
  was Anglican or Catholic or some other.

  "I highly recommend a great book entitled Original Intent by David=20
  Barton.
  It really gets into how the actual members of Congress, who drafted=20
  the
  First Amendment, expected basic Biblical principles and v! alues to be
  present throughout public life and society, not separate from it.

  "It was Alexander Hamilton who pointed out that 'judges should be=20
  bound
  down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point=20
  out
  their duty.' Bound down! That is exactly what is needed to be done.=20
  There
  was not a single precedent cited when school prayer was struck down in
  1962.
  "These judges who legislate instead of adjudicate, do it without being
  responsible to one single solitary voter for their actions. Among the
  signers of the Declaration of Independence was a brilliant young
  physician from Pennsylvania named Benjamin Rush. "When Rush was=20
  elected to that First Continental Congress, his close friend Benjamin=20
  Franklin told him 'We need you. . . we have a great task
  before us, assigned to us by Providence.' Today, 228 years later there =

  is
  still a great task before us assigned to us by Providence. Our =
Founding
  Fat! hers did not shirk their duty and we can do no less.
  "By the way, Benjamin Rush was once asked a question that has long
  interested this Senator from Georgia in particular. Dr. Rush was
  asked, are you a democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor=20
  answered, 'I am neither'. 'I am a Christocrat. I believe He, alone, =
who=20
  created and
  redeemed man is qualified to govern him.' That reply of Benjamin Rush=20
  is
  just as true today in the year of our Lord 2004 as it was in the year
  of our Lord 1776. "So, if I am asked why - with all the pressing=20
  problems this nation faces today - why am I pushing these social =
issues and=20
  taking the Senate's valuable time? I will answer: Because, it is of =
the=20
  highest
  importance. Yes, there's a deficit to be concerned about in this=20
  country, a
  deficit of decency.
  "So, as the sand empties through my hourglass at warp speed - and with =

  my
  time running out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel comp! elled =
to
  speak out. For I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not
  golden. It is yellow."

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<DIV>What a bunch of right wing, psuedo =
Christian=20
Hokum!&nbsp; Oh, let's all go and find something in the Bible that =
supports our=20
favorite bit of bigotry or our right to "judge" other people because of =
their=20
life style or because of some stupid desire to see the U.S. Constitution =
kept=20
intact and not become the political dish rag for Neo-Puritans.&nbsp; =
Moral=20
decay!&nbsp; Horse pucky!&nbsp; We have "leaders" who willfully lie, =
deceive and=20
create near-nuclear mayhem to support their golfing buddies all the =
while=20
standing up with Bible's in their hands and tears in their little beady, =

coked-up eyes.&nbsp; Americans think some Austrian weight-lifter who =
made a=20
fortune doing B-grade science fiction is the fiscal equivalent of =
Moses.&nbsp;=20
Forget his "hi-jinks" he is a Republican.&nbsp; Forget Dubya's fleeing =
the AF=20
Reserve, he is the dumb-as scion of a family up to its eyeballs in =
International=20
politics and paybacks.&nbsp; Cheney can't decide from day to day who is =
his=20
"friend" and who is his "enemy" unless silver crosses his =
palm!&nbsp;&nbsp; The=20
Rot Starts at the Top.&nbsp;&nbsp; </DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Who needs a lot of hoked-up Southern =
Rhetoric and=20
Bible thumping speech-a-fying.&nbsp; Mark Twain is rolling in his grave =
with=20
laughter at this pompous phoney. </DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Ptooey!</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>wj</DIV>
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 <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
 <DIV=20
 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black">From:=20
 <A title=3Dfrances_morey@yahoo.com =
href=3D"mailto:frances_morey@yahoo.com">Frances=20
 Morey</A> </DIV>
 <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">To: <A=20
 title=3Daustin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net=20
 =
href=3D"mailto:austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net">austin-ghetto-list@pairli=
st.net</A>=20
 </DIV>
 <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">Sent: Tuesday, February 24, =
2004 3:11=20
 PM</DIV>
 <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: Senator Zell Miller on =
the floor=20
 of the United States Senate...</DIV>
 <DIV> </DIV>
 <DIV>I may not agree with all the details of what he says but he sure =
says it=20
 with style.</DIV>
 <DIV>Frances</DIV>
 <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV>Sent by Margaret Mertone:</DIV>
 <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV>&nbsp;FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 12, =
2004 Miller=20
 Delivers Floor Speech on 'Deficit of Decency' in=20
 America WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) =
today=20
 delivered the following statement on the floor of the United =
States Senate=20
 addressing several social issues facing the =
country: "The Old=20
 Testament prophet Amos was a sheep herder who lived back in the =
Judean=20
 hills, away from the larger cities of Bethlehem and =
 Jerusalem. Compared=20
 to the intellectual urbanites like Isaiah and Jeremiah, he =
 was just an=20
 unsophisticated country hick. "But Amos had a unique grasp of =
political=20
 and social issues and his poetic literary skill was among the =
best of=20
 all the prophets. That familiar quote of Martin Luther King, =
Jr. about=20
 'Justice will rush down like waters and righteousness like a =
mighty=20
 stream' are Amos's words. "Amos was the first to propose the =
concept of=20
 a univ! ersal God and not just some tribal deity. He also wrote =
that=20
 God demanded moral purity, not rituals and sacrifices. This =
blunt=20
 speaking moral conscience of his time warns in Chapter 8, verse 11 =
of The=20
 Book of Amos, as if he were speaking to us today: That 'the =
days=20
 will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the =
land. Not=20
 a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the =
word of=20
 the Lord. 'And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the =
north even=20
 to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the =
Lord, and=20
 shall not find it.' 'A famine in the land'. Has anyone more=20
 accurately described the situation we face in America today? 'A =
famine=20
 of hearing the words of the Lord.' "But some will say, Amos was =
just an Old=20
 Testament prophet - a minor one at that - who lived 700 years =
before=20
 Christ. That is true, so how about one of the most influential=20
 historians of modern times? "Arnold Toynbee who wrote the acclaimed =
12=20
 volume A Study of History, once declared, 'Of the 22 =
civilizations that=20
 have appeared in history, 19 of them collapsed when they =
reached the=20
 moral state America is in today.' "Toynbee died in 1975, before =
seeing=20
 the worst that was yet to come. Yes, Arnold Toynbee saw the =
famine. The=20
 'famine of hearing the words of the Lord.' Whether it is removing a =
display=20
 of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene =
from a=20
 city square. Whether it is eliminating prayer in schools or =
eliminating=20
 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. Whether it is making a =
mockery=20
 of the sacred institution of marriage between a man and woman =
or, yes,=20
 telecasting around the world made-in-the-USA filth masquerading as=20
 entertainment. "The Culture of Far Left America was displayed =
in a=20
 startling way during the Super Bowl's now infamous half-time =
show. A=20
 show br! ought to us courtesy of Value-Les Moonves and the pagan =
temple of=20
 Viacom-Babylon. "I asked the question yesterday, how many of you =
have ever=20
 run over skunk with your car? I have many times and I can tell =
you, the=20
 stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through a =
car=20
 wash and it's still there. So the scent of this event will long =
linger in=20
 the nostrils of America. "I'm not talking just about an =
exposed=20
 mammary gland with a pull-tab attached to it. Really no one should =
have=20
 been too surprised at that. Wouldn't one expect a bumping, humping, =
trashy=20
 routine entitled 'I'm going to get you naked' to end that=20
 way. "Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of =
this=20
 rap-crap? I'd quote you some of it, but the Sergeant of Arms =
would=20
 throw me out of here, as well he should. And then there was =
that=20
 prancing, dancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently suffering =
from jock=20
 itch because he k! ept yelling and grabbing his crotch. But =
then, maybe=20
 there's a crotch grabbing culture I've unaware of. "But as bad =
as all=20
 this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing =
that=20
 ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had =
cut in=20
 the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having =
'a bottle=20
 of scotch and watching lots of crotch.' Think about that. "This =
is the=20
 same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is =
draped=20
 over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed =
 while protecting=20
 Kid Crock's bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered, and =
ridden out of=20
 this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, there's =
one for=20
 you. "The desire and will of this Congress to meaningfully do =
anything=20
 about any of these so-called social issues is non existent and=20
 embarrassingly disgraceful. The American people are waiting and =
growing=20
 impatient with us. They want something done. "I am =
pleased to=20
 be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator Allard and =
others,=20
 proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States =
relating=20
 to marriage. And S.1558, the Liberties Restoration Act, which =
declares=20
 religious liberty rights in several ways, including the Pledge of=20
 Allegiance and the display of the Ten Commandments. And today I =
join=20
 Senator Shelby and others with the Constitution Restoration Act =
 of 2004=20
 that limits the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain =
ways. "In=20
 doing so, I stand shoulder to shoulder not only with my =
Senate co-sponsors=20
 and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama but, more =
 importantly, with our=20
 Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and=20
 the terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us=20
 in. "Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution=20
 expressly provid! es for separation of church and state. Ask any =
ten people=20
 if that's not so. And I'll bet you most of them will say 'Well, =
sure.'=20
 And some will point out, 'it's in the First =
Amendment.' "Wrong! Read=20
 it! It says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting =
an establishment of=20
 religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Where is the =
word=20
 'separate'? Where are the words 'church' or 'state.' "They are =
not=20
 there. Never have been. Never intended to be. Read the&nbsp; =
 Congressional=20
 Records during that four-month period in 1789 when the amendment =
was being=20
 framed in Congress. Clearly their intent was to prohibit a single=20
 denomination in exclusion of all others, whether it was Anglican or =

Catholic or some other. "I highly recommend a great book =
entitled=20
 Original Intent by David Barton. It really gets into how the =
actual=20
 members of Congress, who drafted the First Amendment, expected =
basic=20
 Biblical principles and v! alues to be present throughout public =
life and=20
 society, not separate from it. "It was Alexander Hamilton who =
pointed=20
 out that 'judges should be bound down by strict rules and =
precedents,=20
 which serve to define and point out their duty.' Bound down! =
That is=20
 exactly what is needed to be done. There was not a single =
precedent=20
 cited when school prayer was struck down in 1962. "These judges =
who=20
 legislate instead of adjudicate, do it without being responsible to =
one=20
 single solitary voter for their actions. Among the signers of the=20
 Declaration of Independence was a brilliant young physician from=20
 Pennsylvania named Benjamin Rush. "When Rush was elected to that =
First=20
 Continental Congress, his close friend Benjamin Franklin told him =
'We need=20
 you. . . we have a great task before us, assigned to us by =
Providence.'=20
 Today, 228 years later there is still a great task before us =
assigned=20
 to us by Providence. Our Founding Fat! hers did not shirk their =
duty and we=20
 can do no less. "By the way, Benjamin Rush was once asked a =
question that=20
 has long interested this Senator from Georgia in particular. Dr. =
Rush=20
 was asked, are you a democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor =

answered, 'I am neither'. 'I am a Christocrat. I believe He, =
alone, who=20
 created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him.' That =
reply of=20
 Benjamin Rush is just as true today in the year of our Lord =
2004 as it=20
 was in the year of our Lord 1776. "So, if I am asked why - with all =
the=20
 pressing problems this nation faces today - why am I pushing these =
social=20
 issues and taking the Senate's valuable time? I will answer: =
Because, it=20
 is of the highest importance. Yes, there's a deficit to be =
concerned=20
 about in this country, a deficit of decency. "So, as the =
sand=20
 empties through my hourglass at warp speed - and with my time =
running=20
 out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel comp! elled to speak =
out. For=20
 I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It =
is=20
 yellow." </DIV>
 
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