The U.S. Constitution According To Rightist Radio

Article VI, Section 3 (emphasis added):

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Dennis Prager:

Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible. If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don’t serve in Congress.

Nope, there’s certainly no religious element in requiring one to swear on the Bible instead of the Koran. Another one of those “historical traditions,” I suppose.
Oh, and he adds this:

But these naive people do not appreciate that America will not change the attitude of a single American-hating Muslim by allowing Ellison to substitute the Koran for the Bible. In fact, the opposite is more likely: Ellison’s doing so will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones, as Islamists, rightly or wrongly, see the first sign of the realization of their greatest goal — the Islamicization of America.

Here here. If Mr. Ellison swears on the Koran, then the terrorists have won and every American will be killed by the Islamofacist’s quest for world domination.
I’m so glad we have these spokespeople of moral clarity to keep us straight.
UPDATE: This is even stupider than it appeared. According to this, the House doesn’t include a religious text in the swearing in ceremony. So apparently, this is another of those fake controversies intended to get people riled up over nothing.

Photo Gallery Update

I’ve installed a Coppermine Photo Gallery and will be uploading images there. Pictures should be a lot better organized now.

I’m A Wikipedian

A while back I created my first Wikipedia entry.
It’s on Ozark Adventist Academy, my alma mater. I attended OAA my junior and senior year. Seven hundred and fifty miles was a long way to be away from home, but I enjoyed my time there. And during that summer I spent in rural Northwest Arkansas, I learned quite a bit about finding interesting things to do for entertainment.
Unfortunately, someone has since edited my Wikipedia article; I think I should have been consulted first.

Attention Terrorists: The U.S. Elections Are Over

We know that in October you stepped up the violence in Iraq because the American elections were approaching, and that was your way of voting Democrat.
Well, thanks to your support, the Democrats won. Mission accomplished. But the elections are over now, so you can stop blowing everything up .
UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald elaborates, with more quotes.

My First Fark

After four or five failed submissions, I finally made it to the front page.
Thank you State Senator Tim Burchett (R-Roadkill), for making it all possible.

ISG Set To Save Iraq

What do the following people have in common:
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Edwin Meese III
Sandra Day O’Connor
Leon E. Panetta
If you answered “members of the Iraq Study Group with no apparent expertise in the Middle East,” you’d be correct.
Additionally, I wonder how much working knowledge Senators Alan Simpson, Charles Robb, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry have on Iraq. But I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt, due to their prior posts in government.
The point being that this group has gotten a lot of play, particularly from the news media. Yet when you break down its composition, there’s no reason to assume that these members will come up with a novel peace plan that will magically transform the reason. It seems likely that this group’s chief virtue will be in providing politicians with short-term cover on the problem, as most high-profile blue ribbon commissions are prone to do.