"So help me Flying Spaghetti Monster"?

[thewayne]

"Let me be clear. Americans have freedom of religion -- but not freedom from religion."
—Texas Congressman Sam Johnson, on the Preserve and Protect God in Military Oaths Act, which would require Air Force Academy cadets to say "So help me God"

*sigh* Exactly where in the Constitution does it say you must follow A religion?

When I was attending local college campuses (I'm now in an online mode) I always wanted to start a Campus Crusade for Cthulhu: It found me! campaign. Cthulhu saves: in case he's hungry later.

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[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Texas is so weird. Their gerrymandering is so skewed that Austin, a bastion of liberal voters and the state capitol, is represented by four Republican representatives.

The GenCon convention threatened to pull out, but they're under contract until 2020. Doesn't mean that people won't attend, but the show will theoretically go on. Since they revised the law, Angie's List(?) said the changes were not a repeal and are insufficient, it'll be interesting to see what the NCAA does. I'm doubly-amused because I think the NCAA is a slave-based organization (less than 2% of NCAA football or basketball players makes it in the pros).

[cp.livejournal.com]

Yep, same story here in FL, really. The urban areas naturally lean Democratic, but the districts are drawn such that only a handful in the whole state are actually considered competitive, and our legislature remains overwhelmingly Republican. We even passed an amendment to the state Constitution a few years ago calling for "logical and compact" districts, and the resulting redistricting was the same gerrymandered nonsense PLUS a court case wherein it was revealed that the "nonpartisan" experts brought in to suggest the new district maps were in fact the same old GOP hacks, just operating behind the scenes instead of out in the open. The case is still in the FL Supreme Court, we'll see if it gets anywhere this time around.