"Chris pointed to the missing middle finger on his father's hand. Jimmy lost it during World War II, when fighting along with Royal Canadian Army soldiers in Normandy on D-Day."
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(SH) - After all these years, it's time for a confession.
Chris Doohan and Danny Bonaduce dented Sonny Bono's Porsche in the 1970s. Bono trusted the boys, best pals from Van Nuys, Calif., to move his prized car for him. With "Partridge Family" star Bonaduce behind the wheel and Doohan riding shotgun, they guided the sports car out of its safe parking space and went in the wrong direction. Oops.
But Doohan had much safer childhood adventures in outer space.
When he and his brother Monty visited their dad at work, their father would tell them to go play in the shuttlecraft.
"We played like we were spacemen," said Doohan, 45. "We were 7 years old. It was fun."
That's one of the perks when your father is "Scotty," of Star Trek fame.
James "Jimmy" Doohan, 84, played the beloved role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, chief engineer for the starship Enterprise, on the original 1966 series and in subsequent big-screen movies.
When your dad's a "Star Trek" icon, growing up can be out-of-this-world fun.
In the late 1970s, Chris and Monty, his twin, got in uniform and joined dad on the deck of the USS Enterprise, where William Shatner, as Capt. James T. Kirk, warned everyone about the villainous craft V'Ger that was approaching. It was a big moment for the boys, one that wound up on the big screen in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
In the television show, and in the "Trek" movies, the senior Doohan's Scotty character manned the transporter room - the words "Beam me up, Scotty" are forever burned into our public consciousness - and constantly worked miracles to keep the Enterprise running.
For Chris, the "miracle worker" nature of his dad's character has been a source of constant inspiration.
Next week, to pay his dad back for all of the love and inspiration he's provided over the years, Chris will present his famous father with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Doohan clan, along with a grandstand of fans, will beam there Tuesday for the star ceremony.
On Monday, the senior Doohan will greet fans inside the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, which has on display the bridge set from "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
These are among the happenings in what's likely to go down as one of the biggest and most bittersweet conventions in "Star Trek" fandom history.
"Beam Me Up Scotty... One Last Time," is being billed as Jimmy Doohan's final "Star Trek" fan convention
The tribute comes at a poignant time.
"Just a couple months ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's," Chris said.
So far the disease, still in its early stages, has only affected Jimmy's short-term memory.
"He's really doing well," Chris said. "We're more concerned with his Parkinson's disease and diabetes than the Alzheimer's."
Doohan was diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago.
"He gets to say goodbye to the fans," Chris said. "My dad has always been moved by the fans. If someone comes up and asks him for an autograph, he signs. He never turns anyone down."
To get his dad a star on the Walk of Fame, Chris raised $15,000, the fee required by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. He started a year ago and received donations from fans around the world, who gave everything from 50 cents to $500.
Chris keeps a sizeable collection of Scotty action figures and "Star Trek" memorabilia at his home, including a photo that shows Chris, Monty and Jimmy, all in their Starfleet uniforms for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
Chris pointed to the missing middle finger on his father's hand. Jimmy lost it during World War II, when fighting along with Royal Canadian Army sold
The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a banking scandal in the 1980s which involved Savings and Loans institutions. It resulted from President Reagan Ronald Reagan
Order: 40th President Term of Office: January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989 Predecessor: Jimmy Carter Successor: George H. W. Bush Date of Birth: Monday, February 6, 1911 Place of Birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of Death: Saturday, June 5, 2004 Place of Death: Bel Air]], Los Angeles, California First Lady: Nancy Reagan Profession: Actor and labor union leader Political Party: Republican]] Vice President: George H. W. Bush..... Click the link for more information. 's administration's attempt to continue deregulation, in the face of the worsening crisis in the Savings and Loan industries.
Charles Keating Alternative meaning: Charles Keating (actor)
Charles H. Keating Jr. (born 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American lawyer and banker convicted of fraud in the Savings and Loan scandal of 1989. A conservative Catholic active in the Republican Party, he was formerly involved in anti-pornography efforts.
Anti-pornography efforts
In the late 1950s, Keating founded the Cincinnati anti-pornography organization..... Click the link for more information.
was the president of the Lincoln Savings and Loan, which when it failed (1989) took around $2 billion dollars worth of investors' money with it.
Edwin J. Gray, the head of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, had been approached by three senators to discontinue investigation of the Lincoln S&L. It turned out that those senators had been given combined donations of $1.3 million to their campaign funds from the Lincoln S&L.
The Senate ethics committee concentrated on the five senators involved: Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914-December 31, 2000) was a U.S. journalist and politician. He was born in Palo Alto, California and attended Pomona College and the University of Mexico before graduating from Stanford University in 1936.
He was a correspondent for the International News Service for two years preceding World War II. When an abridged English-language translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was released, sanitized to exclude some of Hitler's anti-semitism and militancy, Cranston published an abridged and annotated translation which he believed more accurately reflected the contents of the book. In 1934, Hitler sued him for copyright violation in the state of Connecticut; a judge ruled in Hitler's favour and publication of the book was halted...... Click the link for more information.
(D, CA); Dennis DeConcini Dennis Webster DeConcini (born May 8, 1937) is a former Democratic Senator from the state of Arizona in the United States, serving from 1977 to 1995.
Primarily remembered as a member of the Keating Five, a banking and political contribution scandal in the 1980s which involved Savings and Loans institutions...... Click the link for more information.
(D, AZ); John Glenn This is about the astronaut and senator. Perhaps you sought the English film director John Glen (with one 'N')? John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former American fighter pilot, astronaut, and politician. He was the third American astronaut to travel in space and the first American to complete an orbit of the earth.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, he obtained a Bachelor..... Click the link for more information.
(D, OH); John McCain John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician. Considered a moderate Republican and maverick, McCain has been a U.S. Senator from Arizona since 1987. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated in the Republican primaries by George W. Bush.
Early life McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, the son and grandson of prominent Navy admirals (John S.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is registered with the Federal Election Commission as a so-called 527 organization and is not affiliated with any party, Knght Ridder explained. It got off the ground with a $100,000 donation from Texas homebuilder Bob J. Perry, who happens to be a prominent Republican donor as well as a friend of O'Neill.
Retired admiral Roy F. Hoffman, chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, told Knight Ridder that the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated the additional $400,000.
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To that end, Soros has given millions to three liberal-leaning organizations that also want to a Bush defeat: $10 million to America Coming Together, which aims to mobilize voters; $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org voters' fund, which places anti-Bush advertising; and $300,000 to the Campaign for America's Future.
He also has pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress, a think tank led by John Podesta, chief of staff to President Clinton.
This election year, Soros has spent about $4 million, more than any other individual, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit Washington-based group that tracks political donations.
MoveOn has spent roughly $17 million on ads since it started running its "misleader" campaign against Bush last year.
NEW YORK (AP) - George Soros' dream is President Bush losing in November - and so far, the billionaire philanthropist has donated nearly $13 million to independent groups that also want to turn that vision into reality. "I'm merely putting my money where my mouth is," Soros told The Associated Press.
I find it funny. If you wish me to change it please let me know and I will provide you with my paypal accound where you can transfer money (in USD) to me and I will change it to whatevery your like.;->
Apple has been, maybe not to the general public but they have been promoting it to their large institutional investors as some of them have become concerned with Apple not having a sub 1000 iMac on the market. It's a big reason why they had to announce the delay that caused their stock to take a 4% hit. If they had been upfront the stock would not have taken such a hit and they would not have had to stop taking iMac orders becuse they had stop iMac production.
Easy to erase the idea that other mp3 players even exist from the mind of the buying public and to build up market share and get people tied into iTunes so that when the need a new player in the future they will have to go with apple due to 'fairplay'
the iPod doesn't even have 50% of the portable mp3 player market so it appears the masses DO want something else. In the real world the masses do not spend $300 on a portable music player.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is registered with the Federal Election Commission as a so-called 527 organization and is not affiliated with any party, Knght Ridder explained. It got off the ground with a $100,000 donation from Texas homebuilder Bob J. Perry, who happens to be a prominent Republican donor as well as a friend of O'Neill.
Retired admiral Roy F. Hoffman, chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, told Knight Ridder that the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated the additional $400,000.
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To that end, Soros has given millions to three liberal-leaning organizations that also want to a Bush defeat: $10 million to America Coming Together, which aims to mobilize voters; $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org voters' fund, which places anti-Bush advertising; and $300,000 to the Campaign for America's Future.
He also has pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress, a think tank led by John Podesta, chief of staff to President Clinton.
This election year, Soros has spent about $4 million, more than any other individual, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit Washington-based group that tracks political donations.
MoveOn has spent roughly $17 million on ads since it started running its "misleader" campaign against Bush last year.
NEW YORK (AP) - George Soros' dream is President Bush losing in November - and so far, the billionaire philanthropist has donated nearly $13 million to independent groups that also want to turn that vision into reality. "I'm merely putting my money where my mouth is," Soros told The Associated Press.
I excuse it due to the 1st adm. The text follows .
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
They don't put real time reporting requirement in place and they allow corps to dump in millions but they try to restrict what the citizens of the US can do. Look up who is paying for all the parties at the DEM and GOP conventions. Tens of millions of dollars are changing hands and it is all legal. But if I want to run an ad with my personal money it's wrong.
That ain't right. CFR isn't about reforming the system it is about making sure those in power stay in power because change isn't good.
Clinton was giving a speach in a church TODAY. He does it all the time. So does Sharpton and a host of other Dems.
Please name one piece of legislation that the GOP has put forth to begin the process of turning the USA into a theocracy?
Research the damn topic becuase you have no idea what you are talking about. Stop believing what others tell you and do some research yourself.
You have all these wild ideas, yet you don't back them up. Billions of dollars from moon? Oh, and that extreme Christain movement you are talking about, a lot of them do not like bush becuase he really hasn't done anything.
And McCain and Former Mayor NYC are not outsiders in the GOP, they have a lot of power and it suits their public image to be viewed as outsiders.
Slashdot Mirror
I have gotten only one email for my political and antiabortion stance. I have gotten dozens of posts from /. apple fantics.
They are insane.
"Chris pointed to the missing middle finger on his father's hand. Jimmy lost it during World War II, when fighting along with Royal Canadian Army soldiers in Normandy on D-Day."
... One Last Time," is being billed as Jimmy Doohan's final "Star Trek" fan convention
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url:http://24hour.startribune.com/24hour/enterta in ment/story/1603990p-9256921c.html?
(SH) - After all these years, it's time for a confession.
Chris Doohan and Danny Bonaduce dented Sonny Bono's Porsche in the 1970s. Bono trusted the boys, best pals from Van Nuys, Calif., to move his prized car for him. With "Partridge Family" star Bonaduce behind the wheel and Doohan riding shotgun, they guided the sports car out of its safe parking space and went in the wrong direction. Oops.
But Doohan had much safer childhood adventures in outer space.
When he and his brother Monty visited their dad at work, their father would tell them to go play in the shuttlecraft.
"We played like we were spacemen," said Doohan, 45. "We were 7 years old. It was fun."
That's one of the perks when your father is "Scotty," of Star Trek fame.
James "Jimmy" Doohan, 84, played the beloved role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, chief engineer for the starship Enterprise, on the original 1966 series and in subsequent big-screen movies.
When your dad's a "Star Trek" icon, growing up can be out-of-this-world fun.
In the late 1970s, Chris and Monty, his twin, got in uniform and joined dad on the deck of the USS Enterprise, where William Shatner, as Capt. James T. Kirk, warned everyone about the villainous craft V'Ger that was approaching. It was a big moment for the boys, one that wound up on the big screen in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
In the television show, and in the "Trek" movies, the senior Doohan's Scotty character manned the transporter room - the words "Beam me up, Scotty" are forever burned into our public consciousness - and constantly worked miracles to keep the Enterprise running.
For Chris, the "miracle worker" nature of his dad's character has been a source of constant inspiration.
Next week, to pay his dad back for all of the love and inspiration he's provided over the years, Chris will present his famous father with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Doohan clan, along with a grandstand of fans, will beam there Tuesday for the star ceremony.
On Monday, the senior Doohan will greet fans inside the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, which has on display the bridge set from "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
These are among the happenings in what's likely to go down as one of the biggest and most bittersweet conventions in "Star Trek" fandom history.
"Beam Me Up Scotty
The tribute comes at a poignant time.
"Just a couple months ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's," Chris said.
So far the disease, still in its early stages, has only affected Jimmy's short-term memory.
"He's really doing well," Chris said. "We're more concerned with his Parkinson's disease and diabetes than the Alzheimer's."
Doohan was diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago.
"He gets to say goodbye to the fans," Chris said. "My dad has always been moved by the fans. If someone comes up and asks him for an autograph, he signs. He never turns anyone down."
To get his dad a star on the Walk of Fame, Chris raised $15,000, the fee required by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. He started a year ago and received donations from fans around the world, who gave everything from 50 cents to $500.
Chris keeps a sizeable collection of Scotty action figures and "Star Trek" memorabilia at his home, including a photo that shows Chris, Monty and Jimmy, all in their Starfleet uniforms for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
Chris pointed to the missing middle finger on his father's hand. Jimmy lost it during World War II, when fighting along with Royal Canadian Army sold
How are their views different?
The above post is proof the mods are insane idiots who mod up any comment that appears to be pro apple.
Try reading the comment next time.
True. But he has been in the senate for what, 17 years?
" You may not alter, or modify the Image, in whole or in part, for any reason."
That mean no color correction or any editing to make it fit the process you are using.
Yes, Indymedia where the Jews are responsible for most everything and the poor missunderstoop palistanies never do anything wrong.
Read their site and tell me that 50% of what is posted is lies.
Please google on "keating five"
..... Click the link for more information. 's administration's attempt to continue deregulation, in the face of the worsening crisis in the Savings and Loan industries.
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The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a banking scandal in the 1980s which involved Savings and Loans institutions. It resulted from President Reagan Ronald Reagan
Order: 40th President
Term of Office: January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989
Predecessor: Jimmy Carter
Successor: George H. W. Bush
Date of Birth: Monday, February 6, 1911
Place of Birth: Tampico, Illinois
Date of Death: Saturday, June 5, 2004
Place of Death: Bel Air]], Los Angeles, California
First Lady: Nancy Reagan
Profession: Actor and labor union leader
Political Party: Republican]]
Vice President: George H. W. Bush
Charles Keating Alternative meaning: Charles Keating (actor)
Charles H. Keating Jr. (born 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American lawyer and banker convicted of fraud in the Savings and Loan scandal of 1989. A conservative Catholic active in the Republican Party, he was formerly involved in anti-pornography efforts.
Anti-pornography efforts
In the late 1950s, Keating founded the Cincinnati anti-pornography organization
was the president of the Lincoln Savings and Loan, which when it failed (1989) took around $2 billion dollars worth of investors' money with it.
Edwin J. Gray, the head of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, had been approached by three senators to discontinue investigation of the Lincoln S&L. It turned out that those senators had been given combined donations of $1.3 million to their campaign funds from the Lincoln S&L.
The Senate ethics committee concentrated on the five senators involved: Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914-December 31, 2000) was a U.S. journalist and politician. He was born in Palo Alto, California and attended Pomona College and the University of Mexico before graduating from Stanford University in 1936.
He was a correspondent for the International News Service for two years preceding World War II. When an abridged English-language translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was released, sanitized to exclude some of Hitler's anti-semitism and militancy, Cranston published an abridged and annotated translation which he believed more accurately reflected the contents of the book. In 1934, Hitler sued him for copyright violation in the state of Connecticut; a judge ruled in Hitler's favour and publication of the book was halted.
(D, CA); Dennis DeConcini Dennis Webster DeConcini (born May 8, 1937) is a former Democratic Senator from the state of Arizona in the United States, serving from 1977 to 1995.
Primarily remembered as a member of the Keating Five, a banking and political contribution scandal in the 1980s which involved Savings and Loans institutions.
(D, AZ); John Glenn This is about the astronaut and senator. Perhaps you sought the English film director John Glen (with one 'N')? John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former American fighter pilot, astronaut, and politician. He was the third American astronaut to travel in space and the first American to complete an orbit of the earth.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, he obtained a Bachelor
(D, OH); John McCain John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician. Considered a moderate Republican and maverick, McCain has been a U.S. Senator from Arizona since 1987. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated in the Republican primaries by George W. Bush.
Early life
McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, the son and grandson of prominent Navy admirals (John S.
The Swift Boat Vets:
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is registered with the Federal Election Commission as a so-called 527 organization and is not affiliated with any party, Knght Ridder explained. It got off the ground with a $100,000 donation from Texas homebuilder Bob J. Perry, who happens to be a prominent Republican donor as well as a friend of O'Neill.
Retired admiral Roy F. Hoffman, chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, told Knight Ridder that the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated the additional $400,000.
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To that end, Soros has given millions to three liberal-leaning organizations that also want to a Bush defeat: $10 million to America Coming Together, which aims to mobilize voters; $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org voters' fund, which places anti-Bush advertising; and $300,000 to the Campaign for America's Future.
He also has pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress, a think tank led by John Podesta, chief of staff to President Clinton.
This election year, Soros has spent about $4 million, more than any other individual, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit Washington-based group that tracks political donations.
MoveOn has spent roughly $17 million on ads since it started running its "misleader" campaign against Bush last year.
NEW YORK (AP) - George Soros' dream is President Bush losing in November - and so far, the billionaire philanthropist has donated nearly $13 million to independent groups that also want to turn that vision into reality. "I'm merely putting my money where my mouth is," Soros told The Associated Press.
WTF are you talking about?
I find it funny. If you wish me to change it please let me know and I will provide you with my paypal accound where you can transfer money (in USD) to me and I will change it to whatevery your like. ;->
Maybe of 2-4 quarters but it would help cement the iPods long term position.
IOW, don't do a repeat of the Mac and get stuck with less than 5% of the market because you have to have very high profit margins.
About my sig, I suggest you google for IronPython and then goto ebay and buy a sense of humor ;->
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No, you just need to lock down the config tight enough so that can't happen.
Apple has good points so why does it supports insist on lying about other products to try and win support for apple?
Besides, Apple could not get enough g5's to supply even 15% of the total corp market.
Apple needs to hire the Microsoft astroturfers because you guys suck. ;->
Apple has been, maybe not to the general public but they have been promoting it to their large institutional investors as some of them have become concerned with Apple not having a sub 1000 iMac on the market. It's a big reason why they had to announce the delay that caused their stock to take a 4% hit. If they had been upfront the stock would not have taken such a hit and they would not have had to stop taking iMac orders becuse they had stop iMac production.
Easy to erase the idea that other mp3 players even exist from the mind of the buying public and to build up market share and get people tied into iTunes so that when the need a new player in the future they will have to go with apple due to 'fairplay'
That is why they should lower the price a little.
And when people say they have hardware troubles with their ipods on /. the get modded to hell. /. is broke.
That is the limited edition. The normal version will be made in greater numbers.
the iPod doesn't even have 50% of the portable mp3 player market so it appears the masses DO want something else. In the real world the masses do not spend $300 on a portable music player.
The Mac mods on /. have just declared a fatwa against you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa
This just happend in the last 12-18 hours. As a matter of fact I was just fixing to order one for my computer and a seperate reciver for my wifes car.
Guess I won't.
That's only 200 startup and 17.00 per month that XM will not be getting out of us.
The Swift Boat Vets:
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is registered with the Federal Election Commission as a so-called 527 organization and is not affiliated with any party, Knght Ridder explained. It got off the ground with a $100,000 donation from Texas homebuilder Bob J. Perry, who happens to be a prominent Republican donor as well as a friend of O'Neill.
Retired admiral Roy F. Hoffman, chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, told Knight Ridder that the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated the additional $400,000.
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To that end, Soros has given millions to three liberal-leaning organizations that also want to a Bush defeat: $10 million to America Coming Together, which aims to mobilize voters; $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org voters' fund, which places anti-Bush advertising; and $300,000 to the Campaign for America's Future.
He also has pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress, a think tank led by John Podesta, chief of staff to President Clinton.
This election year, Soros has spent about $4 million, more than any other individual, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit Washington-based group that tracks political donations.
MoveOn has spent roughly $17 million on ads since it started running its "misleader" campaign against Bush last year.
NEW YORK (AP) - George Soros' dream is President Bush losing in November - and so far, the billionaire philanthropist has donated nearly $13 million to independent groups that also want to turn that vision into reality. "I'm merely putting my money where my mouth is," Soros told The Associated Press.
I excuse it due to the 1st adm. The text follows
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
They don't put real time reporting requirement in place and they allow corps to dump in millions but they try to restrict what the citizens of the US can do. Look up who is paying for all the parties at the DEM and GOP conventions. Tens of millions of dollars are changing hands and it is all legal. But if I want to run an ad with my personal money it's wrong.
That ain't right. CFR isn't about reforming the system it is about making sure those in power stay in power because change isn't good.
Clinton was giving a speach in a church TODAY. He does it all the time. So does Sharpton and a host of other Dems.
Please name one piece of legislation that the GOP has put forth to begin the process of turning the USA into a theocracy?
Research the damn topic becuase you have no idea what you are talking about. Stop believing what others tell you and do some research yourself.
You have all these wild ideas, yet you don't back them up. Billions of dollars from moon? Oh, and that extreme Christain movement you are talking about, a lot of them do not like bush becuase he really hasn't done anything.
And McCain and Former Mayor NYC are not outsiders in the GOP, they have a lot of power and it suits their public image to be viewed as outsiders.