Girls & balls… Same old story…

A Bordeaux, l’association « Allez les Filles » organise des concerts de rock (www.allezlesfilles.com), et elles savent ou il faut taper.

A Paris, tous les Vendredis, soirées bien organisées par des filles qui en ont (informations/réservations au 06-21-70-52-56, girlshaveballs@gmail.com)…

La seule statue de vache en Normandie

selon le routard…

Et elle est ou ??

America is not a Christian nation

April 14, 2009 | Is America a Christian nation, as many conservatives claim it is? One American doesn’t think so. In his press conference on April 6 in Turkey, President Obama explained: « One of the great strengths of the United States is … we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. » (…)

The idea that religion is important because it educates democratic citizens in morality is actually quite demeaning to religion. It imposes a political test on religion, as it were — religions are not true or false, but merely useful or dangerous, when it comes to encouraging the civic virtues that are desirable in citizens of a constitutional, democratic republic. Washington’s instrumental view of religion as a kind of prop was agreeable to another two-term American president more than a century and a half later. « [O]ur form of government has no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith, » said Dwight Eisenhower, « and I don’t care what it is. » And it’s indistinguishable from Edward Gibbon’s description of Roman religion in his famous multi-volume « Decline and Fall »: « The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. » President Obama, then, is right. The American republic, as distinct from the American population, is not post-Christian because it was never Christian. In the president’s words: « We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. » And for that we should thank the gods. All 20 of them.

Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

 

 

 

Trouvé sur le site : http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/14/christian_nation/index.html

 

 

Nous étions prévenus

  »I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by  inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’
Thomas Jefferson  1802  ( président des états-unis de 1801 à 1809  ) 

« Je pense que les  institutions bancaires sont plus dangereuses pour nos  libertés que des armées entières prêtes au combat. Si  le peuple américain permet un jour que des banques  privées contrôlent leur monnaie, les banques et toutes les institutions qui fleuriront autour des banques priveront les gens de toute possession, d’abord par l’inflation, ensuite par la récession, jusqu’au jour où leurs enfants se réveilleront, sans maison et sans toit, sur la terre  que leurs parents ont conquis ».

Tunons, tunons, il en restera toujours quelque chose