Politics Important Government Business Afoot
posted by April 15 at 15:05 PM
onYes, the economy is in the toilet, and yes, there’s that whole Iraq War business, but before we get to all that we need to do something really, really important:
A freshman Georgia Republican wanted to stress the importance of divine oversight of the US as he saw it portrayed in the Pledge of Allegiance.Leading the pledge on the House floor Monday, Rep. Paul Broun lectured others in the chamber about the “correct way” of saying the pledge.
“There should not be a comma between ‘one nation’ and ‘under God,’” Broun told his colleagues before beginning his rendition of a pause-free pledge.
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Whenever I need a break from what truly matters on this planet, I just google "freshman," "Georgia" and "Republican" together.
One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for Oil!
I haven't said the Pledge of Allegiance in 40 years. I doubt I could still remember any of it.
I like the comma- "under God" by itself seems much more ominous.
@3 - And you call yourself a gun lobbyist!
He's clearly clinging to religion.
My junior high band director was a fucking dinosaur (LDS or Jehova's Witness, I think)and made us say the pledge without the comma and made us do it over again if we paused.
He was such an asshole that he had to go part-time the next year because no one would take band with him. So remember, conservative christians: you're only hurting yerselves.
Military service: None
NRA member: Indeed.
Go figure.
kazuo,
Wasn't a Jehovah's Witness, they won't say the pledge.
Not much call for reciting the pledge out there, Hernandez, even for gun lobbyists.
Sigh, I remember being lectured about this in Cub Scouts.
I don't think this is a religious-nazi thing...I think it's a grammar-nazi thing.
So, include the comma, and "under god" becomes a modifier clause for "country", when it's clearly intended to modify "nation". Grammatically and lyrically, it's awkward to put a comma there.
Now, if we just changed it to "by golly", it would be folksy, and the comma would be correct.
A true patriot knows that there should be no pauses anywhere anytime in the pledge ever.
Modifier clause for country? I never thought so, with or without the comma.
I guess I always thought of the punctuation more like this...
in which case the 'under God' parenthetical phrase is most certainly describing 'Nation'.
We should just replace the "under God" part with "fuck Georgia." And change the two commas to em dashes or parentheses for grammatical correctness, of course.
the phrase "under god" wasn't added until 1954. http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfc_pledge.html
President Eisenhower added it because
I say we should remove it.
the phrase "under god" wasn't added until 1954. http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfc_pledge.html
President Eisenhower added it because
I say we should remove it.
Punctuation is for people who weren't home-schooled.
After reading what I posted, I realized something. For the last 54 year, two words , "under god", have fucked us up as a nation and forced us to not advance and maintain our Puritanical mindset while Europe and our neighbor's to the North have advanced their societies. Interestingly enough, those two words have out shadowed and made the conservatives forget the rest of the pledge - For Liberty and Justice for all
Replace the comma with farting noises.
What #12 and #17 said. Also...he's under the impression that a comma always indicates a pause in speech? Jesus.
This moron has clearly never said a collective prayer out out loud in church (or possibly ever recited the pledge in a group setting). All through these collective readings, the group pauses so that everyone can catch up to each other even when there's not a comma. I pledge allegiance . . . to the flag . . . of the United States of America. . . . and so forth. Sheesh. What a dolt. And an elitist, grammar-snobbish dolt at that. How much do we pay this jackass?
Why didn't we let the south seceede?
Paul Broun, Fuck You!, oh shit, wait, Paul Broun Fuck You. There, thats more like it.
I heard about that comma thing at Vacation Bible School forty plus years ago. VBS was a Southern Baptist invention (I think) wherein for two or three weeks during summer vacation you learned Bible stories and songs about the Bible in trade for arts and crafts and cookies with Kool-Aid. Brainwashing, of course. But we said the Pledge every morning before breaking up into our age groups and that's where I heard the kvetching about that goddamn comma.
Exactly @16/17, it's not the fucking comma that's out of place in the pledge, it's that fucking inserted reference to Big Sky Grandpa that's fucking things up - remove it, and the comma makes perfect sense.
You know, in the 43rd Dems, we don't do any of that.
Seriously.
More time for speeches.
Like the one from Iraq Vets Against the War ivaw.org tonight.
@26: Ceiling cat.
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