It never fails to piss me off when I hear someone credit Ronald Raygun for bringing down the soviet union. What a crock of right wing horseshit! The soviet union was brought down by: American television, Lec Walesa, the Pope and Mikail Gorbachev. Reagan slept through the whole thing.

By the way, what do we need a pledge for anyway? Does parroting a few patriotic words make you a better American? Is a Canadian less of a Canadian because they have no such pledge? When I was a small boy in school, I repeated that pledge every day without a clue what it meant; now, I know what it means, but, I have no need to show what a good American I am by repeating it.