Yes, yes....lovely points. Couldn't agree more.

I'm now going to demonstrate how most of these lengthy and contentious discussions work. Ahem.

"BLAH!   BLAH! BLAH! &%$% Religion! *&$^ Clinton! (*&% Government! &*^% fundamentalists! *&% Bush! *^$%$ LH! *&^%% Shambles! *&^% pissant morons who believe whatever it is that I don't because I'm not that stupid! BLAH!"   

(There...that should fix the bastards...ha!)

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Now it's your turn. Have fun, retaliate in kind, make devastating points, engage in brilliant analyis, keep your restless mind engaged, and impress people...as time ticks steadily by and you get older and start to look more and more like the people you contemptuously referred to as "old farts" when you were 18 years old and thought you were immortal.

With any luck we'll go to over 60,000,000 posts before we all croak.