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Hot Rod Member	Tue Dec 28 09:29:44 The spammers ruined the other threads as I am quite sure they will ruin this one. That is the nature of those who do not believe in Free Speech. ~ On December 28, 1945, Congress made the Pledge of Allegiance the offical national pledge to the US flag. noted clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) reminded us what our flag means: If one asks the meaning of our flag, I say it means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant. It means the whole glorious Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Under this banner rode Washington and his armies....It waved on the highlands at West Point.....This banner streamed in light over the soldiers' heads at Valley Forge....It crossed the waters rolling with ice at Trenton.... Our flag carries American ideas, American history, and American feelings. Beginning with the colonies, and coming down to our time, in its scared heraldry, in it glorious insigna, it has gathered and stored chiefly this supreme idea: Divine right of liberty in man. Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every form of star and beam or stripe of light means liberty. Not lawlessness, not license, but organized, institutional liberty-liberty through law, and laws for liberty. The American flag was the safeguard of liberty. Not an atom of crown was allowed to go into its insigna. Not a symbol of authority in the ruler was permitted to go into it. It was an ordiance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time.
Hot Rod Member	Tue Dec 28 09:37:09 Red Skelton and The Pledge of Allegiance. http://www...iOnI&feature=player_embedded#!
ehcks Member	Tue Dec 28 09:43:37 These threads are themselves spam and so can not be ruined by more spam.
gravitas Member	Tue Dec 28 09:45:59 i hate when people make an issue out of reciting the pledge, if you cant bring yourself to say it, move to China
ehcks Member	Tue Dec 28 10:03:54 The United States is not a theocracy. One of our most important ideals is the freedom to follow whatever religion or non-religion you want. Adding "under God" to the pledge of allegiance was an unconstitutional act that goes against what this country stands for!
Hot Rod Member	Wed Dec 29 08:00:48 If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams
stephenson Member	Wed Dec 29 08:30:44 [close] Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Close Quotation mark glyphs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the meaning and usage of quotation marks in the English language see Quotation mark and in other languages see Quotation mark, non-English usage. This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2007) This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. â??â??â?? â??â??â?? â??â??â?? â??â??â?? â?¹â??â?º «â??» Punctuation apostrophe ( â?? ' ) brackets ( [ ], ( ), { }, â?¨ â?© ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dash ( â??, â??, â??, â?? ) ellipsis ( â?¦, ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) guillemets ( « » ) hyphen ( -, â?? ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( â?? â??, â?? â?? ) semicolon ( ; ) slash/stroke ( / ) solidus ( â?? ) Word dividers space ( ) (â??) (â??) (â? ) (â?¢) (â?£) interpunct ( · ) General typography ampersand ( & ) at sign ( @ ) asterisk ( * ) backslash ( \ ) bullet ( â?¢ ) caret ( ^ ) copyright symbol ( © ) currency (generic) ( ¤ ) currency (specific) â?³ ฿ â?µ ¢ â?¡ â?¢ â?  $ â?« Indian Rupee symbol.svg ৳ â?¯ â?¬ Æ? â?£ â?² â?´ â?­ â?³ â?¥ â?¦ â?§ â?± â?° £ â?¨ â?ª Kazakhstani tenge symbol.svg â?® â?© Â¥ dagger ( â? , â?¡ ) degree ( ° ) ditto mark ( ã?? ) inverted exclamation mark ( ¡ ) inverted question mark ( ¿ ) number sign/pound/hash ( # ) numero sign ( â?? ) ordinal indicator ( º, ª ) percent etc. ( %, â?°, â?± ) pilcrow ( ¶ ) prime ( â?², â?³, â?´ ) registered trademark ( ® ) section sign ( § ) service mark ( â?  ) sound recording copyright ( â?? ) tilde ( ~ ) trademark ( â?¢ ) underscore/understrike ( _ ) vertical/broken bar, pipe ( |, ¦ ) Uncommon typography asterism ( â?? ) tee ( â?¤ ) up tack ( â?¥ ) index/fist ( â?? ) therefore sign ( â?´ ) because sign ( â?µ ) interrobang ( â?½ ) irony & sarcasm punctuation ( Ø? ) lozenge ( â?? ) reference mark ( â?» ) tie ( â?? ) view â?¢ talk â?¢ edit Different typefaces, character encodings and computer languages use various encodings and glyphs for quotation marks. This article lists some of these glyphs along with their Unicode code points and HTML entities. The Unicode standard defines two general character categories, "Ps" (punctuation quote start) and "Pe" (punctuation quote end), for all quotation mark characters. Contents [hide] * 1 Typewriter quotation marks * 2 Quotation marks in English o 2.1 Quotation marks in electronic documents * 3 Quotation marks in European languages * 4 Quotation marks in CJK languages * 5 References [edit] Typewriter quotation marks "Ambidextrous" quotation marks were introduced on typewriters to reduce the number of keys on the keyboard, and were inherited by computer keyboards and character sets. However, modern word processors have started to convert text to use curved quotes (see below). Some computer systems designed in the past had character sets with proper opening and closing quotes. However, the ASCII character set, which has been used on a wide variety of computers since the 1960s, only made three quotation marks available: ", ', and the dubious backquote ` (also referred to as backtick or letterless grave accent). The Unicode standard includes typographic and a variety of international quotation marks. Sample Unicode (decimal) HTML and XML Description 'O' U+0027 (39) ' in XML, but usually '. ' is not part of the HTML specification. Apostrophe (single quote) "O" U+0022 (34) ", but usually ". Straight quotation mark (double quote) Many systems, like the personal computers of the 1980s and early '90s, actually drew straight quotes like curved closing quotes on-screen and in printouts, so text would appear like this (approximately): â??Good morning, Daveâ??, said HAL. â??Good morning, Daveâ??, said HAL. The grave accent (`, U+0060) could then be used to supply single quote marks. The typesetting application TeX still uses this convention for input files. This use resulted in fonts with an open quote glyph (usually actually a high-reversed-9 glyph, to preserve some usability as a grave) at the grave accent position. This gives a proper appearance at the cost of semantic correctness. Nothing similar was available for the double quote, so many people resorted to using sets of two single quotes for punctuation, which would look like the following: ``Good morning, Dave'', said HAL. â?? â??â??Good morning, Daveâ??â??, said HAL. However, the appearance of these characters has varied greatly from font to font. On systems which provide straight quotes and grave accents like most do today â?? Unicode specifies that the glyphs for the single (U+0027 ') and double (U+0022 ") quotes should be neutral/vertical rather than slanted â?? the result is poor as shown on the left quotation above. Of course Unicode also provides the ability to present slanted/curved quotes properly by using the new characters listed below (here for US English then British English quotation styles): â??Good morning, Daveâ??, said HAL. â??Good morning, Daveâ??, said HAL. [edit] Quotation marks in English English curved quotes, also called â??book quotesâ?? or â??curly quotesâ??, resemble small figures six and nine raised above the baseline (like 6...9 and 66...99), but then solid, i.e., with the counters filled. In many typefaces, the shapes are the same as those of an inverted (upside down) and normal comma. They are preferred in formal writing and printed typography. [edit] Quotation marks in electronic documents In e-mail and on Usenet curved quotes can only be used by using a MIME type with a character set outside of the ISO-8859 series such as a Unicode encoding or one of the Windows-125x series. In most cases (the exceptions being if UTF-7 is used or if the 8BITMIME extension is present) this also requires the use of a content-transfer encoding. A few mail clients send curved quotes using the windows-1252 codes, but mark the text as ISO-8859-1, causing problems for decoders that do not make the dubious assumption that C1 control codes in ISO-8859-1 text were meant to be windows-1252 printable characters. Curved and straight quotes are also sometimes referred to as smart quotes (â??â?¦â??) and dumb quotes ("â?¦") respectively; these names are in reference to the name of a function found in several word processors that automatically converts straight quotes typed by the user into curved quotes. This function, known as â??educating quotesâ??, was developed for systems which lack separate open- and close-quote keyboard keys. Samples Unicode (decimal) HTML Description â??Oâ?? U+2018 (8216), U+2019 (8217) ‘ ’ Single quotes (left and right) â??Oâ?? U+201C (8220), U+201D (8221) “ ” Double quotes (left and right) Variants of â?? and â?? are â?? and â?? â?? U+201B â??â?? single high-reversed-9 quotation mark (HTML: ‛), also called single reversed comma, quotation mark (This is sometimes used to show dropped characters at the end of words, such as goinâ?? instead of using goinâ??, goinâ??, goin`, or goin'[citation needed]) â?? U+201F â??â?? double high-reversed-9 quotation mark (HTML: ‟), also called double reversed comma, quotation mark Supporting curved quotes has been a problem in information technology, primarily because the widely used ASCII character set did not include a representation for them (as discussed above). Word processors have traditionally offered curved quotes to users, because in printed documents curved quotes are preferred to straight ones. Before Unicode was widely accepted and supported, this meant representing the curved quotes in whatever 8-bit encoding the software and underlying operating system were usingâ??but the character sets for Windows and Macintosh used two different pairs of values for curved quotes, and ISO 8859-1 (typically the default character set for the Unixes and, until recently, Linux) has no curved quotes, making cross-platform compatibility quite difficult to implement. Compounding the problem is the â??smart quotesâ?? feature mentioned above, which some word processors (including Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org) use by default. With this feature turned on, users may not have realised that the ASCII-compatible straight quotes they were typing on their keyboards ended up as something entirely different. Further, the â??smart quotesâ?? feature converts opening apostrophes (such as in the words â??tis, â??em, and â??til) into opening single quotation marksâ??essentially upside-down apostrophes. A blatant example of this error appears in the advertisements for the television show â??Til Death. Unicode support has since become the norm for operating systems. Thus, in at least some cases, transferring content containing curved quotes (or any other non-ASCII characters) from a word processor to another application or platform has sometimes been less troublesome, provided all steps in the process (including the clipboard if applicable) are Unicode-aware. But there are many applications which still use the older character sets, or output data using them, and thus problems still occur. There are other considerations for including curved quotes in the widely used markup languages HTML, XML, and SGML. If the encoding of the document supports direct representation of the characters, they can be used, but doing so can result in difficulties if the document needs to be edited by someone who is using an editor that cannot support the encoding. For example, many simple text editors only handle a few encodings or assume that the encoding of any file opened is a platform default, so the quote characters may appear as â??garbageâ??. HTML includes a set of entities for curved quotes: ‘ (left single), ’ (right single), ‚ (low 9 single), “ (left double), ” (right double), and „ (low 9 double). XML does not define these by default, but specifications based on it can do so, and XHTML does. In addition, while the HTML 4, XHTML and XML specifications allow specifying numeric character references in either hexadecimal or decimal, SGML and older versions of HTML (and many old implementations) only support decimal references. Thus, to represent curly quotes in XML and SGML, it is safest to use the decimal numeric character references. That is, to represent the double curly quotes use “ and ”, and to represent single curly quotes use ‘ and ’. Both numeric and named references function correctly in almost every modern browser. While using numeric references can make a page more compatible with outdated browsers, using named references are safer for systems that handle multiple character encodings (i.e. RSS aggregators and search results). There has been some argument[citation needed] in recent years about the appropriateness of book quotes, since they are perceived by some[who?] as distracting. Editors who are against book quotes generally argue for ASCII-style straight quotes. [edit] Quotation marks in European languages Main article: Quotation mark, non-English usage View Description Unicode name Unicode hexadecimal (decimal) HTML « Double angle quote (chevron, guillemet, duck-foot quote), left LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 00AB (0171) « » Double angle quote, right RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 00BB (0187) » â?¹ Single angle quote, left SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 2039 (8249) ‹ â?º Single angle quote, right SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 203A (8250) › â?? Double curved quote, or â??curly quoteâ??, left LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK 201C (8220) “ â?? Double curved quote, right RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK 201D (8221) ” â?? Low double curved quote, left DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK 201E (8222) „ â?? Single curved quote, left LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 2018 (8216) ‘ â?? Single curved quote, right RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 2019 (8217) ’ , Low single curved quote, left SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK 201A (8218) ‚ " Typewriter (â??programmerâ??sâ??) quote, ambidextrous QUOTATION MARK 0022 (0034) " [edit] Quotation marks in CJK languages See main article at Quotation mark, non-English usage View Unicode name Unicode hexadecimal (decimal) HTML ã?? LEFT CORNER BRACKET 300C (12300) 「 (「) ã?? RIGHT CORNER BRACKET 300D (12301) 」 (」) ã?? LEFT WHITE CORNER BRACKET 300E (12302) 『 (『) ã?? 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Milton bradley Member	Wed Dec 29 08:34:42 "this one looks cool, not sure why it is at a jewish site though" Had you spent a minute researching you would know that is a Talis Bag. It is what we carry our prayer shawl in. " ~ The Guardian
Milton bradley Member	Wed Dec 29 08:37:30 ^From the same thread: 'I think of myself as The Guardian of Truth' ~ The Guardian
Milton bradley Member	Wed Dec 29 08:38:24 Because the Guardian of Truth is about to lie that he never said that: http://www...&thread=33643&showdeleted=true
Milton bradley Member	Wed Dec 29 08:43:12 'Sorry, I used the nick that came with the machine. I guess I hit it by mistake when I logged on. I bought this computer at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago and I don't know how to remove that registration. Does anyone know how I can delete it?' ~ The Guardian Of Truth
Milton Bradley Member	Wed Dec 29 08:52:36 The definition of irony: 'No one believes you anymore you pedo freak.' ~ Hot Rod
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