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To: Rambi who wrote (9371)	4/7/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

I'm with CW. I get in a snit about that swearing on a Bible thing. I thought they dropped that, and just had you hold up your hand and swear to tell the truth. Which, personally, would really put the fear of God in me. I'm not saying the Bible isn't a sacred book, or even "the word of God", or a "law-book", or whatever; but even believing these things, it doesn't belong there. The courts should know that. And it is not the exclusive source of ethics in human behavior. It's like saying a person can't have a conscience without the Bible. Which means, essentially, you are testifying to be a Christian. Or unfit to proceed in a law court. It does violate the Constitution, absolutely and clearly. For many reasons. It's embarrassing. Hiss away, mom. (Hi-fives Cw...)

To: Rambi who wrote (9371)	4/7/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 71178

things have changed since I was a kid. :o) My favorite court story: I got a ticket for "exhibition of speed" aka drag racing (narf) in college. had a 66 Mercury Cyclone GT 390 4 speed. Busted fair and square. nasty ticket. waited till my court date came and arrived at the court house. saw the Clerk. Clerk says, "No court today, you'll have to be rescheduled." I say, "Excuse me. I see here on my ticket that I am to appear today. Here I am. Have I done something wrong by appearing?" She looks at her book. Looks again. Looks at me and says, "No. Your ticket is dismissed." *YES!* Don't show this to the kid...

To: Rambi who wrote (9371)	4/8/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Not exactly teen court, but not old cars either. I went outside tonight and the moon is hanging high, as bright as a bulb, even though it is only three quarters full. I looked up at it and I was thinking that there's that face of the man in the moon. It is so clear that even my three year old can see it, as well as Orion's belt for that matter. Looking up, I was reminded that today they were playing pictures from that explorer satellite to Mars that showed the picture of the face on Mars. The newer pictures seemed to show greater detail of the area that was suspected of showing the picture of the face. Unfortunately, the new pictures look about as much like an artificial face as the detritus in my dust pan after sweeping the basement. Amazing really to think that there might be a face that would be left on the planet as some kind of signal to others that follow. Now it could be that this is just one of those infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters (try to find those these days) kind of thing. But it somehow made me a little nostalgic for my childhood, when looking up at the moon and seeing the pointy-headed-pointy-chinned old fellow up there with a big grin seemed that the moon was really designed by an illustrator from one of my books. Even though this one didn't pan out, what if there are some signals out there for us. I wonder how they would manifest. I wonder would they present themselves as faces in the sand or maybe something as substantial as mountainous features that we couldn't miss. My thinking is that they, if indeed it is a they, would leave something so unmistakable that we would know, we would truly know, just by looking at it, that it was a sign that we are not alone. There are some fascinating pictures at the round up site: headlines.yahoo.com I heartily recommend taking a look. I'm going back to take a look and see what I can find there in the Nasa site archives. Even as I wonder all of this, I wonder though, if there really was something of interest, whether or not they would post it for us to see. What if we are not ready?