Trophies From My Ongoing Internet Safari

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motherjones:

We learned something new today. Er.
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The passages cited:
Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of thisState, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

Pennsylvania, Article 1, Section 4

No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Texas, Article 1, Section 4

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

motherjones:

We learned something new today. Er.

(via)

The passages cited:

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of thisState, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

Pennsylvania, Article 1, Section 4

No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Texas, Article 1, Section 4

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

Source: motherjones

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Source: wilwheaton

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When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.

President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)

I love how our president can rationally articulate a thought.

(via aaronmeier)

Source: barackobama

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)

Source: kadrey

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pilgrimkitty:

awesome.

Source: bitchsuckmy12inch

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wilwheaton:

Q. F. T.

Source: emilianadarling

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inothernews:

FORD OF THE RINGS The Saturnian moon Daphnis and Pan stir ripples in the giant planet’s rings due to their gravitational effect. Five-mile-wide Daphnis (lower left) is perturbing particles in Saturn’s A ring, while 17-mile-wide Pan (upper right) has kicked up dark wakes in the ring propagating toward the middle of the image. This picture was taken in visible light by the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2010, at a distance of about 329,000 miles from Saturn. (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI via MSNBC)

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Source: feminishblog

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Engineering is Awesome: Laws of Spacecraft Design...

theblogofjimrie:

1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

2. To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it’s a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong .

3. Design is an iterative process….

Source: theblogofjimrie

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