What I’d Get Thomas Jefferson For His Birthday

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   Forbidden Snowflake

   April 13, 2012 at 2:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   A DIY Jefferson’s “The Jefferson Lies” toolkit?

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   godlesspanther

   April 13, 2012 at 2:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   A David Barton dartboard. I want one for my birthday!

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   brianwood

   April 13, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I’d give him the conscience to reflect on his slaves. Other “men of his time” had figured out slavery is wrong. Oh, but right, he helped found a nation of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich, (especially, at the time, slaveholders).

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   cjtotalbro

   April 13, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I dont see why its ok to throw Darts at Mr.Rogers.

   Also, why is he wearing a cowboy hat and where is his sweater?!

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   jamesramsey

   April 13, 2012 at 4:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   @4 That is truly an insult to Mr. Rogers.

   I’ll take Mr. Rogers’ brand of Christianity over Barton’s any day.

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   imthegenieicandoanything

   April 13, 2012 at 7:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   It is unbelievable to me what many people are willing to do for some money and some fame. I wouldn’t wish the un-life that Barton leads on anyone.
   At least we know he doesn’t believe in an afterlife – or can hop that the insipid, endless, meaningless afterlife he is stupid enough to pretend to believe in turns out, for him, to be reality.

   So, is someone like DB worse than a simply cynical underling working at Faux news, or advising Mitt on how best to lie to become the pResident who finishes the goals of the Shrub pResidency: to bankrupt the US and institute a one-party state?

   Is it better to do evil unconsciously (but not out of ignorance), semi-consciously (out of self-deception), or consciously (out of short-term, non-life-threatening self-interest)?

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   larrycenter

   April 14, 2012 at 11:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   I concur with many sentiments of the 6 replies above. Let us remember April 13 for all 3 great heroic Atheists; Tho Jeff, Hitch & DR Madalyn Eads Murray O’Hair. Christopher Hitchens died LAST YEAR on the 1791 anniversary of Amendment One adopted to our godless US Constitution. Tho Jeff died on the 50th anniversary of his 1776 Declaration dedicated to: ” Nature and Nature’s god.” Madalyn fought tirelessly from 1959 to 1995 to defeat theocracy. Demand from each believer in the public square: “exactly what is a god? Until one such thing as a god is produced present & verifiable for scientists to conclude any god is extant, prayers by rote for all assembled is treason, betraying sanity and our US Constitution.”

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   kevinalexander

   April 14, 2012 at 8:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   When Barton called his book Jefferson Lies, was he trying to be ironic?

   When he styles himself as an expert on lying about Jefferson I say ‘Pat that man on the back. He certainly is.’

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   sunsangnim

   April 16, 2012 at 8:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Well, he did do the same thing to the bible (minus the dartboard).