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Gardner closed his speech with a line from the Declaration of Independence, quoting Thomas Jefferson's belief in the necessity for a "decent respect for the opinion of mankind...
...must read Candide by Voltaire. Voltaire was a freethinker like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, although they did not go by that name. Today freethinkers like myself and my family go by the name humanists. I'll tell you an interesting story about Voltaire. He was a landowner who had many employees, almost all Roman Catholics. Despite the fact that his humanism was skeptical of the existence of God, he never said anything to his workers to make them skeptical. Voltaire knew, respected, and valued how comforting religion was for them. He kept his humanist conversation within small circles...
...possible that anyone--let alone the Jefferson County Attorney's Office--can be selling a video showing scenes from the Columbine massacre complete with a music score? Isn't that sick...
...fighters who made the lengthy training video, which has been shown to more than 80 rescue teams in the U.S. and Canada, never intended for the material to be shown to the public. But last week a judge ordered the tapes released to the victims' families who are suing Jefferson County for mishandling the rescue. Although fire officials and the sheriff's department strongly opposed public distribution of the video, the county attorney made the tapes available to individuals and news organizations to avoid additional lawsuits. The $25 price tag, the attorney said, covers the cost of production and distribution...
...includes footage from a news helicopter of students fleeing, was compiled by a fire-department employee who, trying to make training more interesting for his colleagues, added pop songs to part of the tape. After outraged parents called the sound track tasteless and record companies called it copyright infringement, Jefferson County began selling only music-free versions of the tape...