Lurker since 1998. Freeper since 2003!

"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir."

Thomas Paine, Common Sense US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461