Restoration III

Restored old template - for the most part. Found an old copy of the template - but it was before many link additions, but it gave me the name and such. So we are off to the races - 10 posts from about 100 and backing up every post via email. Life is good again.

U.S. national mottos: History and constitutionality

With respect to the whole "In God We Trust" on all U.S. money:
U.S. national mottos: History and constitutionality: "Decades later, Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of the motto. In a letter to William Boldly on 1907-NOV-11, he wrote: 'My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege...It is a motto which it is indeed well to have inscribed on our great national monuments, in our temples of justice, in our legislative halls, and in building such as those at West Point and Annapolis -- in short, wherever it will tend to arouse and inspire a lofty emotion in those who look thereon. But it seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins, just as it would be to cheapen it by use on postage stamps, or in advertisements.'"

Sounds to me like a pretty level-headed approach. But with the things that are so ingrained, people think it is an affront to religion and their belief in God to suggest that the phrase does not belong on money. This argument isn't even from the very good separation of church and state argument. Although it doesn't specifically embrace or promote a particular religion, it does promote a belief and blurs the line between secular government and religion/god.

Okay - so what's wrong with professing what the overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. believe on our coinage anyway? So what if a few aclu types or atheists object? Well, it just isn't appropriate and I think Roosevelt has a good point. The government shouldn't speak for me about whether I believe in god or not. I am an American. What I believe is my business and if you want to cover all the basis and represent what I believe - then why isn't my motto on the coins and paper money? (E Pluribus Unum was good.)

Restored Content

Hopefully this is the last update on the status of the blog re-creation. I have now gotten all ten cached blog entries posted and some of the sidebar content restored. Still need to work on the overall look and do my regular backups of the template and such.

I am still really disappointed in Blogger on this whole deletion of my blog and no final response to my inquiry about actually checking the backups for copies - and referring them to the very cached pages to show that my previous blog of http://snobodyknows.blogspot.com did really exist.

But, such is life - trust me people - back up your blog templates and entries or better, buy a host to store your blog and even better, get your own domain. I will someday.

Recreation/Resurrection

Since blogger deleted my original "nobody knows" blog, I have decided to start a new one with the same name, but with the email each post to myself turned on. In this way, perhaps the next time they decide to do something stupid and not admit it, i can then recover completely.

Fortunately for me, I did find two cached pages, one on google and one on yahoo - both from different dates - so I have about ten posts. I will get to reposting these real soon. I think I have part of my old template around.

I promise my next "real" post will be more interesting (at least to me anyway)!

Come to think of it - I think this proves that resurrections do actually happen. There goes all my arguments against the fantasy!