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I want to extend my hopes for a fast recovery to Sen. Harry Reid’s wife and daughter who were hurt in a vehicle accident.  Having been a victim of a run-away 18 wheeler, I understand what they are going through in that respects.

I’m sure they will have the best doctors treating them and I wish them a speedy recovery.

Sen. Reid’s Wife Breaks Back, Neck in Crash

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said.

Reid’s wife, Landra, 69, whose injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, and their daughter, Lana Barringer, 49, were taken by ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. The daughter was released from the hospital Thursday night, according to a staffer with the hospital’s patient information service.

Mrs. Reid was listed in serious condition, Reid aides said, but was not expected to require surgery. She was being treated in the hospital’s trauma intensive care unit, said the hospital staffer, who declined to give his name.

“Under God” and “In God We Trust” are okay.

And this from a court in wacky San Francisco!!

Fed. appeals court upholds ‘under God’ in pledge

SAN FRANCISCO — An appellate court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments they violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

“The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 2-1 ruling Thursday.
Bea noted that schools do not require students to recite the pledge, which was amended to include the words “under God” by a 1954 federal law. Members of Congress at the time said they wanted to set the United States apart from “godless communists.”
In a separate 3-0 ruling, the appeals court upheld the inscription of the national motto “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins and currency, citing an earlier 9th Circuit panel that ruled the phrase is ceremonial and patriotic and “has nothing whatsover to do with the establishment of religion.”

The same appeals court caused a national uproar and prompted accusations of judicial activism when it decided in Sacramento athiest Michael Newdow’s favor in 2002, ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance violated the First Amendment prohibition against government endorsement of religion.

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