Blogshare Press Release

'faithmouse' was the subject of much speculation when analysts at several firms were heard to be very positive about it's recent performance. It's share price rose from B$22.95 to B$33.27. Much of the hype was said to originate from William Fisher whose Gospel (artefact) was said to be involved. William Fisher declined to comment on the recent speculation.'

The blogshares site lists 351 outgoing links from faithmouse adjunct blogmentary, which doesn't include lots of HTML sites which link and/or show the toon, nor does it include links to the 'real' cartoon toon site which this blog adjuncts (fab receives less than a tenth of the traffic as www.faithmouse.com) Nor does this number include the 'dissenting' sites and forums which link to the toon and post free samples, such as Snopes and DailyKOS. Nor can it take into account the many forums which on a daily basis post individual cartoons as evidence for or against certain points of view. I am opposed to people assuming my current claim that faithmouse appears and/or is linked on over 500 sites to be nothing more than a fib, especially when big blogshare money is involved. I'm not following Martha to the big house (unless it's the nice one on Martha's Vineyard and I can bring my swimming trunks.)

Considering how much more traffic the cartoon site receives versus this blog, I'm considering syndicating this site directly onto the front page of faithmouse.com, in the space where all the soft and fuzzy comments currently reside. There's a possibility this addition might have a very positive effect on my fantasy stock value. The monkey wrench is that I'm having trouble getting the images in the RSS feed to show on anything other than readers like Bloglines. However, I understand there's a Javascript 'plug'...

If I can get this to work, some people are going to be very, very fake rich.

Toon 6/7/05 Completed

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Could the contrary of this be proved, I should conclude either that there is no God, or that He is a malevolent being." -Thomas Jefferson to David Hartley, 1787.

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?" -Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.

"We have solved...the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government, and obedience to the laws, And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason, and the serious convictions of his own inquiries." -Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Baptists, 1808.

"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by
the Constitution from intermeddling in religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808.

"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." -Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813.

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another." -ThomasJefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799.

"All men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion; and ...the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." –to Archibald Stuart, 1791.

"[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people." -Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. Papers, 1:338

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -September 23, 1800, as inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial.

"I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away." -to Uriah Forrest, 1787. Papers, 12:477.

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock."

HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
BORN APRIL 2. 1743. O.S. DIED JULY 4. 1826
-Epipath on Jefferson's tombstone, as proscribed by Jefferson himself.

Holycoast

I'm glad I stumbled across Rick Moore's informative and funny Holy Coast blog. There are more worthwhile news stories in the anti-Christian culture than faithmouse can comment upon (the material just writes itself) and Rich has a great editor's sense of picking out the ones most commentable. Rick would make a great pro-Christian heckler in the coliseum, in the short time he would have before being forced to join the lions. Great stuff, and he has funny ideas to, um, 'advertise.' Holy Coast is a better companion blog to faithmouse than the one you're reading now.