Daiwa

Reply to Parents and schools, bad combo for education in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Sorry, Ziggy, but you brought it back to Christianity. There are no references to Christianity in my recent replies, only to God. And you are completely blind, deaf, whatever. I don't think you bother to actually read the words people write. How many times have I said "teach it" for cryin' out loud. You don't even respond to the points made. And to come back and argue that evolution is a religion and that therefore Creationism shou

Reply to I think the ACLU are a bunch of Commies in Politics JoeUser Forums

csuperman7 - See the threads on separation of church and state. Some would disagree with you about the ACLU. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Pell Grants Response in Politics JoeUser Forums

Actually, I recall coming across an article a couple of years back that looked at the "value" of a higher education in terms of the outcome. Turns out, those with the advanced degrees accumulated less wealth on average than their less-educated peers. Wealth alone isn't the point of an education, of course, but in strictly economic terms, education apparently isn't worth much.

Reply to Interesting article in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm going to go take a shower. They push as hard as they can to increase the voter turnout and when the voters turn out, resulting in big lines, it's disenfranchisement. Since when can the exact number of people at a polling place at any given time be 1) predicted, and 2) regulated so that no one misses more than 10 minutes of work? As for not having time because all the other states will be certified by then, I doubt that would stop Kerry i

Reply to Pell Grants Response in Politics JoeUser Forums

Thanks, heather, for the objective information on this topic that was needed. The only thing I would add relates to dabe's comment that no one should ever be deprived of an education. Last I checked, education was mandatory to age 16. Our society provides every child the opportunity to earn a high school diploma, something that, in theory and if taken proper advantage of, would prepare an individual sufficiently to survive and thrive

Reply to I think the ACLU are a bunch of Commies in Politics JoeUser Forums

The ACLU has become a cure in search of a disease. They are a delusional bunch of nearsighted, underemployed lawyers. Other than that, they're great. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Interesting article in Politics JoeUser Forums

As for how Bush would handle it, in the unlikely event it came to pass, I assume you'd want him to handle it with the same grace and humility of Mr. Kerry by demanding a recount in every state where Kerry won, just in the interest of being certain that every vote was counted, of course. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Interesting article in Politics JoeUser Forums

This is really sad. The nation isn't just Ohio. If they push this, other states where Kerry's margin was less than Bush's in Ohio will come into play and we might as well not bother going to the polls anymore. Those 17,000 lawyers should be fitted with concrete boots & dropped into Lake Erie. Do they really think that conniving to flip Ohio, in an effort to give the election to the guy who lost the nationwide popular vote by 5% , woul

Reply to Parents and schools, bad combo for education in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Oh, and as for your website link - The universe is a whole lot bigger than you, or I, can begin to imagine. And the probability that a conscious being created everthing in the universe by design, putting every electron in its place in every living & inanimate thing, is even lower than the probability it all happened by chance. Further, if one such all-powerful being is possible, why not 2? Why not 3? Why not 10 to the 160th power? Do we re

Reply to Parents and schools, bad combo for education in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Ziggy, Creationism isn't a theory, it is an article of faith. I have no problem with it being taught, but it belongs in religious studies, not in the science curriculum by mandate. Why do proponents of Creationism need it taught in school at all? Is this an admission that the church is failing to do so? Is the argument so weak that they need bolster it by having it (falsely) presented as a scientific theory? By all means teach it. Make

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

As for the apparent lack of urgency, I'm with you DNCdude. It shouldn't take us three years to do this. But if there are identifiable flaws that could be truly counterproductive, they should be fixed. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

People on the left keep repeating this tired complaint that President Bush "didn't want" or "would rather not have had" the 9/11 commission hearings. It's in the nature of things that people will jump to that conclusion when they are prejudiced against him to start with. There were legitimate issues as to the scope of the inquiry that needed to be addressed. The Commission was established, did a thorough job, the President has embraced and supporte

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

Not to be too picky, dabe, but you're upset with the "old" Congress, the lame duck bunch, the one with the 51-49 Repub majority, the one with Daschle, the one with so much GOP control that none of Bush's judicial nominees got approved, the one that balked at passing the intelligence reform bill. The Republicans are not exactly "in complete power now" any more than they were in October. They'll have a larger majority in January, but for now your chara

Reply to Lets start a conversation... Church and State and... in Politics JoeUser Forums

your right to practice your religion ends at the point where my right to have a non-religious government building or activity begins This is where the argument breaks down, kingbee - there is no right in the Constitution "to have a non-religious government building or activity." Just ain't there unless

Reply to Lets start a conversation... Church and State and... in Politics JoeUser Forums

Be careful what you ask for, you may just get it. In this case, a most interesting conversation. I've read through most of this thread a couple of times, now, and things are distilling themselves in my brain a bit. kingbee has been very persuasive in his arguments, not to mention tenacious. But on this I must disagree. While Jefferson's phrase "wall of separation between church and state" can, plucked out of the document and out of

Reply to The Post Office Wants to Rape You in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The problem is the Postal Service is mostly a zero-sum game. As its volume of mail decreases* due to more efficient competition, it has to get more per piece to pay the same overhead. It also has a very difficult time with productivity. It's not that postal workers are lazy. In fact, I think most of them work pretty hard. It's just that having a civil-service based workforce is big problem. If FedEx had to contend with the same type of workforce,

Reply to Parents and schools, bad combo for education in Democrat JoeUser Forums

It's easy to get a little lost in the semantics of this thread. Theories previously accepted as laws (in the scientifc sense) have been disproven, so nothing we know is immutable. Theories which approach reality do so because they are highly predictive. The law of gravity predicts that an object will fall at a given rate, yada yada yada, in circumstance X and lo & behold when we actually test it in circumstance X, the object indeed falls at

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

drmiler, I will always hate you, and everything you stand for. You're a disgrace. As for which one of us is the insult to society at large, you're the fascist, homophobic, racist disgrace. You make me sick. As for whether it's alright if the GOP hates people like me, well, that's not anything that we give a rat's ass about. <

Reply to Geneva Conventions Revisited in Politics JoeUser Forums

ChristianDog - The part of the sentence you omitted read, "We should conduct ourselves honorably regardless,...." It is possible to both conduct oneself honorably and hold the belief that the Geneva Convention protections do not apply to these terrorists. And I somewhat agree with your list, with the exception of items 3, 4 & maybe 5. This particular enemy is completely devoid of any concern or respect for how decent

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

To back up just a little, let me say congrats to you for what you've accomplished. Judging from your grit (as expressed here), I suspect you would have found another way had Pell Grants not been an option. As much as I disagree with the politics and tone of your post, your story is one of determination and success and is to be admired. Props to you. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to I hate the GOP leadership in Politics JoeUser Forums

Unless you stop reading that rag (NYT), you're going to need some serious blood pressure medication real soon, dabe. Know what & where all this hate-spew is going to get you? Zip, nada, zilch and nowhere cubed. Thanks for sharing. Maybe there was something in that Turkey? Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Geneva Conventions Revisited in Politics JoeUser Forums

Wow, kingbee - That's a gold medal olympic performance in contortion if ever there was. And so far off base it's almost funny. Too damn late to get specific, maybe tomorrow. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Open Letter to Rod Brock in Politics JoeUser Forums

He's unlocked his articles as of today. Not gettin' any replies from me, though. Cheers, Daiwa

Reply to Geneva Conventions Revisited in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'd have no problem being rigorous about the Convention if there was indeed a second party to the contract, kingbee. I frankly don't know if Iraq is a signatory or not, but even if they are, the "insurgents" are not uniformed military of a signatory country - the Iraqi Interim Government. Further, those who oppose us are using the Convention in their effort to discredit us and our military while doing nothing to constrain the terrorists who o

Reply to About all of those lost jobs in Politics JoeUser Forums

Insightful to terpfan. In addition, any economic recovery is uneven. Some sectors of the economy will recover quicker than others, some won't recover at all, some will fail and disappear, and some new sectors that previously didn't exist will materialize out of apparent thin air. Cheers, Daiwa