"There does if you are going to limit the rights of people." Those same people determined what "rights" there are, right? Don't think about "rights" out of context. There's no tablet set down by nature or God or whatever not written by man that tells us what rights we have. Our rights are amended and changed every day.
"normal" isn't a good bellweather, anyway. Murder is normal if you look at how often it happens. It happens without human social constructs, and continues under them. Pedophilia, given the numbers of people molested and the numbers jailed for it, is a "normal", if disgusting, occurrence. We choose as humans in a culture to promote some acts, and to dissuade people from others. People talk about Greece and Rome, and though homosexuality was rampant, it was also looked down on. Why?
"I think both Draginol and Sean make excellent points. Rather than repeat them i'll just make an observation that at the moment labour's share of income is at a low compared to corporate profits." As compared to cost of living it isn't low, though. The relative strength of the rest of the economy, people's purchasing power, the percentage of people who own their home, car sales, etc., all show that people, not just CEOs, but average people are doing fin
Okay, I take back my defense of GT. That was nothing but an off topic plug. Third strike.
"What happens when we find out Global Warming is true? Will the anti-Global Warming group apologize?" What happens when we find out it ISN'T true? Will France and Russia and the rest pay back the billions they made selling pollution credits to the US? If so, where will they get the money, by borrowing it from the US?
That's a myth. In reality global warming is the wrath of God striking down a world full of heathen non-swimmers, you know, like that other time. Stick with me. I've got room left for motivated self-starters capable of rounding up exotic birds, and someone with no sense of smell who is really, really good with a shovel
Not coming from KFC, it doesn't... LOL
I loved to play with lawn darts when I was a kid. You can't get them anymore, though. Sharp things are dangerous, we aren't allowed to have them. Isn't it nice to live in a big day care center?
I think the most simple way to fix this is to have an out-in-the-open way for people to give as much as they want to the government outside of their other taxes. Then, when we see people like Edwards spouting condemnation, and we check and he didn't even give as much as a middle class American, the condemnation would show its true meaning. If these people really believed in their socialistic garbage, they wouldn't be buying 10,000 square foot homes. They wouldn't be demanding the gove
The lifestyle claim eats at me worse than any of them. I see it so often promoted by Dems making in excess of 100k a year. Well, I and my family live on 50k a year. So... why stop at the 500k+ folks? Why do we have this imaginary line? To me, if you are living on 150k a year you can afford to pay, heck, 1/3 to 1/2 of that and still live as well as me, probably better. Oddly, though, the "lifestyle" thing gets really, really subjective at that point in the conversation. We d
Oh, yeah, I hear about it, but like I said it seems like a facetious question given that (I've read) that less than 1% of abortions are medical necessities. I don't understand why procedures to save the life of the mother are even considered abortion. What is happening is the response to a medical condition to save the mother's life, not a purposeful attempt to end the life of an unborn child. Most pro-life people I know feel the way that I do. It isn't like CHristian Science where w
The problem with getting anything done about it is that we're told now that there is MORE need. The consumption of bottled water has supposedly decreased the ingestion of fluoridated water considerably, enough so that they are whining again about kids not getting enough. The trouble is, what ISN'T taken into consideration is how much we get from secondary sources. How many canneries use local, fluoridated water? How much makes it into our other drinks, food, etc. Not only did I drin
"Many women suffer from severe pre-eclampsia which can ONLY be cured by ending the pregnancy either through emergency c-section or abortion. In the case of emergency c-section, the baby may be still born or not survive long if the pregnancy must be ended very early." Either way that would be an attempt to save two lives, not killing the child preemptively. Even if it is far too early, a reasonable attempt to save the child's life is not abortion. Pro-c
They don't want kids to get tattoos and cancers. They assume parents won't, either. Abortion, on the other hand, has become a matter of social policy. I believe that many have stepped from pro-choice to pro-abortion. They believe that there is a necessity for a reasonable number of abortions, and they don't want people preventing them from happening.
"I like seeing any politician that doesn't ride the party bus." I like politicians that have some sort of ideals outside of keeping their seat. I like politicians that believe something, not just look at how the political tide is turning. I prefer politicians who hold to what they say they believe, even when what they believe become unpopular. Is that anti-democratic? Nope. If we don't like what they believe we elect someone else. When poli
You always tell half the story, Gene. You fail to point out that the huge burst in the economy was due to the Internet boom, and you also fail to point out that once they started leeching from those profits it went into decline. You like to pretend that Bush taking office, before any of his policies were enacted, somehow caused the economy to tank. In reality, it just took that long to see your failed socialist policies to start doing serious damage. The fact is the economy was on
No surprise. Look at their constituency and the trends there. They're trying to hold back the tide with a broom. They think smacking their base in the face will win them votes with swing voters. In reality it is like pulling the front of your shirt down to cover your privates and showing your ass to the world. You can't juggle and keep all the balls in the air at the same time. What they spend to increase their popularity with swing voters will be capital they don't have when they
And when you redistribute that wealth, you end up with bread lines. Like it or not, the 90% simply refuse to do what the 10% does. They'd rather pull a paycheck and not have the risk and headache of providing jobs and managing a business. "Healthy" in this case is really about "fair". To Col Gene it is fair to give people what they haven't earned. It's fair to take profits away from people who have earned them. It's a sad, late-18th century point of view that has been found wanting
Don't you think this would go over better in writing, instead of civil war history?
i guess Deference doesn't enjoy talking large when his victims are responding...
No doubt every such organization was charitable... to its own. I've yet to hear anyone say that the Nazis were good people because they provided for the German poor.
"I said If. Do you need to twist my words to hear your own version of what I said. Re-read it and relax nobody is coming at 2 am to take your guns away." So... if a doctor knows a kid is threatened with gun violence... he should ask if the parents own guns. Odd sort of logic, there. One would assume once he knows a child is threatened with gun violence the question would be redundant. If he doesn't, then he's fishing. In that light, why not t
It's gotten to the point that we feel we are owed when we are put in danger, though. We COULD have died, so someone needs to be punished. Oddly, we feel strongest about that when the punishment is mailing us a check, lol...
Texas family is sueing I saw. Two of their kids got it. I don't know if that is what made me sick or not. Even if it was, I don't think sueing is the right thing to do.
"The Federal Reserve Bank is not a government entity, nor does it answer to any government entity. It is a privately owned bank, politically autonomous, and beholden to no voter. "We" have zero influence over "them." I think if you look into it, whip, you'll find that the government prints money, and the government owns the gold that backs up the money. The federal reserve is a Semi-private agent that manages the amount of money we print and se
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