It's not like there was anything in there before NCLB was implemented, either. It was a bad lefty (Ted Kennedy) writing a sort-of decent idea for academic standards by a semi-conservative (Bush), implemented all wrong.
The less...wow, have you even read anything by some truly intelligent - theologians dating from the times some of those things were put on paper to modern day? I daresay they read the Bible MORE than the uninformed, and have studied its background and basis and know more about those than many of those in the secular realm.
Of course, reading it that much also has bred quite a few idiotic dissensions on what doesn't matter....
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"Love doesn't envy, love doesn't boast..."
"You shall not murder"
are ALL untrue in your estimation? Have you even READ the Bible? There is quite a bit in there that even the most rabid secular humanist may agree to being "true."
Oil drilling and extraction and production. Pharma research (take out profit motive for THAT and watch more garbage happen). Defense R&D (to a point). Growing food. Making stuff.
Are you kidding? Have you SEEN the idiocy out there regarding Obama, and the ONLY word people know about him is "change," and they're all ga-ga over his youth. Other than that, it's because he's spread the perception that he's black. That's it. There are hardly any educated voters who are going to vote for Obama.
Abstinence-only education is one of those issues that is great in idea but poorly executed. It needs some serious re-vamping outside of its current form...of course, I'm of the opinion that sex ed is better taught within the family than outside, but there are way too many irresponsible parents who would teach it too young or too old.
Of course, if we actually trusted families to do their job instead of farming the work out to schools...
You're over-simplifying the dichotomy that Palin is facing with her pregnant daughter. First, it completely affirms the pro-life stance of the party, and sharply contrasts it with the idiotic "punished with a baby" statement that Obama made (which makes him look just as bad - if not worse - as Palin on the matter). Palin is pro-life, no matter what, and it proves her credentials on that matter. Saying that, she (and her husband) ARE responsible for the moral values of their children, and seem to have missed something along the way. I place the moral failing across the board, however, from families to churches to schools to government, in partially encouraging and condoning behaviour in teenagers rather than set high expectations in conduct and morality.
Why don't they just make like COBRA and create their own island, a la the comics? It would work better, and they may even be able to garner UN representation, unlike that little British Island the crown still lays claim toward...
"Death Cult?" Well, if you're referring to the matter that I worship a God whose death paid the judgment for sin, then I'll wear that with honor.
If you're trying to refer to the trumped-up charge that the leadership of the Roman empire was trying to make to cover its own mistakes, then maybe you had better study history.
Mod the heck up. Something that the left RARELY realizes is the massive hypocrisy of much of the world outside of Israel and the US when it comes to the Palestinians. The other muslim governments - who could afford to pretty much set up every Palestinian man, woman, and child in relative comfort, rarely aid them worthwhile. Israel isn't the one randomly firing rockets into civilian areas, isn't the one bilking its own people out of millions (as Arafat, one of the biggest con-artists of the muslim world did), and trying to look pathetic and rile its people up.
How many Christians advocate that garbage (lumping abortion photos isn't in the same league with the other two, btw - it's simply putting a picture to how ugly abortion is). I haven't seen anything that shows how to blow up abortion clinics - of course, I haven't looked for it, either.
I hope you aren't trying to lump them in with many of us who are pro-life and condemn those actions - particularly when we're in the extreme vast majority of pro-lifers.
If that's the case, small 4- and 6-cylinder diesels in pickups may take off again here. There were quite a few sold back in the late 70s and early 80s.
My understanding is that there are a chunk of emissions issues that are expensive to deal with...but VW puts some turbodiesels in their American cars, so I dunno...
He can hardly be called "French" as Corsica was sold in 1764 and he was born in 1769. Get off it. He's not French. And he's about all the French can claim. The wikipedia article practically proves my point - there were no significant purely French victories throughout that period.
Napoleon wasn't French. He was Corsican. He also completely changed traditional warfare. And, ummm, keep his "successfully invading Moscow" in context. IT WAS WINTER. IN RUSSIA. Not bright - and he followed the same trail going home that he took to Russia, which was "scorched earth" - had he taken a different route home, his armies may have survived through Waterloo - that was the beginning of the end for him.
And the Norman conquest is about the only victory that the French can claim on their own, and that was almost 1000 years ago.
And I think that it's safe to say that NO ONE really won the Hundred Years' War, cause they were all too stupid to give it up.
America DOES owe a debt of gratitude to the French for during the American Revolution (which was more about the French getting at the Brits than anything else), where they played a critical part in helping us gain our freedom...and then promptly screwed up in their over-zealousness in their own version of the French Revolution.
By the way, I'm part cajun (see the name). We're the ones that had the good sense to leave both France AND Canada.
Interestingly enough, I really think that were I not a Christian, I would believe that nothing mattered, ethics-wise. Nothing else makes sense in my head were I not to believe in God, because what would be the point?
Wow, you completely missed the 1980s, didn't you, when TAXES were drastically cut and reformed during the Reagan era? It's not impossible, it just takes a bit more will than Bush had and a congress that is actually willing to do something.
And, if you remember, we were "paying down debt" through the Clinton administration, resulting in some awful reverse-taxation at the same time we were going through the dot-com bubble (which made the late 90's look better on paper than they really were).
I do agree, though, that spending, first and foremost, needs to be controlled BEFORE any tax legislation goes through, and I DON'T think we'll see that out of an Obama administration, which is only going to (in reality) raise taxes in spite of all his hype about lowering the burden on the "middle class."
No, low interest rates didn't get us into this mess, idiot/crooked players got us into this mess by taking a good principle - rates which allowed affordable housing ownership - and going overboard with scamming the poor and stupid into thinking they could afford something they really couldn't. Had a better lid been kept on it, we would have seen real, steady, honest growth rather than a bubble and re-adjustment.
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It's not like there was anything in there before NCLB was implemented, either. It was a bad lefty (Ted Kennedy) writing a sort-of decent idea for academic standards by a semi-conservative (Bush), implemented all wrong.
The less...wow, have you even read anything by some truly intelligent - theologians dating from the times some of those things were put on paper to modern day? I daresay they read the Bible MORE than the uninformed, and have studied its background and basis and know more about those than many of those in the secular realm.
Of course, reading it that much also has bred quite a few idiotic dissensions on what doesn't matter....
so...."Love your neighbor as yourself."
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"Love doesn't envy, love doesn't boast..."
"You shall not murder"
are ALL untrue in your estimation? Have you even READ the Bible? There is quite a bit in there that even the most rabid secular humanist may agree to being "true."
In Soviet Russia, truth rates YOU!
Waitaminit....that's almost how it should be...
Oil drilling and extraction and production. Pharma research (take out profit motive for THAT and watch more garbage happen). Defense R&D (to a point). Growing food. Making stuff.
Are you kidding? Have you SEEN the idiocy out there regarding Obama, and the ONLY word people know about him is "change," and they're all ga-ga over his youth. Other than that, it's because he's spread the perception that he's black. That's it. There are hardly any educated voters who are going to vote for Obama.
Abstinence-only education is one of those issues that is great in idea but poorly executed. It needs some serious re-vamping outside of its current form...of course, I'm of the opinion that sex ed is better taught within the family than outside, but there are way too many irresponsible parents who would teach it too young or too old.
Of course, if we actually trusted families to do their job instead of farming the work out to schools...
You're over-simplifying the dichotomy that Palin is facing with her pregnant daughter. First, it completely affirms the pro-life stance of the party, and sharply contrasts it with the idiotic "punished with a baby" statement that Obama made (which makes him look just as bad - if not worse - as Palin on the matter). Palin is pro-life, no matter what, and it proves her credentials on that matter. Saying that, she (and her husband) ARE responsible for the moral values of their children, and seem to have missed something along the way. I place the moral failing across the board, however, from families to churches to schools to government, in partially encouraging and condoning behaviour in teenagers rather than set high expectations in conduct and morality.
Funny, that's what we Republican say about Democrats.
Of course, it's on record that McCain has a more bi-partisan record than Obama anyway...
We're not electing a demigod with supernatural wisdom
Tell that to the Obamaphiles. Sheesh.
Not only that, but there are certain types of R&D that only those "big heartless corporations" can afford to do.
Why don't they just make like COBRA and create their own island, a la the comics? It would work better, and they may even be able to garner UN representation, unlike that little British Island the crown still lays claim toward...
"Death Cult?" Well, if you're referring to the matter that I worship a God whose death paid the judgment for sin, then I'll wear that with honor.
If you're trying to refer to the trumped-up charge that the leadership of the Roman empire was trying to make to cover its own mistakes, then maybe you had better study history.
Mod the heck up. Something that the left RARELY realizes is the massive hypocrisy of much of the world outside of Israel and the US when it comes to the Palestinians. The other muslim governments - who could afford to pretty much set up every Palestinian man, woman, and child in relative comfort, rarely aid them worthwhile. Israel isn't the one randomly firing rockets into civilian areas, isn't the one bilking its own people out of millions (as Arafat, one of the biggest con-artists of the muslim world did), and trying to look pathetic and rile its people up.
How many Christians advocate that garbage (lumping abortion photos isn't in the same league with the other two, btw - it's simply putting a picture to how ugly abortion is). I haven't seen anything that shows how to blow up abortion clinics - of course, I haven't looked for it, either.
I hope you aren't trying to lump them in with many of us who are pro-life and condemn those actions - particularly when we're in the extreme vast majority of pro-lifers.
If that's the case, small 4- and 6-cylinder diesels in pickups may take off again here. There were quite a few sold back in the late 70s and early 80s.
Gotcha. Couldn't help the classic Jag joke.
You mean both your old X-type Jags, cause one was always in the shop?
My understanding is that there are a chunk of emissions issues that are expensive to deal with...but VW puts some turbodiesels in their American cars, so I dunno...
He can hardly be called "French" as Corsica was sold in 1764 and he was born in 1769. Get off it. He's not French. And he's about all the French can claim. The wikipedia article practically proves my point - there were no significant purely French victories throughout that period.
Napoleon wasn't French. He was Corsican. He also completely changed traditional warfare. And, ummm, keep his "successfully invading Moscow" in context. IT WAS WINTER. IN RUSSIA. Not bright - and he followed the same trail going home that he took to Russia, which was "scorched earth" - had he taken a different route home, his armies may have survived through Waterloo - that was the beginning of the end for him.
And the Norman conquest is about the only victory that the French can claim on their own, and that was almost 1000 years ago.
And I think that it's safe to say that NO ONE really won the Hundred Years' War, cause they were all too stupid to give it up.
America DOES owe a debt of gratitude to the French for during the American Revolution (which was more about the French getting at the Brits than anything else), where they played a critical part in helping us gain our freedom...and then promptly screwed up in their over-zealousness in their own version of the French Revolution.
By the way, I'm part cajun (see the name). We're the ones that had the good sense to leave both France AND Canada.
I didn't forget yours!
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Interestingly enough, I really think that were I not a Christian, I would believe that nothing mattered, ethics-wise. Nothing else makes sense in my head were I not to believe in God, because what would be the point?
Wow, you completely missed the 1980s, didn't you, when TAXES were drastically cut and reformed during the Reagan era? It's not impossible, it just takes a bit more will than Bush had and a congress that is actually willing to do something.
And, if you remember, we were "paying down debt" through the Clinton administration, resulting in some awful reverse-taxation at the same time we were going through the dot-com bubble (which made the late 90's look better on paper than they really were).
I do agree, though, that spending, first and foremost, needs to be controlled BEFORE any tax legislation goes through, and I DON'T think we'll see that out of an Obama administration, which is only going to (in reality) raise taxes in spite of all his hype about lowering the burden on the "middle class."
No, low interest rates didn't get us into this mess, idiot/crooked players got us into this mess by taking a good principle - rates which allowed affordable housing ownership - and going overboard with scamming the poor and stupid into thinking they could afford something they really couldn't. Had a better lid been kept on it, we would have seen real, steady, honest growth rather than a bubble and re-adjustment.
The funny thing is, you could have made all your numbers and names up and those of us who don't care as much would know the difference.