Do you think that anybody gets to be a congressman, senator, governor or a general without having a grade school knowledge of all grade school subjects?
> It's little wonder that the Bible Belt is also the teen pregnancy belt,
Is that because in the liberal northeast, pregnant teens are more likely to get un-pregnant before anybody can add them to the teen-pregnancy statistics?
> Science only works because it isn't superstitious !
Science is based on the superstition that the universal laws of logic can be trusted. Likewise, mathematics is based on the superstition that the axioms hold.
I thought you wrote: A) "I respect one's rights to have an opinion", and B) "I think that people who [have a certain opinion] need to be [removed from society].
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Do you think that anybody gets to be a congressman, senator, governor or a general without having a grade school knowledge of all grade school subjects?
> It's little wonder that the Bible Belt is also the teen pregnancy belt,
Is that because in the liberal northeast, pregnant teens are more likely to get un-pregnant before anybody can add them to the teen-pregnancy statistics?
We should stop wasting our efforts with any kind of government sponsored sex-ed. Leave it to the parents.
Besides, none of it works, anyway.
Source documentation?
As far as I knoe, McCain ain't much of a Jebus freak.
.. is still not as nerdy as having a pocket protector.
I shook his hand at a rally last weekend. I've been told that now I am only 2 degrees of separation from George Washington.
With this new development, maybe I'm only 2 degrees of separation from Moses! or Adam!
This is exciting.
Some of us haven't had much luck with any dating at all.
> Science only works because it isn't superstitious !
Science is based on the superstition that the universal laws of logic can be trusted.
Likewise, mathematics is based on the superstition that the axioms hold.
Government do something to encourage free-market competition among the carriers in order to bring prices down.
Having government artificially limit how much profit texting can generate for the carriers will not do anything to help improve service.
Texting is not a basic human right.
Facts don't say anything at all.
Conclusions are drawn from the interpretation of facts.
And interpretations are a bit dynamic, and often in error, no?
"As a Slashdot discussion on any scientific topic grows longer, the probability of it devolving into creationist-bashing fest approaches one."
Well maybe I misunderstood.
I thought you wrote:
A) "I respect one's rights to have an opinion", and
B) "I think that people who [have a certain opinion] need to be [removed from society].
These seem to be contradictory statements to me.
Well, some do, and some don't.
"Evangelicals" and "creationists" are both very broad brushing terms. Don't be so small minded as to think that they all conform to the caricature.
First you say:
> I respect other peoples right to an opinion, but
> that doesn't mean I have to respect the opinion itself.
The you say:
> Quite frankly, I think that people who seriously believe
> in creationism need to be checked into the loonie bin.
Didn't you just contradict yourself?
Where do irrational people belong?
Cali-forn-ia
Hot-sex-land
> Are they looking for a new distribution medium so movies
> don't cost as much to produce for retail sale?
Even if so, you don't think they're gonna lower the retail price, do you?
... Global Warmi... uh, Climate Change predicts this.
"dependent on the government"?
I thought B. Hussein Obama was promising a magic carpet ride into freedom from self-sufficiency.
Sometimes spreading factual information with spin is effective too.
"My opponent MASTICATES at the dinner table, RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS CHILDREN!"
> Older people vote based on what they
> read in the paper, what they're told
> by talk radio, and what they see on TV
That's called, "being informed."
Which is different from being influenced by the sexiness of the delivery channel.
The medium is NOT the message.
.. when we have fully baptized and oil-annointed CPU's.
Well, if the "use tax" is struck down, I'm sure the states can institute a "use surcharge" instead.
> You forgot to get the opinion of the savior,
> The One himself, as to what he thinks of these Ziggurats.
Why should the people of Dubai care what Senator Obama thinks?
From your second link:
> Suicide is an acute, reversible, and time-limited state.
Didn't know suicide was reversible or even time-limited.
Do they call in Patricia King and Melissa Fischer?
It might be your private property, but if there is utility easement running through it, that part is as good as not your property.
Except when the city wants you to mow the weeds.