The bill also says that its "shall not be construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine."
And apparently it's all OK.
But yes, I look forward to a few teachers starting to teach the wackiest stuff they can think of. I'd pick old-school, myself. The four humors and all that.
I suspect that the problem there is that the school board can find other reasons to fire you, move you to the special ed class, or find some other way to make sure you won't be teaching the potential leaders of tomorrow, if you piss them off.
Priests are basically con men who make money off of the fear of the weak minded. They interfere in government and antagonize people into committing nefarious acts. And best of all, they do this tax free! Seriously, this needs to stop.
TAX CHURCHES
What, what what? That is an interesting conclusion there.
This group has conspired to allow child molesters to avoid the law. They have started wars, and are currently going into countries where aids is at epidemic proportions and telling people not to use condoms. They are trying to redefine science in an attempt to control people's minds and cement their own power.
I suggest that we tax them. And I mean, really tax them. Make them pay sales tax on those shitty crackers they eat, and make them pay corporate taxes on collection plates. Yeah, that'll show them!
It is both observable and has been repeated in many experiments.
Some of them are not even experiments per se: see antibiotics and bacteria.
Creationists have trouble differentiating between evolution, speciation, abiogenesis, the big bang, and the complete reproductive history of every organism that ever existed. Their religion lumps it all together, so they aren't use to thinking of them as separate questions.
Girls think he's cute. I saw a movie with my wife yesterday, and they were promoting the Justin Bieber movie. It was during that ad that I realized, something. I have seen that little punk on posters and commercials, there were three versions of his movie playing in my area (normal, 3d, and Director's Cut), and yet I had never heard a single one of his songs, until I saw the promo for "eight mile: the early years", or whatever that movie is called.
If I saw him walking down the street, I would recognize him and know his name, but he never gets played on the radio, or at least his music doesn't follow the "play this song once per hour" rule that other popular music follows. I just think that if this kid had acne, he'd be working at McDondald's right now.
And he's an innovative businessman out to turn a buck. Nothing wrong with that.
Oh, that's great. There should be a "tea party superman". The comic could revolve around Lex Luther's attempts to make money and prevent the world from succumbing to a socialist agenda. When superman wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons, Lex Luther fought it. When corporations were being denied their personhood, Lex Luther fought for the rights of the powerful, yet unfairly oppressed.
When superman wanted to build a fortress of solitude within 5 blocks of ground zero, Lex Luther led the protests against it!
Minnie Mouse. Since social engineering is the most noble kind of engineering.
Careful of that slippery slope. Once you start considering social engineering and mouseketeers there's a risk that Britney Spears will be named best engineer here on slashdot. Of course at that point the universe would no longer be able to sustain the paradox and would implode!
And yet somehow only the copyrights would survive.
I used to feel that way about GI Joe. I can't remember any specific examples now, but Cobra Commander would have some nearly fool-proof plan, that would be done in by some crazy fluke, or oversight, and he would just throw the whole thing out the window.
NO! Never take risks. You make a mistake in this society with all the databases, credit bureaus, and every other goddamn company collecting data on people, you're forever fucked!
And if you do nothing, then you have no credit, which is worse than bad credit. Face it, society would rather trust someone who has a proven record of screwing up, than someone who has no record at all. (And I'm not just talking about credit. You can be the most incompetent person in your current workplace and still have a better chance of finding a job than someone who is straight out of college. Why take a chance on someone who may be incompetent, when this guy has been in the field for a year now?)
So, are you suggesting that people wear clothing just to keep nudity from becoming boring? Not a nudist, and I don't see why nudity needs to have a point, but this seems more like an argument over whether you should eat ice cream every day, until it stops becoming "that rare treat reserved for special occasions", or if you should deprive yourself of good things, so that you will enjoy them more.
That's why we need to get rid of the "first past the post" election system we currently have. Right now, our election system is some convoluted game where one third the country tries to agree on one candidate that they think will be more palatable to the undecided voters than the one decided upon by the remaining one third. It's like two competing people yelling "here boy" in hopes of getting a puppy to wander in their direction. Let's face it, all the decisions are made by people just smart enough to pull the lever, but still dumb enough to be swayed by a bumper sticker.
If we had preferential voting, then we wouldn't be stuck with either a false dichotomy, or an attempt to hammer a third party into a two party system.
^this. it is posturing at its best...err worst...my main fear is that they attach it to a bill that declares babies not fit for human consumption forcing democrats to have to pass it otherwise be seen as baby cannibals.
You just made me sad...
H.R. 666, The Repeal of the Baby-Killing Health Care Bill This bill repeals the Baby-Killing Health Care Bill and makes it illegal to kill babies for human consumption. Amendment 1a: The phrase "Baby killing health care bill" shall be defined as any bill passed by the job-killing Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama. Amendment 1b: Anyone caught downloading copyrighted material will be sentenced to no less than 5 years imprisonment, ground into a fine paste, and used to season Newt Gingrich's breakfast. Amendment 1c: Free tummy rubs for John Boehner. Amendment 1d: Anyone who votes against this bill will be acussed of being a pedophile....
We haven't built a new nuclear power plant in the states in 30 years. So, it is a surprise that the promises made in the fifties never happened? They were based on the assumption that we would use the new technology, rather than clinging to coal.
Smokers die younger which saves far more money in the long term
Social security, and Arizona's medicaid budget are two completely separate pots, owned by two different groups. You may advocate your policy, but ultimately, Arizona will never see a penny of that savings, unless social security starts a program to give kickbacks to people who encourage early death*.
* (this would go over about as well as the mythical "death panels" we heard about a couple of years ago)
They have, and the way the do it is by charging extra fees to smokers and the obese. Why is it wrong for medicaid to charge extra for a "high risk group", but ok for your local HMO to do the exact same thing?
it expresses itself as sin taxes, including (especially) "carbon credits,"
Economists refer to it as externalities. They see that one's actions can harm society in a way that extends beyond the production cost. Back in the days when criminal justice was a popular idea, we framed it more in terms of "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose".
Now that the person doing the harm is a large corporation, we have to rationalize it all away and say "your right to swing your fist is limitless, and anyone who says otherwise is being judgmental and oppressive."
There's a damn good reason cancer hasn't been cured yet
Because "cancer" is an umbrella term referring to a large number of problems with a large number of causes, and that addressing the cause of the illness is a far more effective treatment than a miracle drug could ever hope to be, especially given the notion that the "disease" is not a foreign entity that can be effectively combated by one's own immune system, but rather it is one's own body?
Smokers are also taxpayers, and they pay a hefty fee on on cigarettes, thus footing their own healthcare bill. Charging them again is double-dipping, but nobody will care because nobody likes smokers, who are in turn, used to paying extra.
And there's nothing wrong with "double dipping" in this context. If you have an expense to cover, and you get 50% of it from tobacco tax and 50% of it from charging people for medicaid, then why is that wrong? It's only a bad thing if the total amount from both sources exceeds the smokers' cost to society.
Thank you for posting that. I disagreed, and will have to rethink my opinion, but I was wondering if the study was influenced in part by the way US insurance providers will often try to find a loophole to kick someone out, once they get a serious illness (often in the name of "waste and fraud prevention"). It's interesting to see how that works in a country that doesn't have that problem.
No, he's falling into the "Death Panels" trap. Let's encourage these people to die sooner so they won't take as much of my tax money! How can that possibly be construed as "improve people by taxing them*"?
Ok, some people would be "improved" if they were dead, but that's beside the point.
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The bill also says that its "shall not be construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine."
And apparently it's all OK.
But yes, I look forward to a few teachers starting to teach the wackiest stuff they can think of. I'd pick old-school, myself. The four humors and all that.
I suspect that the problem there is that the school board can find other reasons to fire you, move you to the special ed class, or find some other way to make sure you won't be teaching the potential leaders of tomorrow, if you piss them off.
I learned about evolution in my Sunday school. Maybe you need a better church.
I need for the people deciding what my son's school will teach to avoid the bad ones. (I am not GP, btw)
Priests are basically con men who make money off of the fear of the weak minded. They interfere in government and antagonize people into committing nefarious acts. And best of all, they do this tax free! Seriously, this needs to stop.
TAX CHURCHES
What, what what? That is an interesting conclusion there.
This group has conspired to allow child molesters to avoid the law. They have started wars, and are currently going into countries where aids is at epidemic proportions and telling people not to use condoms. They are trying to redefine science in an attempt to control people's minds and cement their own power.
I suggest that we tax them. And I mean, really tax them. Make them pay sales tax on those shitty crackers they eat, and make them pay corporate taxes on collection plates. Yeah, that'll show them!
It is both observable and has been repeated in many experiments.
Some of them are not even experiments per se: see antibiotics and bacteria.
Creationists have trouble differentiating between evolution, speciation, abiogenesis, the big bang, and the complete reproductive history of every organism that ever existed. Their religion lumps it all together, so they aren't use to thinking of them as separate questions.
so how do you explain Justin Bieber?
Girls think he's cute. I saw a movie with my wife yesterday, and they were promoting the Justin Bieber movie. It was during that ad that I realized, something. I have seen that little punk on posters and commercials, there were three versions of his movie playing in my area (normal, 3d, and Director's Cut), and yet I had never heard a single one of his songs, until I saw the promo for "eight mile: the early years", or whatever that movie is called.
If I saw him walking down the street, I would recognize him and know his name, but he never gets played on the radio, or at least his music doesn't follow the "play this song once per hour" rule that other popular music follows. I just think that if this kid had acne, he'd be working at McDondald's right now.
And he's an innovative businessman out to turn a buck. Nothing wrong with that.
Oh, that's great. There should be a "tea party superman". The comic could revolve around Lex Luther's attempts to make money and prevent the world from succumbing to a socialist agenda. When superman wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons, Lex Luther fought it. When corporations were being denied their personhood, Lex Luther fought for the rights of the powerful, yet unfairly oppressed.
When superman wanted to build a fortress of solitude within 5 blocks of ground zero, Lex Luther led the protests against it!
I think this could work.
Minnie Mouse. Since social engineering is the most noble kind of engineering.
Careful of that slippery slope. Once you start considering social engineering and mouseketeers there's a risk that Britney Spears will be named best engineer here on slashdot. Of course at that point the universe would no longer be able to sustain the paradox and would implode!
And yet somehow only the copyrights would survive.
I used to feel that way about GI Joe. I can't remember any specific examples now, but Cobra Commander would have some nearly fool-proof plan, that would be done in by some crazy fluke, or oversight, and he would just throw the whole thing out the window.
Can one be considered great if every single one of his "inventions" fails spectacularly?
Bill Gates?
Oh, he writes Perl, then.
No. Others can understand his work when he's done with it. :)
I can't wait to go to gamestop and get my madcatzPad. Just like the iPad, but $10 cheaper and half the buttons don't work.
NO! Never take risks. You make a mistake in this society with all the databases, credit bureaus, and every other goddamn company collecting data on people, you're forever fucked!
And if you do nothing, then you have no credit, which is worse than bad credit. Face it, society would rather trust someone who has a proven record of screwing up, than someone who has no record at all. (And I'm not just talking about credit. You can be the most incompetent person in your current workplace and still have a better chance of finding a job than someone who is straight out of college. Why take a chance on someone who may be incompetent, when this guy has been in the field for a year now?)
All of them. Get a real job.
Or go to a country that respects knowledge enough to create those jobs...
Too bad the US is no longer one of them.
So, are you suggesting that people wear clothing just to keep nudity from becoming boring? Not a nudist, and I don't see why nudity needs to have a point, but this seems more like an argument over whether you should eat ice cream every day, until it stops becoming "that rare treat reserved for special occasions", or if you should deprive yourself of good things, so that you will enjoy them more.
That's why we need to get rid of the "first past the post" election system we currently have. Right now, our election system is some convoluted game where one third the country tries to agree on one candidate that they think will be more palatable to the undecided voters than the one decided upon by the remaining one third. It's like two competing people yelling "here boy" in hopes of getting a puppy to wander in their direction. Let's face it, all the decisions are made by people just smart enough to pull the lever, but still dumb enough to be swayed by a bumper sticker.
If we had preferential voting, then we wouldn't be stuck with either a false dichotomy, or an attempt to hammer a third party into a two party system.
^this. it is posturing at its best...err worst...my main fear is that they attach it to a bill that declares babies not fit for human consumption forcing democrats to have to pass it otherwise be seen as baby cannibals.
You just made me sad...
H.R. 666, The Repeal of the Baby-Killing Health Care Bill
This bill repeals the Baby-Killing Health Care Bill and makes it illegal to kill babies for human consumption.
Amendment 1a: The phrase "Baby killing health care bill" shall be defined as any bill passed by the job-killing Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama.
Amendment 1b: Anyone caught downloading copyrighted material will be sentenced to no less than 5 years imprisonment, ground into a fine paste, and used to season Newt Gingrich's breakfast.
Amendment 1c: Free tummy rubs for John Boehner.
Amendment 1d: Anyone who votes against this bill will be acussed of being a pedophile....
We haven't built a new nuclear power plant in the states in 30 years. So, it is a surprise that the promises made in the fifties never happened? They were based on the assumption that we would use the new technology, rather than clinging to coal.
Smokers die younger which saves far more money in the long term
Social security, and Arizona's medicaid budget are two completely separate pots, owned by two different groups. You may advocate your policy, but ultimately, Arizona will never see a penny of that savings, unless social security starts a program to give kickbacks to people who encourage early death*.
* (this would go over about as well as the mythical "death panels" we heard about a couple of years ago)
...let the fucking market deal with this?
They have, and the way the do it is by charging extra fees to smokers and the obese. Why is it wrong for medicaid to charge extra for a "high risk group", but ok for your local HMO to do the exact same thing?
it expresses itself as sin taxes, including (especially) "carbon credits,"
Economists refer to it as externalities. They see that one's actions can harm society in a way that extends beyond the production cost. Back in the days when criminal justice was a popular idea, we framed it more in terms of "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose".
Now that the person doing the harm is a large corporation, we have to rationalize it all away and say "your right to swing your fist is limitless, and anyone who says otherwise is being judgmental and oppressive."
There's a damn good reason cancer hasn't been cured yet
Because "cancer" is an umbrella term referring to a large number of problems with a large number of causes, and that addressing the cause of the illness is a far more effective treatment than a miracle drug could ever hope to be, especially given the notion that the "disease" is not a foreign entity that can be effectively combated by one's own immune system, but rather it is one's own body?
That would be my guess, but I'm not a doctor.
Smokers are also taxpayers, and they pay a hefty fee on on cigarettes, thus footing their own healthcare bill. Charging them again is double-dipping, but nobody will care because nobody likes smokers, who are in turn, used to paying extra.
And there's nothing wrong with "double dipping" in this context. If you have an expense to cover, and you get 50% of it from tobacco tax and 50% of it from charging people for medicaid, then why is that wrong? It's only a bad thing if the total amount from both sources exceeds the smokers' cost to society.
Thank you for posting that. I disagreed, and will have to rethink my opinion, but I was wondering if the study was influenced in part by the way US insurance providers will often try to find a loophole to kick someone out, once they get a serious illness (often in the name of "waste and fraud prevention"). It's interesting to see how that works in a country that doesn't have that problem.
No, he's falling into the "Death Panels" trap. Let's encourage these people to die sooner so they won't take as much of my tax money! How can that possibly be construed as "improve people by taxing them*"?
Ok, some people would be "improved" if they were dead, but that's beside the point.
First they came for the trolls
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a troll
Then they came for the douchebags who say "sheeple"
and I didn't speak out because I was pretty much ok with that
Then they came for the people who make Hitler references
and I got my best lynchin' rope
Then they came for me
Aww, crap, why did I write this?