Show me a car engine that can meet current emissions requirements without electronic controls while running on fuel that you can buy at your local gas station. You can't, because it simply isn't possible. Even diesels have computer controls these days.
My 1975 Toyota corolla 2TC engine after I rebuilt it. I put on
the carb and manifold from a 3TC motor. There is no computer feedback on the carb. The car has no cat. converter. After I set the idle mixture according to
the instructions for lean drop idle, The car has 21 PPM Hydrocarbon and.09% CO. If you want to argue that the carb need regular cleaning and adjustment to maintain these low levels, I agree.
3) I frequently hear pitches like this, for certain types of technological solutions which could save the lives of the desperate poor. In addition to your suggestion, we could, for example:
- i) genetically engineer a number of crops with higher yields, providing more food,
- ii) blanket Africa with DDT, killing mosquitoes (and therefore preventing malaria transmission),
- iii) actively destroy swampland in rural Africa and other tropical regions, to reduce the size of mosquito breeding grounds.
The argument for these technologies (saved human lives) is easy to advance. There are various specific counterarguments to be used for specific cases, but there are two general counterarguments:
Let's see: Silent Spring has been debunked. 2000 people die in Africa from Malaria EVERY DAY. Africans WANT to use DDT, to save their lives. Rich White granola munching hippies in rich countries have decided that dead brown people are unimportant relative to the teachings of the sacred scrolls of the Cult of Gaia.
If you read the table on page 16 of this pdf document,
you will see that the car with the highest death rate
was the 1975 VW beetle. The pinto is middle of the pack
death-wise.
http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the _Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
Of course, the pinto (manufactured by a "large evil American corporation") was not cute and not loved by the hippies at
Mother Earth news, who ideologically preferred a car manufactured by a large German
corporation and originally conceived by He-who-must-not-be-named-in-an-online-forum.
The hit job on the pinto is similar, really, to the one on the Corvair, or the Audi 5000.
An easier and less expensive way to avoid credit card debt
is to not buy things you cannot afford, and pay off your
balance in full on the due date. Amex gives good service,
but I think they charge a yearly fee for the card. So if
you are short of money, you probably are not in a position to spend
more on the Amex fee.
With certain banks, you can set up your visa to paid in full right
on the due date out of your account, so you don't have to mess
with checks and stamps.
And yes, debit cards combine the worst aspects of checks with the worst
aspects of credit cards. Like condos combine the worst parts of owning with
the worst parts of renting.
And if you watch the youtube video of Marilyn Monroe sing Happy Birthday to JFK you can see why she had to go. The JFK womanizing is stuff of legend, but was always kept under wraps. Marilin was a little TOO obvious to keep around.
Well/. exists to sell our eyeballs to advertisers thru page views.
Flamewar stories create the most comments and page views.
That is why these sorts of stories are regular as clockwork.
They don't use cards any more. Fingerprinting is done on a scanner with a
green backlight, and you can see your fingerprints come up on the attached
computer screen in real time. So yes the fingerprints are in some networked database
available to anyone who want them.
Well, since criminals have no trouble getting guns as things stand, it shows the fallacy of "permits" for concealed carry. Vermont has no permit for concealed carry,
and it has one of the lowest crime rates. The fallacy of "gun free zones" needs no explanation.
Some States make you give up your fingerprints in order to exercise your second amendment rights. Freedom has been dead a long time.
Weight loss thru exercise alone is a fallacy
on
Treadmill Workstation
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Do the math. Brisk walking burns 7 calories a minute. A McDonalds value meal has 1170 calories. You have to walk briskly for 167.14 minutes to burn off those calories. That's 2 hours 47 minutes. Of walking. Briskly.
Exercise has important health benefits and you should be doing it. But to lose weight, you need to control your food intake. All the fad diets and pills are bullshit and possibly harmful as well. Eat less calories, and you will lose weight. And while you are at it, cut out all the hydrogenated fats. Eating lard would be less harmful. If you are addicted to nicotine, get your fix thru a method other than smoking or chewing.
Yes I am ranting. But I hate to see people oblivious to the fact that they are ruining their health and quality of life by ingesting obscenely excessive amounts of harmful "food" products and nicotine delivery systems. Know why all the old people you see on the street are thin like birds? Because most of the fat people died when they were 50 years old, and the rest of them are confined in a nursing home waiting to die.
Well until linux can support this feature it simply cannot prevail on the desktop. This is another area where the superior interopoerability of Windows exceeds the capability of linux. What's worse, do you realize that there are people running a mail reader called pine which does not even support the automatic execution of executable code they receive in emails? The Savages!!! Thank you Bill Gates for making the user experience of Windows user so much richer than that of their poor, un-enlightened unix^H^H^H^Hlinux counterparts.
All Hail Bill!
Oh, is that another martooni? <NO CARRIER> [THE ABOVE POST MAY CONTAIN SARCASM AND HUMOR. DO NOT EAT]
Stall visits an island, run by a homicidel dictator, that most native people are trying to escape in whatever (non)sea-worthy craft they can create.
He then "protests" about a detention facility which provides halal food, Korans wrapped in plastic, delivered by glove wearing guards (so the Koran will not be "defiled" by the "infidel") are provided to the "prisoners".
Meanwhile,in Pakistan, a 12 year old jihadist sawed of the head of a "spy".
Well here is what Bradford B. Wiles, a graduate student at Virginia Tech. had to say about it. He was actually there, so his perspective might be relevant.
On Aug. 21 at about 9:20 a.m., my graduate-level class was evacuated from the Squires Student Center. We were interrupted in class and not informed of anything other than the following words: "You need to get out of the building."
Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down the street, pistols drawn.
It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.
Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech's student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.
I had entrusted my safety, and the safety of others to the police. In light of this, there are a few things I wish to point out.
First, I never want to have my safety fully in the hands of anyone else, including the police.
Second, I considered bringing my gun with me to campus, but did not due to the obvious risk of losing my graduate career, which is ridiculous because had I been shot and killed, there would have been no graduate career for me anyway.
Third, and most important, I am trained and able to carry a concealed handgun almost anywhere in Virginia and other states that have reciprocity with Virginia, but cannot carry where I spend more time than anywhere else because, somehow, I become a threat to others when I cross from the town of Blacksburg onto Virginia Tech's campus.
Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness.
That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.
I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, "I would feel safer if you had your gun."
The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed.
I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government.
This incident makes it clear that it is time that Virginia Tech and the commonwealth of Virginia let me take responsibility for my safety.
"In the UK we have seen the development of the APNR system (which may or may not be illegal) which was used to track down the killer of a policewoman. "
Of course, the real issue here is the criminal negligence of the State in prohibiting this Policewoman from being armed, and thus being able to effectivly defend herself.
No, globalization is capable of *creating* a middle class where none
exists.
"capturing the wealth of the middle class" is meaningless collectivist double speak under capitalism.
Under socialism it traditionally is done with guns, taxes, confiscation, and re-education camps.
Is that skinny wusses cannot defend themselves
from big thugs, or a group of skinny thugs,
and think this is a good thing.
The idea that people should have to participate
in some "law of the jungle" combat to defend themselves is absurd. Tools are available for the job, and here in most of the US we are allowed to
carry them.
These people killed in the name of communism disagree with your flippant, jejune dismissal of their fate, and your attempt to apologize for their executioners.
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69) 49,000,000 ("great leap forward" and "cultural revolution")
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1934-39) 13,000,000 (the purges)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) 180,000
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 (dissidents executed)
Well that's easy. Allow any law abiding citizen to carry a handgun.
Create laws that allow any law abiding citizen to use deadly force in self defense. Prohibit civil law suits by criminals when law abiding citizens defend themselves. Prohibit any civil suit by anyone with criminal convictions.
Bonus: Allow deadly force to protect property, not just people. Your home invasion rate will fall to near zero. Your Yobs will be reformed or dead (and good riddance too!)
Crimes are never commited at the following locations: Gun shows; Police stations; NRA convetions; etc. Crimes are commited at: Disarmed victim zones (schools; post office; your home if you live in a non-free country like the UK; etc.)
Who will oppose this: People who like to hurt and rob others; and... ?
Are you enraged that some people have automated a mindless task while you are still doing it manually while paying monthly for the privelage?
Do people who use a can opener while you are still bashing your can of beans on a rock make you angry?
Do you hate those who use spell check while you are looking up words in the Un-abridged dictionary?
What about those assholes who use windsheild wipers instead of a squeege while driving? Not to mention those bastards who put gas in their cars instead of pushing their non-running cars down the street like you do?
If so, WOW has an offer for you!
Seriously, some of you need help. Paying a fee to perform mindless, repetative tasks that a program can do for you is idiotic. Gloating that someone who offers a product to automate this task is in trouble is just sad.
You have bought into the marketing bullshit hook line and sinker. Fact is, synthetic oils can be miscible with water (creating slude in an engine driven for short distances which never fully warms up), can make the gaskets and seals leak on an older engine, and can make rubber hoses (PVC, evap) harden like glass and develop cracks.
If your goal is to protect your engine, then put in any motor oil that has the ASPI seal and change it whenever it gets the color of strong tea or darker. Your differentials will last forever unless you got a volvo. Your transmission will last forever unless you got a volvo AWD or a Tarus. Change the transmission fluid (and filter if an automatic) at the manufacturers recomended interval or sooner, and there will never be any problems.
Can someone please explain to me what authority she had to authorize phone taps on private cell phones? She is not law enforcement. WTF
Beats the shit out of me. You would think someone would have pointed out US code TITLE 18 > PART I >
CHAPTER 119--WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Plus depending on the State this occured in there may be other violations. Is there anyone out there that does not know it is illegal to tap phones? Sheesh. What a ditz.
There is a problem with your drug analysis. The druggies are stealing to support their habit because drugs are so expensive. If all drugs were deregulated, then their cost would fall to near their cost of production. Now, if you consider the cost of other crops, the cost is on order of pennies per pound.
.
The govt. could give out free drugs and Darwin Award bumper stickers to addicts, and refund to the rest of us the Billions of $ spent on prohibition. The profit in drugs would disappear, and thus criminal elements would no longer be attracted to the trade. There would be no turf wars and resulting killings. Drugs would no longer be "cool" to take, and fewer kids would take them.
Consider, the only products that attract criminal elements are those which are banned or regulated: Tabak, Alcohol, Drugs, Whores. You never see people stealing laundry detergent, or Big Macs, because those products are freely available AND too cheap to bother stealing.
In the early 1900s, you could buy cocaine out of the sears catalog.. and I think we had less of a drug "problem" then than we do today. We may have had addicts, but they could still be legal, respectable and productive members of society.
"If Blast-a-chussets starts this slippery slope, then every state could do it or be ordered to. This could be a backdoor attempt by this wicked administration to angle in on youth and catalog them from cradle to grave."
Are you aware that mass-hole-chute-sets is predominantly leftist? That the people who infest the school system are totally leftist? This is not a plot by "Eeevil Repubs" to deny constitutional rights to kids. This is a bunch of leftists taking away rights "for the children".
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My 1975 Toyota corolla 2TC engine after I rebuilt it. I put on the carb and manifold from a 3TC motor. There is no computer feedback on the carb. The car has no cat. converter. After I set the idle mixture according to the instructions for lean drop idle, The car has 21 PPM Hydrocarbon and .09% CO. If you want to argue that the carb need regular cleaning and adjustment to maintain these low levels, I agree.
3) I frequently hear pitches like this, for certain types of technological solutions which could save the lives of the desperate poor. In addition to your suggestion, we could, for example: - i) genetically engineer a number of crops with higher yields, providing more food, - ii) blanket Africa with DDT, killing mosquitoes (and therefore preventing malaria transmission), - iii) actively destroy swampland in rural Africa and other tropical regions, to reduce the size of mosquito breeding grounds. The argument for these technologies (saved human lives) is easy to advance. There are various specific counterarguments to be used for specific cases, but there are two general counterarguments:
Let's see: Silent Spring has been debunked. 2000 people die in Africa from Malaria EVERY DAY. Africans WANT to use DDT, to save their lives. Rich White granola munching hippies in rich countries have decided that dead brown people are unimportant relative to the teachings of the sacred scrolls of the Cult of Gaia.I'll go with the Africans on this one.
If you read the table on page 16 of this pdf document, you will see that the car with the highest death rate was the 1975 VW beetle. The pinto is middle of the pack death-wise. http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the _Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
Of course, the pinto (manufactured by a "large evil American corporation") was not cute and not loved by the hippies at
Mother Earth news, who ideologically preferred a car manufactured by a large German
corporation and originally conceived by He-who-must-not-be-named-in-an-online-forum.
The hit job on the pinto is similar, really, to the one on the Corvair, or the Audi 5000.
An easier and less expensive way to avoid credit card debt is to not buy things you cannot afford, and pay off your balance in full on the due date. Amex gives good service, but I think they charge a yearly fee for the card. So if you are short of money, you probably are not in a position to spend more on the Amex fee.
With certain banks, you can set up your visa to paid in full right on the due date out of your account, so you don't have to mess with checks and stamps. And yes, debit cards combine the worst aspects of checks with the worst aspects of credit cards. Like condos combine the worst parts of owning with the worst parts of renting.
And if you watch the youtube video of Marilyn Monroe sing Happy Birthday to JFK you can see why she had to go. The JFK womanizing is
stuff of legend, but was always kept under wraps. Marilin was a little TOO obvious to keep around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3IzpazVl-I
Well /. exists to sell our eyeballs to advertisers thru page views.
Flamewar stories create the most comments and page views.
That is why these sorts of stories are regular as clockwork.
They don't use cards any more. Fingerprinting is done on a scanner with a green backlight, and you can see your fingerprints come up on the attached computer screen in real time. So yes the fingerprints are in some networked database available to anyone who want them.
Well, since criminals have no trouble getting guns as things stand, it shows the fallacy of "permits" for concealed carry. Vermont has no permit for concealed carry, and it has one of the lowest crime rates. The fallacy of "gun free zones" needs no explanation.
You know what's even more outrageous?
Some States make you give up your fingerprints in order to
exercise your second amendment rights. Freedom has been dead a
long time.
Do the math. Brisk walking burns 7 calories a minute. A McDonalds value meal has 1170 calories. You have to walk briskly for 167.14 minutes to burn off those calories. That's 2 hours 47 minutes. Of walking. Briskly.
Exercise has important health benefits and you should be doing it. But to lose weight, you need
to control your food intake. All the fad diets and pills are bullshit and possibly harmful as well. Eat less calories, and you will lose weight. And while you are at it, cut out all the hydrogenated fats. Eating lard would be less harmful. If you are addicted to nicotine, get your fix thru a method other than smoking or chewing.
Yes I am ranting. But I hate to see people oblivious to the fact that they are
ruining their health and quality of life by ingesting obscenely excessive amounts of harmful "food" products and nicotine delivery systems. Know why all the old people you see on the street are thin like birds? Because most of the fat people died when they were 50 years old, and the rest of them are confined in a nursing home waiting to die.
Well until linux can support this feature it simply cannot
prevail on the desktop. This is another area where the superior interopoerability of Windows exceeds the capability of linux.
What's worse, do you realize that there are people running a mail reader called pine which does not even support the automatic execution of executable code they receive in emails? The Savages!!! Thank you Bill Gates for making the user experience of Windows user so much richer than that of their poor, un-enlightened unix^H^H^H^Hlinux counterparts.
All Hail Bill!
Oh, is that another martooni?
<NO CARRIER>
[THE ABOVE POST MAY CONTAIN SARCASM AND HUMOR. DO NOT EAT]
Yes, the level of obliviousness is amazing.
Stall visits an island, run by a homicidel dictator, that most native people
are trying to escape in whatever (non)sea-worthy craft they can create.
He then "protests" about a detention facility which provides halal food, Korans wrapped in plastic, delivered by glove wearing guards (so the Koran will not be "defiled" by the "infidel") are provided to the "prisoners".
Meanwhile,in Pakistan, a 12 year old jihadist sawed of the head of a "spy".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_re_as/p
Will Stall go to the scene to protest this atrocity? I think not. It might require actual being in a danger zone.
Wanker.
Well here is what Bradford B. Wiles, a graduate student at Virginia Tech. had to say about it. He was actually there, so his perspective might be relevant.
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On Aug. 21 at about 9:20 a.m., my graduate-level class was evacuated from the Squires Student Center. We were interrupted in class and not informed of anything other than the following words: "You need to get out of the building."
Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down the street, pistols drawn.
It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.
Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech's student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.
I had entrusted my safety, and the safety of others to the police. In light of this, there are a few things I wish to point out.
First, I never want to have my safety fully in the hands of anyone else, including the police.
Second, I considered bringing my gun with me to campus, but did not due to the obvious risk of losing my graduate career, which is ridiculous because had I been shot and killed, there would have been no graduate career for me anyway.
Third, and most important, I am trained and able to carry a concealed handgun almost anywhere in Virginia and other states that have reciprocity with Virginia, but cannot carry where I spend more time than anywhere else because, somehow, I become a threat to others when I cross from the town of Blacksburg onto Virginia Tech's campus.
Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness.
That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.
I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, "I would feel safer if you had your gun."
The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed.
I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government.
This incident makes it clear that it is time that Virginia Tech and the commonwealth of Virginia let me take responsibility for my safety.
link:
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/8
The correct term is "mount" not stuff.
So you should have said
"The moment they add on a rider making it legal to hunt and mount lawyers."
There, that's better.
Of course, the real issue here is the criminal negligence of the State in prohibiting this Policewoman from being armed, and thus being able to effectivly defend herself.
No, globalization is capable of *creating* a middle class where none exists. "capturing the wealth of the middle class" is meaningless collectivist double speak under capitalism. Under socialism it traditionally is done with guns, taxes, confiscation, and re-education camps.
And more importantly, your cherished misconceptions might be damaged by reading material that contradicts them. Mustn't have that.
Is that skinny wusses cannot defend themselves from big thugs, or a group of skinny thugs, and think this is a good thing. The idea that people should have to participate in some "law of the jungle" combat to defend themselves is absurd. Tools are available for the job, and here in most of the US we are allowed to carry them.
These people killed in the name of communism disagree with your flippant, jejune dismissal
of their fate, and your attempt to apologize for their executioners.
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69) 49,000,000 ("great leap forward" and "cultural revolution")
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1934-39) 13,000,000 (the purges)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) 180,000
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 (dissidents executed)
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) 30,000
Well that's easy. Allow any law abiding citizen to carry a handgun. Create laws that allow any law abiding citizen to use deadly force in self defense. Prohibit civil law suits by criminals when law abiding citizens defend themselves. Prohibit any civil suit by anyone with criminal convictions.
Bonus: Allow deadly force to protect property, not just people. Your home invasion rate will fall to near zero. Your Yobs will be reformed or dead (and good riddance too!)
Crimes are never commited at the following locations: Gun shows; Police stations; NRA convetions; etc. Crimes are commited at: Disarmed victim zones (schools; post office; your home if you live in a non-free country like the UK; etc.)
Who will oppose this: People who like to hurt and rob others; and... ?
Do people who use a can opener while you are still bashing your can of beans on a rock make you angry?
Do you hate those who use spell check while you are looking up words in the Un-abridged dictionary?
What about those assholes who use windsheild wipers instead of a squeege while driving? Not to mention those bastards who put gas in their cars instead of pushing their non-running cars down the street like you do?
If so, WOW has an offer for you!
Seriously, some of you need help. Paying a fee to perform mindless, repetative tasks that a program can do for you is idiotic. Gloating that someone who offers a product to automate this task is in trouble is just sad.
If your goal is to protect your engine, then put in any motor oil that has the ASPI seal and change it whenever it gets the color of strong tea or darker. Your differentials will last forever unless you got a volvo. Your transmission will last forever unless you got a volvo AWD or a Tarus. Change the transmission fluid (and filter if an automatic) at the manufacturers recomended interval or sooner, and there will never be any problems.
Beats the shit out of me. You would think someone would have pointed out US code TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 119--WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Here:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/us c_sup_01_18_10_I_20_119.html
Plus depending on the State this occured in there may be other violations. Is there anyone out there that does not know it is illegal to tap phones? Sheesh. What a ditz.
.
The govt. could give out free drugs and Darwin Award bumper stickers to addicts, and refund to the rest of us the Billions of $ spent on prohibition. The profit in drugs would disappear, and thus criminal elements would no longer be attracted to the trade. There would be no turf wars and resulting killings. Drugs would no longer be "cool" to take, and fewer kids would take them.
Consider, the only products that attract criminal elements are those which are banned or regulated: Tabak, Alcohol, Drugs, Whores. You never see people stealing laundry detergent, or Big Macs, because those products are freely available AND too cheap to bother stealing.
In the early 1900s, you could buy cocaine out of the sears catalog.. and I think we had less of a drug "problem" then than we do today. We may have had addicts, but they could still be legal, respectable and productive members of society.
You had me till this part:
"If Blast-a-chussets starts this slippery slope, then every state could do it or be ordered to. This could be a backdoor attempt by this wicked administration to angle in on youth and catalog them from cradle to grave."
Are you aware that mass-hole-chute-sets is predominantly leftist? That the people who infest the school system are totally leftist?
This is not a plot by "Eeevil Repubs" to deny constitutional rights to kids. This is a bunch of leftists taking away rights "for the children".