I often find it ironic how conservative talking heads bash the ACLU as defending "commies and left wing nuts", but when *they* want free expression they're happy to get the ACLU involved to help.
No, they're not. While the ACLU will occasionally defend "conservative" causes, they'll well known for making up their own ideas for what constitute rights. Apparently, you have a right to force a Catholic hospital to perform abortions, for example. It's a little funny, because I thought that the basis of natural rights was that you could do what you want as long as it didn't infringe on someone else's rights. In the ACLU reality, if you're a professional, you apparently don't have a right to refuse to participate in actions you consider unethical.
This does appear to be a solution in search of a problem. Today's dishes are already tiny enough to easily mount on an RV. Although, someone needs to tell Allstate insurance, because their commercial seems to indicate they believe a 25 pound dish can obliterate a carport.
Hypothesis: The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose mandatory health care insurance on every citizen. Experiment: Read the Constitution. Observations: Health care is not mentioned anywhere. "General welfare" is, but since bills of attainder and confiscation of life, liberty or property without due process of law are prohibited-- and the health care bill causes summary fines to be levied against those who do not wish to buy health insurance-- this vaguely stated power is negated. Conclusion: The health care bill is unconstitutional. Notes: The GOP proposed a similar bill in 1994 to combat the radical "Hillarycare". It was a really dumb idea when they proposed it, too.
I don't see how creating a "grain monoculture" is a necessary consequence of GMO. Some farmers are still going to use non-engineered grain unless the government makes them (which is far more likely than a company like Monsato getting an absolute monopoly). GMO and a lack of diversity are two different things. You can have a lack of genetic diversity without GMO.
Call me cynical, but I find it strange that these sorts of stories have started to appear frequently at the same time as the government is making a push to bring back Fox hunting (no, not hunting as in America i.e. with guns- the sick fucked up version that only people with a disturbing psycopathic blood lust would enjoy)
Oh, so I guess you mean the kind of fox hunting with dogs tearing apart the foxes that only a cultured English gentlemen would enjoy?
Burying a corpse is natural. It's the natural behavior of homo sapiens. When an elephant or chimp covers its dead with debris, do you run up and uncover it because it's unnatural? STRAW MAN NOTE: I didn't say anything about embalming, sealed caskets, etc.
It's only a shame you couldn't travel back to the 12th century to push cremation on those eco-hostile cretins before they allowed themselves to be buried! By the way, the intense heat needed for cremation adds "carbon" to the atmosphere.
If you were to observe the people who call themselves "people of faith" you'd find that only a fraction of them really are.
Faith in a god is separate from ethics, because no one is morally perfect (and whose moral code?). If we had 24-hour surveillance, and we were to determine who had "faith" based on their outward actions, everyone would look like a hypocrite. Since I don't know what's in everyone's hearts, and can't make them all submit to a polygraph, I'll have to assume that when someone says they have faith in God that they do. You have proven with your statement, however, that actions do speak louder than words-- especially to those who determine the truth of a movement based on the actions of its members.
That's not to say that you ignore the other ones, we're going to be permanently in debt unless we allow the Bush tax cuts to expire for the high earners
Please don't repeat administration fibbing points here. I can give you 80 fiscal reasons this is a fallacious statement.
What President Obama failed to appreciate is all the numb nuts out there that are voting specifically for the candidate that's going to cause the most damage to the federal government.
What the president failed to appreciate is the Constitution.
Never mind that the original tea party had precisely zip to do with taxation, and everything to do with ditching the competitors product so that they wouldn't have any competition.
Both factions were prominent: those who opposed taxation without representation, and merchants who resented the crown's favoritism of the East India tea company.
At the risk of Godwin-ing this thread, I'm concerned by the fact that although we simply aren't a Christian-dominated nation (although we're largely a nation of faith), both SIGs and politicians keep claiming we are, and that said group is a threat to our freedom and security. When you make these claims about a group, it's a set-up for blame when things go wrong, and an excuse to begin sanctions.
It's a shame that when you point out the lack of logic in a TROLL POST on Slashdot, it gets modded down. I agree with you, but a lot of mods are fans of PopeRatzo's trolls.
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No, they're not. While the ACLU will occasionally defend "conservative" causes, they'll well known for making up their own ideas for what constitute rights. Apparently, you have a right to force a Catholic hospital to perform abortions, for example. It's a little funny, because I thought that the basis of natural rights was that you could do what you want as long as it didn't infringe on someone else's rights. In the ACLU reality, if you're a professional, you apparently don't have a right to refuse to participate in actions you consider unethical.
This does appear to be a solution in search of a problem. Today's dishes are already tiny enough to easily mount on an RV. Although, someone needs to tell Allstate insurance, because their commercial seems to indicate they believe a 25 pound dish can obliterate a carport.
And you got modded "Troll" for having a "wrong" opinion. "-1, Whoosh!" on that mod.
She isn't holding public office. Meanwhile, the President is still a media whore and hasn't stopped campaigning since 2006.
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Hypothesis: The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose mandatory health care insurance on every citizen.
Experiment: Read the Constitution.
Observations: Health care is not mentioned anywhere. "General welfare" is, but since bills of attainder and confiscation of life, liberty or property without due process of law are prohibited-- and the health care bill causes summary fines to be levied against those who do not wish to buy health insurance-- this vaguely stated power is negated.
Conclusion: The health care bill is unconstitutional.
Notes: The GOP proposed a similar bill in 1994 to combat the radical "Hillarycare". It was a really dumb idea when they proposed it, too.
That's no moon.
It's too bad we don't have a house in the legislature in which even representation-- say, two per state-- is given regardless of population.
I don't see how creating a "grain monoculture" is a necessary consequence of GMO. Some farmers are still going to use non-engineered grain unless the government makes them (which is far more likely than a company like Monsato getting an absolute monopoly). GMO and a lack of diversity are two different things. You can have a lack of genetic diversity without GMO.
Yes, and if women gave it up more easily, maybe we wouldn't have rape.
The French government is subsidizing entertainment for a select part of the population, and THIS is your concern?
Literary criticism of the religious texts is a little higher, I'd say, unless you believe truth is subjective.
Oh, so I guess you mean the kind of fox hunting with dogs tearing apart the foxes that only a cultured English gentlemen would enjoy?
Burying a corpse is natural. It's the natural behavior of homo sapiens. When an elephant or chimp covers its dead with debris, do you run up and uncover it because it's unnatural? STRAW MAN NOTE: I didn't say anything about embalming, sealed caskets, etc.
Looks like they probably included the area of Alaska and Hawaii in the land area of the USA, but forgot to put them on the map. Still clever.
Unfortunately, most areas have minimum requirements for disposing of remains and they aren't that cheap.
It's only a shame you couldn't travel back to the 12th century to push cremation on those eco-hostile cretins before they allowed themselves to be buried! By the way, the intense heat needed for cremation adds "carbon" to the atmosphere.
Government spending like there's no tomorrow... wait, that already happened.
Faith in a god is separate from ethics, because no one is morally perfect (and whose moral code?). If we had 24-hour surveillance, and we were to determine who had "faith" based on their outward actions, everyone would look like a hypocrite. Since I don't know what's in everyone's hearts, and can't make them all submit to a polygraph, I'll have to assume that when someone says they have faith in God that they do. You have proven with your statement, however, that actions do speak louder than words-- especially to those who determine the truth of a movement based on the actions of its members.
Please don't repeat administration fibbing points here. I can give you 80 fiscal reasons this is a fallacious statement.
Isn't that the way we got out of Vietnam? Instead, it was Congress who cut off funding?
What the president failed to appreciate is the Constitution.
Both factions were prominent: those who opposed taxation without representation, and merchants who resented the crown's favoritism of the East India tea company.
Well, you appointed them. Whose fault is that?
At the risk of Godwin-ing this thread, I'm concerned by the fact that although we simply aren't a Christian-dominated nation (although we're largely a nation of faith), both SIGs and politicians keep claiming we are, and that said group is a threat to our freedom and security. When you make these claims about a group, it's a set-up for blame when things go wrong, and an excuse to begin sanctions.
It's a shame that when you point out the lack of logic in a TROLL POST on Slashdot, it gets modded down. I agree with you, but a lot of mods are fans of PopeRatzo's trolls.