I won't get into an abortion discussion. One last thing. To summarize what I was saying though, a woman has "dominion" over her own body, but at one point that fetus is going to turn into something that can survive outside the womb. It'd be irresponsible and cruel to abort a nineth month baby for no reason other than not wanting it.
About the marriage thing I was saying, I'm saying churches would decide who the church itself would marry or not. By church, I mean the physical church building itself with the church officials inside. If their doctrine says not to marry a certain couple for whatever reason, that church wouldn't marry them. Churches would have their own marriage certificates and such. The keyword would be "marriage", which would be plastered all over the certificate itself. A civil union certificate would say, "Civil Union Certificate" or something like that on itself. I'm saying the only different on the two certificates would be a word or two. Both would have same legal standing, whether concerning divorces, property, children, etc.
National, state, county, city, etc., are levels a party can be. They can all have different platforms. Nonetheless, some politicians may act out against their party, and may attempt to change it for the better.
Some sensitive issues are abortion and same-sex marriage.
Concerning abortion, a woman has dominion over her own body. No law can state otherwise. However, I will say that it's cruel to abort a pregnancy at a point where the baby could survive outside the womb, unless the abortion is in the name of the woman's health or a few other rare reasons.
Concerning same-sex marriage. Leave marriages to churches. Let churches decide whom to marry and not to marry. Let the government perform civil unions. Neither shall the two cross, but both need to be the same in the eyes of the law concerning contracts, laws, etc.
If we could get over those two, maybe we could get to issues such as health care, higher education, and most importantly, tax reform.
You misread what I said. I said not all Republicans are bad, meaning there are some good ones. To point them out might be difficult though. Probably on the local level where their power is limited. And someone I think implied Democrats are the other extreme.
I think most Democrats and Republicans in Congress are essentially the same side, except for minor differences.
The problem with trying to reference it is taking hours of trying to find the exact vote. The government site seems a huge mess to me.
I don't care if they think it would be political suicide. They lost my vote. They really should have the courage to vote for what's right.
Someone can hold a grudge that long. And so what if it goes beyond the statute of limitations. I would think it would still be possible to sue the specific judicial system for corruption. Well, by sue, I don't mean for any monetary compensation. I mean sueing to get one's good name back. If someone is willing to spend thousands upon thousands just trying to get the specific judicial system (city, county, state, whatever) to apologize, and nothing more. There are some people that obsessive compulsive enough to do that type of thing.
Where in Article I, Section 8, does it give Congress that authority? Cause I can't find it. And don't say regulate commerce cause I think that's something different.
If anything, digital piracy should be done at the State level. Maybe tried in both States the crime has been committed in.
About number three, no kidding on the millionare with lawyers angry at the police department. But the police should keep in mind that if they do something to a poor person, and if that person either wins the lottery or gets motivated enough to work and save, they'll be in trouble then.
I don't like the concept of requiring fingerprints unless someone is convicted of a crime. People not convicted of their first offense ever should have their fingerprint copy destroyed. What if someone has no fingerprints for whatever reason?
About cameras in cities, if the voters approved it, then that's okay. But it needs to be voter approved and temporary. Perhaps require it to be reapproved every 4 years during the mayoral election. - Personally I think they should never be lively monitored. Just review the tapes when necessary. Delete footage after 30 days. But still require voter approval every 4 years.
About the terrorist attacks, namely September 11th, let us think about that for a second. What was Osama bin Laden's reason for attacking, if he truly did that? And who had more to gain? Bush being able to sign into law stripping out rights? Or Osama bin Laden's reason?
By the way, not all Republicans are bad, and not all Democrats are good. Both do good things, and both do bad things. But more often than not in our federal Congress we see them voting for stupid things, Democrats and Republicans alike. I think one Senate vote ended up having it 100-0 for something bad.
I think they consider that, and probably spike our taxes so they can hire more and more FBI agents and such. 'Gotta get them all' so-to-speak.
I think there are two main issues. People who freely share copyrighted material, and people who SELL copyrighted material. Personally, I see the latter as being flagrant theft.
Creepy. Imagine people with billboards putting readers down on the roads in a distance enough to read you. Then the billboard suddenly says, "Hello Your_Name_Here, based on all your previous supermarket purchases, we are to assume you will like the following product." Product appears on electronic billboard.
One, it will really make a mess of our digital society creating a new type of Y2K problem.
Kids will rejoice for another hour of daylight? Usually trick or treating is down at night. Even if we did have an extra hour of daylight, consider the fact that it's after the equinox, meaning it's not going to be light out after 7pm for sure.
And like I said, it will really mess up our digital society. Back when they first did daylight savings time, we didn't have a computer society as we did now, so more than likely it was a minor inconvenience.
If you don't want children walking to school or waiting for the bus in the dark, there is a simple solution. It's called moving the school day one or two hours ahead that time of year.
And like others have said, employers can always stagger their employee's work days.
You're not kidding either. Congress does have too much time on their hands. Although their job is to make the laws, they don't have to keep making laws after laws after laws. Their job should be simply, as outlined by the Constitution.
Either they have year-round Daylight Savings Time, or just keep it the way it is. It will create a new type of Y2K problem so-to-speak.
I should have mentioned. No one who has ever held political office would be eligible in my idea. No one who has ever sought political office as a candidate, even if he or she has failed to win. No one who has any honory title, royal title, or whatever, like how Bill Gates has the title KBE.
Some say the United Nations is too corrupt right now. Plus doesn't the U.S. government have veto power?
What I'd like to see is a new organization, a national one, where each country has a single representative sent to it with one unit of voting power. Let them run it that way.
In my opinion, valedictorian should be done in the following way. 1 for every 300 students, as to be fair in the big schools. Use weighted grades instead of unweighted GPA. No more taking easy classes to get ahead. Actually, about the speech thing, it'd be best to just allow the highest weighted grade, as I just said.
Perhaps it needs to be policy in elementary schools to not allow calculators period. Middle school is a different matter as the classes start to vary depending on the math subject.
Maybe it'd be a good idea to double up on the teaching of grammar in elementary school. I have difficulty with grammar. I don't like it either. I hope when I'm in college, I can improve myself. I don't care what others say, grammar is important. It helps us express ourselves better.
Concerning elementary school. One the one hand, holding someone back may hurt them socially. On the other hand, it hurts them to move on when they don't know the material. Summer school is usually an option to advance, isn't it?
Teachers who are poor in their subject need to be fired.
It'd probably be best to not only teach technology skills, but to have philosophy classes taught too, all optional though.
I don't watch MTV myself. I watch other stuff on television. I think parents need to limit how much t.v. their young children watch.
1) More stuff that stimulates right brain activity. 2) Classes for different thinkers. There are kinetic learners, like get up and be active. There are those who learn out of books. And so on. 3) Balance history teaching. Instead of nothing but facts, start teaching lessons behind events and such. 4) Less homework, more class discussions.
College textbooks may be different, but in general, I don't believe k-12 textbooks will get stolen if left in a public place. I believe more often than not, the book will just be left alone or placed in a lost and found sort of thing. However, leave a laptop anywhere unattended, and chances are it will be gone, unless there's someone honest who found it first.
About the weight thing, it would be lighter I believe, since there'd be no textbooks, right?
But still, dropping a laptop, leaving a laptop in a public place, and so on, are going to create problems not experienced with easily replaced textbooks.
1) Dropping a book versus dropping a laptop. Which will survive? 2) Power surges. 3) Do I have to buy my own electricity over spring and winter vacations? 4) Eye problems. 5) Eye problems. 6) See above. 7) People don't steal textbooks if left someplace. But someone definitely will if it's a laptop. 8) May I remind you of 4-6? (Someone else mentioned this in another post, but eye problems with monitors is such a problem.) 9) Computer malfunctions. Homework completely lost. Do it on paper? The move from paper books to laptops will make that more difficult. Try having a laptop next to you and a paper to the side of it. Writing surfaces.
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I won't get into an abortion discussion. One last thing. To summarize what I was saying though, a woman has "dominion" over her own body, but at one point that fetus is going to turn into something that can survive outside the womb. It'd be irresponsible and cruel to abort a nineth month baby for no reason other than not wanting it.
About the marriage thing I was saying, I'm saying churches would decide who the church itself would marry or not. By church, I mean the physical church building itself with the church officials inside. If their doctrine says not to marry a certain couple for whatever reason, that church wouldn't marry them. Churches would have their own marriage certificates and such. The keyword would be "marriage", which would be plastered all over the certificate itself. A civil union certificate would say, "Civil Union Certificate" or something like that on itself. I'm saying the only different on the two certificates would be a word or two. Both would have same legal standing, whether concerning divorces, property, children, etc.
Don't they already use the "funds terrorism" excuse for the war on drugs?
National, state, county, city, etc., are levels a party can be. They can all have different platforms. Nonetheless, some politicians may act out against their party, and may attempt to change it for the better.
Some sensitive issues are abortion and same-sex marriage.
Concerning abortion, a woman has dominion over her own body. No law can state otherwise. However, I will say that it's cruel to abort a pregnancy at a point where the baby could survive outside the womb, unless the abortion is in the name of the woman's health or a few other rare reasons.
Concerning same-sex marriage. Leave marriages to churches. Let churches decide whom to marry and not to marry. Let the government perform civil unions. Neither shall the two cross, but both need to be the same in the eyes of the law concerning contracts, laws, etc.
If we could get over those two, maybe we could get to issues such as health care, higher education, and most importantly, tax reform.
What you are saying is highly offensive.
You misread what I said. I said not all Republicans are bad, meaning there are some good ones. To point them out might be difficult though. Probably on the local level where their power is limited. And someone I think implied Democrats are the other extreme.
I think most Democrats and Republicans in Congress are essentially the same side, except for minor differences.
The problem with trying to reference it is taking hours of trying to find the exact vote. The government site seems a huge mess to me.
I don't care if they think it would be political suicide. They lost my vote. They really should have the courage to vote for what's right.
Someone can hold a grudge that long. And so what if it goes beyond the statute of limitations. I would think it would still be possible to sue the specific judicial system for corruption. Well, by sue, I don't mean for any monetary compensation. I mean sueing to get one's good name back. If someone is willing to spend thousands upon thousands just trying to get the specific judicial system (city, county, state, whatever) to apologize, and nothing more. There are some people that obsessive compulsive enough to do that type of thing.
Where in Article I, Section 8, does it give Congress that authority? Cause I can't find it. And don't say regulate commerce cause I think that's something different.
If anything, digital piracy should be done at the State level. Maybe tried in both States the crime has been committed in.
About number three, no kidding on the millionare with lawyers angry at the police department. But the police should keep in mind that if they do something to a poor person, and if that person either wins the lottery or gets motivated enough to work and save, they'll be in trouble then.
I don't like the concept of requiring fingerprints unless someone is convicted of a crime. People not convicted of their first offense ever should have their fingerprint copy destroyed. What if someone has no fingerprints for whatever reason?
About cameras in cities, if the voters approved it, then that's okay. But it needs to be voter approved and temporary. Perhaps require it to be reapproved every 4 years during the mayoral election.
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Personally I think they should never be lively monitored. Just review the tapes when necessary. Delete footage after 30 days. But still require voter approval every 4 years.
About the terrorist attacks, namely September 11th, let us think about that for a second. What was Osama bin Laden's reason for attacking, if he truly did that? And who had more to gain? Bush being able to sign into law stripping out rights? Or Osama bin Laden's reason?
By the way, not all Republicans are bad, and not all Democrats are good. Both do good things, and both do bad things. But more often than not in our federal Congress we see them voting for stupid things, Democrats and Republicans alike. I think one Senate vote ended up having it 100-0 for something bad.
I think they consider that, and probably spike our taxes so they can hire more and more FBI agents and such. 'Gotta get them all' so-to-speak.
I think there are two main issues. People who freely share copyrighted material, and people who SELL copyrighted material. Personally, I see the latter as being flagrant theft.
Creepy. Imagine people with billboards putting readers down on the roads in a distance enough to read you. Then the billboard suddenly says, "Hello Your_Name_Here, based on all your previous supermarket purchases, we are to assume you will like the following product." Product appears on electronic billboard.
One, it will really make a mess of our digital society creating a new type of Y2K problem.
Kids will rejoice for another hour of daylight? Usually trick or treating is down at night. Even if we did have an extra hour of daylight, consider the fact that it's after the equinox, meaning it's not going to be light out after 7pm for sure.
And like I said, it will really mess up our digital society. Back when they first did daylight savings time, we didn't have a computer society as we did now, so more than likely it was a minor inconvenience.
If you don't want children walking to school or waiting for the bus in the dark, there is a simple solution. It's called moving the school day one or two hours ahead that time of year.
And like others have said, employers can always stagger their employee's work days.
Yeah, but I'm sick of the political junk mail I started receiving since I registered.
I could almost consider unregistering to vote due to my stupid state laws. No privacy. People have access to voter registration information here.
It is so difficult to find who voted for and against certain bills on the government website. Thanks for posting that.
You ask where the logic is in that. It's Congress, they don't need logic for anything they do, as long as they get re-elected again.
You're not kidding either. Congress does have too much time on their hands. Although their job is to make the laws, they don't have to keep making laws after laws after laws. Their job should be simply, as outlined by the Constitution.
Either they have year-round Daylight Savings Time, or just keep it the way it is. It will create a new type of Y2K problem so-to-speak.
I should have mentioned. No one who has ever held political office would be eligible in my idea. No one who has ever sought political office as a candidate, even if he or she has failed to win. No one who has any honory title, royal title, or whatever, like how Bill Gates has the title KBE.
Some say the United Nations is too corrupt right now. Plus doesn't the U.S. government have veto power?
What I'd like to see is a new organization, a national one, where each country has a single representative sent to it with one unit of voting power. Let them run it that way.
Weighted grades would best be used only for valedictorian type stuff.
In my opinion, valedictorian should be done in the following way. 1 for every 300 students, as to be fair in the big schools. Use weighted grades instead of unweighted GPA. No more taking easy classes to get ahead. Actually, about the speech thing, it'd be best to just allow the highest weighted grade, as I just said.
Perhaps it needs to be policy in elementary schools to not allow calculators period. Middle school is a different matter as the classes start to vary depending on the math subject.
Maybe it'd be a good idea to double up on the teaching of grammar in elementary school. I have difficulty with grammar. I don't like it either. I hope when I'm in college, I can improve myself. I don't care what others say, grammar is important. It helps us express ourselves better.
Concerning elementary school. One the one hand, holding someone back may hurt them socially. On the other hand, it hurts them to move on when they don't know the material. Summer school is usually an option to advance, isn't it?
Teachers who are poor in their subject need to be fired.
It'd probably be best to not only teach technology skills, but to have philosophy classes taught too, all optional though.
I don't watch MTV myself. I watch other stuff on television. I think parents need to limit how much t.v. their young children watch.
1) More stuff that stimulates right brain activity.
2) Classes for different thinkers. There are kinetic learners, like get up and be active. There are those who learn out of books. And so on.
3) Balance history teaching. Instead of nothing but facts, start teaching lessons behind events and such.
4) Less homework, more class discussions.
You just can't put a dollar value on human life. And it's not right to scare people into submission.
College textbooks may be different, but in general, I don't believe k-12 textbooks will get stolen if left in a public place. I believe more often than not, the book will just be left alone or placed in a lost and found sort of thing. However, leave a laptop anywhere unattended, and chances are it will be gone, unless there's someone honest who found it first.
About the weight thing, it would be lighter I believe, since there'd be no textbooks, right?
But still, dropping a laptop, leaving a laptop in a public place, and so on, are going to create problems not experienced with easily replaced textbooks.
1) Dropping a book versus dropping a laptop. Which will survive?
2) Power surges.
3) Do I have to buy my own electricity over spring and winter vacations?
4) Eye problems.
5) Eye problems.
6) See above.
7) People don't steal textbooks if left someplace. But someone definitely will if it's a laptop.
8) May I remind you of 4-6? (Someone else mentioned this in another post, but eye problems with monitors is such a problem.)
9) Computer malfunctions. Homework completely lost. Do it on paper? The move from paper books to laptops will make that more difficult. Try having a laptop next to you and a paper to the side of it. Writing surfaces.