Saying there is a loophole because a doctor can be bribed is like claiming there is a tax loophole because you can bribe IRS officials (assuming the right money is involved).
If that is a loophole, then you might as well call coat hangers are a critical loophole in abortion law, because they allow for late term abortions.
But thats exactly the case I'm talking about. McCain supports absolutely no allowance for those cases. He is, very specifically, against abortion in cases where the mother's health is at risk. I wouldn't call that pro-life.
I'll concede that the status of a fetus, in moral terms, is somewhat debatable. But if you concede that point for the sake of argument (that it isn't a baby), then your argument could be extended to the preventing of anything that would lead to a child: preventing sperm from reaching ovum with contraceptive, pulling out, vasectomies, etc. Spermicide could be said to "kill it before it is a baby".
From a moral standpoint, preventing impregnation is not killing a baby, stopping a pregnancy from becoming a baby is equivalent.
If we allow for a fetus to be considered as a baby, it comes down to triage, in which case we must way the worths of the two parties. A huge amount of energy and resources has already gone in to the development of the mother, and if the mother is at risk the child is likely to be worse of because of it. In this case the mother is the clear choice as well.
So you are saying, completely destroy our currency and pay off what little debt we can before our debtors refuse our dollar as worthless, causing the collapse of our economy? Like Germany tried after WWI? Great idea. Creating currency to pay off debts never has worked and never will, that is just weaseling out of the argument with known bad solutions.
Firstly: directly causing the death of US citizens is directly causing the death of US citizens, regardless of how small a portion it is. Saying "Don't worry, this bill will only kill 1/1000 people affected" does nothing for the fact that it is unconscionable, immoral, and unconstitutional.
Secondly: Google the story about McCain 'fraternizing' with a women who had just murdered abortion doctors. And, they are doctors not 'doctors'. They went through nearly a decade of school and serve people with highly skilled medical services. Essentially all abortionists also practice another area of medicine (you don't get a degree in zygoticide).
And have you? As someone who has, I can tell you redistribution of wealth is not Marxist. Ending Capitalism is the goal - and these things are not the same. Read Das Kapital to see the difference.
Pro women dying due to state-enforced delivery of babies that, due to compromised medical condition, should have been aborted for the mother's safety? Pro murder of doctors who perform abortions?
From payroll tax tax? Anyways, the point is he is decreasing the taxes on the rich at the expense of the poor (lowering taxes for one group means all other groups are now paying for a higher portion of public goods).
Newsflash: We cannot recover from our deficit without increasing taxes somewhere. At 14-digit national debt, how do you suppose we continue to function as a country with decreased taxes and "cutting the budget in some places where they can". This while maintaining the war in Iraq "until we are victorious" (read: forever).
From the first, a notable claim that relates to their "super high-tech secret oil": 8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the dielectric cooling liquid is a soy-based dielectric liquid.
No, he's old here. It seems like it was within the last year when "RTFA" changed to "RTFS" (read the fucking summary) or even "RTFT" (read the fucking title).
If you look on the Human Genome Browser right now (http://genome.ucsc.edu/), those from people who volunteered to have their genomes posted online. I'm pretty sure Dog is from one of the first guys Labrador Retriever if I recall.
Source of entire discussion: this line in the Android Market TOS: "Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ⦠in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.". The context makes it pretty clear that this does not apply to non-Market software. As a matter of fact, it would be totally infeasible for them to uninstall anything else unless they went phone by phone and decompiled and reverse engineered every app on every phone...
I am familiar with the founding fathers' Deist beliefs - I've heard it discussed often and never heard of it being a contentious point (WP article seems to state it as fact, not sure what it referenced on the point though). However I would be hesitant to call Deism a faith so much as a philosophy: it does not directly clash with Christian belief. All of the founding fathers certainly claimed to be of Christian faith, though whether this was purely for public consumption or reflected a blend of Deist philosophy and Christian faith would be an interesting discussion.
I'm aware Kennedy has been the only Catholic president, but there have been NO presidents of a faith other than Christianity.
As far as being "controlled by the pope", AFAIK and can find by searching online, Kennedy never visited the pope during his presidency, as George W. Bush has.
But that wasn't really my point, my point was that OPs statement was blatantly bigoted and akin to racism.
Saying Palin is criticized for her religious views, yet Obama is a Christian who went to the church of reverend Wright for 20 years, and Joe Biden is a Catholic (amazingly, McCain is the least religious candidate).
Reference on the family disowning him please? I recall something about suspicions that he was still receiving money from them... but have no references for that either.
Work X hours towards creating a product, make ongoing donations of that product to this day, now can he deduct a fair value of that product for his donations of that product?
Except the 'loss' is only if you value software at its face price, rather than 3 cents per disk. The sales people may lose money buying all that software from the software people, but that's like saying I lost money buying candy from myself.
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Microsoft is going to be infected with the GPL virus!
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.mspx
Saying there is a loophole because a doctor can be bribed is like claiming there is a tax loophole because you can bribe IRS officials (assuming the right money is involved).
If that is a loophole, then you might as well call coat hangers are a critical loophole in abortion law, because they allow for late term abortions.
But thats exactly the case I'm talking about. McCain supports absolutely no allowance for those cases. He is, very specifically, against abortion in cases where the mother's health is at risk. I wouldn't call that pro-life.
I'll concede that the status of a fetus, in moral terms, is somewhat debatable. But if you concede that point for the sake of argument (that it isn't a baby), then your argument could be extended to the preventing of anything that would lead to a child: preventing sperm from reaching ovum with contraceptive, pulling out, vasectomies, etc. Spermicide could be said to "kill it before it is a baby".
From a moral standpoint, preventing impregnation is not killing a baby, stopping a pregnancy from becoming a baby is equivalent.
If we allow for a fetus to be considered as a baby, it comes down to triage, in which case we must way the worths of the two parties. A huge amount of energy and resources has already gone in to the development of the mother, and if the mother is at risk the child is likely to be worse of because of it. In this case the mother is the clear choice as well.
So you are saying, completely destroy our currency and pay off what little debt we can before our debtors refuse our dollar as worthless, causing the collapse of our economy? Like Germany tried after WWI? Great idea. Creating currency to pay off debts never has worked and never will, that is just weaseling out of the argument with known bad solutions.
I was in fact confusing the names. There is a George Prescott Bush, but he is George W. Bush's nephew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Prescott_Bush
Firstly: directly causing the death of US citizens is directly causing the death of US citizens, regardless of how small a portion it is. Saying "Don't worry, this bill will only kill 1/1000 people affected" does nothing for the fact that it is unconscionable, immoral, and unconstitutional.
Secondly: Google the story about McCain 'fraternizing' with a women who had just murdered abortion doctors. And, they are doctors not 'doctors'. They went through nearly a decade of school and serve people with highly skilled medical services. Essentially all abortionists also practice another area of medicine (you don't get a degree in zygoticide).
Agreed, that was a major failure by nearly every one of our legislators.
And have you? As someone who has, I can tell you redistribution of wealth is not Marxist. Ending Capitalism is the goal - and these things are not the same. Read Das Kapital to see the difference.
Go on, I'm riveted.
Pro women dying due to state-enforced delivery of babies that, due to compromised medical condition, should have been aborted for the mother's safety? Pro murder of doctors who perform abortions?
From payroll tax tax? Anyways, the point is he is decreasing the taxes on the rich at the expense of the poor (lowering taxes for one group means all other groups are now paying for a higher portion of public goods).
Newsflash: We cannot recover from our deficit without increasing taxes somewhere. At 14-digit national debt, how do you suppose we continue to function as a country with decreased taxes and "cutting the budget in some places where they can". This while maintaining the war in Iraq "until we are victorious" (read: forever).
The 3rd please. The 1st wasn't president, but he was George Prescott Bush, making GWB a "3rd" :D
Liquid submersion cooling system:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=Attlesey.INNM.&OS=in/(Attlesey)&RS=IN/Attlesey
Circuit board assembly for a liquid submersion cooled electronic device:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=Attlesey.INNM.&OS=in/(Attlesey)&RS=IN/Attlesey
From the first, a notable claim that relates to their "super high-tech secret oil":
8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the dielectric cooling liquid is a soy-based dielectric liquid.
No, he's old here. It seems like it was within the last year when "RTFA" changed to "RTFS" (read the fucking summary) or even "RTFT" (read the fucking title).
If you look on the Human Genome Browser right now (http://genome.ucsc.edu/), those from people who volunteered to have their genomes posted online. I'm pretty sure Dog is from one of the first guys Labrador Retriever if I recall.
Source of entire discussion: this line in the Android Market TOS: "Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ⦠in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.". The context makes it pretty clear that this does not apply to non-Market software. As a matter of fact, it would be totally infeasible for them to uninstall anything else unless they went phone by phone and decompiled and reverse engineered every app on every phone...
I am familiar with the founding fathers' Deist beliefs - I've heard it discussed often and never heard of it being a contentious point (WP article seems to state it as fact, not sure what it referenced on the point though). However I would be hesitant to call Deism a faith so much as a philosophy: it does not directly clash with Christian belief. All of the founding fathers certainly claimed to be of Christian faith, though whether this was purely for public consumption or reflected a blend of Deist philosophy and Christian faith would be an interesting discussion.
I'm aware Kennedy has been the only Catholic president, but there have been NO presidents of a faith other than Christianity.
As far as being "controlled by the pope", AFAIK and can find by searching online, Kennedy never visited the pope during his presidency, as George W. Bush has.
But that wasn't really my point, my point was that OPs statement was blatantly bigoted and akin to racism.
Wow. Your second to last sentence is appalling.
Saying
Palin is criticized for her religious views, yet Obama is a Christian who went to the church of reverend Wright for 20 years, and Joe Biden is a Catholic (amazingly, McCain is the least religious candidate).
Amounts to saying
and Joe Biden is a Jew!
Reference on the family disowning him please? I recall something about suspicions that he was still receiving money from them... but have no references for that either.
The original question is different though.
Work X hours towards creating a product, make ongoing donations of that product to this day, now can he deduct a fair value of that product for his donations of that product?
Except the 'loss' is only if you value software at its face price, rather than 3 cents per disk. The sales people may lose money buying all that software from the software people, but that's like saying I lost money buying candy from myself.
Intercal!