Nomar said:That is my favorite quote of the year.
1st time I heard that as an official answer was working for the gub-ment...I've used it countless times since...
IT IS WHAT IT IS
Nomar said:That is my favorite quote of the year.
:rofl:MarkP said:I believe what she said is "don't be afraid of information". I think she is in favor of teaching evolution and creationism along side each other. Her approach seems much more real world than teaching only one perspective, in touch with all the parts vs. only the anti-christian part.
HunterAK said:You're a piece of shit dude. Period.
You lost me there....landrovered said:"And again, why are so many of the same people who complain about the utter failure of government programs the ones who want the government teaching our kids about religion?"
This same sentence could be said of the Taliban.
antichrist said:Hypocrisy? Sorry, I didn't realize you were saying it was hypocrisy. Doh!
Well, I don't see it as hypocrisy. I'm sure she didn't encourage her daughter to have unprotected sex. I suspect she didn't even know her daughter was doing it. To me hypocrisy would be that or her telling her daughter to ask for birth control from her school nurse.
I see it as a refusal to recognize reality. That no matter how much you promote abstinence, there will be a significant number of kids who won't take the advice. At least 33% in her own family's case (the percentage of failure my go down as her two youngest reach sexually active ages).
Putting it in the big political picture, it's a failure to recognize that a policy you've implemented has a significant failure rate.
landrovered said:The desire to teach religion in public schools in this country is no different that the Taliban teaching its doctrine in the schools of Afghanastan.
The desire to indoctrinate the masses with a specific set of religious behaviorial tenets is fundamental to religious extremists everywhere.
Does that help?
landrovered said:The desire to teach religion in public schools in this country is no different that the Taliban teaching its doctrine in the schools of Afghanastan.
The desire to indoctrinate the masses with a specific set of religious behaviorial tenets is fundamental to religious extremists everywhere.
Does that help?
hamsquatch said:it is what it is.
Blue said:On the surface....at a passing glance, at a very high rate of speed, perhaps.
apg said:...Remember, McCain has voted with the prez 90 to 95% of the time, depending upon your sources...QUOTE] :banghead:
Does anyone here remember School House Rocks?
John McCain is in the legislative branch of government. Bills are introduced there and are debated and voted on to send to the president for signing or veto. This branch is currently controlled by the Democrats.
GW is the president, (the executive branch), where he receives the aforementioned bills from the legislative branch, and chooses to sign them into law or veto them. Here is the most important part: HE DOES NOT VOTE ON LEGISLATION!!!!
This argument is much like Obama himself. It may sound nice and pretty, but it is completely without substance. This just shows me that the democrats have no substance to run on, and are just hoping to dupe people for voting for them.
I have faith in our country that we are intelligent enough to see through all the crap on both sides and do what is best for our country. We may not agree 100% with all that is done, but we have to try to do what is best overall. We will never see a perfect candidate (or human for that matter) again.
landrovered said:Same reason Pepsi and Coke are paying schools for the right to put in vending machines.
montanablur said:Fuck you, you had to make it personal, couldn't hold a decent conversation without letting your emotions get the best of you and calling for back up. Fucking chump.
If McCain is so high and mighty why was did he turn his back on his first wife after she was injured in a car accident to have an affair? Kind of the republican way, similar to Newt who served his wife with divorce papers while in bed after surgery for cancer. Oh, it's those republican family values...
He is another shoot first ask questions later just like GW and this decision without the vetting process is proof positive that he is a loose canon.
Leslie said:??????
All of the schools around here took OUT coke machines years ago.... or if they have them, they're locked up and off-limits until after the school-day's over.....
Oh come on, you're equating teaching kids about conception and birth control with murder?Mike_Rupp said:Let's take your example and apply it to murder. Would it be a refusal to recognize reality to promote not murdering someone? No, murder is wrong and creating policies to try to reduce it is completely rational. Murder has been and always been part of human nature. Does that mean by your logic we should just recognize reality and just allow it since it will happen anyways?
Leslie said:That's fine. I am *not* a creationist, I'm a geologist, the Earth's 4.6 billion years old and we're a product of evolution.... but, I'm still one of those white people in church on Sunday morning (I'm hesitating on callin' myself old, but, I did just move my older daughter into her dorm room at college....).... I am one of those who think the global warming stuff is something to sit back at and watch the arguments fly, lol, but, at the same time, I can acknowledge that most of the things urged for people to do *in the name of global warming* are actually really good things to do, simply as a pollution control measure...... just call it what it is, tho'.....
It's been banned from schools in the U.K. by a judge's order.Mike_Rupp said:I think I know why Al Gore pushed to get his movie played in schools now.