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theferrett quips 'So how does one advertise, "There's a 50/50 shot I'll drop dead in office, and you'll get your female President" cautiously?'filkertom compares Sarah Palin with Michael Palin.In July, for example, a Pew poll showed that 56 percent of the electorate didn't know where McCain stood on abortion. [...] In 2000, McCain begged Bush to amend language in the GOP platform, which calls for a human-life amendment banning all abortions and provides no exceptions for rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother. This week he indicated that he won't work to change that platform. That's a position espoused by fewer than 20 percent of the electorate. [...] He has bragged about his consistent zero rating from NARAL. He has explicitly said that his Supreme Court choices will be animated by his desire to overturn Roe.Links in the above quote are from the source.
Now, Barack Obama has taken some flak for his "above my pay grade" response to the question of when life begins at Saddleback. It was an artless attempt to connect with the 60 percent of Americans who believe that the abortion issue is simply too complicated for a five-word answer. John McCain really wants you to know that his answer is very, very simple.
"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state," King wrote. "It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."This is quoted in a discussion of Rick Warren hosting Obama & McCain at his megachurch.
hollyking posted about.... | Thank you for taking the test and for your interest in state/church separation. Congratulations! You scored 20 correct out of 21!
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This is what the SAFE Act requires: Anyone providing an "electronic communication service" or "remote computing service" to the public who learns about the transmission or storage of information about certain illegal activities or an illegal image must (a) register their name, mailing address, phone number, and fax number with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's "CyberTipline" and (b) "make a report" to the CyberTipline that (c) must include any information about the person or Internet address behind the suspect activity and (d) the illegal images themselves. (By the way, "electronic communications service" and "remote computing service" providers already have some reporting requirements under existing law too.)Do they honestly expect hotels and restaurants that provide wifi will hire someone just to snoop on every image crossing the wires? Or could this make it LESS likely that public wifi providers will want to see what's on your monitor?
Protection of Privacy- Nothing in this section shall be construed to require an electronic communication service provider or a remote computing service provider to–Which seems to suggest that "don't look" is the simplest strategy.
- monitor any user, subscriber, or customer of that provider;
- monitor the content of any communication of any person described in paragraph (1); or
- affirmatively seek facts or circumstances described in subsection (a)(2).
Kids asleep in the backseatCurrently this song is between The Rising (about 9/11) and Long Walk Home in the setlist. No, really?
We're just counting the miles, you and me
We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die, for a mistake
The wise men were all fools, what to do
The sun sets in flames as the city burns
Another day gone down as the night turns
And I hold you here in my heart
As things fall apart
A downtown window flushed with light
Faces of the dead at five
Our martyr's silent eyes
Petition the drivers as we pass by
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Well Darlin' tyrants and kings fall to the same fate
Strung up at your city gates
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
- Bruce Springsteen
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