Central Scrutinizer

Our understanding of right and wrong is constantly being challenged and tested. That cuts to the heart of Roe v Wade -- the American history of courts and balance of law reached the point where the Supreme Court made that decision, based the courts recording of precedent, right and wrong. I was trying to come up with an analogy to counter your backing over your neighor being wrong. The best I can come up with is: consider a small child that finds itself upon a deserted island, with all manner of means for him to survive. He grows to manhood and one day, while up in the tree shoping for cocon

Oddly enough, when my wife and I first got married, we considered moving to Alaska for a while. Their teacher pay is top flight + housing. Jobs are to be had, but you have to move -- we moved from Illinois to Florida for my wife to find work. You're right about bad teachers though. Like everything else about our contry, the system is set up to compensate the incompetent and incapacitate the competent.

That may well be. Damn if he didn't prove us all right in spades!

This may be another one of those potato pahtato things, where we both saying the same thing from two different directions. Does the history of civilization show that some morals are universal? This organized society or civilization called the United States in America agreed to a constitution, bill of rights, and along the way some amendments. Created the branches of government, checks and balances. It's lasted nearly 250 years, and the election of 2008 is the best we can do as a civilization?

I want to try to understand you on this, and I think where you're losing me is how you define morals. Morals or morality must be agreed upon because it has to exist in a society or civilization. You have to buy into it but it can't be completely subjective. I think all manner of civilizations have come up with very similar "morals" because they're what we operate by to keep from eliminating ourselves altogether. Whether you're Christian or not, "do not kill" seems like a pretty good rule. Philosphers and politicians will get on the slippery slope of exceptions. It is the rationalizations that

Basically means "same as previous reference."

I think he was just teasingly say it's about "agree to disagree" time before it's on to a 9th election thread.

What was almost as thought-provoking as the "related story:" Obama's women reveal his secret.

Home of the phallic peanut! -- I hope it's circumsized.

Guess it just wasn't Bloomberg's week: Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10027886-37.html

At least they didn't discover he's ...

In this thread, I think we're on page 13.

Allah be praised! Shouting fire in a crowded movie house is free speech, but it's not exactly a noble action. Sharing requires listening as well as talking. Not just listening but receiving the information.

I'm not trying to put him down. I just see you arguing blindly and throwing a lot of stuff out there -- a lot of biased stuff -- without listening to anyone. You would approve of McCain and Palin using god if they did it 20 years ago but not now? When is it O.K. and when isn't it? And are you the soul arbiter of that?

I had read it in the Chicago Tribune a while back, but I saw it on CNN too.

In his community organizing, he used pastors and churches in order to build his cause. It's well documented. His connection to Rev. Wright as as much visibility -- that was the church where Chicago's black up-and-comers went.

The more divisive politics becomes, the greater impact it will have, unfortunately. And anyone who says Obama has not relied on religion in advancing his political career doesn't know much about the man or his history -- particularly in Chicago.

This is an e-mail I received from the Duval County Supervisor of Elections (Jacksonville, FL): Supervisor of Elections Advises Voters of Mailing On Thursday, September 4, 2008 the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Office received a number of calls from voters inquiring about a mailing entitled "Voter Registration Tracking Form" along with a "Party Affiliation Voter Registration Card" sent by the Republican National Committee. Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland would like to advise voters who received this mailing it is not a product being distributed by the Duval County Supervisor

I don't entirely buy the fung shui approach to politics. There's not a harmony to the dangerous, nor to the dishonesty. There's a lot of crap bandied about from innocent people with biases and dishonest people whose plans prey on the biases of the innocent. That's not an overall dismissal, just an example. That said, I think a political party, through the decisions it makes, the leaders and organizers, make decisions on their approach to honesty, integrity, etch. when they mold and shape the message. That said, I think you can look at the examples of the past eight years, certainly the neo-c

Seems like he looked her over pretty good from that video .... (JOKE)

Two wrongs don't make a right ... but three rights make a left.