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Yeah, it is. Sorry Dude.
Within the privacy of my skin, I am sovereign, as far as I understand the US constitution. And since I'm one of those damn Second Amendment supporting liberals, you'd better be careful about treading on the constitution!
Anyway, within the privacy of my own skin, I am sovereign. I can kill a virus if I so desire, I can introduce THC if I so desire, I can kill a fetus if I so desire. It no more your business or the government's business than if a sovereign NATION decides to do whatever they think is appropriate and in that nation's best interests.
If you, or the government, decide that you know better and that sovereignty will not be respected and that your will shall prevail, then what you have is war. Is that about right?
In the USA, individual rights are paramount. If you don't like it, move somewhere where individual rights are second to the rights of the tribe. I will personally make every effort to ensure that the US does not turn into such a country.
Seriously, is that clear? NO third party has any legitimate business deciding what transpires within the confines of my body. NONE! Period, end of story. Try it and I'll consider it an act of war and will shoot you if necessary!
Take to heart the saying, "If you don't like abortion, don't have one!"
Aw, jeez. She's a right wing crank! Of course you felt like you were being prodded with a stick!
Give up the diet Coke and the Nutrasweet, fool. I hope you know you can thank Donald Rumsfeld for that particular poison.
If you can't afford fruit & vegetables, quit buying meat! You arguably NEED fruit & vegetables, meat is just a protein source. You only need 25 grams or so of protein a day; 50 cents' worth of rice & beans should do and it would give you the 9 essential amino acids you need. BTW, see The Meat Guzzler in the NYT recently: {http://tinyurl.com/yrz5l3}
And wouldn't it be a lot more accurate to say that the absence of folic acid causes birth defects rather than saying folic acid prevents them? And isn't it specifically neural tube defects, if memory serves?
Anyway, just eat your vegetables.
How many Piouses does she have?
Where would this be? The GED is equivalent to a high school diploma, but grades are grades and colleges have standards. Community colleges may be different.
At my neighborhood State University:
You are eligible for first-time freshman admission if you:
• Have or will have graduated from high school; have a GED, or have completed the California High School Proficiency Exam.
• Meet the eligibility index with your grade point average and ACT/SAT test scores. The eligibility index is a formula to see if your grade point average in college preparatory subjects and test scores meet the minimum standards for admission to SF State.
• Have or will have completed with a grade of C or better in each course a 15-unit comprehensive pattern of college preparatory work.
BTW, I couldn't take the conventional route either. I dropped out of HS after a year and a half and spent the rest of the time at a community college. I still feel like an impostor, but they gave me a Master's anyway. With honors.
Really. Maybe he should take classes or something.
I'm really sick of 'Artists' who can't actually paint, sculpt, draw, print, whatever. There's no better way to kill a concept.
I have to extrapolate what was said in the video from the comments because I refuse to bother watching a video of something that SHOULD JUST BE A WRITTEN ARTICLE!
If TCF insists on reading her commentary to us instead of just publishing it, then she'll be judged on how she looks on screen like every other talking head Barbie or Ken. Put the words out there in written form, so we can analyze and think about them. If you want to do a podcast for visually impaired people, that's great, but really, I just want to READ Salon.
Or does it blow?
I can't tell.
"when asked if she would support Obama were he the Democratic candidate, she emphatically shook her head. "I'm Jewish," said Goldfeder, "and I haven't heard him say a word about Israel."
So, McCain's hundred years' war would be preferable?
OK, no offense, but now I wish I'd voted for Obama instead of Clinton.
Israel, for all its trumped up importance, is the 96th or so most populous country in the world. Right between Switzerland and Honduras, with a whopping .11% of the world's people. Their major exports are oranges and ammunition, which we can produce ourselves.
I wish them well, but as far as I'm concerned Israel doesn't get to vote for president of the US. They've got no delegates and shouldn't be making campaign contributions; they just shouldn't get a say. I'm seriously tired of the weight the Israel lobby and the ADL etc. throw around in our political system. It's not in either country's best interests, and it isn't in mine.
And lots of it.
Cheap, Useless, Chinese made Crap!
The cheaper it is, the more I'll be able to get.
Hopefully with a good dose of leaded paint!
Shouldn't it be:
"Chris Wallace: Probing, brown-nosed journalist"
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"We haven't gotten off the hook because we haven't yet really gotten onto it. We have not yet dared to face, open-eyed, this war's deep and frightening significance."
Interesting article, but after reading 'we' this and 'we' that while sitting in San Francisco in a San Francisco based publication I couldn't help but thinking of the line -
What you mean 'We', kemosabe?
Unfortunately, if/when Israel really gets into trouble, the US gov't will invariably do whatever stupid, brutal things necessary to make it that much worse.
With such a damning review?
Is this Salon's twisted idea of 'balance'?