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Has Gore responded to this inconvenient truth?

I very much appreciated reading your thoughtful answer to my rather flip comment, leatha. It is always a wonderful thing to hear another's point of view. Thank you for your reply. I still must admit to having an antipathy for Gibson as an individual and this has to do with his stated anti-Semitism of course. This is a sore point with me: my father's side of the family is Jewish and most of them perished in the Holocaust.

From what I have read that movie was in the way of being a religious snuff flick....

Mister P's new broad sounds like a real shark!

Green is my family name.

Green didn't see the movie because she already knows how the story ends. :rolleyes And Smell Gibson is a disgusting anti-Semite!:girl_hug:

Think outside the box. This is easy advice, I know, but I have a friend who has already completed a doctorat in chemistry and who is now working on one in philosophy and who is able to do this with great success. Let me explain: because his early training was in Islam he is - though not a theist - able to introduce, thanks to his early training, an approach to his studies that is not Euro-centricist and is able to spot and isolate certain questions which are ignored by the rest of his fellow tribe of philosophers. He is a gifted man and he has the added luck of being allowed to see outside the box which most folks working in his field would be constrained by. But I must confess, now that I have heard his story, that I would be inclined to cheat. I would want to rope a student who was dealing in a similar field that he have a look at my work with the trade-off that I would look at the work in his/her field. Of course the trade off would be that we, as scientists in neighbouring fields of research, would swap both knowledge and, well, hunches, and the point of the exercise would be to break outside of the boxes in which we find ourselves so reluctantly and carelessly trapped.

Hello Kitty says good bye. Goodbye Kitty.

Pink Issue

:hungry: She didn't realise that it was band-friendly low-fat protein.:heh: Silly grrl.........:tired

Well it is precisely for that reason that I terminated my comments by saying - and this was the bit that you had omitted from your quote - that 'I cannot put myself in the shoes of the opposition,' and that 'I really don't know how to view these problems.' Life in the city is certainly a whole lot easier for everyone. Folks who feel uncomfortable with aiding and abetting abortions or same sex marriages don't have to. Folks who want or feel that they need these services can go elsewhere and easily get 'em. I would venture to say that there may be no room for homosexuals or liberals or pregnant teenage girls in small town Canada even though choice and same sex civil marriage are legal rights in this country. As for where you live, BubbleButt, I gather that homosexuals are not entirely welcome, eh.:speechles

http://www.jcnot4me.com/Items/Misc%20Topics/atheists_in_america.htm http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/03/24/67686 Here are two sites. I couldn't find the one I was looking for and I had problems transcribing another one to this site (I am blonde, ya know!:faint: ) but I believe that you will find this info to be interesting reading.

I will try to find it. It was posted on an atheist site which I frequent and was a poll carried out by one of the major US newspapers, maybe the Chicago Times???? What it said was that more Americans trust Muslims than atheists. Atheists are viewed as the least trustworthy folks by Americans, it seems.

I am both pro-choice and pro same sex marriage. Both of these are legal rights in my country, nevertheless, problems can arise in small towns and rural areas. Women have found that they were denied access to the morning after pill by the only pharmacist in their small towns and they have found that they have had to not only make medical arrangements but travel to distant cities in order to have their abortions. Recently a same sex couple was denied a civil marriage by the local civil servant deputised to carry out this function in a small prairie town because this offended his sense of morality. I am inclined to view these issues as being somewhat akin in so far that these individuals find themselves unable to follow through with the laws of the land by virtue of their personal sense of ethics. None of these people were punished under Canadian law although these particular instances were mentioned in the media. The gay couple chose to sue the individual who found that he couldn't marry them. A couple of the doctors who disagreed with the local hospital's refusal to permit abortions quit practising medicine in that small town. As it happens the only local hospital is a Catholic one and as for the loss of these two doctors, well, this was a real loss to the residents of this small town; it's difficult to attract doctors to work in the boonies. And then there is the case of the pharmacist who refuses to hand out the morning after pill.... My knee jerk response is to view this kind of morality as being inflexible and punitive. When it comes to the right to choose, I figure that the rights of the individual who is already here trump that of an existance which is still largely theoretical. I also figure that to be anti-choice is kind of sexist; it is, afterall, the woman who pays the price. And I believe that same sex couples must have the right to civil marriage. But these are my beliefs. I cannot put myself in the shoes of the opposition. I really don't know how to view these problems. Certainly these are not problems which are going to afflict city folk.

It is ironic that Leatha is crying foul by claiming that bigotry against Christians is acceptable when the forces of political correctness protect everyone else these days. It is ironic because the United States is a country where the population is overwhelmingly Christian. Yup, Christians are the majority in America! If a member of one Christian sect finds that his religious afiliation is impeding his chances of being elected to public office this may mean that other Christian Americans are prejudiced against his sect or that they simply don't like his politics. In the case of liberal Americans, many if not most of whom are also likely to be Christians, their hesitancy to vote for certain individuals may well be based on the belief that this particular adherent will be unable to leave his God at home and not to engage Him in affairs of state; many folks are justifiably wary of one's religion becoming one's personal agenda. I believe that a liberal Mormon politician would be just as attractive as Obama, Ms. Clinton, or any other politician sporting an acceptable political platform to a liberal voter. Now, should an atheist run for the presidency, that individual would not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. The average American is deeply mistrustful of atheism and would prefer Muslims over atheists. (I will try to find and supply you all with this link to the survey which describes all of the above.) It seems, I would assume, that many folks cannot imagine how a human being can manage to live a moral and ethical life in the absence of the Greater Hall Monitor. As for Leatha's initial post, well, it seems to me that it has sparked some interesting discussion and that is always a good thing.

Ahh, it is scary when bimbos think....:help: Thanks for sharing.

Omigosh! I did both! :faint: and then I ate a lot!:hungry:

Welcome to the site, Sharon L. You will find it very, very informative. Remember that your lapband doc won't operate if he feels that there would be a serious risk; this is because no doctor wishes for a tragedy to happen during his watch. He will make a thorough assessment of your health before he begins to cut. Doctors sometimes require that their patients do some dieting first in order to get themselves fit for the operation. The operation itself is an easy one to recover from.:biggrin1: Like BJean, I have lost a bunch of weight that didn't want to leave before I got the band. I was 200 and going up and now I weigh 170. I was banded last September at the age of 57.

And I agree with both of you on this issue. It would be interesting if the government could get over itself and treat drug use in the same way that it treats alcohol and nicotine use: tell us that it is bad for us but allow us to buy drugs and tax the hell out of those of us who want them. Then the government would be reaping tax dollars instead of spending tax dollars on an ineffective war. This money could go toward to improving society in ever so many ways and all without placing a greater burden on the taxpayer. It is interesting to note that the use of opiates was widespread in Victorian England and yet that society was an extraordinarily productive one.

All of the above are addictions and addiction should be recognised as being a medical problem, not a legal or a moral one. However I am in favour of female drug addicts being offered $300 in order to wear an IUD. The money is an inducement and will of course be used for drugs but she will be using drugs anyhow until she manages to break free of her habit and it is better that while she is using that she avoid having children who will likely be born with health issues, land up in foster/group homes and then go on to live similarly unhappy drug-addicted lives. We are looking at the rights of the community as balanced against the right of the individual, an ailing individual, not an immoral one. Allowing a drug-addicted woman or an alcoholic for that matter to go on to have a raft of children is somewhat akin to allowing an individual who is infected with the AIDS virus to knowingly have unprotected sex. It damages the rights of others in the community. Certainly it is true that offering the 300 bucks to drug addicts in order to halt their reproductive activities may be viewed as elitist, and possibly even racist, but the truth is that rich, well-educated drug addicts tend to be less likely to have babies while using. I am in favour of decriminalizing simple drug use and treating drug addiction as a medical and a social problem. Let the law concentrate on nailing the drug businessmen.

In my case, I was the grrl who kept silent about the amount of money she had for many, many years. It has only been over the past few years that I have been coming clean about my finances with my mate, and we have been together for over 20 years now. This is due to two factors, I believe. The first is that my parents were always extremely cagey about money matters even though they were open about everything else including sex. Throughout my teenage years I believed that we were living on the edge of bankruptcy even though I was in boarding school.:faint: Then I had a bad marriage when I was in my twenties. This taught me to keep my financial information to myself. Recently a few things have happened to make me open up. I was off work on long-term disability due to depression and my mate was very generous in carrying the majority of the costs of living. Then my mother died and left me a whack of cash and I was offered a cash buy-out as part of an early retirement package. I have come to finally entirely trust my wonderful common-in-law husband because of his love and generosity to me and I have broken free of my paranoia - I guess you could call it that - about my financial affairs.

Well, I am appalled to hear this. A practising Catholic must be given the proper funeral rites. Mr. P is thinking exclusively with his little head, isn't he? What a selfish, shallow man!

That's fantastic!!!! Congratulations, sez Green. What a wonderful BMI!

Thanx for the really kind remarks. As it happens I really enjoy reading your posts, too! So there!!! And No, I have never, ever watched surgery of any sort. Green is a real sissy grrl. She has never cleaned up vomit or changed a diaper. Ugh! Indeed there was a time when she was boasting about having never changing a diaper to one of her work mates. He had young kiddies and was only semi-amused. He squinted at her and said: live long enough and you'll be changing your own diapers! Ugh!! He does have a point.lol

Oh wow, this is all really interesting info. I am quite a fan of coated aspiring. I guess I am gonna have to talk to TLBC land. Thanx.