Topic : News, Politics and Current Events

Didn't see the show, but I get what you're saying about ole Martha!

Prof

"Mostly I tease him about himself."

Let's hear it for the Boog, deflater of vanity! =)

Prof

LOL!

With that, I'll be calling it an evening on the Phillies!

Good night, all.

Prof

LOL...yeah.  Many times he gets the notion in his head he's going to say something stupid about women.  Then he remembers who he is talking to and changes his mind....I reckon because he's not in the mood to argue (debate).  LOL....I'm always ready for him...I don't let anything slide. 

LOL...haven't seen him for years but we send each other birthday and Christmas cards....I oughta call him and rattle his cage........it's would be good for him and give his heart some exercise.

...lol..I wonder if he's up.

I don't know, to me that sort of stifles free speech.  I mean if a preacher wants to stand there and tell people who he wants to vote for and why, I don't see the problem.

Are college professers allowed to do the same thing in front of their class?  It would seem sort of the same thing to me.

JMHO

OK off topic, but I hope they don't delete me.  Sug lets call a truce as far as the other board, I won't post any more to you on the other board, K?

I have a funny that you made me think of when you brought up Martha Stewart.  Now, no one else thought this was THAT funny, but my daughter and I almost peed our pants!  Martha had Elmo on her show and the were making some kind of french food.  At the end of the show as they were "signing off"  Martha said  "how 'bout a little french kiss Elmo"! 

Hi there, 

I'm registered as a Democrat so that I can vote in a primary (not an open primary state) but vote based on the candidate.  My husband was a Republican for many years but switched parties mainly in protest to Bush.  He is a fiscal conservative and for states rights which is what the party used to be about before the Christian Coalition got involved back with Reagan.  Now, in his opinion, the party has been taken over by religious and big business interests.

Our political system, imo, sucks right now.  I would love to see a viable third party come into play but I have a feeling that may take awhile.

Something to consider on the abortion issue is a report released by a group of WHO (World Health Organization) scientists a month or so ago which found that even in countries where abortion is illegal the rate is the same if not more than in countries where it is legal.  They also found that the abortion rate was higher in countries that had abstinence only education and where birth control was not readily available.

For the record, abortion is not something that I personally would be able to do but I also have never found myself in a situation that would cause me to consider it.  If it was made illegal in our country they would still take place at the same rate but in addition to the loss of the fetus many more women would also die.    I would like to see the money that the pro choice and pro life groups spend battling each other spent on more education and  prevention of the procedure. 

For the record, abortion is not something that I personally would be able to do but I also have never found myself in a situation that would cause me to consider it.  If it was made illegal in our country they would still take place at the same rate but in addition to the loss of the fetus many more women would also die.    I would like to see the money that the pro choice and pro life groups spend battling each other spent on more education and  prevention of the procedure. 

Amen, Sista!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would you stand by your statement if you substituted "imam" or "rabbi" for "preacher?" The rules need to apply equally to all religious groups.

We have freedom to practice religion (or not) as we as individuals see fit. The government (by and large) lets religious entities be (they are not subject to corporate or property taxes), and (contrary to the assertions of the Robertsonians and Dobsonites) neither promotes nor persecutes particular sects based on belief per se. The trade-off is that religious entities are barred from openly supporting one candidate or another. Do you really *want* to see religious parties a la Israel, Iran, or (God forbid!) Afghanistan??

As far as college professors go, I would be mad as hell if a professor ginned for or against a particular candidate -- I didn't sit in psychology or chemistry classes to listen to a political agenda! I can see where a Poly Sci professor might illustrate a given point using current events, but otherwise, I would imagine if a prof went too off-topic for too many lectures, the students would be complaining.   

BTW, don't accept all the horror stories the uber-conservative columnists tell as "typical" campus occurrences. On the basis of being a student (BS and PhD), a student's then-wife, and an employee on a college campus for 8 years, I can honestly say that little, if anything, remotely resembling those extremes occurs on college campuses. The only reasaon I even have to qualify the statement at all is that something happened in the last couple of days on our local campus in conjunction with not even a lecture, but a movie screening, that gives me pause.

All for now.

Prof