Plan B Forum

I imagine she could seel to whomever she wanted in the US as well, but a licensed realtor/broker would not be permitted to be part of the transaction and to exclude people based on ethnicity/religion. And as Gb said, there's nothing to admire about her.

I can tell you that I served on the board of a noprofit clinic that served the uninsured (without regard to immigration status), and can attest we had many people coming in for problems which would not warrant emergency care, but still needed diagnosis and treatment. While I didn't work directly in ...

And the dog says, "Do you think I should've said Dimaggio?"

You only wanted the punch line, right?

Sue--I'm not certain such a restriction would be upheld as it would still be overly broad. One can't restrict demonstrations at abortion clinics (so long as a buffer zone is present to permit access), nor can the demonstrators be restricted from approaching the women choosing to enter. I would think...

ny attempt to regulate speech based on its content (and that is what we are trying to do here) however well intentioned (and it is certainly well intentioned here and is being proposed to spare the bereaved considerable emotional stress) makes me very nervous. When does a military (or other for that...

@W--from personal experience, coming from a large family of smokers, I can tell you that it appears COPD is not a certainty either. My grandmother was a 2-3 pack a day smoker who lived well into her 80s with no appreciable health problems, e.g., and my extended family has a lot of those. It may be t...

I think there are ways that the speech could be regulated which would not amount to censorship of speech and ideas just because most of us consider them abhorrent, but I do think we have to be careful to set forth the regulations so censorship will neithe roccur nor be implied.

Gob--a PM is forthcoming. Gob and thestoat--perhaps i am a little over the top in criticism of him, but a lot of what I have seen and heard from (and read by) him seems to remind me a lot of the arrogant polemics of Michael Moore. I do recall seeing one part of a treatise where he was chastising a f...

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Crackpot wrote:Did you check to see if you accidentally save it? (I've done that on a few occasions)

If I accidentally saved it, where would I go to retrieve it once saved?

having accidentally saved posts many times, go to the user control panel and then check the drafts folder.

Lo--politics crosses party lines, and expressing support for, or against, a war effort the country is involved in is inherently political IMHO. And these rituals are designed to engender such support in much the same way as saying "X thousands of people have been killed in this action, we owe it to ...

I stand corrected about the origin of the spaghetti monster, but I can swear i have heard Dawkins use it. But I disagree that it doesn't ridicule religion; the idea of worhsipping/believing in a spaghetti monster inspires lughter, which is what it is intended to do. One could use any number of model...

Gob--maybe if I get a chance I'll try again, but generally I just find him to be a passive aggressive intellectual lightweight who says "outrageous" things for attention. In this way I see him as much more akin to those whom he attacks than among philosophers or intellectuals, relgious or not, who t...

Dales--for those "hard decisions", don't you think two heads are better than one? and, FWIW< where in the bible does it say that men are to make the hard decisions? IMHO if a couple cares for and respects one another, making decisions jointly is a natrual progression.

and state congressional delegations are supposed to reflect their perrcentage of the nation's population as a whole. Not entirely, even the smallest state gets one seat in the House of Repesentatives, whether thir proportion of the US population is 1/470th of the US population or not (and larger nu...

Big RR wrote: we shouldn't have to be so open minded [about religion] that our brains deop out I don't see that as offensive per se, though I guess context is everything. It chimes in with my earlier statement that his message is "Make your OWN mind up - THINK for yourself, and if you still believe...

Guin--I plan to read them when I get a chance. and I am interested in your point about the film being faithful to the book--that is counter to what many of the critics have said (and the only negative press I've read on the film). Glad to hear that it's not necessarily the case. FWIW, I think Lisbet...

thestoat--I'll see if I can google any quotes later if I have time as i oin't have anything here with me, but I have always found him to be more concerned with the sound bite than with discussing the subject. There is one quote I recall which says something like we shouldn't have to be so open minde...

Guin--Just saw it this weekend; you're right, she was the perfect (anti-)heroine. And, unlike many action movies, the movie was quite good as well. Not typical tough woman sexploitation. I've heard a US remake in in the works; how good do you bet that will be? Kristina--I haven't read the books, but...

I don't know about the US but in QLD if you see someone in need of help (as in the case of the man shaking the victem) you have taken on a duty of care. You are bound by law to assist or call for assistance, not doing so and you are identified you can be charged with Puttin a life in Danger or begh...

I'd be surprised if someone thought for themselves and then decided to believe in a god based on the text in an extremely old book that had been modified for so many reasons by so many people for so long. If you're saying that someone exmined the bible and used it to prove the existence of god, the...