On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I won't argue on NCLB. It's truely one of the worst pieces of law to ever > come out of good intentions. However the DoE has done more good than bad. > Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. And here I'm thinking it's the only think useful form the federal DOE. >> There are still laws against refusing treatment and this doesn't >> abolish them. > > What I'm saying is that the backlash would swing past were we were before > Obama. Going from 'Healthcare is not a right' to 'Insured patients only' > isn't that big a jump and it's one I can easily see the far right making if > they thought they could get away with it. An I'm saying that's fear based politics based on no facts. You probably read it on wiki. > And frankly healthcare IS a basic human right. I'm not sure about Obama's > plan (I STILL haven't sat down and looked into for myself, so I have no > opinion on it), but our healthcare system was definately broken pre-Obama. > Regardless of what you think of his plan at least he's trying to fix it > instead of trying to pretend there wasn't a problem. Nobody was pretending there wasn't a problem. We just disagree on the fix. Since you're not familiar with the fix why are you defending it? >> Freedom from religion simple means churches don't have to hide there >> crosses from public view, and Jesus fish bumper stickers won't be >> outlawed. > > That would be freedom of religion. Freedom from religion would be not being > forced to observe certain religious laws because they've been written into > the law of the land. Freedom of religion allows you to go in a closet and pray. Freedom from religion means you can spend your entire life not knowing religions exist unless you opened the wrong closet door. >> The UN Treaty on Rights of the Child would surrender our rights to >> raise our children how we chose based on an unelected panels >> decisions. >> >> The Law Of The Sea Treaty on quick glance looks like we surrender >> control of our waterways to a UN panel. > > I don't know much about either of those treaties. Frankly those both sound > like things to worry about. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318316 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
