No. It is private vs public. If public schools are insufficient, then vote to change it.
Neither belief system is forced to do anything except that public schools are to be provided by govt. Understand, even the childless pay school taxes.
Being objective, not really.
N. Korea is doing nothing that [it] hasn't done before. The only difference is that any POTUS even met with the leader.
If that gave Kim a ridiculous boost at home, so be it. Should makes no difference to us.
Atheists need prove nothing. Proof is required for such religious assertions.
Well you are wrong about my thread. Charter schools and religious schools are private not superior to public schools and deserve no funding or tax benefits.
Why doesn't every single 'religion' get a tax break and benefits ? None should get it.
People are free to believe what they want but none are deserving of any special breaks or favors.
I could more easily say that it is as much about religious discrimination and yes, racial too for parents to send their kids to a private school.
“Science has disproven God.
Wrong. Science has failed to prove a god.
Plus the idea after 9/11 of getting rid of all religion is in no way...'militant'
In fact it is the very militancy one can find in all regions (catholics middle ages, inquisition and 1930s when they jumped in bed with Hitler and the Nazis....that is the problem.
And why religion poisons everything.
However, in the case of there being a god, no affirmative existential proposition has been proved.
The prof. was a lifelong atheist until getting baptised in his 50s or later, not sure.
Clearly he did this in attempt to cover his bases.
The atheist truth claim carries with it enormous, irreparable and eternal consequences if it is wrong. That being the case, it is intellectually and morally incumbent upon the atheist to produce weighty and overriding evidence to support his/her position, but they provide nothing to substantiate their limp assertion that God “probably” does not exist.
That is unmitigated bullshit. Disbelief requires no such thing. [It] is simply just that...disbelief. Plus probabilities are a mathematical statement based on mathematical history.
First of all, the federal govt. provides less than a dime on a dollar, the rest is local and state money.
When any level of govt. allows any funding or tax benefits at all for private schools, they are not following the constitution (religious based) and it takes funding from public schools.
Furthermore, far too many private schools are not academically better than public schools.
It is my understanding at this time (today) and I have seen only one source but the repubs all too typically now, are going to put party and politics over democracy, the constitution and country.
The senate repubs are negotiating a deal whereby [they] let trump move money around this time while they press for laws to prevent it again and of course...any future dem POTUS.
And no, that certainly...is not conservative. However, they are GOP first and will go along.
It's always too easy to be the cynic.
Cynicism breeds pessimism.
Pessimism has no function.
All we are left with and inspirationally so...is optimism.
Yes, it is very difficult to change minds and almost impossible...the closed mind.
Still, we all must soldier-on and do the best we can and that's why you bother.
Facts ?
The fact is the Internet was invented by ArpNet in a govt. project.
RNC chair: The Internet came from capitalism, not the government
Wow, the capitalist never stops with [his] bullshit.
There are 22 fully corporatized industries exploited by the capitalist...formed by govt.
The capitalist is risk averse unless there is some whopping profits available like banks who if it's heads, they win...tales, you lose.
Sure he can and particularly if [he] is out to obstruct justice. Now that's a crime...just like Nixon.
I would prefer no republican party at all. It is that simple.
Not even a nice try. Half the repubs in office for the last 40 years should be in jail by the hypocritical standards of the right. (GOP) Where were all of those committee hearings under repubs of Stormy, Playboy girl and his accusers of sexual assault ?
He gets away with it all because he has an'R' after his name.
Bloomberg did an analysis. 175 tenants in [his] partnership's bldg. A clear violation of the emoluments clause because there are foreign countries and corp. America.
China alone pays $2 million a year rent at trump tower for a Chinese govt.-owned bank that nobody can enter with 2 guards making sure.
126 conflicts of interest. As corrupt as any repub and trust me...that's saying something.
Is this like a chat ? I can't tell from the sides I am offered.
I guess records are made to be broken.
The trump admin. censored, withheld or said it couldn't find records sought by citizens, journalists and others more often last year than at any point in the past decade, according to an Associated Press analysis of new data. The calculations cover eight months under President Trump the first hints about how his administration complies with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The surge of people who sought records but ended up empty-handed was driven by the government saying more than ever it could not find a single page of requested files and asserting in other cases that it would be illegal under U.S. laws to release the information.
People who asked for records under the Freedom of Information Act received censored files or nothing in 78 percent of 823,222 requests, a record over the past decade. When it provided no records, the government said it could find no information related to the request in a little over half those cases.
It turned over everything requested in roughly one of every five FOIA requests, according to the AP analysis.
Records requests can take months even years to get fulfilled. Even then, the government censored documents in nearly two-thirds of cases when it turned over anything.
The federal government also spent $40.6 million last year in legal fees defending its decisions to withhold federal files, also a record.
It is and has been my understanding that we set the clock forward to enjoy the long days when kids are still going to school in daylight until June. Then when we hit the new school year, we go back so once again kids go to school in daylight.
Both a token liberal and token black. He was fired by NPR for acting like a righty.
.....but also get rid of religion in public schools.
The left is many things but has not sinned like the right for 40 years and surely not like they are now to support this sinner in the WH.
Fake what ? We need a baseline here. Fake socialist ? Fake republican ?
Wow, now we know only what you...want to believe as of course you have just accusations with no basis in fact. As for spending and taxes...look it up.
The right in the US spend more than the dems and are directly responsible for $15 trillion of our $22 trillion debt.
Oh and it was the right (GOP) that created identity politics and denigration of all opposition starting with Reagan when he said the left were all limousine liberals or welfare queens.
Next question.
Is this a serious question ? Jewish is much more an adjective than a noun. That adjective has Hebrew religious or biblical origins.
Ethnically they are semites same as Arabs, brothers under the skin...sons of Abraham.
So we can prove [they] are not a race.
We still get strikes, teachers with 2 or 3 jobs that 'don't do them much good.'
The school system is much less broken than our healthcare system which cost lives and shorten them compared to other countries.
Pay the right people...the teachers and hire more to reduce class size and we already know that and far too many other hands held-out...are in the way.
The above just isn't going to happen.
Maybe it will become a new right wing pitch for billion$ in more security spending.
Being vulnerable and spreading fear of it, is always a great profit center.
Anything can work because any country can and many do, pretend to be a democracy.
I think trump found out why previous pres. didn't meet with him. The N. Korean leadership always tries to get something for nothing.
When GWB talked via intermediaries after catching N. Korea red handed counterfeiting $150 million US, that should have been nailed into west about their treacherousness. It was not.
Since then however, we all know now, Little un is no different so far.
Although NK could yet turn out to be a very profitable threat and enemy.
Fear is always a good profit center.
Would somebody tell me, no excuses ?
Just when has the right (GOP) ever governed as the small govt. fiscally responsible party ?
Never in my lifetime.
The GOP is responsible for $14 trillion of our $22 trillion in debt (the rest being added cleaning up after the right) and have added 100s of 1000s to govt. payroll.
Next question.
Capitalism as practiced in America, will be the death of most poor people but not capitalism. Of course it will come from the essence of capitalism...debt.
America is so rich [she] needs to as we type, borrow $6 million per minute...we do not have.
The future of America has already begun, capitalist fascism.
Soylent Green anyone ? Ironic that capitalism will have humankind regress back to cannibalism.
Stop this people. I am always reminded at most blogs, do not ever underestimate the ignorance of the American people.
Our plutocrats in govt. have forced the taxpayers to throw trillion$ at the capitalist for 60 years. The govt. forces the socialization (taxpayers) to insure against bank risk, (FDIC) agric. risk, (FCIC) pension theft (PBGC) and overseas investment risk. (OPIC)
The whole ethanol market was created by socialism to the tune of billion$ every year to produce millions of gallons...the public doesn't need or want and is socialism for the rich.
The govt. forces taxpayers to provide price supports to dairy because dairy producers/investors bribe govt. feeling entitled to produce 3 times what the market demands.
Obviously that over-supply would deflate the price, so the govt. steps in and buys all it can using it for the military and often gives it away. The US taxpayers spends million$ per year just to warehouse govt. dairy products...we do not need.
This renders the whole argument about socialism only so much bullshit. The US yearly provides billion$ in socialism only the capitalist can love. Capitalism is for the poor.
As for socialism for the poor ? Fuck them, let them go to jail or just die.
There is no basis in fact to conclude the American pubic school system is broken.
[It] may be broke but that's because the capitalists who run America don't want to pay for it.
Just as the capitalists don't want to pay for anything. The capitalist doesn't want to pay taxes and doesn't want to pay you.
Slaves had jobs, didn't do therm much good.
In fact the American courts are outlandishly right wing and capitalist fascists.
Corps. are like people ?
Property (wealth) is free speech ?
You must sign away your right to sue and go to arbitration over a class action ?
Taxpayers must fund price supports for the capitalist, direct cash subsidies for the rich and pay billion$ each year for ethanol [it] does not want or need ?
Taxpayers much pay for insurance for bankers, farmers, pension thieves and overseas investors [sic] ?
What unmitigated bullshit.
There are 22 industries fully funded by govt.
Capitalism is neither free market or free enterprise.
Mao and Pol Pot were right wing fascists and murderers.
Only a extremely few tech cos. spend anything on R&D.
When small entrepreneurs create something, they are bought out.
Corp. America in fact invests more under the left than the right.
If mankind were left to the right, (capitalists) there would be about 7 billion slaves
but hey...a great profit center.
Neither, to them we are big a petri dish or a big petting zoo. But as long as you asked:
If they are peaceful, not out to exploit, conquer or enslave people...lefties.
If they are the opposite...righties.
Where do people get this stuff ?
I mean seriously, what does this have to do with anything ?
.....better they are born and under repubs will tell you then, to make a profit for yourself or somebody else otherwise go to jail or die.
I much admired Prof. of sociology Mortimer Adler. However, his one shortcoming after being a non- believer until his 50s, he got baptized.
It didn't change my mind and could understand how he decided on that leap of faith but not actually being baptized because we both knew...wouldn't make a difference..
Well in America is not interested. America just wants to know, how do we make some fucking money here ? The rest is conversation.
Can't do it. However, religion has for its entire history, been a profoundly useful instrument to entice the credulity of believers to vote for them because they too also believe in stone age fairy tales.
Can anyone point to any time in history any politician who has made it clear he is a non-believer, has...ever been elected ?
Yes, due process is a legal term coined and forever enshrined in the constitution. Or otherwise, one could get arrested and locked up at will by govt. police.
Due process is a search for truth and justice. Without [it], the masses are at the mercy of the govt.'s monopoly on violence.
Oh yea, pseudo science alright.
DNA research has never say prevented a 4th or more straight generation of one family's women from going blind...but it did.
DNA research has never gone into a community to cure a genetic defect causing disease so their offspring don't suffer any defect...but it did.
One reads these things and might have others believe they just walked out of the cave.
A great example of the deafness of some on the right. The so-called left has been telling the right for 40 years.
The right has ignored the message for those 40 years and more.
Well what we have learned as one would have a right to fully expect, the right loves Russian money, loves Russian fascist political power are autocrats and want to be just like them.
Repubs (GOP) would rather be Russian than American as they begin to work so well together, Hell, call up the NRA, I am sure they have a few Russian million$ for you.
These leaders as most, loe themselves first and need the prize attention. Kim is doing nothing that hasn't been done by prior N. Korean talks...promise to do as little as possible, lift sanctions or send food, then do nothing.
It is for that reason no pres. has actually met w N. Korean leadership unity now.
They both get the photo ops, the great adulation of their followers...and then go home.
Next question.
One could easily say look at how good capitalism is in N. Korea or China. See how easy it is ? Doesn't do much for the capitalist proletariat.
Just yet another post confirming how religion poisons everything.
I am supposed to care how fictional stone age characters felt about another fictional stone age character ? Why ?
