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Considering how he wouldn't divulge his tax returns, and how past indiscretions have hurt him, I look for a more secretive, less transparent administration than Bush II had. Somewhere along the line, Cheney will probably be brought in, since he broke faith with the Bush faction and voted Trump. Compared to how much he'll be increasing our debt, all the money the White House spends on Trump steaks and wine will seem like nothing.

Are you serious? This is an absolutely HORRIBLE posting style. Do you think you're being interesting with the unrelated pics and wild fonts and colors?! Did you notice you didn't give your own stance, just that of others? I love supporting evidence, but it should support your own stance, which you should state at some point before quoting others.

I think your question is wrong. A meter is a real thing because a representation is a real thing, so you've created a false dilemma.

I know this one! It's because you believe this to be true, so you confirm this bias every time you hear someone pondering about time, therefor you believe it's a mystery to them.

To me, there's not much you can say about believing outright lies ("We'll be spending all the healthcare money we save on healthcare!" and "We'll make Mexico pay for the wall!"). For things you could check but don't, that's on you. But far worse, imo, are the intractable perspectives that claim to be truth but are far from objective. We can't hope to solve the brand new problems that come along with a conservative mentality that disdains new solutions. Too many People won't even learn about alternatives so they can better judge them. There are so many better ways that conservatives won't listen to. Like fair representation voting, one small change that would have so much beneficial effect on our political system. Or passing legislation making private schools illegal, so the wealthy and poor children have to learn together (which guarantees that public schools receive all the funding they deserve, and an ingrained respect for everyone's capabilities is developed). Or focusing on fair employment instead of just employment, so workers could have just the one job that helped them contribute to society in all ways, instead of two or three substandard jobs that just rob People of their will. I know it's wrong, but I keep picturing People who identify as conservatives trying to feed themselves with a 4-foot fork. They keep insisting on trying to eat the regular way, while the liberals are feeding each other across the table.

If I thought every Trump voter was a racist, I wouldn't leave the house. I'm well aware there are People who voted for him because they thought he would fix corruption, despite the fact he's used every dirty trick in the book. I know there are People who voted for him just because he's their party candidate, despite having to rewrite much of the party platform (Republicans for Russia! - who knew?). I understand there are those People who believed him when he said he would do great things, I just wish they had asked a bit harder how he was going to do them. He campaigned on how horrible our national debt is, but his plan literally doubles our debt. I hope he's not the huckster he seems to be, but I've followed Trump since the 90s and I see no reason for hope. Half the country just voted for a racist, lying, billionaire hater, over a woman who annoys them because they can't find her guilty of prosecutable crimes they're convinced she committed.

I can handle going back to revering unborn children over mothers and living children. I can almost stomach praising the soldier while ignoring the veteran. My daughter graduates from public schools this year, so underfunding public schools won't be as much of a burden. We're white, so we probably won't be persecuted for the way we look. I can pretend to be ignorant, so I can fit in. But I'll be wearing my safety pin for the next four years, and that will probably get me in trouble as a sympathizer of women's rights and those of People of color. I think it's more important to send the message that I won't be grabbing anyone by the pussy, and I won't be jeopardizing your safety because you look or sound different than me. I expect this may put me in danger from white supremacists who will be looking for "race traitors", and this worries me for my family's safety. But I'm still going to do it, because I'm an American, and that means something completely different to me than it does to the folks who voted for Donald Trump. And I'll be looking for a younger Bernie Sanders for 2020.

Not stupidity, ignorance. And no independent media to help inform us. And a general disdain for intellectualism. And a corporate machine that loves uninformed, ignorant people who want to stay that way and buy stuff. This is the face of the American People we're showing now. And I think we're the insulting ones.

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http://phys.org/news/2014-12-scientists-re-create-life.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/12abortion.html

Just like the seed would become a tree. Not all seeds need to become a tree, and it's not unethical to feed baby trees to animals. And babies aren't treated like a full-grown person in real life. There are many restrictions. You can't leave them by themselves in public. You can't hire them to work. They can't vote. Babies are treated differently, and that's not considered unethical. This is another abortion argument that goes nowhere, and ends up contradicting itself.

This whole part of your argument, the murder part, is really distilled down to this point. Why would anyone who didn't want a baby get pregnant in the first place? The answers are all different, and there are a lot of them. You should read what a zygote is, or a blastocyst. They're potential, really, but not people. Not in the way the mother is a person. What you're saying is like insisting that all tree seeds have to become trees, and that a seed deserves the same treatment as a fully grown tree. When you look at life as a constant process, you realize there's no magic at conception.

Objectively, I would point to the inability of law enforcement to investigate every suspicious miscarriage reported (Should the mother have been at the gym? Was she risking her child's life when she became vegan? I told her NOT to use cleaning products!). Life beginning legally at conception would be a nightmare. And if you can push the line away from conception, there may be other equally good reasons to push it further, to cover more situations. Ethically, this is a situation where you MUST concede to both sides of the issue. Personally, I think you can only be wrong about this if you take the OP's position, or one where you allow abortion a day before birth. If you're at an extreme end on this, you're ignoring a whole lot that's important.

Nor has he established the context for the invisibility. My invisibility cloak is invisible and can't be detected by any sense, but doesn't confer those traits on me. It's invisibility is strictly for making itself invisible.

Sitting on your wallet causes a slight gravitational collapse of the matter making up your cash, converting it to its denser form, receipts.

Uncomplicate it for me. Why do you approve of things like the People owning the streets and parks, and funding programs to make sure fellow People don't starve, but then you say you don't approve of socialism. It makes it look like you don't understand.

Big Storage is taking over the world!

It sounds like you're very close to a tipping point, where you'd actually spend less time thinking about smoking if you gave up the anti-smoking procedures. Nice place to be, congratulations!

This is a great balance. Unfortunately, I think many who would agree are being manipulated by capitalist concerns preaching that a good conservative should be voting for oil subsidies, and denying climate change that might restrict profit through regulation (for instance). People who would agree with your ideal approach are being steered away from applying it, being told that fossil fuels are part of what already works well and isn't an area where we can do better. Personally, I think many conservatives are more easily manipulated through fear. I don't know anyone who doesn't like owning the streets so they can drive on them whenever they need to without paying a fee to a private company, yet so many people who identify as conservatives complain about socialism. They love the parks, they love the museums, they love that the widowed mother of four won't go hungry, but they don't like socialism. They feel the pain of having wages reduced while CEO's of insurance companies make an average yearly American salary EVERY DAY. They anguish over not being able to send a smart child to college while Europeans attend for free. They feel the anxiety over defending their families by becoming part of the gun culture that threatens it most. But they refuse to feel the Bern. Sad. Frustrating.

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Group up. Study with others from the class so you can quiz each other, which can multiply the effectiveness of your studying.

What do you think the BBT says is "the cause of it"? AFAIK, the theory doesn't cover the cause, or even the exact origin. It's more to do with the development of the universe as it expanded from an early hot, dense state, beginning just a tiny bit after it started. If God exists, this is true. Not Christians, we're talking about Ben Carson here. He's said he doesn't believe in a LOT of science. The relation of science and religion, in this instance, is that politicians in a position to create vast change in a population shouldn't be using religious beliefs to do so. I gave the example of Carson thinking that God might need a global catastrophe like climate change in order to fulfill prophecy from the Bible. I remember thinking how close Sarah Palin got to "doing God's will" with her finger on the button, confident it would all work out to His plan. I don't think our leaders should be using faith to steer the country. To me, faith should be the backup plan of last resort, after you've used up your second-to-last resort, hope.

The big difference here is that there is really nothing rational I could say about the former, and nothing rational you would listen to about the latter. IOW, you could say what you want about your belief in God and nobody can deny it, but I'm very willing to bet that if there's anything you don't "believe" about science it's because you haven't studied it or have misunderstood it. If that's due to circumstance, welcome to the club. If that's due to a willing desire to leave your religious beliefs undisturbed, then that's on you. And I think that's why people like Carson happen, supposedly highly educated people who've filtered what they've learned through their religion and come out with a weird mix of irrationally applied science. If Ben Carson were a climatologist, he might have formed the opinion that climate change due to human causes is all part of God's plan, nothing to be alarmed at, because our Creator would never destroy us like that. To him, the data would justify no need for alarm.

I was up at my local library branch helping out today. They have early voting and mail ballot dropoff. The number of people who had questions about their vote being counted was depressing, but I'm glad they were asking, and glad to let them know they had nothing to fear in that regard. There were some who went inside for the mail dropoff because they had library business or they wanted an I Voted! sticker (one of the cheapest, simplest, most effective ways to reward/remind/shame others to vote), but one lady didn't want to use the outside dropoff because she said it would be too easy for someone in a truck to come swipe the whole thing! I pointed out the camera mounted above the box, and another camera watching that camera, and mentioned that tampering with one ballot carries a hefty penalty, so imagine what stealing a whole boxful would be risking? She still went inside with her ballot. More and more, I think Putin wants to do something really bold to cement himself in Russia's leadership position. He's being back-patted by his peers, including Trump, for his maneuvering in Syria and making Obama's policy look bad. If he can take credit for disrupting the US and NATO without facing prosecution over tampering with another country's elections, Russians will elect him for life, and if Trump as POTUS just shrugs, Putin gets his legacy. This scares me almost as much as Trump. White supremacists seem poised for another civil war, and Trump has helped them think they have all kinds of support in this. This also scares me. The thought of being beaten up or shot for looking like the type of person who would beat people up or shoot them based on what they look like leaves me thoroughly depressed (and more than a little confused). I don't think Trump is a good businessman. If you sign a contract, both parties are usually happy about the arrangements. If you renege on that contract, or try to renegotiate it after the contracted work was completed, you aren't being savvy. You aren't being a ruthless businessman. You're being a crook. Trump's vague, wait'll you see, we're gonna fix that approach isn't good for business. Mexico has already had investors pull out of deals because they're afraid of the wall. Markets are falling on speculation that he's going to kick the props out from under every standing deal. Countries are distancing themselves from relationships with the US that used to be courted. Trump is bad business.