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Teens/Pre-teens on Facebook
This has probably been discussed and debated a million times but I would like some input, some sight into what other parents think about this. The other night one of my nephew's 12 yr old friends posted a picture of herself on facebook but it was a "cleavage" shot (you know where they angle the camera so you can get a…
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Prop 8 Declared Unconstitutional by Fed. Appeals Court
Just read this: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/07/calif-same-sex-marriage-ban-violates-constitution-appeals-court-finds/ California's controversial ban on same-sex marriage has been declared unconstituional, though it has a high likelihood of making it to the Supreme Court for a final showdown. This is a big victory for…
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Taxing "Unhealthy" Foods
In October, Denmark became the first country to tax any food containing more than 2.3% saturated fat. (Read more here: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2096185,00.html). In the US, there is a push to tax "junk-type" foods such as soda, candy and processed foods. What are your thoughts on this? Should the…
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Same Sex Marriage
What are our views on same sex marriage?
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Discipline in Schools
Check out this story from our local news: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/student-attacks-assistant-principal There is a video of the incident as well. I am appaulled by the number of people defending this kid on the comments. There are several parents who think the teacher was in the wrong by trying to escort the kld…
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Random not debate type stuff
Sorry just had to say this and it doesn't really "fit" anywhere else. So I just got into a debate with a pseudo-vegan in the "cheese makes your thighs" something or other thread. He came into the thread with a lot of big talk about how meat consumption = heart disease and how he and his vegan friends laugh and compare meat…
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Dad uses Facebook to teach daughter a lesson...
Have you seen the video? What do you think? Was he right or wrong? http://www.litefm.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=421220&article=9738000&fb_comment_id=fbc_10150571400139633_21360374_10150575509224633#f4c36bc78f0c36
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Texas Kindergarten Class Learning "Obama Song"
What do you think of this - a kindergarten class in texas is being required to learn this chant about president obama. I personally think this is so wrong. It isn't the place of our schools to be indoctrinating school children. they should be concentrating on the education. This smacks of socialism to me, china does this -…
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Stupid people don't deserve to be lean
Just feel like stirring up *kitten*... These people who simply don't "get it", who look for quick fix after quick fix, who are not willing to put in any time educating themselves, who don't even comprehend how MFP is designed to work - they don't deserve to lose the weight. Discuss.
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dogsagainstromney.com
I suppose this doesn't really belong here, but most of the other political groups are too small. And I was too wimpy to put it in the "pets" group. This has become one of my new favorite websites. Lots of cute pictures to make a serious point about character (or the lack thereof). The other main slogan is "I ride inside".…
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Poor Karl Rove is offended...
By Clint Eastwood no less. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/karl-rove-offended-by-clint-eastwoods-chrysler-ad/2012/02/06/gIQAYt3HuQ_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
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Taxing churches
Thoughts? Came across these lately - please post more if you find 'em.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/cashstrapped-cities-look-_n_812400.html\ http://www.alternet.org/story/153448/how_we_all_pay_for_the_huge_tax_privileges_granted_to_religion_--_it's_time_to_tax_the_church/?page=entire
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Your religion/denomination and why
Hi all, I wanted to ask informally about your affiliation and how it came to be. Were you brought up with it? Did you find it later in life? Was it based on teachings or people? If you became religious as an adult, did you have any exposure to religion growing up? If there are subgroups within a larger group (maybe like…
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Harry Potter vs Religion
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/harrypotter.html A friend posted this link on facebook today, to which someone commented : " I knew Harry Potter was wicked when they interviewed the author on tv before the first book released. She is a professing practicing witch and she admitted that the purpose of her books was to…
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Tired of being a pawn
Anyone else sick of both sides of politics and their lipservice?
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Ron Paul and honest rape
Now before anyone cries foul, it has been said that this taken out of context. Apparently what Mr. Paul was attempting to state was that there's a distinction between women who have been raped and women who come in at month 7 of pregnancy and demand an abortion, claiming they've been raped. So, first if he didn't really…
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Success pictures.
I was over in the success section of MFP and found myself wondering about the people who take pictures of their whole bodies, in their skivvies, with their FACE showing and post it on the internet. I don't understand why people do that. I would be worried that people I knew in the IRL would see those pics and connect them…
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Which ethnic cuisine can you just not "get into"?
...of course ethnic varies by person and place! :flowerforyou: For me, so far, I can't eat authentic Chinese food. I love Americanized Chinese but can't tolerate the real thing. (Century eggs comes to mind)
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Battle of the Sexes: Indecent Exposure
Why is it okay for men to walk around shirtless, but not women? Why are the ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc.) different for male and female nudity? Do you feel the ratings systems should be changed or are they fine as is? Discuss. :smile:
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Graphic Abortion Ad to Air During Superbowl.
What do you think ? http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/us/super-bowl-abortion-ads/index.html Actual ad:http://www.terryforpresident.com/
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Komen's $7.5 Million Grant to Penn State Appears to Violate
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-foundation-gave-75-million-grant-penn-state "Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening because of a controversial investigation launched by an anti-abortion Republican congressman, currently…
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State collegiate coach salaries
I saw this recently and was floored - I'm using the University of Texas at Austin as an example because the figures are readily available. I'm probably too naive to make any true assessments (I don't know how much athletics actually pull in for the university as a whole) but still...is this discrepancy in salary common at…
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Teachers Don't Need Money Because They Have a "Calling"
You can't make this stuff up--remarks by a State Senator from Alabama: : http://times-journal.com/news/article_16355b2a-4c64-11e1-a0b1-001871e3ce6c.html The state legislator recently made remarks defending two of his positions: approval of a 62 percent increase in pay for himself and other state legislators, and keeping…
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2012 candidates and same-sex marriage
First off, let me just put it out there that I can't believe this is still something fought against so hard by Republicans and social conservatives. Just like any other civil rights struggle in our collective past, this will eventually not be an issue on the larger level (of course there will always be individuals that…
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I'd roll my eyes less
if those who claim to be "open-minded" and then go about being rude, trashing, or insulting those with different views than them would just stop saying they are "open-minded" or "tolerant" when they clearly are not. Anyone else agree with me on this?
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SuperBowl
Who will win? Who will have the best commercials? Who will be drunk? Discuss :drinker: :bigsmile:
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Personal messages
Yesterday I wrote an opinion about statements made by a christian in the atheist threads that she had justified murder, rape and genocide in some of our previous debates, but never used her name, just talked about the comments. I stand by this opinion and this opinion has been shared by many atheists, agnostics and…
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A female POTUS?
This is really a question for my own edification, but I suspect/hope it will cause quite a bit of debate: Why do you think Obama won the nomination over Clinton? What does it say about America that it was (from an outsider's viewpoint) more ready to have a non-caucasian male president, than a female president? Bearing in…
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Brains and bias?
This just in from LiveScience - in short: from LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html and the Psychological Science article it references: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract (I'm not sure if everyone has access to the full PDF…
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Copyright law outdated?
I just came across this opinion piece by William Patry about copyright - as someone who works with copyright issues on an almost daily basis, I feel much the same way (and for my own work, I license everything with Creative Commons). Do you think the disadvantages he mentioned about the multiple extensions of time outweigh…
