Arizona Anti-Troll Law - 5 views
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This is possibly one of the funniest laws I have ever seen. Man I am glad I do not live in Arizona, internet trolling is fun, as long as you are not mean about. I really want to see what others think about this.
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I don't see why they have to ban it. I mean this happens in every state. Some states have it worse then AZ. I think we need to take care of physical problems before we get to the internet.
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Well said Jazmine.
Massachusetts judge rules for inmate's sex-change surgery - 3 views
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A federal court judge on Tuesday ordered Massachusetts officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate, after determining that it was the only adequate treatment for the inmate's mental illness.
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I personally think that this was a great decision. I believe that a person's mental health is the most important aspect in the road to any sort of recovery. Even though the transgender inmate did commit a murder, she deserves to have the resources to stabilize her well-being. Should the rest of America have to pay for it? Perhaps not, but I don't mind helping out someone who desperately needs it. Although, I guess that depends on your belief on the importance of mental health.
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Jenny, this is really not a matter of sexual interests. If this person wants a sex change, it may be because of this sexual interest, but then again, it may not. They may simply want to be a female. The funding should come from the inmate, but the inmate cannot earn funds while behind bars, perhaps the inmate should be allowed to work up to being allowed to have a sex change operation.
Paul Ryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech - PostPartisan - The Washington Post - 1 views
Air Force Seeks Offensive Cyber Weapons - 0 views
Can the government ban the the selling of violent video games to children? - 5 views
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I find it interesting that laws are being made to protect children from certain content, as protection, more specifically the need therein, is based on perception, which roots in morality that really takes roots in religion, and by separation of church and state that means that you can't make a law in order to protect someone from a specific type of content. Violence really isn't something I see a need to protect children from, however the article did reference coitus-related interactions, which leads to an alternative related to child pornography (I believe a minor possessing pornographic materials falls under this catagory)
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I don't think that they can, but if they do then videogames become just like tobacco, with older kids buying it for the minors.
Report: 15% of Americans on food stamps - Bottom Line - 0 views
I wish my mother had aborted me - 6 views
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this article is about abortion which is an important issue in the upcoming presidential election. I just thought that it was interesting to read but I am in no way for abortion.
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Alex, did you read this article? This article is about how the parent DID have the baby and "took responsibility for their actions" and then abused the child. So, no just because a parent takes responsibility for their actions in the beginning, that doesn't mean the child won't be abused. If you look at it rationally and scientifically, abortion really isn't murder. Abortions are possible through the second trimester, or 24th week of pregnancy. At this time it is impossible for the fetus to live outside of the womb. It has only just started producing blood cells, the eyes aren't developed until the 26th week, the bones aren't developed until between the 31st and 34th week, the brain is still developing even after the 30th week, and the lungs aren't mature until after the 34th week. So is it really 'murder' to abort something that has less consciousness and is less developed than a mouse?
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I am pro-choice, and agree with Mallory and Kirstina. Sure, it's not fair for the unborn baby, but is it fair for the parent(s). In the situation of rape, definitely not. Giving birth to someones child that physically harmed you, a mother should not have to do that. Not to mention how expensive it is to have a child. Why should a 15 year old have to pay that sort of money to have a child? The real problem, they don't, and the parents have to suffer for their child, which is unfair to them. If you want to say it's still morally wrong, it's just as bad as stealing thousands of dollars from those who gave birth to you just to let that child live.
School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name - 3 views
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Sometimes it seems when rules are too rigidly enforced, silly situations like this make me wonder, - maybe re-word the rule rather than asking a person to change their name...
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I agree with th Grand Island resident Fredda Bartenback,what little kid would think some harmless sign would be a gun?
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He uses the sign language sign for hunter, as in a person who goes out and hunts. He turned it into his name sign by crossing his fingers instead of leaving them flat. While I agree that the school over reacted and he shouldn't have to change it, I think the idea of him "Having to change his name," is a little bit of of a loaded statement. His name will still be Hunter if he changes his name sign it will just be expressed differently. Also according to my mom, who works very closely with many deaf people every day, he may choose to change it later in life once he gets older because this name sign was chosen by his parents and he might not like it.
Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate: 'Legitimate rape' rarely causes pregnancy - 2 views
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This is really having some political fallout for Akin's comments even within his own party... http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/22/ryan_called_akin_to_get_him_to_drop_race.html
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This is something I've heard about for the last few days and I really wish I could tell this man how ignorant and stupid he sounds. Does he really think that's true, because if he does then there's obviously something wrong and he needs to get help.
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I just wanted to point out that Todd Akin is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Which I think makes his statement even more ridiculous.
Know Your Rights: Photography in Public - 3 views
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I like knowing that the police and the owner can't take it unless they have a court order.
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i agree with alex i believe if they told us everything we would have more to worry about then knowing nothing
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Well have you ever thought that maybe that would be better for our Country? To Actually think.....?
President Barack Obama - Reddit AMA - CNN.com - 0 views
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"When President Barack Obama decided to take questions directly over social media he didn't turn to his 28 million Facebook fans, or his 19 million Twitter followers. Instead, he turned to a website called Reddit where popularity is measured, fittingly, in votes."
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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/ Link to the actual AMA (surprisingly not blocked by our schools web filters).
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Haha, I think this was a brilliant PR move by Obama. I'm glad that they're beginning to pick up on the fact that the internet is a huge community... which, of course, is a huge community of potential voters. This makes Obama seem way more accessible and normal, which always registers well with voters. I must say though, he is definitely a politician. A lot of those answers were incredibly vague and some didn't even answer the question...
Atheists' road signs attack faiths of Romney, Obama ahead of Democratic convention - 3 views
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Just as the city of Charlotte, N.C., gears up to host the Democratic National Convention, an atheist group is mounting a billboard campaign attacking the religious faiths of President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
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I find it rather hypocritical of the Christian Pastor to say it's never appropriate to insult another person when Christian ad campaigns quite frequently do just that. Objectively, this ad campaign is no more offensive than many campaigns launched by fundamentalist Christians. I fully agree with Silverman's quote, "We are not a Christian nation; we have never been a Christian nation and we never will be," although I would change it to say that we are not a religious nation. Religion needs to be taken out of political discussions, and people who try to bring it into politics need to wake up and realize that Church and State are separated and they can't force their beliefs onto other people.
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Had I been in Cullinan's position, I would have handled the request the same way he did because, morally, I believe it is wrong to advertise something that is expected to, and probably intended to, offend a group of people based on their religious beliefs. However, freedom is speech IS a huge component in our society. Whether we like to think it is or not, our government can't be, and isn't, based purely on morals.
Book raises questions about Bin Laden's death - 0 views
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A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Usama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.
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I feel that this account is a good thing. If the media and/ or official statements of the United States are wrong, that needs to get out. Not from people saying the soldiers lied to us, but from the people that were there, the people that were in the thick of it making decisions they needed to. Hopefully this will keep the blame from falling on the soldiers for doing there job, but the guys up top telling them how to do it. And hopefully lead to better practices and ideals that are carried out on a mission.
This Is How Proud Romney Was to Be Pro-Gay Rights in 1994 - 0 views
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Mitt Romney earned huge cheers at a conservative conference in February when he bragged, "On my watch, we fought hard and prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage." But in 1994, running for Senate against Ted Kennedy, he told a local gay and lesbian paper he was even more pro-gay rights than Kennedy.
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I think Mitt Romney is a hypocrite for sending out mixed messages against and pro gay rights.
Analysis of election factors points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says | ... - 1 views
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Analysis of election factors points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says
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Romney might be projected to win but you never know what's going to happen until it does.... and everyone says Obama is destroying the country but how can you destroy something that has was already in war and destroyed when you got it? it takes a long time for repair and if we keep switching presidents we will never give any of them enough time to fix the U.S
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I think that president Obama will win the reelection because all the past presidents have always been reelected if they have not resigned.