Recent content by penmyst

^^^ True dat.

1. These reports are probably not worth the paper they are printed on. 2. Is it really so far-fetched to think there are people inside the NIE that don't like Bush and are attempting to outfox him by preemptively setting this report out there to attempt and handcuff him? 3. I'm not a big Bush...

If you want to know why conservatives hate McCain so much, you should probably ask some real conservatives. Which is hard to find on this board. Well, I AM a conservative. And I hardly "hate" John McCain. I don't however support this guy as my candidate. I think the quip above about "imagine...

Whoa. Raising the minimum wage doesn't help anyone but the unions (who base their contract rate off federal minimum wage levels) and politicians that rely on intellectual ignorance/laziness in the electorate to gain votes. But that's a schooling that would need a whole nother thread. -------...

Looking past whether poor folks are any lazier, stupider, or more inept than rich folks (as a pre-existing condition caused by their respective financial situations)-- Wouldn't it stand to reason that one of the biggest factors would surely be the role models you have in your life? I don't...

Color me shocked that there is violence against American troops in Iraq. Next thing I know, someone gonna tell me there is a war going on over there. I can't take this many surprises in my day. I'm going to bed.

Actually, he prolly deserves worse than he got.

Of course you can become a success even starting from the very bottom. You will have more obstacles in your way, but that's life. Not everyone is going to have it easy. Life isn't about your circumstances, or what befalls you (good or bad). It's about who you are inside and how you handle...

Schools should be teaching about math, english, spelling, sciences, etc. Your basics. Programs like sex ed, while being intended only as "how it works", machine-like dryness, are more often slanted towards indoctrination. Whether that is the defeatist "they are going to have sex before marriage...

Wow. These are their children we are talking about. You mean to tell me it's okay to make excuses about why you can't teach your own children how to be proper adults? That is the reason we have the mess on our hands today of the public schools being used as surrogate parents. Too many people...

On a serious note, the schools should not be teaching kids about sex. It's none of the school's business. It is the role of parents to educate their children about sex and the connected moral issues regarding sex. If the parents are derelict in that responsibility, so what? It's not the...

Because god knows that it's the job of gov't house to worry about the obesity of it's citizens. /rolls eyes

I'm conservative. I actually would prefer a

And here I thought the fact that our schools fail miserably in science, math, english, and reading was the problem. Seems the real problem is the dumbsh**s the school is churning out are procreating.

@ OP: Is god nice? What is your understanding of nice? Maybe you are confusing "nice" with "wimpy"? God has given you the greatest gift he can bestow. Freedom. He allows you your individual freedom of thought, will, and action. He does not violate your freedom. Let me explain: If you...