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I understand the concept of the union shop, but that relationship is established between the union and the corporation with which it is employed. The union-corporation agreement becomes a binding contract, under which all employees must join the union or face termination, and that contract is enforc...

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And as I say in every GW thread, whether or not you agree with the bullshit politics on either side, the global climate data unquestioningly support the idea that global temperatures are rising unnaturally due to man-made CO2 emissions. When you focus the conversation on the science and not the poli...

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Unions and collective bargaining are usually part of the Civics curriculum (~8th grade Social Studies). Also, education standards are determined at the state level without federal intervention, with the exception of NCLB requirements for Math and Reading. Also also, textbook publishers are by far th...

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I'm not advocating for the socialization of a private sector industry. I'm saying a certain kind of bribery - unions paying off their political benefactors - should be made illegal. Hardly increased government intervention in the workplace. Sorry, I'm confused. Unions paying off politican benefacto...

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I'm not sure, do you think the Fairness Doctrine applies to Anonymous??? :)

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Italians are my people. Except those douchebags on Jersey Shore, they can suck a nut.

Just popped in here to show my racial bias.

You showed your pro-Asian racial bias in the thread about Asian parents and teaching. Just saying.

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Fair enough.

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Teflor Lyorian wrote:I'm waiting for Corth to respond, but in the meanwhile, in many states, corporations are actually forced to work with unions by state law. And Federal law in many ways protects unions in similar fashion.

Which states? I'm curious to read the law... do you have a list?

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Assuming that private sector unions get no special protections under law that other worker's wouldn't, I have absolutely no problem with them whatsoever. There is no coercion whatsoever. If they fail to show up for work (strike) they can be fired. However firing ALL your employees is a little diffe...

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because 80% of people believe in it. Also, this is blatantly untrue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution There is a wide variety of statistical studies in that link. To say that "80% of people believe in creationism" is pushing the high side of the most extreme sur...

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Evolution relies on randomness, ID relies on order. An argument for ID is an argument for evolution by definition... It is only because there are flaws in evolution theory that ID can exist... it is a theory born from the imperfectness of the theory of evolution. I don't understand this statement a...

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Corth, you're in favor of abolishing the minimum wage, because workers should be paid what they're worth and if they don't like the wage offered, they can find another job. Do you also support unions? Under the same logic, can't a corporation that doesn't want to deal with unions simply fire their e...

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With all the spambots posting on the board lately, I'd rather not post my RealID. PM me if you want to swap.

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Would you say they're more or less dangerous to American youth than Bulletstorm, Fox News?

I heard Bulletstorm turn kids into rapists.

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My understanding is that the executive branch is charged with upholding the law, and the purpose of the judiciary is to determine whether a law is constitutional or not. This seems to be the executive branch moving into judicial territory. I wouldn't be comfortable with Republicans doing it, and I'm...

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No ID says life evolved by order and not disorder as proposed by evolution. Said in another way, life was "created" or directed through manipulation of natural forces by a force. ID could still be true if it was aliens doing experiments on cows... or even some force that is the opposite o...

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Teflor going back on ignore soon. Not interested in hacking out 40% of your posts to remove the insults.

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Patriotic United States war effort being undermined from within by Communist Republicans! If you suspect your neighbor might be a Red, don't wait! Call your local authorities! Let's help keep our boys safe over there!

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Start linking those studies, kiryan. Start linking.

Intelligent Design does not state "God did it on this page of the bible." Intelligent Design states "Humans can never know how life began, so isn't it reasonable to think that maybe life was created by an intelligent creator?"

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I took two developmental psychology courses, and one of the things they teach you is that "Wow, you really tried hard!" is actually infinitely more beneficial praise than "Wow, you're really smart!" The former is praising the child for making the choice to exert effort, the latte...

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Philosophy, the question of "why," is a natural and hardwired component of science. You can't ignore questions that will be asked while teaching science, unless you're just a terrible educator that has no business in the classroom. Oh nobody's ignoring the question. The answer is really s...

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I am attempting to inform, since I've worked in a Right to Work state for 15 years now. There's another thread where kiryan can bitch about the cost of union dues in Wisconsin; this isn't it.

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Taking out the 'angry' part I can basically agree with that. Tea partiers are indeed Republicans - but in general, what differentiates them from other cognizable Republican groups, is that they have a Libertarian streak. I'm really not so sure what is so bad and/or threatening about it. As far as I...

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Skipping about 30 posts worth of bickering. The Scientific Method is the fundamental objective around which the science curriculum is built. In the low grades, students are taught to make observations about nature. They go outside and look at leaves and bugs, and write down what they see. In the mid...

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I'm a little uncomfortable with the executive branch wielding this scope of power... but it's there, in the Constitution.

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It's not my place to judge whether a sexual assault was violent enough to qualify for a particular label. Kiryan did, however, use the phrase "gang rape" in the title of this thread when he was trying to assert that liberal media was keeping it quiet to further some kind of liberal agenda....

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To be fair, the problem isn't how long the vote was open. The problem is, the vote was called without adequate (any) time for floor discussion, then closed as soon as 51 votes were recorded. The procedure for calling house votes was not followed.

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O HAI DERE

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Yeah, the whole study was riddled with errors and isn't scientifically useful in any possible way. At best... at BEST, it illustrates a limited correlation between union laws and scores on one particular standardized measure. I posted it as a neat distortion of the facts, because that's what we do o...

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You do realize that Ragorn lumped alchmey in with crazy town illegitimate crap that should not be discussed in school in science class... when there is growing support to recognize alchemy as the earliest chemists? What we have here is a name change and a ignorant and prejudiced view (Ragorn). If y...

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So you're petitioning the government to restrict the free speech of individuals trying to prosper in the free market?

Shit, sorry. Wrong forum.

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Those five states rank 44th, 47th, 48th, 49th, and 50th in the nation in ACT/SAT rankings. http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/02/22/no-strong-teacher-unions-lower-satact-scores-any-correlation/ When school systems can bully teachers, deny them health coverage, restrict their benefits, and s...

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The RNC actually had to dispatch a lawyer to Alaska to attempt to retrieve (some of) the clothes she purchased. She did not return them voluntarily. As for the legal bills, Palin set up a legal defend fund, which was essentially a public plea for donations. The site still exists at http://www.sarahp...

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kiryan wrote:What I'm saying is government (and through its funding) does not have the right to sacrifice one girl's interests for the indirect and intangible benefit of another.

You can't use people as a means to an end...

What about conscription?

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170 million people tuned in to "Dancing With the Stars" last year. Perhaps we should teach dancing in science class.

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So how did you feel about your money going exclusively to elect Democrats who voted against your principles? Today some teachers are paying $100 a month in union dues. Just fine. The benefit I got from being a member of the union was worth the $9.65/month I paid in dues. They essentially saved my j...

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Actually, she stepped down because her administration's skeletons were being aired out, and she quit before she was forced out. She spent $150,000 of John McCain's money on clothes, I don't think she was hurting for legal defense.

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Now I'll play devil's advocate.

So would you support a constitutional amendment that would make it illegal for parents to deny their children's sexual orientation?

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lastly... assuming you had liberal ideals back then... how would you feel if the union was donating all their campaign cash to elect religious republicans to office? Staunch conservative Christian Republican at that age. I hadn't yet started to think about things on my own. Unions are necessary to ...

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I agree that we need to reform tax code. A flat tax where everyone pays their share is what I advocate for. Say 10% across the board, 10% of a million is $100k, 10% of $10,000 is $1,000. It would be amusing if the flat tax ever passed. How would Republicans solve economic problems if they couldn't ...

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True, you aren't forced to join a union. When I worked at AT&T, I was a member of CWA. Union membership was not mandatory, and any settlement that AT&T reached with its workforce would still apply to you. However, the union would not entertain your plight if you were mistreated. I was actual...

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I think it's a yucky pit of grey areas. The thing about developmental psychology is that it's very hard to isolate one aspect of a child's upbringing for scrutiny. It's hard to determine whether Dad's push to make Junior win the 5th grade spelling bee caused permanent damage. And even if we do have ...

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You don't understand the law, you don't know what they're thinking about or charging you with, if you are talking to a police officer, you need a lawyer... even if you think you are talking to them about someone else, you don't know whether they're preparing to charge you. Typical liberal sentiment...

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Glad you agree we could have some discussion of ID in science class. I agree its not a good use of time to teach every religious counterpoint ever conceived of in history... but we can at least talk about the hot topics, the prevailing theories. Sure, we can have some discussion of ID in science cl...

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[citation needed]

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Intelligent design is not a valid scientific theory because its an untestable hypothesis. Again, defining something in favorable terms to "end the debate". Its a theory, and it could be true. I'm not in favor of swapping science class with religious class, but if we can include counter am...

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Preventing unwanted pregnancies through education is preferable to both abortion and unsupported children entering the welfare/adoption/foster home program. Regardless of your political leaning, it's hard to argue against the benefit of Title X. Even if everyone in America has a health insurance pol...

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I'm not saying she hasn't made her case to the public and lost. She may be as delusional as Obama is about explaining things better. However, I am saying your analysis stating that shes just going to roll over before Ohio flies in the face of every indication of who she is. You're prediction is utt...

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Virginia is a Right to Work state, so I'm pretty familiar with the terms. Teflor is partially correct... employers can't terminate you for "any" reason, but they can terminate you for NO reason. If you look crosseyed at your boss, he can fire you on the spot with no explanation given. Howe...

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I don't know, honestly. Emotional abuse is hard to characterize. Anecdotally, I know of a couple case studies where children were raised in a gender-confused enviroment, and they suffered some pretty significant emotional problems later in life. I haven't read any rigorous studies on the subject, th...

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