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I don't think New London, Conneticut has too many bad areas. The pics I've seen of the homes being seized look pretty nice.

The area in Brooklyn where they are seizing property and building the Nets stadium isn't a bad neighborhood either. There are a lot of warehouses there that have been ...

Scalia is pretty consistent in his viewpoints and this goes against it. The liberals are pretty much for government doing what they want. Why does this surprise you, Shiraz?

I guess I am coming to the realization that I am more left-libertarian than liberal....

I've seen this policy in ...

This is the part I don't get...but it is early and maybe I am confused...

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been a key swing vote on many cases before the court, issued a stinging dissent. She argued that cities should not have unlimited authority to uproot families, even if they are provided ...

I heard the transitional pope theory in several places also....maybe CNN or NYTimes, I wasn't really paying attention.

Another nickname he's had is God's rottweiler

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Ratzinger has said modernity led to a blurring of sexual identity, causing some feminists to become adversaries of men. He labeled homosexuality "an intrinsic moral evil."

He argued that Muslim Turkey did not belong in Christian ...

When I was considering the air force academy, women could only be test pilots (no combat missions). I had always wanted to study aerodynamics in some way, be it as a pilot or as an aerodynamic engineer. When it came down to it, I didn't want to deal with constantly fighting to prove I belonged there ...

A lot of the women I know who joined the armed forces did so, in part, for tuition assistance. I'm not sure once you join how much choice you have about what position you serve? For those who are against women in combat, do you think they should be able to join the armed forces and choose ...

I seriously considered going to the Naval Academy or Air Force Academy for college. Not because I wanted any role in combat, but because I wanted to study fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and help design planes and submarines. Around the time I was looking into the application, there was some big ...

I hate Ann Coulter, and the said vomiting Harvard professor was actually from MIT...

There might be an absolute moral code, but I don't think we've figured out what that is yet.

Horses have the same problems as cats and dogs, there are too many that are unwanted (retired racehorses, neglected horses, PMU horses, and now wild horses). Rather than going to animal shelters, they are sent to the slaughter house. I read somewhere that all horse slaughterhouses in the U.S. are ...

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There are just too many things about it that don't add up. It gives a list of "breed choices," but Palomino is a color of horse and a Pony is a size of horse. It lists some breeds that are rarely sent to the slaughter, and doesn't list racehorse breeds that often are (Thoroughbred and Standardbred ...

There's no way that's real, it doesn't even give a location other than maybe it's in "Raleigh."

In a way, this thread reminds me of when I used to be a intro biology TA. Every semester at least one student would come to me and tell me that they couldn't write an essay on evolution because they were a creationist. I asked them if they knew of any atheists who studied divinity, christians who ...

By positive or negative mutation I am only referring to a net gain in genetic information

This happens all of the time in agriculture. Polyploidy (additional chromosomes) result in much bigger fruits and vegetables. m

The corn genome has also grown, and is radically different from other ...

Can scientists actually prove that mutations or any other natural processes are capable of providing vast quantities of new genetic information that would result in all the various phyla? They haven’t done it, but they continue to tell the story anyway.

There is a branch of mathematical biology ...

What I want to know is why the movie theatre at the Gateway here in Salt Lake City can show the Work and the Glory (the story of Joseph Smith and the beginning of the mormon religion), but the IMAX won't show the volcano movie that mentions evolution. I'll have to go see it on my next trip to Vegas ...

I am pretty undecided on this issue. But the thing that I don't get is why Michael Schiavo has gone through all of this to end her life. We know he isn't doing it for money, so he must be doing it because it was her wish. I'm willing to accept she said that she wouldn't want to be kept alive like ...

If you ask me, I know of only one class of workers who are overpaid and under worked -- college professors.

I'm not sure what pool of professors you are looking at...if you mean liberal arts professors at a small college or all college professors in general. But if you are in the sciences, you ...

So you think you have some right to trump her expressed wish not to be kept alive in the state she's become?

I don't think I have a right to trump anyone's wish, I am just stating my opinion. Starving to death is a really horrible way to go, even if you want to die. There was the case of a ...

Well, let's just say that I am not convinced enough that she is brain dead enough to not suffer while slowly starving over seven(?) days. Remember, this states that "much" of her brain cortex is gone. Is enough active and functioning to sense pain and "suffer"? There is certainly a chance.

Watching the videos of her, she does not seem completely brain dead. I know that the doctors say that these are just reflexes, but she smiles, she makes sounds when her family is near, she appears annoyed when music is turned off. If you really try, you could probably make the case that all of human ...

In a homosexual relationship you have two consenting adults. In molestation you have an adult and a minor who is being manipulated, is terrified, and will be scarred for life. Homosexuality is legal (except for states that have sodomy laws), and child molestation will put you behind bars for years ...

Very interesting, so you can't marry someone of the same sex, but if you get a sex change operation then you can (well marry someone of your original sex). Is that philosophically consistent?