Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers

I always found the argument that we can't tell a woman what to do with
her body rather strange.
We most certainly can, and do, just that: it's illegal for a woman to
use illegal drugs on/in her body, for example. That destroys the
argument right there.

 

Some do, some don't.

 

Then pass a law that creates the same benefits for same sex unions, but don't
try to call it a marriage. It is not. Besides, I keep hearing that there is a
marriage penalty in the tax code.

Ed

 

While I only quoted one line from Dr. Parker for the sake of bandwidth
and readability, I am responding to his greater arguements. By using
this example, he has put the spot light on an area where the
government system hurts the quality of care. He has greatly weakened
his overall arguement.

BTW, Hospitals typically don't provide dialysis as an on going treatment,
maybe as an emergency treatement or for a patient that is there for
something else, but the dialysis is the business of dialysis clinics.

 

Exactly. That's the only way he can "win" the debate, which is why those
(inaccurate) labels keep getting thrown at the wall in hope they'll stick.

 

Parker once again shows that he has no concept of the inner workings of
an automobile. Old engines do not get exemptions either. They are held
to the standards of era they came from. A new carb and new pistons, hell
an entire rebuild won't make a 1973 auto pass 2003 new car emissions.
I doubt a 1973 could even pass IM240 for a 2003. (idle test is a
different story since at least for IL, before they went to IM240, the
requirements were the same for 1982 on up)

 

The "new class of civil union" would cover that just fine.

 

So this is not about the environment, it's about government power and
buracratic nonsense if you are correct. If this were about the
environment the regulations would not be all-or-nothing. Because quite
clearly modifications that improve the performance of the power plant
and reduce emissions are good for the environment and should be allowed
even if the whole plant isn't redone to meet the standards of new equipment.
Part-way is better for the environment than doing nothing.

 

Have any new ones been enacted recently? I thought almost all such laws were
enacted many years ago and were definitely middle of the road sort of laws at the
time.

Ed

 

Doesn't the same apply when "society" makes rules about sex, abortion, marriage,
etc., etc., etc.?

Ed

 

No, that's called rape. That's not what we're talking about. Unless you
mean I should be able to "dispense" with my children and demand the
government pay for their upbringing... or unless you want to ban adoption
(wouldn't want to stop an abortion, now).

 

Once again, this should be a limited government issue. Heaven forbid we
should trust local jurisdictions to govern themselves. Heaven forbid Thomas
and Scalia should read the constitution *as written* and judge accordingly
notwithstanding leftist activism that can't win legislatively.

 

That's the problem with liberals. They don't view the taxing and spending
of people's income as a sacred trust done with great reluctance and limited
to necessary functions. The sacred trust for liberals is with the
recipients of tax dollars, not the givers. So, the more the merrier.

 

Most people aren't, but most people who are on dialysis will end up on one.


No response from parker, just one misleading sentance.

 

So now a simple google search is "right-wing propaganda"? Every one
of 2,280,000 pages is right wing? No wonder people have such a low
opinion of you.

 

And? Why is it that some groups (psudeo-liberals is my term for them) always what
to create laws they like out of thin air through judicial action and ignore
legitimate ,if distasteful, laws because they don't like them. There is a process
for adding and removing laws. If insisting that these procedures be followed
makes me a conservative, then I guess I am guilty. Unfortunately, most of the
people I know who claim to be conservatives don't agree with many of my ideas, so
I guess I am lost in the wilderness.

Ed

 

"We" don't know that. "You" may believe what you wish.

Ed

 

This statement is the sort of crap uttered by psudeo-liberals that I find
particularly offensive. Trying to redine the word "marriage" to cover same sex
unions is not discrimination.

Ed