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Posted on November 2 at 7:51 a.m.
The best way to get food labeled is to ask for it. Call or email the manufacturer, and tell them you want a product that is certified GMO free. If enough people want to buy it, they'll make it and label it. Just look at the organic industry, and more recently the gluten free industry. Heck, you can buy a soda that is 'gluten free'.
Posted on October 31 at 8:13 a.m.
Hopefully some people who have had experience with the other side of the drunk driving equation will have the opportunity to educate Iya. Having to face victims in public discourse might just be the best medicine she can get.
Posted on October 22 at 7:50 a.m.
And yet they managed to skip it for IDs.
Posted on May 23 at 12:14 a.m.
"Drunk-Driving Accident"
Getting drunk and driving isn't an accident.
Posted on February 17 at 9:51 p.m.
What's interesting is that a direct response to a point is taken by the author of the original point as a change of subject. Maybe we should have stayed on the subject in the first place? How do we tell if it's your right to have your after school prayerathon, or my kid's right to not be preyed on? I wish I had a better answer than "I know it when I see it", but this one sure stinks.
Posted on February 17 at 10:41 a.m.
The 'Bibles in Schools' is from a West Virginia Federal case: Peck vs. Upshur County Board of Education (I was going to post a link but the Independent isn't letting me. You'll have to use your search engine of choice)
"In elementary schools, the concerns animating the coercion principle are at their strongest because of the impressionability of young elementary-age children"
As for your 6 men being American Christians, I'm not sure Jessica Ahlquist would be so relieved.
Posted on February 17 at 12:50 a.m.
I'd be bothered less if this were high school. The courts make a distinction between elementary and high school, and hold elementary schools to a higher standard for no proselytizing activity. Gideons can donate bibles to high schools e.g., but not elementary schools. Although other religions hasn't been tested in court to my knowledge, I assume the school policy would have to be open to all religions. A school in Buncombe County NC changed their policy about accepting religious books rather than accept donated Pagan books.
I think the fact that it's on school property, albeit 'after' school is bothersome. There must be plenty of non-school spaces they could rent for Christian kids to have their Christian activities. But they're not doing this for kids who are already Christian. They're trying to convert the rest of the kids.
Posted on February 17 at 12:25 a.m.
@billclausen
Your 'six burly men' scenario was put to the late Christopher Hitchens.
Q: If you were in a strange city one evening and saw a few men coming toward you, would you feel more or less safe knowing they just came from a prayer meeting?
Hitchens: “Just to stay within the letter ‘B,’ I have actually had that experience in Belfast, Beirut, Bombay, Belgrade, Bethlehem, and Baghdad. In each case I can say absolutely, and can give my reasons, why I would feel immediately threatened if I thought that the group of men approaching me in the dusk were coming from a religious observance.”
Posted on February 3 at 8:21 a.m.
If he was high on meth, then it wasn't an 'accident'.
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Posted on April 10 at 8:30 a.m.
That image of me pumping gas was 'shopped I tell ya! Shopped!
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