Shantelle Hicks, Pregnant 8th Grader, Outed To New Mexico School Assembly (VIDEO)

I don't agree with the school's public outing, per se, BUT this girl, absent a rape claim, is a perfect example of what is our of control with girls of today. Pregnant and unmarried at 15...15!!! Her future and that of her child, already challenged, can only get bleaker.

Rightly or wrongly, perhasps this public ridicule will cause others to think twice, particularly if presented with strong moral encouragement from community, political, and religious leaders.
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Sandra Fluke Receives Call From Obama After Rush Limbaugh 'Slut' Comments

Yes, but we are getting closer to accepting religion invested in politics, and vice versa, every day, to the detriment of all. Secularism without morality and social consciousness leads to socialism-the subjugation of independence in the interest of the "greater good"- or worse. Theocracy leads to judgemental enforcement of less-than-free-market, religiously-based "laws" and customs that supress the spirit of a free people.

I subscribe to neither.
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Iran-Israel Tension Mounts: Live Updates On The Drumbeat Of War

What bothers me is that we have spent over one Trilion dollars (that's Trillion with a big "T" folks!) in pursuit of goals which I feel have not been realized, and which sandstorms will cover our bootprints before the ink on the dollars is dry.

We fail to realize that tribal conflicts and loyalties, thousand-year-old grudges and revenge pacts, religions extremeism all conspire to defeat our efforts and the efforts of (unwilling)partners.

Loyalty in this arena last only until the next "bribe" is paid, the last check received.

Ask the Russians.

The attitude in this area has always been, "They will come, they will pay, and they will go. Then we can get back to the business of killing each other."
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Iran-Israel Tension Mounts: Live Updates On The Drumbeat Of War

So, you think extended terms of office would somehow limit the "at least one war per generation just to keep our skills sharp" mentality?

If only!

As long as "American Exceptionalism" governs policy decisions, and American leadership is required due to the lack of same throughout the world, we will be (willingly?) dragged into conflict(s).
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Iran-Israel Tension Mounts: Live Updates On The Drumbeat Of War

Israel has always claimed that nuclear weapons in the hands of countries with stated policy of "eliminating" the Zionist threat would be an "existential threat" of such a magnitude as to justify the destruction of any facities prior to such a threat being realized. And so Israel has taken out facilities in Syria, and previously in Iraq (coincidentally also attacked by Iran), and has promised to prevent any potential enemy from realizing ambitions to build nuclear weapons.

As to whether such an "all in" stance is justified, one has only to look at a map and see that if Israels' two main cities were "nuked, " over 80% of it's territory and population would be gone, population killed or poisoned, territory unihabitable.
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Sandra Fluke Receives Call From Obama After Rush Limbaugh 'Slut' Comments

Over forty million abortions since Roe vs. Wade provide all the evidence needed regarding the quality and morality of women's decisions "about their own bodies." I'm all for birth control methods for men and women; I'm all for parental, community, political, and religious leaders making the strongest possible case for responsible approaches to sex, for "personal decisions, personal consequences, individual opportunity, individual achienvement."

I'm not for the "convenience of genocide" as an irresponsible alternative to an unwillingness to inconveniece onself regarding practicable and widely available birth control methods.

I'm not for a "feminism" which promotes a specius logic of "personal control over my body" as a justification for the murder of over 1,000,000 babies a year, 98% of which would gestate into healthy (mostly) childhood if left alone to do so.
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Joe Arpaio, Prominent Sheriff, Unveils Results Of Investigation Into Obama Birth Certificate

If what Arpaio found out about Obama is true, it would be the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people. If untrue, he so damages his credibiliy that anything else he supports or proposes is without merit. Even if untrue, the controversy associated with this appeals mainly to radicals and fringe enthusiasts, not really helpful to those who want to pragmatically address the problem of illegal immigraion. Having established a position as an activist against illegal immigration, a position held by many Americans, a majority in fact, he may be in the process of throwing it all away; "Class, can we say feet of clay?"
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