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seriously.... tori spelling is in it. that alone is reason to skip it.

i don't necessarily think that religion being entirely removed from schools is a bad thing. there's a time and place for everything, and i just don't think that the time for religion is when kids are in school, i also don't think the place for it is said school. it's a touchy subject. i don't think praying before football games should be banned, but by the same token, i don't agree with teacher-led prayer. as far as the pledge, it's also a pledge of allegiance to the US government, which is something i know you're not exactly in favor of(don't misread that as me calling you anarchistic in any way, i simply know you're not in favor of the way the government is being run right now). religion and school is a very slippery slope. it's hard to say "ok, you can do this but not this", so it's almost like you have to be completely for it, or completely against it. does that make any sense? i'm a little out of it today, so sorry if it's not coming out clearly.

^ yeah, i'm fully aware of how intertwined religion and government were at the beginning of the US, and they still are to a degree.

hahahahaha god this guy's life sucks now

casek, seems to me based on the info listed on the ontheissues page, that he's in favor of prayer in public schools. if i'm wrong about that, i'm wrong.

maybe i didn't make myself entirely clear, or maybe you misread what i wrote. in either case, i agree on that part. what i'm saying is the land that we currently have set aside as reserves, refuges, sanctuaries, etc. needs to be protected. i'm not in support of stealing peoples land, under any circumstances, but rather, i fully support protecting all land, public and private.

he believes that abortions should always be legal, and that supreme court nominees must agree to uphold roe v wade. my one issue with kucinich is that he was pro-life up until right before the 2004 election, then changed his stance on it entirely. separation of church and state is just what it sounds like: keep religion and government (and government run/funded programs like public school) away from each other. it effects me because it's written in the first amendment of the constitution. basically, ron paul is in support of teaching values in public schools, which in itself is not bad at all, but he's amongst the group of people that think the more children are exposed to prayer, the ten commandments, and other traditional values, the better off they are. now, i'm not saying this is wrong, but keep it out of the schools. that's why we have the 1st amendment. again, it doesn't necessarily have a direct effect on me, other than the fact that it goes against the constitution. and for the record casek, i don't think anyone in the current field is particularly qualified to run the country. not a single fucking one of them.

here's an idea, how about rather than simply decreasing our reliance on foreign oil, we decrease our reliance on oil completely? why not look further into alternative methods rather than promoting drilling for more oil? and there's far more potential damage than just "2% less area for caribou", take for instance the recent oil spill in the SF bay (yes, i'm aware that has nothing to do with the alaskan drilling, but the oil would have to be transported from there, which automatically creates risk). It would take 10 years for any Arctic Refuge oil to reach the market, and even when production peaks 9in 2027), the refuge would produce only 1 or 2 percent of Americans' daily consumption. and let me at least partially debunk your belief about "most environmentalists" and where they live, what they do, and what they know: i live in a rural area, surrounded by people that have all lived there for generations upon generations, and the overwhelming majority of them have pro-environmental views. that's quite a few people that don't live in a city, and do enjoy the outdoors a great deal. i'm failing to see how the banning of drilling in alaska and holding oil companies responsible for their actions in any way relates to what happened to your family's land. i understand your point about property rights, which i agree with, but i also believe in protecting as much of our existing wildlife as possible. and remember, it was the US government that took the land, and the US government that set up the sanctuaries during the depression. how exactly does that make people that are currently concerned with protecting the world we live in communists? you obviously believe that people should be able to protect their property, so why shouldn't we protect the entire planet? and what about the inupiaq village of kaktovik, which is right in the middle of the proposed drilling area? the only way to protect the earth is NOT through property rights alone, and i'd hope that you realize that.

see, i could argue my side of this, and my views on it until i'm blue in the face, but i know i'm in the minority (by far), and i won't be changing any minds. i don't feel that man should have absolute dominion over the planet. i'm 110% against sprawl, and my anger with it grows every single time i see a dead deer on the side of the road (last i checked, the area i live in is #2 in the country when it comes to deer being hit by cars). we have a responsibility to the earth, first and foremost, and we've royally fucked that up. i'll agree that it'd be next to impossible for us to destroy the planet with out extreme measures, but we can absolutely make it un-livable, and we're well on our way to that. the oceans are already polluted and warmed enough that species are dying off, the reality is there's probably species going extinct that we haven't even discovered yet. at what point do we kill off all the species in the ocean? at what point to we expand enough, and pollute enough that species of land animals start dropping off like flies? once the food supplies start disappearing, then what will we do? i feel like this has kinda strayed from the animal liberation topic into more of an environmental one, but the two are connected, at least to some degree.

† all day every day.

i doubt it, his shirt doesn't appear to be made out of foil.

i've got a bunch of old flicks at home, i'll try to scan them in at some point. of course, by that time they'll probably all be on here. on a somewhat related note, does anyone by any chance have copies of the NAA zines that they did? i used to have one, but who the fuck knows what happened to it.

that's classic.

yeah i was a little confused when i first saw that he got shot in the leg and was "fighting for his life", until i read that the bullet severed his femoral artery. i'm not a redskins fan, or much of a fan of football at all, but this shit sucks.

i don't care. i still believe the story that 10% of kanye's mom's doctor married bill cosby in a ceremony officiated by a gay mexican dinosaur, with entertainment at the reception provided by sarah connor and the terminators.

don't get Mase to read it, people will fall asleep by the end of the first sentence.

his dick is actually a giant pudding pop, so he has to do it before it melts.

it is indeed a quality film.

i like how he's evidently talking about himself in the 3rd person. real gangsters do that, you know.

gay marriage killed the dinosaurs.

beat me to it.

my thoughts exactly.

standing up for the environment, being for banning drilling in alaska, being for holding big oil co mpanies accountable for the crimes they commited... how are you gonna claim that's in any way "red"? because i care about the earth, and i support people that do, that makes me and them communist? what kind of fucking sense does that make?

that's exactly what i meant by "forcing my view". i won't do shit like that. but, if someone asks me a question about why i'm vegetarian, or why i disagree with animal testing, etc., i'll gladly tell them, and in great detail. that said, thinking that it's ok to hunt these whales simply because they're not endangered anymore is ridiculous. what, do we allow them to be hunted until they reach the near-extinction level again? like i already said, if we continue down this course of wiping species off the face of the earth, it's only a matter of time before we're next in line. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet" - Albert Einstein