http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/26/gov-beebe-likely-to-veto-sen-raperts-abortion-bill Comments On: Gov. Beebe likely to veto Sen. Rapert's abortion bill by David Ramsey en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
The irony about "all life is sacred as long as it is not born yet" is that business about pre-natal care. If Repubs are so interested in those fetuses, it seems as if they'd REALLY be in favor of pre-natal care for those mamas!

There's just no real consistency among the Repubs--except this: If they want something, it's good. If they don't want something, it's bad.

And if it means they can get some tax money to support it, they're in favor of that; although in principle they're opposed to all taxes of any kind!

IMHO

I just can't suspend enough logic and intellectual honesty to accept that kind of reasoning!
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:18:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
The best thing to prevent war would be for the new SecDef to push to bring back a national draft with no exemptions. Everyone signs up for national service, either for the country in the US or uniformed military for adventures in running someone else's country since they don't want to help this one.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:03:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
In sidewalk, non-philosophical, terms, this author is saying that Christians base their moral positions on the authority of scriptures while non-Christians simply do not acknowledge those scriptures as authoritative.

And that seems to be the point that the Chritian Taliban does not get. So they proceed to argue that "X" should be either required or prohibited because "the Bible" says that "X" is either the right or wrong thing to do.

Example: Abortion should be illegal because it terminates a life and according to the Bible, all life is sacred.

Although in practice, when the Christian Taliban says this, what they really mean is that "all human life is sacred." Animals, birds, and fish, not so much so. Neither snakes, mosquitoes, alligators, and cockroaches.

IMHO
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:18:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
We need to pass a constitutional amendment so that any legislator who votes to override a governor's veto will automatically lose all their state benefits (salary, health insurance, retirement, etc.) upon that particular piece of legislation being found unconstitutional. Otherwise, we'll continue to be burdened with all this unconstitutional BS we've already seen too much of during this session.
Posted by RYD]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:12:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:29:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
Here, if two private parties wish to use Sharia to arbitrate a purely civil dispute, perhaps they could do so. But it should never be allowed here for things like family law cases or other public proceedings.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:55:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
The christian yahoos in the Ledge worship at the feet of sainted Paul Van Dalsem, Prophet of Perve-ville: (“We don’t have any of these university women in Perry County, but I’ll tell you what we do up there when one of our women starts poking around in something she doesn’t know anything about. We get her an extra milk cow. If that don’t work, we give her a little more garden to tend to. And then if that’s not enough, we get her pregnant and keep her barefoot.”)
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/ency…

The christian yahoos won't have fulfilled their glorious mission until all of the rights women have struggled for over the past centuries have been rolled back, starting with control over their own bodies. Then the yahoos can get a-working on damning the rest of the heretical practices of modern day America to the fires of their hell.

In the yahoo mind, we should repeal all of the domestic violence laws, return to using women and their children as property, deny them the pesky right to vote or own property, deny them the right to divorce or get an education.

Inch by short penis inch, the christian yahoos are desperately trying to roll back centuries of human progress, back to the caves. Sharia law is too progressive for them. That's why they're so opposed to it.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:11:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Tina Morphis]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:03:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:14:30 -0600 Arkansas Times