By: Perrie Halpern R.A. • default • 4 comments • 11 years ago
A while back I had a debate with an old friend of mine about a discussion on the percentage of gays that make up our population. I had told him that I had seen an article by the AMA that said that 9-10% of the population was gay. He said it was more like 3-4% During this debate, we went back and forth on the numbers, but my main point was that we would never get a clear number, since being...
From foster care into the sex trade
By: retired military ex Republican • default • 1 comments • 11 years ago
~Link to Article~ Foster children abused and used as child prostitutes then saved by police then given a record of prostitution. What kind of a legal system would do this to a child who is forced into prostitution. The legal system is broken and terribly distorted. Long read but enlightening.
Philistines, Jews, Herodotus and the "Palestine" Question ..."toafos of a re'em" ?
By: kpr37 • islam • 11 comments • 11 years ago
(From 1200 BC)
The bulk of the inscription deals with Merneptah's victory over the Libyans, but the last few lines shift to Canaan:[4] 1.The princes are prostrate, saying, "Peace!"
2.Not one is raising his head among the Nine Bows.
3.Now that Tehenu (Libya) has come to ruin, Hatti is pacified; The Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe: Ashkalon has been overcome; Gezer has...
Facts Wanted
By: Robert in Ohio • default • 1 comments • 11 years ago
A lot of folks here and o other sites regularly state that they want to talk about facts, rather than spin, opinions and distortion.But when given an article of containing facts about the current economic situation in the U.S. and asked to share what they conclude from the facts (extracted from the government web site) no one has anything to say.There is no one to bash, no one to blame, no one...
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
By: Robert in Ohio • default • 3 comments • 11 years ago
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is one of my favorite poems.I have come to think of one line in particular "Good fences make good neighbors" when getting along with individuals proved especially challenging, whether literally neighbors or simply people that I interact with either professionally, socially or simply by chance.NewsTalkers is no different from any other neighborhood and sometimes it...
The Blame Game
By: Robert in Ohio • default • 5 comments • 11 years ago
I find it tiresome and annoying that many people do not want to discuss issues or postulate possible solutions and pathways to change regardless of the subject offered in an original article or a seeded article from the media. Instead most threads degenerate to blaming someone for what happened rather than talking about what needs to be done (other than getting the bums (right or left) out of...
The Sound of Wet Grass
By: Diddley Squat • default • 3 comments • 11 years ago
By Rupert Rupert, son of Diddley and Cree Squat, is a young rodent intellectual who is best known for his claim that he hasn't just an opinion on everything, he has opinions. Plural. Many of them. "When I want to measure public reaction to something of importance," said Rupert famously, "I just poll myself." So don't be surprised if I have a whole bunch of them on this...
"as far as I am concerned, this case is closed" ~Rep. A. Cummings D-MD
By: JoAnne Odel • default • 1 comments • 11 years ago
Former GOP Senate candidate Christine ODonnell told her tax records were breached Errant lien on house placed, publicized Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/17/former-gop-senate-candidate-christine-odonnell-tol/?page=1#ixzz2ZPeZa2Mi Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter More than two years after her upstart Senate campaign rocked the Delaware political world,...
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum or It's not always about common sense
By: AmericanDreamsShattered • default • 0 comments • 11 years ago
It just shows to go you, that sometimes we get caught up in a seemingly endless storm of BS that it's hard to find a common ground. Todays social media is partly to blame here due to the fact that it is almost instantaneous. It's at your finger tips, that instant gratification of knowing that you can get your opinion out there no matter how well informed or ill informed it may be. We are...
Did the Prosecution in the Zimmerman Trial Try to Use Reverse Jury Nullification?
By: Darren Wolfe • default • 0 comments • 11 years ago
Late in the night of July 13, 2013 George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter for shooting Trayvon Martin. The scary part is that one of the prosecutors, John Guy, in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments asked the jurors to disregard the lack of evidence and the lack of credibility of two key witnesses to find Zimmerman guilty. Read the rest of the article at:...
A Real Conversation I Had Today at BK
By: Rodney 889389 • default • 2 comments • 11 years ago
Me: Let me get a sausage and chesse Crissandwich and a large french toast sticks. Cashier: Would you like the 3 piece or the 5 piece? pause...pause...pause...Me: The large one (while thinking to myself...wtf) Cashier: I know, but the 3 piece or the 5 piece? Astonished, I asked, "which one has more?" Cashier: "Oh, the 5 piece" (she said as though she was proud of herself for getting the answer...
"Honey, I found the car keys!" Is that Gay?
By: Jonathan Livingston Pigeon-Poo, • default • 2 comments • 11 years ago
Gay Marriages? What Other Kind Are There? Gay Marriage? What Other Kind Is There, Earl?