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Participant[quote=paramount][quote=CA renter]
Your right to your religious beliefs end where my rights begin.[/quote]
State CAR and scaredy (as I recall) from the Altar of the 1st Church of Progressive Secularism.
Of course it’s not likely that CAR and scaredy even realize that they’re even participating in a religion.
But they are. The official state religion in fact.[/quote]
I fully support a person’s right to participate in whatever religion they want. But your right to do so ends my my rights begin. Why do you think your “religious freedoms” entitle you to dictate to others what they should do or believe?
Participant[quote=deadzone]No, entitlement state is not the problem. Just need to enforce existing immigration laws (Stop all discussion of amnesty and make E-verify federal law) and the problem will be significantly contained. Ideally birth right citizenship would be abolished but that’s not going to happen.[/quote]
Correct.
Participant[quote=njtosd]I can’t tell whether people are more interested in patting themselves on the back for their good habits or in condemning those who they believe have bad habits. [/quote]
I really think that people are afraid of reality — they don’t want to consider the fact that death and dying are a reality for all of us, and we do NOT get to decide when or how it will happen. A religious belief in certain health-related rituals (eating only organic/vegetarian/vegan/calorie restriction, etc.); extreme exercising; refraining from drinking or smoking, etc. is like carrying around a “good luck” charm. If they believe in it strongly enough, they think it will become reality.
While trying to engage in healthful activities and refraining from bad habits will, in the aggregate, offer more people a better chance at living longer, healthier lives, it is still nowhere near a guarantee that they will do so.
Participant[quote=deadzone]I’m sure there are a few “exceptional” cases where it is necessary to hire a foreign specialist. However, I’m tired of hearing the propaganda that we need to bring in more high skilled foreign tech workers because we don’t have enough engineers and scientists in this country. There is absolutely no evidence to support that.
Here is a good article describing this Myth of the STEM worker shortage.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myth-of-the-science-and-engineering-shortage/284359/%5B/quote%5DThe whole “shortage of STEM workers” meme is propaganda put out by the very same people who are bashing unions. Not kidding, do some research on this.
These people are eyebrow deep in the “education reform” (privatization) and “immigration reform” (amnesty) movements and are looking to do the following:
-push more people into a corporate, profit-
driven educational system fueled by student
loan debt and tax money (privatization
of educational infrastructure)-get more and more people to get STEM
(and other) degrees so that STEM labor
is cheaper here and abroad-move cheaper labor into countries with existing
labor protections (bashing unions along the way)
so that they can hire cheap labor overseas when
it benefits them, but also so that they can hire
cheap domestic labor when it’s more profitable
to do soParticipantFWIW, dermatologists are beginning to think that genes play a much greater role when it comes to melanoma. Some studies seem to show that regular sun exposure (like construction workers who are outside all the time) has some protective benefits WRT melanoma. They’re still trying to figure it out. OTOH, sun exposure is a contributing factor where non-melanoma skin cancers are concerned.
ParticipantGood luck with your appointment tomorrow, Brian. It’s always a good idea to get anything new/changing checked out right away. As SK noted, it can be curable (easily curable if caught early), but early detection, especially with melanoma is critically important.
My dad and my aunt had melanoma, and neither one died from it (they died from other, totally unrelated cancers).
No matter what they find, best to trust in your doctor’s care and try not to worry too much. Let us know how it goes when you’re back from your appointment. I’m hoping for the best, and keeping you in my thoughts!
Participant[quote=Hobie]Didn’t know we had so many donut connoisseurs here! Next time you are in Cardiff check out VG Donuts. Good stuff. Across from the Cardiff Kook sculpture which is another reason to go there. 🙂
http://www.thecardiffkook.org/blog/blog/%5B/quote%5D
We love VG Donuts! Thank goodness for my DH who’s not really into sweets. If he were, we’d be in trouble. It’s a shame that donuts are so bad for you. If they were healthy, I’d be living on a 100% donut diet!
And you’re right, UCGal, they are pretty sweet.
Really fighting the urge to go there right now.
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Speaking of Cardiff, and totally unrelated to donuts…if anyone likes really good Mexican food, you’ve got to try El Nopalito or Jorge’s. Fantastic!!! 🙂
http://www.yelp.com/biz/jorges-mexicatessen-encinitas-2
I think El Nopalito puts crack in their salsa or something. You just can’t stop eating it.
ParticipantThat is awesome news about your current company. So glad things worked out they way they did for you. 🙂
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]number of times the Bible mentions abortion: 0.[/quote]
Though it’s not “intentional” abortion, it seems that even the Bible treats the termination of a pregnancy differently than the termination of a living person (self-sustained life, outside of a woman’s body)…
Exodus 21:22-24
“22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow [usually thought to mean that the woman dies as a result -CAR] , then thou shalt give life for life.
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
Participant[quote=paramount]scaredy you seem to have a particular intolerance to those who seek to express their religious beliefs.
You don’t know if there is a god or not.[/quote]
Your right to your religious beliefs end where my rights begin.
If you don’t want to have an abortion, then it is 100% your right not to have one, but you have absolutely no right to tell other people what to do with their own bodies.
I always find it fascinating that the very people who oppose abortion are almost always the same people who oppose welfare.
Participant[quote=desmond]No Response? [/quote]
Where’s that “taboo” thread? 😉
Participant[quote=mike92104]http://donutbarsandiego.com/[/quote]
I know it’s not healthy, but this is really stirring the cravings in me.
http://donutbarsandiego.com/Donuts/
The bacon donuts look gross, but some of these are deliciously decadent-looking!
Going to do my best to stay away from there!!!
Participant[quote=kev374]No way tjete is going to be a 35-50% correction, that would literally be apocalyptic and it has not ever happened in the past![/quote]
Funny…for a moment, I thought you were serious. 😉
Participant[quote=flu]You underestimate the amount of money floating in the Bay Area…
Folks that think income inequality and real estate is unaffordable is bad in San Diego, its much worse in the Bay Area….
You have a bunch of people that made it in banking and tech that have a lot of money, and you have bunch more people who are struggling to keep up.
We lost quite a number of people to Apple and Google recently. People willing to pick up their bags in SD and relocate to the bay area, despite the insane home prices…
Real estate prices in the Bay Area move in much different ways than they do down here. A lot of it (plus rental prices) are driven by the tech industry…If you think home prices are bad there, wait until you look at rental prices..
If you have a home in the bay area, you’d be best serve keeping it for the long term. Because unlike here, there really isn’t that much more places to build in the Bay Area, and housing will always be tight in tech capital.[/quote]
No doubt about the amount of money in the Bay Area, and I totally get the fact that rents have skyrocketed along with prices and incomes, making the price/rent and price/income ratios better than they would appear to be at first glance. But I think that the stock market is the biggest bubble, and, IMHO, Bay Area housing prices are largely affected by the stock market and crazy IPOs.
Agree that holding onto houses there will probably be a good bet, even if there is a bubble, but still think that if the stock/credit bubble bursts, then the SF area will be affected as well.
Just surmising, of course.
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