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Recent content by Risen Tree

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    What exactly do you want Obama to do here?

    We've had one person who supports Obama actually suggest a concrete solution. Would any others of you like to actually give the OP a try? Or can this not be done?
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    Married Teacher Fired Over Premarital Sex

    Not saying I don't believe you, but are you sure about that? Every teacher I know had security question during or prior to their interview, asking them whether they had ever been fired from a teaching position. Maybe this varies from state to state.
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    What exactly do you want Obama to do here?

    Finally, after more than thirty posts of replies and repeated attempts to collect a legitimate answer, we get one. Thank you, sir. And I'd say this is a very good start, so long as BP has comprehensive strategies for cleaning up the spilled oil--remember, the OP concerns not stopping the...
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    Married Teacher Fired Over Premarital Sex

    No she can't. Most people do not realize that being fired as a teacher is a career death sentence. It is virtually impossible to get rehired by another teaching organization once this has happened. Which is yet another reason why some teachers, once they learn how much more they could be...
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    What exactly do you want Obama to do here?

    Just as I expected would happen, not one of these posts even comes close to answering the OP. Let me say this again as clearly as I know how. I could care less what doesn't work. We've seen more than a month of what doesn't work. I want to know what specific steps the President of the United...
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    What exactly do you want Obama to do here?

    Fair enough, but how should Obama go through with that? If this is sarcasm, then again, what exactly do you want him to do? If not, then just to clarify, you're satisfied with Obama's work here? Talk alone will fix the spill?
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    What exactly do you want Obama to do here?

    A recent Gallup poll gave Obama a 47% disapproval rating on his handling of the continuing oil spill. An ABC poll gave the federal government a 69% negative rating of the federal government's response--even lower than their Katrina response, but not as low as BP's response to the oil spill...
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    Sex offenders, the modern day witch hunt.

    What scares the living daylights out of me is what groups who defend true sexual predators are likely to start doing about cases such as these. You watch, they're going to cherry-pick the cases where kids were "playing doctor", 15-year-olds consenting to sex with 17-year-olds, or other similar...
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    Rush Limbaugh: I'll know I'll be destroyed eventually

    Rush has convinced some people that he is intelligent, in the same way that we believe that a Hollywood actor or actress is literally a genius when playing the role of a genius. You or I could come across as more intelligent than Limbaugh if we played the role of an actor as well as he does...
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    How do you prove "a" Christian is hateful?

    Ironically, these two places have the planet's highest standards of living and percentages of people who are happy.
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    Rush Limbaugh: I'll know I'll be destroyed eventually

    When you're as intelligent as Obama is, you have the right to be "smug." Limbaugh has no such right.
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    Is spanking moral/ethical?

    Whooooooaaaa. :eek: Win. For your information, this "rod" is referring to a shepherd's rod. A shepherd does not use his or her rod to whack the sheep; he or she uses the rod to gently guide the sheep. Unfortunately, since many Christians do not know that, and since they choose to...
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    Is spanking moral/ethical?

    One of the many aspects of child spanking that I continue to find ironic is that if a parent were *ever* caught giving them a gentle massage on their buttocks (even if clothed), they would very likely be convicted as a child predator; but if that same parent were to give that same child a...
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    Is spanking moral/ethical?

    To allude to a comment I made in my last post: Why is it specifically the buttocks that is struck? Why not the shoulder or the face, for example? The commonly given answer, that striking down there is because of the muscular padding, is a cop-out. The reason? Spankings, by their very nature...