Nightingale

Sigh. The kid is three. Pick her up, put her in the seat, put the seat belt on her, and shove a tootsie pop in her mouth to shut her up so she doesn't continue to bother the other passengers.

I don't use it as a source, but I'll often use the sources in the articles. At the bottom of most of the articles, there's links to the sites where they got their info, journals, etc... Those can be really useful.

Don't say anything until after you've gotten your grade. At the moment (from reading your first post... don't have time to read the rest of the thread), it seems that you disagree politically, but don't have any reason to call into question his ability to grade objectively. If your grade is not to your satisfaction, go see him with your lab partner, and ask to examine your tests. Compare yours with your partner's and then decide whether you think the grade was fair, and take appropriate action at that time.

I guess you could say that I'm both, but neither. I hope for the best, but try to plan for the worst. I give people the benefit of the doubt, once. I trust people, but I verify what I can. I see the world for what it is, but try to change it for the better. You can't improve your life, anyone else's life, or the world in general unless you're willing to open your eyes to learn what needs to change.

Perhaps her family was more important to her than the fact that her husband got a blow job from some intern... I'm guessing there's got to be something good in that marriage for her, because Bill has fooled around on Hillary pretty much their entire marriage. If that's something she's decided she can live with, that's her business. If she wanted to leave him because of that, she'd have done it long ago. Her private life (and Bill's) is her business, and as long as it doesn't interfere with her (or his) job, I don't give a damn who either one of them is sleeping with. If Hillary was male (and not married to Bill, of course), I think the neo-cons wouldn't have nearly as many issues with her. The problem isn't Hillary herself, but what she represents. I think a lot of people hate Hillary because she's a woman who has not only managed to succeed on her own merits and without a hand up from a man... she's managed to succeed in spite of him. That said, I don't agree with her politics, so I probably wouldn't vote for her unless the libertarians put up a total moron as a candidate.

I don't know about where you're from, but in the US, most citizens can probably apply for a passport at the local post office. They usually even offer the expedited service. The large post offices almost always accept passport applications. The smaller ones, not as often. I know a couple of other countries have something similar, but I'm not sure which.

Norton has had a lot of issues recently. There's no way I'd install it on one of my PCs. AVG will do the job more efficiently and probably more accurately than Norton, and it's free.

download AVG Free anti-virus from here: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 Then, run the virus scan. If that doesn't fix the problem, google "spybot search and destroy" and download and run that. If none of that works, you've probably got microsoft issues, and you can fix that problem here.

I think it's more selfish than that... I think the arguments are largely to protect themselves. Protecting society is just a nice bonus.

I don't think that atheists take the bible literally. I think that, since fundamentalists are far more dangerous than other christians, the atheists spend their time arguing against those views instead of the more flexible interpretations of the bible.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/01/04/ashley.treatment.ap/index.html

Decent chance? I don't know about you but I follow the rules, use common sense, pack carefully, and know the limitations of myself and who I'm jumping with. With these precautions in place, I trust that there is a very small chance of anything going wrong and that my jump will be safe (otherwise, I wouldn’t do it). Why? Because I've done the groundwork and training to make it as safe as possible. No. It's not 100% safe. Nothing is. But, if one is careful and responsible, it is really a safe sport. I believe I'll be safe. By the way, I've had to cut away 3 times during my time in the sport. I still feel safe jumping. . I said a decent chance "something" might go wrong. Not a mal you need to chop, but something... could be line twists, a loss of altitude awareness, a freefall collision, a canopy collision, tension knot, altimeter problems, etc...

I must have not phrased the question well because I was not asking in terms of drawing a line in a temporal sense. My question for was more based on what activities are considered the mothers choice. For example Champu said that while he accepts a womans right to choose to abort, he does not accept her right to affect the fetus with hormones to dictate the childs orientation. His argument was that opposing that activity did not qualify as being anti-choice. So my question was "Are there actions (designer baby, heavy drug abuse...etc) that a woman should not be allowed to take when pregnant even though she has the right to abort?". A good case example might be the woman I mentioned earlier who was placed into a drug treatment center. What would be your take on that? I'd draw the same line. When a child is viable, then society has the right to interfere. Prior to that, if we're going to allow the mother to kill it, doing anything else to it seems less extreme. Parents make choices about medical care for their kids all the time, and they don't always make the decisions we would. Ashley comes to mind.

... Wow... I hope you don't mean that, beyond a reasonable doubt, you'll be safe jumping out of a plane. Especially since most of us know someone who has died parachuting... people who had many more jumps than you and me. This sport is not safe. Really? Skydiving isn't safe???? Why? Do you think I should believe "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that I'll have fun and land safely? It's impossible to know that beforehand. Am I understanding you correctly? No. My point was that you shouldn't believe you'll be safe. So, I hope you don't believe beyond a reasonable doubt (or shadow either) that you'll be safe, because there's a decent chance something might go wrong. When people start thinking they're safe, they sometimes stop doing the things that make them safer.

But as I understand it, the term "pro-choice" does not neccessarily mean you support it or even like it. It just means that you recognize that it is ultimately her body and her decision. Where is the line drawn between something that is her decision with her own body and societies decision to make for her? That's exactly what pro-choice means. Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion. Pro-choice means that, while I may or may not agree with the decision someone else makes, I recognize their right to decide. I've said here before that I'd never choose abortion unless my life was in danger (and in that case, I'd consider it self-defense), but that doesn't mean that I'm going to push my choice on someone else. So, I may be pro-choice, but I'm definitely not pro-abortion. As for your second question, where does the mother's right to choose end and society's right to protect life begin... Personally, I believe that should be when a fetus is able to survive on it's own outside the mother without drastic medical intervention (might as well just deliver it at that point), or when the baby has been born, whichever comes first.

Isn't there something in Psalm 98 about making a joyful noise?

One is a legal standard of proof. The other is a metaphorical expression of certainty. ... Believing something "beyond a reasonable doubt" means that I've weighed the evidence, and my mind has no reason to veto the will to believe it. This is assurance of mind based on probability. Kind of like jumping out of an airplane and believing that I'll have fun and I'll land safely. ... Wow... I hope you don't mean that, beyond a reasonable doubt, you'll be safe jumping out of a plane. Especially since most of us know someone who has died parachuting... people who had many more jumps than you and me. This sport is not safe.

I don't see a difference.

No, my supervisor doesn't care, as long as I get my work done. However, I love my job, so I usually go looking to see if someone else needs help when I've finished my assignments.

One is a legal standard of proof. The other is a metaphorical expression of certainty.

Well, at the moment, I think the choice will be up to the FDA, but after that, yes, the choice should be left to the woman and her doctor, and hopefully, her partner.

This is why you should always ask your doctor what he/she is prescribing, and make sure that's what the pharmacy gives you. My doctor's office has solved the problem nicely. The doctor types the prescription into the computer where it is then emailed to the pharmacy next door (or anywhere).

Messing unnecessarily with hormones during pregnancy just seems like a stupid idea. I wouldn't use that patch, but I understand why some people would, I guess, but part of having a kid is accepting them for who they are. Personally, I don't care if my future kids are gay or straight as long as they are healthy and happy.

If those corporations have government contracts, comments by government officials can have a lot of influence. Government contracts are pretty lucrative, and businesses don't want to risk them. If the government (or someone with the right to speak for them) makes comments that these law firms should be boycotted, maybe those corporations will listen. Regardless, government officials should not be making comments about which criminal defendants it's appropriate to represent. It's appropriate to represent any defendant who needs representation. The whole "You have a right to an attorney, if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for you." is pretty important.

Deprive kids of seeing mom because mom had an affair is punishing the kids as much as the offending parent. Children are not something to be bartered with and should not be used as punishment for a parent's conduct with consenting adults. Custody is about the relationship of parent to child, not parent to parent.