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Personally, I am excited to see this. Ron Paul is a needed voice in the house, and it would please me to no end to see Rand follow in the senate.

I'm sure someone has probably already said this somewhere in this thread, but it is a natural process for the birth rate to start to decline significantly between one and two generations after life expectancy reaches roughly western levels. We saw this happen in America and Europe in the 1900s...

Anybody else here actually read it? Anyone psyched for the movie?

Loved Crichton. Read all his books. Read Jurassic Park SIX times.

I agree. I've seen it happen. All it teaches is how to get around the system, not how to learn and work hard.

The reason mormons scare me is that they all vote as a block. As a result, mormons tend to be overrepresented in areas with large numbers of mormons, and they offset the balance or power. I know that's a rather poor description, but that's how it is in my home town, and how it has been...

This is so true. My mom who homeschooled me for the first through eighth grades has a PHD in medicine, and could have taught the material better than 75% of my high school teachers, but she can't legally teach because she doesn't have a degree. A degree that means nothing. Seriously, all they...

The conflict of interest lies in the fact that Mormons want to take over the world and spread around Mormonism.

That's where we differ. I don't see Christianity as denying women's rights. To be fair, I don't think Mormonism does either, but I disagree with some of their beliefs concerning women.

Catholics also didn't fly a plane into the world trade center. Look, I know that that particular comparison is ridiculous, but the Catholic situation is completely different than the muslim one.

Yes. I believe they are. I see "mormon values" and "muslim values" as overly conservative. Especially in regards to women.

But at the same time, all of Western Europe, even if not all of it is predominately Christian, was and is based on Christian values.

America also has a huge population of catholics. Then and now. And lets face it, Catholicism is not that different from all other forms of Christianity. Essentially, they believe in the same things.

Well for one, America and our allies are predominantly Christian. And I don't want to make it sound like I think all muslims are terrorists, but there seems to be a general dislike of America among muslim countries. And then there's the Israel/Palestine issue. I can never see a muslim being...

I'm at Harvard. And I was homeschooled. So there. But the point is, you can't make such broad assumptions about homeschooling. Some are going to turn out better than others. I personally think its a great option., if the parent think s its best for the child. You don't get...