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February 26th, 2013, 06:20 PM | #91 | ||
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And just to show the "War on Women" continues let me introduce you to Mike Pence, the new Governor of the state of Indiana. We all remember Bob McDonnell, the Governor or Virginia and often known as "Governor Ultrasound". McDonnell earned that nickname after he tried to force all women wanting an abortion to have an internal ultrasound. He only backed down when council pointed out to him this could be construed as rape! Well, along comes new Indiana Governor Mike Pence. He wants to force women to not only have the first invasive forced ultrasound but he also want to force them to come back two weeks later to have a second! http://rhrealitycheck.org/video/2013...rom-mcdonnell/ I mean really! What is the matter with these people? They say they want smaller government and more individual freedom but their actions increase government and decrease individual freedom. |
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But this guy (Mike Pence) had been won the vote anyhow.
Scary, indeed! Here woman groups would go on the barricades (with justification), and they would have a big support. Help me to understand: The US really don't have a lack of different parties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._United_States Why don't the citizens of the US vote more differently ? Of course I know the mainly reason, it's about the funding. I know too, the turnout is very low in the US (frustration?). In the most European countries it's more "colorfully", not only "Black and White". In the very most European countries we do have coalitions for example. Of course the most European countries are having no separate president votes; the biggest party (by the vote) designates the prime minister (England, Spain, Italy), chancellor (Germany) or president (France) ect. Of course for the presidency it would make no sense in the US. But it would make sense for the congress, IMHO.
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I don't know all of the reasons for this but most info that winds up in a text book is largely determined by Texas because they buy more text books than any other state. So, as a true example, if a Texas legislator wants creationism in a book then creationism gets in the book. No matter what any other state says or complains about the subject. The other state can look around for another text book but, if one isn't available, then its up to that states teachers to put something together without a text book. So you should see that American education is really at a stupid place. And its been that way for a while. So, because many Americans have never been taught the art of critical thinking they wind up going with whoever is loudest and seems to know what they're talking about (even if they don't have a clue whats really going on, i.e. Limpbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Palin, etc.). So technically you're correct about the funding being a major reason. But thats really only because most people can't go any deeper about our real problems. |
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February 27th, 2013, 01:26 AM | #94 | |
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It's the duty of the press, to inform those people. It's the duty of fora like this too, to inform people - so that they can make their own opinion. I'm with you in case of the US education, the US are having a small elite and the rest of the country doesn't count. And for many years, I remember the report of friends, visiting the US years ago. For example a kind of the tea party wouldn't be possible here in such an amount of followers. Not absolutely impossible of course, but in very margin numbers. The school system here is - at all critics - very much broader, we do have very less private schools/universities and they are also in control by public authorities. With my post I want to give an example: "Hey, the goals of the XXX-party might be also kind of interesting". For an example here of the 80s: a former Ministerpresident of a country (you would say Governor) wanted to solve "the problems with the Green party with roof battens". At the next vote the voters had disposed him (maximum losses for the party from an absolute majority to about ~35%) and the Green party was in parliament. Only as an example of a "no go", but this is an American thread. I've simply been astonished, that there are a number of parties in the US, playing no political role at all. I did not know a few month ago, that any other parties are existing ... but I'm non American either. (Some of them sound quite funny .. , some quite scary!)
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A couple years ago there were some conservative groups who were angling to write and publish their own history books for public schools in Texas. Something to do with the liberal bias of modern history books. (Damn those socialist college professors.) Not sure what ever happened with it. This was back around 2008-2009...when a certain black guy got real famous and the conservatives were predicting their usual bout of end of the world hi jinx.
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