TAXES - & Utopias

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
wrote:
>
> Please avoid top posting. It is confusing. My head hurts.
Posting
> on top should be researved for commenting on the *whole thing,*
like
> this.
>
> --- In spacesettlers, "terrierkeeper" wrote:
>
> > Overall, not very impressed.
>
> With what? The whole thing? See, it's hard to tell what you are
> talking about when you top post.
>
> > --- In spacesettlers, "Xenophile" wrote:
>
> < whole freaking lot of stuff, as I tend to run off at the
fingers
> sometimes.>>
>
> > Our current courts seem to think otherwise with their 'evolving'
> > standards, de facto legislating from the bench what the American
> > people appose.
>
> So what are you gonna do? Say that courts have no power? That
they
> have power only so long as *somebody* thinks they haven't gone too
> far? Who's going to decide that? Me? You? We to put better
people
> into the job, and not just those who will "respect the law"
(meaning
> of course to only "legislate from the bench" when it's convenient
to
> libs or cons).
>

She filed this with the court as Head of the ACLU Chapter in which
she lived. And it ws in regards to the Age of Consent. Read it from a
Newsmax article (One of those 'Right Wing Extremist' Net Pages).

> > Actually, some Liberals like Ruth Bader Ginzburg want to lower it
> > to Twelve. (Sick)
>
I firmly Believe in the G, PG, PG-13, R and X. And I would certanly
not allow a minor to rent anything they would not be allowed to see
in a theater. Life must be taken one step at a time.

> See, it looks like you're talking about the legal age to rent
movies,
> but it seems that you are alctually talking about age of consent.
Do
> you have anything to back this up about RBG? I have to admit,
twelve
> seems a bit young to me.
>
> >> Good. Teenagers get the shaft. Ever notice that the age of
> >> consent is never older than the voting age?
>
> This is where a comment on this belongs.
>
> > Cruelty to animals is cruelty to animals.
>
> >>> Someone who's fired when her employer finds out she has sex with
> >>> her dog could sue because of discrimination against her
sexuality.
>
> >> I would certainly fire somebody for having sex with my dog. Oh.
> >> For having sex with HER OWN DOG! None of the employer's
business.
>
> None of her emplyer's business. Cruelty to animals? I suppose so,
> and I can see the police geting involved, but the employer needs to
> mind her own beeswax.
>
> > Anything that encourages bad behavior hurts people. Whether
> > directly or by encouraging said Misbehavior.
>
> Good bye, rock music. Good bye, any movie or TV show with a
likable
> villain. Good bye, Bible (especially if combined with the Beatles).
>
> > As I said WHen society has to pay for the consequences of behavior
> > it has the right to step in.
>
> Hello, fines for eating fattening food. Right now the gubmint
> says "you really shouldn't do that," but under your rules, they
could
> fine or arrest you for it.
>
> > I think Canada is another. Its supreme court I am told made
certain
> > rulings.
>
> >> The tenth is Sweden? Or perhaps Japan? Does Japan count as
> >> a "western democracy?"
>
> I thought Canada was even more tight-assed about this stuff than
> we 'Merkins were.
>
> >>> because what I said above (and worse) would happen if the core
> >>> rules were actually followed.
>
> >> So what? If creepy people want to look at creepy stuff (except
> >> hentai otaku, who are wonderful people), then so what?
>
> > Overall I can say much of this leaves me shocked and disgusted.
>
> Well, it is expected that some will be shocked and disgusted by
what