I dunno either Spark. I just know that even the Republicans in my state cant stand the Republicans in DC. We have far more moderates here in Oregon than in the Bible Belt, say. So the rhetoric about God and Country doesn't impress them. You know what impresses them? Smaller government and lower taxes. You know. The stuff that doesn't come from the Bible, but from sound political science.
Not sure about the green party, but I do agree the Repubs are losing massive ground. When Moderate Republican Senators change parties to keep their incumbency, there's a serious problem highlighting the extremists in the party.
(I'm thinking Gordon Smith could have used a page from Specter's playbook. Eight years of Bush Cronyism wiped him from the political landscape of Oregon. The radicals voted for him, but all the fiscal Repubs voted Democrat this year.)
They should call the GOP the party that doesn't like itself anymore.
There's really no point in doing this for the umpteenth time, but if people must argue in a vacuum of dogma vs. evidence, I respectfully bow out of this one.
"I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending." (Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)
I'm a writer, people, and I think that way because I think of what horrible things people do to each other. And then I write about it.
And that scenario just happens to be a short story I'm working on right now. Just to make people think. Not everything can be for sale, or if it is, we lose our humanity.
Now if we're talking about possible test tube children as a commodity, this raises all kinds of ethical concerns regarding the profit motivations of the consumer in direct conflict with the aims of ideology as stated.
Quite a scary thought, but if these transactions were left to the individuals and kept confidential, what would keep a p*dophile from genetically engineering his daughter to be his perfect victim?
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Banned Schmanned. What is this, Ozymandius? Have fun while you can, because in the morning, a bus might flatten us.