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Although many human rights groups consider incendiary bombs to be inhumane, international law does not prohibit their use against military forces. Direct quote from your article linked from globalsecurity.org.

Choose The Blue - Not many options for you if you boycott all companies that donated to the Republican Party. If you can justify spending money with a company who spent 53% with the DNC and 47% with the GOP as "Choosing the Blue" then cool deal. Now, granted I didn't look at every single page and every single list, but just the grocery list (to include suppliers and retailers), automobile list, banking list, and insurance list seemed too red to be limiting oneself to only true blue companies, unless self-deprivation is your thing.

Good ole Alabama. You can always count on them to push the stupidity envelope. Banning books. Are we THERE already?

Visit Louisiana! It's like being in another country! No. Really. It is.

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Thank you Michael Stipe for writing a song that no one can sing along to until you get to "Leonard Berstein!" and we love it - and you - anyway. "Rapture Ready" sounds like a porno.

Nobody with half a brain actually believes that teenagers aren't having sex. Or at the VERY least that teenage boys will ever stop pressuring girls to have sex. Have the people trying to enforce this crap forgotten what it's LIKE to be a teenager? It's laughable. Last spring at the March for Women's Lives there were two fifteen year olds in our group. Talking candidly with them was extremely enlightening. They said that girls as young as eleven were giving head and didn't think it was sex. I have a friend who was teaching 7th grade in Georgia. She caught a girl giving this boy head by the water fountain. These are not isolated or unusual events. Avoiding the subject does NOT work. Nobody is explaining the details - physical and emotional - about sex to children. REAL sex-ed is needed in our schools because obviously parents aren't teaching it at home. Some parents do - I know and admire them because they are awesome parents - but most don't.

I've reached the point where nothing BushCo does surprises me anymore. Not that it isn't maddening or disappointing. Just not surprising. I've come to expect the absolute worst from BushCo - be it military recruiters invading the privacy of students (because it's the law!) or firebombing the shit out of Iraq with napalm. These people have no conscience.

Thanks for the "Choose the Blue" link!

DUDE! I am in the process of putting together my post and EPIC is in it. Apparently, it's an extremely popular link right now.

As pissed as I'd be if my child was being taught abstinence in an unsafe manner I'd be just as pissed if my child was being taught safe sex in this manner. (Click safe sex .. the comments section doesn't underline links, it just makes them a barely noticeable different color.)

Guidelines developed by SEICUS, for example, include teaching children aged five through eight about masturbation and teaching youths aged 9 through 12 about alternative sexual activities such as mutual masturbation, "outercourse," and oral sex.16 In addition, the SEICUS guidelines suggest informing youths aged 16 through 18 that sexual activity can include bathing or showering together as well as oral, vaginal, or anal intercourse, and that they can use erotic photographs, movies, or literature to enhance their sexual fantasies when alone or with a partner.

Things That Make You Go.. Hmmmm?

The mouthpieces of the conservative movement and the Republican Party, known to all Democrats and liberals as Fox and Viacom donated over 3/4's of their political contributions to the Democrats.

Just for sake of argument, at what age should teens be taught or informed about sexuality? Some states allow for marriage at 16... thus making it a viable age for discussion on the intimacy aspect of sex. Remaining ignorant until you're shoved off into a college dorm, frat house or real life seems like a missed opportunity and a recipe for disaster, not just from a risk perspective but from a relationship POV.

Regarding the Mark-77 use, approval != ethical.

Ethical != Opinion of Human Rights Groups

Define ethical? Was the rape and murder of thousands of Iraqi's ethical? Is the suicide bombings of children waiting for candy at a sewage plant reopening ethical? Ethical is relative. The use of an incendiary device to clear a bridge of enemy soldiers is no more or less ethical than say ... an A-10 firing 1000 bullets per minute to clear the bridge of enemy soldiers. I'm also guessing the United States is not the only country that possesses these incendiary devices.

Next subject: At what age should a teen be taught about sexuality? Good question. I don't know. My daughter is 17 and she's been taught about sex but then she's been taught by her parents. A parent's abdication of responsibility does not justify putting that responsibility on the public school system. I have chosen to exercise my responsibility as a parent and because my neighbor has not should not give one license to teach my daughter in school along with my neighbor's daughter because her father abdicated his responsibility.

And under what circumstances could SEICUS justify teaching 5 to 8 year old children about sex? Under what circumstances should 9 to 12 year old children be taught about sex? The recommendations put forth are completely insane. I don't imagine there are too many responsible parents that are going to tell their 5 year old children about masturbation or their 9 year old children about oral sex.

And last but not least, what gives you (not you specifically, but the general you) the right to decide what education my child should receive about something as personal as sex. Do you (again not you specifically) also have the right to teach my children that abortion is always an out? Do you really have the right to teach my child that a condom is a fail-safe safety device?Do I have the right to teach your children that pre-marital sex is immoral? Do I have the right to teach your children that masturbation causes blindness? You want to teach my children on an amoral basis but don't want me to teach your children on a moral basis. (Do not read any of the you or yours as the personal pronoun, I just didn't want to say "society" or "liberals" or etc.. to make my point.).