It's interesting. You can do this here, but as the article points out, it will get you killed in other areas with other religions.

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Look, I just drew a picture of Mohamed fucking the spaghetti monster. But wait, before you yell "blasphemy". I said spaghetti monster not Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's his mentally challenged cousin I'm talking about.

The main thing preventing Christians in the U.S. from regularly saying, and acting upon, "We will kill gays", is the protection offered by a secular government.

Bullshit. Complete and utter Bullshit. There are very few non christian members of this secular government and even fewer openly atheist members. This is true nationally and locally. If that was really the only thing stopping it, a simply majority would overrule any opposition. There is more to it than that.

Likely to some degree but we know that anything repeated in the New Testament is to be followed. The biggest reasons why the old testament is picked through is because most of it has an inner message that they can see illustrating a point of moral contemplation.

For instance, you hardly ever see people picking the sacrificing of a dove from Leviticus (1:14) but you will see them picking Jeremiah 29:11 for instance in attempting to place hope into otherwise desperate situations. It goes the other way too with trying to control behavior they deem unworthy or improper but that should fall under the political advantages of it you already mentioned.

Condoms use in Africa is down because birth control is seen as a form of Eugenics which has been in use in Africa well after it fell out of favor in western culture (after WWII).

The pope or anyone saying don't use condoms, abstinence is better will do nothing to change that. It's about people trying to get them not to reproduce that has them afraid of condoms. Eugenics is something that has happened in Africa within the last few decades.

http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

You can look around and see a lot of stories about how there are conspiracies about the US and UN trying to do population control on African countries. Even Martin Luther King JR.'s family is crying the conspiracy over it in the US. Alveda Kind even made the Planned parenthood connection to Eugenics a racial thing when she pointed out there are no PPH Abortion Clinics in any neighborhoods without a significant minority population.

There simply is a lot more than a religion behind it.

I don't know why you think Constantine is the founder of Christianity. Granted, he is the one who made it legal and stopped throwing Christians to the lions, but the concept was around long before him. Almost 3 centuries before Constantine I.

Most of the time it will allow them to finally grow up. A lot of prison terms are for crimes that essentially are decisions people would never make later in life.

That's a false equivalent. First, a Nazi war criminal did not violate domestic law. Why would you compare them to domestic criminals. Next, there will be outliers in everything. Surely you don't think every slave driver who ends up killing someone deserves to escape charges and end up with a government job for the rest of their life.

Finally, if there is an overriding government need for some talent the convicted possess, are you fine with giving them a free ride and where does it end. I mean is the sex slave trader who can count to ten entitled to the same treatment as VonBrown?

Why would that make sure they stay a criminal? There are menial unskilled jobs they can do upon release.

That being said, education in prison is likely a good thing to lower the risks of recidivism. The only problem I have with it is the ability to study in careers that they cannot legally or as a matter of practicality, participate in. Certain professional licenses bar felony applicants and industries like banking is not likely to hire a convicted thief. So tailor the opportunities to practical career paths and it should be somewhat productive.

I don't think he is confusing anything. If you use company resources, that company can claim it was a work for hire and claim copyright ownership just like they do for the work they pay you to do whether they commissioned it or not.

Sure, you can fight it in court, possibly win, but while costing you crap tons of money while being unemployed at the same time. Oh you think you would still be employed after being fired for misusing or theft of company resources and actively in a court battle over who owns the rights to the product of that misuse or theft? I doubt it but hey, maybe you don't need to work which begs the question of why not just quit and make the apps and not worry about it altogether.

For all practical purposes, anything you create at work, or relating to your work, will in all likelihood be claimed by your employer and there isn't much of anything that can be done about it.

And that is why the state seems to be going after the people with the trucks and not you who hired them.

And yes, it does magically change things. You share a liability vicariously when you hire someone to do work and do not properly supervise them. It's more or less the same as hiring a handyman to fix a leaky roof. If he falls and knocks a ladder down that crashes through a neighbor's fence and window, you can be held accountable for not only the damage to the neighbor's property but injury to the handyman. That is unless a law isolates you from liability which is why most places require licensing and bonding. Of course bonding is another term for insurance.

I don't know if a CDL is a qualifier or not but almost all non commercial insurance policies have a disclaimer stating they will not cover any commercial use of the vehicle. Pizza delivery drivers run into this all the time. They either need a special rider policy for their car or pretend the 20 pizzas in the back are there because he forgot to put them in the fridge.

Texas isn't the only state that has laws like this one either. The roots of it is in federal law. Generally anything with a gross vehicle weight rating above 10k lbs is considered a commercial vehicle under federal rules and any hauling any household goods for hire seems to be covered too. But federal jurisdiction is limited to interstate commerce. Intrastate commerce is left to the states.

Those facts don't disagree with anything I have said. Again, the problem you are facing is that not enough people care about whatever it is that you care about or have different opinions on the outcome / position.

It's even more likely that even people who do care - care about something else even more and don't mind whatever if it in any way pushes what they do care about. Look at the TEA parties for instance. They are breaking up the establishment strong holds and are vilified by both sides and most of the citizens who want to end what you are crying about. It shows that most people just don't care as much or about the same things you do. It shows your in the minority and making excuses for why you lost.

No, it's well documented excuses for why less popular people lost elections or attempts to oust senators.

I have yet to see any fact on the subject that isn't basically an opinion going on a pity party.

If it's a democrat, it likely wouldn't matter unless his last name is Weiner and the press won't let it go. It's the republicans who will demand someone fall on their sword for misdeeds. The dems seem to think it makes them "regular people" or something and don't bother so much.

Not really.

If the people were really upset, they would remove the senator. The problem is most people either don't pay enough attention to care or don't hold the same opinions as you do.