I agree completely about MP3 players, but your anger is directed at the wrong side politically. The stem cell debate is not about legality, it is about public funding. And no one is trying to tell you what religion to have. It is the left who wants to tell us what size toilets we can have, what kind of light bulbs we can use, and what kind of safety devices need to be on our cars.

>Why does this ridiculous soundbite keep getting regurgitated *every single time* this topic comes up?

>If corporations don't pay tax as so many Internet corporate lick-spittles shriek, then they wouldn't need ridiculously twisted foreign tax accounts and be prancing around like sooks when someone comes along and tells them to meet their obligations in their home countries would they? They would just happily pass this tax burden it along.

>That's right logic doesn't come into a discussion where fanatical ideologists are hopping up and down does it?

Good, you first abuse your opponents' motives before claiming they are illogical. That's standard /. practice.

The reason the corporate tax matters, even though it gets passed on to the consumer, is that consumers are less willing to pay for things when prices are higher. The corporation can set a lower price point without the tax and sell more product, possibly making more profit along the way (depending on the exact elasticity of demand, tax amount, price change, etc.). I don't approve tax shelters in general, but you can't argue that raising taxes don't matter.

>That's right logic doesn't come into a discussion where fanatical ideologists are hopping up and down does it?

Oh, I guess you can.

You can use the AltSearch extension to get that functionality.

No, the salaries are decent (especially considering you get several months off every year). I've known quite a few people who were interested in teaching but decided against it because of the requirements for certification. Someone with a Ph.D. is qualified to teach college students, but not high school students. Even though certification is basically the equivalent of a master's, you have to have the specific courses required for certification, which typically means a year or two beyond a master's degree.
And what are those courses that give one a unique insight into teaching students under 18? I know someone who had to take a course on "Mental Hygiene in the Classroom," and another on world music. He wanted to teach German, but his undergraduate coursework had not included something to give him sufficient credentials in internationalism -- even though he had lived in several foreign countries while growing up.
Why is this? The NEA, which pushes for these barriers to entry -- ostensibly in the name of good teaching, but in reality to create an artificial shortage of teachers.

Yeah, people are screaming, but no one is blaming the Democrats. I saw one post that attacked Obama, and it was marked as flamebait. All of the other posts were about how awful this idea is...without mentioning anyone by name, or even any particular parties (such as the one currently in control of White House and Congress).

Didn't Obama win his first election by having his opponents thrown off the ballot after a team of his went over their voter signatures and found enough problems to get them disqualified?