Religion is not natural… I think that’s where the argument leads

I have read an article or two suggesting that homosexuality does exist not in the natural world, and is therefore not natural. While some animals engage in homosexual behaviour, so the argument goes,  animals are not homosexual, therefore homosexuality (as we understand it) is not natural, is solely a human phenomenon, and is rightly subject [...]

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The California Supreme Court guanantees a Prop 8 sequel

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Words from the United States’ declaration of independence, wonderful sentiments, a great creed for a nation to aspire to, a bar [...]

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If a right is denyable to some, is it revokable to others?

If the denial to gay and lesbian people of the right to marry is based upon a PERCEIVED threat to children – it must then stand to reason that those people who are ACTUALLY a threat to children, or who have who have been found GUILTY of ACTUAL child abuse, ought have their right to [...]

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Nuremburg is overturned when the ends justify the means

Obama says that he will not prosecute people who practised the actual hands-on torture (enhanced interogation techniques), arguing that those people were carrying out orders and committing acts that they were lead to believed were legal… They were ordered to do something they were told was legal at that time by their county’s powers that [...]

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Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, torture, misrepresentation, and Bill Clinton was impeached for WHAT?

In the US another report has been released dealing with an issue from the Bush administration. In this case, a report about the treatment of detainees in the so called war on terror, at places including Guantanamo Bay Cuba and  Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
I will not yet make comment on this report or the [...]

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Obama not looking back, like a hit-and-run driver

The Obama administration has just released memoranda from the Bush administation that detail techniques of enhanced interrogation imposed on prisoners of the war on terror, many of which are recognised as torture. On the surface (in my unqualified opinion) these memos could form the basis of either war crimes charges, or even simply charges within [...]

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What worth inalienable rights? What worth ANY rights? A note to Australians contemplating a bill of rights

In oral submissions in the case seeking to overturn Propoition 8 in California, Kenneth Starr, the chief lawyer defending Proposition 8, on Thursday said that the majority has the power to overturn any right it so chooses to, including that of free speech.
As reported by Reuters – Kenneth Starr… repeatedly told the court that a [...]

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The Westboro ‘Church’ in Australia? – US exporting terror.

Such people are free to believe what they believe. If what they believe is fufilling to them and enriches their lives, then I am happy for them, as should we all… BUT what one believes and how one behaves around that belief are two different things. Conemning and attacking others (domestically and internationally) because theydo not correspond to, behave in acordance with, or agree with your belief, is, in my mind, the kind of behaviour that the US and Australia (among other countries) are fighing a war in Afghaniastan against.

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Some people actualy do get it!!

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Financial self-regulation is like puting AA in charge of a bottle shop

The deregulation of financial and fiscal systems in the United States appears to have been the major catalyst of the world wide financial crisis. This crisis is viewed by many as the most serious crisis since the great depression in the 1930s. In the face of this, there are some who support a continuation ( [...]

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