#4. Isn't that what was meant when they said something like "it takes a community to raise a child"?
It seems like rarely a week goes by but where there is something in the news about community interference in treatment of kids.

Not supposed to beat them, abandon them, kill them.

Supposed to feed them, shelter them, vaccinate them, educate them.

Seems to me as if some part of society wants to have a large influence on the raising of kids.

#13
Are you talking about the right war? If the US had stayed out of the European war in 1917 and the peace settelment following, then the war of 1939 might not have even happened

Just imagining being on a jury deliberating/debating 305 separate counts.

#4 apparently not

Good question. In part due ro a few particular posts and my reaction to them, also a long standing bias or sensitivity to presentations which I see as as only presenting one side of an argument or neglecting contradicting evidence or opinion. This seems to me quite prevalent in almost any source I read .

#44. Was mostly commenting on the one-sidednes of the thread posts prior to mine. Nothing to deep, it just caught my attention.

Does no-one recall the pictures of Bush the W posted various places with the face of a chimp? Just looked at some images on the web, they were not uncommonly from The Guardian,that nasty conservative rag from England.
As for recency about 60 years ago I was in a country where many people were quick to be offended by any perceived comparison to monkeys.

Another question ... is this a one time thing or the first annual...?
There will be people with outstanding loans next year? What about them?

#1. There needs some sort of filter on who can run, who gets funded. In California 2003 election when we threw out Gray Davis there were 135 candidates for governor. That's one concern I'd have for totally public funding. I don't have any good ideas about how to make it work better, what we have has plenty of flaws.

#15. Thanks for that link, funniest thing I've read today. I could get upset about some people believing that stuff but I've pretty much given up on people.

A comparison among countries

#10. Isn't that what Venezuela did?something like that.