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Yes sorry I was having a nilhistic moment and lied through my teeth to throw you off. It should be up to the mother and father. The state should respect the choice. But people do define their views based off their prejudices.

Well when everything has been said we can just end confused then lunch. It was not intended as an attack on you Scruffy.

Ethical debates are naturally logically inconsistent and hypocritical. We're all trying to make up excuses for what we believe and trying to stick to one side. If the church did not exist I may well be against abortion as I am naturally against the church defining views and getting support. An...

I think we're seeing intellectual elitism as something of an apartheid. There is always a large group of students in selective schools who are intelligent but who cruise along without working very hard. It is only when they are forced to compare themselves to intelligent people who also work...

While being one of them and having known lots of them the problem is steadily getting worse as the test does not change and the colleges get better at what they do. This is especially the case in top selective schools like the aforementioned. Of course whether or not this is actually a bad...

Try to join young Democratic Labor the youngest person there may be 50 but it'll match your beliefs perfectly(You crazy bastard...jkjk). Edit: Darn missed Funk's post.

The whole selective system right now is a bit of a dud since it's almost impossible to get in without a year of coaching college and that is basically the only requirement. However turning leading selective schools into partially selective would make the whole thing a complete farce. It's the...

Sounds like he'd fund it by removing state powers... I would gut the department of defence(Would likely take longer than 11 years...) and start mass producing ecstasy and marajuana to flood the states and possibly other countries.The key part of this plan is that the ADF/CIA assassin and the...

Re: 2013 Australian Federal election After reading that you have to wonder why Labor even bothers contesting elections.

Re: 2013 Australian Federal election Why doesn't the party tip him back in? It still seems very unlikely Rudd will get back into the leadership before the election so all the backbenchers that will lose their seats must surely believe Rudd will not be their savior either. Promises made so...

Re: 2013 Australian Federal election Though both party's frontbenchers are full of lawyers the kings of siphoning money out of people in need ;).

Re: 2013 Australian Federal election I will miss Chris Evans in senate question time as he always reminded me of an elderly Chakotay(star trek voyager).

It's politics and politics can choose whoever it wants as especially in this case it makes little difference either way. But I guess it's nice we won't be paying another white man.

Re: 2013 Australian Federal election 1)Sportsbet says Coalition 1.28 ALP 3.5 So very likely the Coalition 2) Always perception of the government on a broad scale. 3) A combination of Bob Hawke and Robert Menzies. So maybe the love child of Rudd and Turnbull with some Abbot DNA added so it...

I don't think a slippery slope could be argued from this. While there may be some hypocrisy in having one but not the other the Lawyer-Client confidentiality is there to maintain consistency within the legal process and I don't think abolishing the seal could be used as an excuse to overturn all...

Colorado and Washington to legalise marajuana? http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/ballot

When I posted that I think the odds were Obama 1.02 Romney 12.00 Cali makes the numbers very much on the democrat side when west coast is included. While impartial they still want you to keep watching ;). The xxx-xxx numbers are pointless to watch, just got to watch the few key swing states...

Obama's won, just a fight for Virginia and Florida now.

Poor and seemingly silly policy outcomes is a downside to democracy. However its primary purpose is to make sure the public service is not an unobserved and reckless force unto itself and leadership within the public service is always focused on riskless purely operational outcomes. Of course...

The Odds have Democrats 1.22 Republicans 4.00 Been basically like that since Sandy so it's pretty much over unless something big happens.