How to win an argument with Liberals-Progressives-Socialists-etc...
POSTED BY: Wulfenstar
UPDATED: Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:23
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Maybe. There's a balance here too, though. A person should neither stand nor sit for too long, but rather alternate between and also get exercise.
To optimize times, we also have to consider how long the average student can focus on a single subject. You can't just add more hours onto a school day and hope the kids will learn more.
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Boy, you got THAT right! That and religion, famously, get people's goat.
Politics tend to bring out the worst in people.
RWED gets far more threads than any other forum here I believe; largely I think because Firefly is so far in the past (tho' thank you, Science Channel, for running the entire series again; should bring us some new voices!).
Yes, I got you were right, didn't see the "center" quite so much. But that's fine; if you can contribute intelligent and (hopefully) civil discourse to this forum, damn, that would be GREAT!
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Made me smile, Magons, given that the things you listed are virtually EXACTLY what Republicans want to cut from the budget lately. Everything from "courts" on is pretty much state or county, but the government is cutting so much from the national budget that states/counties/cities are having to cut THEM, too.
roads and maintanance, hospitals and medical treatment, welfare payments, mental health services, schools, subsidising tertiary education, courts, police, child protection services, rubbish removal
We gotta laugh, or we'd cry... We'll cry anyway, down the line, as these things get less and less funding.
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I don't think forcing kids to stand is a viable idea. At least in public school, kids have sports activities, group sports in which home-schooled children don't necessarily participate. I'm not familiar with home schooling to the extent where I know what kind of exercise is, or may, be included in such, but I kind of doubt much emphasis is put on that. So what the alternative might be, I don't know. There's also the fact that kids in public schools have to get up every, what, hour? or so to go from class to class, and in elementary school, get up to write on the blackboard (if it's still done the way it was when I was a kid). All those are little things, but DO manage to change positions between sitting, standing and walking, as Byte has said is useful.
And, given the cuts in education these days, the idea of any sort of ergonmic desks/seating arrangement is pretty unworkable; soon just providing enough books and teachers for children is going to become increasingly hard, it seems to me.
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Niki2, you wrote:
" don't think forcing kids to stand is a viable idea. At least in public school, kids have sports activities, group sports in which home-schooled children don't necessarily participate. I'm not familiar with home schooling to the extent where I know what kind of exercise is, or may, be included in such, but I kind of doubt much emphasis is put on that. So what the alternative might be, I don't know. There's also the fact that kids in public schools have to get up every, what, hour? or so to go from class to class, and in elementary school, get up to write on the blackboard (if it's still done the way it was when I was a kid). All those are little things, but DO manage to change positions between sitting, standing and walking, as Byte has said is useful.
And, given the cuts in education these days, the idea of any sort of ergonmic desks/seating arrangement is pretty unworkable; soon just providing enough books and teachers for children is going to become increasingly hard, it seems to me."
It seems to me that if schools were run by the local townships, they would be able to drum up the money for it. Even if the schools were run by a company, then the families could demand that this was instituted.
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Just an opinion here, an offered suggestion. No offense intended.Quote:
Terrans, this place is filled with snarks and nasty name calling---it’s actually not as bad as it HAS been at times. May I respectfully suggest you not add yet another voice to that cacophony, which needs no help when it comes to name calling and hate spewing? Generally most of it comes from the right, and you’d be amazed at just HOW nasty it can get, so while it’s understandable to react in kind, and I’m certainly one of those most guilty of same from time to time, I’m just respectfully suggesting you not ally yourself with the worst elements of this forum.
Wulfenstar, sounds German like the National Socialist Party. A Hitler fan?
Or are you part of the Grand Oil Party. Hope you make good $$$ or those insurance company death panels will be waiting for you at 65. You can use your Republican reimbursement card to help pay your final costs as its sure not going to be enough to pay your health care costs. Heil Ryan
I encorage you to seek a middle ground and squell the spammer Wulf, who only is trying to piss people off rather than debate. Also, isn't this site about Firefly? Comparisons to the Alliance and Browncoats I understand, but this Wulf guy is just another Rush trying to piss off anybody that disagrees with him.
Nobody here gets “squelled” (not sure if that’s a word, is it a cross between quell and squelch? 
); there are no moderators on this website, which explains why it can get as ugly as it does (mostly here), so however offensive someone may be, there’s no alternative except to respond or ignore them. Unfortunately.
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That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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If it's what you meant, yeah, I know, I'm allowed to dream...
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Or is that "in your dreams"?
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I think this will most likely be trunctuated, and I apologize in advance for the length (35 pages in Word.) This is a list of all the offices, committees and commissions in the EXECUTIVE branch. The lists in the Representative and Judicial are equally prodigious.
Which ones do you think we could do without?
Executive Office of the President
President Barack Obama
First Lady Michelle Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Dr. Jill Biden
The White House Home Page
The President's Cabinet
Executive Departments
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of Education (ED)
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Department of State (DOS)
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Department of the Treasury
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Administrative Conference of the United States
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
African Development Foundation
AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Commission on Civil Rights
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Corporation for National and Community Service
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Director of National Intelligence
Election Assistance Commission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Housing Finance Board
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal Reserve System
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Inter-American Foundation
International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
Merit Systems Protection Board
Millennium Challenge Corporation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Capital Planning Commission
National Council on Disability
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Mediation Board
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Transportation Safety Board
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Office of Compliance
Office of Government Ethics
Office of Personnel Management
Office of Special Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Panama Canal Commission
Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Postal Regulatory Commission
Railroad Retirement Board
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Selective Service System
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Tennessee Valley Authority
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
United States Agency for International Development
United States International Trade Commission
United States Postal Service (USPS)
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Boards, Commissions and Committees
These organizations were established by congressional or Presidential action, and their functions are not limited to supporting a parent agency.
Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
American Battle Monuments Commission
Appalachian Regional Commission
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Boar
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