I have a difference in opinion so it's a sensitive issue? ..Okay.

:iagree: Good luck with your treatment and everything else!

Oh, it's probably on there and I'm not interested in taking the test again as I do remember mine. I was just wondering if it's still normal for kids in public school to take an IQ test (without going to an outside organization and paying a fee). Seems it's not! DS took one in middle school but that was private. In public high school all he took was some career aptitude test, looks like DD will be taking that too.

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We have one and I think she's pretty smart too. She's around 3 or 4. Whenever she wants to be fed she picks up her food dish and sets it down in front of me. And when she wants up somewhere (she's tiny, around 9ish pounds too and can't jump very high) she barks and then looks at me and then where she wants to go. Plus when you lean down to pick her up she jumps into your hands. Maybe I have low standards but my dogs before haven't been like that. She also barks very loudly whenever someone rings the door and then goes and hides. And she stashes everything. I have no clue about what they cost because we rescued her.

Reminds me of that Karl Rove quote about the reality-based community.

I actually picked up a fiction book! I'm pretty proud of myself because I haven't been able to really enjoy fiction for a while now. It's called This River Awakens by Steven Erikson. We also got a book at the library sale for 25 cents called The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew -- Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. I'm about 1/4th of the way through and I've already learned a lot. I already recommend it.

The ones who voted for it were Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, and Samuel Alito. They're all Catholic.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 2:7 Life at first breath.. That's my belief. I don't know how to word it better than that. I don't know if I've said that here before so I get why you're asking. What I have said multiple times is that I don't believe it's murder to terminate a pregnancy. I clearly don't think it's okay to murder a newborn or toddler or adolescent. You can tell me about the stages of pregnancy as if I don't know, but that is still not my opinion.

Litterbox is entirely different than an actual cat. This is what I was referring to. And if you can smell a litterbox as soon as you enter the house it's even very close to the door or not cleaned well. This has nothing to do with me being a cat owner.

I just think it's sad that "what many feel" is more important than "what many scientists have proven." That is all I have to say for now as I have to go for a while :)

That is quite the silly assumption.

Yes, yes, yes.

I could be mistaken but I read it to mean it only applied to certain types of birth control?

The point is you act like you don't give your money to things you probably don't like. You do. People do, businesses do, and Hobby Lobby should. Especially when the right is always insisting corporations are people. It's more like corporations are people until it would be a negative so then they're just a corporation but also it's run by people emphasis on that as if no one knew.

I will never understand liberals who feel the need to brag about how they're tolerant of intolerance... As for paying for things we don't want. If you don't want to do so, then I hope you have a big problem with taxes too. I give my taxes to plenty of things I find morally wrong. I don't get special treatment though.

Ah, I assumed the history would be 1. 6.5 (or whatever the Japanese ends up being counted as) seems fine to me. I believe 6 is pretty normal, or at least it is at the public school here. On the Japanese note though, are you using half a course level or something or are you just not getting as far along as you would say, Spanish? Because I've heard that you do go a bit slower with languages like Japanese. I wouldn't want to take away credit from him. Good luck with 9th grade :)

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Yes.. You can say you have empathy for rape victims but when you want to force them to carry a pregnancy and have a child that reminds them every day of what happened, I doubt it.

Well, that I agree with. I'm not liberal but I tend to support democrats. Most of them are inconsistent too.

I edited my post to try to be more clear. You must've started replying before I did. Sorry for my terrible writing skills. Consistent pro-life stances may very well be a minority thing. I don't know about pro life people but in politicians I think you're actually right. I was more responding to what you said about abortion being outlawed. I've heard plenty of politicians say they want abortion outlawed. Sure lots want exceptions, but it's still outlawing it.

Tagging along - is it still normal to take an IQ test in public high school? I remember doing so, so does dh. But I don't think DS did.

Same. No need to redo something that was perfect the first time.

Didn't answer my question at all. I'm quite aware there are people who believe abortion shouldn't be allowed in any case. You should also probably research all the politicians who are getting elected who are extremely pro life. You can believe what you want to but stop acting like it's some super super minority view. Plenty want abortion outlawed, whether they think there should be exceptions or not.

Well, in regards to your last part it's just a difference of opinion of when life begins. The reason I don't think abortion is murder isn't because I don't think death is just violence with physical touching involved. (sorry for poor wording there, hope you get what I mean.) The reason I don't believe it is murder is because I don't think it's living yet. I can kind of understand your thoughts about abortion. I don't understand how people can consider something in that stage a baby. But I do know why you think it is murder - because you think it's alive. Simple enough. It's even simpler when you're anti abortion in all cases. But as I said what I cannot understand is people who think it's murder but then say it's okay sometimes. Even if it's the lesser of two evils it's still murder. Murder of an innocent human baby as people have put it. I don't know if I'd say this exception is common among pro lifers but I've definitely seen it a lot.