Random Politics & Religion #00

“I’m as much of a homophobe as Jesus was," he said last week. "People who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.”

Faithful monogamy = misery? Mmkay, that's an interesting perspective. Seems to be working fine for me, my siblings, my parents, my grandparents, my wife's siblings, my wife's parents, my wife's grandparents, etc., so I can't say I share that view.

I'll take solace in this next time I find myself participating in homosexual behavior.

Faithful monogamy = misery? Mmkay, that's an interesting perspective. Seems to be working fine for me, my siblings, my parents, my grandparents, my wife's siblings, my wife's parents, my wife's grandparents, etc., so I can't say I share that view.

I guess I reside in a living outlier, then. I'm cool with that.

My first question would be: why does a public k-12 building have a security team? The rest were by answered by reading the article which actually explains the event instead of the stupid headline.

Because we have a problem in this country with people shooting up schools. Clearly a pimpled door nazi is the answer to protecting children from psychopaths.

Because it's impossible that several of those people would lie about it or fail to announce it at family dinner.

Impossible? No. But here's a statistics lesson for you. As you stated, "In long-term committed relationships, 60% of men and 40% of women will cheat on their partner at least once." That may apply to a broad population, but the statistics per demographic vary. What may be a statistical outlier in one location may be relatively common in another. From what I know about my family, the odds that any of them have cheated thus far seems low. Could I be wrong, or could that change as the years go on? Absolutely.

Let's see: PA, going to assume a lot of them live in rural. If there was infidelity it was probably short lived and not long term misters or mistresses like you'd see in middle> upper middle class families.

(not trying to judge you Rav, just going from what I know of you).

As I don't take you as the trailer trash type family, nor the wealthy type.

Well, the last sentence sounds right. I've never lived in PA, though.

My bad, getting people mixed up, I'm 3/4 out of it, fighting one hell of a headache/lightheaded feeling.

Twenty-eight preschoolers and two adults mistakenly drank bleach at snack time at a New Jersey day care center on Thursday and were taken to a hospital after some complained their stomachs were burning.

The children, aged 3 and 4, and adult staff members of the Growing Tree Learning Center in downtown Jersey City were transported in five ambulances to the Jersey City Medical Center after a late-morning call to 911, said Mark Rabson, a hospital spokesman. He said some complained of light-headedness, others of upset stomachs.

By mid afternoon, all 30 were in stable condition and were being discharged, Rabson said.

"There was a poisoning and many children were injured," he said, adding the children were walking on their own or were being carried out by their parents and "have smiles on their faces."

Keith Kearney, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County, which runs the day care center that is open to all community members and serves 65 children from infants to age 4, said he had heard no reports of injuries and that the hospital visits were a precaution.

"We had an incident where one of the staff in the kitchen used the cleaning solution bottle to pour water for some of the children," Kearney said.

"It was a repurposed plastic milk jug with a bleach water solution we use to wipe down surfaces. The label we had on the bottle wasn’t large enough to guard against it," he said.

The children and staff were having a morning snack of water and fruit when an adult noticed a faint bleach smell and reported it immediately, he said.

The 911 call kicked off a mass casualty emergency response by the hospital, which called in extra doctors and nurses and worked closely with paramedics, police and fire units.

They gave the victims liquids like water and milk to dilute the poison rather than inducing vomiting "because it would burn on the way back up again," Rabson said.

Aside from the obvious question of why would you put a dangerous chemical in a food container (come on, how stupid are you?), how the hell did the person pouring this not smell it, bleach isn't a faint smell...

edit: regardless of the label using a food container to put a cleaning chemical in is borderline HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE, and honestly the place should be sued for allowing that to happen.

Yeah, it's just good that it was a "bleach solution" and therefore diluted. There are chemical labeling standards for a reason, though.

I often work in a lab where the chemicals are strictly held to labeling standards, but in my opinion nowhere are they more important than when you're working around food and/or when you're working around kids. The people in the story screwed up on both of those.

Here's the giant hole in his logic... The reason that some STD's are at a higher rate in the gay community is there are less potential partners and men have more partners than women. Stuff gets around, that's just math.

I wonder if there's a strong correlation between homosexual men and stds due to the high concentration in high population density zones and possible flocking to those areas, or easier to come out in a zone that's more accepting than one that's not.

/ponders

(I mean nothing negative by this, just a thought).