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Citizenship Final Discussion

This discussion is on student driven topics from the first semester of citizenship at phs. The objectives, procedure, and rubric are on mrarmy.pbworks.com wiki.

 

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oboma should be impeached because we are still in the same hole we were in at the start

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But that doesn't mean the next president will make our country better. For all we know the next president could make it worse.

cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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then why in the world would we get another president think about that

nathankruegr(19) Disputed
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Well then the US should vote for a president that is going to fix the government

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it does mean that we would have a better president because obama is taking a lot of money

BrentThiel(20) Disputed
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Not necessarily Tessa. If we went by that ruling, then all the President's would just be a bunch of hipocrytes. A President IS supposed to make the country better.

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I agree with oyu Tessa. For all anyone knows, if Obama were to get re-elected he could chage everything around. You never know.

I agree! Because Obama is doing some good. He took the military out of Iraq! He has made some good desictions. The next President could take many things away from. We don't know, but it could be possible. I personaly think that the Presidants that we are getting now on these days, are making more of the bad decitions. All the ones that are reconized more are from along time ago. Not now.

bmusiedlak(14) Disputed
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I disagree because i think that we should give him a chance.

cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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FOR THE LAST TIME OBOMA IS A HORIBLE PRESIDENT HE HASNT DONE ANY THING AND HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED IF SCOTT WALKER WOULD BE IN THERE IF WOULD BE ALL GOOD

danlevan(14) Disputed
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I don't think Obama needs a chance; he had 4 years to change this country for the better and where did we go? The opposite direction. We spent more, and fell deeper into debt with him more than any other president this country has seen. Do I think this is ALL necessarily HIS fault? No, but he is partly responsible. I don't think he needs a "chance" because we already gave him one.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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but we arnt thing have changed we are out of irqa and our soldiers have left we have killed osama

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MichaelB1(16) Disputed
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Any president couldv'e been in office when Osama was shot. He just happened to be in office when it happened. He doesn't know what he is doing in office and he should be taken out. He thinks that taxing the rich to give the government money is smart but it's not because it just takes money away from the people that donate to other businesses.

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cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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but we are in a huge whole and probly will never get out and obomas the one who shut the coffin so its only a matter of time before we get nucked or over ran

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nathankruegr(19) Disputed
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but obama said he was going to create more jobs! is there any more jobs! no

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nathankruegr(19) Disputed
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And the governmeat shut down so he didnt help out the government

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cptcrunch(19) Disputed
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leaving iraq isnt exactly a good thing. yes, having the troops come home to their loving familys who missed them is a good thing, but obama pulled out the troops prematurely. the very next day after taking the last troops out of iraq, the iraqi leaders started getting assasinated and bombed by the al-qadea. so obviously the u.s did not complete the job i set out to do in iraq before obama decided to pull them out.

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that is all true. he never helped out the government like he said he would

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bclark(19) Disputed
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Hes been helping us and our government from the start you just have to believe in him if not hows not believing in our president going to help then.

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Agreed. Scott Walker for president!!!! He eis doing the right thing unlike Obama. He is just taxing the wealthy that are actually donating money.

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JonGideon(12) Disputed
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he may be doing the right thing with taxes, but Scott Walker is doing a terrible job with everything else. He is running our state like a dictatorship. He is taking away all of the jobs of public employees. He's barely granted any pardons. He does whatever it takes to get what he wants passed.

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Scott Walker would be a better president then obama! Walker would try to fix the government

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I agree! If he fixed Wisconsin, he could fix the United States. Maybe for once people will actually have good jobs and there wouldn't be layoffs every week

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I agree to this post because scott is doing at least more then Obama.

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lerks6(11) Disputed
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i disagree with you. No scott walker he would be better but we need someone older that knows a lot of stuff

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Heck yeah! Scott Walker fixed the state now lets send him to the white house to fix the country.

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carabardon(15) Disputed
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Scott walker isn't helping anything. Everything that he has done for Wisconsin that in "his eyes" are helping weren't said when he was running for governer. I know for a fact that if he would have said all of the things he was going to do, he would not be governer right now. Three more years of walker will disable our state and we can't afford it. That is the reason for his recall and that is the reason that he is put up for recall. After all there are 1 million signatures. And this article states that. ( http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002000 )

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HuNtER72(17) Disputed
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SCOTT WALKER IS ONE OF THE STUPIDEST PEOPLE I CAN THINK OF. HE SCREWED UP OUR STATE IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS HE DID DO A GOOD JOB ON TAKES BUT HE MESSED UP ON THE OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i do not agree, because obama came inot office with a lot of stuff to fix from the former president, so in the four years that obama has been in office might not have been enough time to change everything.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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if people agree with that addy then we will see through elections if people think he needs more time then they will elect him again

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MichaelB1(16) Disputed
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Yeah because he hasn't done anything right from the start and if he did, then yeah maybe it wouldn't take time be he is doing nothing right for this country whatsoever.

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I agree with Addy because you can't pass a lot of bills in four years. And having Congress at least agree on them is hard enough.

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BrentThiel(20) Disputed
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Yeah, but they should obviously know that they have a limited time to do what they said they were going to do. He knew what was wrong with the country and aware of everything, so in that case, he should have done what he said he was going to do.

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cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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oboma had 4 years to do something anything all he did was spend money so we coulda had austen run the country

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magchandler2(13) Disputed
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In order to get out of our economic problems, we need more time. I know that it's been a few years since the recession started but people need to be patient. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression, the Great Depression went from 1929 to the late 1930's or early 1940's. That's at least ten years with 25% of Americans being unemployed with a huge market crash. Things are bad, but we are no where near that stage.

While I agree that the government needs to start getting us out of this recession, in order to do this they are going to need time. Obama won't do this in his current term, there is just not enough time. I hope that whoever is elected president, is able to improve the country's economy soon.

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I agree with Maggie. There is not a person out there that can get our country's economy up like we want, in one presidential term. We need to give Obama a chance to change it. Four years is a very little time when talking about getting a huge nation like ours out of recession.

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cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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need more time NOOOOOOOOOO he had plenty of time heis a talker who knows nothing about polotics he is a messed up polotiton

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carabardon(15) Disputed
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I agree with you maggie but to some extent. In order to improve our economy, we need to have a little innovation and certainty from our leaders. Yeah it will need time, but if we focus on giving it time, it might just get worse. We need to point it toward some dirrection, so that we know it will improve.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/10/18/3-things-the-economy-needs-to-recover/

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cjhauser(15) Disputed
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I agree that our nation is in a big hole but we have always been in debt and that started before Obama and no other presidents have helped with it. Obama has helped our nation though. He has gotten the troops out of Iraq, and organised the operation to kill Osama.

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Obama is a stupid president. He could have created jobs by have the oil line ran to the United States. Now that he didnt, more people still dont have a job that gas prices will continue to skyrocket.

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I agree with krametard because obama is a very stupid president

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president kreamer i support you and wiil vote for you this fall and your campain slogan will be( clean up all of obomas mistakes) but that will be hard because hes made so many mastakes

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benwentz6(18) Disputed
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We should stop relying on foreign oil sources and come up with our own natural resources.

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shanaynay151(13) Disputed
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Yea well he may not be doing what he said he would but he hasn't done anthong illegal and look how much money it cost to recall walker, 9MILLION! So doing that would hurt us more finaicially. We don't have much more time left with him and that just shows that in the next election we need to be more careful people don't always keep promises.

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Obama isn't doing our country any good. He said that he would get us out of the hole that were in, but he has done nothing of that. If anything our country has gotten worse when it comes to debt, and the economy.

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danlevan(14) Disputed
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Obama has not done anything specific in order to get himself impeached. Yes, I think he is not helping America at all, but that doesn't mean that we can just take him out of office; you have the chance to do that at the next presidential election. I don't think he did anything he promised to do while campaigning for the presidency, but you can't exactly expect this entire country to pull itself out of debt overnight. It's still going to take a fairly long time to get out of debt, if we ever do.

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If our government was different and didn't have the things we learned about in class, then our government would be crap.

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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That doesnt make any sense. What about what we learned and how would it be in a "worse state"?

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glander26(16) Disputed
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no, we were WAYY better before then we are now, if we learn things shouldnt it only get better and not worse?

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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not if you have clue what youre talking about to begin with. then youre just making a fool of your self.

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ok maybe this will make more sense: If our goverment didn't have all the branches and other government things, then the United States would've been worse then what is now. Maybe another country would've taken us over already because our government was crap.

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I think that we shouldnt have as may branches because then maybe we wouldnt have as much fighting during bill signings.

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Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of flaws in our goverment but you have to admit, without our branches then things would get choatic. They keep us organized. There are many ways to structuring a government and there is no right or wrong answer but some ways are better than others. At least we can say that there isn't one person calling all of the shots. The branches balance each other, but that's not the problem. The probem is that nothing is being resolved.

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cole meyer(-1) Disputed
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i dont understand what ur trying to say but our goverment is purdy screwed up

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its screwed up really badly! loseing more and more money by the day! one of these days the government has to make money!

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Antifedelist vs. Federlaist-

I think that the U.S. should have a strong state government rather than a strong national government.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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I agree because in a state government we can focus more on our state and what we need, whereas a national government doesnt always focus on one state, or in other words they dont really care about every single state as much as another state.

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And not every state is the same so we can have laws right for our state, and other states can have laws right for thier state. Also maybe then our country wouldnt be in debt because we could have bills passed to save money for our state to help the ecnomy.

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bmusiedlak(14) Disputed
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I disagree because in order to have a strong state government we need a strong national government

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cjhauser(15) Disputed
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I think we need a strong national government. If our states have more power than our congress and other lawmaking bodies, then they will start going their own ways and making their own lawas and start to think that they will be able to make their own laws and their own desions

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I agree, the Civil War is proof of what can happen if states have too much power. Everybody starts arguing and then you have a war on your hands. A strong central government supports a strong and united front.

"A house divided cannot stand."

-Abraham Lincoln

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Our constitution was made for the states to be run by the Central government. They should have some freedom though so we don't become a country led by on man or one group of people. But we can't just let the states start making their own laws, and currency and other things

Supporting Evidence: National Government over State Government (james4america.wordpress.com)
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i agree because our state has less problems than our national government

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The Death Penalty should be lifted for some capital crimes

Supporting Evidence: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/history-death-penalty (deathpenalty.procon.org)
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jerweigert(17) Disputed
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i think we need more death penalty's. i dont know about you guys but if you kill somone you should die. what else would we do tho, put them into a prison so they can have a gym and three square meals a day? why should the government feed the murderers and not the homeless

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Even with feeding them and a gym, we are wasting more money preparing their deaths by using costly lethal injections and spending thousands of dollars just killing poor people who have no money. And if you kill someone out of self defense when you were being attacked, you shouldn't be punished by death!

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i agree but disagree i think they should not have it but then it depends on what the crim was if the crim was realy big and ddid a lot of damage then maybe but then we also need to but a thin line on whats that is that will but someone to the death sentence

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Death Penalty should be brought back. Public hanging, electrick chair, firing squad. if you kill someone then your life should be taken also. an eye for an eye, hand for a hand. if you steal your hand should be cut off. the crime rate would decrease by so much.

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cjhauser(15) Disputed
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" An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" And again killing someone in self defense or in an accident like falling then pushing someone off a ledge shouldn't result in death. And life in prison is much worse than a quick lethal injection. They do the same thing everyday and are just waiting to die. Keeping them in prison costs much less and killing the com miters of the crime isn't proven more or less effective as life in prison

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I agree because what good is the death penalty when all that does is kill people who done crimes.

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My debate is about human rights. I believe that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should have human rights. Until we grant them these rights, they will continue to be looked down on by our society.

LGBT people are common targets for bullying. According to www.bullyingstatistics.org, 28% of gay and lesbian high school students have dropped out in the past three years due to bullying. They should be accepted for who they are because nothing good can come out of bullying.

LGBT people may feel that they need to form a relationship with a certain gender in order to blend in with society. It was estimated by http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-11/15/c_13606900.htm that about 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men. This can cause many problems such as broken hearts and an increase in domestic violence. If the relationship ends in divorce, both are hurt and the straight person could feel paranoid in the future and the gay person is thrust back into a marriage-demanding world.

That person could then spiral into depression, which is very common among homosexual people; 50% of responding lesbians said that they have been depressed sometime in the past two years according to www.nami.org.

In my opinion, LGBT people deserve to have the same rights that we have. They should be allowed to adopt and marry by their own choice. It doesn’t seem right to force people into being someone that they aren’t. In order to deal with our brooder social issues such as discrimination, racism, suicide, and bullying, we need to start somewhere if we want to make accomplishments.

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I agree because I think people should express who and what they are and they shouldnt be judged on it.

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i agree, society is horrible when it comes to those types of things. People are judged on their every moves, and this is wrong. People are who they are, and even if you might not understand why. You have no clue what there lives are like. Except people for who they are.

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You're right, they need rights. If someone would just be nice to them or help them, they will most likely not die. Whenever I turn on the news, there's always something about how they killed themselves. It makes me really sad when that happens. People need to stop bullying!

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i agree because depite their sexuality they are still human beings, and should be treated like everyone else, because they are like everyone else just with different feelings

Side: LGBT Human Rights
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Everyone deserves the same rights. So what if someone is gay or lesbian. It might be disgusting if they makeout or something but everyone deserves the same rights no matter what.

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alexcalteux1(19) Disputed
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I dont believe that everyone has the same rights because lets say someone that goes to jail for 15 years and gets let out, are you saying that they should have the same rights as someone that was never in jail or never fined for anything?

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i agree. they can express who they are becasue there not going to change. i think its wrong when teachers at a school judge them, and make a big dealabout it, when their the ones who are supposed to be anit bullying

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I do believe that they should have rights however there should be limits. If some families dont believe in that then you should have to see it. Just because guys chose to live that way other people don't have to, some parent dont wanttheir kids exposed to that, so they shouldnt be.

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Exactly. Some parents don't want their children to see that! Some parents don't want their kids to see men and women show PDA, so why should homosexual PDA be different?

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magchandler2(13) Disputed
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So it's ok for straight people to makeout but not ok for gay people? Our society has always shown us the straight relationship but they don't advertise gay relationships. In the real world, you will see a mix of both. People should be exposed to different types of relationships so that they can learn to be accepting and open-minded. By doing this, we are creating a new generation that understands and empathizes.

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ajabuss(15) Disputed
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I believe that lebsbian, gay, and bisexual attraction shouldn't be accepted.

I believe God created man and woman for a reason.

I think homosexual and bisexual people make that choice, they're not born that way.

Gay marriage shouldn't be legal at all, either. God has created man and then woman for a reason....not two women or two men.

I don't have any against the individuals. I have something against the homosexual attraction/marriage being legal, and I don't want to see that in public. If you're gonna be that way, then keep it at home.

Some homosexuals in schools argue that when they do show PDA, people make them stop just because they are discriminating against homosexuals. Heterosexuals are not allowed to show attraction at school, so neither should they.

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Exactly when parents are religous and we are all children of adam and eve (it wasnt 2 guys or 2 girls it was 1 of each) then they should hae the choice wether or not to expose there children to guys, not see it in every public place. Being straight is the way things are supposed to be. It was how it was meant to be so the human race keeps living and continuing on.

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msikora(11) Disputed
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i think you are 100% wrong beacuse ,for one, not everyone belives in that and its a feeling in your heart just like how you have a crush on someone and people like that ant realy help it some people believe it can be caused by tratumatic experices as a child but i believe they all should have the some wrights as everyone else.

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I believe this too, Our country was founded on God so why should we start going agaisnst him? There is nothing wrong with the people, just their beliefs are what I do not like. I also agree that they should not show PDA in the hallways, but that also goes for anyone.

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MandySmith1(16) Disputed
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Aja..

I think that it is okay for someone to be Gay, Lesbian, Or Bisexual, because i think that people should just be with people that they like and are happy to be with, even if it is the sam sex. So i think that same sex marriage should be legal in all states.

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I think everyone should have the same rights as the next person. Just because you are a man and like another man or a woman in love with a woman, it is totally personal preference. it is their lives and they can live it the way they want to. No one has any right to tell people what they can and can not do.

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Things will get way more complicated if LGBT people don't get their rights. We were all told at some point that we should just be ourseleves. By not giving them their rights, you are taking away their ability for people to just be themseleves.

This can lead to terrible things like sucide, a common thing for gay people. Read the story of Tyler Clementi here: http://www.livescience.com/8734-gay-teen-suicide-epidemic.html

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I agree that gays, lebians, bisexual, and transgender should have the same rights as other people. Just because they are different than other people doesnt mean that they can have the same rights.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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agree they are still humans there just belive in something differnt then we are. its like saying if your luthern and thats different from being christins so they sould be treated differnt

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i agree. i personally love gay people and to see some of my best friends who are gey get bullyed it hurt becasue they did nothing wrong and its their life.

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I agree. All people no matter what their beliefs are are people. They should have the same rights and be treated and looked at no different than any other person. If you don't like the idea of gay marriage then don't get married to the same sex. We don't want our rights taken away and we shouldn't start taking away oother peoples right because they belief in something different.

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i agree, they all should be treated the same. They should not be getting bullied for who they like. They should not be judged just because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender they did not do anything wrong to get bullied that is just not right.

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Gays should have the same right as everyone else. It just doesn’t seem right to take away such basic rights from people who are just the same as the rest of us. Having a different sexuality should not set them apart.

Some people believe that being gay is wrong and should not be allowed. It is also against some people’s religion. Some people even argue that anyone can choose their sexuality and that gays choose to be gay, but I dont believe thats true. Why would people choose to be gay when life as a gay in today's society is so hard?

http://www.bidstrup.com/marriage.htm

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kflanagan(16) Disputed
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I dont care who you like or what you like but you should not advertise it. If you are gay, straight, lesbion, whatever you shouldnt show it in public. Im saying that people discriminate against gays more because that is not how things started and not "natural" in some peopls mind.

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carmello1515(10) Disputed
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oh here is another copy and paste so im not the only one so dont copy and paste if i cant do it you cant

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carmello1515(10) Disputed
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ohhh you copied and pasted its a big deal sombody should see this

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I TOTALLY SUPPORT YOU IN EVERY WAY BECAUSE WHY SHOULD OTHER PEOPLE TELL YOU WHO YOU CAN AND CANT BE WITH..THATS LIKE ME TELLING YOU THAT YOU CANT EVER DO ANYTHING WITH A GIRL..OR TELLING PEOPLE THAT THEY CANT ACTUALLY LIVE THEIR OWN LIVES.

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dustinbarber(10) Disputed
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i agree they should be treated like any other person who cares if your gay bisexual or transgender people should be able to be who they want to be and we should not be able to tell them different what happend to a free country what happend to equal rights its so messed up how are government treats these people when they are humans just like every one else

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Exactly Maggie! Every person should get treated the same way, their sexuality shouldn't be a factor. There's no reason why we can't treat LGBT people the same way we treat heterosexual people! Two of my friends that I know of are homosexual, and they are awesome people! They don't have a problem with the way others think about them, because they are proud to be who they are, and I think that's a great thing!

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I belive weed should be legalized it could help out ecomney becuse, if you sold it in stores just by doing that more money can be raised its a plant so you dont need to by anything to make it, and not only by just selling it in stores it would help are money crisses beacuse people you go out and buy food (also know as "the munchies"), raising the food consuming and if we replace, lets say beer with weed, by slowly takeing the hops out of beer then eventualy getting rid of it all toghether and replacing it with weed thare would be, less drunk driving, less deaths on the roads, and a spike in food and if we just stop using credit cards we could be out of dept in 20 years or less in my oppion and with beer, the argument againnst weed is that you can get addicted to it, you can you may want to get high but you cant get addicted the the metirial, with beer you can get addicited to the material and wanting to get drunk. Also thare been studies saying thare nothing wrong with weed on your body.

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kflanagan(16) Disputed
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Even if it is not unhealthy for you, it still impairs your senses. It is still a drug and should not be llegal. Other drugs arent so nither should weed.

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msikora(11) Disputed
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its not a drug its a plant and it just grows drugs you have to alter and put stuff in weed is just thare

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Weed shouldn't be llegalized with the exception of medical purposes. I don't know how the country would make that law but they would have to be strict. It should only be accessible with a doctor's perscription.

http://altmed.creighton.edu/medicalmarijuana/Clinical%20Use.htm

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dustinbarber(10) Disputed
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if anything that impares your sences was illegal coffie would be illegal alcohol and cigaretts would be illegal

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I agree with Katelyn, even though it does not harm you, when your senses are mixed up you will probably do some stupid things. So it should stay illegal.

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i agree katelyn! a drug is a drug, its illegal, so leave it that way, people say they need it for "medical reasons" and yea sometimes i guess they do, but that has become the main excuse now!

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shanaynay151(13) Disputed
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Yea and what does alcohol do???? Yea thats right same thing so don't make an arugment the doesnt make sense weed Alcohol practicay are equal except weed is better for u!

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i agree it is not a very harmful drug. in the long run it is more healthy then soda. if you smoke one thing of weed it is less harmful then drinking one bottle of coke a day

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i do not agree because it is a harmful drug and people can find better ways to make them selves feel better or whatever it is that weed does for you.

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lerks6(11) Disputed
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i disagree that is so stupid that makes no sence levi. Coke is way worse

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2 points

yes that is very true and you should look at what coke does to you within the hour.

Supporting Evidence: coke (www.nutritionresearchcenter.org)
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cole meyer(-1) Disputed
2 points

you dont need to smoke weed or drink soda or smoke cok you dont need any of that stuff

Side: citizenship final discussion
MadisonJewel(13) Disputed
2 points

The problem with weed is it impairs your judgement and what influences you. when on weed your thoughts are clouded. It is hard to stop people from smoking it becasue it is so easy to get and there is so much of it.

Side: citizenship final discussion

making it legalized would just make the situation worse...it doenst mean that smoking it is now good for you, it just makes a lot less people in trouble because its not against the law & it makes it easier to get the weed.

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

I agree that if it was legalized, our economy would benefit from it. But it would cause thousands of deaths from overdosing and should be sold limitedly. It isn't harmful occasionally but many people would abuse it and then it would become harmful

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

you cant overdose from it and a igree it should be sold with restirivtions and it doesent cloud yours scences at all

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

in order to overdose on weed you have to smoke your body weight in 10 minutes!

Side: citizenship final discussion
shanaynay151(13) Disputed
1 point

You can't overdose and same as alcohol , ABUSE IT LOOSE IT

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexkrueger(15) Disputed
2 points

Even if it was legalized, you would have to be 18 to be able to do it.

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

I think you just shouldnt do drugs in the first place so you can be healthy either way.

Side: citizenship final discussion
dustinbarber(10) Disputed
1 point

in the first place cannabis in not a drug its a plant with many medical uses. useing cannabis does not make you unhealthy it gives you a 60% less chance of getting cancer. you want to know what drugs are what doctors give you for pain what they give you for depression you get addicted so easaily to these drugs and they kill you but there ok to give away to people that are sick or in pain rather than a plant that will only make you better not get you even more sick. these so called medicines destroy your body and can lead to addiction witch will lead to death or being in jail

Side: citizenship final discussion

no kidding, although a lot of researchers say that drugs wont have long-term affects on your health, thats also proven incorrect. if it were good for you, it wouldnt be against the law...

Side: citizenship final discussion
BrentThiel(20) Disputed
1 point

Even though research and tests show that weed doesn't necessarily affect you, it's still a drug and it promotes a bad message.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

but it can also be much better than many other things or drugs. like alcohol and cigs and what not.

Side: citizenship final discussion

As with any substacne you se there are ups and down but the truth is weed when used recreationally is better the alcohol and ciggarettes. ITs has less harmful effects and does the same thing as alcohol. If weed is so bad than so is alcohol. They say weed clouds your judgment wel so does alcohol, only differenc weed doesnt lasst as long and doesnt make your body get sick. Plus you can't overdose on weed like you can pills or alchol ( alcohol posioning)

Side: citizenship final discussion
juliannajj(19) Disputed
1 point

i agree with you but it is still illegal. So are you saying that weed shouldnt be illegal?

Side: citizenship final discussion

I agree that it would help the economy with money. But to many people would abuse it. And then that would just cause a bigger problem. So I disagree because people would abuse it too much, weed isn't always really good just because it came from the earth s a plant too. But I also agree because the economy would gain more money from it.

Supporting Evidence: Turns out weed is bad for you! (gawker.com)
Side: citizenship final discussion
danlevan(14) Disputed
1 point

For any reason other than medicinal purposes, I don't think that weed should be legalized. Is there any reason why people have to get high to feel better if they are not terminally ill? I don't think so. Scientists can say anything they want to say about how weed affects the human body, but it is not healthy for you. They may say that there are no discernable results from smoking weed, but you can't say that you benefit from it. Weed impairs your senses and reaction time, and alcohol does the same thing to your body. But weed and alcohol are still two different things and you can't compare those two things together.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/28/ opinion/la-oe-miller28-2010jan28

Side: citizenship final discussion
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

THE ONLY REASON YOU WANT IT LEGALIZED IS BECAUSE YOU SMOKE IT AND LOOK WERE YOU WENT IM SORRY MICHEAL BUT THIS IS VERY BAD STUFF. IF I SMOKED IT I WOULD BE ON A MASSIVE RAMPAGE. WEED KILLS MILLIONS OF KIDS AND SOME OF THEM ARE GOOD KIDS. WEED SHOULD NEVER BE LEGALIZED.

Side: citizenship final discussion
dustinbarber(10) Disputed
1 point

sorry to say but every thing you just said has been proven in tests by the instittute of medicine to be comptetly false information in the last 10000 years of recorded history there has never been 1 death due to use of the cannabis plant

Side: citizenship final discussion
kschroeder(13) Disputed
1 point

I understand how you see it as helping the economy, but weed can impair your judgement. If weed was made legal, how many people would we have running around with impaired judgement. Everything would be chaos, and if there are crimes commited, how many people are going to claim that they can't be held responsible because they were on weed? It would be a very bad thing if weed was legalized.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with this. We have so many stoners already. i have nothing against them, But if everyone could just go and get high? Just think of how or society would turn out. Lots of bad things would be happening, and it IS the gateway drug. Many people argue its not, but what happens when your "high" dies out, or isn't good enough? Then what do you do. You resort to cocaine and meth and acid. Ya, and those things are TOTALLY good for you..

Side: citizenship final discussion
MandySmith1(16) Disputed
1 point

I think that Weed shouldn't be llegalized with the exception of medical purposes. I don't know how the country would make this law but they would have to be strict. It should only be accessible with a doctor's perscription.

http://altmed.creighton.edu/medicalmarijuana/Clinical%20Use.htm

Side: citizenship final discussion
MorganK(12) Disputed
1 point

What the heck!, weed should not be legal people are just going to use it to get high and the US is going to have more of a drug problems!!

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with you completely, Morgan. For the majority of people in the United States, the legalization of weed will not mean relief from a terminal illness (i.e. medical usage)

but the abuse of weed and the mere consumption of it for pleasure. I really don't think weed has to be legalized for any reason other than medicinal purposes, because people do not need weed for any reason other than that.

Side: citizenship final discussion
mbarnard(8) Disputed
1 point

no it shound't be because than everyone will be doing it and you will get lung canccer more likey.

Side: michael barnard
carabardon(15) Disputed
1 point

Weed should not be legalized.. it does nothing to improve human life.. it just makes you all impaired and crap and weird. You can find other ways to make money..

Side: michael barnard
carabardon(15) Disputed
1 point

Weed should not be legalized.. it does nothing to improve human life.. it just makes you all impaired and crap and weird. You can find other ways to make money..

Side: michael barnard

youre right, legalizing it is going to cause more problems with the health of the people of our generation.

Side: michael barnard
2 points

Anyones oppion on scott walker? ( only if you acutaly know what your talking about)

Side: the Walker recall
2 points

We also need to not increase taxes on everyone. The rich help keep our economy going, and everyone should get to keep more of the money we earn. Taxes take away a lot of money, and it would help our economy out if people had a bit more of their money to spend or use as they wish. President Ronald Reagan: "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”

Side: the Walker recall

Tax should be totally based on how much money you make. that means the rich should have increased taxes and shouldnt be able to get out of taxes with loopholes

Side: the Walker recall
1 point

I agree Maddie! If you don't have that much money.. then you shouldn't be taxed so much, but if you have lots of money than you should be taxed more. In this article it states that 71% of the wealthy agree that the millionares should pay more taxes and give more to charity. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-17/buffett-tax-on-wealthy-backed-by-millionaires-if-they-re-exempt.html

Side: the Walker recall
2 points

Walker is helping Wisconsin. If people would just give him more time, he could do even more. Think about it. In about a year, Walker has helped everyone. Don't believe me? Then go check out his wesite. Then you can see what he has in store for Wisconsin.

Supporting Evidence: Scott Walker (www.scottwalker.org)
Side: the Walker recall
2 points

i agree he is doing much for wisconsin. i think we should keep him and see what else he will do for us.

Supporting Evidence: scott walker (www.standwithscott.com)
Side: the Walker recall
2 points

before walker wisconsin was down 150,000 jobs since walker wisconsin has added thousands of jobs and nobody will recognise that. he has done so much good for wisconsin but people think he is destroying wisconsin because the democrats dont like him.

Side: the Walker recall
1 point

Agreed. Scott Walker turned this state from a Ford Pinto to a Stingray

Side: the Walker recall
1 point

Exactly, he has done more good than bad. Oue economy hasn't gotten worse so why are people so agaisnt him? I think that WI has to give him more time, and if things start going bad then MAYBE he could be removed, but that's only a maybe.

Side: the Walker recall
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

NO HE HAS HAD HIS TIME AND HE MESSED UP LIKE USUAL HE DOESNT KNOW HOW TO RUN OUR STATE THE RIGHT WAY..I CAN RUN THIS BETTER THEN HIM AND CREATE JOBS AND MAKE BETTER TAXES AND SAVE MONEY HE IS JUST PLAIN STUPID

Side: the Walker recall
2 points

Mitt Romney is in front of everyone for the candidates for the 2012 presidential election. Mitt is in front of everyone for a reason!

Supporting Evidence: 2012 Presidential Election (2012.presidential-candidates.org)
Side: the Walker recall
2 points

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/ 16/house-to-vote-on-concealed-firearm-permit-bill/

article on concealed carry, definetly a good thing for wisconsin, there should be no ristrictions on what people do with their firearms.

Side: the Walker recall
AprilMarie15(17) Disputed
1 point

i disagree. I think that people should not be allowed to carry weapons because uk how many people are gunna get shot?! There is a lot of violence and stupid people in this state so i think when they make a law that makes carrying weapons is fine.

Side: the Walker recall
danlevan(14) Disputed
1 point

Sorry April, but I have to disagree with you on this one. In order to get a concealed carry permit, a person must pass a background check and pay a fee. With such a great responsibility attached to this permit, any infraction such as misuse would be punished severely. If a person who had a concealed carry permit decided to, for some reason, shoot an innocent person, you can be certain that the shooter would go to jail and possibly recieve a death sentence. People who carry a concealed weapon do so because they want to prevent crime, not start it.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
kschroeder(13) Disputed
1 point

I feel like it is very important for there to be a restriction on what people do with their firearms. If there were no restrictions on what people do with their firearms, it would be like saying that it's okay to shoot people. That is not right.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

With our country being in so much debt, it makes me sick how much professional athletes make. millions of dollars to play a game. a game kids play all the time. Then they are having this lockdown becasue they want more money

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
addymiller(12) Disputed
2 points

yea i think athletes should not make so much money because they dicided to do that job, for whatever reason, but it should be because they love the game, so they should not be paid so much for playing a sport when really its a job, so in that cause everyone should be paid like they do

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
alexcalteux1(19) Disputed
2 points

What do you think holds the country together? If sports didnt exists what would people do? Athletes make the money they make because for one: they are one of the best athletes in the world thats why they make the money they do. Two: They could get seriously hurt, they are risking their physical health and well being to play football or hockey.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit

Yea that is so true they are so immature they should be happy with the life they had maybe send them to a third world country and make them think. It's stupid.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

Cam Newton won the NFL rookie of the year. Cam will be a Hall of Famer in a couple years. Mark my words. Then after Cam Newton will be the president of the United States after Mitt Ronmey.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

why does everyone hate on obama he got left with the crap that bush left him. he started in the hole people voted for him at first but know they change their minds it is not his fault people cant decide what they want.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
glander26(16) Disputed
2 points

still he made us momre into debt and he cant get us out of it and in stead of trying to get money he just wates more money

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

I believe that marijauna should not be legal. We have TONS of other drugs out there, and it's only to increase appeptite, not to actually serve as a cure. Weed is a drug for people that want to get high. Just get outta here....go do it illegally if you're gonna do it. We have no reason for it to be llegal. Most people just want it to get high, and it's twice as bad for your lungs than tobacco is.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
cptcrunch(19) Disputed
2 points

making drugs illegal is a waste of money and resources, there is no reason to NOT make them legal. people shuld have the choice of what they want to do with their body, the government should not be telling peope what the can do to themselves. if they want to do it, then they should be able to do it, and their probably going to do it anyway. its also terrible that the minimum sentence for murder is less then you can get for posession of marajuana.--http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/19/former-tv-skipper-gets-jail-in-fatal-alaska-crash/--possession of drugs can get you over 16 years.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
dustinbarber(10) Disputed
1 point

i totaly disagree with you not all drugs should be legal there would be so many crimes going on murder theft rape chemical drugs like crack herawin cocain all that stuff are just tarable i dont understand why someone would think things like this should be legal the only reason cannabis should be legal is because there are many good possative uses for it and all other drugs do not have any possative affects at all

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

conceal and carry is a good law because wisconsin is the 49'th state out of 50 to make a law of conceal and carry. the national rifle association reported this. if most stats made a law like this it must me a good law to have

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

I predict there will be a second civil war. every year our country grows more and more apart. the gap between the rich and poor grow and more and more riots are breaking out.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

I agree Maddie. Our country is so segragated when it comes to beliefs and opinions. It keeps driving us farther and farther apart..we have a shattered when it comes to being one country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Union

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI

i do not beleive illegal aleins should have any rights whatsoever, coming here illegaly forfited any rights you might have had. i also dontbelieve that illegal immagrants should be able to become a citizen by crossing the border illegally, and having a baby.the government should still kick them out.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
2 points

My topic is Abortion and whether it should be legalized or illegal. I think it should be illegal because you are killing a baby and thats not right.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

I agree with your opinion, because i personally think that if you think you are old enough to have sex then, you should be old enough to become a parent, the only way i think it would be okay is if the girl was raped and really wasn't ready to become a parent

Side: citizenship final discussion
carabardon(15) Disputed
1 point

This link has changed my viewpoint... http://www.lifenews.com/2010/04/05/nat-6223/

It states that women who go through sexual assault don't want abortion because it gives them more trauma.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Yeah, the woman shouldnt have to go through any more traumatic things happening in her life. Even though she has to go through the pregnancy she doesnt have to keep the baby. She would feel worse for killing it then giving it life and giving it to a family who will love it.

Side: citizenship final discussion
danlevan(14) Disputed
1 point

Such a controversial topic, Morgan... I agree with you that you shouldn't have the right to take the life of a human being before it is born. But then again we have the case in which the woman was raped, and has no means to support the child, nor a want/will/desire/etc. Should she have to go through with the pregnancy? If you say yes, then you are forcing on her the burden of childbirth and either putting the newborn up for adoption or caring for it. If you say no, then the human being will lose its life... to be honest, I couldn't decide one way or the other.

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html

This link backs up my opinion and explains how they weren’t disrupting anything or anyone, so why make big deal about it

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

I would like to bring up the controversial topic of Abortion. I think that abortion is more of a crime than a solution to pregnancy. I don't think that a baby's life should be taken away because someone else's life did. Also, there are other altenatives to abortion like adoption, parenting classes, and financial aid and stuff.

http://www.dailyorange.com/2.8691/abortion-is-one-of-the-most-controversial-issues-in-america-1.1241310

http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

yes i agree with you brent on how abortion is wrong to do. No matter if the mom wants to have to baby. If she doesn't want to have it than why don't the at least have it removedd from the mom.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

very true i mean people go to jail for murder like all the time. what about thtose moms that aborted there baby's isnt that murder too. and the doctors who did the operarion. plus it was illegal to abort before and possibly since then our contry has gone down hill from there.

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

I believe in the death penalty, but to a certain point. Some prisons take it too far, but if a murderer has killed more than one person after being let out of jail I think she should be put to death. Some people are mentally insane, but I do think everyone deserves a second chance, no matter what. This isn't a very popular topic, but it annoys me that it's not legal in a lot of places. I don't want serial killers in our state, or even in our world. I don't care if they're "Safely locked away." i have no idea what their living conditions are, and if I'm safe. They're are lots of ways they can escape no matter what people say. It makes me scared. The death penalty should be legal everywhere so family can feel more safe in there homes. I think it would also scare people enough so more people might think twice before they go on a killing spree.

Side: citizenship final discussion
efohr(40) Disputed
1 point

What if you were in this situation, you want to be killed? No, I didn't think so. So I disagree with the death penalty. Prisoners do take it to far, but then they should get help for that. Not get killed right away. If one of your family member was a prisoner I'm sure you wouldn't want them dead even though there a problem. You would want to protect them.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I would deserve to die. Completely. I JUST said, that after the first time. You really think its okay to kill a bunch of people? No. It's really not. I wouldn't want to protect them. If one of my family members where in this situation, yes it would be sad. But sadly they would deserve it. Your post is dumb. I think this should be legal.

Side: citizenship final discussion
danlevan(14) Disputed
1 point

But sometimes the only punishment that is suitable for a person's crimes is the death penalty. Take, for example, Ted Bundy, the mass murder. He died on January 24, 1989 in an electric chair. You can't say he didn't deserve to die after taking the lives of over 30 other people!

Side: citizenship final discussion
elisesuttner(18) Disputed
1 point

I wish I could say I agree with that, but I can't say that death is ever the better decision. You are probably safer when serial killers are locked away than you realize. Wouldn't prision for life be a worse punishment anyway? You have to live with your decisions.

Side: citizenship final discussion
MorganK(12) Disputed
1 point

I think that you are wrong because you wouldnt be safer because people in jail can always be let out of jail. But i do agree that it would be a worse punishment, but i think that the persons family who got murdered would rather feel safe knowing that the person who took their families life is no longer alive.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

No elise. No. I accidently put this in supporting but that was on accident obvziz!!!!! If you're locked away, you could be given a life-sentence, but you also could be given a year amount term. Which just keeps them away for a while.. what if theyre let out of prison and go back to killing again. It is not safe to have serial killers walking around!! That means that you could be sitting right next to one right now and not even know it, i mean look behind you

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with this because the reality is that if the person has killed more than once, obviously they don't care about human life, so I believe that it is right for them to get the death penalty. I think that if someone is a repeat offender that they really shouldn't be given another chance to ruin people's lives.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Exactly. and thats what I'm trying to say elise and liz. If you are repeatedly killing people, your honestly asking to be put to death. A lot of serial killers are mentally insane anyways. I don't want them around my family, one person or two people? Fine be put in jail and deal with the guilt. But more than that? Are you serious Elise and Liz? Thats just not humanly right. Think about what all these people are going through, and that person is sitting there laughing about it. Thats NOT okay.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i agree because if the person is in jail for killing someone, i think that it would be okay to say that you don't deserve a second chance. Think about it i mean it could help cut down the number of murders we have in our state or country or world what ever.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree i think that sometimes they dont really deserve it because some might have mental illnesses, but i think it should be legal because people should pay for killing people by them being killed, its just fair.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

The US/Mexico border should be monitored more on the United States side.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Agreed because there are too many people being able to jump it and start lives over in the U.S. The mexicans should go get a passport if they really want to cross the border that bad. If they can't afford one... sad times.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I argree Michael a lot of the times, mexicans come here to start over.. but that can become a little judgemental.. because not all mexicans are like that. They are all judged just because of their herritage.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with this. We are letting them into our country and cross the border way to easily. Some of them are criminals and getting into our country as free men. If we see them crossing the border, we should take authority and shoot them down.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i agree with this because they are getting into our country and distroying it and crimianals are going to jail. I think if they cross the border we should shoot them down.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i totally agre, states such as texas go broke because they have to spend millons each year patroling the border, when most mexicans get accross anyways and the ones who are caught just get back to mexico and try to cross again. i think that the u.s should have a policy on shooting down illegal immigrants as soon as we see them crossing the border. this would save lots money going into patrols, jails, and shipping them back to mexico

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree strongly. We need to more strongly prevent illegal immigrants from coming here. Our economy is frail and we do not need them taking more and more jobs that Americans could have right now. It's very bad and they need to be shot down.

Side: citizenship final discussion

i agree theres way to many coming over and taking all the jobs

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i also agree because they are all taking our jobs and we dont get the jobs then.

Side: citizenship final discussion
jerweigert(17) Disputed
1 point

The immigrants get the jobs because were lazy and they know that you have to work to get things. they get the jobs because they work for them and dont just expect them.

Side: citizenship final discussion
addymiller(12) Disputed
1 point

I agree because more and more people coming across the border are coming into our country and taking the jobs out of americans hands.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Yeah really. If they wanted to be in the U.S., get a passport because they will be caught at some point. They shouldn't be jumping the border. It takes away the jobs we provide for Americans.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree because Long ago if they would come to the US they would have to learn english and some mexicans are not very friendly..... most, I think, cause all the trouble...

Side: citizenship final discussion
cole meyer(-1) Disputed
1 point

true but they shouldnt be allowed in hear because the more we let in the more people we have hear and we dont have enough jobs so letting them in would cause higher crime rates

Side: citizenship final discussion
anjetzer(14) Disputed
1 point

agree i think there are still to many people that are still geting over the board and that drugs are geting smuged

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree again because there is alot of people in the US as there is.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i agree there is way to many people and the mexican should stop crossing the border.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree, if they weren't able to cross the border, we'd have more jobs. Many people that come over don't even learn English and they kill people when they come over!!!!!!

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexcalteux1(19) Disputed
1 point

I believe that people shouldnt be able to come into this country and think that they are free and able to do anything they want when they arent even legal. I think that we should have soldiers protecting the border.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree they are taking jobs without education and don't even know our language but think they can live here. They are all criminals and the link is for the Pros and Cons of boder control

Supporting Evidence: Pros&Cons;Of Border Control (immigration.about.com)
Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

agreed, more people are comming over and thats causing more trouble for us that we can handle. it also starts more gangs and fight and shooting. badddd mexicans

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I think that it is a good thing that we use computers for Citizenship calss. It can make our research even better, so that we can learn more.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree because there is alot on the computer which means there is alot to learn.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I also agree because computers are way more interesting than a paper. and also you can lose a computer as easy as a paper

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with this. Not only are these computers helping us learn and take lessons and find information online, we are saving paper and everything we write or talk about we have on our computer. We dont have to shuffle through papers or folders to find an assignment

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Abortion-

I think that girls should get abortion if she gets raped or is too young to take care for that baby. Girls that just don’t want a baby shouldn’t get an abortion because they are pretty much killing that baby. I also think its the women's choice because its their body.

Side: citizenship final discussion
addymiller(12) Disputed
1 point

I agree with abortion if a girl gets raped, but if a girl finds out that she is pregnant, i think they should have to choice to have an abortion, because they might not be able to provide for it and give the baby the life it deserves.

Side: citizenship final discussion
cole meyer(-1) Disputed
1 point

aboshion is unaceptible because ur kill a person and if you get raped you should of hit the gym so u coulda beet them up

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with this because some girls might not have the money for the propper care of a baby. But I also think that there should be a limit on how many times you can get an abortion because other wise some girls might abuse the power of abortion.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree Tessa! if youre raped..and you're 16 years old. How can anyone expect you to pay for the baby and go through the pain. It's not right. There are certain limits to who should be able to abort though for sure!

Side: citizenship final discussion
glander26(16) Disputed
1 point

i agree. its one thing to do it on purpos and abort it, thats wrong, but if a girl gets raped shes not ready for it, and its a big responsability for her to take care of it

Side: citizenship final discussion
MichaelB1(16) Disputed
1 point

She could be too young to take care of it but that doesn't mean that adoption isn't an option.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i think abortion is fine, and that it should be the girls choice of what she wants to do. i see it as having four choices: having the baby and raising it yourself,giving up the baby for adoption, sending the baby to a foster home, or getting it aborted, i have no problem with any of theese options. i dont think that the government shoud get in they way of that, and tell women what they have to do with their baby.

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexcalteux1(19) Disputed
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Abortion is not fine!! Girls shouldnt have the right to kill a baby. If they dont want a baby to care for or give it for adoption, then they shouldnt have sex, and should really care for themselves and make sure there is no possible way that they would get raped.

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dustinbarber(10) Disputed
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i think abortion is just tarable why have unprotected sex if you dont want to take the risk of getting pregnent they make condoms for a reason dont do it if you dont want a kid its not cool to kill babys just because you were to ignorint to be safe.

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cjhauser(15) Disputed
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Abortion is used as BIRTH CONTROL, in our country. Less than 1/5 of the abortion cases are because of rape. Most of them are unplanned pregnancy's and they just use abortion so they don't have the responsibility of taking care of the baby. They should at least try to supported it and not just get an abortion right away

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

In the despute with Bethel vs. Matt Fraser, I completely agree with the decision that the supreme court ruled, in that freedom of speech only works when it does not disrupt the learning of others.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I think that the court should've voted for Matt Fraser. Because he has the right of speech and can say anything he wants. They were not in class at the time, so people's learning wan't disrupted.

Side: citizenship final discussion
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i also think that the case should have gone to faser. you have the right to say what you want, you cant always determine what a person really meant by what they said. fasers speech could be viewed as appropriate or border-line inapropriate, but i do not think that is was inappropriate enough to take away his right of free speech in his senior graduation.

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I think you are right there, Addy. There's no reason why Matt Fraser had to write his speech the way he did, or deliver it in the manner which he did. His choice to do so disrupted the learning of others, and so I agree with the Supreme Court's decision. Fraser overexercised his freedom of speech and did so unnecessarily.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I think that Scott Walker shouldn't be recalled because he is saving us 30 million dollars and over 2 years, 300 million dollars. All government workers are crying because they didn't have to pay healthcare before like everyone else and now they have to start paying it like they should've.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i agree because Scott Walker actually took action and did something about it, and in my mind made it more fair in the way that everyone now has to pay for healthcare

Side: citizenship final discussion
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Yeah. I think that people should stop crying just because they have to pay for healthcare. Too bad, because now they are just like everyone else.

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I agree, he has saved the state so much money with the budget repair bill. These gorvernment workers are having a hissy fit becasue they have to pay like everyone else does. There is so much money going into this recall effort and it is so stupid. Suck it up and work like everyone else has to.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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Michael it was teachers like those people that were not haveing to pay for there healthcare thats why if you remeber all the teachers last year always were taking about it

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree Scott Walker has saved Wisconsin a lot of money. We were in major debt and Scott Walker helped us out of it. Other jobs don't allow paid HealthCare and other jobs shouldn't either. Right now he is helping this state move forward.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Walker just made everything equal for everyone. Now, everyone has to pay health care and all the other union things. Walker is moving Wisconsin forward more then he is moving it back. Walker should NOT be recalled

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree that scott walker should not be recalled he is moving us foward

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree Kassi. To be honest, he did everything he said he was going to do when the people of Wisconsin elected him. It's not like they didn't know what was coming or what was going ot happen. I just think that the whole thing is stupid. I saw some people in front of Walmart holding up recall Walker signs. So dumb, what a waste of time.

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there should be no recall for walker because its a big waste of money and he is makeing the state better but its taking him a long time

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree, Walker is helping our state, not hurting it. He's making the economy better

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

If people just wait a little longer, everthying will come into place and he will fix the state. He is doing absolutely nothing wrong at running our government.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

correct, the tea recall and wall street protests have cost the government thousands that could have been put into schools but instead are spent on something else created by thee protests.

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glander26(16) Disputed
1 point

why does it matter we already wasted alot of money on him. what if he doesnt make it better like obama was trying adn we used a lot of money to try adn make it better and its still not

Side: citizenship final discussion
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Agreed. It's taking a long time because the plan is supposed to take time and it will make everything better in the end.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i agree because the whole recall thing is absolutley rediculous. We dont have the money to be recalling someone who helped our economy and continues to help us.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Yeah, they are faking a lot of the signatures, like one is Hitler and another is Mickey Mouse. That's screwed up! Plus to make it look ligit, they add adresses that arn't even their's. People get a life!

Side: citizenship final discussion
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this is a link to an article about sopa--http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/18/sopa-what-it-is-and-why-its-bad/

sopa is a bill that would restrict and censor the internet in an atempt to stop internet piracy and scams. The bill is being protested by large internets sites and browsers such as google, and wikipedia this is because the bill alows to much control and censorship by the government. that is why i dont think that the bill will be passed until more rstrictions are plassed on the bill to prevent eexcessive government conrol.

Side: citizenship final discussion
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I believe that Sopa shouldn't be passed. If we allow the government to censor and edit the Internet, we will be told lies and any the news will be twisted and incorrect. They will block out any secrets or conspiracies that may led people agaisnt want they are doing

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The 2012 Presidential electons are coming up and I think Mitt Romney will win. I think our country needs a change and Mitt Romney can do this. I believe this is because Mitt Romney is a moderate republican meaning he is farther toward the status quo instead of being more of a conservative. I think the U.S. needs a president like this, instead of going from one extreme to the other and messing things up even more.

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I agree that he should be president too. He will most likely be president because he is more in the middle. People that are in the status quo are most likely to vote for him and not Obama

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Agreed. He would be a lot better than Barrack Osama. Romney knows what he is talking about and will do well for this country.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree because I think we need some better changes We havent really gotten far with the president now.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Also, our government would be worse like Greece. Greece needs other countries to bail it out, and we don't want to become like Greece.

read this article to learn more about the situation in Greece

Supporting Evidence: Greece Bailout (www.cbc.ca)
Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Can bullying always be a bad thing? if you think about it, some people use bullying as a way to make them stronger themselves. yeah it still may hurt them inside but you never really knoe if it does hurt thm or not.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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it AWAYS will hert people, but the reason why its a big thing is because you here about the bullying that ends up with somone dying unless your Tim Tebow and take those bad things and uses them as fuel

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1 point

I disagree that why people make fun of him because he is christian a lot of people are christians.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

actually no. you dont just head about the bad thing FYI. you hear about everything its just inly the bad things end up on the news. it may not aLWAYS hurt people.. why dont you go as some people who have been bullied and see if it does hurt them. they might actually say it made them tronger. think

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I don't think bullying is always a bad thing. People do grow strong and learn from it. But excesive bulling and hurtful words can being down the person being bullied. They should be able to suck it up, its ok but up to a point where it's just mean and hurtful.

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anjetzer(14) Disputed
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i agree cam bulling it is a bad think if its ever day and to a max but it cases some people can use that to get stronger and can change people for the good

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MadisonJewel(13) Disputed
1 point

Bullying is a horrible thing. It doesn't happen to everyone so they don't know how it personally feels to have someone tear you down everyday with hurtful words and actions. Anyone who is bullying should have punishment of somesort. Look at that kid in Kiel, he was being bullied. he killed himself. If bullying continues for certain people they start to think the only way out is suicide. it is horrible

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Bullying is never a good thing! I don't get how you can say its good up to a point. Especially because it causes deaths every year..

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kflanagan(16) Disputed
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I can see your point that sometimes it helps you grow, but in that process someone else is always getting hurt. When you hurt someone else it affects them more than it helps you grow so yes bulling is always a bad thing.

Side: citizenship final discussion
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I agree that someone is always getting hurt when someone bullies someone else. According to stopbullying.gov, people who are bullied, people who bully others, and people who witness bullying are all affected. Some of the affects to these people are really shocking and sad.

http://www.stopbullying.gov/topics/effects/index.html

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SallyPaese(16) Disputed
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I think it depeneds on how bad the bullying is. If the bullying is actually physical, it is definetly wrong. If the bully also verbally abuses the person into thinking they are worthless, that is also wrong. But children do need to grow up with some bullying. Small name calling and stuff like that does make them stronger and shows them that not everyone in the world is perfectly nice.

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rgiese4(15) Disputed
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Yes bullying is a bad thing but on the other hand it does make some people get stronger and that they just have to think about like if they can give it they should be able to take it to. And something that people just have fun some people just have to take it as a joke and not take it to heart right away.

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SallyPaese(16) Disputed
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If the bullying is bad enough it can have horrible effects on the kid. They have higher risk of depression, their grades can drop, they may have thoughts of suicide, they are more likely to miss school, and a lot more. Unless its just joking, bullying is bad.

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carabardon(15) Disputed
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You'll never know why people are bullies unless you know what they're going through.. but sitll its never right. Theres other ways to cope, but they don't know how so they take it out on other people. Bullying is the most common form of violence in our society according to this link between 15% and 30% of students are bully victims.

http://www.nasponline.org/resources/factsheets/bullying_fs.aspx

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1 point

Abortion means to pretty much kill the growing baby inside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
1 point

its not pretty much. it is killing the baby. even getting an abortion in the first couple weeks is the same as killing a full size human. in the first few weeks that baby has already had its own heart beat and has arms and legs

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1 point

taxes i think that the rich should have to pay more taxes the the lower classes

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

you want to tax them now but if you ever get rich you will think the other way. tax them about the same this is soupose to be a equal.

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i agree because all the rich people have more money so they should be taxed more

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rgiese4(15) Disputed
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Yes that is true that they have more money but I don’t think that they should have to pay more money. I think that the taxes should be the same for everybody. That’s like saying you are rich give me some of your money. And if you were rich would you want to give up your money?

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I think the rich should get us out of dept because if they have sooooooo much money and barely usu it for good why wont start doing good by getting us out of dept.

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shanaynay151(13) Disputed
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Yes I agree something should be done about the fact that 1% has most the money but that doesn't mean take from the rich, Some of them are surgeons or people who actually work for a living. I understand that famous singers adn actors dont fall into that catagory and they have an unfair advantage but hing about it this way we get a live and we have a choice they mostly have their life planned for them, Would you really want that?

Side: citizenship final discussion
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ya i agree. since they are making all of the money then why shouldn't they be paing higher taxes than us.

Side: michael barnard
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

I HAVE TO SUPPORT THIS AND DISPUTE THIS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SOME LOWER CLASS PEOPLE CANT PAY THEIR TAZES BUT AT THE SAME TIME FOR EXAMPLE MY UNCLE MADE A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS LAST YEAR FROM WORKING ALL DAY 16 HOURS A DAY..PEOPLE LIKE HIM SHOULDNT BE TAKED AS MUCH AS THEY ARE BECAUSE ITS NOT RIGHT TO TAKE AWAY THE MONEY A HARDWORKING PERSON MADE BY THEMSELVES.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Abortion, or the termination of pregnancy, is wrong and should be abolished. All life is sacred and should be kept safe. Many other people believe that in certain cases such as rape and disabled babies, abortion should be an option for those people. I believe that even in these cases, abortion should not be allowed. Only if the pregnant woman and the baby are at risk due to health issues should it be acceptable.

Side: michael barnard
bmusiedlak(14) Disputed
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But what if the girl had no chice and got pregrenant. Its not her fault and I think she should be able to use abortion.

Side: michael barnard
cjhauser(15) Disputed
1 point

But most of America is using abortion as a birth control. Less than a fourth of abortion cases are because of rape. Most of them are un-planed pregnancy's, and she should at least try to support it first. She shouldn't just abort it right away and basicly kill it before it lives.

Side: michael barnard
glander26(16) Disputed
1 point

i agree with you on half, if you get pregnate becasue you do it on purpos then i feel you should have it, but if you do get raped at a young age would you really wat to keep it? its hard enough to get money, but when you get pregnate out of choice you have time to plann for it, and if you get raped you shooud be able to abort it.. there would be no way to support it at a young age

Side: michael barnard
SallyPaese(16) Disputed
1 point

I do feel a lot of sympathy for girls in that situation but its a chance for them to turn such a horrible event into something beautiful that they can watch grow and be proud of. If the girl is young and pregnancy is a health issue for her, that is the only way that abortion would be okay. Abortion is murder. It is wrong.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Agreed. If someone was raped or something like that they should just put the baby up for adoption instead of taking a life.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

But what if the mother cant afford the proper care to go throught pregnecy. Also if a girl gets raped is she supposed to have a child she didn't even try for.

Side: michael barnard
cole meyer(-1) Disputed
1 point

touff get a job work ask your parents or the rapest for some money

Side: michael barnard
SallyPaese(16) Disputed
1 point

Like i said, being raped is horrible, but its a chance to turn something terrible into something great. Even if she has trouble paying for it. Do you think murder is a better choice than trying your hardest to get proper care for the child?

Side: citizenship final discussion

Abortion is used as a birth control for some people. They abort their child, a growing, living human being, because they don't want the responsibility of raising it. Human life should be valued.

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levia1(11) Disputed
1 point

it is fine if you were raped but other then that it shouldn't be used. but you cant single out people and only say only rape victims can get abortion. the country is based off equality.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

No matter what people say, abortion is wrong. All life is sacred. Abortion is murder. Its not any different than killing an adult. It may even be worse. If you abort a child, it never gets a chance to live! In know way is it okay to kill a baby except for health risks. Besides, abortion clinics rely on taxpayer's money. Do you really want to be paying for the killing of unborn children. Abortion needs to be abolished.

http://www.abortionsarewrong.com/2011/10/dangerous-facts-on-abortion/

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JonGideon(12) Disputed
1 point

I agree that is abortion is wrong, unless someone is raped. If someone is raped, they should be allowed to have an abortion. If you force them to have the baby, that would wreck there life. Plus, the baby would have a really bad life too. Would you rather have one good life, or two bad lives?

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kflanagan(16) Disputed
1 point

But if the girl is raped she should have the choice. I understand that you can make it something great but it would also be a constant reminder of something horrible. Can you imagine looking at your child at a age as young as 13 and alwyas seeing the guys face that did it to you. I think it would be worse for the child. And would if having the baby influenced the girls health. Woulud if she wasn't able to have a baby when she actually wanted one.

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SallyPaese(16) Disputed
1 point

But think about it. Killing is better? If you were the child wouldnt you rather have the chance to live? And like I said before, if the pregnancy is a health risk, thats the only way abortion is okay.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Strongly agreed!!!!! They're killling innocent babies. There are ways to pervent you from having babies. You could take birth control pills. Even then, I don't like it but it's better then having an abortion. Think about it, there are mothers that are killing their babies just because they made bad decisions.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i agree kassi. for those who use it as birth control, that is awful. Use a type of birth control that isnt murder.

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1 point

Some people say other birth control is readily available; thus, abortion shouldn't be a form of birth control.

http://www.balancedpolitics.org/abortion.htm

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

US Border. If someone from Mexico wants to come to the United States, get a passport. The reason they are sneaking over most of the time is to bring drugs over with them. If this is the case, I feel the US border patrol has all right to shoot them. A lot of the people come to the United States come over illegally and cannot speak English. I feel if you want to come to this country and live here, you should know how to speak there language. Especially the illegal ones. In California, students in one school would say the Pledge of Allegiance once in English and once in Spanish. This is where I think if you come here you should be able to speak the country’s language.

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I agree. The illegal immigrants are out of control. I think the U.S. should put up a large electrified fence or something to try to keep them out. With the "border jumpers" coming over illegally, they are taking jobs away from true American citizens. Also most of them can' speak English which also means they can't read it. These people are on the roads driving, and if they don't read a sign correctly then they put themselves and others in danger.

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dustinbarber(10) Disputed
1 point

that is tarable why would you say something like that thats like saying we cant travel the world cause we cant speak the language that they speak. they reason they come here is because there countries are ran by drug lords not every one that comes over here brings drugs.

Side: citizenship final discussion

I think that the Walker recall is a big waste of time and they should just stop the recall.

because if they wasted all this time and money to do the recall and he doesn't get recalled then that was a waste of time and money.

Side: the Walker recall
1 point

you just repeated yourself like 4 times so that you would have a 50 character post

Side: the Walker recall

I agree 9 MILION because "he isnt doing good enough and we ar lossing money" haha we just hurt our selves

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Harassment hurts many people but what is the purpose of that when all harassment does is hurt people and cause trouble to the world. If only harassment was out of the equation would the world be better or worse without harassment.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

If harassment was gone I think people would just find different ways to hurt people. Although I do agree with this, i think people would just still get hurt over all

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Do you agree on concealed fire arm? I don't becasue if people started getting guns the gangs would be become more dangerous and they are already killing peole with there guns. I hope they do not pass that law because it will become more dangerous.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree with the gang thing but also what if everyone had a gun? Then if gangs did attack people would feel safe and also if something went wrong like a robbery or something they would feel much safer as to if they didn't have a gun.

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexkrueger(15) Disputed
1 point

with that law in action, it states you can carry a fireame with a permit. It DOESNT give you permition to shoot up the city. gangs all over wisconsin were carrying guns before the law, and they always will.

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bclark(19) Disputed
1 point

Concealed fire arms is a little confusion gone big because people are saying can you be trusted with a fire arm and protect yourself or are you not trusted with a fire arm and can't protect yourself.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
1 point

i do not agree with concealed fire arm because now everyone can carry around a gun, and people are going to become trigger happy, and lives are going to be at state.

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rgiese4(15) Disputed
1 point

I believe that they should have the concealed and carry because it will be safer. Yes it might let the gangs have guns but then you can have a gun to protect yourself. So you have the same advantage as them. And it helps with the hunter’s allot because you do not need to unload your handgun that you would have for protection in the woods for bears or other animals.

Side: citizenship final discussion
lerks6(11) Disputed
1 point

i disagree because why would you want them to have guns so they can just kill us

Side: citizenship final discussion
MadisonJewel(13) Disputed
1 point

All of the gangs have been carrying weapons probably since they could walk. Concealed carry is giving the LEGAL people a chance to protect themselves in case a dangerous situation comes up. Most building do not permit and guns on their property which make things safer.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
anjetzer(14) Disputed
1 point

i agree but the thing is gangs are using more biger weapons the consiled carrie is just for small arms like pistals

Side: Concealed Carry Permit

the concealed carry was good and bad. because not everybody can get it. only people that took all the courses.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
cptcrunch(19) Disputed
1 point

i belive concealed carry is a good idea because peole should have the freedom to carry a concealed weapon. its not like unconceale carry was illegal, why should concealed carry be?

i also think that there should not be any government regulations and restrictions on guns, you have the right to bear arms, and no government should be messing with that.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

i still think its a bad thing though because they will kill people that are innocent.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

If we did not sign the bill of rights our country would not be able to function. I think our government would be a democracy the people would have no say in anything. The government would be in complete control and would get rid of anyone saying against them. There would have been a huge fight because people were scared that they wouldn't get one so by not having one people would be really mad.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

I believe that they shouldn't have to have a green card. They should have the same chances as us. They should be able to come to the United States because they are people just like us. And it you really think about it no one really owns land, land is just there. And also on the other side we do not need anything to go to the other countries but when you come to the United States then you do.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

Yeah but we can't just allow a million people to come and live in this country if they thik they'll have a better life than in their country. Our country isn't doing good and many people already here arnt doing good. The only reason why I think people should just stay where there at unless they have a really good job offfer.

Side: Concealed Carry Permit
1 point

i agree, if people come here and expect to get a good living there gonna be in some trouble. we already in debt and if mre people start comming were going to becoe in more debt

Side: Concealed Carry Permit

Computers help us a lot because if we didn't have them we couldn't learn about stuff that isn't in books and we wouldn't be able to search for information on a specific topic and just be able to learn. so without computers we would be pretty dumb...

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Most of the time but keep in mind that computers are most of all the information we know in a bow with numbers and keys.

Side: citizenship final discussion
anjetzer(14) Disputed
1 point

i agree computers help use expan on are knowlage if we didnt have computers we would almost kinda have a domocrcy we would only now the stuff from books and tv

Side: citizenship final discussion
lerks6(11) Disputed
1 point

i disagree with you because you dont have to be smart by using a computer it mabye just help you a little bit

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Abortion exposes women to various health risks and the danger of losing fertility.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

A lot of the illegal Mexicans are responsible for shootings and drug dealing. The United States today is sending any illegal immigrant from Mexico or Canada back to their country with no punishments. The reason the US/Canada border isn’t a big problem because a lot of them have a passport. It’s hard for anyone to pick out an illegal immigrant from Canada in the US because they all look like they’re from here. This doesn’t concern the United States as much as the Mexican border because a lot of drugs (Marijuana) come from Mexico and very few if any from Canada.

http://www.usborderpatrol.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_–_United_States_ border

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

But what if the Canadians are more harmful than the Mexcians. They should watch each border very well, because it could be very harmful either way.

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexkrueger(15) Disputed
1 point

But they arent, thats the thing. just look at pictures of the border. theres a big diffference.

Side: citizenship final discussion
levia1(11) Disputed
1 point

Canadians aren't harmful we have never Had problems with Canada. the main problem is with Mexico that is the border they need to watch

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

That should be delt with a little differently cause why are we helping illegal people cross and still have the nurve to say there bad for our country.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/18/pagan-mom-challenges-bibles-in-north-carolina-school/

north carolina school gives out donated bibles to any interested students, pegan mom gets upset when school does not exept pegan spell books. the first amendment calls for the speration of curch and state, so i think that school will have to stop giving out selective relegious material.

Side: citizenship final discussion

Okay so if someone was going to buy a house then they would need the computer to look at it and see how many bedrooms and all that stuff. Then if they want to go take a look inside they need to use the computer to email or use a phone to call the seller and ask for a view of the house that they were looking at on the computer.

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cptcrunch(19) Disputed
1 point

i aggre that computers and cell phones are helpful in todays society, but they are not a necessity. people forgrt that you dont need any of theese things, if you want to see a house often times there are brochures and other documents you can get to get info from, you can also talk to the realtor about the house. if you ant to talk, or go see the house, you can always see the reltor, or send paper mail. its not that difficult, though is a bit more inconvenient.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I believe that in the conceal and carry in Wisconsin that was a good idea. I think it was a good idea because you don't have to have the gun in a case anymore while its in your truck but it has to be unloaded and you can also have it in the window of your truck as long as its unloaded. Also you have to have a 4 hour training course you have to pass then you can carry a gun

Side: citizenship final discussion
levia1(11) Disputed
1 point

it should be cased still. If you don't have it cased how is a law enforcement officer supposed to know it isn't loaded. they could arrest you for if they think it could be loaded

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

if an officer thinks its loaded you'll be shot. if he thinks your posing as a threat he'll put you down for safety of others.

Side: citizenship final discussion
alexkrueger(15) Disputed
1 point

you didnt say why it was a good idea. you just said that you can show that world your unloaded gun in your truck window

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

its a bad idea if you have it showing and you go up to a school. thts a good way to get arrested, yeah its legal now but there still not safe around schools. if you do have it in your window you got just in huge trouble.

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agreed because some people were probly carrying gunsaround in there trucks before this law was passed

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Yes and also there is like only two states in the United States that does not have the concealed and carry. All the other states have them. So I don’t see what the big deal is with the concealed and carry why people don’t like it. I just don’t believe that you should have to go to a 4 hour class just for it. What is a class really going to do because most people are not going to get a handgun if they do not know anything about handguns.

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carmello1515(10) Disputed
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so many more people ar going to get killed and it will just be bad but good at the same time. so i think im more torwards the no side so i say no to the conceled carry law...

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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How will it be good that people are going to be killed? whats wrong with you?

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Discrimination-

Discrimination is a huge problem today as it has been hundreds of years ago. It is present in all places, work environment, schools, online, etc. The problem is so bad that we now have laws against it. People go home after work feeling horrible because others make them, so even come to the oint of suicide. Discrimination is something that couldbe so easily solved if people just didnt think they were better than each other. People today think they are better than every one and hold such high standards that no one can meet. Its every where andit needs to be solved.

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i agree. people shouldnt have to go through this. if sucide is the answer isnt something wrong with that? people need to start respecting eachother

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I agree completely. Discrimination is an action that treats people unfairly because of their membership in a particular social group. Discriminatory behaviors take many forms, but they all involve some form of exclusion or rejection. There are different types of discrimination still found around today such as racism, sexism, and religious discrimination. Many people today are discriminated due to disabilities or sexuality, too.

Any type of discrimination is not okay. Inside, we are all the same. We are all God’s people and should all be treated equally. No one is perfect. Everyone should accept that. It’s not alright for you to discriminate against someone else when you have flaws too.

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Also, discrimination starts with stereotypes and before long we start to treat people by the way of their stereotype.

People tend to stick people who are like them. And due to misinformation, ignorance, and fear of differences, people make prejudices against people who are not like them.

I also thought about how everyone discriminates. We learn it from the media, parents, or peers. Although most do not try to, it just happens.

http://alexandriava.gov/humanrights/info/default.aspx?id=368

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i agree it is awfull. we are all human after all so why hate on what somone else thinks or does.

"Discrimination is a disease."

Roger Staubach

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Yes, it hurts people when they are discriminated agaisnt. Eventually everyone is going to be hurt because no one is good enough for the next person. This needs to stop now.

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This is a great website that supports you, Katelyn. It really shows how discrimination starts.

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/discrim/id_8_ud_race.asp

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I agree, we shouldn't be quick to judge someone just because they are a certain race, religion, gender, etc. I think that discrimination is all about leaping to judgments, and it causes feelings of hurt and hate between people. Discrimination is a problem today and has been a problem forever. I think we need to learn how to be accepting and non-judgmental.

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a common typesof bullying is cyber bullying this link shows how many kids actually get bulyed over the iternet, but i really dont get why. Kids think there so cool becasue they can say mean things online when in reality, if they saw that same person at school they wouldnt say it to their face.

Supporting Evidence: Cyber bullying (www.cyberbullying.us)
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I agree beacuse saying crap over the internet is just like saying you dont have the balls to say it to thare face but offten it caries into the real world and people get in fights over what other people say online and sometimes people get draged into it who werent even in it in the 1st place

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The reason it is happening so much is because those people are afraid of saying it to their face and possibly face repercussions of their words.

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i agree cyber bulling is over rated i think if you want to say something about some one say it to there face and see what happens

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Wisconsin being highest in drunk driveing how can we fix this and lower our ratings

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this is just me but i think we can fix this by not drinking and driving.

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bclark(19) Disputed
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Easier said than done, i wish things could happen like that but people today who do that want to live the dumbest life there is in the world.

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rgiese4(15) Disputed
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Well that will be hard to do because look at it now they have been trying to stop it for several years and it’s not happening. Also like at Milwaukee we make beer. Also you just can go and say stop to everyone and don’t drink and drive so it is not going to do them any good

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i think its going to be hard but we will beable to change that over time

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to lower our ratings, we should maybe not drink as much and not drink and drive. we also need to push the law more for the age of 21 becasue kids under the age of 21 still do it and get into accidents for driving, if we can stress the law that might help.

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and alot of accidents are from kids under age drinking and driving because no one realy pushes that law people arnt asking for ideas

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cptcrunch(19) Disputed
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i completly disagree with the legal drinking age. 21 is ridiculus. if you legay become an adult at 18 then you should be able to drink then too. this is also a stupid law because when you turn 18 you can join the militay, become a highly trained killer and go out to war and risk your life for your country, but your country wont let you drink alcohol or purchase 308 ammo until you turn 21.--http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333790,00.html

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I personally dont think it is going to change much since wisconsin is kind of known for drinking, so i think over time it may change, but it is going to be a challenge.

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Do you think more strict laws and penalties would make people drink and drive less?

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I agree, its embarassing living in the state with the highest amount of drunk drivers. It's mainly because of milwaukee which is known for brewing beer.

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The 2008 U.S. presidential elections brought new attention to the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, the free trade bloc uniting Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. governments all broadly support NAFTA, but while campaigning the leading U.S. Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, said they wanted to renegotiate aspects of the deal.

http://www.cfr.org/economics/naftas-economic-impact/p15790

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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who ever this is can you please put it in english or your own worlds? I dont think anyone can understand it.

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carallo is Anthony i think he coped and pasted thats why its had to under stand its in big words

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MichaelB1(16) Disputed
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Hmm is this a copy paste again? It looks like the same thing over and over again. It doesn't make sense because it's not in your own words.

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I believe abortion should be illegal because it’s murder with a different name. Murder is absolutely not acceptable in our society, so what makes people think murdering an innocent, developing child is acceptable? No matter how the woman got pregnant, she should not have abortion as an option. There are other options once the child is born, such as adoption. Abortion should not be one of those options.

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Democrats_vs._Republicans#Abortion

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even if you do go through adoption, that takes a LONG time to go through. if you got raped then that should be an option. if you got raped you would keep it. if you had to choose the life between you and your baby you wouldnt kill it?

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Jones vs Clear Creek- i believe that prayer in school should be allowed because religion to me is way more important than school, and that you should be able to show your religion where ever you want to, i mean its just like praying before you eat lunch or something. http://prezi.com/ikrykrjf7j0u/jones-v-clear-creek-isd/

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i agree with you opinion because you religion is something you have your whole life and schools only a short portion of it,not saying schools not important, but as long as you open-minded about other peoples religion otherwise you going back on your word and your being hypocritical and not having a open mind about other people.

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if you aren't disrupting anyone else it is fine but it is not OK if it is led/held by the school

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I'm not a very religious person but I do agree with you. People should have the right to express their beliefs however they want as long as it doesn't go too far. If it starts violating the law and hurting people, then there's a problem.

A useful link presenting both sides of the argument: http://prezi.com/ikrykrjf7j0u/jones-v-clear-creek-isd/

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exactly, maggie. its a free country, its in our constitution that we can express our religion and belifs however we want but when it goes too far, there needs to be a stop to it.

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I bealieve the computers can help the students with being more efficient and knowagealbe about anything with the internet with millions of webstes and oppions and hard faces from millions of websites apposing one text book with acuple statements about what you are trying to learn about. I learned about the democrat and republican parties when i didnt realy get it from the book i found websites that help me understand what they were with a simple website and then start going to harder and more in-depth webites and you can build on whe you know with different knowable sources and if i didn't understand what they were saying i would just look back

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benholzmann(9) Disputed
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I don't think computers help, i learned more out of the text book and don't work sheets out of the text book i can understand it better and learn more and everything is right there but with a computer you have to go to a bunch of different websites just to find the right thing you want to find i mean computers are nice to have its just i think you can learn better with text book and worksheets

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levia1(11) Disputed
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they would be great if they could really monitor what we did because kids might just play games on the computers and not do work

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msikora(11) Disputed
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thats true but the schools put blockes on websites but there will always be hackers and people who know what thare doing to get around these webstites so thare will always be that peoblem but if we talk the computers out people will just play games on thare ipods or phones or somethig

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Text books are dated and dont contain all of the information needed. The internet is an unlimited source of information.

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i Agree they help because if we didnt have them we wouldnt b able to expand on our knowlege

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Do you think pulling soldiers out of iraq was a good idea????? I do, but I also think that it may turn out to not be such a good idea, for Iran might come right back at us.

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i agree because if we would have left them there i dont know what would have happend to all the marines in iraq.

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I dont think that it was a good idea. I know that it is very dangerous but people enroll them selfs so their family members should agree with them going off to war. It think it was a bad idea in the long run and that business supllying things for the war arent going to have business now.

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levia1(11) Disputed
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they wont come back, if anything we helped there country more then we hurt it. the only reason they would is we were there for no reason.

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I think that taking the soldiers was a good idea and I agree with you addy.

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I do if we do that people who has there mothers and fathers at stake should be puled out of iraq a-sap. Wouldn't you what your mother or father home a-sap from a war i sure would.

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rgiese4(15) Disputed
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I don't think that we should pull the soldiers out of Iraq. Because one they Will come back right at us and there will be a big disaster if we put them out. Two i don't think that we should pull them out because some people will lose their jobs. Because some job depend on the war.

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i dont really think it was the best idea just because now they might come back at us and will just start something and it could turn out bad and put some people in danger so i think that it was not the best idea to pull them out

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I think now a days computer have helped us with our knowelge but alot of people dont use computer for learning all the time. I think it's bad for our health.

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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Having fun is bad for your health? you must have a really boring life.

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bclark(19) Disputed
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It can be but it depends on what type of fun your having most of all how you act during these happy moments.

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bmusiedlak(14) Disputed
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My life isnt boring im just saying if you just sit there for hours doing nothing you are going to gain weight.

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I think that it can be a good thing that we have computers for learning. But it can also distract us big time on our learning. We can play games like bubble shooter, or we can go on social networking sites. Also it can create a bullying problem because people can say mean things that hurt other people in the wrong way.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i think that computers are a wonderful invention and are a huge help for education and such, but its in the way you use them that can make them not such a good thing.

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MichaelB1(16) Disputed
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Yeah well I guess computers aren't meant for fun according to Brianna but to everyone else it is all for fun. You can learn but you can also having fun. Playing games are still fun but you can learn also.

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abortion is wrong, but you dont know their story, if you and your babies life it at risk, would you really kill yourself?? if you got raped, would you really be ready to sit down and be a mom, and not have money and not beable to support it? if you get pregnate on your own yes, but in some cases abortion IS OKAY.

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I agree with morgan a lot. What if you were raped, wouldn't you feel shameful for having this baby. And to look at that baby everyday day until it's grown up. Also what would you say if they asked you about their dad. Would you want to tell the truth or would you say a lie?

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Why is abortion wrong when you think of it this way you have the choice to abortion now when do people ever get a chance to decide for themselves.

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abortion is wrong that is kind of bad but good and sometimes ok i guess

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Agreed. Like my religious point of view you shouldnt at all but sometimes the situation is bad so you wouldnt be able to live without getting an abortion.

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Do you think Obama should go? I do because he has no idea what he is talking about by taxing the rich and the people that are donating. Anyone would be better than Obama but the one the would be the best in office is Scott Walker. He's a man that knows what is going on and is doing the right thing for Wisconsin. Now he can go from the state to the White House.

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levia1(11) Disputed
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has he really done anything wrong we got left with what bush did which was worse then what he is doing he is trying his best to bring the country out of the ground.

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nathankruegr(19) Disputed
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if he didnt do anything wrong then why did the government shut down?

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He is trying and i think he is doing pretty well. i think we should actualy re-elect him, i mean he got the most wanted man in the world and did it right. he has been working to make jobs for thousands of people.

Supporting Evidence: Ten reasons for re-election (www.usnews.com)
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Obama spoke of change? well since obama has been elected riots have broke out and things are getting violent. our troops are still over seas and dying and our country is in an economic downfall. Good job Obama.

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Ya realy. He has no idea what he is doing and should get thrown out of office. He's not that smart when it comes to politics atleast.

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yeah. the government has shut down because of him! he hasnt helped out the government like he said he would

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agreed. i feel like the only reason obama got in is becasue he was black and peopole wanted a lack president. nothing against them but he had no idea what he was doinng adn he still has no idea. he was the biggest mistake ever for a president

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I agree because obama had enough time to change the world like he said he would, I think its time to change the president, and see if Mitt Romney can change the world.

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Obama doesnt know a thing. he hasnt changed a thing but made the government worse. Scott Walker is makeing Wisconsin better so he should beable to make the government better

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levia1(11) Disputed
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obama hasn't done anything wrong he is trying to clean up the mess that bush left

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I agree with this because Scott Walker hasn't done anything bad. He saved our state from going into major debt. People are just crabby and crying because they have to pay more for health benifits. But in reality nothing comes on a sivler platter anymore, so they so just quit this recall thats gonna cost almost amillion dollars.

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I agree with Tessa because everyone thinks that everything can just be handed to them. We have major news; it's not. The health business has a lot of things going wrong; the prices just go up and up, many things are getting cut, and they don't treat the employees very well either. My mom works there and they don't get bonuses ever, raises, and the doctor she works for just got a 20,000 dollar cut in salary. That is just ridiculous because I still see new TV commercials and advertisements all the time.

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i think that obama should not be in office anymore because he has ideas that are bad and so ideas he comes up with just are not good and walker has good ideas and knows what he is doing and obama just is not the best in office

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Who do you think will win? Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney? Or will Obama be voted back into office. Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are very close in the polls.

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I believe and hope that Mick Romney will win because he would be a better president, that is what i believe.

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Mitt Romney because Obama sucks too much so he wont be voted back in to office.

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Mitt Romney will win because he will do more for the states and he might be able to take us out of the hole and actually do something right.

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alexcalteux1(19) Disputed
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I agree with you because we have the same opinions about that he will do more for the country as a total.

Supporting Evidence: Mitt Romney (www.reuters.com)
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mitt romney will be the new president. theres no way people will vote obama back in office after all the trouble he put us through.

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Ok so remember that video clip that michael showed us on that little girl and the lion??? I know they said the girl wasnt in danger, but i think that in a way she was because what would happen if the lion got loose, then just think about what that lion could do to the little girl. http://1037litefm.radio.com/2012/01/11/video-little-girl-wins-stare-down-versus-huge-lion/

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If i was the little girl, I would be freaking out! I wouldn't be just standing there looking at it. They are lucky that the glass didn't break. If it broke, the little girl might've died or worse.

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I agree with this, because what would've happened if the window broke?

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I think she wasn't in to much danger. It was a controlled enviroment and yes, it was kinda scary but nothing happened.

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I agree with addy because what if that window wasnt there she could of gotten hurt.

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That little girl was in danger and if the window would of broke or if it would of got out that lion could of took that little girls life or could of really hurt her so that lion was out of control and should not be where it is anymore

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levia1(11) Disputed
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the zoo makes it so that a lion cant break the glass she was never in any danger.

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yeha if the glass want there she would of gotten gurt, but still its a zoe and they do have the special glass so animals cant get out. so if you really think about she wasnt in danger.

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Do you think that it's a good idea having a free market for our economy?

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yes it wouldn't be fare if it was closed. the government would control everything

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Yes but then maybe we wouldn't have this occupy wall street thing. And then we wouldn't have this tax the rich. If it was closed then people wouldn'tloose a lot of money when the economy goes down.

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yes. this is a free county so you should be able to have a free market.

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Technically this is not a free country, we still have laws that we have to follow in our county.

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Mick Romney will win the presidential election, he is a better man than anyone in the election.

Supporting Evidence: Mitt Romney (en.wikipedia.org)
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Agreed and if Obama went against him he would have no cahnce against Mitt Romney

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alexkrueger(15) Disputed
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what you just said is a massive opinion and you have no way of knowing thats true

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i agree there is no one that has a chance he has so many good thnigs that he can do but Scott Walker is better

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its a right of choice if raped, or at risk of the baby getting killed or you getting killed. this proves it

Supporting Evidence: ''It can be okay in some cases'' (www.azteenmagazine.com)
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Should congress be censoring google? Wikipedia and other websites have had black outs the last few days. The thing that should be fixed is the piracy on the internet. Also the internet should not be censored by our government, What do you think?

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Censoring the Internet is like a parent blocking TV channels. It drives you crazy and you feel hurt that they don't trust you enough to let you watch what you want.

We're talking about our government here, people. Don't they have more important things to do like fix our economy?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/sopa-internet-piracy-bill-criticized-as- internet-censorship/

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yes, they need to be worrying about things like our economy, not be censoring the internet. Leave that to the cretors of the websites, they should be able to put what they want on there

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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they should not because google and wikipedia are websites that we use almost all the time, and getting rid of them would make a lot of people unhappy, and yea the government shouldnt censor our internet.

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ABC tweet- "Reports are saying Rick Perry is dropping out of the GOP presidential race. Waiting on official confirmation." Would you really care bout this happening?

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Tinker vs. Des Moines- in this senario, i think with wearing their armbands, i believe that it is ok to do what they did, because they were not disrupting the learning of the other students in the school. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html

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there is nothing wrong with wearing an article of clothes it is also a from of free speech

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it should be fine to were the arm bands because if thats what they want then they should be able to put them on without people saying stuff about it, it she be fine to were the armbands

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It was just an armband, so why should be people be scared. They have the right to chariectrie them selves how ever the want. So I think people should just calm down about things.

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Ya, i don't think there is anything wrong with wearing an armband. I have no idea why that even went to the supreme court, well i do, i just think that its stupid.

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we should increase military spending because we need to have a powerful military in order to prevent future national crisis. If someone attacks us in our country again, we have to have a very strong military in order to survive it. If we decrease military spending, we will be in trouble when our nation needs our military to be strong.

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Democrats_vs._Republicans#Death_ penalty

The death penalty is also a good thing. People need to get punished for their crimes. We have a high crime rate in this country and jail doesn't seem to help.

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the death penalty is fine if you have a life sentence and there is know way to get out of it you should be given the death penalty.

at the same time our government is very hypocritical. we kill someone because they murdered people if thats not hypocritical i don't know what is.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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i agree with the death penalty because other wise the people just sit in prison the rest of their life with food and shelter, and us paying our taxes so they can just rot in prison their whole life, and most of the probly want to die.

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I agree. Why are we feeding them, clothing them, and providing shelter if they'll be in there for life anyway? We should just use the death penalty instead of life sentences to prison.

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Here is my link for backup on my Scott Walker posts. These are some of the reasons on why he is doing the right thing. http://centralwisconsinhub.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120111/APC0101/201110503/Wisconsin-Governor-Scott-Walker-s-waste- panel-finds-456-million-savings

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bclark(19) Disputed
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Right now he is but no one will really know who does the best and who does the worst.

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I agree he has done good and noone has given him credit truth is people are seeing more taxes back this year so why be so hateful, It's only costing us 9 MILLION! yea thats right money wasted.

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I am tired of hearing every gay and lesbian crying about how they are not allowed to show public displays of affection. holding hands, hugs, that does not bug me but having to watch them makeing out, really getting into it. that is nasty. I dont like it when straight people do it either.

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most people dont like it. its fine for gays and lesbains to hold hands just like anyone else but lmost people dont want to see them amking out or like anyone else,

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JonGideon(12) Disputed
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But straight people are not allowed to show affection in the school, so why should gays and lesbians? That is like descriminating against straight people.

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addymiller(12) Disputed
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It is absolutely fine if gays and lesbians show their affections just like straight people can show their affections in public or anywhere.

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APThe Associated Press

"More bad news for the housing industry as 2011 becomes the worst on record for single-family home construction"

with this tweet do you think this could effect us when we are at the age when we start to buy houses. I think it could

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Do you really think theres such a good thing but really most good things have bad outcomes so if you did good on an exam people would say you can do better.

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Obama spends more of his time golfing and on vacation than he does in white house or trying to fix this country. If anyone disagrees im going to hurt myself.

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levia1(11) Disputed
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it's not like you don't like to golf when he golfs he is having a meeting

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his Christmas vacation to Hawiai cost the country $8 million

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That was ridiculous. He needs to stop thinking about himself so much and worry about making our country a better place.

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Democrat Kathleen Falk to Run for Governor. Who do you think will win.

http://www.wbay.com/story/16545959/2012/01/18/democrat-kathleen-falk-announces-recall- candidacy

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Obama spends his time wasting money in a place where he believes he's born (Hawaii). He spends more on trips than people spend on houses and the money is coming out of the government. He should find a hobby besides golf where you don't spend as much money, or get out of office.

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Scott Walker has helped Wisconsin by cutting beneifits and taking money given to others. Our Nation is $15 trillion in debt, it's going to take more than just one man to help this counttry out of this position.

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What would be civil if you were a president and choose certain laws.

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What does the 1st amendment really protect you from? In our minds everything but that isn't the case.

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Truth is it doesn't really protect you from everything! It helps you so you can practice religion in your own way and so you can right what you want and voice your oppion. But it wont help you if your are doing wht you think is freedom of speech but are being illegal. If what you are saying is "i'm Gonna kill you" or " I think I am gonna burn that place down or kill her." That is posinga threat and can cause a disruption in to society that is not protected.

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Official repeal of DADT; being openly gay in the military v. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT):

As of September 2011, DADT policy was repealed and it is now not against the law to be openly gay in the military.

Although DADT is gone, there is still unequal treatment. Are the gays in the military better off now that DADT is banned or not? Is it more so a matter of opinion or protection?

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I believe this is one of the most dumb and pointless deals that the government and news are talking about right now. Honestly who cares what there sexuality is. That is NONE of anyones business, and this topic seriously bugs me. This is a really good point to be brought up, because no one thought about it until recently. If these men are defending our country, and fighting for us, why on earth should we care if they are gay or not!? They are out on the battle field dyeing for us! I think they are still treated badly, and they definitely should not be. Something needs to stop this right now.

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The reason they made DADT in the first place was because military personnel were afraid that coming out was going to lead to being thrown out. DADT seemed like a way to prevent this from happening and protect the gays in the military better.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/20/opinion/watts-dadt-equality/index.html

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I agree with this. I don't get what the big deal is if people are gay. I think that the gay people in the military are better off with the ban. But i still don't think that it is fair to them that they don't get equal treatment.

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yeah it really isnt fair. the thing is, i can kind of see where it was better with DADT becuase it protected them...

“The "don't ask" part of the DADT policy specified that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member's orientation without witnessing disallowed behaviors, though credible evidence of homosexual behavior could be used to initiate an investigation.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell

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I think that in the Tinker vs. Des Moines court case, they should have been able to wear the wrist bands that they wanted. Who really cares what they wear to school, all they are doing is wearing a wrist band, it’s not like they are running through the halls yelling and protesting, they are just wearing it, and it’s not even distracting.

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I feel the same way. If they wanted to distupt everything by wearing an arm band they would. All they are doing is wearing a arm band to protest the war. A lot of people dont support war. The arm bands are only distracting if people make them distracting.

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I agree. The reason the school officials were so against it was because they supported the war, and didn't appreciate the students going against it.

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yes, i aree with you guys, they are only distractiong when you make them that way, and anything can be distracting if you're going to be like that!

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benwentz6(18) Disputed
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I somewhat agree but also disagree, I disagree because by wearing the bracelets, its almost like they are trying to start arguements and distractions. But I am also agreeing because I wrote about the I Heart Boobies bracelets and in a way, this is kind of the same thing, it would be horrible and wrong if it was illegal to wear a bracelet. Or sayng your opinion.

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I agree because it is freedom of speech and everyone has the right to express their feelings and your right because they were silently protesting and there is nothing wrong with that because its not a distraction.

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I agree with you dena. They were just supporting what they believed in. It's not like they were protesting.

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Yea, and people wear necklaces with crosses on them and no one has a prablem with that....

plus they weren't disrupting anything, they were just standing up for what they believe.

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salibs(19) Disputed
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i personally think that both of these parties both have good points and they are both smart but i cant reallly side with either one so i guess thats what is goin down

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i don't think that either side is "more right"

I do however think that everyone has their own opinion.

i just think that it doesn't really matter if you are a republican or a democrat.

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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html

I Think gay marrige should be legal because it really doesnt matter if you are gay, straight, Bisexual, or lesbian, you are still the same person. People shouldnt judge you if you are a gay person becasue if they just assumed that you were straight you would still be the same person if they knew that you were gay.

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i agree with you April, it shouldn't matter, and you shouldn't be judged differently just because you are gay or lesbian!!

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I agree; some people will argue that you CAN help being gay or not but you are right that you are still the same person. If gay marriage is a decision you choose to make, that should be up to you becuase it doesn't affect anyone else.

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yea hand a lot of people say that people are only gay because they hear about other people and they think they are cool. Gay is not a choice. People dont choose to be gay or lesbian. They just are. If they decide to get married who cares. Its their decition and i only affects them and their family.

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I believe that abortion should be allowed in certain situations. If someone is raped and is going through that trauma, why should they have to go through pregnancy and foremost; why would they want the baby? Of course it is still half a part of her, but the other half is his. Because rape pregnancies aren’t common, abortion shouldn’t be commonly used. Some people are completely against abortion because they consider it violence of an innocent baby. Think about it, rape is violence and going through with the pregnancy would make her remember it even more for the rest of her life. Getting unwillingly pregnant should not allow the mother to be punished. She should be able to make her own decision when it comes to keeping the baby or not. In other situations, by willingly getting pregnant or not acting safe, I don’t believe abortion should be allowed. If they make a bad decision, it is their fault and they should not be able to end a life.

http://www.abortionfacts.com/life_or_choice/pro_choice.asp

http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_29.asp#rape

http://womensissues.about.com/od/reproductiverights/a/AbortionArgumen.htm

http://www.world-faiths.com/GCSE%20Short%20course/social_reasons_for_and_against_abortion.htm

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

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MorganK(12) Disputed
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The woman would only have to deal with the rape thoughts for as long as she carries the baby and then she can give it up for adoption because the baby is innocent even though it was made by rape, it doesnt mean that the woman should just kill the baby because she got raped. There are certain rights for babies to and you cant just kill a baby because you made a wrong decision or got raped.

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Even if a woman is raped, the baby isn't at fault, the baby should be let live. I think that abortion should be illegal because it's murder no matter what you call it.

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I agree completely...rape is a horrible thing for anyone to go through and the memories of it you are let with is bad enough, if you got pregnant too, that makes it so much worse. This doesn't make killing the baby okay. They are still alive and however they became to be, they don't deserve to die.

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i totaly agree, can you imagine what that girl would think everytime she looked at the baby, that would be horrible! I dont think people should just always get an abortion everytime they get pregnant, they need to accept their actions, and take the consequences!

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I think that if publicity from the media disrupts someone's right to a fair trial, the defendant should be allowed a retrial. A retrial is a fair thing to give to those whose trials have been unfair due to media. This happened in the case against Jack Ruby (the one who shot and killed JFK's killer.) Here is a link describing it: http://people.howstuffworks.com/ten-controversial-court-cases10.htm

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i agree, its not fair when the media gets too involved like that, yes they should have a re-trial

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Some people try to claim that media and publicity will not affect a trial because the jurors are not allowed to watch the coverage of the trial (http://www.albionmonitor.com/0402a/pretrialpublicity.html) , but if there is a similar case that has happened before, that may cause someone to think about the new case the same as the old one.

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Massacre of hs in The Columbine High School massacre (often known simply as Columbine) occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. This is about the massacre at columbine. I believe schools and parents need to do a better job on controlling their kids. so this wont happen

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http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1968/1968_21

this link pretty much summarizes the whole Tinker vs. Des moines case

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In order to get out of our economic problems, we need more time. I know that it's been a few years since the recession started but people are just not patient enough to wait they all want to be out of debt now. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression, the Great Depression went from 1929 to the late 1930's or early 1940's. That's at least ten years with 25% of Americans being unemployed with a huge market crash. Things are bad, but we are no where near that stage.

While I agree that the government needs to start getting us out of this recession, in order to do this they are going to need time. Obama won't do this in his current term, because his term is practically over. I hope that whoever is elected president next, is able to improve the country's economy soon.

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kschroeder(13) Disputed
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I believe that we need patience, but above all else, I think we need Congress to become more progressive about solving our economic problems. I understand that this will take a while, but I think that Congress needs to figure out what they are doing to help the economy. We'll do what we need to do to fix the economy, so why won't they get to work on that?

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MorganK(12) Disputed
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People want to be out of debtnow because they need money to support ther families and they cant do that while they are in debt. They will be more in debt from taking out loans. The government needs to get us out of ressesion and that isnt going to happen while Obamas president, he hasnt done anything for the economy.

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I agree that people have families to support. Congress needs to figure out a sturdy plan that will help our economy become stable and flourish.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/april-20-1999-columbine-shooting-9541833

Watch this video of the events and on scene of the hs. This will change ur life

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My debate was about why do you have to be 35 or older to become the president. The reson you have to be 35 is because they want you to have some more understanding with how they run the goverment. But i think that it should be up to the people who they want to vote for no matter how old they are and if they have a good understanding. I they like them than why can't they vote for them.

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yes true like what if i was really smart and knew how to get this country out of debt and i tried to run for president but they wouldnt let me because im only fourteen i think that is stupid

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yea, you should be older, and able to understand how everything works!

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If our government had to function without one of the sections that is present today, I think that America would be a very different place in which to live. For example, the way our government is set up right now, there exists a series of checks and balances that insures that none of the branches overpower the other or are taken advantage of. If, for example, the Judicial Branch was not there, we would not have a specific branch that could take care of interpretting the laws that are created by the Legislative Branch. I believe our country would become quite messed up in short order if we had to function without one of the branches of government. The remaining branches would have to compenstate for the lack of the third branch, and I'm sure that wouldn't end well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers

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yes you are right but alot of the fault is on our own presidents!! if they used there peanut sized brain for once they could start getting us out of this 15 trillion dollar debt

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Is it right to deface the scott walker signs? i belive it is not right to do that. because its like destruction of property and im oretty sure thats against the law and plus even the democrars are saying hands off.

http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/ 12/better-not-touch-those-support-scott.html

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I agree that the I Heart Boobies bracelets should be legal. I dont understand why there was even a court case for it. I understand that none of the money they make goes to breast cancer funds or anything but your still helping promote awareness to breast cancer. If you cannot promote awareness to breast cancer legally, I think that is just wrong then. It just shows how bad some people can be. Its said that Boobies is considered vulgur language but its not. Its a body part.

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I agree, it should be legal. But boys are age, like you Ben. Only like them because they say boobies. You can say you that's not why as much as you want but we all know its not true. Breast cancer is a very serious and bad thing and I think these bracelets do aware people of them, but they are in a joking matter so I don't think people take them as seriously as they should be taken

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benwentz6(18) Disputed
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I disagree, people just need to take it seriously, breast cancer is serious, and I dont even wear them, and I am very mature anyway, if I would wear them, yeah, its funny but I would be wearing it also to show awareness, and they just look cool. And I dont care that it says boobies, well not that much, its just they are, or were really popular and alot of people wore them. Nobody likes feeling left out so they all got them too.

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I agree that it should be fine in schools because you are supporting breast cancer. People who dont want to support the bracelets dont have to wear them. It also is a freedom of speech because you can express your opinions however you decide.

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yes that is correct. the raising of awareness of such a deadly disease is needed. sometimes people don't realize how serious it is untill some1 in their family has it or they get it...

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I agree, "I heart boobies" bracelets are supporting breast cancer and not harming anyone. If we didn't have bracelets, T-shirts, or other accesseries supporting breast cancer what would we have? Nothing.

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Definitely...it's just a good way to cope with losing or supporting someone with breast cancer and if it helps people deal with that, theres no way that it shouldnt be legal.

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Why should people car if anyone is gay, lesbian, or straight? People are who they are, so the school body shouldn't judge them. No one should be able to be making out on school grounds because they should be focused on their education, not their highschool sweetheart. If you really want to be making out, then do it after school or at home. Not when other people have to see it.

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I agree and I think its at all schools but idk. At least our school has the no showing signs of affection during school and/or on school grounds.

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One of the topics that I researched was the Amanda Knox trial. I found this topic interesting and wanted to know more about it. In this trial, Amanda Knox, 22 at the time was an college student studying abroad in Italy. She was accused of murdering one of her roommates Meredith Kercher, with her Italian boyfriend at the time. Here is a link about Who's who in the Amanda Knox trial. http://abcnews.go.com/US/amanda-knox-trial-italian-murder-case/story?id=14576338#12

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The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters.

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In this day and age, there are many who believe that us American's are all about ourselves. I think that this is not true. Many people think that all politicians are horrible people and that they don't care about other people, but I think that that is not true. What we need to do, is really just need to find the one that will be progressive and do their best to help the citizens of America get into a position that will benefit the majority of the citizens, not what will benefit them.

For example, we should look to what otherr presidents have done in the past.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Home Owner's Loan Act Links (He helped keep people off of the streets):

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14665#axzz1jwDOQB7j http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Owners'_Loan_Corporation http://www.loansafe.org/forum/breaking-foreclosure-news/151-home-owners-loan-act.html

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i agree kristen! if you think about it, they have actually done a lot!

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When people say that our political leaders have done nothing, it bothers me. Some may not have been great, but there are many presidents who have done so much. We just need to find someone who will stand up for the 'everyman,' someone who will do their best to help us, the U.S., achieve our best.

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I agree Kristen. because if ou think about this it is true we do need to look back in the past

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One of my other topics was should the I heart boobies bracelets be ban from school?

this is a link on a court case about the bracelets

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/12/judge-rules-kids-can-wear-i-heart-boobies-bracelets/

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my opinion on this is that it is okay to wear them in school, just because you wear them doesn't mean anything, besides you could be wearing them because someone in your family my have breast cacncer. or you could be wearing them to get people to become aware of breast cancer

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yes, i agree if someone in your family has breast cancer, you should have the right to wear one! You should also be able to wear them for awareness, people NEED TO KNOW

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Abortion-

Many people think that abortion is not murder, but it is. You are taking a baby and murdering it when you allow a child to be aborted. People believe that abortion is another way of birth control.

People also believe that what is growing inside them is the same as a fish swimming in a stream. They think that a baby is not a baby until it is born. But it is a baby from the second it is conceived.

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewArticle.asp?id=16121

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I agree. Abortion is something that people think is okay. Some people make the discussion "oh but what if i was raped"?i think you should still keep the baby but just give it up for adoption. If it is affection you and the babys health like your both going to die if you go through with the pregnancy i thinks its a different story but still. Abortion is wrong.

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I totally agree with you Ericka, I don't understand why anyone would want to kill their own kid. Even if they don't believe that it is killing the kid.

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I agree because even if people get pregnant at a young age by not being safe that is their fault and they shouldnt be able to kill a baby for their own mistakes.

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Agreed. And they do not have to keep it, there is this thing called adoption......

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yeah! IT IS NOT OK! you made the choice, so deal with it, its your own fault!

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i think that the value of money is slowly going down over time. there is a lot of things that affect the value of money. a few examples are balence in trade which is the differnce between US imports vs. exports. anothing thing that changes the value of money is falling prices on foreign goods. when prices fall on things coming into this country the US concumer wants to buy more of it, which makes our doller value go up. if we got a stronge housing then we got a better economy then the value goes up. here a pretty link for this subject.

http://www.currencytrading.net/features/50-factors-that-affect-the-value-of-the- us-dollar/

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my topic is about michael vick and his illegal dog fighting ring which was called "Bad Newz Kennels" and he kept and trained over 50 dogs and he admitted on killing 8 or his worst dogs by drowning or hanging them.

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Thats horrible. Who does that? He sickens me. He is my worst favorite football player because of that. I guess dog fights could be amusing to some people. Some really messed up people! Especially placing bets on that! Yuck.

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Newborn baby 'thrown out with the trash ALIVE after botched abortion'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1137486/Newborn-baby-thrown-trash-ALIVE-botched- abortion.html

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I totally agree with you that abortion is wrong. It was the poeple's decison to do that and so I don't think that woman should be able to do that. However, I do think that women should have the option but only as a complete and total last resort. I think that they should look at all of their opitions first before even considereing that option. Plus even if they didn't want the baby they can always give it up for adoption instead of abortion.

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The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn't been bullied — in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and "fags." These kids were obviously suicidal. It says these kids talked about building bombs and killing people, but no one took them seriously.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio <<<< This shows that the 1st amendment does what it says it will even protecting a "KKK" member because they can speak out against blacks and not be in trouble and can hold meetings about it as long as they are not hurting a black person or causing a disturbance,,,,Sad but true

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BrentThiel(20) Disputed
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That sounds really bad and sad. By holding those meetings, there will probably be a big disturbance caused by one in the future.

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that is horrible, you shouldn't be able to do that at all, blacks have rights too, how could the first amendment protect something like that after how far we've gotten with treating them as equals

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A lot of people think that racism is over but honestly there are so much people that are still racist and dont want anything to do with black people. Black people are the same as white people. We were all made equally so people shouldnt judge black people. Yeah some black people are troublemakers but a lot of them are nice and people dont have to go of the stereotypes of blacks.

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racsim is never going to be gone. at least one person is gonna call someone a bad name either becuase of sterrotypes or they just feel cool when there saying it.

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i don't think that this is okay, it sounds horrible and sad.

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if we never had any part that we had talked about this semester we wouldnt be a free country and everything about this country would be different. if we never had our legislative branch we wouldnt have any of these laws that we have today like conceal and carry. the foreign people in our country wouldnt be here if we didnt have the immigration act. all of the mexicans and cjinease wouldnt be in america they would be in their home countries. if we never had laws people wouldnt have jobs or have a house. how would other people pay for things. for example if the south won the war we would all have black slaves and we wouldnt have to work period.

http://askville.amazon.com/country-today-fought-Civil-War/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9817154

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do you think that after michael vick did his time and paid his fine do you he should have been able to play football again?

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yes i mean anyone should beable to play football even if you have done jail time i dont think it would be fair if we didnt let him play foot ball

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He went to jail and and got a fine and everything. Usually when you go to jail and have all that you lose your job, his job was a professional football player, he shouldnt get any special treatment just because hes famous. Trerat everyone equal. He shouldnt be able to play football.

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There is no reason for it to be illegal. It won't make you high. It is Not Marijuana, and it alone could make enough oil to free the nation. Hemp is the most versatile plant in the Universe, its strong enough to make rope, and diverse enough to make oil. This plant will grow almost everywhere with very little maintenance and without watering. And it is insect resistant naturally. It grows quickly and the steps to turn it into gasoline are very simple. We could replace our need for anything other than hemp in a matter of Months, not years. For those of you who don't know what you are talking about, you must have missed your 10th grade biology class. Hemp alone can free us from oil forever and ever and it is environmentally friendly. Hemp from Old English hænep, see cannabis etymology is the common name for plants of the entire family of Cannabis, although the term is often used to refer only to cannabis strains cultivated for industrial non-drug use. Here is a quick lesson industrial help has many uses, including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, health food, and fuel. Citation needed It is one of the fastest growing biomasses known, citation needed and one of the earliest domesticated plants known.1. It also runs parallel with the "Green Future" objectives that are becoming increasingly popular. Hemp requires little to no pesticides, 2. No herbicides, 3. Controls erosion of the topsoil, citation needed and produces oxygen. Furthermore, hemp can be used to replace many potentially harmful products, such as tree paper the processing of which uses bleaches and other toxic chemicals, and contributes to deforestation, cosmetics, and plastics, most of which are petroleum-based and do not decompose easily

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should people be able to be naturalized? i think that people should be naturalized because if no one could be naturalized most of us wouldnt be here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization this is what naturalization is

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Their rampage put schools on alert for "enemies lists" made by troubled students, but the enemies on their list had graduated from Columbine a year earlier. Contrary to early reports, Harris and Klebold weren't on antidepressant medication and didn't target jocks, blacks or Christians, police now say, citing the killers' journals and witness accounts. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI says now. What was going through these kid's heads? What was their obj

ective?

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You bring up a good topic. I would like to know what was going on through those kids' heads. I think they were suffering from depression and bullying and they just couldn't keep it inside and they just had to let it out.

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IMSTUD(10) Disputed
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No its a fact that they wern't bullied or on anti-depressiants. They wrote in journals about picking on"fags" and freshys

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i agree, why take it to such an extreme level, how will they really benefit from it!

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I don't think that criminals shouldn't be let out of jail. Even though we have no more room. We could let out the lower class one's, and not the big time crime one's. Because the jails are actually letting out murderer's, and more. So the government should use more money to make more jails, or stop putting the people in jail that have done bigger crimes then them.

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You are right, the major ones like the murderers and rapists should not be let out jail at all, because if we let them they will just go back to doing what they did before.

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All this is happening right now. They let the murderers out, and they do it again. I also think that some of our rights should be limited down. Because in other counrties murder doesn't happen that much because they don't have as many right as us. So I think e shoul do the same.

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My theory is that video games and music and crazy action videos were to blame for this. They were intense gamers and pretended to play war in school with guns and what not

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benwentz6(18) Disputed
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Well that just makes them dumb, you know how many people play mw3? or Black Ops? Or any other war games? Alot. But there are none thata I know of that take that seriously and start going on rampages and killing sprees in real life.

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IMSTUD(10) Disputed
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these people were suicidal, and wished to put on a gun show someday

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Smoking shouldn't be legal to kids our age and anyone who wants to bye them even if it doesn't have effects all the time it.

Side: michael barnard
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i agree, it should be illegal to atleast kids our age, it can effect you worse because you started younger!

Side: michael barnard
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Agreed. I dont really think it should be legal at all though.. If it would be, at least it should be like either 18 and over or 21 and over just because they know how to handle and control it a little bit better.

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http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Legislative.shtml

The legislative branch is the law making branch of government made up of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and agencies that support Congress.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch

The power of the Executive Branch acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/judicial-branch

Where the Executive and Legislative branches are elected by the people, members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

i think it wasnt right because the dogs had no choice if they faught or not becuase the dogs were trained to fight. after michael vick was caught most of the dogs were placed in homes.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

The other topic that I researched was the Dred Scott v. Sandford trial of 1857. This was also called the Dred Scott Decision and the ruling by the Supreme Court was that people of African descent and brought into the U.S. and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could NEVER be U.S. citizens. What do you think about the court's decision? http://www.infoplease.com/us/supreme-court/cases/ar09.html

Side: michael barnard
1 point

THIS IS A WEIRD DISCICION BECAUSE WHY WOULD THEY RULE IT THAT THEY CANT BE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES...I KNOW THAT THE JUDGE WAS FROM THE SOUTH AND HE WANTED SLAVES BECAUSE HE IS LAZY AND THINKS ABOUT HISELF...IF HE WAS HUMAN AND DID THINK ABOUOT OTHER PEOPLE AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE SALVES HE WOULD RECONSIDER HIS DESCICION

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Well Hunter, I'm not really sure what would've happened to the slaves if teh judge on this case would ruled differently. I would like to think that teh slaves would've been freed but I knwo that that's not what would've really happened to them.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

I think that this was a bad decision, because it doesn't really matter who it is they are still a person living in the u.s.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

I totally agree with you Mandy, even though the slaves were balck doesn't mean that they were any less of a person than white people were. It just frustrates me sometimes!

Side: michael barnard
1 point

I think that the courts decision ruling was completely wrong. I mean the African descents are people too and they're working their butts off to survive. Also, why did people even bother bringing other people over to North America for their own uses?

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Well, in Dred Scott's case his owner, Peter Blow brought him and the other laves he owned to Illinois, a free state for four years. Then Blow decided to move them all back to Missouri, a save state where Blow later died. Scott felt that since he had been livng n a free state for so long that he should have the right to become a citizen. In other cases I am not sure what the purpose of slave owners bringing their slaves to the North.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Conceal and carry laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States

I THINK THAT PEOPLE SHOULD B ABLE TO HAVE A CONCEAL AD CARRY FOR PROTECTION PURPOSE ONLY IF PEOPLE WANTED TO USE THEM AS PROTECTION WHY NOT!!?? LAST WEEK I SAW ON THE NEWS THAT ONE MAN IN MILWAUKEE HAD A CONCEALED HANDGUN AND SOME GUY TRIED TO ROB HIM AND BANG THAT ROBBER DIED BECAUSE IT WAS ALL SELF DEFENCE

FACTS: Refers to the practice of carrying a handgun or other weapon in public in a concealed manner, either on one's person or in proximity. While there is no federal law specifically addressing the issuance of concealed carry permits, 49 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from local and/or law enforcement.[1] Illinois is the only state without such a provision. The states give different terms for licenses or permits to carry a concealed firearm, such as a Concealed Handgun License/Permit (CHL/CHP), Concealed (Defensive/Deadly) Weapon Permit/License (CDWL/CWP/CWL), Concealed Carry Permit/License (CCP/CCL), License To Carry (Firearms) (LTC/LTCF), Carry of Concealed Deadly Weapon license (CCDW), Concealed Pistol License (CPL), etc. Thirteen states use a single permit to regulate the practices of both concealed and open carry of a handgun.

Some states publish statistics indicating how many residents hold permits to carry concealed weapons, and their demographics. For example, Florida has issued 2,031,106 licenses since adopting its law in 1987, and had 843,463 licensed permit holders as of July 31, 2011. Reported permit holders are predominantly male. Some states have reported the number of permit holders increasing over time.

Side: citizenship final discussion
MorganK(12) Disputed
1 point

I dont think that people need to have a weapon for saftey purposes because some people will use it for saftey, but some will abuse it and use it for other reasons.

Side: citizenship final discussion
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

EXAMPLE HERE WHAT IF YOU WERE AT A STORE AND SOME PEOPLE HAD GUNS AND YOU DIDNT WHAT THEN THEY MIGHT KILL YOU..BUT IF YOU HAD A CONCEALED GUN YOU COIULD KILL THEM THAT ONE POINT AND I WILL GO ON FOREVER IF NEEDED.......

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

YES I BELIVE THAT THEconcel CARRY law is a good one and that WISCONSIN finally got it right THAT we can carry guns where ever you want

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

The other day on the news I heard about a woman who was caught with a .38 caliber pistol on an American Airlines flight in Dallas, TX. By the time the pilot stopped the plane to try and get her off of it, she was already gone. The eventually caught her though. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-woman-brings-38-caliber-pistol-aboard-american-airlines-plane-article-1.1008175

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point
Side: citizenship final discussion

this is what industrial help could do

Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops would provide all of America's energy needs. 1

Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. 1

Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, or gasoline at a cost comparable to petroleum, and hemp is much better for the environment. Pyrolysis (charcoal zing), or biochemical composting are two methods of turning hemp into fuel.2

Hemp can produce 10 times more methanol than corn.

Hemp fuel burns clean. Petroleum causes acid rain due to sulfur pollution.

The use of hemp fuel does not contribute to global warming.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

i completely agree with everything that is being said in the argument. if we use hemp to fual for energy there would no need for fossil fuals. this type of fual would produce any polution. this is the fix for our energy crisis why is =nt anybody opening up their eyes. cmon people.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

So whom did they hope to kill?

Everyone — including friends

out of a journel out of Eric's

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Why did they do all of this? What made them so upset that thye wanted to kill people and did kill so many people? Why would they kill there own friends? Im not so sure I understand this completely.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

should the legal age for the army be 18?

i dont think so because some parents put there kids in military school ehrn they are like thirteen or they even sign thrir kids up for the army like at 14-16

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

some people believed that what micheal vick did wasnt a bad thing. for example someone that was defending him said that "if he goes to jail he is being locked up for no reason because the dogs are his property so i shouldnt matter" i disagree with him.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Harris and Klebold leave their cars, carrying several CO2 bombs, one semi-automatic 9mm handgun, a 9mm carbine rifle, a sawed-off twelve gauge shotgun, and a sawed-off twelve gauge pump shotgun. They also carry two duffel bags, each containing one twenty-pound propane bomb. The timers on the bombs are set to go off at 11:17 a.m. This is enough explosives to kill nearly all 500 students in the cafeteria. In his journal, Harris writes down the number of students who are in the cafeteria at certain times. They have arrived at the school during the busiest lunch hour. The set the bags down beside a table and leave the cafeteria. The school custodian also changes the cafeteria surveillance tape at this time. How did they get away with all this weaponry? And did they plan this out for some time?

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

THEY HAD TO PLAN THIS OUT FOR ABOUT 5 MONTHS TO GET THAT PERFECTED AND NOT GET CAUGHT...THATS SKILL.. AND THE MUST HAVE WORE CLOTHS THAT ARE 5KL TO DFIT ALL OF THEIR WEAPONRY INTO THE SCHOOL WITHOUT GETTING NOTICED

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

http://aldf.org?arcticle.php?id=928 this is a court case on michael vicks dog fighting

Side: citizenship final discussion

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139852.html <<<<<WHAT!!! We are using third world country children to test new drung what is wrong with us just because that have nothing doesnt mean it's right they don't deserve to be "lab rats" THis is so outrageous I'm appauled because thats worse than testing on animals, These people have rights and like people in the U.S deserve the right to choose to be part of a study not just used to be a tester with the U.s not knowing what it might so to them!

Side: citizenship final discussion

who in the frik would do that? Thats soo messed up why would you take people from third world countries and test our drugs on them and see if it could help them of kill them. and yeah their parents might just want something because they are so poor but why would you let your kid do that anyway. at least have you do it or just dont do it.

Side: citizenship final discussion

I think instead of saving animals from their abusers that they should get charged with a fine and loose all rights to have animals, with them in their home. Also to try harder to stop illegal animal fights. I say this because even though they get slapped with a big fine, they still go and do it anyways. And even though they may have animals, this may lead to child abuse, and abuse of their spouses. But in some cases they will have to go to jail.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

these are the reasons why i think weed should be legel. #1 the prohibition has failed to keep people form stop using it and producing it. 25 million people use it in the US alone.

#2 a regulated market in weed would reduce sales of it and the use in teenagers. As well as reducing the exposure to other illegel drugs in the illegel market. weeds legalization would promote the use of hemp for paper, clothes, rope, and bio-fual.

this is a good link i found http://www.alternet.org/drugs/60959/

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

SOPA, also known as House Bill 3261, is a bill that proposes to censor the internet. I, along with millions of other people, am against this law. If this bill becomes a law, it would be akin to the government limiting our so-called free speech! The only good part about this bill is that it would help stop pirating and copyright infringement. However, there are so many bad things in this bill that they outweigh the one good thing by tenfold. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn wrote a letter to some members of Congress on November 15 in protest to this law. It would severely hurt this websites, and could almost indefinitely lead to a crash in the stock market.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/

http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/technology/sopa_explained/index.htm

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/

Side: SOPA
1 point

I agree with this because that bill is taking away rights given to us in the Constitution, and if that simple right of free speech is taken away, what kind of other rights may be taken away from us just because they can?

Side: SOPA

I think SOPA is the stupidest thing ever! taking away everything that people put on the internet would take away TUMBLR, wikipedia, youtube, and soo much other stuff. I would die. They shouldnt censor the internet.!

Side: SOPA
1 point

You are completely right, April. The government has no right to recoke the rights of the American people by censoring the internet! Not only will major websites suffer, but so will the rest of the internet! This bill has the power to limit almost everything that is out on the internet right now. If the government really wanted to stop copyright infringement, then they could devise a mush simpler way to do so instead of just completely taking over the internet. If you are truly against this bill, you can sign this petition showing you support AGAINST it.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Side: SOPA
1 point

I agree. The internet is made for sharing things and made for youtube google wikipedia and all those things. why would they sensor it now? I agree tht it is very stupid and I really hope it doesnt get sensored.

Side: SOPA
1 point

i agree, most people need that stuff for school and projects, not everyone abuses it!

Side: SOPA
1 point

i confirm my viewpoint on thinking that what michael vick did is bad and i am against the guy that defended him in court because even if the dogs were his property that didnt give him the right to fight them.

Side: SOPA
1 point

I'm glad we have drug dogs for school, because if we didn't then teenagers would feel like they could get away with anything. The school doesn't want that. Iif teens could get away with drugs at school, they would bring alcohol and think they could get away with it. They can't because of drug dogs.

Side: SOPA
1 point

Yes! But I think we need more drug checks and things. So many people at our school, and schools in general take drugs and things to school. Police officers come with there dogs barley ever, and for that to really take affect and get people to stop doing this, they need to be brought in more

Side: SOPA
benwentz6(18) Disputed
1 point

Are you trying to say we need more dtrugs at our school? Im pretty sure we have well over enough already. We dont need any more. Why would we need more anyway? there is no reason.

Side: SOPA
1 point

i used the computers by finding the court cases on michael vick adn i was able to find different information on it and being able to have the computers extend the information you have or want to learn.

Side: SOPA

I think that we should get ride of Scott Walker because he has no clue what he is talking about. And doesn't know what he is doing to families. A lot of them are loosing their jobs because of him. Or quiting them because they may not get enough money to take care of their family. I say this because my dad had to quit his job that he had been working in for 31 years, because his pay was getting cut. He found a new job, but it is hard to do things that we would like to do more.

Side: SOPA
1 point

rid and I disagree with your opinion. He got us back so much money by doing what he did. His actions mostly just affected teachers and we have so many of them already as it is. I think he did alright, he did make some stupid mistakes but that doesn't mean that we have to recall them. We should just wait until his term or whatever it's called is up.

Side: SOPA

I guess I kind of agree with that. But I have seen a lot more then just teahers lood=sing their jobs.

Side: SOPA
1 point

I think I heart boobies bracelets being illegal makes a good point for being illegal because its kind of like taking breast cancer as a joke and all the younger kids, and most our age, just think its funny because it says boobies. And they just make it immature.

Side: SOPA
1 point

I think that abortion is a terrible thing. Any life is just as important as the next, and no one should have the right to take away their life. It is murder to kill even an unborn baby. Abortion should not be an option. http://www.abortionsarewrong.com/

Side: SOPA
1 point

I think that in the Jones vs. Clear Creek ISD court case, the kids should have been allowed to have a religious ceremony at their graduation. It’s not required to go to this thing, and some kids want to have it at their graduation! So let them, they aren’t doing anything bad, and the kids that don’t want to have one can just not go to that part!!

Side: SOPA

Abortion is a bad thing it should only be used in one case though! If having the baby will kill you or the baby not making it in the first place, Bannin all abortion will make some peopel loose their lives because some high risk pregnancies will kill a women if not aborted, Women hve the right to live right?

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree that abortion is bad. Wommen all over have the right to live.

Side: citizenship final discussion
0 points

i guess that is kinda true, but i mean it will live longer than u,cause u are alread into your life. but it would be good for if u go t raped

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Shauna, i completely agree with you, this should be the one thing that you can actually get an abortion for!! Not just because you "screwed up" if you really don't want it, put it up for adoption, don't kill it!

Side: citizenship final discussion
kschroeder(13) Disputed
1 point

I understand why you would say that, but I think that there is no reason at all to abort a child. I understand that if someone was raped that they would want to abort the child, but I still think that you shouldn't. Every life is sacred, and it isn't the baby's fault that you were raped. You can still put it up for adoption if you don't want it.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Women do have the right to live but babies do to. There are probably many things people can do to help the pregnancy along. Babies can survive if they are premature, so if they really have to they can have it early.

Side: citizenship final discussion
shanaynay151(13) Disputed
1 point

So if a women is 4 month pregnant and is told she is high risk or there is a problem that will kill her she should try to have it,,,UM NO! they have more of a right than tht baby to live a baby without a mother is worse than a women who NEEEEEDDDDS to aborting a baby.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

this is a youtube video the shows what michaael vick was doing and tells why and how he started it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYk91q0Tyk

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

ok so what do people do about the conceal carry law?

like what if someone comes into a stor pulls a gun out of his coat and robbes the store

would he go to jail for armed robbery?

or could he bexause it was legal for him to carry the gun around concealed

or will he go to jail for just robbery?

Side: citizenship final discussion
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

WHY WOULD THE DO THAT..ITS FOR PROTECTION!!! READ MY POST ON CONCEAL AND CARRY THEN TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK IF I WALKED INTO THE STORE AND THEY SAW MY CONCEALED HANDGUN AND THEY ASKED I WOULD SHOW THE PEMITS AND THEY CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT!!!!

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

ya I like that law that you can carrie a gun it is your right to have some protection if you feel treatened. But if you are just carring one to carry one then i don't agree with that.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

http://atheism.about.com/od/religioninschool/a/Jones-Clear-Creek.htm

here is a link that summarizes the whole case.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sopa-petition-gets-millions-of-signatures-as-internet-piracy-legislation-protests-continue/2012/01/19/gIQAHaAyBQ_story.html

I don't think this should get passed because everyone should know not to go on websites they shouldn't. We need google to look up stuff and use google images for school work. If that gets sensored how are we suppose to find information? We can't becasue our search engine is down due to SOPA and PIPA.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

"You all better hide in your houses because I'm coming for EVERYONE soon, and i WILL be armed to the teeth and i WILL shoot to kill and i WILL KILL EVERYTHING!"

- Eric Harris, Journal Entry

Did his parents not once think of going through his room?

Side: michael barnard

I think people in the government should come up with better punishments for people who abuse children. Because, most of them if they get a fine, or come out of their jail time. They do it anyways. And there are different kinds of abuse too.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

I totally agree, they should be beaten just like they do to kids. Then go to jail for a very long time.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

yes, I agree with you, when they get out of jail, it won't change them, they will just do it again once they are out!!!

Side: michael barnard
benwentz6(18) Disputed
1 point

Why don toyu go do something bad and go to jail. Tell me how it feels and if it changes you. Im sure it does. and if you arent stupid, you would know to never do it again.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

I figure that SOPA is an issue directly related to free speech, which is one the things we went over in this class as part of the Bill of Rights.

After reading through the top link, I saw just how dangerous House Bill 3261 could be.

"You may be painted as infringing if you, the site owner, “take deliberate actions to avoid confirming a high probability of the use of…the site to carry out acts [of copyright infringement or circumvention].” This means if you deliberately decide that it’s not cost-effective to screen every piece of content and determine whether or not it is copyright-free before it is posted to your site (whether there is infringing content on your site or not), then you are labeled as an “Internet site…dedicated to theft of U.S. property.” Simply the act of not actively screening every piece of content makes you a criminal under SOPA."

Side: SOPA
1 point

This is a link about the Amanda Knox case. It has 5 reason why Knox should be convicted and 5 reasons why she shouldn't. I don't think that she actually did it. I just really think that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Side: SOPA
1 point

SHOULD US CITIZEN BE BANNED FROM POSSESSING ASSAULT RIFLES?

http://debates.juggle.com/should-citizens-in-the-united-states-be- banned-from-possessing-assault-weapons

I KNOW THAT PEOLE SHOULD E ABLE TO OWN ASSAULT RIFLES BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO OWN THEM FOR HUNTING TO!

Side: SOPA
MandySmith1(16) Disputed
1 point

I don't think that people should be able to carry assault rifles, because some poeple would use them for things other then hunting.

Side: SOPA
HuNtER72(17) Disputed
1 point

NO ITS A PRIZE FOR SOLDIERS ITS A MILITARY WEAPON AND YOU CAN ONLY USE THEM FOR HUNTING AND IF U HAVE A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND YOU CANT HAVE ANY WEAPON

Side: SOPA
1 point

Politicians often spend thousands or even millions of dollars on their campaigns and promoting themselves. I think that this is a waste of money. Think of all of the other things that the money could be put towards...the United States is in a tremendous amount of debt. I would vote for the next politician that saves the money for the people and uses it to help our country, state, or place that they represent.

http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=654

Side: SOPA
1 point

I agree Cara, i think that politicians worry more about what they're campaign i like and how much money it's going to cost rather than focusing on what the U.S. really needs.

Side: SOPA
1 point

here is a link to to debate on how old do you think you have to be to become the president. http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/presrequire.htm

Side: michael barnard
0 points

No Michael. This is not a debatable topic. The age is stated in the constitution and its going to stay that way. Thats the most obscured thing I've ever heard. he government and news are starting to just pick random stupid stuff to argue about.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

Here is the trailer for the Amanda Knox movie. I have watched it and it was really good and quite interesting. http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/amanda-knox-murder-on-trial-in-italy

Side: michael barnard
1 point

A citizen is a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.

Side: michael barnard
1 point

This isn't quite a current event, but one very influential person to the U.S. government that stands out to me is President George W. Bush. There is an awful lot of controversy surrounding him and everything that happened while he was the head of this nation, but I believe that he was a great individual who was a big assest to this nation. His response to 9/11 was proper and justifiable; you don't mess with the U.S. because we will put you back in your place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

I don't think that there is one specific president that can be held responsible for singularly plunging this nation into debt, almost every president has contributed to that issue (some more than others).

Side: citizenship final discussion

Animals around the world are kicked on the streets constently. I think that if people don't want an animal they shouldn't get one in the first place. And if they can't take care of it, they should give it to a humaine society.

Side: citizenship final discussion
2 points

Yea I agree animals are people too and hurting them is wrong why have it if you want ot hurt it and what kind of state of mind are people in when they hurt them how ould you even do that!

Side: citizenship final discussion

Yea! Exactly! Animals are people, if you abuse an animal or even a person you just doing to try and bring yourself up. But it doesn't work! You just putting in people's eyes that your a bad person. And don't deserve to have animals or children for that matter.

Side: citizenship final discussion

People need to stop and think that most things they do can hurt the animals. And doing it once can cause the person to do it more and more. Being that, it becomes a bad habit of theirs!

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

What's the point of even doing drugs or smoking? You always get screwed in the end either by health terms or maybe financial issues. I don't get why people do it. I guess they think it might be good for them or feel good, but they probably don't realize how much harm it's doing to them.

http://www.quitsmoking.com/kopykit/reports/body.htm

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

weed vs. alcohol.

-Alcohol

negative:-

prolonged excessive consumption of alcohol can cause permanent damage to the brain and other organs of the body.

severly impairs motor control and reaction times, in addition to statistically increasing risk-taking behavior.

positive:+

enjoyable means of social interaction and general leisure.

that pretty much all the positives.

-weed

negative:-

when smoked, increased risk of respiratory irritation and bronchitis (phlegm)

causes a decrease in blood pressure which can increase the risk of fainting.

increased risk of anxiety in prone individuals.

positive:+

very useful for the treatment of nausea and vomitting in aids and cancer patients.

significantly decreases intra-occular pressure in glaucoma patients.

beneficial in treatment of pain associated with multiple-sclerosis and bone disorders.

safe and enjoyable alternative means to social interaction and leisure, NO RECORDED OVERDOSE DEATHS IN MEDICAL HISTORY.

Side: citizenship final discussion
benwentz6(18) Disputed
1 point

I dont really care what points people have about it. The only positive thing I see from it is that its good for medical purposes. Other than that, im completely against it no matter what.

Side: citizenship final discussion

People around the world today are still doing dog meat trades. Even though it's illegal. I think the penalty should be execution. Because, animals should have more rights. They can be just as equal as people and eating dogs, cats, horses, and cows isn't right.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texting_while_driving

IF YOU EVER THINK ABOUT TEXTING WHILE DRIVING I MIGHT SEE YOU IN ABOUT 50 YEARS WHEN YYOUR DEAD

Side: citizenship final discussion

We wantot recall governer walker but at what cost, people are so against him but he has done some good but everyone seems to only look at what he hasn't done, Not good, Plus wew can't live with him for a whil? It's castedd 9 MILLION so far, and what happens if he is relected, MONEY AND TIME WASTED!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/recall18-8g3r7ui-137489833.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71548.html

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2012/01/18/wis-gov-walker-prospect-recall-election-bring-it

http://m.npr.org/news/Business/145208625

Side: citizenship final discussion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Wisconsin

^^^^^^^^rights that gays have in wisconsin.

Side: citizenship final discussion

I think soda's should not be made from caffine anymore, because caffine is an actual drug. And people can also get diabetise from it. It can also be adicting too.

Side: citizenship final discussion
BrentThiel(20) Disputed
1 point

Uhh I suppose that's a good point, but you know people always have the option NOT to drink soda.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I believe that having the lottery is both good and bad. I think it's good for those lucky people who win those millions for dollars. Especially if they are poor! But My main opinion is that they're dumb. My parents always get them and it's stupid. Your wasting all your money on a lottery ticket, that you have like 1 out of a million chance of winning! Its like throwing money away.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

I agree, if your wealthy enough you shouldn't buy them. Their a waste of money and gambling isn't good for people. When poop people get them its even worse expecially if they don't win. Then they loose their money and become more poor.

Side: citizenship final discussion
1 point

Hahahahaha you said poop... but exactly. I don't think it's a great idea, but then I think less wealthy people would feel left out

Side: citizenship final discussion
salibs(19) Disputed
1 point

definately not good because what about those people that are like addicted to the lottery and trust me people are addisted to it soo i think it is bad

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http://www.apatheticvoter.com/FoundationGovernment.htm

Mmany Americans are not aware of their existence, the Federalist Papers, a collection of hundreds of papers written by Alexander Hamilton and other people, they offer great insight into the birth of our nation. The purpose of the Federalist Papers was to gain support from the people to justify the new government.

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I heart boobies bracelets are good and theres no reason not to wear them. If you google I heart boobies, its soo hard to find a site that says something bad about it. Its all good things. Thats because it is good.

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YES AND ITS A CAUSE FOR BOOBY CANCER AND THE MONEY GOES TO THE ORGANIZATION SO THAT THE MAKER DOESNT MAKE MONEY..ITS A BENIFIT THATS ALL IT IS AND PEOPLE SHOULD SUPPORT IT

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Ben, I agree there isn't anything bad and that they arnt maeing what they say they are spreding awarness ans support for women wit hthe nasty deisease

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I agree with you as long as their not being disruptive. It's a really good idea to raise breast cancer awarness.

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I believe that having the lottery is both good and bad. I think it's good for those lucky people who win those millions for dollars. Especially if they are poor! But My main opinion is that they're dumb. My parents always get them and it's stupid. Your wasting all your money on a lottery ticket, that you have like 1 out of a million chance of winning! Its like throwing money away.

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i agree! saving that one or two or whatever dollars a week or however often you buy them can really add up, and save you money on groceries or gas or anything!

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Exactly! People would save soooo much money this way! Same with smoking!

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One thing that I learned from the Amanda Knox movie was that the judge in the trial, Guliano Mignini was trying to get Amanda to confess to the crime because his own reputation was turning bad because he had been accused of misconduct on case he was apart of in the 70's about the Monster of Florence who killed young lovers in the foothills of Italy. http://abcnews.go.com/International/critics-knox-prosecutor-giuliano-mignini-seeking-revenge-redemption/story?id=14623904

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Turkey's, duck's, and many other birds are abuse too. Even though it may seem like it they are. In the hatcheries that a lot hatch in. They are not treated like they should. They don't get the heat they need and are put in too small of cages. They don't get fresh bedding or food or water. So they get sick easier. And many of them are not treated and suffer, til they die.

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Animal cruelty is a bad habit for some people. It goes on even if it's illegal. And over working an animal is also abuse, neglect, or crulety. Most people think of animals as tools, made for human's to use for work they are to lazy to do. This goes on around the world! In sme countries it is alowd, along with practices or religons.

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Jordan you are toatlly right. What did the animal ever to the person?? Even if it was for religion that is horrible. Domestic Animals depend on humans for survival, they need us to live, so we should take care of them.

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Homelessness is a big issue that I see in this world. In any big city, you will find homeless people on a lot of roads or under bridges. I think that more homeless shelters should open up to help these people. However, I don't think we have enough money to do that stuff.

http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml

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homlessness is not a big issue its those peoples fault tthat they cant have a house because they cant get a job and because they cant take a shower

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You brought up a good point. But maybe those people have a mental disability and they're not able to get a job.

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In fact, the pair's suicidal attack was planned as a grand — if badly implemented — terrorist bombing that quickly devolved into a 49-minute shooting rampage when the bombs Harris built fizzled.

"He was so bad at wiring those bombs, apparently they weren't even close to working," says Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, a new account of the attack

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I believe that the government should pay of the debt we are in. Because, it doesn't help the U.S. to be in such a big debt.

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Everyone deserves equal treatment. Gay, lesbian, mentally disabled, mentally insane, old, young, imprisoned, fat people. Everyone I think should be treated the same, in a good way. and It's sad that they're not. Think about it, If you see a mentally disabled person walking on the street, do you laugh? Or just walk past them like there normal or smile at them. I have been close with these kind of people all my life because it's my moms job. The word "retarded" is just a word. I prefer to call them mentally disabled, or just people. They're just like everyone else, just, disabled. I honestly think they can be the sweetest people ever, some are mean. But they can't help it. I do admit to saying the word "Retarded" a lot, because I think it's dumb people over react to it when they're not like that. It's a bad word, and a bad habit to say. But don't act like you know what it feels like to be called that when you don't even know someone like that or you're not like that. You're just trying to make people feel bad.

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ummm....just dont say it anymore(: yes, some people overreact when they hear it but theres probably a reason for it. since you know what mentally disabled children are like, you can relate to how it makes some people upset when they hear the word "retarded", right?

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Your just saying this because of Matt lol, I'm just saying. Certain people overreact to it WAY to much and they don't even know what there like

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i agree, because i really don't think it matters what you are, you are always going to be a human and deserve equal treatment.

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People spend so much time debating on politics... it's kinda pointless.. live your life and let people have their own opinions.. there are even fatalities because of politics which is a big hunk of bologna. No one deserves to die.

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getting rid of paper money?

a lot of people say that we should get rid of paper money and turn it into coins.

theres some good and bad things about that. for one thing it would be harder to taint coin money, its easier to rip a doller bill then to chop a coin in half. coins have about 30 years of life and paper money has about 5 years of life.

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I think that it would be good in a way to not have paper money, but also it could be a bad thing.I could be a good thing because then you dont have to worry about people robbing you or anything like that.

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This is a case that is talked about during the Dred Scott case. It's called Madison v. Marbury.http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0831715.html

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I think the united states has an obesity problem.. like forreal. If we didn't have so much junk food and if we didnt offer it everywhere.. this wouldn't be a problem...

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/obesity.htm

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I agree with that. Also that our serving sizes keep getting bigger and bigger. Its bad and gross.

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I think that gay rights should be allowed.. you can like whoever you want to.. its your choice.. people are just so discriminative and think that theyre so different from us but really theyre regular human beings..

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This is why marijuana should be legal marijuana appeared in the us parmacopoeia. It was estimated that 5 percent of people were addicted to opiates the government turned its eye towards drug addiction. In 1914 opiates and cocain were made illegal after reffer madness was released marijuana was banned in a 1937 federal law. The ada told conress they did not know any evadince that would make marijuana dangerous. They also told them that future investagation might show that there are substantial medical use for cannabis. In 1997 the institute of medicine concluded that marijuana is a safe and effective medicine that qualified patients should have safe acess to. In 1996 california and arizona legalized the use of medical uses sence then 11 states have don’t the same . but ever sence dispenseries have opend there doors the federal government has been trying to shut them down.

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who thinks that money should be talkin out of politic?

i mean cmon you get paid to make laws and tell us what to do?

and so many people just care about money so they don't care what would happen to us.

this whole government is filled with corruption.

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How do you feel about the billions of dollars we spend on foreign aid when we need the money to help our own Americans who are living in poverty?

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Same-sex rights in Canada have come a long way since 1965. It was then that the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a ruling that labeled Everett Klippert a "dangerous sexual offender" and threw him in prison for admitting he was gay and that he had sex with other men. thats disgusting...

[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/samesexrights/]

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MichaelB1(16) Disputed
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Who's Everett Klippert? Are you sure you looked this up enough or just copied and pasted everything?

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no he didnt even read it he just founf a website that looked good and coped and pasted

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You copy and paste everything you put on here. And this isnt even about Canada.

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BrentThiel(20) Disputed
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Yeah, this sounds like a copy and paste type thing. I don't even think this is true.

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This is obviously copy and pasted. I don't think you understand like half the words in this. Nice..

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http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/columbine.htm

this link is fairly true except for them being picked on

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I agree, this link does a very nice job of putting the facts into a condensed article. I think you found a very nice link because this is unbiased and to the point.

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