Two items which need to be cleared up:
1) Democrat/Republican are political parties.
2) Liberal/Conservative are ideologies.

Tories, Whigs, etc..have all come and gone, and individual issues change but vision and ideology stays pretty consistent. Don’t get bogged down in semantics but the battles between left/right, conservative/liberal, socialism/capitalism will remain.

Spanking Raises Chances of Risky, Deviant Sexual Behavior

Review found physical punishment of kids linked to unprotected, masochistic sex as adults

By Amanda Gardner

Posted 2/28/08

“THURSDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have uncovered another damaging consequence of spanking: risky sexual behaviors, or even sexual deviancy, when the child grows up.“This adds one more harmful side effect to spanking,” said Murray Straus, a spanking expert who was expected to present the findings of four studies at the American Psychological Association’s Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships in Bethesda, Md., on Thursday.

“I think that it’s pretty powerful,” said Elizabeth Gershoff, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work. “It’s across several studies and across different forms of either risky or deviant sexual behavior.”

Straus, who was the author of all four studies, hopes the findings will raise awareness among child development experts.”
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/h…havior.htm

 pepperjack:

This “study’ will only serve to further the left’s attempt to wrest authority from the family structure and hand our children over to a Marxist State.
I have heard that our kids are even encouraged to report verbal abuse to authorities.
“I ‘SAID’ Clean Your Room!”
Off you go.

Kids know that the threat of abuse is the single largest power they have over adults, especially authority figures. Accusations of abuse and “inappropriate” behavior is the trump card held by any minor.
I would bet that most of them have Social Services programmed into their !phone, (and 911 for that matter…)
This attitude is heavily fostered and encouraged by our Gov schools.
One phone-call, and you’re gone.

What if you beloved child darted out into the street, inches away from road kill. You grab him/her by the wrist, and ’slap!”, right in the slats. Problem solved, right?
No, little miss Betty Butinski next door calls the cops!
Odds are you will me taken down for questioning and a Government Social Worker will interview your child.
Even if acquitted, this charge will never leave your record.

The only question is whether you’ll be charged with physical abuse or sexual abuse. If convicted, most people cop a plea because they’re badgered into it by the system, They’re convinced (rightly so), that if they take it to trial, their lives will be dissected by the media, friends, family and neighbors.

One might have to move if they are too close to a school or park. You may have to be supervised when with your children. Never can be alone with them again, and I’m sure there’s more fun stuff I don’t know about.

Once a parent, rightly or wrongly, graces the radar of the Federal Child Protection Agency, Child Welfare, Social Services, State System… or whatever, their life will change forever.

More Big Government Marxist Socialism.
It is as clear as an unmuddied lake.

This is Hylarious!

Hillary Clinton complains about Obama getting the kid-glove treatment.

“Unfair, Unfair!”  She cries.

“Lib-Medea Bias, Lib-Media Bias!”  She whines.

The Vast-Right-Wing conspiracy must be engaged in some serious psy-ops within MSNBC, to pull this one off!  lol

Rove must be busy.  Can’t keep a good man down.

Our planet goes through cycles, always has.
Now the left wants to tax us for it.
They should be able to find other avenues to punish Americans, besides the weather.

Wouldn’t a warmer climate increase growing seasons and Ag out-put?
Then we can turn around and burn the bounty of the earth in our Prius.
None of this makes any sense.

NOTICE: Last year an Graph!…From Jan, 07 to Jan, 08- 

 .669 deg C. DECREASE in global temperatures

What’s up with that?

So every 120,000 years we go through a warming peak, followed by a precipitous drop in temp.
It’s about 100,000 years from the peak to the trough.

This is the time-frame of the temp-cycle the GW hoaxsters claim we’re adversely effecting with our conventional light-bulbs?????
I’m sick to death of this.

The GW alarmists should at least wait till the summer-time to pitch their falderall.
The pudding heads, whom these propagandists are trying to convince, are more likely to lemming around the hysteria during a season when their tootie-fruity is melting off their popsicle stick rather than when they are freezing their bloomers off in Feb…I can wait. 

We’re all going to freeze!
I’m lobbying for gov mandates that every American must run a combustion engine for at least 3 hrs/day to save us from global freezing.
To subsidize this earth saving strategy, we cut gas taxes by 70%.
This is money right into the pocket of the consumer, no need for it to go through the sticky walls of Congress.
Cut out the middle man.

This is what we do,
not only burn as much oil as possible, we burn wood to heat our homes, or just for the hell of it.
This is a two-fold benefit to combat Global Freezing.
1) Wood smoke contributes helpful greenhouse gasses.
2) Thins “out-of-control-forests”, which are co2-sucking monsters.

This will help us combat the scourge of “forestation”.

~p

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Automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity:

Feb 27 06:18 AM US/Eastern

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.
“They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain’s Royal United Services Institute.

Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world — from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones — can already identify and lock onto targets without human help.

There are more than 4,000 US military robots on the ground in Iraq, as well as unmanned aircraft that have clocked hundreds of thousands of flight hours.

The first three armed combat robots fitted with large-caliber machine guns deployed to Iraq last summer, manufactured by US arms maker Foster-Miller, proved so successful that 80 more are on order, said Sharkey.

But up to now, a human hand has always been required to push the button or pull the trigger.

It we are not careful, he said, that could change.

Military leaders “are quite clear that they want autonomous robots as soon as possible, because they are more cost-effective and give a risk-free war,” he said.

Several countries, led by the United States, have already invested heavily in robot warriors developed for use on the battlefield.

South Korea and Israel both deploy armed robot border guards, while China, India, Russia and Britain have all increased the use of military robots.

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OH, Man!
You anti-globalists are going to love this.

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Captured robots would not be difficult to reverse engineer, and could easily replace suicide bombers as the weapon-of-choice. “I don’t know why that has not happened already,” he said.

But even more worrisome, he continued, is the subtle progression from the semi-autonomous military robots deployed today to fully independent killing machines.

“I have worked in artificial intelligence for decades, and the idea of a robot making decisions about human termination terrifies me,” Sharkey said.

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Every one of these killer-robots are going to be produced by American mega-corporations, manufactured in Guam.

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The sensors of intelligent machines, he argued, may ultimately be better equipped to understand an environment and to process information. “And there are no emotions that can cloud judgement, such as anger,” he added.

Nor is there any inherent right to self-defence.

For now, however, there remain several barriers to the creation and deployment of Terminator-like killing machines.

Some are technical. Teaching a computer-driven machine — even an intelligent one — how to distinguish between civilians and combatants, or how to gauge a proportional response as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, is simply beyond the reach of artificial intelligence today.

But even if technical barriers are overcome, the prospect of armies increasingly dependent on remotely-controlled or autonomous robots raises a host of ethical issues that have barely been addressed.

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Hoo boy!

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“But nowhere is there any consideration of the ethical implications of the weaponisation of these systems,” he said.

For Sharkey, the best solution may be an outright ban on autonomous weapons systems. “We have to say where we want to draw the line and what we want to do — and then get an international agreement,” he said.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=…_article=1

Soros is most likely to be behind this. 

It sounds like something right up that old criminal’s ally-way.

Automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity!