Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
--from WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

I was giving some thought recently to how an intelligent black woman might be inclined to view the world. She would have no sense of a 'racial identity', but would realize that there are individuals who are inclined to think negatively of her because of skin color. This is not something that troubles her immensely; she simple realizes that this is the way things are and the only thing she can do about it is to try to treat everyone with dignity, and hope that by doing so, it will affect someone to change their negative view. She is pretty much at peace with the world.

It's my understanding that the Supreme Court may make a ruling on the constitutionality of the Democrat "health care" bill next month. I am interested, particularly from his supporters, if it is ruled unconstitutional, do you think it will have any effect on his reelection chances?

This should be in Politics, not Off Topic.

Anybody been paying any attention to the NCAA Regionals? Since they've changed the bats in college ball, the games are really very enjoyable.

This is an article written by Andrew Napolitano. I find the 3rd and 4th paragraphs particularly interesting since he mentions natural law and rights. http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano59.1.html

Came across this interesting article: http://lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard295.html

One thing I found particularly interesting in the first paragraph is the comment about "government solutions" to problems. The description could be applied to the housing "problem" as well. Essentially, government solutions only exasperate problems and worse, erode liberty.

Here are 3 paragraphs from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on their objections to provisions of the ACA.
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First, ACA allows use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions and for plans that cover such abortions, contradicting longstanding federal policy.The risk we identified in this area has already materialized, particularly in the initial approval by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of "high risk" insurance pools that would have covered abortion.

Second, the Act fails to include necessary language to provide essential conscience protection, both within and beyond the abortion context.We have provided extensive analyses of ACA's defects with respect to both abortion and conscience.The lack of statutory conscience protections applicable to ACA's new mandates has been illustrated in dramatic fashion by HHS's "preventive services" mandate, which forces religious and other employers to cover sterilization and contraception, including abortifacient drugs.

Third, ACA fails to treat immigrant workers and their families fairly.ACA leaves them worse off by not allowing them to purchase health coverage in the new exchanges created under the law, even if they use their own money.This undermines the Act's stated goal of promoting access to basic life-affirming health care for everyone, especially for those most in need.[/COLOR]

Not sure what the US Catholic Church will do if these provisions providing abortions are not eliminated. How they would go about defying the law is an interesting question, IMO.

This passage might reflect the view of many doctors in regard to the A.C.A.:"I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago," said Dr. Hendricks. "Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything – except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards – never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind – yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it – and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t."