tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post6207651328108690220..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: WHAT IDIOTS...Peter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-32929949012513475332012-12-09T04:38:27.216-08:002012-12-09T04:38:27.216-08:00We have our own share of idiocy on this side of th...We have our own share of idiocy on this side of the Atlantic.<br /><br />I find it absurd that this excuse can be used to stop a beneficial treaty. How can the best interests of the children be an assault on the family? Surely if the evidence is in favour of home schooling, then there's nothing to fear?<br /><br /><br />Richardhttp://quietwatercourse.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-72621227228385110812012-12-07T09:11:18.418-08:002012-12-07T09:11:18.418-08:00I truly wonder what the standards are for being a ...I truly wonder what the standards are for being a senator. Most are attorneys and are well schooled in avoiding conflict and protecting their clients from adversity. We are their clients. My attorney is my friend. The person/senators who cast their vote, my vote, against are not concerned about rational choices.<br /><br />I'm beginning to think that Mark Twain was more than correct when he said, "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."CHI SPHEREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278628028066177635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-10566606569527995992012-12-06T12:34:25.950-08:002012-12-06T12:34:25.950-08:00I found it impossible to believe that the home sch...I found it impossible to believe that the home schooling argument was what they used to vote against it. If this were the case, and if there were any way to construe home schooling as being against the best interest of children (disabled or otherwise), then we would be going after home schooling in this country already, since this treaty was directly modeled after US law. Crazy...Faithhttp://www.danandfaith.comnoreply@blogger.com