It is insane to believe that children can make cogent decisions before they get to 18 (some can earlier, some can later, some never can, but you have to choose an age of responsibility, and 18 seems to be pretty fair). The breech of trust of children at early ages leaves a life-long scar that is devastating to the child, but also damaging to a society. The vast majority of these children never recover to become contributing citizens. The perpetrators don’t even care and will damage a great many of these innocent minds. I do not know what “Dr. Ruwalt” is a doctor in, but it certainly is not psychology. She is dangerous and the fact that she has enough of a following to be published is freightening.

There are some laws that the vast majority of society members believe in, such as: stealing, murder, rape, child molestation, and fraud. There are others that are simply vestiges of influencial people forcing their desires on a gullible population. Most people do not believe in these laws and they are not either accepted and often violated. Examples are speeding, income taxes, government welfare, drug laws, immigration enforcement, and perks for elected officials. Most people have to be forced into compliance, but do not have their hearts in the enforcement of these laws. These should simply not be laws.

Anyway, thanks, Wayne, for the cogent thought piece. You are a very viable alternative to our one-party choices. I will do my best to convince people to break the mold, but, I have to admit, I am not having much luck. Most people are scared of the wrong things and listening to the false Gods. Not much different from cavemen, but I guess we are really just cavemen with better technology when you get down to it. Still, we have to keep up the good fight.

In Shanghai, China, they used fully locally bred inteligentsia, and I found they were much more vigilant. I got held up and asked if I had any “tools” in my carry-on back-pack. I couldn’t think of any. After a careful search, I discovered it was a cheap pair of chiropody pliers I’d bought the day before. They tried to insist I go back and pack them in my in-the-hold baggage - but that had long disappeared down the big long shute to the baggage handlers. It took some time and the help of my interpreter to convince them it was okay to toss them in the bin - apparently they suspected I might have been trying to frame them for stealing them. The only thing that was absurd about this was that no sooner we’d boarded the plane, us at the front of the plane were presented with quite sharp knives and forks of far more use to a terrorist that any chiropody plier or pocket knife could be ! Admittedly, this was 2002, and I’m sure even the dining utensil threat has been thoroughly dealt with.

Too, I suggest you square the flights with per diem requests…are there too many per diem requests for the number of days or parts of days, away from the office?

Can’t agree that there is a racial issue here.

Thanks for the mention. The next installment of the “Ron Paul Circus” is slated to go up later today. Keep in touch as much, much more is on the way on our end.

And keep up the good work. Don’t let this guy bully you into silence - his tactics won’t work on me, and I’m glad to see they aren’t working on you.

Wally