I think you mean that you are resorting to logical fallacies because logic completely defeats your points.

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Obama is not a dark skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free health care; you're thinking of Jesus.

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kiss my grits! you are the one whining the kids don't get art lessons at that school. you write a check. I'll buy em an etch-a-sketch for Christmas and teach em how to spell Romney.

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I'm not the one claiming that "all we need is money" <to the tune of "All You Need is Love">, it's the left that makes that claim. Now, you have a situation here a school is being financially penalized for breaking a gov't rule and suddenly the leftists here stop caring about the money/kids. What changed to cause you to think that taking money away from a school will improve it's ability to educate our children??

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Isn't improving the education of our children the goal of the people who administer these programs?? Apparently THEY think that punishing the kids for the schools failure to follow thier rules is a way to accomplish that goal and you and others here seem to be surrporting that idea.

I'm not shifting the blame, in fact I've stated that this was the school's mistake repeatedly, so why lie about this?? Is it easier than telling the truth??

My ONLY concern here is what's best for the kids. The school screwed up, but it's the kids who suffer. You may be OK with that, but I'm not. It's a crappy rule that needs to be changed and you think that it's a wonderful thing that will lead to all of our children growing up fit, healthy and wonderfully intelligent (except for art and music).

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

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You're right, I don't know what you think, I just have to work with what you post here.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

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Actually, that about abotu as nanny-state as it gets. It's telling the schools that there is money for them, but only if they follow the rules of the STATE. That is thevery DEFINITION of a nanny-state.

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Secondly; No, I don't think that limiting the amount of junk food students can consume with the assistance of the school will 'lead to all of our children growing up fit, healthy and wonderfully intelligent'. Nor have I ever implied that I do. (BTW, when you have to resort to making up your opponents arguments, your own is circling the bowl.) Let me tell you what I do think. I think that if there was any other product on the market that resulted in a health care cost of 147 billion dollars a year, it would be recalled faster than you can leap to an unfounded, unsupported conclusion! However, removing all junk food from the market is neither feasible or possible. There are really only two things we can do to stop this problem. 1. Better education. 2. Encouraging people to form better eating habits at a very young age. So we ask ourselves: Where is the best place to launch a charge against this problem? Where can we reach the most people and do the most good? The answer is obvious. As far as the school punishing the kids, the SCHOOL not the government, I don't think they should be allowed to. I think that, failing all else, the parents of any student who loses out regarding their education because of the stupidity of this principal and school board should sue. On a final note, your attitude that 'someone else is to blame for the schools mistake' is a very big part of why we have a nanny government in the first place.

Not once in your argument have you ever addressed the logic behind punishing the kids for the schools mistake. You tried to shift the responsbility to the school's admin, but that just as stupid. Supporting a bad law for good reasons is a stupid thing to do. It's like the people who when they finally realize that just maybe the science behind GW is flawed fall back on the argument that the results are a healthier environment. Using a bad law to accomplish something good is dumb. Pass laws and ruels that accomplish what you want to and aren't stupid. If you want kids educated on good nutrition, then put rules in place that will result in that, not taking away a kid's art and music education to try to make a point.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold