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#77 Sep 24 2015 at 3:04 PM Rating: Good
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Why would we leave it up to crickets to create the next generation?
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#78 Sep 24 2015 at 6:03 PM Rating: Default
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Pro-life means that you support the right of the unborn to live
Forgive me if you have already answered this, but would you extend "pro-life" to after the child is born (i.e., till death) as opposed to just in the womb?

I'm not a fan of abortion, but probably for different reasons than most "pro-life" people.
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Of course not. Every sperm is sacred. But the poor disadvantaged children are nothing but a drain on the world's biggest economy. Vote Republican and one day you too may be born into wealth!
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#80 Sep 25 2015 at 1:13 AM Rating: Good
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He's dead, he's locked in my basement.
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#81 Sep 25 2015 at 6:21 AM Rating: Decent
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So Jeb ( we can't say Bush; we are working on cleaning it, but the last name still has bad connotations ) went Mitt way and said that he is not running to give away free stuff to black people. I do give him credit for trying to sway NAACP.

In his defense, the phrasing was better than Mitt's. What are the odds of Bush dropping before Trump?



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#82 Sep 25 2015 at 7:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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First off, it's Jeb!. Spell Jeb! right or not at all.

Jeb! is still the establishment favorite with a shit ton of money behind him. He's not going anywhere.
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#83 Sep 25 2015 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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First off, it's Jeb!. Spell Jeb! right or not at all.
I thought it was spelled ¡Jeb!.

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#84 Sep 25 2015 at 8:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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Not specifically about the campaign, but Boehner is stepping down at the end of October. What will we do without our friendly Grinch?

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Wow, Boehner must have realized he was never going to pass a PP defund and wasn't going to survive the coup when he failed.

Edit: Looks like he's giving up his House seat, too. That's something.

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#86 Sep 25 2015 at 8:33 AM Rating: Good
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I guess Monday we'll find out how this wasn't in any way part of the months of attempts to oust him from his seat.

Trumps numbers are plateauing, which is at least a decent sign.
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#87 Sep 25 2015 at 9:13 AM Rating: Good
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Wow, Boehner must have realized he was never going to pass a PP defund and wasn't going to survive the coup when he failed.

Edit: Looks like he's giving up his House seat, too. That's something.

Edited, Sep 25th 2015 9:27am by Jophiel


So betting time; Mistress, Gay lover, or animal ******?
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#89 Sep 25 2015 at 9:30 AM Rating: Good
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So betting time; Mistress, *** lover, or animal ******?


I'm going to say mistress, I don't want you guys stealing the limelight away from our pig fucking prime minister.

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#90 Sep 25 2015 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
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Gay mistress duck.
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So betting time; Mistress, *** lover, or animal ******?

Tired of dealing with the fringe elements of his party. Who are becoming increasingly less of a "fringe" and more of the fabric.
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#92 Sep 25 2015 at 9:35 AM Rating: Good
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That's more the kind of thing I'd expect from Harper, up in Canarda.
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#93 Sep 25 2015 at 9:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
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So betting time; Mistress, *** lover, or animal ******?

Tired of dealing with the fringe elements of his party. Who are becoming increasingly less of a "fringe" and more of the fabric.



This is my take on it; and part of me wants to feel bad for the guy, but a much meaner part of me thinks he's just reaping the whirlwind.
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#94 Sep 25 2015 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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That's more the kind of thing I'd expect from Harper, up in Canarda.
That ******* is the fringe.
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#95 Sep 25 2015 at 3:29 PM Rating: Good
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I'll just wait while you look up a little history and see if any past governments

A) outlawed abortion and then
b) enforced Mandatory state-directed impregnation and birth.


Holding your hand grows tiresome.


I honestly have no clue what point you're trying to make with this. I could randomly guess and try to answer what I think you might be saying, but it might be a lot easier if you'd just clarify things a bit. Can you do that?
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Holding your hand grows tiresome.
I honestly have no clue what point you're trying to make with this.

I think Bijou is breaking up with you Smiley: frown
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Pro-life means that you support the right of the unborn to live
Forgive me if you have already answered this, but would you extend "pro-life" to after the child is born (i.e., till death) as opposed to just in the womb?


In the context of the abortion issue, no. I mean, if we want to expand the scope of things, we could argue that pro-life means wanting to garden a lot (plants are alive, right?), or refusing to swat a fly, or being a staunch vegan, or any of a number of different things we could say is "pro-life". Heck. I believe there must be alien life elsewhere in the universe beyond our planet, does that mean I'm "pro-life"? Context is a useful tool.

Having said that, it's worth noting that pro-life doesn't mean no one can be killed. A pro-life person will allow abortion if required to safe the life of the mother, for example. The issue is with elective abortion absent any legal requirements other than "I want to". Which is important because we also legally make a distinction between elective killing "because I want to" (ie: murder), and killing by the state as a punishment for crimes after a legally defined judicial process. The pro-life person simply believes that the developing embryo/fetus is a human life and deserving of all the same legal protections that all other human life receives under our legal system. I suppose if that embryo is convicted of a crime under which the sentence is death in our legal system, then that would be legal. Point being that there is no inconsistency to holding a pro-life stance on abortion, while supporting the death penalty for those convicted of sufficiently heinous crimes. The fetus' only "crime" is being an inconvenience to the pregnant woman. That's not remotely a standard we'd apply the death penalty for (outside of some strange dystopian world, that is).

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I'm not a fan of abortion, but probably for different reasons than most "pro-life" people.


Yeah. Hence my point about the labels. In the context of the abortion issue, each label has a specific meaning. What I find interesting is that over time, while "pro-life" has consistently been about the belief that human life begins at conception (however that's specifically defined) and must be weighed as a full human life for all legal questions (such as elective abortion), the label "pro-choice" originally was about claiming that women had some choice with regard to pregnancy termination decisions as opposed to "no choice" as defined by the pro-life position. But the idea that abortion itself was a right was not part of the pro-choice position 40 years ago. It was about the woman's right to control her own body outweighing any nascent rights an embryo/fetus may have during the early stages of pregnancy. Both sides agreed that it was an issue of conflicting rights, but disagreed over where one right outweighed the other. Increasingly, I've seen people calling themselves pro-choice, but arguing for abortion as a right itself. Which, as I've explained above, is very problematic. It leads people to defend legal loopholes in the name of "protecting women's rights", that allow for violations of what most of us believe with regard to abortion.

I just find it interesting that the same people who are shocked to discover doctors secretly performing very late term elective abortions will still insist that any sort of legislative reporting or investigation of clinics where abortions are performed is a horrific violation of the rights of women. Um... But those are the only tools that will prevent the very abuses we all (presumably) agree shouldn't be happening. So it's almost like a split brain thing. No one believes that a woman should be allowed to just decide to terminate her pregnancy in the 8th month, but some people are so caught up in the "us vs them" mentality of the abortion issue that they will steadfastly oppose any methods to prevent that from happening. I just find that bizarre. Even after the whole Dr. Gosnell thing came out, the "pro-choice" (air quotes in this case) groups still circle the wagons on the issue, and steadfastly insisted that no new legislation or regulation or inspection was needed, and blasted anyone who suggested doing such things as opposing women's rights. So yeah, it's hard to say that they're doing anything other than supporting abortion itself, no matter how horrific the form it takes.




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Gbaji wrote:
In the context of the abortion issue, no. I mean, if we want to expand the scope of things, we could argue that pro-life means wanting to garden a lot (plants are alive, right?), or refusing to swat a fly, or being a staunch vegan, or any of a number of different things we could say is "pro-life". Heck. I believe there must be alien life elsewhere in the universe beyond our planet, does that mean I'm "pro-life"? Context is a useful tool.
Context is a useful tool. In this case, my question was specifically in reference to humans. Since we don't treat humans the same as plants or animals, there is no slippery slope argument that you can provide to legitimately counter my notion.


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Having said that, it's worth noting that pro-life doesn't mean no one can be killed. A pro-life person will allow abortion if required to safe the life of the mother, for example. The issue is with elective abortion absent any legal requirements other than "I want to". Which is important because we also legally make a distinction between elective killing "because I want to" (ie: murder), and killing by the state as a punishment for crimes after a legally defined judicial process. The pro-life person simply believes that the developing embryo/fetus is a human life and deserving of all the same legal protections that all other human life receives under our legal system. I suppose if that embryo is convicted of a crime under which the sentence is death in our legal system, then that would be legal. Point being that there is no inconsistency to holding a pro-life stance on abortion, while supporting the death penalty for those convicted of sufficiently heinous crimes. The fetus' only "crime" is being an inconvenience to the pregnant woman. That's not remotely a standard we'd apply the death penalty for (outside of some strange dystopian world, that is).
*I'm not* advocating that being "pro-life" beyond the womb means no death for anyone. The scenario in question is that once the mother has the child, all attention and vigor to ensure that child has a good life decimates.


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Yeah. Hence my point about the labels. In the context of the abortion issue, each label has a specific meaning. What I find interesting is that over time, while "pro-life" has consistently been about the belief that human life begins at conception (however that's specifically defined) and must be weighed as a full human life for all legal questions (such as elective abortion), the label "pro-choice" originally was about claiming that women had some choice with regard to pregnancy termination decisions as opposed to "no choice" as defined by the pro-life position. But the idea that abortion itself was a right was not part of the pro-choice position 40 years ago. It was about the woman's right to control her own body outweighing any nascent rights an embryo/fetus may have during the early stages of pregnancy. Both sides agreed that it was an issue of conflicting rights, but disagreed over where one right outweighed the other. Increasingly, I've seen people calling themselves pro-choice, but arguing for abortion as a right itself. Which, as I've explained above, is very problematic. It leads people to defend legal loopholes in the name of "protecting women's rights", that allow for violations of what most of us believe with regard to abortion.
Once abortion has become legal, continuing to fight to limit abortion transitions the fight against the choice of the woman. To make it incredibly difficult for women in Texas to have abortions, but not in California because you are unable to reverse the ruling, is attacking a woman's choice. Granted, attempting to reverse the ruling would equally be seen as an attack on choice, but that's the divisive political world that we live in.


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I just find it interesting that the same people who are shocked to discover doctors secretly performing very late term elective abortions will still insist that any sort of legislative reporting or investigation of clinics where abortions are performed is a horrific violation of the rights of women. Um... But those are the only tools that will prevent the very abuses we all (presumably) agree shouldn't be happening. So it's almost like a split brain thing. No one believes that a woman should be allowed to just decide to terminate her pregnancy in the 8th month, but some people are so caught up in the "us vs them" mentality of the abortion issue that they will steadfastly oppose any methods to prevent that from happening. I just find that bizarre. Even after the whole Dr. Gosnell thing came out, the "pro-choice" (air quotes in this case) groups still circle the wagons on the issue, and steadfastly insisted that no new legislation or regulation or inspection was needed, and blasted anyone who suggested doing such things as opposing women's rights. So yeah, it's hard to say that they're doing anything other than supporting abortion itself, no matter how horrific the form it takes.
Pro-life people are equally stuck in the "us vs them" mentality that they are willing to shutdown the government over distorted videos. To reiterate, I'm not a fan of abortion, but if it's legal, then why close the government over using cell tissue to further science in a positive way when the alternative is simply disposing them?





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Sounds as though Boehner is planning to run votes on a clean CR, reauthorization of the Ex-Im bank and a highway funding bill, all stuff that had been held up by a faction of the GOP, on Democratic votes. Some mumbling that he might take up the immigration bill that's been languishing for two years but I sort of doubt it. Still, prove me wrong, Boehner.

Also, Alma and Gbaji need to move their coming debate on "pro life" to the PP thread or something.
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#101 Sep 27 2015 at 8:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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I am bemused by Tea Partiers moaning about how that tricky quisling Boehner is conspiring to make the government continue to function after his departure. I guess whoever said the only form of government they'll accept is a purely punitive one was right.

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