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Someone asked one of the bill authors why they didn’t include a punishment for the destruction of embryos in labs if this is about saving all “babies”. He said since it’s not in a woman it doesn’t count. Because for these dickknockers it isn’t about the babies. It’s about the women and punishment. I’m thinking about getting a shirt made. Seriously, if men got pregnant, abortions would be available at doc in the boxes. And while Alabama lawmakers are uniquely hideous, don’t be throwing any stones from Texas. Y’all have some pretty restrictive abortion laws and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of your neanderthals jump into this current attack with a bill of their own.19 points
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There is a whole bunch of whimpering defeatism infiltrating this thread and spreading itself in nefarious, non-South Austin’s mom kind of ways. The writing off of Ringo and Evans at this stage is wholly unwarranted and directly related to the simpering, mental farts being shot out from the IT guys. Pull yourselves together and find your fucking spines. If nothing else, end the fait accompli silliness in May.18 points
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Serious question: as a country, how are we supposed to solve any of these issues when half of the people spout nonsense like this? We're too far gone.17 points
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I've kicked off 3 people in my career. Didn't want to. Felt I owed it to them.14 points
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Alabama: 2nd in gun violence 46th in health care 50th in education 45th in opportunity for residents 45th in crimes and corrections 2nd in infant mortality rates No family or maternal leave laws in the state Half of the state's 67 counties have no obstetrician 5th highest child poverty rate in the country You call that pro-life? Hah! No one likes abortion, everyone would rather prevent unwanted pregnancies. The problem is the conservative and Republican policy of ignorance. Want to lower unwanted pregnancies and abortion rates? Stop standing in the way of access to birth control, sex education and healthcare. Abstinence is not and will never be an effective policy.12 points
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Anyone citing that Virginia is allowing third trimester abortions at will for anyone seeking them is not arguing in good faith and should be ignored.11 points
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So removing the fetus from the woman makes it no longer a baby. So what's the problem?! Also, a fetus is a baby as much as a seed is a tree. Also, if y'all gave a shit about the sanctity of human life, you wouldn't be pro-death penalty. And if you gave a shit about kids, you would insist on programs to help poor kids and improve public schools. But y'all cut that stuff every chance you get. Buncha damned hypocrites.11 points
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I thought their power was absolut.9 points
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No kid should get raped. And no kid who's been raped by her own father should be forced to give birth to her daughter/sister. The GOP idiots who are defending this are really outdoing themselves. It's as if they're trying to set some world record for being fucking awful, subhuman, grotesque pieces of shit.8 points
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It seems there are multiple options for this sale: different percentages available, including or not including some real estate, etc. You can tell, because each prospectus has multiple colored stickers on the cover telling you what's included in the deal.7 points
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Hopefully what will happen is you will go away and go back to supporting pedophiles for Congress.6 points
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Oh honey no, definitely not cute enough. But I’ll flirt for the vodka6 points
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Buck's at Lucky's Lodge no longer exists. But Buck's is not dead. We'll hang our "Home of Buck's" sign on the wall at Farley Girls after we take over on June 1. However, the inclusion of barbeque to their existing menu will take a bit of time. Farley Girls is a successful restaurant with a very loyal following. The last thing we want to do is alienate the locals by immediately changing up a menu that they are fond of. So we'll add smoked proteins to some of the menu items and replace a few others, but a full barbeque menu as a part of the regular lunch service will take 30 days or so. And at some point later this year the Farley Girls name will go away and the restaurant will be known simply as "Buck's". I'll say this though...I sampled brisket on Mother's Day to a few of their longtime regulars, and it got them pretty excited about barbeque as part of the menu.6 points
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"My team my team!" is the whole reason Northam's comments were even news. Disingenuous hacks jumped on them and misconstrued them to the masses to spark outrage. One page ago, you said that you would support abortion if the mother's life was in danger.. and that is the EXACT same position that the Virginia bill takes. But instead we get the same, tired bullshit image of Democrats running through maternity wards chopping babies' heads off. “No woman seeks a third trimester abortion except in the case of tragic or difficult circumstances, such as a nonviable pregnancy or in the event of severe fetal abnormalities, and the governor’s comments were limited to the actions physicians would take in the event that a woman in those circumstances went into labor,” Yheskel said. “Attempts to extrapolate these comments otherwise is in bad faith and underscores exactly why the governor believes physicians and women, not legislators, should make these difficult and deeply personal medical decisions.”6 points
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Similar to Amazon's for Chinese kids. "Keep it, we'll just send another one?"5 points
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that is so hilariously dumb that i can't take that poll seriously. 9% of dems even said yes! is there some baseline number that can be inferred as "this percent of people don't understand the question."5 points
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It's just a bunch of 15th century dick jokes.5 points
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Because the idea of Roberts as a minimalist jurist who respects stare decisis is an image he likes to cultivate that isn't actually true. See Citizens United, Shelby County, Janus, and his deciding to re-write the medicaid expansion (in which he changed his mind on both the mandate and the medicaid expansion after the conference vote purely out of political considerations), among many other cases. Roberts has a long history of subtly maneuvering to make his partisan preferences the law in a way that isn't obvious to people who don't follow the Supreme Court pretty closely. For example, in Shelby County, rather than cite an actual part of the Constitution that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act violated (because he couldn't), he ruled that it violated the Constitutional principle of "equal sovereignty of the states." What he conveniently elided was that this "principle" was no principle at all, but part of the basis on which Dred Scott (which was later overturned by two Constitutional amendments) was wrongly decided. And, to the extent this was ever a legal principle protected by the Constitution, it only applied to the terms upon which states were admitted to the union. Roberts was smart and didn't want to be seen citing Dred Scott in a case overturning the Voting Rights Act, so a few years before Shelby County, he included some dicta in another case (Northwest Austin v. Holder) nakedly asserting that this "doctrine" of equal sovereignty reflected an "historic tradition." A few years later, when he had the opportunity, he overturned Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act citing his own emphasis from Northwest Austin on this "historic tradition" that he had essentially invented out of whole cloth (with an assist from pro-slavery justices from before the Civil War) a few years before. These are not the actions of a justice simply interpreting what he believes the law to be, influenced by how he understands the world (as all judges are). These are the actions of a person who makes the law what he wants it to be. You might even say he legislates from the bench.5 points
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I don't know. The issue and the court(s) have become so politicized, I don't know how a case might come out. I am not one to contend that judges/justices put aside their personal biases in their rulings, but the law does have some tendency to neutralize them or make them less a factor. Thomas is the main justice that has almost zero respect for stare decisis and he can occasionally attract a majority, but I'm not sure this court is any more likely to join Thomas than prior versions. Everyone assumes that Gorsuch and Kavanagh would be in such a majority, but I'm not sure that's true. The thing that "federalizes" abortion is the right to privacy, which, while controversial in 1973, is pretty much no longer debatable. I'm as big a federalism nut as they come (but more in commercial, regulatory, and criminal contexts than civil rights), and I don't have a problem with the right of privacy. So I don't think any big state/federal adjustment is the key to undoing Roe. **Edit: I also think that these are the kinds of issues that make "past performance" a less likely indicator of future behavior. These things can cause seismic shifts in the views of one or more previously "reliable" conservative judges. Maybe even a liberal or two. The lynchpin of Roe is that the right of privacy makes the right to reproductive autonomy a "fundamental right," which requires a compelling state interest to infringe and a narrowly tailored, least restrictive infringement. Because of the state of fetal viability science in 73, it was generally agreed that first trimester fetuses could not survive outside the womb, so the state could demonstrate no compelling interest in regulating such fetuses until after the first trimester, when viability was more certain. The current state of science might move that date. I don't keep up with that, because generally the abortion debate makes me shut down. One thing I will note. It seems like many of these ostensible "test case" statutes, like Alabama's, are so ham-fisted that they aren't terribly likely to draw a grant of certiorari. It could probably be done by a sophisticated effort to whittle at Roe, but most of these things are both barrels of a 10 ga goofball shotgun (I really wanted to say "retard" instead of goofball, but am trying to be better).5 points
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I was ready to count ATM out, but then I read that last sentence and it turns out I can't do that.5 points
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Hell will never freeze over so long as Satya is down there furiously rubbing his pussy. The friction will keep hell plenty warm.5 points
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Lol fighting to protect free speech online while stripping reporters of their press passes. Are you fucking kidding me?4 points
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I dunno if a sammich counts as "cooking," but fuckit, this was marvelous: Wheat telera roll Dietz & Watson "Santa Fe" turkey Mayo Chipotle Bitchin' Sauce red leaf lettuce olive oil truffle salt fresh black pepper tomato chopped pickled pepperoncinis4 points
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Makes sense. I saw a documentary once that showed that Gene Simmons is a master of high-tech weapons development.4 points
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A tequila joke? Ok, mister, now you’ve done it. Get your keypad and leave the forum.4 points
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wrong. what about the giant A, B, C and D?4 points
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Pics of flight attendant? I'd imagine she is in need of sex in the buttocks. That's the only logical explanation here.4 points
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Yeah - this one is on Southwest and the attendant. You can't have attendants singing, joking, and doing back-flips down the aisle on flights and then throw a guy off the plane for interacting with you and trying to lighten up a bad situation where you're stuck on a tarmac. Everybody has bad days, but to take it that far and then follow through with a shitty attitude is a problem. It's always a good mental safety check to realize that if everyone is pissing you off, you just might be the common denominator. Working for a domestic carrier in that capacity might not be her cup of vodka tea.4 points
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that's the thing, and it's why i'm honestly puzzled as to why women vote republicans. it has never been about babies. but here's the real rub. it's never been about women. it's been about keeping poor people accountable for their situations. now keep in mind, this is different than being accountable for their decisions. it's about being accountable for their SITUATIONS. poor people make poor decisions. and the whole fucking thing is so goddamn infuriating. thin on a consistent level: poor people make poor decisions. we should help them make better decisions. birth control. sex education. financial education. ANY FUCKING EDUCATION. beyond the decisions, we need to take care of the result of those bad decisions. when poor people make poor decisions that result in babies...we need to take care of them and those babies, right? do any of yall know single moms? jesus, fuck, it sucks. they work their asses off, try to get family to help out any way they can, and they try to make it work, because THEY ARE FUCKING HUMAN. just like those babies republicans purport to want to save. until it comes to "entitlement" bullshit. BE CONSISTENT YOU ALLEGED CHRISTIAN FUCKS4 points
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Your mom lightened my load and finished me properly4 points
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