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  1. Trump is the 24 hr news cycle's wet dream.  I was going to posit that the Nobel Peace nominees were to be submitted by Feb.  But that was 4 hours ago.  I feel like Brooks Hatlen after being released from prison.  

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    Of the 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year, 91 percent are performed during the first trimester (12 or fewer weeks' gestation); 9 percent are performed in the second trimester (24 or fewer weeks' gestation); and only about 100 are performed in the third trimester (more than 24 weeks' gestation), approximately .01 percent of all abortions performed. 

    Approximately 1.5 million U.S. women with unwanted pregnancies choose abortion each year. Most are under 25 years old and unmarried. Women who are separated from their husbands and poor women are more likely to choose abortion than other women. More than two-thirds of the women who seek abortions have jobs. Nearly one-third are in school. More than two-thirds plan to have a child in the future. 

    Approximately 6 million women in the U.S. become pregnant every year. About half of those pregnancies are unintended. Either the woman or her partner did not use contraception or the contraceptive method failed. 

    Each year more than one million U.S. teenagers become pregnant — one in nine women aged 15-19 and one in five who are sexually active. 

    In 1988, the teenage pregnancy rate  was 113 per 1,000 women aged 15-19. The rate was 74 per 1,000 among those aged 15-17. 

    50 percent of teenage pregnancies conceived in 1987 resulted in a birth, 36 percent in an abortion, and an estimated 14 percent in miscarriage. 

    The number of abortions for every 100 live births showed a gradual decline since 1980 (35.9) to 1992 (33.5). The number of legal abortions increased slightly from 1995 (at 1,210,883) to 1996 (at 1,221,585). This is an increase of 0.89 percent. Since the national population increased by about 0.92 percent from mid-1995 to mid-1996, the abortion per-capita rate has decreased slightly. 

    CDC figures for 1995 show that 20 percent of women having abortions are in their teens; 33 percent are ages 20 to 24, and 47 percent are ages 25 or older. 

    Eighty percent of women having abortions are single; 60 percent are white; 35 percent are black. 

    Eighty-two percent of the women having abortions are unmarried or separated. 

    Almost half of American women (43 percent) will have an abortion sometime in their lifetime. 

     

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/06/17/fast-facts-us-abortion-statistics.html

     

  3. 8 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Guys, I’m going humbly request that we not neg posters in the cloak room.  

    I’d like this to be a place where people feel like they can speak freely without fear of getting negged, regardless of how offensive their opinions might be.

    Negging posts you don’t like is counterproductive and moves this forum closer to an echo chamber which I don’t think any of us wants.

    Peace and love.

     

     

     

     

    Bigger hands than DOTUS

  4. 8 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

     

     

     

     

     

     

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-lawyer-showed-you-the-cover-of-his-passport-heres?utm_term=.hgwpQ5JEwK#.esNWgVXAoB

    I honestly do not know if buzzfeed is a conservative lean or not.  But Cohen, apparently, did give them his passport.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/michael-cohen-it-is-fake-news-meant-to-malign-mr-trump/512762/

    I honestly do not know if the Atlantic is a conservative lean or not.  But he says he was at USC and the USC coaches verified it.

    This is so typical of this whole saga.  There will, of course, be phone records of Cohen's whereabouts everyday during the supposed time he was in Prague.  Just another example of you guys swallowing news without even thinking.

    From most accounts, Cohen is probably a scumbag.  This is not about Cohen.  It is about the 1000th or so time that you guys take unsourced/anonymous claims as gospel.  

    I will happily wager whatever any of you want on whether or not it is proved that Cohen was in Prague.  I will take the side that he wasn't.  

    So you posted two articles from almost a year ago for your confirmation.   I'll wager I never post here again if it is proven that Cohen never in fact went to Prague.   If he did, you can shuuuuuutttt the fuck up here forever.  

  5. Apparently he had to "man" up and prove he belonged.

    Corrupt dancing Rick Perry

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    On March 29, 2017, Robert Murray, the founder and owner of one of the country’s largest coal companies, was ushered into a conference room at the Department of Energy’s headquarters, in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with Secretary Rick Perry. When Perry arrived, a few moments later, he immediately gave Murray a hug. To Simon Edelman, the Department’s chief creative officer, who was on hand to photograph the event, the greeting came as a surprise. At the time, Edelman did not know that Murray’s political-action committee and employees had donated more than a hundred thousand dollars to Perry’s Presidential campaign, in 2012, and almost as much to Donald Trump’s, in 2016. Nevertheless, Edelman told me recently, “this Spidey sense went off.” He captured a photo of the embrace, then lingered for fifteen minutes after the men sat down. “Murray did most of the talking,” he said. At one point, the coal magnate handed Perry a document containing his “Action Plan for reliable and low cost electricity in America and to assist in the survival of our Country’s coal industry.” Edelman snapped a closeup. Afterward, he said, he heard Perry tell Murray, “I think we can help you with this.”

    Six months later, on September 28th, Perry sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, directing it to issue a new “rule to protect the resiliency of the electric grid.” The nation, Perry argued, was too vulnerable to power disruptions “caused by natural and man-made disasters,” and the best way to make the grid more reliable was to emphasize “traditional baseload generation”—in other words, coal and nuclear. Perry proposed that all coal plants in certain areas, including many that do business with Murray Energy, be required to keep a ninety-day supply of coal onsite to provide “fuel-secure” power. Edelman was alarmed: the language in Perry’s letter clearly echoed Murray’s “action plan.” Moreover, only a month earlier, a report by Perry’s own staff had concluded that “reliability is adequate today,” raising the question of why the rule was necessary. (A spokesman for Murray told me that he “had no prior notice of this rulemaking and was not involved in drafting the rule.”) In late November, not long before ferc was scheduled to vote on Perry’s plan, Edelman shared his photos of the March meeting with reporters from the progressive magazine In These Times and, later, the Washington Post. The photographs were published on December 6th. The next day, Edelman was placed on administrative leave. (cont)

     

  6. Best 9 score: Estes Park, CO course in which I flew the first green not realizing the higher altitude dictated distance.  Came back to par the 1st hole and shoot a 30 (out of 31).  Doesn't seem that impressive with no par 5's but my short game usually sucks and it was on point.

    Best 18: 2nd time playing Man O' War in Myrtle Beach.  Roughs were burned out and made a 40 foot birdie putt on the first hole that I wish I had footage of to this day.  Ended up shooting a 73 and made enough money from side bets to pay off drinks for the weekend.  

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