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#902 Feb 22 2016 at 9:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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Nah. Not that it's not tempting but I figure that if I bother reading the polls, I shouldn't mess with the data.
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#903 Feb 22 2016 at 9:39 PM Rating: Good
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Of course he is.
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#904 Feb 23 2016 at 2:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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My friends in Germany were asking me "how Trump could be winning the election". I told them we were just following orders.
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#905 Feb 23 2016 at 8:49 AM Rating: Good
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What is Jim Gaffigan doing on Fox News?
They needed someone reliable that actually followed the news.
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#906 Feb 23 2016 at 10:53 AM Rating: Good
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Timelordwho wrote:
My friends in Germany were asking me "how Trump could be winning the election". I told them we were just following orders.
Smiley: laugh

Maybe I shouldn't laugh. By the time we elect Trump, Germany might be on the way to having an extremist right wing party in charge again. Smiley: tongue
#907 Feb 24 2016 at 8:53 AM Rating: Good
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I just saw a new (to me) ad.
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If you wage jihad against us, you're signing your death warrant.
Because if there's one thing a person in an exploding vest is worried about, it's being killed. Smiley: dubious
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#908 Feb 24 2016 at 11:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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I just saw a new (to me) ad.
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If you wage jihad against us, you're signing your death warrant.
Because if there's one thing a person in an exploding vest is worried about, it's being killed. Smiley: dubious
To be fair exploding instantly sounds like a much better fate than lingering in Guantanamo for 5-6 years before hanging yourself.
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#909 Feb 29 2016 at 9:50 AM Rating: Excellent
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Must be an election cycle:
Idaho Spokesman-Review wrote:
Idaho lawmakers ratcheted up the abortion debate Thursday, as one state representative said he believes rape and incest are unlikely to result in pregnancy, and a party-line vote backed one of two bills championed this year by anti-abortion groups.
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During the hearing Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, said, “Now, I’m of the understanding that in many cases of rape it does not involve any pregnancy because of the trauma of the incident. That may be true with incest a little bit.”
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He added, “I read a lot of information. I have read it several times. … Being a father of five girls, I’ve explored this a lot.”

Smiley: um
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#910 Feb 29 2016 at 9:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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He's explored incest and rape with his five daughters? Smiley: dubious
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#912 Feb 29 2016 at 10:59 AM Rating: Good
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Seriously, are we not doing "phrasing" anymore?



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#913 Mar 31 2016 at 1:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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After this latest bout of crazy coming from Donald Trump about punishing women for having abortions, I can honestly say that I would vote for Hillary Clinton if I had to choose between him or her.

(Copied & Pasted from the Bernie thread so it doesn't get bogged down about abortion)

I don't really get what all the Republican horror and backpedaling from this is about. How many times have I had to listen to "Oh, you support MURDERING BABIES??" when Republicans talked about abortion? So, if they feel that "murdering babies" is terrible and wrong, why NOT punish the woman who decided to go have a baby murdered? Why would you only go after the doctor? That's like arresting a hit man but not the person who hired him to murder someone.

I suppose it's like the "rape and incest" exemption. "Oh, it's absolutely MURDER to have an abortion but it's okay to murder babies conceived from rape. They... don't really count?"
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#914 Mar 31 2016 at 2:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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Votes; more women voters than babies or abortion-performing doctors. Never piss off a subgroup with significant voting power.

Smiley: tinfoilhat

Edited, Mar 31st 2016 1:11pm by someproteinguy
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#915 Mar 31 2016 at 2:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, I know that. Just noting the dissonance between the supposed fire of their convictions and what they'll actually espouse.
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Well that said it would have been amusing for them to try to argue that around 28% of voting age women (thank you google!) are people who needed to be punished as criminals.
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#917 Mar 31 2016 at 6:17 PM Rating: Default
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Jophiel wrote:
Lefein wrote:
After this latest bout of crazy coming from Donald Trump about punishing women for having abortions, I can honestly say that I would vote for Hillary Clinton if I had to choose between him or her.

(Copied & Pasted from the Bernie thread so it doesn't get bogged down about abortion)

I don't really get what all the Republican horror and backpedaling from this is about. How many times have I had to listen to "Oh, you support MURDERING BABIES??" when Republicans talked about abortion? So, if they feel that "murdering babies" is terrible and wrong, why NOT punish the woman who decided to go have a baby murdered? Why would you only go after the doctor? That's like arresting a hit man but not the person who hired him to murder someone.

I suppose it's like the "rape and incest" exemption. "Oh, it's absolutely MURDER to have an abortion but it's okay to murder babies conceived from rape. They... don't really count?"


I concur. I was wondering a similar concept. I'm not a fan of abortion, but clearly the GOP is trying to have it both ways. They are trying to create a "middle ground" to woo people over. I was glad to hear on MSNBC someone pushing back to the notion of "being a victim". How can a person who made choices (not rape, deserted, etc), be a "victim". The GOP is merely going as far as they can go with statements without losing their base. Apparently, wanting to charge the women offends enough of the base that it has become an exception. Just like incest, when exactly does this happen?
#918 Apr 01 2016 at 10:07 AM Rating: Good
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someproteinguy wrote:
Never piss off a subgroup with significant voting power.
Doesn't seem to be hurting Trump's chances.
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#919 Apr 01 2016 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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someproteinguy wrote:
Never piss off a subgroup with significant voting power.
Doesn't seem to be hurting Trump's chances.
Aye, but he can't live in the alternate universe of the Republican primaries forever. Democrats certainly won't mind playing quote ad nauseum come the general election, and female swing voters are going to have a hard time swallowing the idea that 1/4 of them are criminals.
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#920 Apr 01 2016 at 10:44 AM Rating: Good
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someproteinguy wrote:
and female swing voters are going to have a hard time swallowing the idea that 1/4 of them are criminals.


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#921 Apr 01 2016 at 10:48 AM Rating: Good
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Heh, insert.
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#922 Apr 01 2016 at 10:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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someproteinguy wrote:
and female swing voters are going to have a hard time swallowing the idea that 1/4 of them are criminals.


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Pfft, there's no such things as an inappropriate oral sex joke. Smiley: sly

Also just for fun: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the 'None of the Above' era in politics
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#923 Apr 01 2016 at 11:57 AM Rating: Good
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someproteinguy wrote:
female swing voters are going to have a hard time swallowing the idea that 1/4 of them are criminals.
Wait. 1/4 of women have had abortions?

We REALLY need to start teaching idiots about condom use.
#924 Apr 01 2016 at 12:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Wait. 1/4 of women have had abortions?
I googled "what percentage of women will have an abortion?" and the top hit was "Summary: It is estimated here that, as of 2008, about 28% of U.S. women ages 15-64 have had abortions." A quick look through the other top hits didn't give me anything that grossly contradicted it. Feel free to link some more accurate numbers if you find them though, I didn't work too hard on it TBH.

Edit: The top hit, for what it's worth.

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We REALLY need to start teaching idiots about condom use.
I can assure you that the failure rate of those (and really most common birth control methods) over the lifetime of a long term relationship is sufficient to yield multiple opportunities for an abortion.

Edited, Apr 1st 2016 11:08am by someproteinguy
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#925 Apr 01 2016 at 12:49 PM Rating: Good
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Here's what I found with a just as lazy search. Edit: You know, I have to wonder what exactly they're counting as an abortion. Guess I'm gonna have to do more research.

Edited, Apr 1st 2016 12:51pm by Poldaran
#926 Apr 01 2016 at 1:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sounds accurate enough. It was 1-in-3 based on the 2008 rate which may have fallen, but probably not by so much that 1-in-4 (25%) is going to be significantly off. The actual number probably being something less graceful like 9-in-32
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