My dad lived for that emotional rollercoaster. For the last decade of his life, he was in a lot of pain, so he essentially sat in a chair, watched Fox or listened to Rush in the car, and fumed.
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Bottom line is a demeaning, diminishing attitude towards women.
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That’s what the humanities are for: to provide context–ethical, historical, or otherwise.
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Remember “The Stepford Wives”? Why are you doing this? the young protagonist/victim asked. Because we can was the reply.
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Since the Dobbs decision, the states where abortion is now illegal are the unrepentant confederacy plus two (or three?). The supreme court has expanded the confederacy and now deserves the same.
The next battle in the Civil War will be fought at the polls, and maybe in the streets too.
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Heck, artificial intelligence, particularly via robotic/android constructs has been a staple of human literature since at least the early 1800s. Remember, “Frankenstein” had its 200th anniversary some years back. There have also been
- RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
- Metropolis
- the two Battlestar Galactica series
- the Orville
- more sf books than I have fingers and toes, including all my pairs of multi-toe socks, to count
- more contemporary movies like Ex Machina and the Blade Runner and Terminator movies
On Trek, Data worked out pretty well; his elder bro Lore, not so much.
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Let’s try looking at this again but only consulting the gender that actually gets pregnant and would be eligible for an abortion.
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Because of my spine issues (chronic pain) I have to sit a lot but I see little reason to abuse myself wit Steve Bannon, Fox news and the rest of that ilk. I prefer to be calm than pissed off all the time.
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Worth a snicker…
From ABC news…
Trump says he ‘would have absolutely gotten’ Libertarian nomination if he ran.
… … … …
He didn’t file the needed paperwork but if he had I’d be more than pleased if he got 3%-4% of the votes cast this November. Beats running as a republican in my book. That leaves a cool 90%+ for my man Joe Biden.
trump could run as a Socialist if he wanted and do it from behind bars like Eugene Debs did in 1920. Or mebbe as a Communist?
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According to the map, I live in a county and a state where Catholicism is the dominant religion. Who knew? Slight problem: the Catholic church has very little power here and as a county and state that’s how we vote on abortion. Here’s a reality: most of the people now in this state (Colorado) have moved here in the last 50 years and our voting patterns show that.
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What I got was that Mrs. Alito immediately got into it w/WaPo guy, and was so agitated and then hubby said, she got into a fight w/neighbor who called her a ‘George Carlin-type’ Name One Should Not Use.
It read to ME that she was STILL ready to fist-fight in the Cul-de-Sac and the reporter took them at BOTH their words.
However it does not explain HIM not coming home from the office and saying, HEY, I am a JUDGE and there are certain RULES. Take it down and I’ll go next door and threaten the neighbors…
Both Alitos read as people who are SO SURE of their own righteousness they feel the OBLIGATION to inflict their righteousness onto others.
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And his margin of victory declined by 2.5 points.
Live birth data suggests that roughly 75% of Texas women who want abortions still obtain them.
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I hear from people on the Internet that TSF is a very sociable guy, and of course he has nationwide support, so maybe something like, work with me here - “National Socialist”? 
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Have skimmed but not fully read the piece, but find it interesting and, to an extent, informative. Not sure I fully agree on some points, but one thing I note is no mention of gerrymandering.
Commenting as a quasi-outsider 
: my mother was from Montana (Far West) but her family on both sides dates back to the 1640s in Connecticut and Delaware. My dad was from Manitoba (due north of Minnesota, for the geographically challenged) but his family was from French Canada (New France), also dating back to the 1640s. So familiar with the history and the immigration patterns, the religious background and the political ideology.
The whole concept of gerrymandering is completely accepted in the US, but to my logical mind is insane. That drawing voting districts by the party in power to maintain power is ok. The notion that gerrymandering along racial lines is somehow different from gerrymandering on partisan lines is equally insane. Next to the composition of the Senate, gerrymandering is the most anti-majoritarian feature of the US governance system. No analysis of the voting patterns of pro-choice vs pro-abortion can ignore gerrymandering as a factor.
FWIW.
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They were famous once about 85-90 years ago. Had a big following too in the early years but after pissing off everyone with their death camps and attacking other countries and precipitating a world wide war they fell out of favor.
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New York politics can have a person run on multiple ‘lines’ from what I understand.
I think HE thought his name would appear on multiple lines in the Presidential list.
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I would think even the Evangelicals would have a hard time taking that part literally…particularly since they seem to overlap so much with “prosperity gospel” preachers.
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I watch MSNBC but balance that w/MULTIPLE zoo series.
A rhino collective is a CRASH. I like that.
THAT is how I break my ‘anger’ cycle. (AND I also have a health issue which limits my physical activity. I am so sorry for all the families that have been separated by this MAGA bull-puckey.)
I wonder how Biden did that given that here in Tampa gas prices jumped 20 cents per gallon from Friday to Sunday.
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I can honestly say I have never attended Mass in which the sermon mentioned abortion. Not the sermon.
Just the ‘in general’ type stuff. Collection for the Right to Life March, that kind of thing
BUT here in NM, even w/a preponderance of Catholics, abortion was legal BEFORE there was Roe v Wade. So while I can see the ‘culture’ of an area can be definitive, it’s a very live-and-let-live attitude here. (But of course that is people “I” hang with.)
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