“Seriously, some people need to get a life. The main news stories on national television have been about Te’o’s girlfriend saga and whether or not Beyonce lip synced at the inauguration. Please find something more news worthy to report about!”
“So I learned that Ben Arredondo isn’t going to get any jail time. Who says crime doesn’t pay? Now he gets his pension and the joke is on us!”
“There is a lot of good in the world today, but there is also a lot of evil. Children learn what they live and are particularly vulnerable. Parents, love your children, know where they are and what they are doing, be a good example. Teach them to be honest, respectful, kind, and caring. Give them rules to live by. Teach them to treat others the way they would like to be treated. The home is where morals are taught. Children need real heroes to look up today. Let you be their hero.”
“What ‘a fine kettle of fish’; the conductor is a fraud, the singer and the band were fakes. What a Country!”
“In Linda Turley Hansen’s guest commentary (Jan. 20, 2013) she mentions a small fact, and I quote: The U.S. Center for Disease Control reported for every gun related death, there are TEN alcohol related deaths. Yeah right, lets ‘get the guns.’ Very narrow-minded in my view.”
“Those who died at Benghazi were volunteers and were sentenced to death by spending cuts and filibusters. The same people sentenced the children at Sandy Hook Elementary to death by turning their backs to the writing on the wall. Atrocities in our own front yard mean nothing to this warped breed of public servant otherwise there would be a congressional hearing on Sandy Hook. Their whole world revolves around where the buck starts and they have the gall to put blame where the buck stops.”
“How sad, we come to having to put guards at our schools. I think it is time we start making people who are out of work and living a 100 percent on our tax dollars. Do the policing of our schools. Cleaning our parks and other city, county or state jobs not being done any more do to lay offs, because of the economy. Please do not scream not fair a self supporting working person should be happier than a non. So we are all benefitting. We tax payers can not afford to add more police or guards.”
“If every citizen were armed, as they are in Switzerland, I’d be more secure. I wouldn’t even need a gun because everyone around me would provide protection. As it is, though, I might be the only one in my immediate area who owns a firearm, thus I am the first responder by default. Consequently, I keep a notice in my front window: Dear Invader, neither neighbor on either side owns guns, so try them first.”
mikedurham posted at 11:14 am on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.
Woof, you're carrying a lot stuff in that angry bucket. Too much. So much, I cannot respond. Glad you shared though. Distill one of you issues. Add a bipartisan recommendation that is constructive. You vented!
chatmandu002 posted at 1:22 pm on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.
Vent #1: We are at the mercy of the liberal/progressive Main Stream Media. Guess they are trying to cover up the mess-ups of the Obama administration by not reporting on them. "Nothing to see here, move along", is their mantra.
Vent #2: It pays to be a criminal is all we are seeing from our justice system.
Vent #3: Too bad your words are in one ear and out the other of so many parents as the alcohol and drugs go down the throats, in their veins or up their noses.
Vent #4: So what else is new in Washington.
Vent #5: Hey, lets ban alcohol.... Oh wait we tried that and it didn't work.
Vent #6: The congressional hearing has shown it was NOT the spending cuts, it was incompetence at the Sate Department that was responsible for people getting killed in Benghazi. The Newtown shooting was the results of a mentally ill person going on a rampage.
Vent #7: Sorry, you can't have welfare folks work for their welfare, the public sectors union workers would lose some jobs.
Vent #8: I should, could, will be a first responder also. [smile]
truth posted at 2:14 pm on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.
What would happen if abortions became illegal again? Women would do what women have done throughout history: choose abortion "by their own hands." In the ghastly dark ages before Roe, women swollowed lye or strychine, shot turpentine into their own wombs with syringes, punctured themselves with knitting needles, and threw themselves down flights of stairs-all in hopes of ending their pregnancy. "There is no law that will end the practice of abortion, only laws that can protect a woman's right to choose it, or not." Let's not be deluded about what will happen if that right is removed.
The New York Times Lets not forget in 2008 it was estimated that 47,000 women died from illegal abortions and 8.5 million women suffered major health consequences from illegal abortions.
Abstract01 posted at 11:12 pm on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.
Truth, it is true that all those abortion methods have been (and probably are still) attempted.
Consider this about those dark ages. How often did those terrible things happen? Not to the tune of more than a million deaths a year! http://www.numberofabortions.com/
In the dark ages, most women accepted their circumstances and shaped the best life they could. No it isn't pretty, but then we are all subject to disappointments in life.
You quote New York Times estimates (not statistics) of illegal abortions at a time when legal abortions were available . Where does that make any sense to your argument of going back to the dark ages?
I could just as easily argue that with that many botched attempts, women would be better off to stop aborting their pregnancies, and carry the child to term. They could then put the baby up for adoption or give the little one to an orphanage.
One thing I believe, if this did happen, there would not be even a tenth as many post-traumatic physical and emotional problems. These women could also become a more responsible individual, for having worked through their difficulty instead of avoiding the consequences.
If the government bureaucrats want to make an issue of something, they could expend effort to be sure the sire carries some of the load.
Arizona Willie posted at 8:22 am on Mon, Jan 28, 2013.
Abstract01: you speak of women avoiding the consequences of THEIR actions.
You ignore the abortions women seek as a result of rape / incest.
These women DID NOT willingly participate so they are not trying to avoid consequences of THEIR actions but of the actions of their RAPIST.
If there were that many illegal abortions when legal abortions are possible, due to factors such as not being able to get to or pay for a doctor who performs the procedures, imagine how many there would be if abortions were not legal at all.
According to you --- women are just supposed to ACCEPT being raped and forced to carry and birth a child they didn't want or ask for.
According to you women should just shape the best life they can and allow any man who wants to, to change their life and force them to bear unwanted children.
According to you --- a young woman in college with dreams of, say, becoming a doctor or lawyer or chemist is supposed to just forget all that when someone rapes them and they should just have the baby and give up their dreams and shape the best life they can and accept being forced to have a baby forced on them.
I bet your mother is proud of you.
Bluepoet posted at 1:57 pm on Mon, Jan 28, 2013.
Vent#1- Actually, the main news stories have been Hillary, tearing the Republicans a new one, in the "hearings". Try to keep up (although, you did have a point, like three days ago).
Vent#6--Yes, cuts to security are considered "frugality", until an incident occurs. Then, it's blame game and scapegoat time. The only thing proven at the hearing was how polarized we are, along party lines. Nother else...zip...nada...
Vent#7--Wow, run on sentence much? Hard to read, but I think the gist of your vent is that the people out of work should somehow be given the jobs of protecting our children. That's almost as foolish as giving guns to teachers and janitors, simply because they are already "there".
Vent #8-- By your logic, there shouldn't be another gun sold in America, for another 10 generations. That's a reflection of how many guns we already have. Feeling safe, yet? How about now---while I've written this, there's been a few thousand more sold...now?
Abstract01 posted at 11:04 pm on Wed, Jan 30, 2013.
AZ Willie,
You will see that in one part I used the term "circumstances”, and in another the word "consequence".
But by any means, are you suggesting that the majority of abortions are a result of rape or incest (a particular form of rape)? If that were so, I believe that there would be a major outcry against such by all the women's rights groups. I see not evidence of such.
Your arguments are based on a minor causation of the problem.
I suspect the greatest number of abortions are occasioned by "free-will" offerings. That is to say there was no "force", only lack of preparation or because of careless habits. The natural consequence of not planning is getting yourself in trouble (whether at work or in romance).
And your last argument is to try to insult --that reflects more on the giver--NOT ACCEPTED!
The more central issue is not abortion: it is cherishing life, and most especially human life!