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I think this is worse than indifference, it's cruel and inhumane. Maybe most of them knew it was going to pass so were ok with voting against it IDK but I'm admittedly biased and refuse to give them the benefit of the doubt b/c I'm not a dumbass. It's difficult for me to not consider this behavior in a very negative way. IDK if anyone is present here to defend it but I'd be interested to hear legitimate reasons why this isn't completely terrible At least now it could still pass. If they were the majority they would be able to actually inflict suffering here.

Kevin Rand's training staff has a coat of arms and a motto in Latin, I forget what it is exactly but it loosely translates as "shit happens".

That's what Adduci would have done, trade cartons of cigarettes, or access to one of his female associates.

They are doing this so they can continue to blame Biden for the shortage. They don’t care about babies or their constituents.

This arrived yesterday finally. It’s cleaner than the pictures in the auction.

Good post

occassionally the the priest at mass will venture into "taboo" topics but I know from conversations and social media that half the people listening are silently rolling their eyes. I guess you could say it was "easy" to go and experience things. Didn't require anything. The things I did do were out of service because I enjoyed it and saw it as serving the community as much of a church. Being involved allowed me to see the real benefit to doing these things for people who needed it.

Lol. What a nepotism shitpit

the punchlines would have been way less funny that's for sure b/c wingers would be making them and we all know the right can't meme

My wife and I are taking a driving trip through the south. While here, we have stayed in downtown hotels in Louisville, Jacksonville, Montgomery, and now Birmingham. Nashville is next. The thing that has struck me about these downtowns is how ragged and rundown they are. Lots of buildings vacant, hardly anyone on the streets at night, some street lights are out, and people without homes the only ones on the streets after maybe nine o'clock. It's not like that in my city, which is very clean and well-lit and well-trod by people both resident and tourist well into the night. So what's the difference? Why are things like that in these southern downtowns but not in mine? I think the original difference is slavery. People think that ended in 1865 and that everyone just did a 180 on it, but we all know that's not true. The south tried to keep de facto slavery going with Jim Crow laws for as long as they could afterwards, finally starting to crack a century later. One of the things that started turning states around on Jim Crow was economics: corporations started refusing to even do business in Jim Crow states, let alone relocate there, until that was finally changed. Economics is what got their attention. Still, the south is way behind the north in economic development. I looked up which Fortune 5000 companies have their headquarters in Birmingham, which is the #41 market in America. There is not a single company I'd ever heard of, and in fact only four of the top 500 are there. Why is that? I believe because the legacy of slavery in the south, with its lingering social impact, has hampered economic development in the deep south for generations still to come. Companies relocate to other city downtowns (like Chicago) all the time, but none of them go to deep southern cities, despite the favorable weather and corporate tax advantages, because no company with a highly-educated executive workforce could ever get their people to relocate to Birmingham, Alabama. And as states like Alabama race to the bottom to punish people for having pregnancies they don't want or otherwise can't handle, they are not only never going to have highly-educated people wanting move there, but they will also experience a brain drain of people who grow up there as these states enact more and worse punishing fascistic laws. And that's perfectly OK with the evangelical Christians who run politics in the deep south because of the book of Genesis. Always remember that Eve did not tempt Adam with fruit from an apple tree. The story is that she tempted him with fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is knowledge that so many people who run politics in the deep south fear. They fear smart people. They don't want them around. Smart people are too smart for them. Smart people make people who run things in the deep south feel inadequate about themselves. That's what these retrograde abortion laws (not to mention voting restrictions and open gun laws and all the rest of that) will finally accomplish: they will keep highly-educated smart people from moving there, and they will drive the highly-educated smart people who are still there away as well. Detractors might point to Atlanta and say see, you're wrong, they're in the deep south and look, they have a thriving economy. To which I would say, all that came when Atlanta tried to be like the north when it came to social and legal protections. Now that Georgia is engaged in a race to the bottom as well, that will eventually change because sooner than later, no one will want to live there anymore, either. I promise you.

The key is to get them to just give it to you, you know, in payment.....

Well, they're going to be very disappointed by the supply they see on the shelf.

we're gonna air guitar in unison for sure

Suggestion online that the Pistons trade Grant, Olynyk and Joseph to the Nets for Ben Simmons. Um, I wouldn't trade a bag of dirty laundry for Mr. Softee. Simmons is a loser. He doesn't have mental illness he has mental weakness.

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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33942494/alabama-football-coach-nick-saban-says-texas-bought-every-player-questions-whether-current-nil-model-sustainable nick saban complaining that texas a & m bought their recruiting class. i mean, he's right, they did. but nick saban? from alabama? what's next, ryan day complaining that texas a & m players dont have to go to class?

Gop cares about babies 28million. Not billion

actually the accusation is not against the methodology of meta-data review, it's a charge that the data in two of the studies used in the meta analysis contain bad data, which in turn, through no fault of their own, casts doubt on the result of the meta-analysis. GIGO.

It looks like one roster vacancy has been resolved. There was a lot of concern here about the role of Big Fat Righthanded Reliever and how it might be vacant, but Rony Garcia staked a claim for the job this afternoon.

cade is first team all rookie. cade, barnes, franz, mobley, and green. cade, barnes, and mobley were unanimous.

All we are missing are locusts at this point lol

No it wouldn’t. The GOP would still not be satisfied. They are barely going along with any exceptions for “life” of the mother, if at all, let alone health of the mother . They think health is too broad of a term. You know…, life is risky. Don’t want to take a risk? Don’t have sex. Don’t fight God’s will. That’s what they really think.

boo fucking hoo. After having too many men on the ice while short handed and down 2-0 in game 3, down 2-0 in the series, in 2009 they never ever get to complain about a call in the playoffs. Never.

It God wanted the pre born to have full autonomy she would have made it so women laid eggs instead of carrying for 9 months. Until the baby is born it’s a part of the mothers body and she and her doctor should made the decisions free from the government. That’s the conservative way right? Let people make their own decisions privately.

Ok then, if it's all belief, then everyone's belief is as good as anyone else's and I guess we have to sit down and work out the best compromises we can through the political process instead of bringing moral absolutism to the table and calling other opinions valueless and calling opponents murders and the like.

Then child support should start at conception? Government assistance should start at conception? If men are held responsible and it has a financial impact on others, abortion would suddenly become easily available. The same people who profess to be so concerned about the "unborn" couldn't give a rat's ass when the babies are born. Most who think adoption is the answer haven't adopted. Most who think it's wrong to terminate those with special needs aren't in favor of providing funds for life time education and care. Most are unconcerned that guns are slaughtering children more often than abortion. Most aren't in favor of paid parental leave, medicare for all, child care credits, free student lunches, student loan relief...all things that would likely reduce the incidence of needing to terminate a pregnancy. If only the baby killer crowd put the same amount of effort into pregnancy prevention as they did into stopping abortion. Why isn't Jesus preventing unwanted pregnancies and giving babies to those who are having trouble conceiving? Why isn't Jesus providing funds for those who can't afford babies? If you want to know when a zygote becomes an embryo, a fetus, a baby, read a science book. It's all in there. FWIW, the "Bible" says life begins at first breath. So it's settled.

Serious question then - since you admit this is a belief and not a demonstrable fact, what do you think gives you the right to impose that belief in law on any one else in a religiously free society?

Detroit Free Press: Records: Oxford school shooting suspect hoped massacre would get Biden impeached The fundamentalists on the right are now raising fundamentalist kids who are being radicalized and shooting up schools in the hopes of having Joe Biden impeached.

serious question: who here knows what a trial sequential analysis is, and would be able to spot methodological bullshit in it while reading about it in an article where that method is employed? I do data analysis for a living and I have no idea what that is let alone know if it was employed correctly/non-nefariously