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1. When a person lacks empathy it can be a sign of sociopathic tendencies. I personally can't square your thoughts on full term children and ending their lives. My impression is on that issue is you lack empathy, hence my opinion about tendencies. 2. Apologies as you did not say I was souless. You were correct, I am not souless 3. You don't know Kathy Tran, but you know her words and what she believes about the termination of the lives of children at the moment of birth. I do as well. To you, she may be a hero to the cause. To me, she is reprehensible.

I said you may have sociopathic tendencies. I was being honest with my analysis, but I'm no psychiatrist. You said I was soulless, or could be considered as such because I was against extingushing life because someone might be having a panic attack while going through labor, or comparing those who would terminate the life of a child at/near or after the birth of the child. One more thought on this. If a woman was hemmoraging due to a late term complication, and the choice would be between saving the child or saving the mother, I could understand the difficult decision that would have to be made. I believe those decisions are already made, and the family goes on to grieve regardless of the outcome. I've been blessed with the woman in my life being strong, tough and of strong character. I believe each one would willingly sacrifice their lives in that situation, and in at least one case that amazing woman saw it through. She survived, the baby did not. In my case, the doctors were quite insistent that one of my children might have significant health issues based on sonogram (ultrasound, whatever) reading a and suggested alternatives to ending the pregnancy. That option was contrary to our views, and late on my wife had a major health issue and it seemed fairly clear the baby would not survive the night. 21 years later we remain incredibly lucky and grateful to have him healthy and happy in our lives. Here's the thing on that...or situation does not color the way I look at choices others might make, but I am grateful to have a strong, decent and amazing woman in my life. Not all are as strong, decent or amazing. Kathy Tran, for example.

You're probably right about some pro-life people feeling the way they feel. You would have to talk with them more to figure out what's behind their thought process. I can see the opposite side to a point, and feel pretty comfortable navigating that path and having rational discussions on termination of pregnancies. I pass no judgement on termination of pregnancy when reasonable in spite of my own beliefs. Rather, what judgement I might pass I keep to myself. I admit to being stunned by anyone supporting terminating the life of a child in the last trimester for mental health issues. I always believed that most people are pro-life at some point, save the crazy few who would perform late term abortions for profit. I was mistaken. There are apparently many people who support taking the life of a fully developed child who's only crime is the being om the wrong side of the flesh separating them from the outside world. There are many people who actually celebrate the notion of championing the right of the vessel and the vessels medical surrogates to terminate life once the child is born. As for your perspective, in many cases, I'll listen and try to learn from you. In this case, though, if you see no difference between a fertilized egg and a baby in the third trimester being snuffed, there is no middle ground to find and if you see me as the soulless monster, I can live with it.

I think in this case you show sociopathic tendencies. More importantly, the governor and the delegate revealed their thinking on the subject, and it's pretty clear that they stand in favor of terminating the life of a child born alive at the end of a pregnancy. It seems clear they feel it's good for their brand to follow their own deeply held personal convictions. Others need to follow thiers. I just watched the delegates professionally crafted Twitter response defiantly stating she stands for the rights of the women of Virginia (once they have navigated the mental health woes of the vessel that carried them, survived delivery, and navigated the treacherous waters of delivery room doctors and other medical professionals intent on ending their lives). She did not address the underlying issues that caused such outrage, apparently she still riding with killing the children if they make it out.

At the point where the majority leader mentions "dilating" (1:02 or so) has what appears to be a facial spasm, like she found the term unsettling. Or, perhaps someone opened a curtain in the room and she was briefly exposed to sunlight. ma cà rồng

Correct. There is not a fan base in the world that is over this missed call at this time. Not one. It was epically bad, historically bad, almost inconceivably bad and damn near "this game has to be fixed, right?" bad. All the rest is just chit chat distracting from all that.

Leaving one to wonder how the life of the child is extinguished thereafter.

The Anita Hill and Ballsy Ford actions are in no way similar to a procedural issue playing out in the Senate. Not in any way, shape or form. The behavior of some Democrats in the Senate on the Ballsy Ford case more closely resembled the actions of Scalise shooter then it does nomination procedures. One sought physical destruction, the other emotional.

I'm really interested in what that parents of these good Catholics would say about this. I think it would be fascinating human interest story to know what Andrew Cuomos mother thinks. Does she see him as a modern day Nazi or a freedom fighter? Same with Raimondo. And btw, the Virgina Gov never explained how the human life is extinguished after being made comfortable. What does that look like?

No, it was politics. The rules are the rules, and it was well-played by the Republicans. I applaud their moral courage. We don't get to say that much.

What's up with the "mother and the family decide..."? It almost seems to cause this douche pain to say "father". And its awesome how he uses the 'most all politicians are men..." talking point before finishing up with HE thinks two doctors need to consult instead of leaving it up to the mother and the family.

Russia is an enemy of convenience. It's a holdover from the days some of us hid under desks to survive the incoming planes. That's not to say there isn't danger associated with the Ruskies, but we see every few years the cycle of resetting relations with the Kremlin. The intelligence community trots out a good "former Russian spy poisoned by Putin" the media runs with it, and so on.

Yes to all of this. Obamas middle name should be changed from Hussein to "Malaise". In spite of his soaring TelePrompter rhetoric, he had a way of just sucking the life out of everything he touched. Except, of course, governmental overreach and regulation. You know when a guy from the govt starts crowing about jobs someone else has created as jobs he has "saved", he's scraping the bottom of the barrel. He did however do a crackerjack job of stimulating the economy of Iran.

It really reads like a friggin' Deep State story though. The spies are hiding in the woods, except the woods in this case are the upscale offices of one of the most recognizable senators in the country. She also sits on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, presumably in the back row with a dunce hat and a sign with an arrow pointing straight up with the words "I'm with clueless" hanging around her neck. On top of that, she opposed the nominations of Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch and was instrumental in the character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, now known as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Clearly she's trying to shape the future of the country and given her ties to China one must ask "What do the ChiComms have on Feinstein??".

Rarely. And I can screw up typing messages with the best of them, so i generally do not go off script and insert tags. I do use the little idiot proof ones hidden behind the thumb though.

Listen, if you roll up on my crowd with your story of one mobster and a freaking socialist we laugh you out of the butcher shop. You make your bones with trafficking, everyone knows that.

I think if you dig just a bit into every person's background, its pretty easy to find ties to mobsters, gang rape accusations and payoffs, securities fraud and ties to human trafficking. It's the American Experience. But seriously "Frankin Delano Roosevelt D'Allessandro??". They had to be mob or that kid would have gotten his ass kicked with regularity.

Actually I thought you were just shooting the bull. I was not aware of that, thanks. Where RBG is concerned, it just seems to me that there comes a time when they send someone to scrape your name off the frosty glass window on your door. Happens one way or the other. I don't wish anything bad for her, in fact I'm kinda neutral there. She's had an amazing career, she seems at face value to be a woman that other woman can look up to, and it's been a good run. Still, one way or the other its probably time to go.

Screw that, I'm about to see what Ye Olde Minsk Towne Cryer is saying.

$#%#ing RUSSIANS again!!

So it goes like this? Russians/Putin seek to sow the seeds of chaos; Russians/Putin prefer Trump because of a personal vendetta against Clinton Inc, and thus the reality is Putin got Trump elected; Russians/Putin are hard-assed bastards who leave a trail of death and destruction in their wake in Crimea and amongst their own operatives abroad; But high ranking officials of the Russian/Putin government are the honest brokers of truth willing to put their lives at risk when they suggest the real strategy was Trump over Clinton? To be honest, I think we're all being played. The narrative that Clinton hurt his feelings with comments over the invasion of Crimea seems at odds with the fact that he surely would anticipate harsh criticism and little else in response to the move. So the Russian strongman invades a country but is hurt by the words of an aging female politician very unpopular in her own country? It goes hand in hand with the phony outrage over the expulsion of Russians as Obama left office, and the absurd Russkan colluison investigation that has suddenly morphed into an investigation into "Russian interfence". A "Russian interference" investigation would not require the hamstringing of a duly elected president for 50+% of his term. "Collusion" though....that's a word that has some meat to it. Sounds treasonous. We would want to leave no stone (Roger or otherwise) unturned to get to the bottom of that. In fact, we might even be willing to squeeze some stones to try and turn em if necessary. That leads to geared up morning raids covered by CNN (the official sponsor of doors being kicked in), and so on.

The media treated this like it's a sporting event, and the dumbing down of a complex situation is pretty standard fare. The fact that the DOJ and FBI was all in was icing on the cake. Simple sells to simple people.

Gossiping about bullying may be the worst thing ever.

You're turned around here a bit. I was pretty specific in what I said, and it was in response to the people who have said exactly what I said they said. The argument that the law is grotesque because it potentially results in the slaughter of innocents Is a separate argument.

Bullying is wrong. Gossiping is wrong.