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    Was there any damage to neighboring property caused by explosives? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I know several pro-life atheists. Tying that political position to any particular religious tradition is probably a mistake. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    There's a lot of variability in that, though, based on age and body composition (among other things). Younger women tend to show less, and obese women tend to hide the pregnancy better (if you weigh 220 pounds, adding a few more is harder to see than it would be if you weigh 120). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Do you have a link to any info about this? I did a quick search but couldn't find anything. I'm pretty sure that Tiller was investigated on various charges and exonerated. I'm sure that whoever comes out on the losing side of something like that is going to cry foul, and say the proceedings were politically biased. I'm realistic enough to understand that might actually be the case, which gets us no closer to knowing what Tiller did or did not do. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm actually closer to "Abortion on demand," which wasn't one of your options. Honestly, unless the baby is viable outside the womb, I think it's still got to be the mother's choice. I have children. It's a huge, all consuming undertaking. I don't think that anyone who doesn't want to go through it should. In fact, I think that many people who are parents probably ought to have thought harder about it before the decided to do that. At some point I think you probably ought to move to a "birth-then-adoption" scenario, but the truth is that labor and delivery is a huge ordeal in itself, and again, I'm extremely reluctant to force anyone to go through it against their will. Add to that the fact that as a male, I'm never going to have to make this (deeply personal) decision for myself, and I'm just not comfortable imposing my views on anyone else who has to make that decision. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You mean that living up to his promises and principles wold be, , hard. Get over it, cupcakes. You don't get elected POTUS to do easy things. Make the hard choices and stick to your guns. Saying that the last guy made it "too hard" for you to change things is a pretty lame excuse. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Sure. I'd just shop somewhere else. Or, better yet, start a competing store without that policy. Protect me from my voluntary choice to be on their property? I don't need to be protected from myself. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm fairly certain that the vast majority of pro-life protestors aren't actually engaged in violence. That would be a bit like saying "the anti-war protests can't get any more hypocritcal than that." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You mean like sending more troops to Afghanistan? Come on, Quade, Obama is a big boy. He's the one calling the shots now. I'm sure the most powerful man in the world doesn't need to point fingers at someone else. I'm sorry (genuinely so, in this case) that your guy hasn't lived up to your expectations (or his promises). But that's no one's fault but his own. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm a little tired of you citing these questionable sources. Can't you go to a real, authoritative source and give us something from Alternet? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm pretty sure that Monica Lewinsky has Clinton's missing hard drive. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    "Change we can believe in" looks suspiciously like "more of the same." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Not working to support your kids is not being a good mother. What, you don't think Octo-mom is what all women should aspire to be? Have 14 kids and go on welfare--Dreamdancer will be happy to support you. Or rather, he'll be happy to say that other people should support you, since he doesn't even live in the same country. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Anyone who pays net taxes into the system is giving (rather, being forced to give) money to those who (net) take out of the system. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Same thing that would happen now if they weren't married at all. If you want the legal device we currently call "marriage" you get a civil union. If you're only interested in the religious ceremony, you'd get married in church. If you want both, you do both. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Depends on what you mean by “roots.” When it was founded the Republican Party most strongly resembled a liberalist political philosophy & a fairly radical one at that! Liberalism as tending to be concerned with equality and civil, political, and personal liberties and more willing to challenge traditional assumptions or ways of doing things. Um, in the 1800's, "liberals" were what we'd now describe as "classical liberals" which is basically a synonym for "libertarian" which, basically means folks who want to limit government. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I think it's actually an Oligarchy. I'm generally against the death penalty because I mistrust government enough that I don't want it to have power of life and death. I don't think it's any of my business how they run their internal affairs. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Isn't the state the authority that legally licenses the marriage? If that's the case, then the state isn't preventing them, it's essentially creating them. If the authority isn't the state (say, it's a municipality), then I can see how the state act is preventing the municipalities from doing something. I'm not sure which of these is the case, though. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    She doesn't do that. That's the point. The rest of the story. I think I just disagree with you on the meaning of her words. It looks to me like she's saying that imposing her own prejudices upon the decision making process is ok in some cases. Further, it appears to me that she's saying that, in general, it's ok for a Latina to impose her prejudices upon a decision, but that it's not ok for a white male to do the same. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Who decides what is "critical" ? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    That's because you judge wealth only in dollar terms. Some of us value knowledge, and as a result are willing to give up dollars (or borrow them) to make ourselves richer in ways that you don't appreciate.
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    Unlike the Obushma administration, I'm against welfare for billionaires.
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    You mean when she suggests that jurists ought to selectively choose which of their own prejudices to impose upon their decisions? I'm not a fan. I want a judge who tries to suppress their own prejudices, not indulge them on a selective basis. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Well, in fairness, they viewed their Pete Wilson crosshairs shirt as representing the oppressed. This was at a time when UC fees were climbing for the first time in years, and La Raza felt this was an attempt by the governor to keep them down. You should have seen their Ward Connerly shirts. They likened him to a popular Nabisco product in a rather graphic and tasteless fashion. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You're just not Machiavellian enough. Haven't you heard that the ends justify the means? In modern American politics, that's been re-crafted a bit to become "if you oppose our methods, you must be working against our goals." It's fascinating, to me, to see it slung from both sides. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com