In procrastination news, I just disconnected my landline phone service; something I should have done about 8 years ago.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2012 7:27:03 am PDT #18870 of 30001
hwæt
meara - Aug 21, 2012 7:27:34 am PDT #18871 of 30001
Well, but I think the point is, if she keeps the pregnancy, at some point (many points) people are going to be asking her about how it happened/why/who the father is. People are nosy and rude. So regardless of whether it's them asking about "Oh, did you decide to go ahead and do it yourself?" re turkey baster, or whatever, she's going to have to THINK about it and come up with an answer and deal all the time.
Allyson - Aug 21, 2012 7:40:58 am PDT #18872 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I saw a quote from Akin and he said that he thinks you are punishing innocent life if you have an abortion - no matter the circumstances by which the woman got pregnant.
But the morning after pill would solve that in some cases. So he should be all for it!
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2012 7:41:52 am PDT #18873 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Running mate Ryan handsome young suction gold
A NYT headline, machine-translated into Chinese and back into English
I wanna know about the 'suction gold' thing....
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2012 7:43:09 am PDT #18874 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But the morning after pill would solve that in some cases.
Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.
Along with some other forms of contraception.
Ryan thinks this, btw.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2012 7:47:26 am PDT #18875 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.
Many conservatives also seem to think that this (among other biological facts) is a matter of opinion.
I can only conclude from this that many conservatives are too stupid to live and should not be put in charge of legislating things.
le nubian - Aug 21, 2012 7:50:38 am PDT #18876 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That's what killed me. Akin is on the Science and Technology Committee. It is no wonder some of our public policies are so fucked up.
I don't necessarily need to agree with everyone on various committees, but I think someone on the Science and Technology Committee SHOULD BELIEVE IN SCIENCE.
Fucking seriously.
Burrell - Aug 21, 2012 8:02:13 am PDT #18877 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.
Drives me crazy. It prevents OVULATION not fertilization.
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2012 8:09:08 am PDT #18878 of 30001
brillig
many conservatives are too stupid to live and should not be put in charge of legislating things.
Wrod to the wrod.
JZ - Aug 21, 2012 8:11:02 am PDT #18879 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.
This is totally parenthetical to the many other levels of massive wrongness in everything he said, but it just niggles... if this is true, then really the woman's secret secretions that "take care of all that" if she's been raped should, logically, be just as much a type of abortion -- just like the morning after pill, it's a chemical process preventing an egg from being fertilized (or possibly, as a theoretical but not yet proven secondary mode of activation, preventing a fertilized egg from implanting). For the egg -- excuse me, the innocent pre-born child -- the end result is exactly the same. How does he rationally justify it being a Human Life worthy of defense and protection if the rape survivor takes a pill, but just an "all that" to be insouciantly "taken care of" if she's mystically attacking it with her own secret ladyparts?
Not that he isn't every possible flavor of wrong already, but for some reason every time I think about that particular speck of total intellectual and moral inconsistency I just want to cockpunch the shit out of him.
I suppose I could have expressed myself in a more ladylike fashion, but fuck him.