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Trump said there should be "punishment" - maybe being forced to play Russian roulette with those odds will qualify?

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In the gig economy, I can get someone to do it for $45. That really makes America grate!

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In a small one, you can get everybody in the place looking at you.

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That Uncle Sam mask is the last thing you see before you die.

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If you picked 'pop' you are likely Canadian, and think that all those Yankees spend WAY too much time arguing about this sort of thing.

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You might want to be careful there. For all you know we have even more Ted Cruzes to inflict upon you. Just sayin.'

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The document "Fetal Awareness: Report of a Working Party" is available for purchase at the website for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Here's a short excerpt:

"The evidence presented to the Working Party demonstrated that until nerve connections were established between two crucial areas of the developing brain, the cortex and the thalamus, sensations of pain cannot be experienced by the fetus. The minimum stage of structural development that is necessary - but not that which is sufficient - to confer awareness on the developing fetus is identified as some time after 26 weeks` gestation."

The irony is, fetuses are virtually in a coma throughout most of the pregnancy. Even when all the wiring is in place, they still can't feel pain.

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What they BELIEVE God created? Burn the backsliders with fire!

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Sorry to bother you. Don't know what came over me.

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And the anaesthetic could be administered to everyone at once, perhaps in some sort of 'shower' building.

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One of my friends from high school attempted to firebomb the local planned parenthood, because his ex-lover got an abortion (she had to go out of state for it, since he got a restraining order, so it wasn't even that particular clinic, which didn't perform that procedure in any event).

1983 (or thereabouts; it was a long time ago). I'm not convinced that the crazy is deeper or that there are more crazies. Maybe so, but ... I'd want to see statistics rather than anecdotes (like my anecdote above).

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