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Oh yeah...I forgot about the kidnapping charge.

And Yes. Greitens, McCloskey, and seven other upstanding citizens are running for Blunt's seat.

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Prolly.

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No, science says that unfertilized eggs and sperm are also alive, and also of the human species, and each one has a unique genome, unlike twins (do you think it should be allowed to kill one twin, since there is another one?) but like tumors (do you think it should be forbidden to kill a tumor, since it is a living thing with a unique human genome?). Diploid chromosome count begins at conception. Individuation does not. Personality does not begin in even the most rudimentary sense until about 30 weeks after conception, when there is enough brain activity to speak of perception and reaction.

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Your guy:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I have studied it better than anybody else. It’s very expensive.They are made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous—if you are into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world right?So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right?A windmill will kill many bald eagles. After a certain number they make you turn the windmill off. That is true - by the way they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one they put you in jail. That is OK. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look. A bird graveyard. Go under a windmill someday, you’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen in your life.

Seriously, you don't get to mock anybody else's speaking abilities, ever again.

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"How do you know I don't?" Because of the callous ignorance you display in the very next sentence, as well as in everything else you post.https://www.reuters.com/wor...

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There was none. Start to live in the real world or you are going to have a very unhappy life. You lost because you are badly outnumbered.

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"The fetus will ***eventually*** have a fully developed and functional brain" which is to say: it DOESN'T have one. Until it does, it has no preferences or desires one way or the other, any more than the rock does.

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You're being deliberately obtuse again. If allowed to grow the fetus will eventually become a born human being with a fully developed and functional brain. The rock will never be more than a rock, no matter how much time passes.

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"will eventually" means IS NOT NOW. An acorn is not a tree. An acorn, like a rock, has no leaves, because neither of them is a tree, and the fact that an acorn might (or might not) eventually develop into a tree is irrelevant to the question of whether it has any leaves right now. A fetus, like a rock or an acorn or a tree, does not have a mind right now. What might happen later is not relevant to the question of what it is right now.

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A fetus is a human being in the earliest stage of life. Abortion is the murder of an utterly blameless, defenseless, harmless human in the womb.

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Trump lost because of election fraud. Only stupid people and liars that hate America deny that.

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You know nothing.

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Most, if not all, of that is fake news lies, BS you made up yourself, or taken completely out of context. Even if it were all true, and it's not, I'd take a babble speaking, p***** grabbing, pornstar banging Trump over a racist idiot like Trudeau, or a demented old pedophile like Biden, any day of the week.Since I speak and write English properly, I do have the right, and will continue to exercise that right, to mock the speaking abilities of others.

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You seem to be unaware of, or deliberately ignoring, the fact that science says that eggs and sperm each have only half the genes neccessary for a human being and that neither, on it's own, could ever become a human being. You seem to be unaware of, or deliberately ignoring, the fact that no tumor, no matter the type or location, no matter what you do to it, can ever become a human being. In all the world, indeed the universe only a fertilized human egg can become a human being. Conception is the beginning of a human being. Prior to conception there are only cells, egg and sperm, that have only half the genes neccessary for a human being. Any point past conception that someone might foolishly claim is the beginning of a human life, is a point that wouldn't exist absent conception. No matter how educated or intelligent you are, or think you are, if you deny human life begins at conception you are a fool. Of course... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Is the fact that they laughed a tiny, little improvement? I mean, they're not usually self aware.

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I hear ya. There's only so much one can take.

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