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frmanfan wrote:

What’s not in doubt is the outsize toll that abortion has taken on the black population post-Roe. In New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted than born alive each year, and the abortion rate among black mothers is more than three times higher than it is for white mothers. According to a city Health Department report released in May, between 2012 and 2016 black mothers terminated 136,426 pregnancies and gave birth to 118,127 babies. By contrast, births far surpassed abortions among whites, Asians and Hispanics.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-talk- ... 1531263697

Maybe not totally whackadoodle. National stats are harder to come by.

I said pure whackadoodle.
"totally"? sure, I'll agree with "totally" as well.
Anyone who twists reality into a pretzel and calls it factual is full-on totally whackadoodle.

It occurred to me after responding that the whackadoodle explanation for such a dumb statement would be to count all abortions as "deaths" in the same fashion as deaths from murder, car accidents, cancer, etc.

His hate and racism came through when he threw in the 'black on black crime" for good measure. Of course, given the source, I suspect that's just another parroting of the very dumb (and very wrong) notion that blacks commit most murders in America, because they are genetically disposed to be more violent than whites...

I quite agree that if those who profess to truly care about reducing the number of abortions and those who have them, they'd support investing far more heavily in family planning, prevention/birth control, and providing far more access to pre-natal care and post-pregnancy support.

That's where I stand on this issue. Invest in supporting prevention and healthy baby care.

I do think there are those on the left who miss this point and simply want to focus on easy access to abortion (which I support). There really is a middle ground, but the advocates on both sides too often refuse to get there.

Bandito wrote:

HooDat wrote:

Typical Lax Dad wrote:But a billionaire is the man of the people..... go figure.

Don't go expecting voters to be rational!!?!?!

Even wealthy billionaires can relate to the people. Trump's policies are for the common man, the working class, the blue collar, hard working Americans of every color, creed and ethnicity. You just are too blind to see it. The tax cuts have definitely helped me out. But the Dems called them "Crumbs". Talk about hating hard working Americans. Nancy Pelosi is an elitist pig

well, at a minimum he is definitely selling himself as the champion of the common man. News around jobs and investment are all promising in terms of his actual delivery, but other policies are clearly for the benefit of the 1.0%. Time will tell, and I am keeping an open mind regarding his coming through.

And, yes, it most likely takes an insider to turn things around - that is a big part of why his message sold.

Typical Lax Dad wrote:

HooDat wrote:

Typical Lax Dad wrote:But a billionaire is the man of the people..... go figure.

Don't go expecting voters to be rational!!?!?!

What is ironic is that I always use the example of the guy making $200k a year believing he is wealthy. I don't expect peasants to be rational....politicians are counting on it.

the irony is compounded by the guy making $300,000 who thinks he is middle class......

So no comments on the OUTRAGEOUS actions by YOUR Democratic Congress people during the SCOTUS hearing? What about the disruptive protesters and arrests? Doesn't fit your narratives does it? No problem. America is wide awake to the moronic Democrats in Congress.

Oh, I agree. We should dissolve the 1st amendment, and get rid of those protesters.

Let Government Leader Trump make our decisions for us, Bandito. Now you're cooking.

a fan wrote:Oh, I agree. We should dissolve the 1st amendment, and get rid of those protesters.

Let Government Leader Trump make our decisions for us, Bandito. Now you're cooking.

This may explain some things....

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was the first person to provide some explanation of how a follower’s unconscious motivations work. After practicing psychoanalysis for a number of years, Freud was puzzled to find that his patients—who were, in a sense, his followers—kept falling in love with him. Although most of his patients were women, the same thing happened with his male patients. It is a great tribute to Freud that he realized that his patients’ idealization of him couldn’t be traced to his own personal qualities. Instead, he concluded, people were relating to him as if he were some important person from their past—usually a parent.

Where do Murkowski, Collins and Whitehouse currently stand on Smilin' Bret?

a fan wrote:Oh, I agree. We should dissolve the 1st amendment, and get rid of those protesters.

Let Government Leader Trump make our decisions for us, Bandito. Now you're cooking.

I knew you are Cher!

Bandito wrote:So no comments on the OUTRAGEOUS actions by YOUR Democratic Congress people during the SCOTUS hearing? What about the disruptive protesters and arrests? Doesn't fit your narratives does it? No problem. America is wide awake to the moronic Democrats in Congress.

How bout you list the actions you disagree with and we'll discuss?

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Could be several posters from here.

The state of the GOO, summed up in one perjured nominee:

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/09/brett-k ... ment/?rf=1

Using stolen documents. Lying about doing so. This won’t matter to the great guardians of the Framer’s Intent. The GOP is a party of venal cowards.

We’ve become so accustomed to people lying and then still being put in positions of public trust that we tend to forget that truthfulness should be a minimum requirement for office.

From your article. Why in the world is this truthism suddenly all the rave? "...you can keep your doctor"

The two prochoice R's will vote no anyway.

For the record, which R senators? Murkowski and Collins?

"You can keep your doctor" was a HOPED FOR POLICY PRESCRIPTION while a bill was still be hashed out! Comparing that to what is happening with this guy is NONSENSE. You don't want truth to be important NOW, no matter WHAT happened before, then stick it in your ear, pal. How bout you take the opportunity to stand up for truth NOW?? HOW did Republicans work to make the ACA BETTER while it was being discussed in Congress?

Right. They DIDN'T, all for the wonderful reason that they simply wished to deny a democratic president ANY policy "win"

Never mind the "policy win" would have been good for the country.

Continuing Seacoaster's theme...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Lying to Get on the Supreme Court, Like Clarence Thomas Before Him

"The best estimate is that he lied five times: about whether he received documents while he worked at the White House that had been purloined from Senate Democratic staff; about his knowledge of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program; about whether he was involved in formulating any aspects of torture policy; and about his role in the nomination of two controversial Bush-era judicial appointees."

Rather than being the ONLY reason many conservatives can point to about why they like DJT, stacking the SCOTUS with this sort of person is a travesty. The theft of Merrick Garland's seat is going to haunt the GOP for decades to come. Another fringe conservative on the high court. Wonderful.

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Because he's a judge in the DC Circuit Court...

Merrick Garland asked to probe perjury allegations against Brett Kavanaugh

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Trump picks the worst people.

Of course, saying Trump picked Smilin' Brett is a stretch. The Federalist Society essentially groomed, nurtured and chose Kavanaugh. The main problem with him, for anyone who is paying attention, is that his hyper-partisan past basically hurts the institutional integrity and role of the courts to be a little above or beside the roiling world of politics. Kavanaugh is a political creature, nominated by a philosophically unmoored President, who did what he was told by a political group whose main aim is to maintain a very conservative hold on the courts.

Compare him with Garland, or Kagan, or Roberts, or even Alito. Those folks were lawyers, law professors and jurists, first, foremost. Brett dove into the oily pool of politics and really could never shower it off, even in a dozen years on the second most important court in the land.

And he’s obviously willing to lie to Congress. There is no bottom.