EvilMonkey

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 12:20 PM) So, the Nintendo 3DS was the biggest selling video game system of 2014. Why aren't they making any new games that are worth a s***? Because the rehashed versions of Pokemon sell like crazy still.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 02:37 PM) This posts oozes naivete. This line of thinking he is dead. The NHL cannot have a player under investigation for rape on the ice. Period. So a few false police reports during playoffs can tip the scales? He is accused, not (yet) guilty.

QUOTE (RegionSox @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 02:31 PM) It seems really weird for the NHL to suspend him if he were cleared of the charges. The response should be that they are going to follow the law and unless/until there is a guilty verdict, he is a hockey player and member of the Blackhawks, and presumed to be innocent. End of story. You are not 'aiding rape culture' by letting him play or be in the team while this is adjudicated, and you are not pandering to those calling for his head without evidence yet. The NHL is about hockey, not justice, social or otherwise.

If he survives this situation as not being guilty, it would behoove him to have a security system put in place in his house that records everything, all the time, to prevent future incidents. If he is guilty, then he has to deal with the courts.

Don't we have enough 'real' victims? Why do Democrats have to keep making s*** up? Must be craving that coveted victim status. http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/08/04/...-stop/31143361/

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) You are advocating for the needless suffering of children who have made no mistakes and are not at fault for their situation. You are advocating for needless suffering of my wallet who has made no mistakes and are not at fault for the situation. You keep searching for someone to blame/make pay and it always seems to come back to 'tax payers'.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) Lots of non-Christians/atheists would have agreed with your last line when the Bush administration got involved in co-funding an array of religious-based charities while he was in office... And again you assume I was fine with that?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:03 PM) It's certainly not the child's fault. Why are you advocating for the needless suffering of children? I am advocating for me to not have to pay for your mistakes. If I chose to help and donate to some charities that do this, that is all good. When you force the charity thru taxation, that is theft.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:01 PM) This sounds like a theory from Nazi Germany...to deal with all their undesirable populations like Jews, Roma/gypsies, gays, mentally/physically disabled, etc. Thought they just burned/gassed them...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:37 PM) The end game of what you're advocating is children needlessly suffering. And whose fault would that be? I didn't knock them up, I am not denying them an abortion if they want to pay for one. So why do you keep trying to make it my responsibility?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:32 PM) And the end result when the parents can't is that you will. Well that needs to be fixed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 12:09 PM) Who pays for the kid? The parent(s). And if they still want an abortion, go get one, and pay for it. Like someone said, cheaper than 18 years...

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 08:53 AM) Except for when the government forces private companies to provide coverage, lol. He's probably against his freedom being taken away in the choice to wear or not wear a seat belt as well... Not about policy or morals or right vs. wrong, it's all about philosophy of government intervention/intrusion. Of course, most Republicans are 100% behind the Patriot Act, except Rand Paul. Yes, hate seatbelts being mandated even though I wear mine all the time and no, don't like the patriot act.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 07:45 AM) Which is the point we liberals always make...are all those who are pro-life also willing to adopt all these unwanted kids (or they simply can't afford to provide them a good life) and assume responsibility for them through adulthood? If not, the long-term governmental costs in terms of prison/incarcerations and social safety net programs are going to be at least 20x the cost of sex education and condom handout programs, not to mention health care costs for STD treatment. If that doesn't work, there's always the overpopulation, global warming/diminishing natural resources argument. But your point is based on a wrong premise. Why should it be MY responsibility to adopt YOUR 'mistake'? Why should that be the government's responsibility either. YOU f***ed up, literally, you fix it. And don't make me pay for it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:47 PM) If you take away someones right to get rid of it, why should they pay for it? And if we are just talking costs, if X option is cheaper than Y option, shouldnt we pay for X option? Otherwise you are just wasting your money. i dont want to take away their made up 'right', i just dont want to pay for it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:36 PM) If a human life is so important to them they should have no problem paying extremely high taxes to pay to help everyone else. It cant be both ways, you cant argue to cut social services for people who are alive and at the same time argue that unborn lives are so important. No, that is where the personal responsibility part comes in. Why is it society's duty to pay for your child? That is where a huge disconnect is here. Society shouldn't have to pay either way for your 'decision'. Keep it or not, you pay for it. Remove tax funding and most of the arguments go away.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:00 PM) I just moved a bunch of posts into the other thread, sometimes things bounce into the wrong forum right after that happens, honestly beats me. Moved it over for you. I thought that is what happened, but you never know.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:42 PM) Well, in 2014, here's how a breakdown of their services looked. This is one a per-service basis; that is, if I came in and got 1 STD test, that would count as 1. If I got a second, that would also count as 1 for a total of 2. 41%, the largest portion of all the categories they have, is devoted to STD testing and treatment. The vast majority within are tests for common STDs with quite a few HIV tests as well. 34% of services are for birth control. Most of these are "reversible" forms of contraception, which is anything other than a sterilization. They list emergency contraception separately, which is a large portion of the birth control services that they provide (this is the Plan B pill). In case you were wondering, they performed 3,749 vasectomies in 2013. Based on a formula for likelihood of pregnancy, they estimate that they prevented just over 500,000 unintended pregnancies in the year. 10% of services are cancer screening and preventative services. There is a near even split between pap smears and breast exams. And no, they do not provide mammograms. Clinicians will do manual examinations and people can come to PP for subsidized referrals to mammogram providers. HPV vaccinations and some other procedures are also provided. 90,000 people had their cancer detected via PP services in the year. 11% are "other women's health services", which is almost solely pregnancy tests. They also give some prenatal care to expecting mothers. There is 1% that falls under "other services," which encompasses 41,000 people who received family practice services from a doctor, 53,000 people who were treated for urinary tract infections, and a few who were sent to adoption agencies or received other services. And of course PP provides abortions, which account for 3% of all services rendered. 327,166 people receive abortion procedures in some way, shape, or form in 2013. And to be clear for another poster who mentioned this, Planned Parenthood is a non-profit. The vast majority of revenue comes from private donors and government grants. So what do they do there that can't be done elsewhere thanks to Obamacare? And I like the way you counted the STD tests at the top. So if they run a test for several of the most common STDs, does that count as 7 services? edit: how did this reply make it in THIS thread?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:34 PM) I linked you to PP's annual report. Politifact also contains a link to that same report, and they even do you the favor of pulling out the numbers from the report for analysis. Why do you think the Congressional Budget Office would be documenting the different services provided by Planned Parenthood? I can see the link, but as is often the case here at work, it doesn't always go to the links. So yeah, I checked it out as well as you checked the unedited videos.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:15 PM) This one seems pretty fair. O'Malley, quoting a press release, from PP, on Politifact. Get me a CBO link or something.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:01 PM) Abortions are something like 3% of their total business. Really? Got a link for that? What else do they do, mammograms? because according to this, they don't operate ANY mammogram facilities. http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/03/guess-...arenthood-runs/

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) 1) There's no wrongdoing here. Shouting about it more without actually backing it up doesn't change that. Medical procedures can sound "gross" when described bluntly and emotionless, but that would apply to other tissue, organ and cadaver donations as well. 2) Cutting the HHS budget by $500 million means that a whole lot of reproductive services will be gutted over another faux hidden camera video scandal. edit: and since you're so concerned about wrongdoing, you may be interested to know that a judge has issued an injunction against them releasing any more of their secretly recorded and heavily edited videos as they may have violated confidentiality agreements. They appear to be willfully violating that restraining order. A judge that is a major Obama supported and bundler, of course. No bias there, either.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) I'm not entirely sure what PP is doing is illegal. It's horrible, awful and disgusting, but I don't know for sure that it's illegal. They are accused of selling body parts. They CLAIM they have permission ahead of time to sell for research, to 'recoup' their costs. However that remains to be seen, since the make profits in the multi millions. They are also accused of altering their procedures in order to be ABLE to harvest more organs to sell. Changing the procedures for reasons like that is against the law. They are also accused of aborting some babies that were actually born alive, but that hasn't come out yet on any of the videos. And they also released the full videos, but all people like SS keep screaming is 'edited! edited!'. Besides, with Obamacare, why is PP even needed? Shouldn't all this stuff be covered?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 03:15 PM) They're intertwined, so I don't think there's an issue providing that instruction. SYG is just a subset of self defense law. Let him nitpik, makes him feel better. And we know it is all about the feelz.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) Just to stress, this continues to be a false statement in the specific Trayvon Martin case that threw a light on those laws in Florida and elsewhere. Although the defense never requested nor received a "Stand your ground" hearing, the specific text of "Stand your ground" was included in the judge's convoluted instructions to the jury. They were specifically told to consider that "Zimmerman had no duty to retreat" in that case in the judge's instructions. While there was no hearing, the SYG law and its exact text came into play in that case without one. And it was ruled self defense, not syg.