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QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) For the sake of not starting the "when does life begin" debate, I am going to keep my big mouth shut. Life begins at the hop, boys and girls.

Those are great!

That's it in a nutshell. Bad legal decision that will most certainly be overturned. The logic of the decision is fatally flawed, no matter what side of the reproductive rights debate you are on. And it will cause problems for both sides if let stand. The couple never would have had all nine of the embryos implanted and brought to term - either they would have just implented the most viable ones, they would have selectively terminated the smallest ones in utero, or they would have attempted to carry all to term with some or all of them spontaneously aborting in the proces and the long-term health of the surviving babies put at great risk. So, if this judge is recognizing all nine unimplanted pre-embryos as humans with full rights, none of the outcomes above should escape a murder rap of thier own. If not all pre-embryos are used, once the remainder are discarded with parents' consent, whey would that be less murderous than what the clinic accidentally did? And the flip side, if they just kept the remaining pre-embryos frozen indefinitely - as recognized humand with full rights why would this "heinous" act not be punishable as wrongful incarceration? Absurd, surely, but that is the nature of the legal can of worms this judgement has opened up. Ditto for any fertiliy clinic patients who will opt for selective reduction to give the largest/healthiest fetuses the best chance at survival and high health. And for any patienst who dcide to carry multiple implants to term and some spontaneously abort and others are developmentally retarded, why would the current judgement not also have thatt couple up for involuntary manslaughter, criminal negligence, and reckless endangerment?

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 01:13 PM) Jesus. You're such a troublemaker.

Many Happy Returns of the Day.

I gave up meat in HS one lent when I still threw in with all all that. It wasn't particularly difficult but a cheeseburger sure tasred good after that.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) dude, don't you have like a 40 GB one? Yes, but so far only one.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 05:04 AM) Murder? Shut the f*** up. Combat does not equal murder you dolt and snipers are the most surgical instruments the military has at its disposal. We are agreed on the nescessity and efficiency of snipers in combat. But it does go against all but the loosest and convenient iyterpretations of Roman Catholic doctrine, especially of a Jesuit institution. More to the point, does the need for private donations to equip such an essential (and potentially innocent civilian-sparing) aspect of the war effort worry you? Is it more of Rummy's "army we have" scrounging for the resources they need to approach the "army we sished we have?" And, off the point. What do you think of the shrewd business decision to cut survivor benefits to fallen soldiers' families if they have the misfortune of being killed anywhere but Iraq and Afghanistan these days? Seems a slap in the face to belittle the rest of our military casualties and the dedication of those troops kileld elsewhere. Completely expected from "friend of the military" GHB, however.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 05:10 AM) FUN FACT: Burglars usually knock on doors to alert the people inside to the fact that they are about to be robbed. TEXAS FUN FACT: Suicidal burglers usually knock on doors to alert people inside it's time to lock and load.

None of them are worth trying. Just send all old, scratched up iPods to me.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 06:14 PM) Ernst Mayr Mayr is one of my personal heroes, but he is up there.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 02:46 PM) I'll take my scientific information from JAMA, Nature, Science, and other peer-reviewed journals before some person that just has a website and antedotes... Science Priss!! Stick to your guns. As we all know, if it's not on scienceweek.com, it's not science. Oh, and... "antedotes"??

Scoff if you want to. Cookies Kill.

f*** a duck. That sure seems like an obvious solution. I wonder why he didn't include that as an option? :headshake

The final observation about the failure of many polling places to oopen inevitably resulting in larger turnouts one or two towns away is also very astute:

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Go hang a salami: I'm a lasagna hog two can play at the Palindrome! I like that one. Dyslexics Untie!

Egad, a base life defiles a bad age! Oh, wait, crap... I think I wrote that backwards. (wait for it... ... ...)

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:39 AM) WHERE!? No. It's w-h-O-r-e.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:38 AM) Hasn't anyone mentioned the Tragically Hip? You have. They are also quite good. But, my office mate form London, Ontario insists that if you're really cool, you just call them "The Hip."

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:54 PM) It's actually a pretty close translation of fringant--it's an old archaic work like dashing... You gotta be frigant kidding me.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:46 PM) Yeah, the first one. 'Gone, gone, gone'. Kinda like Sosa, eh?

QUOTE(Mathew @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:46 PM) I live a few hours from the City of Chlliwak, never heard of the band. I am sorry though in a Canadian music thread for not paying hommage to Joni Mitchell. It's only a Canadian music thread because it has been hijacked into one. And Chilliwak and KKim Mitchell were just hard rock responses in the original Rush vein. Joni, Neil, et al of course are There's a Celtic group called the Masterless Men I like that are pretty good... especially for a bunch of Newfies...

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:41 PM) I myself would pull for Les Cowboys Frigants: funny, intelligent and dashing. Dashing?!? Stop being such a chick.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:27 PM) Chilliwack? Did they sing 'She Gone' or something like that? That one was a good song. Heard it on XM tonight on my way home. I couldn't tell you anything else they did, though. Actually they did "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)," and "Watcha Gonna Do When I'm Gone," so take your pick. For my monet, they were always a poor man's Big Star/Badfinger hybrid. As for current Canadian groups, Big Sugar is the one I really get into.

Things sound like they have really changed in the 15 years (holy crap!) since I was there. The police were in general exceptionally cool about drinking at private parties and stumbling home. As long as you weren't driving and only had a few blocks to walk, they pretty much let you be. They were also very cool about breaking up house parties. A couple of visits after neighbor noise complaints, turn down the music, etc., and it usually wasn't until the third visit that they broke it up. Sounds like it's very different now. Hell, I bet your Hash Wednesday's suck now!