StrangeSox

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 04:51 PM) I hate the fundies as much as you do, FYI. I didn't think you were arguing for abortion restrictions, but I see a pretty huge logical disconnect in your statement there. It's reasonable to give men an "opt out" especially because women are often restricted from the same choice? That's the part that doesn't make any sense to me.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) 100% agree. Totally reasonable, especially with all the crappy state laws that give women like 10 hours to decide whether or not to abort. Wait, how is that reasonable in states where women have really restrictive abortion options or where abortions are de facto illegal or unobtainable? The woman doesn't have the "opt out" ability in that circumstance, but a man would. It only becomes arguably reasonable if women have at least as long as men to decide and widespread, affordable and easily accessible access to abortion.

Related to abortion, though, the SC declined to review the Arizona abortion case that ruled their 20-week ban as unconstitutional. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/supreme-court-d...s-abortion-case

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 04:21 PM) Record speed you two! Both sarcastic one-liners too. If a woman can choose not to have a child a man should be able to make the same choice. Right? Equality is something you guys still like, correct? Either that or you ban abortions. Then it'll make sense because both people have their hands tied. I prefer the let people abort option personally, less kids = happier Duke. This still makes literally zero sense in the context of planned, wanted children conceived in a committed relationship, in this case a marriage. They both wanted kids, and then later they got divorced. I mean even in the context where the argument is at least applicable it's still terrible and misses the whole point, but it's just not relevant here.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) To be fair, in a world where abortions are legal child support shouldn't exist. Yes, good point, his then-wife should have aborted their (presumably) planned and desired children.

I know it's a couple of years old, but we watched Safety Not Guaranteed over the weekend. I don't understand all of the positive reviews, it seemed very generic to me.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 03:38 PM) You need to do Mt. Rainer. We stayed at a B&B near there and stayed in the area awhile. It's worth it. You sound you go to places similar to what we like. Have you been to Crater Lake? It is a definite must. Crater's on the list, and we'll be at Mt. Rainier at some point, even if it's not this year.

Going to Denver/Keystone next month, Zion/Bryce Canyon in May and my wife is still trying to convince me to do Olympic/Mt. Rainier in August.

Wealthy divorced Republican donor gets state rep. to write child-support bill that would save him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 08:50 AM) The Stand has already been a movie, starred Gary Sinise. As I recall, it was made for TV, and broken up into pieces. I only saw the very beginning of it, and it wasn't great, from what I saw. It was absolutely awful and cheesy.

There was a huge chemical spill in West Virginia last week that has left 300,000 residents without clean water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100100

I have a nice scar in my forehead from something similar involving a couch when I was about four. The kid does actually smack his face into the leg/base of the table, looks kinda hard too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) The long term studies on GMO's have been done and I'd say that they're 99.9% convincing. Maybe there's need for extra regulation just to be careful since the world is a larger population than most trials and rare events might still occur, but at this point the data on their safety and effectiveness is convincing. (someone needed to say that, btw). yup, whatever patent/corporate issues there might be with companies like Monsanto, the safety of GMO foods are pretty well established.

The circle interchange rebuild is going to be a nightmare for years to come.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 09:55 AM) Just so it's said, this is pretty ignorant of discrimination to "whites" in this countries history. Irish, Italian, Polish, German, etc. Everyone has someone in their family that suffered from some kind of discrimination at some point. Slavery is obviously the extreme, but lets not pretend life was all peaches and cream for immigrants in the "golden age" of America either. none of them faced near the same discrimination, this is pretty ignorant of discrimination to non-whites.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 08:18 AM) And the glory years? Eh, 1870-1950-ish. At least that's how I imagine it (I wasn't there), the 60's and 70's weren't bad even if the writing was on the wall. figured, libertarians always remember the glory years from the perspective of a white male

when do you imagine this wonderful time period was, duke?

He's an asshole who hasn't really done all that spectacular, yells at people with much less power than him and now this.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 08:25 PM) To the death you will defend this piece of s*** because for like a month he was your poster boy for that compromise scam being used to kill America. Yeah, that's definitely what balta is known for. I'm also confused by your frequent appeals to individualism and near-anarchism while also being really nationalistic about America.

The press conference was pretty odd. Conflicting timelines, lots of "me me me," appears to admit that he fired her because she lied to him, not because of the s***ty thing she did, still trying to claim plausibility for the traffic study.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 07:22 AM) First of all, in this day and age, how stupid do you have to be to leave electronic evidence of criminal activity? seriously, right? follow up: EMS responders delayed by bridge closing http://www.northjersey.com/fortlee/GWB_lan...n_Fort_Lee.html

SF seemed to be more convenient but my experience is pretty limited

it's a shame that some idiots like Murray Chase still get their ballots while Dan Lebotard loses his

That's why I wanted the Olympics to come, solely for the infrastructure improvements that would have been made.

This "Chris Christie shut down a major bridge for political retribution" story is getting some legs. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion...sings.html?_r=1