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You'd really rather the baby had her for a mother? Late term abortions are had out of tragic medical necessity, not on a whim or for spite. I didn't say without assistance. Without extraordinary measures is a good benchmark. This BS about helping a fertilized egg not implant (as happens naturally very often anyway) being murder is insane. Still murder, yes, absolutely. Though one good point is that the mother won't get pregnant again in prison! Here's an idea, how about giving that mother as much and as free access to contraception as possible in the first place? How the fuck can "the right" justify cutting this, not to mention sex education...??? Then we can work on making sure she has plenty of pre-natal care options, including the tests which reveal defects as early as possible, and if she--in consultation with her doctor and family chooses to terminate they have reasonably local access to what is needed instead of having to hop on a plane to Canada/Europe (like everybody of means will always keep as an option) or resorting to a coathanger/etc just like before Roe vs. Wade?

For Democrats it's more a perpetual state of disappointment, of being let down. The truly reprehensible stuff comes out of GOP leadership's mouths (then Dems acquiesce... after a brief protest).

STEPHEN FRY! Though the format would hamstring his intellect. I always got the impression Trebek is nothing special without his que cards... Guess I'll just have to make do with QI.

Again, because nobody's targeting you it may feel secure, but it doesn't make it the case... Thing is, I haven't had real problems on PCs in several years either. Once MS released a pretty good security product free that covered most things, the last couple bouts of malware I had to deal with weren't too bad and that was over a year ago (on computers I support, never a problem on mine). Windows was also first to offer things like hard drive encryption and biometrics through stuff like TPM which inherently makes them clearly superior as business laptops. I think Android phones can also have their data encrypted.

Agreed, but I think Iraq is especially our responsibility as we took one of the only secular (and fairly tolerant of a lot of things, though I don't know their history on LGBT) governments in the middle east and turned it into as clusterfuck religious civil war followed by whatever the fuck this is...

No, then he would've said he's soft in the head!

Really enjoyed it, heard it broke some records too. I saw it in 2D, will probably see again in 3D soon. Batman will probably re-break those records, but I'm looking forward to the Avengers follow-ons.

Every single one with a conscience. So three.

LGBT Slaughter in Iraq I don't know enough about this source to promote them for donations, but it's an issue that needs more attention...

Here's the Rolling Stone article, which is great, if you haven't read it yet.

Yeah, love Howard Stern on these issues! I posted the Rolling Stone article when I first heard him talk about it.

First, it's not a life if it can not live independently of the organism which doesn't wish to host it. Second, the fucktard Republicans trying to force all these babies to be born, it's their typical hypocrisy on the most grand and self-evident scale yet: Possibility one: The family doesn't feel they can afford the baby. NO, the republicans say, this baby MUST be born even though it will further impoverish your family... then they take a breath and decry welfare mothers, social assistance, etc... Possibility two: There is no family, the mother is not in love with the father (or worse). DOESN'T MATTER, the republicans scream, it must live, even to be born into an unloving home or an orphanage is far preferable, because we say so! Then they take a breath and decry gays as unfit parents and a horrible danger to families. Possibility three: The baby appears to have a significant problem which may endanger the mother's life, may prevent it from being able to survive birth without extraordinary measures, and is likely to be a massive and lifelong burden on the family. This is where the republicans are at their most foul. This baby must be born, "partial birth abortion" is satan himself reaching into that womb! But the profit-driven insurance they insist on isn't going to pick up all the costs, societal programs to help or even institutionalize the child if needed *they've* gutted. And of course the cherry on the top is their assumption that if one of theirs needs one of these procedures they'll simply always have the ability to fly somewhere and get it taken care of.

I'm looking forward to seeing it, hopefully tomorrow.

Because then there's nothing the foreign hackers could do to make them *worse* for accomplishing anything productive with? Actually, OneFinger, MS products consistently come out ahead of Apple products in security bake offs. So you're right, the only benefit they have is obscurity but given how much that has shrunk combined with a higher average net worth of owners, that's likely to change soon. In fact an exploit just recently made the news. And the fact they've done little to prepare for this shift will certainly give it a bigger impact as it does expand. But the real inherent flaw is the general ways Apple products pat you on the head and say "it's OK, you don't need to worry about that... look! shiny!"

Yeah, definitely see the resemblance there!

...or just watch it again and again...

Maybe some of you have seen this, I just discovered it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU

I kinda like the idea of Credo though, I think they're the same people who used to provide phone service too. Much better to support a company that works (even superficially, though I think the do more) for positive causes than to support companies like AT&T and Citibank which are quite obviously working against consumers!

You're missing a lot, but it can be very hard to follow. I read the books and still lose track of who some people are. The first season was mostly setup (just like the first book), with not much happening other than cool atmosphere... but the second season has some good action so far.

Saw this description of almost all Depp's movies online the other day... sounds about right: Directed by Tim Burton: Johnny Depp is eccentric and creepy with pale makeup.

TNT rocks! Why can't other (non-premium) networks be that good?

Don't get me wrong, I fully agree something is much better than nothing, and much needs to be done, I just wish there were ways to do more. I'm kind of jaded because much of the batshittery limiting/censoring the Internet is coming directly from my own representatives, bought and paid for by Hollywood... my contacting them did fuck all. I think it's clear money speaks, and if there isn't a candidate you believe strongly in there's lobbying and legal aid organizations. For my interest, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is pretty relevant.

Yeah, now that my libraries are private FUCK THEM, so my books as well as everything else around the house I can't use anymore goes to Out of the Closet. Because fuck the proselytizing, gay employee discriminating fucking fucks at Goodwill and Salvation Army!

I loved Buffy, but it's because the characters grow on you over the course of the seasons. I think what hooked me was seeing a really good character episode from season 3 or 4, THEN I was able to enjoy the whole thing, plus Angel. Still haven't tried Supernatural or Fringe, though I hear great things about both. Eureka (despite being on SciFi) is pretty damn good in it's final season so far. The Lost Girl ads make it sound interesting too...

There's something (to me) really smarmy in the Burn Notice actor's voice, and since he narrates much of the episodes it's pretty grating. I put up with that, because I liked much of the rest of the show, especially Bruce Campbell... UNTIL some of the grating voiceovers became horrible product placement for Hyundai and such. Then I gave it up. Anybody else getting sick of this BS? It's everything USA networks/SciFi, but has also recently spread to House! Have seen shows where in a dramatic moment they stop to have a conversation about how great the nav system in this new Highlander is, or the autobrake feature on the Taurus... grr!