Belvedere
| Favorite team: | Yale  |
| Location: | San Francisco |
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| Number of Posts: | 374 |
| Registered on: | 11/28/2015 |
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re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 4:26 pm
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Ah yes, Roe v. Wade. When a cabal of unelected people holding power for life decided shite upon the Constitution of the United States of America and arbitrarily make their own law where no law existed before.
I love this whole "unelected" spiel that conservatards like Ted Cruz trot out when they don't get their way on an issue. Citizens United, Bowers v. Hardwick, et al were all great, necessary, correctly decided decisions upholding the Constitution, but as soon as the Court reaches a decision they don't agree with (as in Roe v. Wade or Obergefell), it's "five unelected lawyers in Washington" or "a cabal of unelected people holding power for life." You can't have it both ways.
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re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 2:12 pm
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To be fair, most people have no clue their pregnant until 4+ weeks, so in the context of the abortion debate, the "ball of cells" is a bit hyperbolic
Is that what is happening in this thread? The argument was based on the claim that human life begins at conception. Defend your claim with something other than a non sequitur or give up.
re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 2:11 pm
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Which clause covers abortion?
The due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 2:00 pm
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States rights. If the free market doesn't want this, it will sort itself out.
The states don't have the right to infringe on liberties protected by the federal constitution.
re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 1:50 pm
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Again, unless you can show me scientific proof otherwise, I contend that life begins at conception, and that life is human. One of the cornerstones of our Republic is that all people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The fact that human has not passed through their mother's vaginal canal does not mean those unalienable rights are voided and thus killing them without just cause before they have the chance to be born is in fact murder.
Ball is back in your court.
1. Show me the scientific proof that life begins at some point after conception
2. Show me a solid legal reason an unborn person should not have the same legal rights as all other persons.
I love how evangelical conservatards base their understanding of life for pro-choice/abortion arguments on science, and then go on to deny the existence of evolution and claim that the Earth is 3,000 years old because the Bible tells them so despite all scientific evidence to the contrary.
Hurr durr.
re: Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 1:46 pm
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How does the ability to survive outside the womb constitute being the moment life begins?
How is "killing" a single-celled organism the instant it becomes "life" any different from killing a mosquito or an ant? The organism you're referring to at the moment of conception would be totally unrecognizable to you as a human being and has no brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidney or stomach.
This is distracting from the actual argument from people on the left, which is really about more than the scientific definition of life and the moment it begins.
More importantly, this bill is unquestionably unconstitutional and will be struck down. It's a waste of time and money, and just goes to show that Oklahoma is a joke of a state. Their governor is the worst governor in the nation, and their entire government is actually on an even par with Alabama's, which would seem almost impossible.
re: Anybody been to a "Taco Bell Cantina"?
Posted by Belvedere on 5/19/16 at 11:11 am
I live in SF and was not even aware that this existed. Chain restaurants do extremely poorly in this city, but it does have a 4.2 rating on Yelp. I'm guessing much of its clientele is drunk Giants fans leaving AT&T Park and looking for food.
re: Oklahoma Too Good Academically For The SEC?
Posted by Belvedere on 5/18/16 at 7:15 am
On the one hand, yes, it's preposterous for Oklahoma to even insinuate that it belongs in a conference with Stanford and Berkeley--arguably the best private school in the country and the best public school in the world.
On the other hand, you can't really fault them for trying. Being associated with schools like those two would only improve OU's station. It's more that those two schools want nothing to do with Oklahoma.
On the other hand, you can't really fault them for trying. Being associated with schools like those two would only improve OU's station. It's more that those two schools want nothing to do with Oklahoma.
re: Host a Super Bowl or have Bathrooms that little girls can use without grown men?
Posted by Belvedere on 5/10/16 at 12:59 pm
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What would you rather have???
Upvote for having bathrooms that little girls can use that grown men ARE NOT allowed in
Downvote for having your state host a Super Bowl
Holy shite you're stupid. I guess you're also against a woman being allowed to get an abortion in rape cases, want to keep Muslims from being allowed to enter our country, and think black people, gay people, and women shouldn't have rights, huh?
re: What is the best overall athletic conference in your opinion?
Posted by Belvedere on 5/8/16 at 12:38 pm
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Take a look at the baseball, softball and gymnastics rankings and rethink that point.
:lol:
Do you have any idea how dominant Arizona, UCLA, Arizona State et al have been over the years in softball? Clearly not if you made this post.
The Pac-12 also has 1/3 of the teams (UCLA and Utah) that have won national titles in gymnastics.
Now, look at every other sport...
re: Every single state in the South should approve the sale of marijuana.
Posted by Belvedere on 4/27/16 at 2:09 am
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With all the Republicans the south has, it'll be another 100 years before weed is legalized in the south.
Yup. The south is about 100 years behind on most things, so a marijuana legalization measure making southern ballots in a century or so is probably a safe bet.
When Was America Greatest?
Posted by Belvedere on 4/26/16 at 11:39 pm
When Was America Greatest? (The Upshot; NYT)
Surveys of Republican and Democratic voters show that there's wide disagreement about when America's best years were/are.
Basically, Republicans think America was at its best when segregation was the norm, LGBT rights were an oxymoron, there was no separation of church and state, and we had just won/finished our second world war in three decades.
Democrats, on the other hand, tend to favor recent years where improvements in social justice, human rights, and technology have been most pronounced.
Do you think America's best days are behind it or ahead of it?
Surveys of Republican and Democratic voters show that there's wide disagreement about when America's best years were/are.
Basically, Republicans think America was at its best when segregation was the norm, LGBT rights were an oxymoron, there was no separation of church and state, and we had just won/finished our second world war in three decades.
Democrats, on the other hand, tend to favor recent years where improvements in social justice, human rights, and technology have been most pronounced.
Do you think America's best days are behind it or ahead of it?
re: Auburn or Ole Miss for school.
Posted by Belvedere on 2/19/16 at 5:15 pm
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No knowledge of Ole Miss other than it seems every kid who couldnt get into other schools either got accepted to Bama or Ole Miss.
I love this non-stop meme that's peddled by Auburn fans about how Auburn is supposedly hard to get into and Bama just accepts everyone. Simply not true. And Auburn, like Bama, is an average state school that is not hard at all to gain admission to.
re: Auburn or Ole Miss for school.
Posted by Belvedere on 2/19/16 at 5:13 pm
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Okay more info, I live in Georgia. Out of state is much more expensive for Auburn and I have a much better chance of receiving substantial scholarships from ole miss. I plan on majoring in either economics or finance. I've been an Auburn fan my whole life but I'm having to look at which school is going to put me in a better position for a career and if Auburn is worth the extra money.
Yes, it does appear that Ole Miss is more likely to pay you a boatload of money to come to school. Just judging based on recent happenings.
re: Starting law school
Posted by Belvedere on 2/19/16 at 4:58 pm
Do whatever you've done to be successful up to this point in your life. Law school is different from undergrad, but don't, for example, outline or join study groups just because everyone else is. What works for others won't necessarily work for you.
re: I was really hoping ole miss would get another big recruit
Posted by Belvedere on 2/3/16 at 4:38 pm
Zing
re: How many Alabama fans here graduated from UA?
Posted by Belvedere on 1/20/16 at 1:42 pm
I didn't. You caught me. I graduated from Stanford, which you probably think is a private school in Birmingham.
You're just too clever for your own good. I bet you've been fapping all over the place since Palin endorsed Trump, huh?
You're just too clever for your own good. I bet you've been fapping all over the place since Palin endorsed Trump, huh?
#1 vs. #2 Again
Posted by Belvedere on 1/11/16 at 3:51 pm
Just like back in the BCS days. It was interesting last year how the playoff system seemed immediately validated by an eventual champion ranked #4 by the playoff committee. Yet here we are again with #1 vs. #2.
But were the rankings far off from reality last year? Certainly Ohio State was the #1 team, but who was really the second best team? Oregon, who entered the playoffs as #2, or Alabama, who entered as #1?
What say the rant?
But were the rankings far off from reality last year? Certainly Ohio State was the #1 team, but who was really the second best team? Oregon, who entered the playoffs as #2, or Alabama, who entered as #1?
What say the rant?
re: It is quite obvious Stanford is better than Alabama or Clemson.
Posted by Belvedere on 1/1/16 at 9:26 pm
Stanford beats Iowa by 29 points.
Alabama beats the team that beat Iowa less than a month ago by 38 points.
Naturally, an LSU math wizard surmises that Stanford is therefore better than Alabama.
Alabama beats the team that beat Iowa less than a month ago by 38 points.
Naturally, an LSU math wizard surmises that Stanford is therefore better than Alabama.
re: Why do baby boomers neglect other generations?
Posted by Belvedere on 12/21/15 at 8:41 pm
Knew you wouldn't show up and show me your W-2. Pussy.
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