tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5079949753169723271..comments2024-03-29T03:18:25.501-04:00Comments on the daily howler: HOW WE GOT HERE: It seemed like a very unusual profile!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34029247455091147912022-07-02T11:22:19.048-04:002022-07-02T11:22:19.048-04:00@7:55 My comments have been disappearing too. Some...@7:55 My comments have been disappearing too. Sometimes the same comment is disappeared each time I post it. I'm not sure why.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-7564953684201631492022-07-02T10:48:31.096-04:002022-07-02T10:48:31.096-04:0010:06, that has never been the premise of stare de...10:06, that has never been the premise of stare decisis. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82214071233286784302022-07-02T10:35:34.427-04:002022-07-02T10:35:34.427-04:00You shouldn't be able to confuse abortion with...You shouldn't be able to confuse abortion with something that kills babies, any more than you should confuse the high price of gas with the 5th Amendment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45862159864790568222022-07-02T10:27:50.743-04:002022-07-02T10:27:50.743-04:00Why all this talk about killing babies, when the d...Why all this talk about killing babies, when the discussion is about abortion and keeping women in their place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28479377071100690002022-07-02T10:24:10.377-04:002022-07-02T10:24:10.377-04:00Are we talking about murdering babies or abortion?...Are we talking about murdering babies or abortion? People keep jumping from one to the other, making it hard to follow the debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15693865729006879442022-07-02T10:21:11.679-04:002022-07-02T10:21:11.679-04:00Abortion is healthcare.
Let's not pretend the ...Abortion is healthcare.<br />Let's not pretend the Right have thought it through more than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20025338951464269102022-07-02T10:18:44.619-04:002022-07-02T10:18:44.619-04:00Yes, the mass murder in WWll by Nazis and communis...Yes, the mass murder in WWll by Nazis and communists that decided they could morally exterminate members of their population to improve their own quality of life was a mistake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88024872742509538652022-07-02T10:13:06.215-04:002022-07-02T10:13:06.215-04:00"Clump of cells." Everyone is a clump o..."Clump of cells." Everyone is a clump of cells.<br />"A sperm is a living human being." Go back to third grade biology class<br />"Abortion has been around for a long time" All kinds of killing has including legalized killing of the innocent<br />"Abortion was supported by right wingers before it was legal" That's nice<br />"Some use abortion as a political wedge" That's nice too<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10250601543507519242022-07-02T10:10:21.572-04:002022-07-02T10:10:21.572-04:00Congrats on your condescending piety, but you fail...Congrats on your condescending piety, but you fail to site an article or statement anywhere in the press that reflects what you are saying. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54491846993524226392022-07-02T10:06:39.731-04:002022-07-02T10:06:39.731-04:00The premise that erroneously decided awful opinion...The premise that erroneously decided awful opinions, no matter how old, must be perpetually upheld under stare decisis is one of the more absurd defenses of Roe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63431446004307162222022-07-02T10:04:26.599-04:002022-07-02T10:04:26.599-04:00We understand the "WOKE" types, love the...We understand the "WOKE" types, love them as we've been called to love our enemies, feel pity for them, know they don't know, know what warped influences brought them to their ideology, and try to treat them with a mix of patience and constructive criticism while correcting the cultural problems they perpetuate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89246840927563227662022-07-02T08:39:30.726-04:002022-07-02T08:39:30.726-04:00Dear David in Cal,
Conservative Democrats were rac...Dear David in Cal,<br />Conservative Democrats were racists.<br />Conservative Republicans are racists.<br />This isn't Republicans vs. Democrats.<br />This is Conservatives vs. Humanity.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31675144383319018282022-07-02T08:31:56.914-04:002022-07-02T08:31:56.914-04:00Enough about abortion.
Let's discuss corporate...Enough about abortion.<br />Let's discuss corporate tax cuts.<br />I'll take the side that says corporate tax cuts are immoral because I believe they kill babies. <br />Which of you savage, blood-thirsty baby killers wants to take the side that corporate tax cuts are good?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12483733112698056982022-07-02T08:23:01.406-04:002022-07-02T08:23:01.406-04:00God, like a good faith argument made by a Right-wi...God, like a good faith argument made by a Right-winger, is a figment of dim-witted imaginations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66855525488503807762022-07-02T08:13:56.524-04:002022-07-02T08:13:56.524-04:00Santa Claus and his unicorns believe that abortion...Santa Claus and his unicorns believe that abortion is the way to a better afterlife. <br />The anti-believers Republicans put on the Supreme Court, just hate us true believers, even though freedom of religion is the literally in the First Amendment to the Constitution.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32298243967645098262022-07-02T07:55:28.477-04:002022-07-02T07:55:28.477-04:00This place is getting intolerable.
Notice, David ...This place is getting intolerable.<br /><br />Notice, David is responding to @10:05 (which was my comment), but the comment @10:05 has been disappeared. This is happening too many times to my comments to be an accident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41607235201121495022022-07-01T23:09:40.087-04:002022-07-01T23:09:40.087-04:00The So Dems left the Dem party during that time an...The So Dems left the Dem party during that time and became Republicans. There were protests in Northern and Southern cities. In the South they ignored Brown v Board of Ed but the North attempted integration via busing then gradually settled back into majority minority schools. The South resisted until the 70s when blacks were admitted to public schools while whites fled to private schools and home schooling. At least blacks had schools then. Only the Democrats pressed the issue to make slow progress. Now conservatives want to roll that back. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28345546965748774222022-07-01T23:08:51.681-04:002022-07-01T23:08:51.681-04:00The "thing to do" is elect more progress...The "thing to do" is elect more progressive Dems that can then get rid of the filibuster, introduce rules governing justices, and eventually increase the SC Justices to at least 13 (thus matching the number of District courts, which was the reason for 9 in the past).<br /><br />The other "thing" is we can have clever lawyers use the SC's nonsense logic to box them in and either tolerate things they find distasteful, or relent.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3455506498999350142022-07-01T23:02:52.972-04:002022-07-01T23:02:52.972-04:00And those same Democrats are now Republicans.
I s...And those same Democrats are now Republicans.<br /><br />I see good faith is not how you operate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34348666575931179842022-07-01T23:01:13.227-04:002022-07-01T23:01:13.227-04:00Plessy took rights away, so reversing it gave us m...Plessy took rights away, so reversing it gave us more rights.<br /><br />Roe gave us rights, reversing it takes away rights.<br /><br />It is a startling difference obvious to anyone operating in good faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29785610093327489762022-07-01T22:59:17.527-04:002022-07-01T22:59:17.527-04:00@10:05 - Most of the people who resisted school in...@10:05 - Most of the people who resisted school integration were Democrats.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4064547897222778952022-07-01T22:53:36.829-04:002022-07-01T22:53:36.829-04:00Abortion is not mentioned in the Bible.
Over 90% ...Abortion is not mentioned in the Bible.<br /><br />Over 90% of abortions are done at the zygote/embryo stage, a non sentient and non viable clump of cells. All abortions are done at the non sentient, non viable stage with a reasonable few exceptions that are extremely rare. <br /><br />Living creatures are not a clump of cells, this is an infantile view and a complete misunderstanding of biology.<br /><br />A "clump" of sperm can potentially be a human life, and let's be real, males waste billions of sperm regularly. Cloning is real and possible, a cell which would normally die and fall off my body can be used to create a human life. There is noting sacrosanct about fertilization, the Bible says life starts with breathing, it says that a fetus is not a life but mere property. <br /><br />A fetus is not capable of sensing pain until at least 24-26 weeks, and even at that point it is not necessarily sentient. That is also around the same time as viability.<br /><br />You are 13 times more likely to die carrying a pregnancy to term than having an abortion. Studies show that women who have abortions have less psychological issues and more successful lives than women who were in the same circumstance but chose not to have an abortion and complete their pregnancy. <br /><br />Abortion has been common for as long as humans have been around, it will continue to be common regardless of laws or SC decisions. All Dobbs did was put women's health at risk, and satisfy the right wing's undying obsession with dominance.<br /><br />Abortion was supported by right wingers before Roe, which was decided by Republican SC Justices.<br /><br />Officially Catholics opposed abortions, yet was never able to budge the issue, all the while about 25% of women getting abortions are Catholic.<br /><br />The anti abortion movement only gained some momentum when Republicans discovered they could weaponize the issue towards their goal of racial oppression; it was when Christian right wingers were facing desegregation in the 70s that they suddenly changed tune and coalesced around their new found concern. <br /><br />So there is nothing genuine about an anti abortion stance. The only good it does is feed a right winger's need for dominance and electoral power.<br /><br />Taking the tone of the high ground does not give you the high ground, especially when your arguments are as specious, fallacious, and immoral as yours are. The Dunning Kruger effect is when a stupid person thinks they are smart, we need a named effect for when immoral people think they are moral; this would apply to our pious anti abortion defender here. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78822801936257415742022-07-01T22:51:23.623-04:002022-07-01T22:51:23.623-04:00Back to Bob: it is very difficult to believe
He a...Back to Bob: it is very difficult to believe <br />He actually is surprised by an article which<br />takes a sympathetic view of (low information?)<br />Trump voters. This niche has been endlessly <br />filled by The Times, The Post, and many<br />other outlets. Bill Maher, who had become<br />a truly loathsome figure, argues Trumpworld <br />Is merely a cult, so members must be <br />treated with the kind patience you would <br />afford a mental case. <br /> Now, an article that treated the WOKE <br />type (however misguided) with humanist <br />understanding, that would be surprising. <br />An article that demanded right wingers <br />treat liberals with respect and common <br />decency? Unthinkable. <br /> Beyond that, this is a “rubbing it in” <br />piece as Bob as he salivates at the <br />prospect of a Republican landslide at<br />the end of the year. There is a lot one <br />could say about the left’s blunders that<br />handed the Court over to Right Wing <br />fanatics. Bob really isn’t interested in <br />that. He just wants to gloat. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10395550413632558072022-07-01T22:03:50.094-04:002022-07-01T22:03:50.094-04:00Always. You can not escape biology. Always. You can not escape biology. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14446058410930187002022-07-01T21:38:04.795-04:002022-07-01T21:38:04.795-04:00There are ways men evade their responsibilities de...There are ways men evade their responsibilities despite such depts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com