Fuck its silent in here.......

[flannj]

...the proper meaning of "begging the question,"...

The misuse of this phrase makes me ANGRY... and it's so widespread.  

"Begs Raises the question."
And it's so easy to state correctly.

[Bort]

...the proper meaning of "begging the question,"...

The misuse of this phrase makes me ANGRY... and it's so widespread.  

"Begs Raises the question."
And it's so easy to state correctly.

THI to all of THI.

[Gilgamesh]

Those clever Republicans.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Dow Jones - 1/22/2001: 10,659.98
Dow Jones - 3/16/2010: 10,685.98

The market is now up 0.244% since Busch took office.

Thank god for the hopey changy stuff.

[morpheus]

Dow Jones - 1/22/2001: 10,659.98
Dow Jones - 3/16/2010: 10,685.98

The market is now up 0.244% since Busch took office.

Thank god for the hopey changy stuff.

Sure.

[Pre]

Dow Jones - 1/22/2001: 10,659.98
Dow Jones - 3/16/2010: 10,685.98

The market is now up 0.244% since Busch took office.

Thank god for the hopey changy stuff.

At least you don't only cherry pick baseball stats.

[R-V]

Dow Jones - 1/22/2001: 10,659.98
Dow Jones - 3/16/2010: 10,685.98

The market is now up 0.244% since Busch took office.

Thank god for the hopey changy stuff.

At least you don't only cherry pick baseball stats.

If you take out all the at-bats when Derrek Lee got a hit, the Dow has been just awful.

[Gilgamesh]

Yeah, I really don't know what to think of this, except that the guy was clearly trying to incite the anti-reform crowd and that some people can be assholes.

Otherwise, it's just democracy.

[SKO]

Yeah, I really don't know what to think of this, except that the guy was clearly trying to incite the anti-reform crowd and that some people can be assholes.

Otherwise, it's just democracy.

This may just be gut instinct as a member of the silent majority, but aren't most protestors, in general, morans and or assholes? Most of them are eagerly awaiting a chance to confront a member of the opposing side. The Parkinson's moran was clearly trying to provoke the right wing morans, who were happy to oblige, being morans.

[CT III]

Yeah, I really don't know what to think of this, except that the guy was clearly trying to incite the anti-reform crowd and that some people can be assholes.

Otherwise, it's just democracy.

This may just be gut instinct as a member of the silent majority, but aren't most protestors, in general, morans and or assholes? Most of them are eagerly awaiting a chance to confront a member of the opposing side. The Parkinson's moran was clearly trying to provoke the right wing morans, who were happy to oblige, being morans.

Isn't that pretty much what Gil just said?

[Gilgamesh]

Yeah, I really don't know what to think of this, except that the guy was clearly trying to incite the anti-reform crowd and that some people can be assholes.

Otherwise, it's just democracy.

This may just be gut instinct as a member of the silent majority, but aren't most protestors, in general, morans and or assholes? Most of them are eagerly awaiting a chance to confront a member of the opposing side. The Parkinson's moran was clearly trying to provoke the right wing morans, who were happy to oblige, being morans.

Indeed.  I feel sorry for the guy, but he was clearly trying to goad them into a fight.  The morph-looking fella (a friendly potshot, I assume you) was happy to oblige by giving not one, but TWO dollars.

Make your arguments, see if you can convince others, tally up the score and move along.  Democracy.

[R-V]

So does this mean all pro-lifers are in favor of universal health care and free abortions?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202287_pf.html

[morpheus]

So does this mean all pro-lifers are in favor of universal health care and free abortions?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202287_pf.html

No.  Correlation <> causation.

[SKO]

Yeah, I really don't know what to think of this, except that the guy was clearly trying to incite the anti-reform crowd and that some people can be assholes.

Otherwise, it's just democracy.

This may just be gut instinct as a member of the silent majority, but aren't most protestors, in general, morans and or assholes? Most of them are eagerly awaiting a chance to confront a member of the opposing side. The Parkinson's moran was clearly trying to provoke the right wing morans, who were happy to oblige, being morans.

Indeed.  I feel sorry for the guy, but he was clearly trying to goad them into a fight.  The morph-looking fella (a friendly potshot, I assume you) was happy to oblige by giving not one, but TWO dollars.

Make your arguments, see if you can convince others, tally up the score and move along.  Democracy.

I was actually trying to agree with Gil's statement.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

So does this mean all pro-lifers are in favor of universal health care and free abortions?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202287_pf.html

No.  Correlation <> causation.

True, albeit glib.

That said, this seems more than a little bit reasonable...

One key reason seems to be that all those countries provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. That has a profound effect on women contemplating what to do about an unwanted pregnancy.

The connection was explained to me by a wise and holy man, Cardinal Basil Hume. He was the senior Roman Catholic prelate of England and Wales when I lived in London; as a reporter and a Catholic, I got to know him.

In Britain, only 8 percent of the population is Catholic (compared with 25 percent in the United States). Abortion there is legal. Abortion is free. And yet British women have fewer abortions than Americans do. I asked Cardinal Hume why that is.

The cardinal said that there were several reasons but that one important explanation was Britain's universal health-care system. "If that frightened, unemployed 19-year-old knows that she and her child will have access to medical care whenever it's needed," Hume explained, "she's more likely to carry the baby to term. Isn't it obvious?"

A young woman I knew in Britain added another explanation. "If you're [sexually] active," she said, "the way to avoid abortion is to avoid pregnancy. Most of us do that with an IUD or a diaphragm. It means going to the doctor. But that's easy here, because anybody can go to the doctor free."