Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "ABC News" channel.

  1.  @CheriSTJohn-mh8wz  Or the judge is AFRAID. She chaired a trial that ended with a member of the blue tribe being sentenced. - Of course she may also be more simpathetic because "one of us" goes to prison. Either way: highly unprofessional.
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  2.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  Doctors cannot make a claim. They would also need to cover the statisctical side and seperate that from all the other influences. Churches. Consumers not wearing masks, family visits (big deal !) It does not bear out in the numbers.
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  3. ​ @Ramesh-wi6qe  Sweden did poorly deaths per million 550 or more. Norway, Finland which are much more comparable (less than 50 per million). Or Austria (with more tourists in spring, and neighbour to Italy but else somewhat comparable): 85 deaths per million. Sweden did poorly.
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  4.  @Ramesh-wi6qe  Sweden lets old people die in care homes - so that explains why their hospitals are not overwhelmed, they have a LOT of advantages that Michigan does not have, it is ridiculous to compare them to a large city in a large country with a lot of international travel, more poverty and a inferior healthcare system. But Sweden plays int the same league as Norway, Finland. Denmark has 112 deaths per milion (more densely populated, more central - in the region of Europe that was hit first, much larger neighbour Germany has the same rate 110 deaths). The U.S. has close to 500 deaths (and likely the real numbers are higher, I think most Europan countries have reliable numbers)
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  5.  @Ramesh-wi6qe  Stockhom the capital has 976,000 people, they have a few other cities (that are smaller) the rest of the Swedes is nicely spaced out over the relatively large area. and they have more strict rules in Stockholm and surrounding area befcause it is more densely populated than the rest of Sweden.
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  6.  @Ramesh-wi6qe  Neglect of the elderly in care homes (they are not even delivered to the hospitals, let alone intense care. the number of old people in ICU has gone down ! compared to 2019. But the number of end-of-life cocktails has gone up in the care homes. So the patients and staff do not have the full impact - with the help of palliative medicine.  see Dr. John Campell channel. Video of June, Sweden the jury is out.
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  7.  @Ramesh-wi6qe  Sweden still has the economic fallout, it is not like they are doing better than Switzerland, Finland, Austria or Denmark, Germany ..... - all these nations have reopened the economy. The Swedish death curve only flattened recently. A mask does not cost GDP, - but the Swedish approach cost a lot of lives. plus a travel warning, so tourists will avoid them and go to safer places in Europe. And there ARE mask rules - certainly in Stockholm.
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  8.  @Ramesh-wi6qe  Schools for students over 16 closed, online learning. NOW they have summer holidays. Like the rest of Europe. - you want to update your talking points.
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  9. It is like a wildfire during a heat wave, you gotta find the embers or the little fires. and put them out. There is no such thing as Raging Wildfire Lite. The growth rate is so high (thanks to the sneaky way of spread) - you either put in the effort to nip it in the bud, or you have to live with the big fire and its consequences. Like in China where the military locked down Wuhan. Like in Italy where doctors got the letters how to apply the rules of triage: Who would not even get treatment (in intense care) and would not have a fighting chance. Italy was within 2 - 3 days of applying the rules of Triage in the most hit RICH Northern part of the country. The rules like they apply in a field hospital when overwhelmed with cases from combat. You bet that scared the neighbour countries into action.
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  10. I currently live in Austria, 8,5 million people, largest city is Vienna with 1 million people. Winter tourism, cases from neighbour Italy in February (it started in the touristic regions, and those often international tourists spread it also to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, even Iceland - but Iceland tested the retuning persons at the airport and busted the then negligent Austrian government that was still in denial about the need to cut off the end of the winter season, which is important in parts of the country). Politicians nervously eying Italy in the second half of February. (they did not want to lock down the economy, or even restrict tourism). We now know that retail prepred just in case, they stocked up food. They should have jacked up mask and PPE production (or import) and testing like Taiwan and South Korea did in January and February, those nations had an A+ response. End of February /early March it got scary in Italy, and cases popped up (were noted) in other countries. Then things moved fast, around mid of March 60 % of the population of the EU were in lockdown, phase 1. Gradual reopening between April and late June, while they built the capacity to test (one of the most important tools to control spread) and got experience how to deal with flare ups (How much action is necessary. quarantines ? How much contact testing ?). Last phase: opening for tourism from most European and many other countries. Mid June / early July. but not from the U.S.: the tourists and the business travelers are missed - but they cannot risk upending the delicate balance with importing cases from the U.S. It is tricky enough as is. They maintain the fragile balance (all over Europe), but the governments in Europe watch it like hawks. And they need to. In Austria: Flare ups here and there and sometimes you wonder, why the heck they could even happen. Despite all the precautions. Low case numbers and reproduction rate slightly under or above 1. But every phase of reopening saw a small "surge" of cases, so vigilance and determined action was necessary whenever they risked a little more.
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  11. It is like a wildfire during a heat wave, you gotta find the embers or the little fires. and put them out. There is no such thing as Raging Wildfire Lite. The growth rate is so high (thanks to the sneaky way of spread) - you either put in the effort to nip it in the bud, or you have to live with the big fire and its consequences. Like in China where the military locked down Wuhan. Like in Italy where doctors got the letters how to apply the rules of triage: Who would not even get treatment (in intense care) and would not have a fighting chance. Italy was within 2 - 3 days of applying the rules of Triage in the most hit RICH Northern part of the country. The rules like they apply in a field hospital when overwhelmed with cases from combat. You bet that scared the neighbour countries into action. I currently live in Austria, 8,5 million people, largest city Vienna with 1 million people. Winter tourism, cases from neighbour Italy in February (it started in the touristic regions, and those often international tourists spread it to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, even Iceland - but Iceland tested at the airport and busted the then negligent Austrian government that was still in denial about cutting off the end of the winter season). Politicians nervously eying Italy in the second half of February. (they did not want to lock down the economy, or even restrict tourism). We now know that retail prepred just in case, they stocked up food. They should have jacked up mask production and testing like Taiwan and South Korea did in January and February, they had an A+ response. End of February /early March it got scary in Italy, and cases popped up (were noted) in other countries. Then things moved fast, around mid of March 60 % of the population of the EU were in lockdown, phase 1. Gradual reopening between April and late June, while they built the capacity to test (one of the most important tools to control spread) and got experience how to deal with flare ups (How much or little is necessary). Last phase: opening for tourism from most European and many other countries. Mid June / early July. but not from the U.S.: the tourists and the business travelers are missed - but they cannot risk upending the delicate balance with importing cases from the U.S. it is already tricky. They maintain the fragile balance (all over Europe), but the governments in Europe watch it like hawks. And they need to. In Austria: Flare ups here and there and sometimes you wonder, why the heck they could even happen. Despite all the precautions. Low case numbers and reproduction rate slightly under or above 1. But every phase of reopening saw a small "surge" of cases, so vigilance and determined action was necessary whenever they risked a little more.
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  12. They loosened the mask mandate - and reintroduced it because of numbers going up. Numbers were still in the area where they could control it. But as we know that can change quickly. Trump was right on the campaign trail, in February / or early March. There were only 50 known ! cases in the U.S. Even if you multiply with 100 (for all that were not identified) - that is nothing compared to 330 million people in the U.S. Well if the mode of transmission is sneaky (people can spread it before they know they are spreaders, many have no or not many symptoms) and if it is fairly contagious - you can grow from an ember to a wildfire. FAST. There were not many known cases in Feburary either - and then it went out of hand. Well almost, with warning example of neighbour Italy no one took any chances. The masks are likely not worn correctly by many members of the public even if they are willing. (good fit of the mask and worn without gaps and a fairly tight fit. No gaps. but if the mandate can shave off only 10 % of the cases - it is a small LOW COST sacrifice to make. It is not like we have that many tools in the toolbox. And mask wearing and no nightclubs and parties are measures that do little damage to the economy as a whole. The reopening of the colleges migt have worked in China or Taiwan, where there is more sense of community and the rules are also enforced (which is not necessary to the degree as in the U.S. because social pressure nudges people into being "responsible"). But if they do clubbings while the suging case numbers are discussed in the news .... The young people assume they will survive. Well, most will, some with permanent damage. And they do not care about the staff, vulnerable family members of staff, students and staff with preexisting conditions, people they interact with (think shopping) .....
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  13. I read a twitter comment: I expected the interview to be a train wreck. I was wrong, it was a plane crash onto a oil field that lit up and cause an nuclear .... (you get the drift)
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  14. Who says she hit the officer, she held her arms and hands up that can be a deterring motion. When he shoves the camera on her it may get shut off of course. That police "force" was obviously on a power trip. They would have left after the breathalyzer if they were not looking for a confrontation. - and a sealed bottle of alcohol is none of their biz - it could belong to someone else who will come back.
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  15. Likely she was drunk or on drugs.
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  16. The idiot did not even have the good sense to put on a sweater or cardigan. Sure, rub it in you can sit in our cozy warm building (from a PR perspective, not that it would change anything if they tried to save energy, which they clearly don't). It does not matter if summer is usually their strongest time, they have the capacities - or NOT. The last time they had a SEVERE longer cold in winter was 10 years ago and there were recommendations to winterize - which were ignored. That has a miff of science and facts and will not sit well with the party of personal responsibility and family values, etc. The scientiest that deal with Global Warming could tell them that - oddly enough - these cold snaps will get more frequent, as the Arctic warms. They could also explain the reasons for that - see Polar Vortex. But that is science and that is not suffered kindly in Texas). I find it odd how he mentions the wind turbines - only then he mentions the other sources. Namely also NUCLEAR power plants that have malfunctioning insturments. And gas pipelines that do not work (also instruments). So no gas for heating, that means damage in water pipes most likely. And no electricity produced by gas power plants either. Also not a peep on the deregulatiion and how Texas has its independent net to evade federal regulation. Also: some areas of Texas are more equal than others and their power did not get shut off.
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  17. 6:00 "It is almost impossible to fire a federal employee." ? ? not the head of any agency (FBI, CIA, Fed) - and Trump often gets "acting" leaders if positions have been abandoned. - Remember FBI boss James Comey ? (he learned it while being at a meeting - his staff came in and told him it was on TV, for a moment he thought this was a joke. Classy, not to give him a call !) - The heads of the agency can get to the lower charges. That works just fine when they hinder scientiests and experts to use the word "Climate Change" (big bad government doing censorship if scientiests, the Republicans at their bests). If a heas of an agency cannot rule his or her house - they are not susposed the "head" the agency anyway. The vaccine development time is VERY short this time (also other nations are making concessions). Shorter than for any other vaccine. If anything the FDa is making concessions regarding safety considering the economic and social impact of the pandemic.
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  18. I am sure the wealthy Republicans and especially politicians would have lined up to take care of the severely impaired little girl, to accompagny her painful one year on earth. After all it works so well in the foster system for the healthy kids. - Oh wait ....
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  19. Squad (members of Congress) are you listening ?
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  20. Yes or nuclear power plants having malfunctioning instruments.
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  21. Meanwhile not even AOC was invited (she spoke ONLY as guest of Sanders - see below * - and only for approx. 60 seconds). Or Andrew Yang, or Tulsi Gabbard. Does anyone among the normal voters KNOW these members of the dynasty ? A former ambassador and her son, really ? I think they also paraded some equally irrelevant FDR relatives around. * AOC ONLY spoke as guest of Sanders. The tradition is that the candidates that cross a threshold will be "nominated for president" by some delegates. When it is clear that the party will nominate someone else. That is a formality and a tradition. Sanders was given 2 time slots of 60 or 90 seconds for TWO people. He chose a union leader / activist (King) and AOC. as for the party machine - they completley sidelined her. And many other progressives. Or even mildly progressive politicians. While inviting Colin Powell, John Kasich (who defined AOC as "extreme" - as if it was his place to tell the Democratic party and their base his opinion about THEIR elected representatives. He better be concerned about the extreme Republicans.)
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  22. Did the thugs in uniform make an example of the person that helped one of the blue tribe sentenced ?? Retaliation did not hinder the sentencing in this case (that was just too clear cut) but it could send a signal, to witnesses, judges, jury members ! in future cases. Police could have called in favors from criminals or organized crime, they are not going to do it themselves if they can avoid it (too obvious, the original case already got too much attention). - I mean it is a stretch: police arranging for the execution of a witness would mean a big risk just to make a point. I do not doubt they would do that to get rid of a witness that confirms that they deal drugs, take bribe from organized crime etc. But then the stakes are higher. Jimmy dore (youtuber) grew up in Chicago and many family members were police (he says the bullying is part of the culture). cops were known to deal drugs and to kill witnesses. (I think some of them were eventually caught). The movie The Big Easy is not just fiction. So a wild theory of police killing witnesses to make a statement ... On the other hand WHY would anyone shoot the witness in a parking lot - and so close to the event ? If he had no connections to organized crime, did not deal in drugs ..... People become victims in robbery gone wrong etc. - but waiting for him in a parking lot ? Or did someone try to steal a car ??
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  23. he should have gotten time but facilitating the crime usually carries less time than than doing the crime. (O.K. if he straight offered the woman up ....) But still 15 - 25 years seems excessive, other people get that for murder.
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  24. At the moment they have to proceed slowly because else they might kill people if they set the rubble into motion. The longer it lasts the more unlikely it becomes that anyone will be found alive, and they will be able to move faster.
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  25. Meanwhile not even AOC was invited (she spoke ONLY as guest of Sanders - see below * - and only for approx. 60 seconds). Or Andrew Yang, or Tulsi Gabbard. Does anyone among the normal voters KNOW these members of a the dynasty ? A former ambassador and her son, really ? I think they also paraded some equally irrelevant FDR relatives around. * AOC ONLY spoke as guest of Sanders. The tradition is that the candidates that cross a threshold will be "nominated for president" by some delegates. When it is clear that the party will nominate someone else. That is a formality and a tradition. Sanders was given 2 time slots of 60 or 90 seconds for TWO people. He chose a union leader / activist (King) and AOC. as for the party machine - they completley sidelined her. And many other progressives. Or even mildly progressive politicians. While inviting Colin Powell, John Kasich (who defined AOC as "extreme" - as if it was his place to tell the Democratic party and their base his opinion about THEIR elected representatives. He better be concerned about the extreme Republicans.)
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  26.  @alalakjakaja5793  others were drafted for Vietnam - he was in Paris as missionary for the Mormons. And inherited a fortune. No one says it wasn't possible to make a lot of money in the last decades with what amounts to profit extraction and speculation (most of finance). But people like Romney think they "earned" it.
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  27. I'll take back giving him credit for overdue insight - he also tries to talk down his gullibility. How about looking beyond the borders of the U.S. ? How about going with the calm, polite scientist that has served under so many presidents since Reagan ? The men that also writes the text books for medica school and is a global staple among the epidemiologists. That voters is so indoctrinated that he cannot see the self serving actions of this admin. Not that Dems are much better, but they are not in charge. The U.S. is a country with 330 million people if he does not live in one of the large metropolitan areas that were hit first it does not mean anything that HE and his family did not know anyone who got it (or died of it). IN summer, . NOW he knows.
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  28. Well 70 % of the country is against flipping Roe vs. Wade (which gives the right of the pregnant woman to bodily autonomy and thus abortion in the first 3 months) - and that number will grow as more people come of reasoning age (and the people asked in polls do not include teenagers, a 16 year can well have an informed opinion on abortion).
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  29.  geeksquad smarty  we disagree what is a HUMAN = being someone with personhood with the protection of the law. Tell me how a fetus 3 or 4 months into the pregnancy has personhood. Or why something that starts to ressemble a heart ! at 6 weeks would change anything and be a threshold for a law (as compared to the time when egg and sperm merge, or when the zygote attaches itself on the placenta). A fetus 3 - 4 months into pregnancy is so immature that they do not feel pain - and cannot live outside the womb. - you are of course free to have the spiritually or religiously informed sentiment / opinion that personhood can be already attributed. Then don't have an abortion and do not perform them. That however is not the basis for the law, for your entitlement to tell other people how to make their personal decisions about a great personal responsibility and something that could upturn their life. When happy expecting parents tell friends and family: We are pregant, everyone goes along with talking about the baby. Taking some medical liberties. The underlying picture is always of a cuddly washed rosy maturely born infant. Not what the fetus looks like or what the stage of development is with 12 weeks.  Usually women only announce to a wider circle after the most precarious stage of pregnancy - the first trimester - is over. If they want a child and she could hold on to the pregnancy for 3 months - chances are much better that soon - in at least 4 more months time * _ she has a viable baby. So that is not very long and no one splits hairs. You share the joy and may be in awe of the miracle of life and the bonds of family and how the family will go on even when they are gone (grandparents have often that feeling). * when a baby is born premature, from 7 months on chances get much better, before it is intense care, many dying and the risk that the treatment will have harmful side effects. One can be in awe of the wonder of life and how genetics work (a lot of the potential human is determined the moment sperm cell and egg merge) - and still recognize that it is NOT YET a person but a (celebrated) potential - and that families must be free to decide whether or not they want to bring another child into the world. Whether or not that is the right time with the right partner. Whether or not they want to make the sacrifices if the child is not healthy (and impose that burden also onto the already born children. It is well known how much strain that can put on a couple or the other siblings, when the energey and resources are drained to care for a chronically ill or disabled child. That is often fate - but if the unborn fetus does not yet have personhood it is a DECISION.
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  30. 1:40 Why not wait to contact the school before sending out a tweet that got viral (the mother and politician being criticial of the school micromanaging the appearance of African American teenagers) ? Maybe because the school DID have time to THINK IT THROUGH through before they published their WRITTEN rules (in print more likely). Usually things that are WRITTEN DOWN have a tendency to trigger more thought - written down has just more weight than being said off your cuff. Wasn't there ONE person with some common sense, that said: "Let's wait a minute, maybe we are overstepping boundaries in our zeal and pursuit of a reasonable and appropriate !! dress code. Because this feels like an attack on African American culture and typical appearance of African Americans. And while we are at it - let's check the correct terms for hairstyles that are obviously foreign to us before we make fools of ourselves. " Cornrolls ? really ? This almost has a vibe as if bigotted, prejudiced, anti-freedom, uptight, conservative white - and last but not least - FOOLISH people were attacking African American culture under a pretext. Making them fall in line with white conservative ideas about "appearance". [Which of course it was.] Cornrows were not allowed. Well, you could call that "hair well put together". Much more than wearing it open. And WHY would two coloured hair be forbidden ? It doesn't even have a sexual connotation. Can't they handle more than one color on a head ?? The Saudis and Iranians do have a point it seems when they force their womansfolk to wear their heads and hair covered. (I am not a fan of young teenagers getting hair colorations or permanents, for health reasons, and I do not think it is good for the hair structure as well. That said: I do not think these were the "concerns" of the school for the ban, and it still applies to young adults/older teenagers 17 and 18 years old.
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  31. I guess keeping non-violent drug offenders was more important.
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  32. He was never tenured at Harvard he said that in another interview (he had tenure at other high profile universities though) . He came back after years because he thought they had changed - but no.
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  33. Not a peep of pushback fro Stephanopoulos. The CONSTITUTION covers the postal service they do not have to be "sustainable" - although they are !. They do a very good job, but are burdened with having to provide for future (not yet BORN !) employees (their pensions). No other biz or agency has that burden, and it is a drain. That is why the Republicans introduced that bill - and to be fair neither corporate media nor corporate Dems have been shouting that from the rooftops.
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  34. He clearly wants to warn NOW, and admits his mistake in the most public way. BUT: the sitting admin (unwillingly) admitted the reality of CoVid-19 since spring. Did he then think Trump lied about it too. And did they think France, China, Russia, the African nations, Ecuador, Brazil, India dealt with the PANDEMIC just to annoy Trump and the Trump voters. Like Republican they ONLY do the right thing (and think of others) AFTER it hit them personally. and logical thinking is not their strong suit.
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  35. The likes of Bill Clinton, Biden, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Romney, Bush pave the way to someone like Trump. They ALL serve big finance and big biz, and screw the regular people. ACA and Romneycare are based on the same rightwing 1990s plan. Romney (and all others) like war and military spending. And Obama started a lot of wars even though he campaigned differently in 2008.
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  36. They see a police car - "Oh no better hide" - don't teach children to FEAR the police. And they do teach them that lesson if they harrass their parents for expecting their children to cope with going to the park on their own - and the kids were obviously TAUGHT to cope with traffic. It seems they are walking home through a safe neighbourhood, a one mile walk isn't going to harm them - on the contrary. There are people on the streets and they are not walking in unusual hours. - has CPS no REAL cases to follow ?
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  37. The book describes a president that is dangerously uninformed, incurious or unmoveable.
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  38. Bill Cinton and Barack Obama both had experiences with weed - and both did not make efforts to have it removed from the list (schedule 1 - like heroin, even cocain or crack is not classified as that dangerous). - Week stays in the system, if a person has an accident and had some week in the past weeks they will find evidence, that does not mean they were under the influence.
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  39. On a sidenote: so in the process of merging industries the food brand of Quaker Oats Aunt Jemima was scooped up by Pepsi.
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  40. 4 of 5 Capitalism is good at 2 things: produce a multitude of things (many very frviolous and some very useful) and make a few people rich. The "elites" in China (and Russia) were of course "more equal" than their fellow citizens, but they had relativ little privileges compared with the ruling or the upper class in the West. And it was not allowed to parade your modest wealth (better food, clothes, cars, vacations) around. - They figured out if they just threw the ideology out of the window they were in an excellent position to profit very much from the new rules in the economy. And even more when they opted for the SWEATSHOP / pollute the environment model . And of course not allowing unions. Manchester capitalism. The ruling class in China would have won anyway (the business owners were doing well in the West or in Japan in the era of the Economic Mircale after WW2 despite the good wages they had to pay then). With the Sweathshop model however, it was much more lucrative. Western corporations saw the chance for a RACE to the BOTTOM and to pit the DOMESTIC workforce against people in poor countris or dictarships w/o labour protections (like China). And it also offered a chance take away (some) consumer protections for the citizens at home (that cost them some profit). Such walls are not used in Europe btw - they STILL have much stricter consumer protection. And consumer protection agencies that are not as neutered as in the U.S. And a media that reports on such things. Far from "free" and "neutral" - but still better in the U.S. (and occasionally useful and truthful). The Western politicians working for Big Biz fell over themselves to make the rules and "free" "trade" deals that supported and promoted the sweatshop economy (glozbalization). The model REQUIRES China to EXPORT a lot (even though it is such a huge market, and many Chinese citzens would like to buy more). Well if people do not get good wages, then they do not have disposable income. It was important that the sweatshop produced stuff could be dumped at the shops of the wealthy countries without any restriction (tariffs, quotas) and those deals took care of that.
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  41. 0:20 Donna Brazile about Nancy Pelosi: "She knows how to win she raised over 130 million USD." allegedly for a diverse set of candidates. - everything to BEAT THE PROGRESSIVES in primaries. - The bought and paid for candidates will have to be obedient to the party establishment and the interests of the Big donors. Nothing screams democracy like that. That keeps the gravy train going. The Democrats would fiercly fight against any efforts to get money out of politics. Insance campaign spending and the need to raise so much money, gives the party establishment leverage over the other Deocratic politicians and also leverage over media - they get a lot of the donations for ads. The circus (strategists, consultants, media hires "experts") provides the cushy jobs for ex politicians. Top brass gets better jobs, but the lower ranks must be compensated as well.
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  42.  @meera2531  have you ever tried to brainwash a teenager as parent and the parent that dishes out the most discipline (his sister had to move in, so we can assume that the mother did more of the daily work, interactions, discipline. Regarding teenagers that means that the mother is more likely to clash with the teenagers, and is the "bad cop" in those cases. While the more detached parent - or the main breadwinner - stays more out of the daily chaos and can remain the "god cop" (point of view of disciplined children). It is not that easy to undermine an O.K. relationship with a father and teenage daughters, if he has treated them well in the last 12- 14 years. Actually many social workers KNOW that children tend to defend almost instinctively even abusive parents. Think severe sexual or physical abuse, neglect, ... It is not even like those parents need to instruct the abused children, they benefit from the instincts of the children. I know that children ! can be brainwashed, but I find it hard to believe that she started to do that and had success with the teenagers.
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  43.  @hallowedknight507  ahem: you would be surprised about the "expert" assessments that have been dished out in such cases (with 5 minutes evaluation per child, and copy and paste reports). The courts are often under a lot of pressure (a lot of cases, too little time). the judges like to cover their behind by having it "official" so they get the expert reports - never mind how they were created. IF children were indeed brainwashed it would take a looooong time to build trust so that the children would tell. That costs time = money. Rest assured, there are not many resources allocated to that. btw: the mother acting erratic or having a mental illness or personality disorder does not mean that the father is not abusive as well.
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  44. How did he get a weapon ??
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  45.  @juddpalmer5445  life starts when sperm and egg unit - but it is NOT a baby or person. A lot of organisms are alive (bacteria, plants, animal). The zygote, embryo, fetus has he POTENTIAL to become a person. - meaning it should be legal for a woman to end the pregnancy, certainly in the early stage - 3 - 4 months when 90 % of abortions are done anyway. The later abortions are often WANTED pregnancies, so there is a very valid reason why parents and doctors decide to end it.
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  46. Right ! a female officer abducted, killed (and very likely sexually assaulted another female) ... oh wait !
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  47. College students in CT * do not keep the basic safety measures and thow packed parties indoors 0:15 (and infect those students who would cooperate and of course staff). But not to worry it will work better with kindergardeners and kids age 6 - 18. THEY will be conscious of the need to be cautious. All the time. And they have the sinks for all the handwashing for all the students severa times per day ! Or the sanitizers - which parents must buy. Water and soap would only cost the water. And it is not like kids would apply that in a sloppy manner as they have to do it several times a day.... * good to hear they have been evicted.
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  48.  madcheeseknight  The Old Testament condoned abortion (if a man suspected his wife had an affair) the priest would give her a "bitter water" and it would cause her to miscarry if she had cheated on him. So that would be the "proof". Oh and stabbing the women of the enemy into the womb to even kill the unborn.
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  49.  madcheeseknight  it is not a "child" if it is not viable. And it is NOT a "baby" 3 or 4 months into the pregnancy. so it cannot be "killing". And the "unborn LIFE" is not the same as a citizen or as having PERSONHOOD. LIFE can be a lot of things (incl. plants and all living animals, or a virus).
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  50.  @sydb2848  No the (state) governments do not protect "innocent" lives - on the contrary they prosecute even whistleblowing about the abuse of sentient animals. you see - mammals (and much more primitive animals) are also "life" and they are by definition innocent.
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