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Debate the abortion issue here.

THX 1138



Most abortions are had due to the irresponsibility of the parents involved. If they didn't have the option to kill the child maybe they would be more responsible.

So, you'd really want to force someone to be a parent that would in all reality, rather kill that child?

Apparently JT's motto is: Since there aren't enough people to adopt just kill the child.

Nice Jethro. Very intelligent rebuttal, Justice Jethro.

I guess this makes your motto: "Adopt, don't abort, except for me, cuz I can't afford it, and I only really care when it doesn't cost ME anything or cause ME any personal pain or suffering"

You really are a Liberal, aren't you Jethro?

How about a real solution to the abortion problem?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:11 PM Permalink
ares

You really are a Liberal, aren't you Jethro?

jt, a little warning would have been nice :)

:: cleaning more coke off of keyboard and monitor; trying to find something for the sinus pain caused by the carbonic acid flowing through them ::

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:12 PM Permalink
THX 1138



Sorry Ares

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:18 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

you mean like before roe v. wade was decided? i'm sure there was a lot more responsibility back then.

My guess is that they were more responsible. My guess is that they didn't abort as many as they do today. You made the statement that they weren't more responsible so in in JT's words: PROVE IT!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:32 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

you mean like before roe v. wade was decided? i'm sure there was a lot more responsibility back then.

My guess is that they were more responsible. My guess is that they didn't abort as many as they do today. You made the statement that they weren't more responsible so in in JT's words: PROVE IT!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:32 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

The solution to abortion is to ban it. It won't end completly but it will be reduced.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:34 PM Permalink
ares

your guess? wasn't the 60s (albeit many years before my time) a decade when sex flowed like water????

PROVE IT!

you mean like how you prove things? i'd love to except i can't think of a question to ask in response.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:35 PM Permalink
THX 1138



The solution to abortion is to ban it. It won't end completly but it will be reduced.

You mean like banning drugs has decreased it's use? Or how banning alcohol during prohibition decreased it's use?

It's laughable.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:44 PM Permalink
THX 1138



Jethro, by your own definition would you consider yourself a Christian?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 12:53 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

You mean like banning drugs has decreased it's use? I believe the use of illegal drugs is less than it would be if they were made legal.Or how banning alcohol during prohibition decreased it's use? It most certainly did decrease the use of alcohol. I posted a link that established that fact. You either missed it or ignored it. The fact is Prohibition did reduce the amount of alcohil consumed.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:08 PM Permalink
ares

and what was the price we paid for a reduction in the amount of alcohol consumed?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:11 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

It might have cut back on the beer drinking.

That supposed to be good or something?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:13 PM Permalink
THX 1138



It most certainly did decrease the use of alcohol.

You need to recheck your facts. Alcohol consumption only decreased at first but then increased as time went on.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:13 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

Obviously you think there was a price paid, ares. I don't think you can compare killing an unborn child with having a drink. Other than the fact that having a drink can result in an unborn child!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:14 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

No you are wrong, JT.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:15 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

When they start telling me I can't have a beer at the end of the day is when I start getting political.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:17 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

Statistics show that Prohibition reduced the annual per capita consumption from 9.8 liters (2.6 gallons) of absolute alcohol during the period before state laws were effective (1906-1910) to 3.7 liters (0.97 gallons) after Prohibition (1934). Moreover, no striking statistical evidence of a crime wave during the 1920s exists, although the crime rate did rise.

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=033A3000

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:17 PM Permalink
ares

nice to see you have no idea what i'm talking about jethro. perhaps you should go read a little more history. please class, no sharing, jethro needs to figure this one out on his own.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:18 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

Whoa, you'd see this dude on one righteous cause....

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:19 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

I don't know why anyone would talk about the upside of Prohibition.

Gotta be crazy or something.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:21 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

"ALCOHOL PROHIBITION WAS A FAILURE"

He sure got that right.

Don't need to read any further, there.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:23 PM Permalink
THX 1138



LOL!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:25 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

If you look at in terms in reduced consumption it was a success.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:27 PM Permalink
My Dalliance

having a drink can result in an unborn child!

And I thought it was having sex....

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:28 PM Permalink
ares

so the only goal of prohibition was to reduce alcohol consumption?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:29 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

are you dense, dal?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:30 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

"If you look at in terms in reduced consumption it was a success."

Flawed reasoning, jethro.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:30 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

what, lundstrom?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:30 PM Permalink
Frosti

The era inspired an extensive body of colorful literature, most of it alleging that the period was one of moral decay and social disorder precisely because of "Volsteadism," which came to mean the intolerable searches, seizures, and shootings by police who, with their token enforcement, seemed to threaten intrusion into the private lives of law-respecting persons. It also alleged that Prohibition distorted the role of alcohol in American life, causing people to drink more rather than less; that it promoted disrespect for the law; that it generated a wave of organized criminal activity, during which the bootlegger (one who sold liquor illegally), the "speakeasy" (an illegal saloon), and the gangster became popular institutions; and that the profits available to criminals from illegal alcohol corrupted almost every level of government.

See any parallels to the current "drug war"?

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:31 PM Permalink
ares

jethro: having a drink can result in an unborn child!

dal: And I thought it was having sex....

coincidentally, dal, given about 9 months, having sex can also result in a born child.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:32 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

Ain't gonna be no war on beer.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:32 PM Permalink
My Dalliance

Dal: And I thought it was having sex....

Jethro: are you dense, dal?

I'm not the one who said having a drink can result in an unborn child....

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:33 PM Permalink
My Dalliance

having sex can also result in a born child.

Ah, yes. But now the question becomes: can having a drink result in a born child???

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:36 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

How many children were conceived because of drink? If it ain't true you better tell all those guys because they are waisting their booze on the girls.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:42 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

Because the Congress and the state legislatures, however, were reluctant to appropriate enough money for more than token enforcement—and because the opportunities for disregarding the law through smuggling, distilling, fermenting, and brewing were legion—Prohibition always represented more of an ideal than a reality.

This confirms what what I suspected. Many people are getting their history from the movies.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:44 PM Permalink
THX 1138



If it ain't true you better tell all those guys because they are waisting their booze on the girls.

Unlike what your Mother told you, getting girls drunk first isn't a requirement.

Well, not for most of us anyway.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:45 PM Permalink
My Dalliance

ZINGER!!!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:46 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

Hey I guard my booze zealously. i ain't given any to the ladies or anyone else!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:48 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

It is amazing what a liberal can believe. Zinger? Hardly!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:48 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

"Prohibition always represented more of an ideal than a reality."

It represented insanity is what it did.

Always.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:50 PM Permalink
THX 1138



Hey I guard my booze zealously. i ain't given any to the ladies!

Yeah, Liberals are that way with liqour and with the ladies.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:50 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

I doubt if Ted Kennedy is that way!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:50 PM Permalink
THX 1138



I doubt if Ted Kennedy is that way!

Good one Jethro.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:52 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

I'm not saying conservatives can't be loved, but I bet it's difficult.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:53 PM Permalink
THX 1138



I'm not saying conservatives can't be loved, but I bet it's difficult.

Hey!

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:58 PM Permalink
My Dalliance

I'm not saying conservatives can't be loved, but I bet it's diffucult

According to Jethro, there has to be a lot of liquor involved.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:58 PM Permalink
THX 1138



Post of the day:
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Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:59 PM Permalink
jethro bodine

Especially by the like of you, Lundstrom.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 2:59 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

I don't think anyone can go into a relationship with a conservative stone cold sober.

Mon, 03/11/2002 - 3:00 PM Permalink