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Well, given your track record on this issue, not at all surprising it doesn't look good to you. However... Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict Small shifts in territorial control matter less than the overall balance of forces, which analysts say could shift back in favor of Ukraine in the coming months The Russian military will soon exhaust its combat capabilities and be forced to bring its offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region to a grinding halt, according to Western intelligence predictions and military experts. “There will come a time when the tiny advances Russia is making become unsustainable in light of the costs and they will need a significant pause to regenerate capability,” said a senior Western official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/25/ukraine-russia-balance-of-forces/

Don't call it a "few cells" because it isn't a few cells? Really. You think it's more sensible to call it Johnny or Sally?

So you're equating killing plants with killing sentient beings? It is to laugh.

Because a man has no right to demand an abortion, then a woman shouldn't either? So, to your way of thinking, it's all about the man. I think jihadists would have no problem with your opinion.

But is it sweet music to your ears when its done by British Christians?

First off, most of us don't have to kill animals or have them killed for us in order to survive. So you chose a badly defective criterion. An "inconvenience" is an extremely condescending way to characterize pregnancy, the birth of a child, and the consequences of that. Get pregnant and give birth and get back to us about whether pregnancy and childbirth qualify as a mere inconvenience..

When a woman has unprotected sex she's declaring that she's choosing to be pregnant? Because sex is all about rationality? Does that go for underage teens who are considered minors under the law?

You'll notice that BangkokReady never defines what level of authority he assigns to the "say" men should have. Register a dissent? Have veto power? Until he does, whatever point he is trying to make remains obscure. And of course, if BangkokReady is arguing for equality, then does the prospective father have a right to back abortion against the wishes of the woman he's impregnated? And what should be the results of his objection? That the woman must submit to an abortion? Until he clarifies with an answer to these questions, he's really saying nothing.

Well, at least not since the early 60's

The question isn't whether he has a say but whether he has an equal say. Or an unequal say if he has the right to a veto. Do you believe that the prospective father should have to right to veto an abortion?

And they were glad why?

You mean what is generally called a fetus?

Condescending much?

Can you explain why Roe v Wade was unconstitutional?

Clearly you don't know that many Red states outlaw the use of the morning after pill for early abortion, And how would a woman know she is pregnant after 1 week?

Tell that to the voters of Blue Wall Tiverton & Honiton and the Red Wall voters of Wakefield. Has it not yet sunk in what happened in those elections? Or do you believe that these 2 constituencies are populated by "metro centric liberals"?

This sounds like second rate PR cr#p. Make that 3rd rate. Nothing of substance in what you wrote.

What was his vision? Tax cuts? He managed to greatly increase the deficit when the economy was already on an upswing. I do remember that he repeatedly promised that he had a health insurance plan that would be better and cheaper than Obama's. Yet somehow never managed to produce it. He gravely mismanaged the covid epidemic. Medical statisticians reckoned his incompetence resulted in about 300,000 unnecessary deaths.

Actually, Amy Coney Barret was raised in a cult called the People of Praise. While nominally Catholic it was really a cult run by a couple who lately have been called out on some questionable practices of theirs. ACB served as a "handmaiden' to the leader of the cult. She stayed with that family while she was attending University and married a fellow cult member. So she has spent virtually all her life surrounded by members of that cult. Not even a stint in a dorm room.

I've read this class of nonsense before. Had another Republican been elected in place of Trump, he would have chosen from the same pool of extreme right wing justices approved of by the Federalist Society. Justices who have consistently sided with corporations and against workers. So much for Trump's love of working class Americans.

I don't think the Russian people are nearly so enthusiastic about attacking Ukraine as Ukrainians are at resisting. In fact, I don't think the Russians are enthusiastic at all. Why else would Putin classify what is clearly a war as a "Special Military Operation"? Of course the Ukrainians are far more motivated. After all, as Putin and company have made very clear, for the Ukrainians this is a battle about the survival of the Ukrainians as a distinct people with a distinct culture.

Your post definitely was unclear and it's probably best for you not to say anymore.

Actually, those are pretty sound numbers because abortions were legal everywhere and could be reported. Before 1973 we don't know how many abortions there were because in so many states they were illegal. I was worried I had been permanently mutilated’: what abortion was like before Roe v Wade https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/abortion-before-roe-v-wade-illegal-ann-hill

And who exactly do you know? Got any names to cite? And were they denying that the rise in CO2 and greenhouse gases levels was largely responsible for the warming? Or were they claiming natural cycles? Or that it was due to solar activity? Because if that what they're still asserting, then they're still asserting B.S.

The nonsense Sparktrader tried to perpetrate is exactly what the warming denialists have been doing for a long time. For example, that record for 1998 that wasn't broken until 2010. 1998 was the year of a hugely powerful El Nino. The ocean released enormous quantities of heat. So what denialists did was take that as their baseline so they could claim that temperatures weren't rising even the there was clearly a continuing upward slope. Of course, since 2010 there have been many years that are warmer than 1998. And those without benefit of an El Nino. As I pointed out above, 2020 was in a virtual tie with 2016 despite the dampening effect of a La Nina that year. In fact, most the denialists have now abandoned that position that there is no warming and that CO2 and other greenhouse gases aren't at least somewhat responsible. Instead they claim that global warming isn't that serious, the we can adapt without incurring much expense, no need to reduce the use of fossil fuels, etc.