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donttread
11-04-2014, 04:14 AM
You can certainly make a case for the Tiger or the Elephant but spending millions to save some sub-spieces of darter fish? C'mon man

Common
11-04-2014, 04:30 AM
Scientists always have to do two things. They have to create something sensational to get more funding to keep getting paid and they have a need to get their names in books.

Thats why yesterday they tell you coffee raises your blood pressure and to drink decaf and today they tell you coffee is great for you its an antioxidant.

They have to come up with something new or spectacular all the time to keep getting paid.

decedent
11-04-2014, 04:33 AM
Let it die. Saving it doesn't benefit me, so I don't want my tax money used to save it. If it ain't strong enough to survive our pollution then it deserves to die.

I thought the libs loved Darwin.

Captain Obvious
11-04-2014, 11:03 AM
Max Rockatansky - here is the adjacent to your suggestion that conservatives say murdering unborn babies is wrong but sending our children into war is ok - progressives say killing darter fish is wrong, but slaughtering the innocent unborn is ok.

See, I can do that too.

del
11-04-2014, 11:41 AM
slaughtering lol

Chris
11-04-2014, 11:44 AM
Scientists always have to do two things. They have to create something sensational to get more funding to keep getting paid and they have a need to get their names in books.

Thats why yesterday they tell you coffee raises your blood pressure and to drink decaf and today they tell you coffee is great for you its an antioxidant.

They have to come up with something new or spectacular all the time to keep getting paid.

That's the political media does that, not science, common.

Chris
11-04-2014, 11:49 AM
You can certainly make a case for the Tiger or the Elephant but spending millions to save some sub-spieces of darter fish? C'mon man

Right down the road a piece the city/state were constructing an underpass to relieve a heavy intersection, Hwys 1604 and 151. While digging they discovered a rare, all-but-extinct species of spider that lives in underground gaps in limestone. Project came to a screeching halt. After several years in court, it's been decided to spend millions and millions more to put in an overpass because the spiders are so precious.

But who cares, right, the cost is spread out over taxes paid fractions of pennies at a time.

Chris
11-04-2014, 11:57 AM
See, there's a spider down that hole:

http://i.snag.gy/3igTO.jpg

See Highway project halted by spider can move forward (http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Tangled-no-more-highway-project-halted-by-spider-5802782.php#/1).


And that's $44 million dollars for the overpass. 3 times the cost of the underpass.

Captain Obvious
11-04-2014, 12:53 PM
slaughtering lol

yep

http://counterjihadknight.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/11-weeks.jpg

Max Rockatansky
11-04-2014, 01:03 PM
@Max Rockatansky (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=575) - here is the adjacent to your suggestion that conservatives say murdering unborn babies is wrong but sending our children into war is ok - progressives say killing darter fish is wrong, but slaughtering the innocent unborn is ok.

See, I can do that too.The libs weren't saying killing "darter fish" is wrong. The tree huggers were against extinction of the species as noted in the OP:


You can certainly make a case for the Tiger or the Elephant but spending millions to save some sub-spieces of darter fish? C'mon man

Polecat
11-04-2014, 01:58 PM
Since the demise of the Passenger Pigeon our global ecosystem has started to unravel. It is already too late to halt the inevitable collapse. I'm having a spotted owl sandwich for lunch.

Redrose
11-04-2014, 02:04 PM
You can certainly make a case for the Tiger or the Elephant but spending millions to save some sub-spieces of darter fish? C'mon man

Get the Asians to make it a delicacy and it will be extinct in a year. Then nobody needs to worry about it.

PolWatch
11-04-2014, 02:14 PM
Get the Asians to make it a delicacy and it will be extinct in a year. Then nobody needs to worry about it.

I like the way your brain works...unique solution...that way, problem solved, someone will make $$$ :wink:

donttread
11-04-2014, 07:28 PM
Right down the road a piece the city/state were constructing an underpass to relieve a heavy intersection, Hwys 1604 and 151. While digging they discovered a rare, all-but-extinct species of spider that lives in underground gaps in limestone. Project came to a screeching halt. After several years in court, it's been decided to spend millions and millions more to put in an overpass because the spiders are so precious.

But who cares, right, the cost is spread out over taxes paid fractions of pennies at a time.

Exactly , one type of freakin spider out of thousands. Most tax payers don't particularly like spiders

donttread
11-04-2014, 07:29 PM
Get the Asians to make it a delicacy and it will be extinct in a year. Then nobody needs to worry about it.

Didn't work with "Asian Carp"

del
11-04-2014, 07:31 PM
yep

http://counterjihadknight.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/11-weeks.jpg

:rofl:

is that supposed to move me in some way?

try again

Captain Obvious
11-04-2014, 07:38 PM
:rofl:

is that supposed to move me in some way?

try again

I didn't expect it to TBH.

del
11-04-2014, 07:59 PM
I didn't expect it to TBH.

then why did you bother?

shall i post pics of the wingnuts on your side, foaming at the mouth and screaming obscenities at some scared kid on her way into a clinic?

the kid that used to mow my mother's lawn was shot in an abortion clinic. he had the temerity to escort a friend there.

nice folks

Terminal Lance
11-04-2014, 08:06 PM
It moves me. I think about Gandalf telling Frodo that we should be careful to deal death because we cannot give life back. I think about that a lot, actually. I understand scared, feeling hopeless, and being poor. I don't know that it always justifies a lack of mercy. Someday I will answer to God for my sins and the lives I've taken. I doubt I'll be able to justify them by saying I was just following orders or I was scared of what would happen if I said no.

Abortion is legal in the US, but it's not rare and it is becoming increasingly marketed as a justifiable act of removing extra cells. I just think that we're becoming hard people and our character is being shaped in this debate.

del
11-04-2014, 08:08 PM
can you provide an example of abortion marketing?

Terminal Lance
11-04-2014, 08:22 PM
can you provide an example of abortion marketing?

My sister is a super liberal and when they go to protests they wear the I <3 Abortion and I Had an Abortion tshirts and then the bumper stickers with the scissors. Just stupid. It's one thing to be against it being illegal and another to be all happy about it.

Chris
11-04-2014, 08:38 PM
can you provide an example of abortion marketing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFXnRQl2Hv4

Animal Mother
11-04-2014, 08:40 PM
My sister is a super liberal and when they go to protests they wear the I <3 Abortion and I Had an Abortion tshirts and then the bumper stickers with the scissors. Just stupid. It's one thing to be against it being illegal and another to be all happy about it.

Girls that wear the I Had an Abortion shirts are girls you know you don't have to worry about pulling out with. I love 'em personally. Just tell them your last name is Smith and be done with it.

del
11-04-2014, 08:41 PM
My sister is a super liberal and when they go to protests they wear the I <3 Abortion and I Had an Abortion tshirts and then the bumper stickers with the scissors. Just stupid. It's one thing to be against it being illegal and another to be all happy about it.

yes, it is

thanks

Captain Obvious
11-05-2014, 08:46 AM
then why did you bother?

shall i post pics of the wingnuts on your side, foaming at the mouth and screaming obscenities at some scared kid on her way into a clinic?

the kid that used to mow my mother's lawn was shot in an abortion clinic. he had the temerity to escort a friend there.

nice folks

Well, that's what these forums are for.

Or are you here just for the grilling recipes?

del
11-05-2014, 09:29 AM
Well, that's what these forums are for.

Or are you here just for the grilling recipes?

i'm here to amuse myself

Captain Obvious
11-05-2014, 09:38 AM
i'm here to amuse myself

Are you not amused?

:biglaugh:

Animal Mother
11-05-2014, 09:38 AM
I amuse myself everywhere. I can have fun at the grocery store. I could probably even have fun in an abortion clinic getting numbers. That's how I roll.

I'd be all, "Fuck that fetus, what did it ever do for you? BTW, I have a disease that kills all my sperm. Need a ride home?"

del
11-05-2014, 09:59 AM
Are you not amused?

:biglaugh:

i'm always amused; it's just a question of degree

Alyosha
11-05-2014, 12:23 PM
I disassociated myself with feminism and the feminist movement precisely due to the turn in rhetoric and changing nature of the debate. I got up and walked out of a NOW meeting never to return when they actually strategized on catchy slogans regarding fetuses.

I think the "I love abortion" tshirts are the most disgusting things we have produced as women and the pro-abortion comedy that Lena Dunham proposed to the networks was just that signalling point that we lost the moral high ground on this debate.

As a libertarian I want the government not to be involved, but as a female I think we need to change how we feel about life, our bodies, and children. We've become quite heartless and adopted far too many male traits for my liking.

lynn
11-05-2014, 12:34 PM
It amazes that they want money to save a species but do nothing to solve the real problem which is human overpopulation.

Max Rockatansky
11-05-2014, 03:22 PM
It amazes that they want money to save a species but do nothing to solve the real problem which is human overpopulation.

Solution: Free beer laced with contraceptives.

decedent
11-06-2014, 08:51 AM
My sister is a super liberal and when they go to protests they wear the I <3 Abortion and I Had an Abortion tshirts and then the bumper stickers with the scissors. Just stupid. It's one thing to be against it being illegal and another to be all happy about it.

All the girls are getting an abortion because it's cool. The only way to prevent this is to not let liberals talk about abortion and make it seem okay.

Chloe
11-06-2014, 10:23 AM
All the girls are getting an abortion because it's cool. The only way to prevent this is to not let liberals talk about abortion and make it seem okay.

yeah it's cool. Abortions go great with my new shoes and make all of the other girls around me very jealous. Ugh.

donttread
11-06-2014, 03:10 PM
How in the hell did this thread become about abortion? Christ people, not everything is about abortion.

Chloe
11-06-2014, 03:11 PM
How in the hell did this thread become about abortion? Christ people, not everything is about abortion.

You're right I'm sorry

Captain Obvious
11-06-2014, 03:15 PM
How in the hell did this thread become about abortion? Christ people, not everything is about abortion.

So, who's rooting for the black guy then?

Chris
11-06-2014, 03:17 PM
How in the hell did this thread become about abortion? Christ people, not everything is about abortion.

Well, then, the abortion thread turned to discussion of economics. Tit for tat, I suppose.

PolWatch
11-06-2014, 03:18 PM
aka: went to a fight & a soccer game broke out

donttread
11-06-2014, 06:22 PM
You're right I'm sorry

I don't think you started it