Posts made by cteavin

@raphjd:

Women have 100% of the say in if the baby lives, so they have ALL the power.  Women quite often use children as a weapon against a man.  If a man wants to have the kid, the woman aborts or goes to Canada and puts it up for adoption.   If the man wants to abort, the woman keeps the kid so she can keep her claws in the man for 18-21 years.   Let's not forget all those gold diggers that screw celebs and rich men to get that monthly check.

I've never heard this argument put this way. I have to think about it.

But what do you think of what appears to be a contradiction, stressing independence and freedom while enforcing religious objections to sex, fertility, sexual orientation?

Laughing. I get the giggles easily. It's happened before…

@spam17:

@detroiticus:

Do anonymous hookups still happen in public parks, toilets, and the traditional places that people used to look for quick, casual encounters?

I am pretty sure they do!

I'd think you wouldn't be so uncertain.  ::)

@spam17:

Are there really more bottoms than tops in the world?

What do you think?

;D

When I was young all I could do is go boxing. Now that I'm older all I do is swordfight.  :blond:

@spam17:

@hypir:

@cteavin:

I'm all for cloning Justin Trudeux so that we can all of a piece of that beautiful man but annexing or joining Canada to our imperfect union? Wouldn't work. Our cultures and history are too different. For one, the race problem is 180 degrees different in Canada and in this present moment, all the problems that have come from our history of slavery and Jin Crow are still defining the US.

Canada also has race problems; primarily against indigenous populations but anti-black and nationalists sentiments exist as well.

Besides, while Canada is a sovereign nation, it still remains part of the British Commonwealth as a Commonwealth Realm and member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Canada has a governor general and Queen Elizabeth II is officially listed as their monarch. Same goes for Australia and our other neighbors the Bahamas, Barbados, and Jamaica.

The United States would either have to annex Canada, as proposed in 1866, or enter into an open boarder and trade agreement with all of the British Realm. I don't see either happening.

No two nations, though, in the whole world are as integrated, economically and socially, as the United States and Canada..

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If you look closely around the great lakes region, you can see Canada topping the US. Whose the bitch, now?

@spam17:

The drug combination fenfluramine/phentermine, usually called fen-phen, was an anti-obesity treatment that utilized two anorectics.

Fenfluramine was marketed by American Home Products (later known as Wyeth) as Pondimin, but was shown to cause potentially fatal pulmonary hypertension and heart valve problems, which eventually led to its withdrawal and legal damages of over $13 billion!

>:D

Look at YOU posting more than emoticons!  ::)    :clap2:

@spam17:

A shape butt is always promising..  :love:

Living in a state of USA or in a country of EU?

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Living? The EU. Hmm, I wonder what life would be like in Poland…

Living in a spacious apartment/condo or a spacious house?

This meme has potential.

This made me laugh.

@Frederick:

I was going to post that meme here!

The version I found said "We used to rule one third of the World.. now WE are ruled by third world countries!"

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Beethoven's 6th (Pastoral) Symphony: A beautiful way to start the day.

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@Frederick:

@cteavin:

From a Facebook conversation I've been having.

"How can we agree on funding for public programs when the GOP insists that we don’t have enough money to fund them? How can they seriously believe there’s no money? There is money, we just spend much of it on the US military and tax breaks for corporations and the rich. Now, if we agreed on how much money goes to the Pentagon and tax breaks vs. food stamps and other forms of welfare, we maybe figure out something, BUT…"

That question is too broad.   What public program is not getting enough money?  It sounds to me like someone is bitching that they are not getting their abortion program funded.

You're not far off.

In general, you're not far off. The gist of that conversation is that literally everything else will be cut but the military budget only ever grows.

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

Women do have the freedom to choose whether or not to have children.  It's called keeping their legs together.  Here's one idea… to qualify for a taxpayer subsidized abortion, the woman must consent to have their tubes tied.

You're saying that women should take responsibility for getting pregnant. By a very large degree, I agree with you but the opposing view is that men have too much power in deciding when a woman should have sex (which is why we have all this conversation on consent and rape, atm). Here's where I disagree with you, the man also has responsibility. I'd say it's 50/50.

Look up kabedon (it's hard to explain). Women love this. They often say something which translated means the man is being the man. This is what Western women talk about in that the power is different.

@detroiticus:

Ho old was your first sexual experience?

Which experience?

First masturbation? First group masturbation? First oral, anal, heavy petting? With gay men that question is harder than with women.

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

I like to debate/argue. This is part of an argument from my wall. Thoughts, comments, differnet point of view?

"How can we come to any resolution on unwanted pregnancies, abortion, and women’s healthcare funding when our opponents also oppose sex ed in school and access to birth control (the most effective means for preventing abortions)?"

If I was a woman, I would be highly pissed that "women's healthcare funding" gets hijacked by the abortion people.  That was a huge scandal a few years ago when it was revealed that the money that was being raised to fight breast cancer was actually being used to fund planned parenthood.

Sex education basically focuses on getting guys to wear condoms for various reasons.  The problem with that is,  people who use condoms don't use them consistently or properly.   There are a staggering number of pregnancies resulting from girls lying about using birth control or condoms either not being used - or being pricked with a pin to result in a pregnancy which will either force a relationship or a trip to an abortion clinic.    Schools are not competent to be teaching sex ed.   Here's an idea for sex ed.. supply porn to guys so that they have something to jack off with instead of bothering with females.  Supply dildos, ohmibods, and lovense products to both males and females to reduce the humping.

If your sex ed classes said just that, they were not on par with what I got in Los Angeles. We learned about all forms of birth control. We were also divided, by sex, into a special auditorium and shown a video of the male and female anatomy and a live birth.

Actually, if you look at the statistics you'll see a correlation between in the discussion of birth control, sex ed in school, The Pill and unwanted pregnancies to the crime rate. The number of unwanted pregnancies is way down from, say, the 50's and with fewer people growing up in orphanages, fewer young families living in poverty the crime rate took a nose dive.

Here in Japan birth control is largely seen as the man's responsibility. Condom sales are robust. The number of women on The Pill is in the low single digits and sex ed is taught in Jr. high school.

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

I like to discuss/argue. This comes from a friend on my FB feed.

Thoughts?

• How can we have a constructive conversation about our energy policy when the Right doesn’t believe that human use of fossil fuels is causing climate change?

• Many liberals are willing to compromise on fossil fuels for the sake of more jobs, energy independence, and/or because pipelines are safer for oil transport than the trucks and trains we’re using now. But conservatives refuse to compromise on anything.

The amazing thing about the climate is how LITTLE it changes.  While using fossil fuels do significantly affect pollution, it does not have any significant affect upon the climate.  Solar power is not a viable source of power.  Try to find an anti-fossil fuel liberal who gives up their car.  The only viable alternative to fossil fuels is nuclear power, and the liberals are even more against that.   Liberals are full of complaints, with no solutions.  Solar power is so absurd, that the energy used to make the solar panels combined with the cost of purchasing and maintaining them makes them a less than worthless option.

Ah, by substituting liberal for moonbats your meaning has become clear.

Your first statement says fossil fuels do not have any significant effect on climate. What do you say to the 99% of professional scientists and researchers who use data to say otherwise?

Liberals (and some conservatives) have not given up their cars en mass but they have pushed forth legislation phasing out gasoline-powered automobiles forcing car companies to come up with greener alternatives.

The environmental costs in making nuclear power plants is exponentially more damaging to the environmental costs that the pollution costs in making the solar panels. Over time, the carbon footprint from manufacturing solar panels decreases while the waste from nuclear power plants multiplies over time. (Footnote: There is an isotope that is far safer than the current fuels being used but the technology is already in place for the other type.)

I belong to a few closed groups on Facebook. In response to gun control, two people posted these memes which lead to a vibrant debate. To stimulate some discussion I bring them here.


I saw Dunkirk tonight in IMAX 2D.

Honestly, I didn't enjoy it. The opening sequence was riveting – the use of music, masterful, but, I dunno, (spoilers) it took me a few minutes to realize that the three events were happening out of sequence in time. That and with the bland color palette, it was difficult to distinguish the main players (which might have been the point). There was a build up to that final moment yet I didn't even know the character's names.

It was a beautifully made film worth watching on the IMAX.

7/10

Again, from a Facebook conversation I've been having. Thoughts? Answers? Insight?

"Why do conservatives keep talking about how much they value freedom but refuse to accept women’s freedom to choose whether or not to have children, LGBT people’s freedom to love who they love and be who they are, workers’ rights to unionize, and people of color’s freedom to not be arrested, jailed, and/or murdered without due process?

"Why do so many on the Right resent the government for encroaching on individual rights…yet they’re fine with the monopolistic invasiveness of huge global corporations?"

From a Facebook conversation I've been having.

"How can we agree on funding for public programs when the GOP insists that we don’t have enough money to fund them? How can they seriously believe there’s no money? There is money, we just spend much of it on the US military and tax breaks for corporations and the rich. Now, if we agreed on how much money goes to the Pentagon and tax breaks vs. food stamps and other forms of welfare, we maybe figure out something, BUT…"