Posts made by raphjd

I warned of this ages ago and everyone said I was being too negative.

Here's where I do the  "I told you so" dance.

Sadly, there are people that believe gay blood turns you gay.

YES, having a baby is a choice.

To deny the economics of the situation is to deny reality.

We don't live in a moneyless utopia.

Obama doesn't give a shit about us.

Repealing DADT helps less than 10,000 Americans, while ENDA would help millions of Americans.  Repealing DADT is little more than a token gesture.

We also have to remember that Obama supported full gay marriage until he ran for Federal office.  Now he only supports 2nd class citizenship.  Imagine that, a black Jim Crow.

As it is now, the system works the same if the mother wants to put the baby up for adoption or keep it.

Anyway, bringing a baby to full term is a lot more expensive than an abortion, so based on sheer economics, the choice is clear.  Not to mention that a child born into poverty will die in poverty. Class mobility is extremely rare.

The US and UK allow for contractual adoptions (ie surrogates, etc), which would allow for the adopting parents to pay.  However, if you go through the state's adoption process, then that's not an option.

Besides forcing a rape victim to carry the baby (extremely cruel), why should a business have to pay maternity leave so the woman can be forced to give birth to the rape baby?

Who is going to pay the medical bills and the maternity leave to bring the child to full term?

I'm surprised that no one has noticed the poetic irony that this happened in Limerick.

It's not sensationalism as you claim.  Every catholic source bangs (excuse the pun) on and on about procreation/sex and that is the link between the 4 things {gay sex, abortion, contraception and masturbation).  So there is your direct link by your church.  The official church stance is that all sex is only for procreation, thus banning gay sex, abortion, contraception and masturbation.  As a catholic, you should be able to see that link, so I'm confused why you don't get it.

Do you have any concept of how many premature babies survive if they are born before the 24 week mark in a country with good medical care?  Extremely few survive and of those that do, extremely few make it into adulthood and of those, extremely few make it into adulthood semi-functional (meaning they don't have to be fully cared for).

A study that started in 2005 and ended last year said it cost the US $50 Billion (YES, that's with a B) to raise all the 2005 premies to the age of 5, well of those that survived that long.  That's just over $142 for every man, woman and child in the US just for the 2005 premies for those 5 years.  Of course the costs keep building up because many of them have life long health issues that go along with being a premy.  That doesn't even count the cost to businesses due to lost work, etc, etc.  For some reason, I haven't found out what yet, the number of premature babies are increasing by 20% a decade since the 1950s.

In ancient times, kids weren't counted as human until they reached 1yo and not fully human until they reached 7yo.  This was due to the high death rates.  In fact, these people wrote most of your holy text.

So you (you support their stance, despite saying you don't always) and "Right to Life" want to continue to force the woman to suffer the trauma of the rape for another 9 months.  WOW, you people are truly heartless.  Ironically enough, extremely high percentages of "right to life" people also support the death penalty.

Who are the sexists in China?!  It's not the government, but the individual people that decided they didn't want girls.  Even with this personal choice of the people involved, women still make up, on average year to year, 52.8% of the world's population.  Imagine what the number would be like if the Chinese didn't want only boys.

Like MrMazda, I also took a friend to have an abortion and I would do it again for anyone that asked.  Though the circumstances were very different.  She was already disowned by her family for wanting to continue to go to school, her boyfriend dumped her when she told him she was pregnant, etc, etc, etc.  She could barely make ends meet as it was and a baby would have destroyed everything she had struggled for.

Yes, this is a forum to discuss ideas.

Maybe you should have clarified when you might find it acceptable for abortions to take place.

I didn't ignore your concern for the unborn.  I mentioned the UK law about abortion and the reasoning behind it; ie under 24 weeks a fetus can't survive on it's own and in virtually every case won't survive even with the best medical care.

As to your question about why is homosexuality and abortion always linked?  Maybe you should ask your church why that is.  After all, this thread (see thread title) is about church teachings and whether or not people agree with it.

"We're not like other lesbians, going to bars," she explained in a New York Times interview.
"We're lesbians together.  We're homers."

That's a bigoted stereotype of the GLBT community, as most of our gay/lesbian friends don't go to bars.

A few weeks ago, we went to the bar for the first time in nearly 2 years.

Your church hates you because you are gay or at the very least because you have gay sex.  Having sex is a choice, just like abortion.

As for abortion, how dare you tell a rape victim that she must carry the offspring of her rapist.  What about the product of incest?

Even Papa Bush, while President, said he wanted ALL abortions to be illegal (including for rape, incest and health of the mother), but admitted that he would send a family member to another country to have an abortion to side step his ideal anti abortion laws for the US.

The UK allows abortions up to 24 weeks, because a baby born before that is not viable on it's own.  Abortions can be done after 24 weeks if 2 doctors agree it's for the mother's health.

The catholic church only allows sex that creates more catholics.  That is why it hates gay sex and abortions, because neither fills it's coffers and power base.

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Woman dies after dog sex in Limerick

08/07/2011 7:39 am

A 43-year-old woman died after suffering a massive allergic reaction brought on after she had sex with a dog in Limerick.

The woman, a mother of four children, suffered the reaction to the dog’s semen after willingly engaging in sex acts with the Alsatian dog in a house in the Patrickswell area of the county.

The woman passed away in October 2008, shortly after intercourse with the dog, and after a three-year investigation it was confirmed that her death occurred due to an adverse reaction suffered after having sex with the animal.

An ambulance was called to an address in Patickswell at approximately 7.30pm on the night that she died and rushed the woman to the Mid-Western Hospital, where she passed away shortly after 8pm.

A source told The Star last night that the unfortunate woman involved came in contact with a man who provided the dog on an internet chatroom.

“Both these people would have been visiting bestiality websites and at some stage it appears they agreed to meet up for sex,” the source said.

“The Alsatian then entered the picture and it appears that intercourse took place between the lady in question and the dog on the night that she died.”

The source confirmed that Gardai who had examined the scene seized an Alsation dog that has been kept in quarantine ever since.

Disturbingly, the source added that the dog “appeared to have been groomed” to have sex with women.

“This was a particularly bizarre and upsetting course,” said the source.

“It genuinely was a shocker…you think you’ve seen it all but then something like this comes along and you’re left scratching your head all over again.”

The "Rating" is "3.3 out of 5 with 3 vote(s) total"
3 votes!  Is that a representative sample?
The 5 "Comments" are mostly negative.
But 35 people chose to thank me and gave me 207 seedbonus points.
I'd like to direct raphjd's attention to the comment from almaral:
"After watching the movie I decided to give more seeds bonus."

The fact that someone came back after watching the video and gave you more SB, is an extremely rare thing.

I'm willing to bet that 34, probably all 35, of those thank you's came at the same time they started downloading, not after watching the videos.  And with the exception of Almaral's 2nd set of SB, I'm willing to bet that all the SB you got was at the time of download, not after watching the video.

I prefer some of the pictures in the Site Feature Request thread that started this all, but I think they are too low res for our needs.  :blownose:

I prefer the lettering of 4 and 5 of the ones we can choose from here.

Thanking an uploader by giving points and using the Thank You button DO NOT indicate if the file is good or not, just that people thanked the uploader for posting the file.  99.99999999999% of all that takes place the second they decide to download the file.

The star rating and, mainly, the comment section are used once the person has looked at the file.

That is what I have seen over the last 4 years on the job here and many more years on other torrent sites.

The porn industry backed HDdvd in that battle a few years back.  Only the Japanese porn industry backed Blu-ray.

Sony isn't exactly friendly to the idea of porn being on it's discs.  While the don't ban porn from using it's discs, they aren't making it easier; ie no bulk discounts, etc.

Another thing to consider is that in 1080p, imagine how many ass pimples we are gonna see.

The thread should have been locked and left alone so it would fall off the face of the earth into the death thread abyss.

EDIT:  I edited that thread so you can see how it should have been handled.

Well, he deleted his account.  Oh well.

People shouldn't get upset over a single PM.  If they have a problem with someone else, instead of naming and shaming, they need to contact a member of staff.