yeah, this never happened.
Wanna bet?
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-meth-fills-hospitals-burn-patients-081130895.html
The NatGeo channel has a program about meth where they visit the burn unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Tennessee, which is mentioned in that story, and a doctor said that this hospital gives away $300 million in charity care every year just to this population. :eek: :smack: :mad:
Earlier in this thread, I stated that I believe that many, if not most, of those incidents of babies being left to die in a hot car are not accidents. There’s a story out of O’Fallon, Illinois that probably WAS murder. The mother came home from work to find her 23-month-old son dead in his carseat, in the driveway. His father was passed out drunk in the house.
:eek:
He’s been charged with involuntary manslaughter, but I bet it gets upgraded in time to first degree murder.
I know that this is a sidetrack, but why would anyone be aborting at 8 months anyway ( unless for health reasons )? Many, many people want to adopt.
Anyway, now that the morning after pill is available to anyone, abortion should hopefully become irrelevant. I hope it is free.
Lets add people that smoke, obese people, people that ride bikes without helmets ( head injuries ), etc etc to that list. Where does it stop?
I worked in a NICU, we dealt with babies as young as 24 weeks.
It’s often a bad outcome, but there can be good outcomes as well, I saw it happen.
But insurance was never, ever, a factor.
Always, the decision to extend care or withdraw it was ultimately up to the family.
Doctors would present the likely outcomes, and then we would follow the wishes of the family.
Sometimes, families made the wrong choice, in the eyes of the staff. There are worse things than dying.
But we always followed their wishes the best we could, providing care in hopeless cases.
(Insurance can come into play in regards to options for the family after the baby is discharged from intensive care.
But that’s after they live long enough to be discharged from the unit.)
You can’t be serious.
Abortion should be legal through all 9 months. This isn’t a troll, I really believe that.
There are about 1M too many laws.
Americans should be able to opt out of SS and welfare programs… In exchange for not having to pay into them, I’ll sign something revoking my right to ever draw from them.
I believe in a consumption tax (in lieu of all other taxes) that produces an annual dollar amount. Our government should be small enough to LIVE off that dollar amount - whatever it is - and should not attempt to raise MORE dollars to fund a bigger gov.
I believe law enforcement/cops now function solely as income generators.
I should be able to have as many guns as I like, of any kind, and have to register nothing.
I believe property taxes are contrary to an ownership society. If the gov can take it away from you for not paying taxes on it, then you do not own it. You are a glorified renter with some rights.
I despise HOAs.
I know that buzzed driving is not drunk driving.
I wish MADD would go away. They are out of control.
Oh, I also think people should home school their children or STFU. You get what you pay for… a public education costs $10K per kid, per year. To cover expense, corners are cut and so forth… Your kids are taught the public education system’s view on origins, morality, life, society, and decency… FOR EIGHT HOURS A DAY. If you do not like that, home school.
Personally, I would never cast my prodigy off to the bowels of the public school system to be treated like chattle… Our most prized possession? The future? If your kids are THAT important (I doubt they are) then put some effort into what you do with them FOR EIGHT HOURS A DAY???
I’ve done the math. 10 families would have to pay $416/month to get an accredited teacher for $50K/year to privately home school their children…
From a thread in GD:
Libertarianism is unpopular, right? I believe in self-ownership, but I disagree with the ideas of many libertarians regarding the regulation of companies (who prefer little to no regulation).
Can’t stand hardcore porn.
(Sorry, I can’t append my previous post)
I do not consider OoT the best game ever. It’s not even in my top ten. Also, as much as many people would like to deny it, graphics absolutely *do *matter when calculating the quality of a game.
I shouldn’t be forced to wear a seatbelt, and I wouldn’t mind beating the fuck out of the people responsible for “click it or ticket” laws in the US.
I was thinking, “I’m not conflicted about abortion,” then I realized that while I am 100% in support of every woman’s right to choose, I don’t want an abortion for myself. I guess that is indeed conflicted. 
It’s not simple because being pregnant and growing another human being in your body is like no other circumstance.
I’m not sure where the line should be drawn (and it might be on a case-by-case basis), but I agree with that. Some babies just don’t make it, and a pre-term baby that will only survive with massive intervention and will be almost guaranteed to have very little quality of life if they do survive is one of the unfortunates who didn’t make it.
I saw a very unfortunate family in a documentary about premature babies who had not been informed about what would happen to their baby if they did extreme intervention to save it; the child had massive disabilities, and the parents were not told that this would happen. They would have chosen to not intervene if they had had better information. It was a very sad story.
We had a thread a couple of years ago about a county where people had to opt into a fire fighting program, and a family that hadn’t paid for fire services had the fire department come out to save the houses on either side of them, but let their house burn to the ground. There will always be those who don’t want to pay for services, but want the services anyway once it comes down to crunch time.
I find pubic hair on a woman sexy, I do not like the appearance of completely hairless crotch.
It looks like the pudenda has cancer and is getting chemo, plus when the shaved hair is growing back in it makes foreplay hard and demands going straight to penetration. Nothing kills the mood more than what feels like running your dick over a porcupine.
There I said it, and yes I know my opinion is unpopular!:eek:
It’ll never happen because the whole point of those programs is to be progressive- take money from rich people who’ll probably never need the programs, and give it to the poor people who could never fund the programs.
Pretty much true; that’s the theory behind eminent domain.
You’d be surprised; people who insist they feel perfectly sober can show diminished coordination after just a few drinks.
A libertarianism with no regulation of industries would have to be paired with a libertarianism that didn’t provide boards of directors with police protection. 
Emergency response services are in no way the same thing as entitlement programs … For one example, there is no alternative. I could not chose to opt out of local fire and police to opt into private fire and police. Also, if my house is burning, the local fire and police are supposed to show up… They don’t really have the option not to. SS on the other hand… there are several ways you may never realize your SS dollars.
Furthermore, one could argue that emergency response services require the cooperation of a group of people and thusly must be provided by the gov using tax dollars…
However, it is NOT the government’s responsibility or business to provide retirement funds or welfare funds to the people. What’s next, the gov provides babysitting services - oh wait, they already do that? People rely on the gov way too much for their personal needs… The gov is not supposed to be a babysitter, it’s not a financial planner, it’s job is not to social engineer or “even the score”. If you ask me, the gov should focus on infrastructure and protecting our borders.
With SS, there are other options to fund my own retirement. I put $800/month into my 401K. That’s 17% of my gross income. I put another couple of hundred into my IRAs (I have both a traditional and a Roth).
Between myself and my employer, $500/month is paid into the SS fund on my behalf.
Here is what is unfair: If I could funnel that $500/month of the MONEY THAT I EARNED into my own 401K, I could have at least $1M more dollars when I retire… This is far more than I would ever get back from SS. In fact, I may never get anything back from SS at all. I’m only 32, SS may not even be around in 33 more years and if it is, I probably won’t get 100% of my benefits. If I die before retirement unmarried and childless then all the money I paid into SS my entire life stays in the fund and I never get one dime! My $1M dollars are just GONE, like a fart in the wind… “Thank you for your prudence in planning for your own retirement lady, in response we’re going to give ALL your money away to people who refused to plan at all.”
Basically, I’m shoring up the retirement shortfalls of others - to my own detriment. I may have a catastrophic life event or illness and may NEED my $1M in retirement dollars… TOO BAD, I must give that money to the gov so they can dole it out as THEY see fit.
People, please plan for your own retirement and/or disability and I will plan for mine!
Fool of a Took!
Those opinions are not in conflict. Choosing against abortion for yourself is not taking anyway any other woman’s ability to choose.
Hear, hear, Skald. I wish this wasn’t an issue for people, since it clouds the main argument.
How do you know what running your dick across a porcupine feels like?
Shesh! Is it seriously that hard for you city folk to find an unwatched sheep?