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- Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Death row and organ donation
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14257
- Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Death row and organ donation
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14257
For me, the first practical issue that comes to mind here is: regardless of how the state/prosecution and inmate feel about this, wouldn't doctors be foreclosed as a matter of medical ethics from effectively executing the inmate by removing his heart? In general, doctors are forbidden by their fiel...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:24 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Death row and organ donation
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14257
Re: Death row and organ donation
I know that sounds gruesome, but capital punishment IS gruesome, to my mind. Decapitation is surely as quick and painless as a chemical overdose. I am strongly against capital punishment, but I always felt that if we were going to have the death penalty, we should use some method like hanging or be...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:16 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:35 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
Even worse to me than a deal that rewards extortion is the fact that you (and no doubt millions of other Americans) will find it to be a sensible solution. It will ensure that every gov't. funding and every debt ceiling will be used to extort legislative concessions that could not be achieved throu...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:52 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
I suspect that the shutdown will end with a deal that involves budget cuts. What I have heard is that the House has offered as part of a deal to end the shutdown and avoid default to replace the across the board sequester cuts with entitlement cuts that Obama has previously supported, such as raisi...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:31 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
It would be easier if the two political parties could have a dialogue about improving it. But as long as one side is fixating entirely on getting rid of it, it is impossible to even have that conversation. I completely agree. I think it will take a lot of time. But I don't think it will take as lon...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:40 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
Well, I hate to be the Republican wet blanket, here, but this *is* sort of the honeymoon period. ;) People are just signing up right now, and feeling a flood of relief that they can be covered. There will be snags and problems and frustration when it kicks in, and the approval rating might not be s...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:56 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:51 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
Yov, I imagine it's for the same reason that moderate Republicans are remaining mostly quiet on the shutdown, even though there are plenty that would vote on a clean budget. The GOP is fracturing; no one in the party wants to make it worse and risk alienating their more conservative campaign donors....
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:58 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:14 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
Um, yeah, that's pretty ridiculous.....I'm pretty sure not voting on a bill is, you know, like, legal and stuff, correct me if I'm wrong. Exactly. It's frustrating, underhanded, and pretty damn idiotic I would say, but I fail to see how it is in any way treasonous. And reading the excerpt that Eru ...
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 3516
- Views: 766848
Sci-Fi/Fantasy novelist Elizabeth Moon, former Marine, and married to an M.D. feels the Republicans should be arrested for treason for blocking the democratic process. I actually sympathize with her, and certainly agree the shutdown is doing irreparable harm to the GOP's reputation. See...I strongl...
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:56 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Nobels 2012, etc.
- Replies: 197
- Views: 148755
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Toronto Cop Charged With Murder in Shooting of Teen
- Replies: 32
- Views: 29961
Lali, as for the vests, Roger and I used Kevlar ballistic nets for our archery. They look really flimsy, but they were quite capable of stopping even the arrows from Roger's 80 lb. bow. I'm not convinced Kevlar would provide at least some protection against a knife with a 3' blade. For one thing, b...
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 3:17 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Plane crash at San Francisco International Airport
- Replies: 18
- Views: 28954
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:26 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Plane crash at San Francisco International Airport
- Replies: 18
- Views: 28954
I was pretty shocked to see this. Commercial plane crashes are so rare, but they obviously still happen. :( From the initial accounts of a couple passengers who posted on social media, it seemed like most of the passengers were fine. It was horrible to hear about the two confirmed deaths, though. I ...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Same-sex, whole-milk marriage: 50 Shades of Gay
- Replies: 2660
- Views: 628931
And, nel, sorry, but you have to be president first. That's just the way it is. Consider the analogies between yourself and Taft. Oh, my. This could be great fun. :D Getting excited about the indirect effect that these rulings will have on overturning the gay marriage ban in Colorado. There are two...