In all the above situations, without an abortion, guess what happens to the fetus? If it’s not already dead, it will die. And yes, those people will say it was God’s will. (God’s actually a big supporter of abortion, He kills 25% of conceived fetuses, not to mention the babies he kills after birth.) But they shouldn’t get to call themselves “pro-life.” They’re ghouls. And the hypocrites would “get essential treatment” for themselves or their own daughter and walk out of the hospital to protest and deny the same treatment to other people’s daughters.

I know logic will never change them, but supporting and increasing the numbers of people in red areas who support the right to bodily autonomy will help convince politicians who care more about political clout than any ideals.

How about both? You don’t need to deny or dismiss any other valid supporting point in order to drive your point home. Every unnecessary death is wrong. An increase in unnecessary deaths is wrong. It’s terrible en masse, and each one is completely unforgivable.

Often they’re sad he didn’t realize he had a bright future ahead. Fortunately, you do. Or if you didn’t, you do now. You can’t judge your life by how it is now. Especially with the world in shitty shape generally. But mostly because you’re young. Regrets for your wasted promise are a privilege reserved for old farts like myself. You still have choices to make, and time for them to play out. Choose as well as you can. And don’t be afraid to change directions as necessary.

Awwww! Take your time with acclimating the kitties. You’re doing it right with the feeding by the door. Brush them both with the same brush so they share fur back and forth and start to smell familiar to each other before they meet. We had good success with a Feliway Multicat plugin, if it fits your budget.

Oh that’s cool. The condors at my local zoo (Los Angeles) aren’t visible to the public, because they’re being raised no-contact for release into the wild, but they had 10 chicks last year.

Supposed to rain today in Laguna Beach which makes this even stupider

In that weather a general strike is more sane than a march. It will also be harder for police/ICE to disrupt, what are they gonna run house to house ordering people to work? Every food venue should be closed, and especially anywhere they’re staying should have no employees that day. These are the guys who kidnapped the men who had just made and served them Mexican food.

I taught 3rd grade in the US, where kids are expected to have their printing correct and start to learn cursive. I’d say your writing is very neat and readable. It has some differences that most US adults develop when they’ve gotten used to cursive and then need to use printing. So nobody is going to have any trouble with reading this.

For instance, when little kids print, or US teachers teach it, the straight line on their e is horizontal. The stems on their a and m are straight and well-defined. Their v has a sharp point. Their f is tall, with a strong top hook and nothing below the sitting line. Their y and x made from two straight diagonal lines. And there’s no slant. But after writing in cursive for awhile, many adults form their printing similarly to you.

The only thing I’d suggest you change is to make the top part of the f stronger and more hooked. That’s the one letter that might cause confusion, even though your t has a tail to differentiate it. Your assignment doesn’t include a q, but I suggest you be sure to curve or point its tail below the line in the opposite direction from the tail on your g.

All in all, well done.

poke poke poke

“Here I stand”

Dude, there’s your problem

Having reread it a few times I think it’s a typo for car. Although such a misadventure could easily cause a person to be late returning to the vet to pick up their cat, having gone to get gas while a procedure was in progress.

However, here’s the first “Maru and boxes” video, because you deserve a little nostalgic joy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ

Sadly, Maru died last September but he had a long and happy life with lots of love.

Everybody say MEOW!

Epstein Island 2, Electric Boogaloo

Do it.

I’m one of the ones who did vote against him but I live in Los Angeles. In LA County, 2.4 million voted for Harris, 1.2 million voted for Trump, and 1.9 million didn’t vote. (45 thousand voted for RFK, Stein or other fringe candidates.)

A million of those non-voters could have all voted one way, EITHER way, without changing the results. So what “tacit support” are you talking about?

The entirety of California’e electoral votes went to Harris. But the electoral college is unbalanced,

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/electoral-college-states-representation/

so our candidate got 9 fewer electoral votes than she would have if it were fair. And even if all 1.9 million Los Angeles non-voters had voted for her it wouldn’t have changed a thing.

Should they have voted anyway? Yes, if only because of the local elections and propositions they could have had a voice in.

And California is one of the easiest, most vote-supportive states, which mails a vote-by-mail ballot and supplemental information packets to every registered voter.

But if someone didn’t, I’m not going to ascribe some kind of blame or “tacit support” label to them instead of hearing their individual situation.

Yeah that’s why I chose Miriam Adelson rather than Melinda Gates. Noem would be fine with me too. Even though she’s not listed among “female billionaires,” she’s still very much a parasite.

Yes I think Jumbie mistyped, “anti-immigration” is correct for the right-wingers, or as I call them the Wrong Wing.

The only way they could be called “pro-Immigration” is if you’re using “Immigration” as a short name for ICE and US Border Patrol and Dept of Homeland Security together in general. As we in Los Angeles sometimes call them “la migra”. Because although they have different jurisdictions, undocumented people have to run/hide from all of them.

He’s never thought purely of anything, especially not Peace.

Correction: he’s always thought purely (as in only and exclusively) about “what’s in it for ME?” even when the motivation was impure in every way.

Yeah Alice Walton and/or Miriam Adelson if they want to include some women.

Some man who enlisted in the Marines as a typist-stenographer, now on his way to the front: “Shit.”