ARTIST50's Comments (154)

“"If you don't believe then he might not come" is a clever way of phrasing it. If you don't believe, then you accept that he didn't come -- but you still know that the presents were there last year, so it's not really a threat that he won't come this year.”

“It would seem that one of the most difficult times for Christian parents must be that time when they acknowledge that their child’s ability to reason reaches a point that one can no longer expect that they’d believe in an old bearded man living way up North who watches everything they do and decides to reward or punish them on Christmas day based on his judgment of whether they’d been naughty and nice. They then must whisk them off to church where they are told that there is a bearded old man who lives way up in the sky and sees everything they do and decides to reward or punish them on the day they die based on his judgment of whether they’d been naughty or nice. Then the parents have to insist that the second scenario is true, while the first is obviously too fanciful for anyone past the age of 10 to believe. Interesting that the churches use the same fear-mongering ruse as Artist50 to induce compliance…If you don’t believe you might not get your imaginary reward!”

“Oh, it was definitely posed. When Mitt Romney was running for governor in Massachusetts, many of his campaign commercials had him running or jogging in athletic gear or coming out of the water. I guess they were designed to show his active, fresh take on politics.

I highly doubt that those photos would be used if Newsweek were doing a cover story on him.”

“This is an absurd idea, that "it is the woman's body and I don't think any man has the right to tell her what she can do with it."

If a woman is pregnant with my child, why don't I have as much say in the decision as she does? That baby/fetus/blob-of-cells is as much mine as hers, isn't it?

If a woman doesn't want a man telling her what to do with her body, she shouldn't consent to sex with that man. Even the best birth-control is not 100%. Adults understand that.

I think that once you consent to sex with someone, you are in effect consenting to the possibility of getting pregnant. If you don't want the responsibility, don't do the deed! THAT's what I teach my daughter. It's simple, people!”

“That's all good that you have made a decision about what to do in your life. Why do you insist on trying to tell other people what to do with their lives? Freedom in America, check it out.”

“Lost you on your second sentence.”

“I have a little trouble with the whole "rape, incest, life of the mother" thing. I haven't seen much by way of people looking to make those instances illegal. The concept always seems to get dragged into the discussion only by people arguing for abortion. What I do understand is, that as a man many women don't think I should even think about the issue. The flawed logic there involves other issues as well. Can I tell women to shut up when the topic of the draft comes up, after all women cannot be drafted? The reality is that the two sides will not ever come together on the issue.”

“He joined years before 911, when being a muslim was of no particular significance to the army. At the time, he was already a universite graduate with a Bachelor's degree and grades good enough to get him into med school.

The army did pay for his medical training and a further MA, but he had other options for proceding with his education. Joining the army wasn't the easiest or least demanding.”

“I agree. God forbid I am ever on a jury where it is nothing but he said/she said and there is no evidence one way or the other. I would have to find in favor of the defendant. Even if I believed the accuser, justice is about only convicting when guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. In a purely he said/she said situation, I could never convict.

But he admitted to giving her alcohol, drugs, having sex with, and sodomizing her. And she was 13. There is no if and or buts in this situation.”

“It won't!”

“My daughter had symptoms for about a week but she was on tamiflu right away. I don't know how long it would have lasted with no tamiflu. You should call your doctor for their advice just in case. I hope you feel better soon.”

“you shoulnd't hate to admit that. if that's what made you happy, then that's what made you happy. what's wrong with that?”

“I may, indeed.

I am so confounded as to why you cannot understand that I am simply replying to her one-sided post with an equally one-sided post to show how self absorbed it sounds.

It's hurting my head trying to figure out how your's works.”