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John H. October 11th 07 06:18 PM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:06:48 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:59:59 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:33:04 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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There are other reasons a woman might not get treatment for a
few
days.
If
you're not aware of this....you know why.


Now you're making your population *very* small. Maybe sex
education
in
school should tell females to get treatment as soon as
possible
after
the
rape.

Considering that a girl could have a father like you, it's no
surprise
that
she might wait before dealing with the results of rape.


If either of my daughters had been raped, I would have supported
their
taking the morning-after pill as soon as possible.

Perhaps you could explain the necessity of your derogatory
comments?
Have
I
called you names, put down your fathering abilities, questioned
your
manhood? Why do you find it necessary to make a personal attack
in
every
post?

Search for your last 100 messages and read them. That should
answer
your
question.


I cannot find one instance wherein I've called you anything. I may
have
found your arguments specious, your name-calling remarkable, and
your
demeanor nauseating, but I've called you no names that I could
find.

I never said you called me names. I explained that many of your
messages
contain a reason for you being called names. Matter of fact, some of
them
can be considered an explicit request for mistreatment.


So my commenting on your specious arguments, your name-calling,
and/or
your
nauseating demeanor, or my not answering 'loaded' questions are
reasons
to
call me names. And you seem to share the name calling with others in
the
group, so I don't feel too badly.

How about your ugly habit of whining about off topic posts, and within
minutes, posting your own off topic messages as you see fit?


I don't recall your definition of 'sot'. Did you provide one, using
the
same criteria you desire for 'socialism'?

"


I whine about your political trolls which are well known to cause
conflict.
Live with it, as you seem not to have the courage to test your mettle
in
a
political forum.

I will assume that a dictionary definition of socialism should do for
you.
The next time somebody uses the word, and you ask for the definition,
I'll
be sure to respond with, "You have a dictionary. Use it."

You forgot to look up "sot".


Except in your mind, I've not imbibed alcoholic beverages for almost 20
years now. So, I'm guessing you've made up your own definition.

And, that's OK! :)

Well, then there must be some other explanation for some of your childish
messages. See your doctor.


I'm getting my neck operation on the 29th of November. That OK?

Doug, yesterday you got royally dumped on by just about everyone in the
group. Shouldn't you take a day or two off?


If you take off two days, I'll take off one.


OK, 29 and 30 November. Now which day will we not see your lovely attitude
around here.

Tim October 11th 07 06:20 PM

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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

Uh oh. Can you cook?


Deffinately. I do most of the cooking at our house anyhow.

After being married 19 yrs, no one in my family has died from it yet,
so evidenty it works.

?:


John H. October 11th 07 06:27 PM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:22:56 -0400, HK wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:03:01 -0700, Tim wrote:

John H. wrote:
I'm getting my neck operation on the 29th of November. That OK?

it's OK with me, thats also my birthday.

Hope all goes well with you, John. and hope the surgery and recovery
is smooth.


The doctor says no golf for *four* months! Crap!



Neck operation? What did you do to yourself?


Degenerative disc disease. This explains it all:

http://tinyurl.com/2vzzry



JoeSpareBedroom October 11th 07 06:47 PM

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"Tim" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

Uh oh. Can you cook?


Deffinately. I do most of the cooking at our house anyhow.

After being married 19 yrs, no one in my family has died from it yet,
so evidenty it works.

?:


A former neighbor of mine couldn't boil potatoes without somehow destroying
the entire top of the stove, the adjacent wall, and sometimes even boiling
away all the water and burning the spuds and the pot. The Mrs gave him his
pink slip last year. :-)



John H. October 11th 07 07:13 PM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:58:37 -0700, Tim wrote:


John H. wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:22:56 -0400, HK wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:03:01 -0700, Tim wrote:

John H. wrote:
I'm getting my neck operation on the 29th of November. That OK?

it's OK with me, thats also my birthday.

Hope all goes well with you, John. and hope the surgery and recovery
is smooth.

The doctor says no golf for *four* months! Crap!


Neck operation? What did you do to yourself?


Degenerative disc disease. This explains it all:

http://tinyurl.com/2vzzry


My wife goes in for a total knee replacement the 29th fo this month.
the next few weeks afterwards will be "interesting" for me... to say
the least.


Best wishes to your wife. Mine was laid up for a few weeks after a foot
operation. She took advantage of me! Luckily I do the cooking anyway.

We went through lots of ice!

Short Wave Sportfishing October 11th 07 11:04 PM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:26:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Au contraire, Clevis. Captain Francis has invited me, although I suspect he
regrets having done so by now. :-)


Absoutely not - heated or strident discussions here have no place on
the boat, my truck or my home.

People are people - has nothing to do with being outdoors and
outfishing some crazed paranoid anti-social newsgroup fisherman
wannabe from New York. :)

Offer still stands and we'll have some fun.

You will lose of course, but that's to be expected. :)

JoeSpareBedroom October 11th 07 11:49 PM

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:26:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Au contraire, Clevis. Captain Francis has invited me, although I suspect
he
regrets having done so by now. :-)


Absoutely not - heated or strident discussions here have no place on
the boat, my truck or my home.

People are people - has nothing to do with being outdoors and
outfishing some crazed paranoid anti-social newsgroup fisherman
wannabe from New York. :)

Offer still stands and we'll have some fun.

You will lose of course, but that's to be expected. :)



How late in the season are you OK fishing fresh water? I mean, at what temp
do your fingers finally say "You're kidding, right?"?



Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 12:00 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:49:31 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:26:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Au contraire, Clevis. Captain Francis has invited me, although I suspect
he
regrets having done so by now. :-)


Absoutely not - heated or strident discussions here have no place on
the boat, my truck or my home.

People are people - has nothing to do with being outdoors and
outfishing some crazed paranoid anti-social newsgroup fisherman
wannabe from New York. :)

Offer still stands and we'll have some fun.

You will lose of course, but that's to be expected. :)


How late in the season are you OK fishing fresh water? I mean, at what temp
do your fingers finally say "You're kidding, right?"?


I'm game right up to when the lakes freeze over.

We got a game on here or what? :)

JoeSpareBedroom October 12th 07 12:10 AM

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:49:31 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:26:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Au contraire, Clevis. Captain Francis has invited me, although I suspect
he
regrets having done so by now. :-)

Absoutely not - heated or strident discussions here have no place on
the boat, my truck or my home.

People are people - has nothing to do with being outdoors and
outfishing some crazed paranoid anti-social newsgroup fisherman
wannabe from New York. :)

Offer still stands and we'll have some fun.

You will lose of course, but that's to be expected. :)


How late in the season are you OK fishing fresh water? I mean, at what
temp
do your fingers finally say "You're kidding, right?"?


I'm game right up to when the lakes freeze over.

We got a game on here or what? :)


The answer lies beneath the aluminum trim around my windows. Once upon a
time (last week), there was this absolutely perfect plan for removing hinged
wooden windows in groups of 6, and getting them painted, assembly line
style, in an area of my basement arranged for this. While removing one, I
leaned against the lower trim, and got squish instead of something hard to
lean against. Completely rotted. I was able to scoop it out with a spoon.
The youngsters who owned this house before took some short cuts.

Removed the storm window from the window, and prepared to brush off the
loose paint. Ha. The youngsters tried to glaze the window, but they didn't
let the putty or the paint cure. When the storm window was unscrewed and
lifted off, it took the glazing with it. Nice. Haven't had a chance to
continue since last weekend. On Saturday, I'll know how many more of these
nightmares I have to deal with. Easy work, but time consuming. Combine this
with band practice 3 nights a week....

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.



Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 12:32 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.

[email protected] October 12th 07 12:39 AM

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On Oct 11, 7:32 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"

wrote:
Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


But did they get you out of a jam you had talked yourself into??


JoeSpareBedroom October 12th 07 12:47 AM

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


I'm in a "WTF to do at the moment" situation. I'll tell ya...I looked at the
utility bills this morning and thought that if I considered ONLY the cost of
the windows, and installing them myself, I could've justified it NOW. I'm
positive they'd pay for themselves within a couple of years. But, for a
number of reasons, there wasn't enough time to do the job this past summer.
And, never having done it before, I'm nowhere near as fast as the pros. A
two day job for them is probably a week for me.

The other issue is the size of the windows here. They're weird. I'd have to
show you pictures to illustrate....



Don White October 12th 07 01:09 AM

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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


I'm in a "WTF to do at the moment" situation. I'll tell ya...I looked at
the utility bills this morning and thought that if I considered ONLY the
cost of the windows, and installing them myself, I could've justified it
NOW. I'm positive they'd pay for themselves within a couple of years. But,
for a number of reasons, there wasn't enough time to do the job this past
summer. And, never having done it before, I'm nowhere near as fast as the
pros. A two day job for them is probably a week for me.

The other issue is the size of the windows here. They're weird. I'd have
to show you pictures to illustrate....


I got buddy buddy with the new owner of a local vinyl window supplier. Over
three or four years I replaced every window in the house save for a double
vertical single hung unit in my kitchen and three small fixed 'piano style'
windows.. 2 in my living room & one in my main bedroom.
(will probably do those next spring) I get the owner to come out and measure
the windows. I also have them weld on the wide j trim to replace the
original 5 inch pine boards framing the old windows. What a
difference...more comfortable in the house, electric heating cheaper and the
windows don't frost up on me.
Our handyman and I do the installations. (his day job is with the medical
insurance company my wife does contract work for)
All the windows he measured fit perfectly, the one I measured & ordered came
about 1/8" too wide and I had to hack at the shingles a bit to fit it in.



Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 01:25 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:48:33 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


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On Oct 11, 7:32 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"

wrote:
Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.

Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


But did they get you out of a jam you had talked yourself into??


Owning and managing a small apartment complex has to be a nightmare.
Unless the property is in a hot real estate market for rental property I can
think of many ways to get a better ROI.


In some ways, it was but that was more related to my own inability to
do certain things like climbing 50 foot ladders and not being able to
redo the roof by myself which in days of old, I would have done. It
stopped being fun.

All things considered, we were very careful with the tenants and as to
repairs, that's all a part of doing business.

We also made a ton of money off of the four out the six that we owned
- it got to the point where I had to sell them otherwise we would take
a huge hit when the Dems get their 30% capital gains tax. For
example, that one we just discussed sold for two and a half times what
we paid for it six years ago. Subtract the repairs and it came out at
2 times what we paid for it. Subject the capital gains and I'm still
WAY out in front of the cost of ownership.

The other two we own we bought cheap enough that even at 30%, we're
still ahead by 100% profit.

Multi-family homes aren't all that hot, but good ones are in demand -
in particular when they are maintained properly.


Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 01:46 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:39:49 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


Your tenants do not pay for their heat and AC??


Nope - it's in the rent.

Expenses are controlled by usage. We allow a certain amount of
kilowatts and gallons of oil. If they stay under that amount, they
are golden. If they go over, there is a rent surcharge for what they
used plus 5% for the annoyance factor although it's not called that in
the rental agreement. :)

You don't make your money on rents I'll tell you that much. You need
to have a lot of apartments to make money. We make tenants pay for
rental insurance for example while we carry the overall fire and
liability insurance. They have an option of riding on our policies or
getting their own. And with taxes, town usage taxes like water and
sewer plus property taxes you are lucky if you make a couple of
hundred dollars as "income".

For investors like me, it's more about improving the property and
making the units pay for themselves waiting out the enivitable
increase in property value. People have to live somewhere and it's a
good business if you can make it pay for itself and we've managed to
do that.

Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 01:50 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:47:12 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.


Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


I'm in a "WTF to do at the moment" situation. I'll tell ya...I looked at the
utility bills this morning and thought that if I considered ONLY the cost of
the windows, and installing them myself, I could've justified it NOW. I'm
positive they'd pay for themselves within a couple of years. But, for a
number of reasons, there wasn't enough time to do the job this past summer.
And, never having done it before, I'm nowhere near as fast as the pros. A
two day job for them is probably a week for me.

The other issue is the size of the windows here. They're weird. I'd have to
show you pictures to illustrate....


The house we're in now have odd sized windows - when it was built, the
builder did some hinky things and one of them was purchasing odd lot
windows for a development. We managed to get the house with all the
left overs.

It's not hard to remove and replace. Do one and you've got the
technique down for the rest - it's just a question of measuring
properly when you order the windows. Once you've got that done, piece
of cake.

I did this house, 13 windows, in one day - 10 hours of work.

JoeSpareBedroom October 12th 07 02:21 AM

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:47:12 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.

Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.


I'm in a "WTF to do at the moment" situation. I'll tell ya...I looked at
the
utility bills this morning and thought that if I considered ONLY the cost
of
the windows, and installing them myself, I could've justified it NOW. I'm
positive they'd pay for themselves within a couple of years. But, for a
number of reasons, there wasn't enough time to do the job this past
summer.
And, never having done it before, I'm nowhere near as fast as the pros. A
two day job for them is probably a week for me.

The other issue is the size of the windows here. They're weird. I'd have
to
show you pictures to illustrate....


The house we're in now have odd sized windows - when it was built, the
builder did some hinky things and one of them was purchasing odd lot
windows for a development. We managed to get the house with all the
left overs.

It's not hard to remove and replace. Do one and you've got the
technique down for the rest - it's just a question of measuring
properly when you order the windows. Once you've got that done, piece
of cake.

I did this house, 13 windows, in one day - 10 hours of work.


The measuring would be the first challenge. Never having seen this house
"naked" (framed, without coverings), I'm not sure how to measure. In my
son's harem is a girl whose dad is a carpenter. I may see if he's interested
in a teamwork situation, like the one you described.

Speaking of teenagers, my son just left with a friend from his dorm. The
friend tried to get out the door ahead of my son, and took 45 seconds to
open the screen door. My son's enough of an observer that he didn't say a
word while this went on. He turned around and gave me this "I wonder how
long this will take" look. The friend finally figured out that the latch
needed to be turned instead of pushed.

His friend's a physics major. NASA beware.



Short Wave Sportfishing October 12th 07 03:02 AM

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:12:23 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:39:49 -0400, "JimH" ask
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:10:15 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Never mind. The other option is to just let the windows go to hell, and
replace them with modern ones sooner than I wanted to.

Best move I ever made.

I replaced 31 of them in one of our apartment houses to the new vinyl
type.

Saved me a ton of money on heating costs.

Your tenants do not pay for their heat and AC??


Nope - it's in the rent.

Expenses are controlled by usage. We allow a certain amount of
kilowatts and gallons of oil. If they stay under that amount, they
are golden. If they go over, there is a rent surcharge for what they
used plus 5% for the annoyance factor although it's not called that in
the rental agreement. :)

You don't make your money on rents I'll tell you that much. You need
to have a lot of apartments to make money. We make tenants pay for
rental insurance for example while we carry the overall fire and
liability insurance. They have an option of riding on our policies or
getting their own. And with taxes, town usage taxes like water and
sewer plus property taxes you are lucky if you make a couple of
hundred dollars as "income".

For investors like me, it's more about improving the property and
making the units pay for themselves waiting out the enivitable
increase in property value. People have to live somewhere and it's a
good business if you can make it pay for itself and we've managed to
do that.


Rising fuel/oil prices as well a big jumps in your property/GL insurance
rates had to take a major hit on you.


Actually, it wasn't as bad as you might think. I belong to a fuel
co-op. You buy in with $10K investment and all purchases after that
are at wholesale. If you get out, you roll over the $10K to somebody
who wants to buy in only now it will cost $16K to buy in. The co-op
keeps $2K and I get the rest. I joined years ago and it's more than
paid for itself.

Same thing with gas. While there is a savings for gas, it's only
about .40¢ a gallon and you are limited in the amount you can remove
at any one time because of associated storage and environmental
problems. I think the gas co-op is going to collapse because of
ethanol anyway - it's harder to store than just straight gas. Which
is fine - we won't lose the initial investment and it worked for a for
a long time.

Having your tenants being able to piggy back on your commercial insurance
with their tenants insurance *may* be costing you. The norm is for them
to get their own coverage separate of yours.

If you have not had your insurance prospected (sent to bid) recently by your
agent this is a great time to do so....it is a buyers market. Unless you
have not already done so you may also want to see what the difference in
premiums would be with the insurance package split with a personal lines and
commercial packages, even if it means different insurance companies.


Been there - done that. All the commercial insurance is posted for a
two year contract bid - full replacement policy with built in
inflator. The odd thing is that over the past five years, our
insurance costs have gone down slightly instead of up and we offer the
same contract every time it comes up.

The renter riders almost always come up cheaper than what the tenants
can come up with on their own - sometimes they don't. The caveat
there is that all possessions have to be documented and videotaped to
be covered. We have a very smart lawyer who handles all this and he
does an outstanding job.

I've found that the key to insurance is having the units inspected
yearly for structure, function and bugs. Once that's documented, the
rest just seems to fall into place.

Dave Hall October 12th 07 06:47 PM

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:20:00 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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If your daughter was raped and you started talking to her about
statistics, I wonder how she'd react.


See? The rape thing again.

Eisboch


It's important because there are cults which think they can dictate the
options available to a rape victim. You can't exclude inconvenient facts
from the discussion, unless you'd like to say it's over for now.


My point is that the majority of abortions, I believe, are performed not
because of a rape, but because a resulting pregnancy following voluntary sex
where no precautions were taken happens to be embarrassing or inconvenient.

Rape is a different issue and much more difficult to resolve in my mind,
although I'd probably go along with having abortion a legal option in it's
case or in the event of a problematic pregnancy whereby the mother's life
may be in danger.

But to give everyone via legalized abortion, (call it pro-choice or
whatever) a free pass because they didn't act responsibly is not right in my
mind.

Whatever happened to the fathers with shotguns?

Eisboch


I do not understand that response. Either the fetus is a human or it
isn't. If it is not a human, but simply an accumulation of cells like
an appendix or a mole, then why would you be against abortion? Clearly
in that case it is the woman's right to decide what to do with that
inconvenient lump of cells. You don't need reasons to admit to that
right. Whether there was a rape or not is immaterial. Whether the lump
of cells is wanted or not is immaterial. Whether the lump of cells may
some day be retarded is immaterial. However, if it is a human being
then what does the rape of the mother have to do with it? If the baby
had already been born and the mother said she had been raped would you
allow her to kill the baby? There is only one question surrounding
abortion in my opinion. That is whether or not (and possibly at what
point) the lump of cells is a human being and not an appendix. The
answer to that question fully drives the answer to virtually all
subsequent abortion questions. My problem with defining my own
position on abortion is trying to come to grips with the "when"
question. Clearly it is a human a second after delivery. I can find
nothing that changes that 5 minutes earlier, 5 hours earlier, 5 days
earlier or 5 weeks earlier. Yet by the same token I can accept that
upon fertilization but before attachment to the uterine wall it is not
human (which conveniently allows me to fully accept the Pill which
keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall) but I find
myself without any rational basis for making a distinction past that
point, as much as I want to.

What I do know, for reasons I won't go into too deeply, is that if
abortion was legal and readily available for rape victims in 1928, I
would not exist since my mother would have been aborted. I also know
that if abortion was legal and readily available in 1957, I would not
exist as I was a bit of an unplanned inconvenience. Obviously then my
beautiful children and grandchildren would not exist. Some may say
upon reading this that my non-existence would have been a boon to
humanity - oh well. Enough from me.

Dave Hall



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