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So Is It Murder? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, sixteenth day
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of April. I'm West Thanks for joining me day after tax day. Oops,
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you didn't forget? Did you got to have that postmark? I don't
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know. You do it online now, doesn't everybody? I don't know.
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Do people still mail it in? There's still people that show up and pay
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their you know, cell phone bill in person. I mean you may do
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that. I don't know. I don't know why. I know some people
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don't trust paying stuff online. I must admit I've gotten rather lazy with my
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ability to just set up the auto pay and then you know, I got
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a couple things that couple store like accounts where if you buy something in the
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store, I have to go in and make sure that I make the payment.
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But other than that, it's all kind of auto. Man. It's
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just flowing through. It's just flowing through and taking care of it. That's
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what it's doing. But people still do it, so, I don't know
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if you're still mailing in your taxes. I hope you got your postmark done
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or you got it done by midnight last night. I guess that's the deadline.
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You got to have it done and sent in or whatever. I don't
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know, got to get that response, that text or that email that tells
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you that they received it. I've already got my refund. I haven't spent
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my refund. My refund is doing what it's supposed to be doing. It's
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making more money for it. It's working for me at least until the summer
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when we figure out a vacation will take or something with it, at least
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with part of it. All right, So I talked, you know,
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yesterday about one of the big strategies when it comes to the upcoming election and
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now that we're into the hush money trial of Trump, because that's a big
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one. It's this notion of trying to shame people for saying that they would
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vote for Trump. If you're a Republican, that you would vote for him.
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Keep in mind, we went through a little bit of this whole absurdity,
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and to some degree, I think folks on the right were able to
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kind of throw their hands up and say, you're still supporting Bill Clinton,
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even though we've learned all these terrible things about him. Back with his impeachment
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and then later his admissions to things that he was doing very abusive work environment
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for at the very least one intern, in particular in the White House.
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But folks on the left were more than happy to continue to support him.
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They were happy to support him even as we started to learn a little bit
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more about all of the women who had made accusations against the president at the
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time, and then we learned a little bit more about you know, he
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heard stories about Hillary's role in his wife, the first lady, her and
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eventual president, right about the fact that, oh my goodness, she is
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the person, according to the stories, that was assigned to attack the accusers.
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That's what we heard. She was the one in charge of that.
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She was the one to make sure that those women were at the very least
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their credibility challenged. So we heard that, We heard all the accusers.
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We heard the denial of his actions while president with Monica Lewinsky, and then
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later we got the yeah, no, I did it. You know,
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shouldn't have done it. I did it. So we got all that,
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and people still not only supported him, but then voted for her for president
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under the guise of hey me Too movement and we need a woman president.
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Let's vote for Hillary. People did that. I think if you're a staunchly
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Democrat and you voted Democrat your whole life and there's no way to change your
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mind, I'm not shocked that you would vote for Hillary Clinton in that election.
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I think it's silly for someone to say, you mean, you would
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vote for Donald Trump in spite of dot Chances are most of the die hard
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Republican voters that have no intention of voting for anyone other than Trump or going
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to vote for him no matter what happens in any of these political cases because
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they feel like, and I think rightly so, that he is absolutely being
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attacked to get him out of the running. That's what they want. They
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want to eliminate his candidacy. They've been trying to figure out a way to
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do that, and now they think this might be the way to do it.
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Now. The other topic, and I've touched on this a little bit,
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but it's kind of I got a little tie over from the weekend,
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and you have to excuse me. And if I ever seem a little behind,
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it's either because I got something else I want to talk about, or
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by the fact that I don't, and I've said this before, I don't
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really watch a lot of shows that deal in politics. I don't watch a
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lot of or listen to some of the radio shows because I like my opinions
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to be my opinions period. That's what I like. I do occasionally kind
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of dip in and out if I'm curious about what's being discussed. This is
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a show that I don't really watch, although I have referenced it a few
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times and referenced it more in more recent years. Because of that middle of
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the road line, this sort of mythical middle independent line. You had folks
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on the left, you had folks on the right. Well, it's widely
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accepted now that that line, that middle line, has pushed very far over
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to the left. And according to some you got Elon Musk who says I
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used to be left of center. Now the line has moved to the other
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side. Now I'm right of center, and people just that's when they started
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to hate the man's guts. How dare he even consider being what would be
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considered a conservative or a liberal, I guess in England because that's the conservative
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side. That's how far the line gets pushed. Another person who hasn't necessarily
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said he's now on the side of the right, but he says, hey,
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the line's moved, and it's put me in a position where I'm saying,
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what's going on. That's Bill Maher and I don't typically watch his show.
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I have referenced some of the things that he has said, and he
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has a new one from this weekend, and I didn't see it because I
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didn't watch over the weekend. I became aware of this yesterday. So on
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his show Real Time, he had let's see Piers Morgan was on and Jillian
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Tett, so he had two Brits on and they were discussing the issue of
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abortion. Now, that's the other issue that is going to be the big
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one. Democrats will put their focus on Trump as a convicted felon or Trump
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has been had multiple indictments, He's done all these horrible things, he's an
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insurrectionist, whatever it is they're going to say about him. However, they
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still have the abortion issue, which is going to be the other big issue.
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Now. If they figure out a way to push Trump aside, abortion
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will be will move into the one A slot. Right now, it's one
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B and that's what they're banking, everything on. So and I've talked by
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the way, and I want to because I don't I don't know that I
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really convey this very well, because I want to stress. I've talked to
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about separating my religious views from political views, and I think that that is
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something that is a challenge someone like me who has lived his whole life saying,
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hey, abortion is murder, abortion should not be legal, and has
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struggled with this notion that the left we can do whatever we want to do,
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we can do anything. We got Roe v. Wade, we can
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do anything. And I have said that in a perfect scenario. To me,
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yeah, abortion shouldn't be legal. That's where morally I lie. I'm
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in the position that it is terminating a life. And that's the thing that
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I have tried to stress to many people before when they say, I can't
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believe you. People say that you tell a woman how to live her life,
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and you don't have a uterus, how dare you try to tell tell
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us what to do with our bodies? And I've used this before as this
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is my little analogy. And I say this and I know of at least
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one politician, and I talked about this with and they said, you mind
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if I use that because I like it. So if you've heard any politicians
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use it, they might, especially in Georgia, they might have gotten it
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from me. But I think of it in these terms, and I ask
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people this. If you're driving down the road and you see an animal in
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the road, maybe a turtle, slow moving animal in the road, trying
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to cross the road, trying to get from a dry area, maybe to
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a wet area, and the turtle is just trying to get either back home
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or just basically to water, to moisture, or wherever it wants to go.
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I don't know where the turtle wants to go, but typically they're trying
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to get to some sort of where they believe there is some moisture of some
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kind, want some water, so they're trying to cross the road, and
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you see the turtle in the road, and I ask people like, if
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it's if it's reasonable for you to stop your car and get out and pick
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up the turtle and help it across the road, would you do it?
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And almost every time they say, well, of course I would. Even
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people who wouldn't do it they say yes because they don't want to seem like
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a complete jerk when it comes to animals, And I say, well,
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see, there you go. You see the turtle as a living creature,
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and you want to help the turtle, and you feel like if you don't
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stop, and you don't do anything about it, the turtle is almost certainly
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going to get hit. It might make it, it might not, who
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knows. But there's something that you can try to do to help the turtle.
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And that's the way many people like me look at an unborn child.
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They say, this is a living creature, this is a living being,
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this is a living person. And we feel like that not doing anything or
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just looking the other way is allowing an unborn child to be killed. That's
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the way we see it. That's the way we look at it. It's
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got nothing to do with controlling people. Maybe for some I don't know,
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just like I think there's some on the left who you know, want to
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be able to abort a child right up until it's actual birth for some reason
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that they want to do that. I don't know what that it's about.
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I don't know if that's satisfying some urge to you know, actually commit murder.
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They want to actually murder an infant, and if it's just scratching that
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itch for them. I don't know. I don't know where that comes from,
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but I do think the majority of people who would like to have abortion
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legal understand it's probably something best done in the first trimester, in the first
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I don't know, twelve to fourteen weeks. There's a lot of talk about
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the fact that France made it legal in their constitution for abortion, but understand,
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fourteen weeks is the cutoff. That's the point that and it used to
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be twelve there and we always hear here, oh my goodness, we're just
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so out of it. Well, this was actually addressed on Bill Maher's show.
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Piers Morgan was addressing the fact that you got Germany in France and they
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do ten twelve weeks. Fourteen is actually, I think the amount of weeks
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in France. But he was basically saying, you know, America is not
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such an outlier. That's the word that he used, and he said,
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this is a quote. I think a lot of Americans on the left do
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think this is somehow a really unique American problem or an issue that only pertains
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to them in terms of the legality of abortions actually compared to Europe. It's
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not massively dissimilar, but there's this perception that they want to create. They
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want us to believe that, you know, we're in the Stone ages or
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stone age. So so Bill Maher then addressed it, and he was talking
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to the other two panelists. Now appears Morgan says that he is a He
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is pro choice. I guess the other guest also says that she's a pro
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choice as well. I believe so mar to them, says, none of
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you believe it's murder. You know. That's why I don't understand the fifteen
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week thing or Trump's plan to leave it to the states. You mean,
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so killing babies is okay in some states? And he basically said that it's
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murder. He said, he said, like I can respect the absolutist position,
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I really can't. I scold the left when they say, oh,
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you know what, they just hate women people who aren't pro choice. And
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he said that pro life activists don't hate women. Leftists just made that up.
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They think it's murder, and it kind of is. And of course
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this drew some silence and gasping, I guess from his audience. But the
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reality here is that it's interesting to hear, and that he's gotten some reaction
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from a number of people who have said, Mike Lee. Senator Lee tweeted,
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you're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud. Number of other
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politicians have jumped in and said talked about the fact that it's time to have
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a conversation. So this is where I have said, half of our country
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wants this, the other half. You know. I don't know if we're
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quite at a fifty to fifty deal or if we're a little above fifty.
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Those have been the numbers that have been kind of thrown around. But I
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do think that we are now in a position, in spite of what my
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personal feelings are, we're in a position now where a conversation can be had.
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And I think the left is being very selfish if they think that the
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compromise on any sort of national legal abortion is going to be anything more than
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the fourteen weeks. What is happening in France and maybe Germany. I don't
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know what they've got, but my point is if some Republicans have at least
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said, hey, we can have this conversation now, let's talk about it,
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and it may be a little bit of gamesmanship on both sides. I
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know the left doesn't want to talk at all because they want this to be
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They think they're going to get women, especially young women, first time voters,
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to go, oh, we're going to go in because we're voting for
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our rights. They're trying to take our rights away, and they're saying all
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these things like there's no healthcare for women. This is creating a real problem
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for women. They're dying every day. I don't know where. I haven't
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heard any of these stories daily, but there's a lot of deaths that happened
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in Chicago every day, and we don't hear about those either. But when
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it comes to the right at least saying hey, let's have a conversation,
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maybe they're trying to, I don't know, play this game of chess with
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the left and say we want to hear you say what we know you want,
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which is third term, late second term, third term. We want
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to hear you say that out loud, because then we can play that game
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and have that conversation. I don't know, but I do think this is
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an opportunity for both sides to put it to bed, figure out whatever it's
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going to be. On a national level and move on. If this continues
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to be a states rights issue, which that's what Trump said it would continue
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to be, that's what the Supreme Court decided. Well, that means each
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state is going to do that. They're going to make the decision and they're
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going to deal with this at the state level and continue to do that.
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And some people don't like. They don't like what's happened in Arizona, they
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don't like what's happened in a number of states. So the question should become,
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is this a time for the left to start talking with folks on the
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right that are willing to talk. Does it mean anything's ever going to happen
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on a federal level. I don't know. I don't know, but it's
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interesting to hear someone like Bill maherlay it out there and at least be honest.
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And I don't disagree with him on this notion that how can you be
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okay with it if you think it's murder Again, this is a little bit
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like the whole convicted felon thing. It's kind of playing that little card of
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trying to shame people into Hey, they're willing to at least sit down and
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have a conversation. They're willing to put the issue to rest, come up
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with whatever the compromise might be, twelve fourteen weeks, and put it to
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rest and move on. The left doesn't want that. I know many on
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the right don't want that, So it will continue to be an issue as
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break. Well, as we talked about yesterday, it was tax day,
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and while at hub has released their survey results people that they surveyed, and
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they asked him what they would do in order to avoid ever having to pay
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taxes again. Fifty six percent of respondent said they would give up social media
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for a year. It doesn't seem like enough. I mean, I get
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it social media for a year if you're very addicted to it. But if
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you're just the average person, yeah, that seems like you do really well.
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If you gave up paying taxes for a year. Thirty five percent said
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that or sorry, never having to pay taxes again. Thirty five percent said
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they would move to a different country if it meant never having to pay taxes
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again. Thirty percent said they would get an IRS tattoo. I don't know
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how that would help. Twenty eight percent would take a vow of celibacy.
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Now we're getting into the good stuff. I mean, that's that would be
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a challenge for many. Nineteen percent said they would stop talking for six months.
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Again, we're in the good stuff. Now, that's not easy.
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How do you not talk for six months? Nine percent said they would clean
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prison toilets for three years if it meant a tax free future. Again,
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this is the good stuff. I mean, an IRS tattoo. Eh,
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what's the challenge there. I don't know why you'd want it, but I
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mean I'd want it if it meant not having to pay taxes ever again,
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I mean ever again. Also from that survey, things people would rather do
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than pay taxes, jury duty was at the top of the list. Things.
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I guess that people don't like talking to their kids about birds and the
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bees. I mean, you gotta do that, and eventually you gotta get
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around to it. Folks would rather miss a connecting flight than pay taxes.
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Now this isn't about never paying again, this is just about paying them having
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to deal with it. I guess spending the night in jail. You can
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do that if you don't pay your taxes. So I guess that's kind of
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a trade off drinking expired milk, swimming with sharks, and now see if
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you're in a cage, that's fun, right, I mean anyway, biggest
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tax day fears that people had yesterday with getting audited, not having enough money,
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making math mistakes, and identity theft. That's one of the reasons that
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you should try to do it early is the whole identity theft thing. You
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give people long enough, they're eventually going to try to figure out some kind
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of way that they can either steal your refund, steal your identity. Whatever
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it is that they can do, they'll try to do it. Here's some
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good news that I have for you, just a reminder to folks really all
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across the country, but I'm speaking especially to people who live here in my
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hometown, and I'll refer to just the area. Well we usually say we're
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in the Chattoojee Valley area, but specifically to residents of Columbus, my hometown.
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One thing that you can do to not have to pay as much in
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taxes is when these splosts come along, these special purpose local option sales taxes,
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you can just vote no. That's one thing that and it's really easy.
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It doesn't involve a tattoo, it doesn't involve nasty prison toilets, it
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doesn't involve drinking anything gross, it doesn't involve celibacy. All it involves is
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just casting a no vote to raise your taxes on everything that you buy by
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a penny, because we already have others and we continue to vote yes no
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matter what, and then they expire and then we vote them back in.
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So it's a great opportunity to not have to pay extra in taxes by simply
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voting no for these splosts. All right, let's talk about butts. Apparently,
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according to science, the biggest butts in the world are in South Africa.
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Apparently, according to according to science, I mean the way that they
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make this decision, this goes on. It says data that's been analyzed and
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market researchers at Gittinus say that there is a proportional equation for size of women's
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hips and who had the largest backsides, who would be more likely to attract
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the attention of sir mix a lot. Okay, and here's what the research
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says. South Africa has the largest butts in the world forty one point seventy
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three inches. I guess is the average, So congratulations. I suppose sir
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mix a lot should go to South Africa and at least vacation. He might
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even want to live there. Argentina was in second place, followed by Sweden,
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Greece, Germany, Russia and Italy both in the sixth spot. And
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see, I've got issues with this because that would make what's now in the
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seventh spot really eight if you go that way. But we'll just follow their
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logic so I don't get all twisted. Australia was seventh, Netherlands, Canada,
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France around out the top ten. Don't you frettn on though, Americans,
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we're in the number eleven spot. Even though we didn't quite make it
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into the top ten, we did make it into the top eleven. Unless
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you go, you know by the fact that six technically should be push us
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down to twelve. I mean that's where it should be. But there you
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