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  • Worse, they suggest that with just a little sprinkling of violence - here and there, nothing much - this truncated, neutered, half-born activism can come alive.

    Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?" John Storhm 2009

  • And they denounce this half-born pacifism, that they themselves have created, as being some kind of monster.

    Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009

  • Worse, they suggest that with just a little sprinkling of violence - here and there, nothing much - this truncated, neutered, half-born activism can come alive.

    Archive 2009-03-01 John Storhm 2009

  • And they denounce this half-born pacifism, that they themselves have created, as being some kind of monster.

    Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?" John Storhm 2009

  • They brought him to a hospital in the center of Brcko, a city along the Sava that ties a narrow knot in the center of the bow-tie halves of the half-born Republika Srpska.

    A LEGACY OF WAR • by Kurt Rice 2008

  • It did not strike them as ironic in the least that they denounce kids getting savagely beaten upby clerics, while supporting the legality of a procedure which involves stabbing a half-born late-term baby in the head and sucking his brains out.

    Canadian Feminist Comments on Partial Birth Abortion-- Denies There Is a Debate on Abortion Suzanne 2009

  • Stabbing half-born babies in the head enhances motherhood?

    Extremist Pro-Abort Feminist on Partial Birth Abortion and Motherhood Suzanne 2009

  • What's ironic about that post is that while the vast majority of Catholics despise pedophilia and child abuse, and want all the thugs and perverts gone from the midsts of the Church and condemn this unequivocally, the feminists think stabbing the head of a half-born baby and sucking out his brains and KILLING him is morally allowable and should be legal regardless of the situation!

    Feminists should get off their moral high horse Suzanne 2009

  • She had only got the calf partway out when a pack of wolves attacked, snarling and ripping at the poor half-born calf, splattering blood on the thin snow.

    Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006

  • But, this half-born apprehension spoken out, she fell righteously foul of herself: her reason, her common sense, that part of her which had waged a life-long war with the fantastic, the incorporeal, rose in arms.

    Ultima Thule 2003

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