Comments on: They Don’t Learn

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:55:56 +0000

In my family I don’t know that any of my relatives are “normal”. 😈

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:59:26 +0000

Yes, the California situation is crazy. It lends itself too much to selective prosecution, especially in the case where race comes into play. It becomes a way for parents with political influence to criminalize someone "undesirable" dating their daughter. When everybody under age 18 is technically a criminal, there is no justice, only personal vendettas and political influence. In other news, I was amused to find that Florida is even more redneck than Louisiana. Having a baby with your own brother? But my mother says that yes, one relative in our family tree in Louisiana did marry her own cousin. The baby turned out fine though. Maybe. Given our family tree, "normal" may be relative.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:39:35 +0000

In New York the age of consent is 16 and the Statutory Rape law doesn’t kick in unless one of the couple is 18 or older ; or one is more than two years older than the other, i.e. 17-15 legal but 18-15 or 17-14 illegal. We all know that as soon as the hormones kick in everyone is looking for sex, which starts in middle school.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 22:46:44 +0000

Until they reach age 18, they are legally classified as children in the state of California. That is a factor in the Great Russian Novel that I’m currently writing, in the state of California (where it is set) it isn’t even legal for two teenagers the same age under age 18 to have sex with each other. Legally, it’s still statutory rape, though in most cases deciding which one is the perpetrator and which one is the victim becomes iffy (if the boy is black and the girl is white, on the other hand, it’s always the boy who’s prosecuted, go figure… it’s always racist parents who call in the cops on those particular cases). Now, I think we know that 16 and 17 year olds are going to be having sex with each other, but California law treats them as children.

The reality is that most of us over age 50 think of anybody under age 20 as children anyhow, so (shrug).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:42:45 +0000

While you are correct about what the Russian media is saying about the “open door”, it wasn’t just the 60 ‘diplomats’, the Seattle consulate was also closed, so those positions have been eliminated. Further, we don’t currently have a Secretary of State/foreign minister so new diplomats face a delay in getting credentials for the US. We don’t have a foreign policy and two-thirds of the countries don’t have a US ambassador, so the lack of an administrator at the State Department isn’t as bad as it good be.

One of the ‘guest hosts’ make be getting a show in primetime on Faux. The week is to negotiate Ingraham’s demotion or ‘retirement’. There is following the O’Reilly pattern.

David is usually careful, and spent a lot of time studying the gun issue before this incident in preparation for a scholastic debate on gun control. The teams don’t know which side they will argue, so they have to prepare for both. I assume his father helped him out by pointing to resources for his preparation. On guns, because of laws enacted at the urging of the NRA there really is little unbiased research. Without the funding that the NRA’s laws blocked, the NRA & gun industry are the only sources for academic research.

Anya, New York refers to to those under 17 years as ‘infants’ in the Penal Law and under 18 are grouped as ‘minors’. Kids is not a bad thing. For me it covers anyone under 40. 😉

By: Anya

Anya — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:12:03 +0000

Kudos to David Hogg and Boo-Hiss to Laura Ingraham.

However, one should be careful about referring to the MSD survivors as Children. Some of these “kids” will be voting in the 2020 Presidential Election, and likely -all- of them will be voting in the 2024 Election.

It’s not nice to piss off future voters!

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:53:36 +0000

A friend sent me a link to this MSNBC interview with Steve Schmidt by Nicolle Wallace on the Ingraham train wreck. I think they nailed it! Another example of an adult acting terribly There are a few other Vid's that that I enjoyed also! ;) :D Homepage for all vid's: Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:59:32 +0000

New Update: Laura Ingraham announced on tonight’s show that she would take next week off and be replaced by “a great lineup of guest hosts”

Aha. 😉 😀

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:50:42 +0000

Drat! Meant to add:

After her insincere apology, David tweeted:

“I 100% agree an apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.”

So far, 16 companies have stopped advertising on Ingraham’s show. Including some of her biggest advertisers. The latest being the Ruby Tuesday chain after many people tweeted to them like this: “@rubytuesday I will not be eating at your restaurants while you continue to advertise on @IngrahamAngle show.”
Atlantis
Expedia
Hulu
Jenny Craig
Johnson & Johnson
Jos. A. Bank
Liberty Mutual
Miracle Ear
Nestle
Nutrish
Principal investment group
Office Depot
Ruby Tuesday
Stitch Fix
TripAdvisor
Wayfair

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:35:10 +0000

David does need to be a bit more careful though. He's played loose with a few facts recently. I hope his Dad explains that playing the oppositions game isn't going to work for him. I do understand that he's young, angry & full of fire. Just needs to double check his facts & be a little more careful. :) You know those 60 Russian Diplomat's US expelled? I was super suspicious about that! Seems I was right to be...

"Russia's state TV reports that an unnamed high-level White House source quietly told the Russians that the number of Russian diplomats in the U.S. is not being cut (they can send 60 other diplomats to replace the ones being expelled). They quote the source: "The doors are open."

Want to test your Russian Bryan? ;) I only have the original Russian vid via YT & the Russian news source: 60 минут. Доска позора: как Лондон накажет неприсоединившиеся к нему страны? Ответ не заставил себя ждать: Москва вызвала посла США, Вашингтон оставил дверь открытой