If the age of consent was 14 at the time, the dude is in the clear.
If the age of consent was 14 at the time, the dude is in the clear.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Runnin (11-11-2017)
Go get him!
Founding member of the Whiny Little Bitches and Pricks Club
Runnin (11-11-2017)
I take it you find the Judge "troubling"
you keep finding ways to shift the convresation
or maybe you don't
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
You are "troubled" I get it
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Goodness, 57. You love in your own reality
BedellBrave (11-11-2017)
Yeah, that's way too rational. Don't you realize there is an election next month?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/o...4&rref=opinion
After the story’s publication yesterday, the most common reaction from other Republicans was a conditional condemnation that revolved around the words “if true.” A spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence said, “If true, this would disqualify anyone from serving in office.” Mitch McConnell’s statement was similar.
It’s a wholly insufficient response.
I understand why senators might make their immediate response conditional. Maybe they didn’t yet read the story. But once you have read the story, there is only one decent response: Moore, the Republican nominee to become Alabama’s next senator, needs to quit the race immediately.
The “if true” response wrongly suggests that there will be some final reckoning of facts to remove any doubt about what Moore did. But there won’t be. He will likely continue denying the allegations, and people will have to choose between The Post’s reams of evidence and Moore’s lack of it.
John McCain showed what an ethical response looked like, and he didn’t need long to issue it:
“The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.”
I have no idea if Moore is guilty. But I do find it interesting that The Land of the Free is supposed to condemn this guy for not having proof of his innocence from 38 years ago.
I doubt that I could prove my innocence 38 days ago.
I included the McCain quote simply because it amuses me how much progressive media like him again, and how he continues to bend the knee to them even after they turned on him during his presidential run.
Go get him!
Founding member of the Whiny Little Bitches and Pricks Club
sturg33 (11-10-2017)
Via TheRinger:
Netflix will no longer produce a previously planned second stand-up special with C.K. (the first, Louis C.K. 2017, debuted on the streaming service in April). At this time, Netflix will not remove C.K.’s previous stand-up specials from its library.
F***!
The fact that there is pressure to do so—to effectively censor these folks' entire oeuvre, whether CK or anyone else, by pressuring distributors et al to remove access to their past work—is one place where these otherwise good moments (of victims speaking out) hedge towards the witch-hunty. Woody Allen has done some creepy **** as a person, but Stardust Memories is still a phenomenal film; I support those who want to personally boycott his work—and even actors and producers and production houses that want to actively avoid working with him (or other creepers and abusers) now or in the future—but I also support the continued availability of the work that's already been produced.
I also think we can admit there is a hegemonic culture of creepiness and abuse-enabling, while also still parsing out the individual severities pertaining to each case.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
acesfull86 (11-10-2017)
Look at it as a purely economic proposition. Entertainment companies decided that being associated with Kevin Spacey was bad for their bottom line. But national Republicans (with some notable exceptions among those out of power, electorally dead, or literally dying) see Roy Moore as a crucial vote for an agenda that is worth billions to the people who keep them in office. Hooray.
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
I think it's worth the parsing. Woody Allen has been dead to me as an artist-- in terms of my personal entertainment dollar--since the creepy personal revelations emerged, but I don't personally hold it against people who want to make a case for his body of work. The idea of purging someone's back catalogue or backlist seems rather Stalinesque and reactionary.
jpx7 (11-10-2017)
One of moores accusers worked at the dnc. CONSPIRACY!!!!
bravesnumberone (11-11-2017), goldfly (11-11-2017), jpx7 (11-11-2017)
George Takei is the Asian Bill Cosby it seems
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
So who are we going to be "shocked" by next? Pat Patterson? Vince McMahon? Ric Flair? Bill Clinton? These people are all widely known to take advantage of people for sexual purposes. Its about as much as a secret as a bible thumping Republican being gay.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.