Well several things today, some light some not.
The Air Force essentially removed the point of the oath cadets take at the Air Force academy. No longer will cadets have to say "...So help me God"
Sad that some atheist whack jobs succeeded with something like that.
Let's see, there is the N.C. guy from the Republican party who had an interview and said blacks were lazy and had an institutional ideology that government owed them and that they were entitled to everything.
He was fired or forced to resign for telling the truth which leads me into the next part.
Once again there is the whole get something for nothing entitled mentality rearing it's head over wages in unskilled entry level work.
These people think they are entitled to exorbitant wages because they just are when working at no skill entry level positions like McDonalds and other such jobs.
Sadly the liberals were out in force in the comments section saying Republicans have no heart. While I disagree with that obviously I can say that regardless of that accusation we obviously do have a couple of things the libs don't have.
Reason, logic, common sense, and intelligence.
These jobs are entry level positions for someone totally unskilled. They are not 15 dollar an hour jobs for crying out loud. Just because you can't find other work with your fancy college decree doesn't mean you get to go in and demand college level wages in unskilled, entry level positions.
You get paid what the job is worth not what you think you're worth.
That these people can't seem to grasp that is just more of a sign that kids aren't getting educated sufficiently have basic reasoning skills which would show them this.
Instead they feel entitled to something they haven't earned and don't deserve and expect businesses to pay for what these people think they should be making. One thing they can do is let the jobs go back to high school and college kids trying to earn a few extra dollars rather than adults trying to support an entire family on what clearly is not for that purpose.
And finally in the cycle a story was out today showing more people on government benefit programs than were working.
I've known for years it was going to come to that but still, to see it actually happen is disconcerting.
Now on to one of my favorite subjects, steaks.
Now I can rarely afford them but I still love them a great deal.
So imagine my absolute surprise when I ran across an article from someone who claimed to love them so much and was telling people how to continue to eat them but in a healthy way.
Now don't get me wrong I'd been saying for years that these health food nuts wanted you to eat crap that was exactly that instead of great tasting food.
This article pointed out five ways to eat healthy steaks so I took a look.
To my shock those five points were actually what not to buy when shopping for a steak.
Don't buy T-bone, Prime Rib and similar cuts of meat. Don't buy well marbled cuts, don't buy anything but extra lean 95 or 97% fat free cuts, and last but not least ideally do not even buy beef but instead buy bison and buffalo.
Now as I said this is exactly what not to buy. The best steak isn't a flank steak or the other cuts listed. Marbling is essential to a flavorful and full of taste quality cut of steak. The less fat the less quality of the steak.
If you stop and look at the most expensive cut of meat in the world which is Kobe it is known for its rich marbling which is essential to taste and flavor of the meat.
Translate that as the more fat running throughout the steak the better that steak's flavor and taste is.
Why on Earth would anyone who loves steak write up a list of what not to ever buy in a steak and put it up as desirable to get.
It's not.
Now I want one........ugh
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Part 2 of the debate.
Well since I wrote that post on the question of rape I have seen some people take it as something I never intended for it to be.
Let me make it clear here that I am not supporting rapists in any way. I do not and have never supported such persons.
The comments I made were not meant to be taken as support of rapists or excusing the actions rapists take.
The problem I had and still have is one of a figurative lynch mob via social media without all the facts in evidence to justify one.
Just because a girl cries rape doesn't necessarily make it so.
There are a lot of questions in this Missouri case. The facts as we know them from media are the girl was drinking at her house with a thirteen year old friend. Both then sneaked out a window and went to a party. Once at the party with many others present someone gave her a large glass of what was apparently more alcohol.
At some point after that the girl and a seventeen year old boy engaged in sexual relations.
Those are the facts and you can add she ended up in her front yard lying on the ground for a while before being discovered.
What the girl says is after being handed a glass she doesn't remember anything after that point in time.
Now here is where the facts become blurry.
She doesn't remember but her friend told her she was raped. Her friend also claims she was raped at the same party by a fifteen year old.
It was clear she had engaged in sexual relations. It was also clear it wasn't as gentle and nice as it could have been.
Evidence of force? Maybe
Evidence of ineptness? Maybe
Evidence of hurried fumbling activity? Maybe.
A lot of maybes, but the boy claims it was consensual. Was it?
The boy separately and the younger girl state that the boy gave her and the fourteen year old a ride home and the younger girl helped the older one out of the car and they began walking away from the car at which point the boy drove off.
The older girl ended up laying in the walkway in front of her house in freezing cold weather. No boy or the younger girl around.
Another story is the boy drove them home and dumped them on the curb before driving away.
Which was it?
How did the older girl end up face down in the freezing drive?
Maybe the younger girl left her there?
Maybe the boy did and she walked all the way up from the curb before collapsing where she was found.
But then again, supposedly she was unconscious.
How could she walk anywhere?
How did she get from the curb to where she was found?
Was she actually conscious when she got out as a couple of the stories maintain? Maybe.
What we know is her mother and youngest son found her out there and brought her in where they got her undressed and put her in a bathtub where the mother saw evidence of sexual activity.
Do you see my point here? I'm not saying the girl wasn't raped but I am saying there are too many questions and maybes to go out and lynch a kid until more evidence is introduced.
Somehow in a lot of people's minds it seems calling for some caution before killing the boy is seen as being a rape apologist or in support of those who rape others.
Its not.
There are problems here. There are questions that need answers before jumping to that conclusion that the boy is guilty just because.
The sheriff has openly said the girl and her family have changed their stories multiple times. The defense attorney for the boys said he has it on record that the mother says the girl lies a lot. The prosecutor has it on record and recorded that the girl and her family invoked her fifth amendment rights and refused to testify. Further he states that what was recorded and on the record is him repeatedly telling them that by doing this they would be unable to prosecute the case.
Also they have it on record as the girl and her family refusing to testify and being non-cooperative.
According to the lynch mob of social media this is all some big conspiracy against this girl but the thing is once these people said its on the record and/or recorded it becomes very easy to prove one way or the other.
I have to say the sheriff and the prosecutor don't seem worried at all about what an investigation will find. Matter of fact the prosecutor tore into the girl and her family in a press conference and said bring it on essentially because it wasn't his fault but that of the girl and her family that nothing got done.
Now any way you look at it, and I mean even in the best possible light for the girl, this raises questions about the whole thing.
Questions again. Maybes again. Too many to make this an open and shut case.
For example why after two years has the girl suddenly decided to make a case of this? She's certainly being professionally handled by someone. Who?
That is my point. Too many questions and maybes exist for this to be an automatic lynch mob which social media is making it.
One of those maybes may be finding the boy guilty in the end and sending him to jail. I don't know.
I don't have a problem with the court handling this and after a trial finding the boy guilty if the trial isn't a show trial to crucify him like the Zimmerman trial was. He may indeed be a rapist. I don't know if he is or he isn't which is why I have said something in the comments section of CNN.
I said something not to defend a rapist but to defend a boy all too many are ready to string up when there are still a lot of questions and maybes out there as to what actually did and did not take place.
Yes the sheriff arrested the boy. Yes the prosecutor charged the boy and was going to try him but that never happened and he tells a different story.
He has his right to receive a fair trial and before people jump on the circus to gut him on the public steps maybe they should wait until that happens first.
What is so wrong with asking that?
Let me make it clear here that I am not supporting rapists in any way. I do not and have never supported such persons.
The comments I made were not meant to be taken as support of rapists or excusing the actions rapists take.
The problem I had and still have is one of a figurative lynch mob via social media without all the facts in evidence to justify one.
Just because a girl cries rape doesn't necessarily make it so.
There are a lot of questions in this Missouri case. The facts as we know them from media are the girl was drinking at her house with a thirteen year old friend. Both then sneaked out a window and went to a party. Once at the party with many others present someone gave her a large glass of what was apparently more alcohol.
At some point after that the girl and a seventeen year old boy engaged in sexual relations.
Those are the facts and you can add she ended up in her front yard lying on the ground for a while before being discovered.
What the girl says is after being handed a glass she doesn't remember anything after that point in time.
Now here is where the facts become blurry.
She doesn't remember but her friend told her she was raped. Her friend also claims she was raped at the same party by a fifteen year old.
It was clear she had engaged in sexual relations. It was also clear it wasn't as gentle and nice as it could have been.
Evidence of force? Maybe
Evidence of ineptness? Maybe
Evidence of hurried fumbling activity? Maybe.
A lot of maybes, but the boy claims it was consensual. Was it?
The boy separately and the younger girl state that the boy gave her and the fourteen year old a ride home and the younger girl helped the older one out of the car and they began walking away from the car at which point the boy drove off.
The older girl ended up laying in the walkway in front of her house in freezing cold weather. No boy or the younger girl around.
Another story is the boy drove them home and dumped them on the curb before driving away.
Which was it?
How did the older girl end up face down in the freezing drive?
Maybe the younger girl left her there?
Maybe the boy did and she walked all the way up from the curb before collapsing where she was found.
But then again, supposedly she was unconscious.
How could she walk anywhere?
How did she get from the curb to where she was found?
Was she actually conscious when she got out as a couple of the stories maintain? Maybe.
What we know is her mother and youngest son found her out there and brought her in where they got her undressed and put her in a bathtub where the mother saw evidence of sexual activity.
Do you see my point here? I'm not saying the girl wasn't raped but I am saying there are too many questions and maybes to go out and lynch a kid until more evidence is introduced.
Somehow in a lot of people's minds it seems calling for some caution before killing the boy is seen as being a rape apologist or in support of those who rape others.
Its not.
There are problems here. There are questions that need answers before jumping to that conclusion that the boy is guilty just because.
The sheriff has openly said the girl and her family have changed their stories multiple times. The defense attorney for the boys said he has it on record that the mother says the girl lies a lot. The prosecutor has it on record and recorded that the girl and her family invoked her fifth amendment rights and refused to testify. Further he states that what was recorded and on the record is him repeatedly telling them that by doing this they would be unable to prosecute the case.
Also they have it on record as the girl and her family refusing to testify and being non-cooperative.
According to the lynch mob of social media this is all some big conspiracy against this girl but the thing is once these people said its on the record and/or recorded it becomes very easy to prove one way or the other.
I have to say the sheriff and the prosecutor don't seem worried at all about what an investigation will find. Matter of fact the prosecutor tore into the girl and her family in a press conference and said bring it on essentially because it wasn't his fault but that of the girl and her family that nothing got done.
Now any way you look at it, and I mean even in the best possible light for the girl, this raises questions about the whole thing.
Questions again. Maybes again. Too many to make this an open and shut case.
For example why after two years has the girl suddenly decided to make a case of this? She's certainly being professionally handled by someone. Who?
That is my point. Too many questions and maybes exist for this to be an automatic lynch mob which social media is making it.
One of those maybes may be finding the boy guilty in the end and sending him to jail. I don't know.
I don't have a problem with the court handling this and after a trial finding the boy guilty if the trial isn't a show trial to crucify him like the Zimmerman trial was. He may indeed be a rapist. I don't know if he is or he isn't which is why I have said something in the comments section of CNN.
I said something not to defend a rapist but to defend a boy all too many are ready to string up when there are still a lot of questions and maybes out there as to what actually did and did not take place.
Yes the sheriff arrested the boy. Yes the prosecutor charged the boy and was going to try him but that never happened and he tells a different story.
He has his right to receive a fair trial and before people jump on the circus to gut him on the public steps maybe they should wait until that happens first.
What is so wrong with asking that?
GOP and The Fizzle
The second thing today is something that has been going on for a couple of weeks or so.
The shutdown.
I haven't been on here as I said before. But I did want to say a couple of things about this.
First of all, what was the damn point?
There was none. That's right there was absolutely no point to shutting down the government at all.
I generally side with the Tea Party and have come to detest establishment Republicans who are so mealy mouthed and wishy washy they can't ever seem to take a stand but this?
A complete and total waste of time and capital spent for nothing.
Second of all, was there any point to any of it? Did we, the American people get anything out of it at all?
The answer is again no and none.
When this started there was absolutely no chance of anything being done to Obamacare. NO CHANCE. Not some chance or a good chance but no chance at all.
Why because Obama and the democrats have already funded Obamacare for the foreseeable future.
Obamacare is a disaster for America, I get that and it is but even if the democrats and Obama gave in on most of what the Republicans were asking guess what would have happened to Obamacare?
Nothing, again.
That is because unless the Republicans put up a total repeal of Obamacare retroactively then it wouldn't do a damn thing and they never even tried that because that had even worse chances of getting anywhere than what they did ask for.
They went ahead with this government shutdown and what do they have for all this drama and spectacle?
Nothing, again.
In the end after going to the brink, the very edge, the Republicans got nothing, nothing at all.
It was a total waste.
Why they did it I do not know. It has been obvious that Obamacare is worse than anybody thought. It has been even more so since they rolled it out.
This was said by someone else in the news and I'm basically restating it but we could have sat back and basically smirked and said "I told you so" while the train derailed but we didn't.
We instead jumped on the "Shutdown" bandwagon with no real goal in mind and in the end for nothing.
We could have waited until Obama was asking the Republican party to raise the debt ceiling and then expended that capital and fought to cut the democratic spending and do something to get our budget back on track along with getting our debt started towards a reduction.
But that didn't happen. The Republican Party and yes the Tea Party shot its wad way too early. Instead everyone got screwed and only the democrats enjoyed it.
So now the democrats have passed a deal and the House has voted for it.
In the end all that capital was wasted, all the possibilities that come with a showdown like that were spent on nothing instead of real fights, fights the Tea Party and Republicans can actually win, on real issues, substantive issues.
Sadly that didn't happen. The debt is going up as well as spending, all unchecked, and what did we end up with out of this?
Nothing.
What is even worse is the fight went on with no clear goal in mind after the first few days if that and it damn sure looked like it was no more than a bunch of children throwing a tantrum for no reason.
In the end with no clear goal, with no nothing they gave in. Sadly they never should have started but the lack of cohesive goals for their actions makes it even worse.
Somebody needs to tell me exactly what was hoped to be accomplished by this because I never did figure it out.
The worst part is what will happen now. The Republicans don't have any capital left to use. No one is going to take them seriously because of this debacle. So what's going to happen next?
What's going to happen with immigration? There is something they desperately need capital for in order to fight it. They don't have any. The question becomes not only what are they going to do but how in the hell are they going to do it?
Or are the establishment Republicans after this going to run the show and give in on the issue as so many of them have been saying they are going to do?
What about environmental stuff that Obama et al want but is so detrimental to the US? They don't have anything remotely resembling credibility left to fight it with.
Then we can visit this issue again in December, January, and February and guess what, we're back where we just were.
And they have no nothing with which to fight even if they find their asses from a hole in the ground and come up with something to fight for.
In the end the big bang ended in a big fizzle and no one is the better off for it, especially the Tea Party.
Onto another note after seeing an article by Dave Frum the other day.
His theory is that the Tea Party is some tiny fringe group that should be forced out of the Republican party and left to form their own party or something but they shouldn't be a part of the Republican party at all.
One thing I think Mr. Frum is forgetting are the sheer numbers who would go with them. I have been a life long Republican but I agree with a great deal of what the Tea Party does. I also hold in contempt the establishment Republicans who won't take a stand and won't fight for us or this country on important issues. The establishment Republicans have caved in on immigration, environmentalism, and many other things of huge importance to this country's future.
If the Tea Party should go this lifer will go with them and no longer support the Republican party in any way, shape or form. I also will never ever vote for a Republican again no matter what circumstances may exist.
John McCain and the many others like him do not represent me and haven't for some time. If I want what are essentially centrist democrats I would vote democratic at the ballot, I don't.
So I think Mr. Frum should take notice and watch what he says for supposedly him being a Republican he sure wants to see the downfall of "His" party an awful lot.
Now that I've said that I want to make it clear the Tea Party needs to get their shit together and stop idiocy like what has been happening these last couple of weeks. They need to look for the battles and choose those which are actually important and that can be fought for. If they keep doing stupid shit like this I will not vote for them either. But if they can get it together then I think they'll be a formidable force to be reckoned with.
As Dr. Laura used to say "Pick very carefully if this is the hill you want to die for." My version is pick which hill to go to war over a hell of a lot better than you have been lately.
As my daughter is fond of saying "To hell with all of them" and if the Tea Party doesn't learn when to fight and more importantly when not to then I think I'll join her.
The shutdown.
I haven't been on here as I said before. But I did want to say a couple of things about this.
First of all, what was the damn point?
There was none. That's right there was absolutely no point to shutting down the government at all.
I generally side with the Tea Party and have come to detest establishment Republicans who are so mealy mouthed and wishy washy they can't ever seem to take a stand but this?
A complete and total waste of time and capital spent for nothing.
Second of all, was there any point to any of it? Did we, the American people get anything out of it at all?
The answer is again no and none.
When this started there was absolutely no chance of anything being done to Obamacare. NO CHANCE. Not some chance or a good chance but no chance at all.
Why because Obama and the democrats have already funded Obamacare for the foreseeable future.
Obamacare is a disaster for America, I get that and it is but even if the democrats and Obama gave in on most of what the Republicans were asking guess what would have happened to Obamacare?
Nothing, again.
That is because unless the Republicans put up a total repeal of Obamacare retroactively then it wouldn't do a damn thing and they never even tried that because that had even worse chances of getting anywhere than what they did ask for.
They went ahead with this government shutdown and what do they have for all this drama and spectacle?
Nothing, again.
In the end after going to the brink, the very edge, the Republicans got nothing, nothing at all.
It was a total waste.
Why they did it I do not know. It has been obvious that Obamacare is worse than anybody thought. It has been even more so since they rolled it out.
This was said by someone else in the news and I'm basically restating it but we could have sat back and basically smirked and said "I told you so" while the train derailed but we didn't.
We instead jumped on the "Shutdown" bandwagon with no real goal in mind and in the end for nothing.
We could have waited until Obama was asking the Republican party to raise the debt ceiling and then expended that capital and fought to cut the democratic spending and do something to get our budget back on track along with getting our debt started towards a reduction.
But that didn't happen. The Republican Party and yes the Tea Party shot its wad way too early. Instead everyone got screwed and only the democrats enjoyed it.
So now the democrats have passed a deal and the House has voted for it.
In the end all that capital was wasted, all the possibilities that come with a showdown like that were spent on nothing instead of real fights, fights the Tea Party and Republicans can actually win, on real issues, substantive issues.
Sadly that didn't happen. The debt is going up as well as spending, all unchecked, and what did we end up with out of this?
Nothing.
What is even worse is the fight went on with no clear goal in mind after the first few days if that and it damn sure looked like it was no more than a bunch of children throwing a tantrum for no reason.
In the end with no clear goal, with no nothing they gave in. Sadly they never should have started but the lack of cohesive goals for their actions makes it even worse.
Somebody needs to tell me exactly what was hoped to be accomplished by this because I never did figure it out.
The worst part is what will happen now. The Republicans don't have any capital left to use. No one is going to take them seriously because of this debacle. So what's going to happen next?
What's going to happen with immigration? There is something they desperately need capital for in order to fight it. They don't have any. The question becomes not only what are they going to do but how in the hell are they going to do it?
Or are the establishment Republicans after this going to run the show and give in on the issue as so many of them have been saying they are going to do?
What about environmental stuff that Obama et al want but is so detrimental to the US? They don't have anything remotely resembling credibility left to fight it with.
Then we can visit this issue again in December, January, and February and guess what, we're back where we just were.
And they have no nothing with which to fight even if they find their asses from a hole in the ground and come up with something to fight for.
In the end the big bang ended in a big fizzle and no one is the better off for it, especially the Tea Party.
Onto another note after seeing an article by Dave Frum the other day.
His theory is that the Tea Party is some tiny fringe group that should be forced out of the Republican party and left to form their own party or something but they shouldn't be a part of the Republican party at all.
One thing I think Mr. Frum is forgetting are the sheer numbers who would go with them. I have been a life long Republican but I agree with a great deal of what the Tea Party does. I also hold in contempt the establishment Republicans who won't take a stand and won't fight for us or this country on important issues. The establishment Republicans have caved in on immigration, environmentalism, and many other things of huge importance to this country's future.
If the Tea Party should go this lifer will go with them and no longer support the Republican party in any way, shape or form. I also will never ever vote for a Republican again no matter what circumstances may exist.
John McCain and the many others like him do not represent me and haven't for some time. If I want what are essentially centrist democrats I would vote democratic at the ballot, I don't.
So I think Mr. Frum should take notice and watch what he says for supposedly him being a Republican he sure wants to see the downfall of "His" party an awful lot.
Now that I've said that I want to make it clear the Tea Party needs to get their shit together and stop idiocy like what has been happening these last couple of weeks. They need to look for the battles and choose those which are actually important and that can be fought for. If they keep doing stupid shit like this I will not vote for them either. But if they can get it together then I think they'll be a formidable force to be reckoned with.
As Dr. Laura used to say "Pick very carefully if this is the hill you want to die for." My version is pick which hill to go to war over a hell of a lot better than you have been lately.
As my daughter is fond of saying "To hell with all of them" and if the Tea Party doesn't learn when to fight and more importantly when not to then I think I'll join her.
Rape! Rape! Rape! Or is it?
Well hello again.
It's been a while and I know I should do this more but just haven't so I'm sorry about that.
Several things have been happening lately and I'll start with the first which has been two incidences where the word "Rape" has been used.
The first one is a girl who was fourteen when "It" supposedly happened two years ago. The other party was seventeen to the best of my knowledge and that is what we'll go with although some commenters have said he was younger than that as of this writing.
This fourteen year old girl is at her house drinking it up with her friend on the night in question. They then sneaked out of her house and went to where a party was being held.
Once there according to her they gave her a large glass of something and conveniently she says she doesn't remember anything else after that.
Now lets fill in the blanks a bit with confirmed information in the news articles. (This is as close to accurate as you are going to get right now so take it with a grain of salt as the media definitely has an agenda here)
Her friend meanwhile has said the girl in question drank then had sex with a seventeen year old boy. When the night was over the "Rapist" was nice enough to drive them home. He let them out of the car in front of her house with the "Friend" helping her out and towards the house. The seventeen year old boy then drove off. Also the friend has now come forward claiming to have seen her friend raped and now says she was raped too by a fifteen year old at this party.
Somewhere in that the girl ended up sprawled out on the cold ground in front of her door in twenty-two degree weather. The friend nowhere to be found.
Now the mother and one of her kids find her in that condition and mom takes her into the house and gets her undressed and into a bath where mom notices her daughter has had sex and asks her about it.
The girl says she was raped at that point. It all started there.
There supposedly was and possibly still is video of the encounter but no one has said exactly what it portrays that I've heard or seen anywhere.
Now on to a couple of other facts. The fourteen year old and her mom according to the defense attorneys, prosecutor and sheriff have stated that it is public record that the girl and her family claimed the fifth amendment when testifying came up, and refused to do so.
The family and girl completely denies this.
The thing is that it is a "Public Record" according to all those involved. There would have been a stenographer putting it all down and since some of it occurred in court and some in a deposition it's all on file.
I suppose everyone could be lying except this girl but at the moment I find it hard to believe. To lend even further credence to this is a simple fact, they could have left it with the family wouldn't testify. Or they could have said the family refused to cooperate with investigators etc. They didn't.
What they did say was something quite unusual and it was that the girl took the 5th when asked for testimony. That the mother invoked it also. That's beyond just not testifying or refusing to cooperate which they apparently did as well. They claimed the 5th.
I have to wonder exactly what she was afraid of saying that is so incriminating.
The next thing is this. How does the fourteen year old know anything at all?
I mean if you go with HER story as she is going around whining all over the place with, her story says she doesn't remember ANYTHING that happened after arriving and being given a big drink. Nothing. Its a blank, a complete blank.
Yet she somehow is making allegations on something she can't supposedly remember?
Maybe her friend said she was raped. Maybe her friend filled in the blanks for her? But that begs the question maybe her friend came up with something besides the truth.
Or just maybe the girl was drinking in her home, took off for a party where she drank some more and met up with this hugely popular football jock and banged him silly.
Maybe the boy did the courteous thing by driving the girls home afterwords like he apparently did. And just maybe once mom got her naked in the tub and could see the obvious signs of sex mom asked what happened and like many other times the girl freaked out and told her she was raped because she couldn't face admitting the truth of what happened.
It's certainly not the first time it has happened and sadly it won't be the last.
A girl or women can do whatever she wants and then make it all better by crying "Rape" It just shouldn't work that way.
She went looking for some fun and got it. She doesn't get to cry rape the next day when she realizes what she did and she doesn't get to cry rape when her mommy finds out to save her ass.
Too many peoples' lives get destroyed by such horrible accusations.
And too many girls and women get away with doing just that to make their behavior go away.
Another excellent and even more telling example of this is the woman in Ohio who apparently went to a public place full of people and proceeded to willingly engage in an act of oral sex with a man. Only this time it was the woman who was on the receiving end of the act. All accounts except hers state that she came there willingly, fully participated, and according to multiple witnesses was fully enjoying what was being done to her at the time. Further once they were finished she posed for pictures with the man repeatedly then posed with bystanders, again to have her picture taken by them.
It was the next day when she found that it had hit the internet that she went whining to the cops that she was actually being raped the whole time.
See a familiar response here? Once the pictures and video went viral as they call it she was hugely embarrassed by them and then cried rape.
In both cases they did something they regretted later and were caught, one by mommy and the other by a whole hell of a lot of people and both, ashamed and embarrassed by what they did then issued the accusation of rape to excuse what took place.
Sadly this detracts from the real horrific crime of rape which occurs every day in this country. It casts rape victims in a bad light and does so unfairly by painting all of them with the same broad brush.
Lets not make any mistake here. I fully support someone who has actually been a victim of rape or sexual assault and I even more strongly support the prosecution of an assailant in such cases.
But I have a serious problem with those people who wake up and not like what they did the night before or the week before and cry rape when they weren't raped.
Its not fair to actual rape victims nor is it fair to the men and boys who get falsely accused by these girls and women.
I've never supported or liked false allegations of abuse of any nature and I don't like these either.
If you want to go out and party and fuck one person or half the football team don't get up, realize you acted like a total slut and then cry "Rape" over it because you're ashamed or embarrassed by what you have done.
Deal with it and let these boys and men have a life not ruined by baseless allegations because you regret in the morning what you did the night before.
Hopefully in the last case the video will prove the innocence of the male half. In the first lets hope the Sheriff who said it's over and his office will not reopen the case stands by his ground and doesn't.
And for the nice person who attacked me on CNN.....You're an idiot.
It's been a while and I know I should do this more but just haven't so I'm sorry about that.
Several things have been happening lately and I'll start with the first which has been two incidences where the word "Rape" has been used.
The first one is a girl who was fourteen when "It" supposedly happened two years ago. The other party was seventeen to the best of my knowledge and that is what we'll go with although some commenters have said he was younger than that as of this writing.
This fourteen year old girl is at her house drinking it up with her friend on the night in question. They then sneaked out of her house and went to where a party was being held.
Once there according to her they gave her a large glass of something and conveniently she says she doesn't remember anything else after that.
Now lets fill in the blanks a bit with confirmed information in the news articles. (This is as close to accurate as you are going to get right now so take it with a grain of salt as the media definitely has an agenda here)
Her friend meanwhile has said the girl in question drank then had sex with a seventeen year old boy. When the night was over the "Rapist" was nice enough to drive them home. He let them out of the car in front of her house with the "Friend" helping her out and towards the house. The seventeen year old boy then drove off. Also the friend has now come forward claiming to have seen her friend raped and now says she was raped too by a fifteen year old at this party.
Somewhere in that the girl ended up sprawled out on the cold ground in front of her door in twenty-two degree weather. The friend nowhere to be found.
Now the mother and one of her kids find her in that condition and mom takes her into the house and gets her undressed and into a bath where mom notices her daughter has had sex and asks her about it.
The girl says she was raped at that point. It all started there.
There supposedly was and possibly still is video of the encounter but no one has said exactly what it portrays that I've heard or seen anywhere.
Now on to a couple of other facts. The fourteen year old and her mom according to the defense attorneys, prosecutor and sheriff have stated that it is public record that the girl and her family claimed the fifth amendment when testifying came up, and refused to do so.
The family and girl completely denies this.
The thing is that it is a "Public Record" according to all those involved. There would have been a stenographer putting it all down and since some of it occurred in court and some in a deposition it's all on file.
I suppose everyone could be lying except this girl but at the moment I find it hard to believe. To lend even further credence to this is a simple fact, they could have left it with the family wouldn't testify. Or they could have said the family refused to cooperate with investigators etc. They didn't.
What they did say was something quite unusual and it was that the girl took the 5th when asked for testimony. That the mother invoked it also. That's beyond just not testifying or refusing to cooperate which they apparently did as well. They claimed the 5th.
I have to wonder exactly what she was afraid of saying that is so incriminating.
The next thing is this. How does the fourteen year old know anything at all?
I mean if you go with HER story as she is going around whining all over the place with, her story says she doesn't remember ANYTHING that happened after arriving and being given a big drink. Nothing. Its a blank, a complete blank.
Yet she somehow is making allegations on something she can't supposedly remember?
Maybe her friend said she was raped. Maybe her friend filled in the blanks for her? But that begs the question maybe her friend came up with something besides the truth.
Or just maybe the girl was drinking in her home, took off for a party where she drank some more and met up with this hugely popular football jock and banged him silly.
Maybe the boy did the courteous thing by driving the girls home afterwords like he apparently did. And just maybe once mom got her naked in the tub and could see the obvious signs of sex mom asked what happened and like many other times the girl freaked out and told her she was raped because she couldn't face admitting the truth of what happened.
It's certainly not the first time it has happened and sadly it won't be the last.
A girl or women can do whatever she wants and then make it all better by crying "Rape" It just shouldn't work that way.
She went looking for some fun and got it. She doesn't get to cry rape the next day when she realizes what she did and she doesn't get to cry rape when her mommy finds out to save her ass.
Too many peoples' lives get destroyed by such horrible accusations.
And too many girls and women get away with doing just that to make their behavior go away.
Another excellent and even more telling example of this is the woman in Ohio who apparently went to a public place full of people and proceeded to willingly engage in an act of oral sex with a man. Only this time it was the woman who was on the receiving end of the act. All accounts except hers state that she came there willingly, fully participated, and according to multiple witnesses was fully enjoying what was being done to her at the time. Further once they were finished she posed for pictures with the man repeatedly then posed with bystanders, again to have her picture taken by them.
It was the next day when she found that it had hit the internet that she went whining to the cops that she was actually being raped the whole time.
See a familiar response here? Once the pictures and video went viral as they call it she was hugely embarrassed by them and then cried rape.
In both cases they did something they regretted later and were caught, one by mommy and the other by a whole hell of a lot of people and both, ashamed and embarrassed by what they did then issued the accusation of rape to excuse what took place.
Sadly this detracts from the real horrific crime of rape which occurs every day in this country. It casts rape victims in a bad light and does so unfairly by painting all of them with the same broad brush.
Lets not make any mistake here. I fully support someone who has actually been a victim of rape or sexual assault and I even more strongly support the prosecution of an assailant in such cases.
But I have a serious problem with those people who wake up and not like what they did the night before or the week before and cry rape when they weren't raped.
Its not fair to actual rape victims nor is it fair to the men and boys who get falsely accused by these girls and women.
I've never supported or liked false allegations of abuse of any nature and I don't like these either.
If you want to go out and party and fuck one person or half the football team don't get up, realize you acted like a total slut and then cry "Rape" over it because you're ashamed or embarrassed by what you have done.
Deal with it and let these boys and men have a life not ruined by baseless allegations because you regret in the morning what you did the night before.
Hopefully in the last case the video will prove the innocence of the male half. In the first lets hope the Sheriff who said it's over and his office will not reopen the case stands by his ground and doesn't.
And for the nice person who attacked me on CNN.....You're an idiot.
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