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1. Esoteric Posted: January 25, 2009 at 08:22 PM (#3060034)But I will note the humorous advertisements this thread draws: 1.) Free Sex Offender Report 2.) #1 Law Of A Perfect Body 3.) 2009 Ford Edge Child Safety.
Something tells me that won't stop some folks from trying. kevin's departure from the BTF scene may alter how this thread plays out. Then again, it may not.
When I was living in Davis several years ago, I got called to jury duty and got interviewed by the judge and lawyers. The case was about a guy who was accused of sexually abusing his two stepdaughters--I got excused when I told the defense attorney that I thought it highly unlikely that two teenage girls would make up a story like that. On my way out, I chatted with a bailiff who said that a huge percentage of Yolo County felonies were child molestation cases. Which I guess makes sense, because outside Davis and Woodland, it's a pretty rural county.
EDIT: To clarify, I didn't mean to imply that people who live in rural areas are any more likely to molest children than their urban counterparts. Rather, that a larger percentage of serious crimes committed in rural areas tend to be domestic in nature.
How about this one:
Oral copulation and lewd acts? Sounds like Dustin's not the only one in his family who knows how to turn a double play.
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have to go book that plane ticket to hell.
Here's a token attempt at funny: Well the tire store got a mention, so some good came of this.
I had the same thought.
Oh dear, internet advertising can be so tastelessly juxtaposed sometimes.
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Is the contention that child abuse is more common in the rural areas? Which flies in the face of the research that I have read where there is discernible difference between the respective rates of abuse. Both are too high.........
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Posted while the author was modifying the original post.
I am intrigued however, to discover what the martial artists and the army don't want me to know.
I ... I don't know what that means
He hasn't signed yet, has he? The latest I saw was that he was meeting with ownership. I don't really think that's news until something happens. As for why this is up, it's just Repoz being Repoz.
Best Regards
John
That, and we also need somebody to start caving so Ramirez, Abreu, Dunn, Cruz, Hudson, Garland, et al are signed someplace.
I was waiting to see if someone would go for it.
They have to pull those numbers out of their arse. I stopped believing when they tried to convince me Britney Spears has an IQ of 115. I'll believe in Bigfoot before I believe her IQ is over 80.
Sounds like a new game show.
EDIT: And in Britney's case, the problem is psychiatric rather than anything else - she's on medication for manic depressive disorder, I believe. And either way, she's clearly been deeply messed up by fame, or dealt poorly with massive fame, however you wish to assign the agency there. It doesn't surprise me that someone who figured out how to manipulate the national media market at the age of 16 is relatively smart.
EDIT2: Here's a topic. "Toxic" is easily on the consideration list if you're thinking about the 20 best singles of the decade.
EDIT: She seems to have completely lost the ability to manipulate the national media market during the period between firing her manager and her recent comeback, which suggests the relatively smart one isn't her.
It's definitely her best, but I don't think it's Top 20. Maybe it makes the Top 40. That TI/Rihannon (sp?) song "Live Your Life" on the other hand is Top 5. Umbrella is Top 15.
On a jokey note, I wonder if Dustin is relieved now that he can go home without having to grow a beard to look older than 12.
On a Britney note, I really think people like her and Lindsay Lohan are deeply ill served by our modern entertainment media complex, which includes their fame-seeking parents. Somehow Jessica Simpson seems to have turned out sane and at least out of trouble.
There are inanimate objects that can figure out how to manipulate the national media market. It's not even a sign of life, much less intelligence.
The ads are great. I'm a little disturbed that the ad knows that my child is at risk. This concerns me greatly as I was unaware that I had any children.
- you done gone and left your 5 chillins in fallujah?
tsk tsk tsk
and britney spears, mental illness or no mental illness does NOT have an above average IQ
Although television isn't always the best source of introspection, I thought there was a very well done episode of Law and Order that covered this variation in viewpoint.
I did not like that at all.
Rotoworld says the Red Sox has made a formal offer, with possibly a second guaranteed year. No dollar figure.
since when?
and these people can be "cured"/controlled HOW? (meaning that they are no longer sexually attracted to children)
Well, it's hardly normal and healthy, is it?
and these people can be "cured"/controlled HOW?
With a nutcracker.
According to DSM-IV, it is.
and these people can be "cured"/controlled HOW? (meaning that they are no longer sexually attracted to children)
The thing I linked indicates that that's a big problem and that they tend to focus on relapse prevention. Obviously, the behaviour can't be condoned, and the misery for the abused is worse, but you would think that there's something to be said for trying to deal with it on a medical basis unless you're just going to lock people up for life.
This may change in the DSM-V due out in 2012, but yes, it is a mental illness and because of the stigma attached to it many people with it hide it, and attempt to continue their lives as normal despite being sexually attracted to children. This leads to situations when they act on their urges, which is far worse than them entering treatment and working with mental health professionals to limit the potential for contact with children. Unfortunately, at this time there is very little that can be done to "cure" pedophilia, though work is being done on cognative/behavioral therapies that will help those afflicted control their urges, as well as use of medications that decrease libido, and even more drastic actions to the point of chemical castration have been used in the past. For those with the disorder, many are transferred to long term mental health institutions after the end of their prison term and due to the inability of modern psychiatric and psychological treatments to control the disorder adequately and reliably are left there in perpetuity without any way to have anything approaching a normal life. I realize that sympathy for child molesters is a hard thing to ask- but it is a pretty horrible affliction, one I wouldn't wish upon anyone.
Of course, the civil libertarian side of me recoils in horror from this but I'm not sure that the current situation, which in many cases seems to involve marginalizing them as much as possible through laws about where they can live and whether they can open the door on Halloween, is any better, from the perspective of building a good society.
Well, most of the people that are listed would be considered public figures, so there'd have to be either recklessness or actual malice in order for a libel claim to succeed, and though the ads speech is less protected as it's commercial speech there'd have to be an applicable statute to apply against it in order to limit it. Further the public person would have to show actual damages from the advertisement. Much more fruitful would be someone relying on the IQ test's statement and then spending money on it or being harmed somehow by it, but I'm positive there'd be a legal disclaimer before people sign up or pay money that it's a just for fun thing.
Libel and Slander suits are hard as heck to win as a public figure. Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, which found this ad protected under free speech after Falwell sued for libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Falwell lost the libel case immediately, and lost the intentional infliction of emotional distress case because of his being a public figure and the chilling effect such a ruling would have on all speech.
It's a pity you can't "inform" the child molesters.
Sounds like a new game show.
You'd have to be some kind of clown to appear on that show.
I wonder if he's related to any Nazi war criminals or Steve Garvey.
Is it important to distinguish among pedophilia and other disorders in which adults molest underage people? In Boston, the clergy abuse problem was widely identified as a problem of pedophilia but there were many instances of priests abusing teenagers. In order to confront the issue should the legal and church authorities recognize the differences?
And the prizes are to die for.
If playing video games all day counts as a treatment for something, sign me up for that something!
Then I'm completely immune to cancer.
And I despise the freaking Red Sox...
Also, Pedoria.
So, did he (unwisely) have consensual sex with a willing, developed 13 yr old girl, or did he have "oral copulation" with an 8 yr old boy?
If it's the former, I wouldn't be so quick to label him a "pedophile".
I hate to admit it, but I think Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" is a better example of produced pop music and makes for one of the best pop singles of all time.
I agree with RTG in that Kelly's singles is of the quality for top 10 pop single of the last 10 years.
I think Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Christina, Shania, Beyonce, Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, and some other pop artists would come before Toxic.
And I can't speak for anyone else, but "well-developed" or not, 13 is still really young. That's a seventh-grader. How could you mistake a seventh-grader for a high-school senior?
IMO.
They call that salad around these parts.
Don't ask me what they call dog turd around these parts, you don't want to know.
I just thought burlesque was having a revival with a modern twist. Namely that it involved bad music as the background to a scantily clad female dancing/gyrating.
It's come a long way since the days of your youth, when Lola Montez trod the stage.
For a song that I absolutely despised when it first came out I have to admit that it is UNBELIEVABLY catchy. I've learned to appreciate it for what it is.
I take it you were not a big fan of Josephine Baker when she came to America then.
edit: damn, beaten to the punch and by an even older women too.
When I had major head surgery this was pretty much the recovery plan. And it wasn't really worth it, partially because the combination of Metroid Prime and the various drugs they gave me resulted in a creeping sense of unease, occasionally bordering on outright paranoid terror.
Wind Waker was fun though.
Basically, any behavior that potentially leads to problems in the actor's life is reconceptualized by the psychiatric community as a "mental disorder," but that's just a label; it has no substance behind it.
I'm disappointed that it took this long for a Lebowski reference. And that I didn't think of making it.
Did you just call homosexuality a mental disorder?
Having nothing to do with homosexuality, I'm confused by this statement then, regarding who - if anyone - you consider the authority on mental disorders.
Is there anyone you would trust other than, er, yourself, I guess, to decide who has a mental disorder or what constitutes one?
There is a stage in advanced rock-snobbery where one will attempt to discuss the merits of over-produced top 40 music dispassionately or even with seemingly unjustified reverence. Note that this is different from taking an ironic or contrarian position.
Any psychologist worth her salt will point out that mental disorders are social constructs that describe maladaptive behaviors. What is or is not maladaptive changes depending on the society and who's writing the manual (see homosexuality).
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