Remember, when you talk with a spy, every third word is a lie. Even "the", "and" and "or".

https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1204168010438545408

Alyse Parker, who has over 200K Instagram followers and over 700K Youtube subscribers, explained her decision on Instagram. In a post, she revealed that she decided to try the Carnivore Diet after hearing about all of the health benefits from friends who switched from being vegan to eating only meat and animal products.

Parker explained, “I had my own fair share of health struggles and eventually reached a breaking point where I was willing to try anything to function properly again.”

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/vegan-influencer-carnivore-healthier

Must be one of those Middle-Eastern Amish with a fabulous tan:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1204186791642849280

Google News Headlines! Sometimes you don't have to read the story to know you just love everything about it.

Runner who slapped reporter's butt on live TV identified as youth minister
New York Post • 1 hour ago


Alex Bozarjian, reporter slapped by man during race coverage: "He took my power"
CBS This Morning • 4 hours ago

Child doesn't see the humor.

From Argentina.

Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime animal experience...

https://www.insideedition.com/womans-rescue-kitten-turns-out-to-be-a-wild-puma-57323

Runner who slapped reporter's butt on live TV identified as youth minister
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AND a 43-year-old Boy Scout leader. Name: Tommy Callaway.

From the Patheos blog:

Seth Beth Clemons • 18 hours ago

"Alas, forgiveness in heaven doesn't mean atonement on earth. Poor judgment gonna cost him dearly."


njguy54

"Those darn video cameras!"

And, from Callaway's lawyer:

"While we regret the situation, Mr. Callaway did not act with any criminal intentions. Tommy is a loving husband and father who is very active in the community."

What's THAT supposed to mean?

Just his AGE should be reason enough for him to guess, at least, that what he did was against the law - and that women are not public property.

My guess is that he's hoping Bozarjian will do something to convince the Savannah Sports Council to let Callaway race again. (He's been banned.)

I only hope she won't.

*Callaway is a youth group leader at his church, Pittman Park UMC, as well as a Boy Scout leader, ... His lawyer ... called him a “loving husband and father who is very active in his community” and local church*

Just another upright married church-goin' little-boy-role-modelin' pretty-girl's-ass-smackin' Man O' God. Praise!

From what I've seen of Georgia, that MFer's lucky her armed boyfriend wasn't there.

And, regarding his age...

It reminds me of this strip.

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1956/07/13

At least L's inability to empathize made sense, given her age!

Don't donate bone marrow to a convicted rapist.

Chris Long is an IT worker in the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department in Reno, Nevada. But all the DNA in his semen belongs to a German man he’s never met.

That’s because Long received a bone marrow transplant from the European stranger four years ago — and the unexpected impact it has had on his biology could affect the future of forensic science.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/bone-marrow-transplant-semen-only-donors-dna

Ghengis Khan hardest hit.

Can you do this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1204143331871281152

Viking wedding charcuterie.

I've got nude beach jokes if anyone wants them.

Special effects video: Okay-bu-no-wait....

Reminiscent of Contact.

If the minority vote tips the next election toward the Democrats, we will all get the government we deserve.

The Pivotal Black Vote

mpetrie,

Courting African Americans -and to a lesser degree Hispanics who have a citizenship- are sooooo out of fashion. The hot thing thanks to Obama is importing registered Democrats from places like Central America -don't confuse it with Houston- and Somalia and then shove them right at the heart of the red states to turn them blue.

Ugh.

New York bill would force all public colleges to offer free abortions

More Tech Tyranny.

Oh, and this is from 1995:

"A Tradition of Rudeness is a Habit that Needs Changing"

https://www.deseret.com/1995/8/13/19187566/a-tradition-of-rudeness-is-a-habit-that-needs-changing

... Then there is the Spring Break Defense (which grown-ups in otherwise disciplined professions, such as the military and the police, have also been known to invoke), to explain the time-honored custom of being a public menace. "That's just the way we've always let off steam - going totally wild that week, doing fun stuff like mooning, groping, throwing up, destroying property. It's a tradition."

Even criminal behavior has been cited as an expression of cultural authenticity. (Miss Manners isn't responsible for those awful expressions.) A student who committed armed robbery in his home-town during vacation pleaded that he did it to prove that despite attending an Ivy League school, he was still loyal to his roots. Public drunkenness that culminated in a neighborhood riot was defended as valid within the tradition of the immigrants involved, although the detail that it is not tolerated in their countries of origin, nor by these traditionalists' own wives and children, was omitted.

Because etiquette is wildly fond of tradition, all these arguments are supposed to stab Miss Manners to the heart. Well, pooh.

These people don't know their own cultural traditions or professional regulations. The customs they are trying to dignify turn out to be pesky habits or major nuisances that their own people have been trying for years to stamp out. What an insult it is to any society to claim that it has an obnoxious cultural heritage requiring disregarding the interests of some of its own members by other of its own members.

Such a thing is not totally unknown, Miss Manners admits. "Sure, we've always pinched women in the streets. They love it. If they didn't, why would they go out of the house?"

Well, if people have been behaving disgustingly for centuries, then it's high time they changed. It is a miscalculation to count on etiquette's being mindlessly mired in the past to the point of considering everything ancient to be hallowed. Miss Manners isn't quite so tradition-bedazzled that she can't tell a valid ritual from a history of having gotten away with murder...

(snip)

And, at Fox News, I found commentators saying "why couldn't Bozarjian just take it as a compliment?"

Um, because that's not her job? Nor SHOULD it be her job?

If a man his age can't control himself, he should pay someone to keep him under control. (Think of those who are both mentally ill and frequently violent.) And when minors can't control themselves, they need to be chaperoned, no matter how much they might scream bloody murder over the indignity.

And, from Boing Boing:

Yeah, “no criminal intent” in this case seems to translate to “I really thought I could do whatever I wanted! What do you mean I could be held accountable for my actions? I certainly didn’t intend to be…”
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I think people hear “criminal intent” and think, “Oh, it’s only a crime if I mean it as a crime?” You have criminal intent if you intended to do a thing and that thing was criminal. It has nothing to do with whether you thought what you were doing was okay or not. Saying you didn’t know that what you were doing was wrong at the time you slapped someone on the ass is an insanity defense (and the bar is really high).

But that was a statement from a lawyer who knows perfectly well what criminal intent means and knows their client had it.
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If he had intentionally smacked her in the back of the head as he ran by there would be no doubt as to it being an assault. But because he instead slapped the rear end of someone that happens to be a woman, it becomes sexualized and is now a grey area as to whether or not the asshole should be held accountable for his actions. Quite the role model for the kids. /s
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This is framed in such a way as to imply “youth minister” somehow is incongruous with the sexual assault, when it really isn’t.
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Quite the opposite. Is Dan Savage still doing his youth pastor watch column, or did it already get boring from the sheer volume of them?
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He’s a non-poor “Xtian” White dude in America, I’m sure it’ll all turn out ‘okay’ for him in the end.
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Good point. At many prospective job options, this would probably be no more than an awkward joke at the interview depending on the industry. White privilege. Now that you point it out, if this was a laywerless black dude and the reporter was some faux-news cookie-cutter blonde, charges would already have been filed.