Like I said, drunk people having sex happens all the time even though drunk people are legally incapable of giving consent. Getting smashed and hooking up seems to be a very popular way to get casual sex though. I imagine that most people are a bit too inhibited to do so sober.
Legally it counts as rape in most jurisdictions in the United States. Most states hold that intoxicated people are incapable of giving consent. If two drunks have sex and one of them decides they really didn't want to after the fact, its rape. This doesn't stop drunks from having sex with each other, it happens all the time, but it is legally rape.
Brandon, they problem have similar problems but to a lesser degree. Male gymnasts tend to be older than female gymnasts during the high point of their career to.
Its gymnasts that really get to me. Most dancers start learning the craft a bit latter than gymnasts. The average age is seven and one dancer I knew was fourteen when she started. It generally seems to be more on their volition than their parents and their career highlights tend to be during their twenties and thirties, that is when their adults.
Gymnasts are different. They have the high point of their careers in their teens or younger, especially if they are female. It seems more to be something that their parents force on them and they get body problems associated with old age way earlier than they should.
Their are also many more career opportunities for dancers than gymnasts.
Many dancers that I know have developed problems associated with senior citizens during their twenties. This seems to be much more of a problem with theatrical and art dancers than those involved in partner dancing. At least thats what I get from casual observation I might be wrong. I got more injuries from dancing than I did from anything else I did in my life.
And why did African-Americans have lower purchasing power? Oh, I know the answer. Racism ensured that African-Americans would get the worst jobs with the lowest salaries and generally that was all that was available to them. Unlike other aspects of Jim Crow, this wasn't enshrined in law.
Jaybird, I don't think it works this way. Ever since Congress abrogated its military power to the President; Presidents have been more or less free to do what they want with the armed forces. If Congress is against the President's use of the armed forces in a particular matter than Congress is going to have to reassert its authority to declare war and make peace. The percentage of people for against a particular action is irrelevant.
At the same time, even though there businesses that did cater to African-Americans under Jim Crow, they were nearly always much inferior in quality to the businesses that catered to whites. Just like the government services for whites were superior to those for African-Americans.
Are you even capable of seeing the issues behind this Deco? The mere fact that a person is white in the United States gives him or her a head start. A white person is less likely to be troubled by the police just because, usually has access to better public schools, etc.
And I think this is one area where both parties really are equally bad. Both parties made a deliberate choice that Congress simply won't invoke its war powers and would simply defer to the President as Commander-In-Chief.
If we want to stop the President from getting us entangled in military interventions than Congress is going to have to resume their role in military matters on their own inititative. We can't do it for them.
Based on our many repeated attempts to try and fail to kill Castro, I doubt we could pull this off. Even if we could pull it off, I'm sure the resulting power vaccum would be splendid. The Syrian opposition is kind of leaderless and myriad in composition and goals.
This isn't reason enough to intervene. We need to know if our intervention is going to make things better or worse. The only way we can make things better through military means is a full-scale invasion and occupation of Syria. Everything else is not going to do much and is only going to make us look powerless.
Can you explain to me how the United States could launch an intervention in Syria that falls short of a full invasion but is more than a symbolic action and still be helpful? The region is chaotic enough without a full invasion. Lobbing a few missiles at government targets is going to look impotent because it is not going to do anything.
If the United States really wanted to help the Syrian people and make the region more stable, we would admit hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians into America as refugees. We should also send food, clothing, other supplies, and humanitarian personnel to the refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan. Israel has spent three million dollars providing medical care to Syrian's brought into Israel by the IDF to receive medical care in Israel hospitals. We can pay give Israel money to pay for this care. All of these actions would be years more helpful and meaningful than military intervention.
I agree. Ben Stiller's character represented all the compromises that you need to make in order to be an adult. If Wyona Ryder's character ended up with him, it would have been seen as giving at least some of her artistic "integritiy" in order to make it. Ethan Hawke's character allowed for more childish purity.
I actually like Singles a lot better than Reality Bites. The problem with Reality Bites was that Ben Stiller's character was not presented sympathetically enough. He should have gotten the girl.
Benedickt's name sounded familiar for a reason. Thanks for the reminder. I wonder if Asian men feel the same way towards Asian women that end up marrying non-Asians, that they are passing a sort of judgment on sexual and physical attractiveness. In the American lexicon of racial stereotypes, Jewish and Asian men of the distinction of being seen as not really men and sort of feminine. Any manly behavior is portrayed as more clownish than actually macho in bad or good sense. Basically we lack the capacity to be badass. Jewish men are usually seen as being kind, gentle, and funny as a sort of positive side-effect. Asian men aren't so lucky.
ND but thats contemporary. Certain parts of the UK feel the need to change their folk heritage to make it more friendly for recent immigrants. If the Arthurian and Robin Hood mythos need to be changed so that British people of color could take part, why not include the Jews to? Why should Jewish British people be expected to associate with Christian British Whites?
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On “Rape and Inebriation”
Like I said, drunk people having sex happens all the time even though drunk people are legally incapable of giving consent. Getting smashed and hooking up seems to be a very popular way to get casual sex though. I imagine that most people are a bit too inhibited to do so sober.
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Legally it counts as rape in most jurisdictions in the United States. Most states hold that intoxicated people are incapable of giving consent. If two drunks have sex and one of them decides they really didn't want to after the fact, its rape. This doesn't stop drunks from having sex with each other, it happens all the time, but it is legally rape.
On “An honest question for football fans”
Brandon, they problem have similar problems but to a lesser degree. Male gymnasts tend to be older than female gymnasts during the high point of their career to.
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Its gymnasts that really get to me. Most dancers start learning the craft a bit latter than gymnasts. The average age is seven and one dancer I knew was fourteen when she started. It generally seems to be more on their volition than their parents and their career highlights tend to be during their twenties and thirties, that is when their adults.
Gymnasts are different. They have the high point of their careers in their teens or younger, especially if they are female. It seems more to be something that their parents force on them and they get body problems associated with old age way earlier than they should.
Their are also many more career opportunities for dancers than gymnasts.
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Many dancers that I know have developed problems associated with senior citizens during their twenties. This seems to be much more of a problem with theatrical and art dancers than those involved in partner dancing. At least thats what I get from casual observation I might be wrong. I got more injuries from dancing than I did from anything else I did in my life.
On “Do Markets Reward Racism? It isn’t a Black and White Issue”
And why did African-Americans have lower purchasing power? Oh, I know the answer. Racism ensured that African-Americans would get the worst jobs with the lowest salaries and generally that was all that was available to them. Unlike other aspects of Jim Crow, this wasn't enshrined in law.
On “On War and Declarations of War”
Jaybird, I don't think it works this way. Ever since Congress abrogated its military power to the President; Presidents have been more or less free to do what they want with the armed forces. If Congress is against the President's use of the armed forces in a particular matter than Congress is going to have to reassert its authority to declare war and make peace. The percentage of people for against a particular action is irrelevant.
On “Do Markets Reward Racism? It isn’t a Black and White Issue”
At the same time, even though there businesses that did cater to African-Americans under Jim Crow, they were nearly always much inferior in quality to the businesses that catered to whites. Just like the government services for whites were superior to those for African-Americans.
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Are you even capable of seeing the issues behind this Deco? The mere fact that a person is white in the United States gives him or her a head start. A white person is less likely to be troubled by the police just because, usually has access to better public schools, etc.
On “On War and Declarations of War”
Kim, Arafat died of natural causes. He was old and very sick.
I'm really constantly amazed at the fantasy universe inhabited by many critics of Israel.
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And I think this is one area where both parties really are equally bad. Both parties made a deliberate choice that Congress simply won't invoke its war powers and would simply defer to the President as Commander-In-Chief.
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If we want to stop the President from getting us entangled in military interventions than Congress is going to have to resume their role in military matters on their own inititative. We can't do it for them.
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Based on our many repeated attempts to try and fail to kill Castro, I doubt we could pull this off. Even if we could pull it off, I'm sure the resulting power vaccum would be splendid. The Syrian opposition is kind of leaderless and myriad in composition and goals.
On “Linky Friday #38”
Thank you Will. Unfortunately, Tvtropes.org said it first. I'm just in agreement with their opinion.
On “On War and Declarations of War”
This isn't reason enough to intervene. We need to know if our intervention is going to make things better or worse. The only way we can make things better through military means is a full-scale invasion and occupation of Syria. Everything else is not going to do much and is only going to make us look powerless.
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Link about Israel aiding Syrian people:
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/8/28/zionist-trickery-watch/
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Can you explain to me how the United States could launch an intervention in Syria that falls short of a full invasion but is more than a symbolic action and still be helpful? The region is chaotic enough without a full invasion. Lobbing a few missiles at government targets is going to look impotent because it is not going to do anything.
If the United States really wanted to help the Syrian people and make the region more stable, we would admit hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians into America as refugees. We should also send food, clothing, other supplies, and humanitarian personnel to the refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan. Israel has spent three million dollars providing medical care to Syrian's brought into Israel by the IDF to receive medical care in Israel hospitals. We can pay give Israel money to pay for this care. All of these actions would be years more helpful and meaningful than military intervention.
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Jason, isn't the issue that Congress willingly surrendered their power in this area sometime during the Cold War?
On “Linky Friday #38”
I agree. Ben Stiller's character represented all the compromises that you need to make in order to be an adult. If Wyona Ryder's character ended up with him, it would have been seen as giving at least some of her artistic "integritiy" in order to make it. Ethan Hawke's character allowed for more childish purity.
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I actually like Singles a lot better than Reality Bites. The problem with Reality Bites was that Ben Stiller's character was not presented sympathetically enough. He should have gotten the girl.
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The fact that Arabic has no word for compromise is kind of suggestive of why the Arab world seems to keep repeating the same politic mistakes.
On “The Problem with the Public vs. Private Distinction in Education”
Benedickt's name sounded familiar for a reason. Thanks for the reminder. I wonder if Asian men feel the same way towards Asian women that end up marrying non-Asians, that they are passing a sort of judgment on sexual and physical attractiveness. In the American lexicon of racial stereotypes, Jewish and Asian men of the distinction of being seen as not really men and sort of feminine. Any manly behavior is portrayed as more clownish than actually macho in bad or good sense. Basically we lack the capacity to be badass. Jewish men are usually seen as being kind, gentle, and funny as a sort of positive side-effect. Asian men aren't so lucky.
On “Does Bigotry Pay in a Free Market? Absolutely.”
Since Obama was a comic book nerd in his youth, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't sack the Feds on Spider Man's wife.
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Point, Murali.
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ND but thats contemporary. Certain parts of the UK feel the need to change their folk heritage to make it more friendly for recent immigrants. If the Arthurian and Robin Hood mythos need to be changed so that British people of color could take part, why not include the Jews to? Why should Jewish British people be expected to associate with Christian British Whites?
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