“A society in which the citizens fear the police has issues”

“Your future needs you, your past does not, let it go”

“You can tell a woman, but you can’t tell her much”

“He who has never failed has never tried”

“If someone, a lover or a friend, ever says they can do better, shake their hand, and wish them well in their quest. Then leave”

“Don’t let the same people disappoint you twice”

“The capacity to learn is a gift, the will to do so, a choice”

“A truly enlightened man still plants trees, even at the end phase of his life”

Why are the names of the young men being spread all about the world via press releases and news media, but the name of the “Victim” hidden?

Don’t those men have the right to privacy until convicted?  The presumption of innocence until tried?

Second question: When a woman gives consent (and apparently, she did, at the time) then can she revoke that consent days or weeks later? She apparently texted and said she “had a great time” the day after, which kinda breaks the whole “I didn’t consent” bit don’t it? Hard to make that go away.

Regret later of an encounter does not mean a rape happened.

I don’t know, and you don’t know, what happened that night. But to trash the reputations (and futures) of a bunch of young men before they are convicted of anything is, in my opinion, just plain wrong. If they are gonna shield her identity, they should shield the accused as well.

Give ’em a fair trial first, then, hang ’em…if the charges can be proven. And if it is found that a rape didn’t occur, then she should face charges. As should every single entity spreading the names of the accused.

Again: None of us know for sure what exactly happened. We don’t know whose story is true…. But her report, weeks later, apparently didn’t meet the standards for charges. It appears that her friends told her she Must Have Been raped after having some wild fun (’cause no decent girl would consent to such behavior) , and that changed her mind from a wild night to something she regretted. Her reputation as a “Good Girl” is gone and her friends and female acquaintances think poorly of her for her behavior, so now it becomes “rape”. Funny (strange) is the culture of, and the minds of, women, innit?

I dunno either way though. My question is though, do these men whose reputation is now trashed, by both the college, the police, and the media, have recourse if they are found to be not guilty?

Spent the weekend doing touristy stuff so the next few days are gonna be busy….Blogging may be sparse.

I was with MC , trying to keep her out of trouble.

But she did have a good time, so there is that.

That’s how far I travelled, doing a bit over half of the driving.

I can still do 14 hour trips like I did when I was in my 20’s, but my knees object more these days.

The RAV 4 hybrid we drove was a pretty decent road trip car for the front seat passengers, but the complaint was that it lacked legroom  for the back seat folks.

But it had great pep and pretty decent handling and a smooth ride and got an honest 38 MPG on the highway, even when driving at 1.5X the posted limits ..(I. of course, would never exceed the posted limit as I am a law abiding citizen, but other drivers may have)

Next time though, we are flying.

Thought for the week:

Sometimes it’s more than an advertising slogan:

Yet it could have been a tragedy comparable to 9-11.

Omani pilot stabs Indian captain of 737 and tries to crash it.

You’d think an international air carrier would be vetting their people better.

Especially arabs.

Aaron has even more

Why does out media try to hide Muslim Extremism?

This time, it’s diesel:

Why Blocking U.S. Diesel Exports Could Make Fuel More Expensive

Lots of excuses as to why the US should sell it’s diesel to the rest of the world, even though it makes the pricing in the US abnormally high.

Since we have the excess refining capacity (and Europe and other countries don’t because of “Green Policies and other reasons),  the US is a net exporter of diesel…and yet the arguments are all about how we shouldn’t stop sending diesel out beyond our borders so that the price of diesel elsewhere in the world is lower….But our market price is higher.

As it is, we subsidize the entire rest of the world in medicines, our pricing is higher than anywhere else. Why should we also subsidize them for energy sources?

Fuck the rest of the world, We need to keep, and put, our people and our economy first.

If after 90 days there is a (significant) surplus of diesel and jet fuel and other petroleum fractions (as predicted) in the US, then (and only then) we should sell it on the world market. In the meantime, lets keep the pricing low for the US citizens.

Once again, it appears that President Trump’s advisors are Globalists….And that they don’t have the US citizens welfare at the top of their priorities.

ETA:

Of course, the shrill arguments from the rest of the world are getting ever louder as it looks like the ban on exports might happenhttps://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Hidden-Tradeoffs-of-a-US-Diesel-Export-Ban.html

“Don’t whine when you get what your actions earned”

“Don’t waste time trying to change things you cannot control”

“No one risk their lives to go to communist countries, it’s always to escape them” (And have you ever noticed that people who preach Capitalism/Socialism never move to countries where it is practiced?)

“In order to grow, you must learn, in order to learn, you must have an open mind”

“Comfort zones are where dreams go to die”

“It is really hard to talk yourself out of jail, but very easy to talk yourself INTO jail….Shut up”

“Knowledge without perspective is nothing”

“Pain is temporary, Pride is forever

“Life is not a matter of having a good hand of cards, but of playing that hand well”

This continued drawdown of the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) isn’t good. It weakens out country.

The drawdown isn’t making a dent in the price of oil, (Or at the pump, which is  different issue).

It is making our ability to make war less and less, at little gain anywhere else.

Selling oil earmarked for times of limited supply (like war) isn’t what the reserve was designed for…selling it on the open market where it helps other countries doesn’t help the US….it isn’t like any of them are helping with the issue in Iran either.  None of them are actually “allies”.  The US needs to look out for the US first, not the rest of the world.

I don’t know who is advising the President, but they aren’t giving him good advice here.