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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Sixth grade teacher charged with having sex with 12-year-old boy | Local & Regional | Seattle News,

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:17:24 +0000

You're right, rape is the far more serious crime and the difference is rape involves penetration whereas molestation does not. So you're saying it wouldn't be ok if she just fondled him, but it's ok since they went all the way? Either way, this is a child. The "but he enjoyed it" angle gets no play. He's a child. What don't you get about that?!?

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Anti-gay marriage initiative won\'t qualify for ballot | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, S

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:10:59 +0000

Hmm, so you are saying "look it up" but only in the very specific way, in the very specific version of the bible that says what you want it to say, and then we can't "quote Leviticus too much". Care to throw a few more parameters out to be sure that nothing you don't like comes up?

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Anti-gay marriage initiative won\'t qualify for ballot | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, S

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:05:06 +0000

90% of laws are based off religion? Really? Such as what? Can you name some of these laws based on religion? If you are thinking of laws against theft and murder, those might be condemned by religions, but they've also been considered taboo and have had laws against them long before religion came into the picture and in essentially all societies regardless of what mythology or lack thereof they've subscribed to.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Sixth grade teacher charged with having sex with 12-year-old boy | Local & Regional | Seattle News,

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:22:14 +0000

Ok, gotcha. It's not child molestation if the kid enjoys it. Surprised Sandusky didn't use that as his defense.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Custody, images at stake in Cruise-Holmes divorce | Entertainment | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, B

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:43:38 +0000

Have to disagree with you a little bit. Tom Cruise is one of those guys I always think is more than a little out there, and the wacky scientology stuff only makes it worse. He's one of these actors I always want to not like, but if there's one thing he can do, he can really act. He's been in some clunkers, but he's also just knocked it out of the park with Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia, A Few Good Men...even Tropic Thunder. He's on that list of people for me that it can be tricky to separate my feelings about the person from my feelings about their art.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Judge: \'Mexican piss\' police lawsuit should go to trial | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:24:56 +0000

How did that rhyme end...was it "but names and kicks to the head will never hurt me?" No, don't think that's how it goes.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : More than $1 million raised to support gay marriage measure | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weath

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:52:42 +0000

Honestly, that may be one of the bigger hurdles that the campaign faces - simply the way this and many other referendums get written, it's not always obvious which way you are supposed to vote to support same-sex marriage.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : High booze prices hitting bar patrons in the wallet | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:40:44 +0000

I'm sorry, but it almost sounds like bars like this might be taking advantage of the price increase to gouge more than a little. From the article: "A lot of my mid-range pours are going up - up $5 a shot more, which is kind of outrageous"' Prices went up, but not that much! A typical bottle of alcohol (a fifth) has approximately 25 ounces of liquor. A standard shot is an ounce and a half, so there are roughly 16 shots from each bottle. If this guy is raising prices $5 a shot, he's pulling in an extra $80/bottle, and that's for what he calls "mid-range pours. Assuming he was actually previously paying something closer to $25/bottle for "mid-range" liquor, his actual cost per drink was only about $1.50. Even if that doubled (and I've only been able to find 1 or 2 that have come close to doubling), another $1.50 is all he would have to charge to keep the same margin. Yes, it sucks that prices have mostly gone up, but it sounds like some of these bars are just using a modest price increase in cost of goods to cause a major price increase in their establishments

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boys and Girls Club staffer arrested for having sex with teen | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Wea

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:28:12 +0000

The age of consent is 16, unless the older person involved is in a position of authority over the victim, then it's 18. From the way this reads, this is exactly why this is the case...whether or not sex was happening at younger ages, this person has likely been grooming her since Middle School for this.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ore. court: Scouts \'perversion files\' to be public | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Spo

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:51:01 +0000

"You can't call the police on mere suspicion" Yes, yes you can! Ask anyone who work in education, school counselors, etc. They don't have to wait until they have concrete proof of molestation. They can, and are in fact in most states are required, to report suspicions of abuse. They absolutely should report suspicions. That's how the police know to start investigating in the first place.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Whooping cough numbers continue to skyrocket | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Bre

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:45:48 +0000

But again, you have no understanding of statistics. You can't claim any kind of "failure rate" from that data, not 50%, not 47%. A "failure rate" by definition, is a percentage of the total with the vaccination. I'll help you out here with some basic statistics and research. Granted, this isn't an in-depth study, just some basic logic applied to easily available and verifiable information. Doing a very quick search to find overall vaccination rates, I immediately found numerous articles discussing that the worst counties in the state of Washington for vaccination had a 10% opt out rate (enrolled students must be vaccinated unless specifically opted out). Again, 10% in the worst case, meaning most are lower. If we assume this worst case scenario and apply it overall, then 1 in 10 are not vaccinated, meaning there are 9 times as many vaccinated as not. With a roughly equal number of reported cases between vaccinated and non-vaccinated, this would indicate a failure rate of approximately 1 in 9, or 11%. Which gives us a success rate of....wait for it...89% overall. (and again, that's a worst case scenario). "CDC epidemiologist Lara Misegades, Ph.D. did a large scale study that found overall effectiveness at around 89%." Funny how that works out...

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Wash. state may help end gay marriage losing streak | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:53:52 +0000

If you continue the hypothetical out even further, though, say A & D get married. Now, through A&B, D & C have legal entanglements, and theoretically C would need to give consent for A&D to get married. You could stretch this out throughout the alphabet. Ultimately, anything more than 2 people in the contract makes it such a legal quagmire of impossible connections that I can't see it every becoming possible to consider.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Whooping cough numbers continue to skyrocket | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Bre

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:45:49 +0000

Exactly! Glad to see someone else was paying attention in Statistics 101

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Whooping cough numbers continue to skyrocket | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Bre

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:23:44 +0000

Are you daft? The research is directly from the real world. Where do you think they get the statistics? The study is done by comparing actual cases to immunization records over multiple years. I saw in another post that you claim to be a doctor, I'm sincerely hoping that's a doctorate in the fine arts or something not a medical degree.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Wash. state may help end gay marriage losing streak | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:12:48 +0000

Morally, I really don't care one way or the other about polygamy. But if you think about it, it is also something that's not a "slippery slope" danger because of consent. If you have a legal marriage contract between 2 people, A & B, it's obvious they are both fully consenting, and sharing all the rights and privileges it entails, including property rights, inheritance, healthcare decisions, etc. But if B then also marries C, it would create a de facto entanglement between A & C that neither consented to.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Whooping cough numbers continue to skyrocket | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Bre

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:57:55 +0000

Since I'd hate to trouble you to have to spend the 90 seconds I did looking at the CDC website to get this information: CDC epidemiologist Lara Misegades, Ph.D. did a large scale study that found overall effectiveness at around 89%. For children 1 year after completing the vaccine, effectiveness is at 98%, but five or more years past their last DTaP it drops to 71% - which more than emphasizes the importance of maintaining the booster shots. http://www.cdc.gov/media/matte/2011/10_whooping_c...

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Schrammie: Squeamish parents need to be more involved in child\'s sex education | Ken Schram | Seatt

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:06:54 +0000

Frank questions need frank answers. Deferring the question to answer it for that individual in private does nothing to answer the question for the rest of those in the room who likely had the same question, but not the courage to ask it.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Edmonds police officer arrested after allegation of sex on duty | Local & Regional | Seattle News, W

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:14:58 +0000

Complete speculation here, but my guess would be that she was a prostitute, probably a "known prostitute" by police. The jaywalking pick-up and subsequent contact may have been used by him to blackmail sex out of someone he thought unlikely to report him

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Defense: George Zimmerman back in police custody | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:11:19 +0000

But what if you started the fight? Are you saying if you start an altercation, but bite off more than you can chew and start getting your butt kicked, then you can pull out a gun and shoot the other person? Not saying that's necessarily what happened here, I wasn't there and neither were you, it's for the courts to decide. But it's not so clear-cut as "this guy defended himself period"

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Retailers now selling booze in Washington state | Business | Mercer Island News

Sun, 3 Jun 2012 00:57:56 +0000

You may have a helpful, insightful comment there, but there's no way I can tell. I could barely make it a third of the way through. Taking off the caps lock, adding a little punctuation and maybe throwing in a spell check will work wonders.