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It's rape as long as there is penetration of an orifice, so vagina, anus or mouth constitutes rape.

For many, it was worth it. For others, they were forced or coerced into a sexual relation. That is the reason he is being charged with rape. If it was worth it, she, and others, would have complied without complaint.

He was, at the time, an extremely powerful person in the industry who could make or break careers.

Well, I've studied the virus in great detail. I've studied and read about the vaccines extensively, but I am less knowledgeable about them. You pose your question as a binary choice. So, based on what I know, yes, it is in the public interest to get boosted. As we move from pandemic to endemic, we still don't fully understand this virus and how it will change and what challenges it will present. Based on that, at this point, it is in the public interest to get vaccinated. The more people that catch covid and transmit it, the greater the chances of mutations that could be more dangerous. We won't know for a long time how essential they are, so IMO, it's better to be safe than sorry. As for the money being made, well, that's one that needs to be watched carefully by governments. Companies have a poor conscience and are ruled by profits. If we look at the history of the HIV medications, it was clear that profits were at the top of the agenda. It wasn't until countries threatened to break the patent on the medication that they started negotiating. As far as I was concerned, Pharma was very short-sighted. Without the medication, patients were 100% sure of dying. With the medication, the company had a customer for life, and it was a substantially longer and more productive life.

Even if they do want to be a cop, I reckon they will be turning a lot of blind eye's to crime by certain ethnicities You mean they will be turning a blind eye to crimes just like they have been doing for whites for a very, very long time.

That seems like a hefty price tag. I wonder if it is in line with what vaccines actually cost? It will be interesting to see if the US pays the list price and then most of the world gets huge amounts of vaccine at a greatly reduced price or free.

The days of the easily extracted oil seem to be done.

Many of us grew up in a vastly different world than kids today. We were sent to out to play for hours on end, we explored, we rode bicycles, and we climbed trees. Our duties at home, and sometimes for extra money, included shoveling snow and mowing lawns -- a few may have done that with a push mower. Our meals probably weren't particularly healthy, but they were far from unhealthy. Sugar was limited to a desert if we ate all our food, and the occasional candy bar and a bottle of soda. Television was limited to a few channels and not a lot of choice of programs. At school, we had recess instead of gym class. Twice a day and at lunchtime we were outside running around. Many of our parents also were physically active, they farmed, they mined, they had outside jobs. That's not the case in the modern world. Exercised isn't normal and has to be a paid for and planned activity, it's not safe for kids to just go out and runaround and it's infinitely easier to eat unhealthy food than healthy food.

I suspect that is not exactly accurate. Green Card Holders can be punished, but a native born American citizen cannot be easily stripped of citizenship.

That's the kind of nonsense we have come to expect. The Democrats will not be charging anyone. Congress won't be charging anyone. The charges will come from the Department of Justice. Please try to familiarize yourself with the system and how it works before posting information that is not correct.

I haven't spent a lot of time in the UK, but I have worked with many UK nationals over the years. I have found the country to be more classist than racist, but that's just an observation. As for the many British people I know, they were no more or no less racist than anyone else. I think the problem with discussing racism is that most of us have prejudices against certain groups. We may have grown up being told not to trust Catholics or Jews or Muslims. On the basis of that, we may shy away from those groups. Amongst the Brits I know, the only racist group I ever heard a fair amount of negative remarks was Pakistanis. People have the right to not like any group they don't like. They don't have the right to harm others on the basis of race. Most of us don't have that power. Racism becomes a problem when it receives widespread support from others and when the government condones it.

This has to be one of the worst possible ways to die. So will they cremate him or compost him?

If it doesn't, it's one of the few things that Musk doesn't influence. He can send the stock market reeling in whatever direction he wants. He controls Ukraine's ability to communicate -- he turned it on and then off. Personally, I think something is seriously wrong when one person controls not only this much wealth and power.

There are a lot of people that will not be happy. Social Security is the life-line for many.

He holds a huge amount of sway with a lot of people, especially younger black men.

Both the war on immigrants and the war on drugs are among the biggest waste of money in US history. Both have been about as successful as the incursions into Vietnam and Afghanistan. Immigrants keep coming, and no wall will stop them. The Mediterranean Sea doesn't stop them; a strip of iron won't. Any effort to slow the flow has to occur by helping to change conditions in their own country that making living there more palatable. That includes addressing Climate Change, which has wreaked havoc on parts of Central America, including back-to-back hurricanes in 2020 to coffee rust. Food insecurity is a huge motivator to migrate (think of the potato famine). So, some aggressive, targeted programs in those countries needs to be implemented post haste. The issue of political instability and gang violence are harder to address, but we have people in gov't who have a history of dealing with these problems and may have some good long term ways of helping without too much direct involvement. The war on drugs simply needs to be ended. Most drugs need to be decriminalized, legalized or controlled. Much of the situation is a public health matter for users, and some serious reform needs to be done with those entities known as cartels. The current scourge is rainbow fentanyl which is producing panic because it looks like candy. I don't know many druggies that would give their drugs to kids -- or share with anyone for that matter -- but it is causing quite a stir. This drug can be produced for a few cents per pill in easily set up laboratories that can be moved on short notice. Border patrol is boasting large busts, and high street value, but yet the actual cost to those producing it is minor. Giving up a few shipments is nothing more than a diversion for larger shipments to get through. If you want migrants at home, then start making their home a better place to live. You want to stop the flow of illicit drugs, start making them less illicit.

No one has built a wall you can't get over. No one has built one you can't get under, either. This one is easy to climb and if you don't want to then simply cut the bars with tools that can be gotten at any hardware store and done in minutes. Oh, and if you want to detain them for illegal crossing, then the penalty is a $50 -$250 fine and a possible 6th month sentence. But, that means all the constitutional rights to a fair trial are in effect. If you recall Trump sort of tried that quite unsuccessfully, I might add.

Not a winner here, I see. By 'whatever is necessary' do you mean to break the law? Do you support illegal activities that prevent people from entering? Don't you think it's rather silly to compare a large island with many miles of open seas to a border that has only a narrow, shallow river in one part and open space in the other.

The vast majority of crime is committed by Natural born Americans and the biggest fear around here is getting shot and that's not by anyone crossing the border.

Please explain just what 'job' it is that the federal government is supposed to do? Then let us know how they created the situation or how they are dumping on the border states. I own a home and property near the border -- an unwalled portion as well -- and I fail to see the problem.

Walker's son is far more articulate and animated than his father.

The people being sent are not in need of a sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities simply do not question immigration status in questioning people or taking a police report. The purpose is to make sure that people who are victims of a crime are not afraid to report it. It also means that when someone is picked up by local police, they will not be held awaiting immigration to pick them up. If Immigration want them, they will have to pick them up and detain them prior to their scheduled release date. The people being sent to NYC and other cities are in the US legally and have made a reasonable claim to refugee status. They are not illegal.

You obviously do not know what sanctuary city means.

Well, apparently it's a crisis for Texas, so why not NYC? The land area of Texas is 268,597 Sq. Miles. New York City is 302 Sq. miles.

Most of the migrants crossing the border have no intention to remain in the immediate border area. Many have family or other connections elsewhere in the US. Texas has just over 8,100 schools; NYC has just over 1,000. There is a huge difference between sending people to a city and having them settle in a state. For many of them, there are services available throughout the US for those needing resettlement. Sending them to specific cities that have signaled their facilities are overloaded is not a reasonable method of handling the problem.