then how can you be any sort or woman but a self-loathing one?

Of course, now that I think about it, there are women who committ sexual assaults, but I suspect they are self-loathing also. Just as I think men who committ rape are self-loathing.

I am just trying to get a picture here of men who support rape or women who support rape. I cannot think of a single way that they could truly like themselves and believe such utter tripe.

Unless they are rapists.

Rapists support rape. Do you suppose they could have their own little support group?

I wouldn't be at all surprised. Pedophiles have their own support groups, you know.

Probably.

This is your very first letter under that name at Salon. Interesting.

Did you know that there have been many articles written that say that Hillary is the candidate that the Republicans fear most?

I don't know whether Hillary will be the nominee or not. I don't know if I will vote for her or not.

However, I am quite curious. Did you come here specifically to start a "Stop Hillary" campaign?

You have no idea what I look like.

By the way, you never did answer that question I had about that tea bagging reference that you said I would be a candidate for. Is that some sort of sexual reference as well?

Also, would you like to apply that logic you keep trying to convince me you have to the actual case at hand?

A group of women, on leaving a party, pass some French doors and notice a girl inside with a man on top of her and she is surrounded by the legs of other men. There is a man holding the doors closed, but the group of women push past him and see a girl who appears to be unconscious and who appears to have been the victim of a gang assault. They take her to the hospital where she receives treatment for rape. When the girl wants to pursue rape charges against some of the men, the DA declines.

The girl is a minor. Someone has supplied her with liquor. Apparently the DA doesn't want to pursue these matters either.

Comments?

Will the people who keep blowing the smokescreen of Duke case please address specifically the case that the article is about and not extraneous issues?

Question I have asked that has not been answered the smokescreeners:

Could the case at hand be rape?

If you are the lesbian woman who hit one me, I already told you "No." Larn to take "No" for an answer.

I am specifically addressing the smokescreeners.

There is no way that these can be normal young men. I suspect that something is seriously wrong with every single one of them. In addition, they do not even have the excuse of being minors as far as we know. They are adults who should be held responsible for their behavior.

People sometimes have the strangest attitudes. In a nearby city to where I live a twelve year old girl was raped by a father figure who lived in the family home. She became pregnant by him and a DNA test subsequently showed that the child resulting from the pregnancy was the father figure's.

He was convicted, but the jury gave him probation. Testifying as a character witness for the rapist was a powerful and rich and politically connected man of the city. Jurors and observers said that the powerful man's testimony was a factor in the leniency of the sentence.

I was curious about the case and consulted personally with a newspaper reporter who lives in the city. Here's the kicker: The character witness is most probably a child molester himself. Over the years, this reporter said, numerous parents have come to the newspaper to tell that this guy is a molester. Either most of them are afraid to make their cases public or they do not want their children to suffer through a trial.

One can never predict the outcomes in the legal system. Sometimes the innocent are convicted, more often -- in my experience -- the guilty go free.

I am now speechless.

I don't watch "Idol" so I hadn't bothered to read that thread. However, I did as you advised and found the responses quite interesing.

In my experience, gay men don't hate women because women just do not have that much power and influence over gay men. There is, however, a particular category of men who do hate grown women and hate women with breasts. Can you think of what category I mean?

You said: "Never confronted the fact that her husband was a liar and a cheat." Whom should she confront about it? To whom should she answer?

I think she probably confronted the only person she needed to confront: Her husband.

She does not owe the American public the details of her marriage.

It is important to keep in mind that they AG's office will most likely not focus so much upon the facts of the case itself but rather will focus upon whether or not other reasonable DAs might have come to the same decision as Carr.

This from the web address you gave:

Kravets cautioned that the standard for prosecutorial discretion is high.

"The question is not whether reasonable minds might disagree with the DA's decision," Kravets said, "but whether a reasonable prosecutor, looking at all the facts of the case, would almost always reach a different decision than that originally reached by the district attorney in this case."

We can hope, but we cannot assume.

I am reading this just before bedtime. It is like a rather peciliar bedtime story. If not for your clever writing, this story would be a real snore.

Who are these weird dull people? McCain is the only one I can stand.

Again, muchas gracias for making me glad I am Democrat.

Yours truly,

Smith