'The Silence Breakers' Are TIME Person of the Year, Mammograms May Be Overrated, Trad-Values Senator Found Paying Underage Boy for Sex: A.M. Links

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  Time magazine cover

  Police have released video of the sting that found Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy whom he had paid for sex. Shortey opened the door in a shirt referencing a Bible verse about wives submitting to their husbands.

• TIME magazine has named "The Silence Breakers" as the "Person of the Year."
• Mammograms deserve little if any of the credit for reductions in breast-cancer deaths, suggests a new study.
• Introducing the U.K.'s insane new porn regulations.
• The House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to file a contempt resolution against top FBI and Justice Department officials "as quickly as possible."
• "In the most illuminating part of last week's House subcommittee hearing on the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Russ Winkler explained how he uses online platforms—particularly Backpage—to fight online sex trafficking," notes the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

TIME magazine has named "The Silence Breakers" as the "Person of the Year."

Uh-oh.

[Mithrandir]

At least it wasn't Putin.

[Rat on a train]

He would only accept if he could pose shirtless for the cover photo.

[Bee Tagger]

The best insult would be to reissue the mirror issue with Putin's name that way when I look at it I can think "oof, Putin has really let himself go lately"

[Ecoli]

The current cover would be so much better if all those women were in skimpy bikinis.

[Zeb]

But with the same makeup and facial expressions.

[Ecoli]

Exactly. And with the words: Me too... Please!

[Citizen X - #6]

Zeb likes his women like he likes his beer: bitter, frosty, and not to be touched.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

You have finally cracked the mystery of how Zeb can love IPAs so much. He doesn't actually drink them. He just likes to look at them and smell them a little.

[Mithrandir]

I love IPAs. The dryer and more bitter the better. My current favorite is Sierra Nevada's Torpedo extra IPA.

[Crusty Juggler]

I love IPAs. The dryer and more bitter the better. My current favorite is Sierra Nevada's Torpedo extra IPA.

Now Zeb's posting under different accounts.

[Inigo Montoya]

Same here. Dry, bitter IPAs have surpassed even strong, dark stouts as my favorite beers.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I can't even.

[Crusty Juggler]

WE ARE BEING OVERRUN BY IPA-ATARIANS!

BUILD THE WALL OF GOOD TASTE!

[CE]

I can't even drink dark stouts. IPAs rule.

[Zeb]

The Torpedo is one of my current favorites as well. Good stuff. These sad, broken people with defective taste buds don't know what they are missing.

[Mithrandir]

They probably all like water beer.

[gaoxiaen]

Or like I like my coffee. Black and bitter.Or sweet and white.

[Mithrandir]

I like stouts as well. What are these sweet white beers that you partake in?

[BestUsedCarSales]

He meant he likes his women like he likes his coffee.

Which I mostly agree. I like mine black, strong, and thicccccccc

[Brandybuck]

A good Rye P. A. is meant to be slowly fondled and caressed.

[lap83]

"The Look-but-don't-touch Issue"

[Bee Tagger]

Trump won't shut up on Twitter, so I'm counting this as a win for him.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

What no Rocket Man for resisting Trump? DAMN YOU TIME!

Jumping the shark: #metoo another Arab Spring?

[Rhywun]

My eyes still rolled up and did a complete 360. Well done, Time.

[Inigo Montoya]

I think they tried to get him for the cover.
But he did not respond because he was too busy burning out his fuse up there alone.

[Zeb]

Alt text: "This is my serious face"

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Now let's see their O face.

[Inigo Montoya]

I actually thought "The Silence Breakers" was some new band I hadn't heard of because I haven't listed to Top 40 stuff in more than a decade. I had to look closer to realize what it actually is.

[MarkLastname]

Don't feel bad, for the longest time I thought "meat 2" was the sequel to either a B horror movie or a porno.

[IceTrey]

And it only took them 30 years and dozens of more victims.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Police have released video of the sting that found Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy whom he had paid for sex.

Did they release it on the FBI's "Playpen" servers?

[Jerryskids]

Has Shortey explained yet that he was doing an undercover investigation of the epidemic of underage sex trafficking going on in Oklahoma?

[Fist of Etiquette]

God bless that man.

[loveconstitution1789]

That's funny you mention that. The US government supported National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has the largest collection of child porn in the USA.

I rarely hear people say that the government and/or a non-profit should not have child porn stored either.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Shortey got a shorty.

[Paloma]

Shortey swing my way....

[Rich]

Police have released video of the sting that found Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy whom he had paid for sex.

So they got Shortey.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

They grabbed him by the nuts and threw him down the stair (the funniest scene in the movie, and the only thing I remember about it).

[Mickey Rat]

Time still publishes?

[Zeb]

How else are we going to know who the person of the year is?

[gaoxiaen]

Or exists?

[Rich]

"The Silence Breakers"

Nice band name.

[Mitsima]

Honestly, I was wondering why a band was PotY.

[Anomalous]

Introducing the U.K.'s insane new porn regulations.

This will go on your permanent record. Your PERMANENT record!

[Griffin3]

Aw, don't get so distressed ...

[Rich]

Really. I understand they're only regulating insane new porn.

[Citizen X - #6]

BUCS will be the judge of that.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

That wouldn't be a bad job.

Wait, no. Yes. Yes, it would.

[Citizen X - #6]

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

And what is dead cannot die...

[MarkLastname]

Is that Bastiat's other book?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yeah , it kills your soul after awhile. Really numbs you out.

I remember when I was a teenager I had a really bad fever and I had horrible fever dreams involving all the fucked up porn I had seen. It actually made me slow down on the internet it bothered me so much.

Still, I miss the late 90s early 2000s internet. It was a weirder place.

[Hank Stamper]

Did I forget to mention I'm impressed...

[Greg Loves His Woodchipper]

They'll hurt me bad
They do it all the time

[Mitsima]

Mork calling Orwell, come in Orwell - answer you fat fuck! I'm ready to get off this rock.

[Bee Tagger]

TIME magazine has named "The Silence Breakers" as the "Person of the Year."

I call dibs on manufacturing and selling "I Brake for Silence" bumper stickers.

[CE]

You'll sell them to ten thousand people, maybe more.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Russ Winkler explained how he uses online platforms?particularly Backpage?to fight online sex trafficking," notes the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

So shutting down Backpage would be removing an invaluable crime fighting tool.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mammograms deserve little if any of the credit for reductions in breast-cancer deaths...

And that's why mammograms aren't person of the year.

[Mitsima]

I wonder if in 60-70 years if people will look at mammogram PSAs like we look at radium suppositories ?

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Holy shit, there was also radium chocolate. Can't say I am not just a little bit intrigued.

[Inigo Montoya]

Radium Suppositories would make a great name for a punk band.

[gaoxiaen]

Or Radium nail polish.

[Bee Tagger]

The House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to file a contempt resolution against top FBI and Justice Department officials "as quickly as possible."

I like that this doesn't explain why since it could be one a thousand things.

[Mitsima]

Then there should be a thousand contempt resolutions & get the defendant to plead down to one count of whatever, a year in jail (6 months suspended) and a $50,000 fine. That's the way the system works, right?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to file a contempt resolution against top FBI and Justice Department officials "as quickly as possible."

Which, of course, won't be any time soon.

[Bee Tagger]

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Russ Winkler explained how he uses online platforms?particularly Backpage?to fight online sex trafficking

Hoisted by their own canards.

[Rich]

The UK Will Soon Keep a Permanent Record of Everyone Who Watches Porn

and All the Viruses They Accidentally Downloaded?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Bureaucrat (finger tipping lip) "Hm. There sure are a lot of politicians on this list....it wasn't supposed to be like this!"

[Citizen X - #6]

That sounds like the voice of experience, Rich.

[Rich]

Hey! Worms are *not* viruses!

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

That's not the first time you've had to say that, is it?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Under the new law, online porn sites are threatened with a fine of ?250,000 ($335,000) or 5 percent of their annual profits if they are caught failing to verify the age of any of their users.

Americans don't need to worry. With the new anti-open internet Trumptard FCC regime those sites will just be blocked.

[Mithrandir]

Delusional.

[Citizen X - #6]

Not regulating is censoring! The Internet was totally closed until the Lightbringer opened it in 2014! Squawk!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Shortey opened the door in a shirt referencing a Bible verse about wives submitting to their husbands.

Ephesians, yeah. I had to (got to?) do that for a reading at a friend's wedding. Good stuff.

[Citizen X - #6]

At least it's a switch from that Corinthians verse that everyone has done to death.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I only do Leviticus at weddings.

[Jerryskids]

Revelations or GTFO.

[Aloysious]

Revalations

[Aloysious]

"Revalations"

I spel gud.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Lame. I just do a verse from John and then go into a diatribe about how I haven't seen them at Mass lately.

Fuck their wedding, this is their Immortal souls we're dealing with. They will thank me later.

[lap83]

I just do a verse from John

Which one? I'm partial to his rants about driverless cars, but to be truly authentic you need someone to interject and disagree so you can swear at them and call them an idiot

[Rhywun]

"Jesus, you f-----g half-wit."

[BestUsedCarSales]

In nomine patre, et file, et sanctum spiritus. Amen.

[Citizen X - #6]

Introducing the U.K.'s insane new porn regulations.

Eh, nobody wants to see British people naked anyway.

[Citizen X - #6]

Shortey opened the door in a shirt referencing a Bible verse about wives submitting to their husbands.

Wives HAVE to submit. Catamites CHOOSE to.

[Rich]

The word of the day is 'scromiting'.

[Conchfritters]

Must be a millennial thing. I know people who have smoked hundreds of pounds of weed in their life times, and I have literally never heard of this.

[Crusty Juggler]

Marijuanas are just so much stronger these days, which is why they must be heavily regulated.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I projectile vomited once from edibles. Holy shit. I am not exaggerating when I say I hit 10 yards. The next day, I felt like Francis Ngannou punched me in the stomach.

[loveconstitution1789]

Were they were "like new" edibles?

[Conchfritters]

whaaaat?? Did they taste bad, or were you drunk too? Did you scream as well?

[Zeb]

No, edibles will do that if you eat way too much. Especially if you aren't a regular user. It's possible to get way more into your system that way than you ever could by smoking.

[BYODB]

Once, in college, I managed to smoke enough to violently throw up for a couple of hours. It was a pretty terrible experience, but at the time I was a huge lightweight and I smoked more in about an hour than I literally ever have before or since. Truly, it was a massive amount.

Also, notably, I did not die and it's never happened again. Well, outside of edibles and other things on top of those edibles. Remember, kids, don't mix and match your drugs carelessly.

[Rhywun]

she has seen a rise in cases since California legalized recreational marijuana last November

This is totally believable, because nobody ever smoked large amounts of pot before last November.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yeah, this sounds fake.

[Zeb]

What is it with Brits and weird cannabis panics that no one has ever heard of?

I think it has to either be people way overdoing it with edibles or some really rare thing with a tenuous connection to cannabis consumption. Pretty much everyone I know is a long time regular smoker and I've never heard of such a thing.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Agreed. Reefer madness all over again.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

We should ban that stuff.

[Citizen X - #6]

'Scromiting' is becoming an all-too-familiar site at emergency rooms

Since when does John write for the Daily Mail?

[Crusty Juggler]

I totally that was a word for a vomiting scrotum.

You really do learn something new everyday.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

There is really nothing anyone can add to that comment, Crusty.

[lap83]

I too thought it involved vomiting and scrotum. So I'm turning into Crusty, great.

[Crusty Juggler]

Welcome to the dark side, friend.

The downside: the upcoming hair loss!

The upside: the wonderful world of creative masturbation.

[Rich]

Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem

*** scratches head ***

I think I see a solution to some other problems.

[Citizen X - #6]

I look forward to the headline this time next year: Paramilitary ocelots released in Britain to solve genetically mutated rat problem

[Anomalous]

Ocelots, and pythons.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat."

[Kivlor]

For the first time we have the makings of technology that could reduce or eliminate a pest population in a humane and species-specific manner.

Wasn't this done with some swarming african fly decades ago to great success?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yes. And also done with mosquitoes every now and again.

[Kivlor]

Ah, I see why it's a "first" now. The flies / mosquitos weren't "gene edited" they were sterilized through X-rays or other means. The basic premise and function is the exact same as we've done since the 1950's though.

[Rich]

The Turkish government's spokesman on Wednesday said that the United States' decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will plunge the region and the world into "a fire with no end in sight". ... "I call on everyone to act logically ... and behave reasonably, avoid risking world peace for domestic politics or other reasons," he said.

"Act logically and behave reasonably" -- Yeah, that's the ticket!

[Domestic Dissident]

I can't tell you how much I hope Trump tells that piece of crap Islamonazi terror monkey to go fuck himself.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Trump just endorsed him.

[Mitsima]

"Islamonazi terror monkey"

Best thing I'll read all day.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Because Trump's really stood up to Erdogan so far.

[BYODB]

Yes, because up until now the entire Middle East has proven that they're sane, rational, and above all can work together to work through any differences.

Sorry, but I'm not buying what they're selling. I don't really care where the U.S. embassy is, and my understanding is that the actual government of Israel doesn't even work out of Jerusalem, so I'm having a hard time giving a shit.

One thing I can hope for, though, is that the United States might refrain from gun running through the Jerusalem embassy like they were in Benghazi.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The Israeli's and the Palestinians in conflict? That's going to be a difficult turn of events to stomach.

[Conchfritters]

Holy sex links this morning ENB - I thought the fundraiser was over?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Signalled by the release of the browser hijackers?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Parliament was trying to enact a child safety measure, but at the same time, it created a big target for hackers looking to obtain information that could be used for blackmail.

Bloody hell, just make blackmail illegal. How hard is that?

[sarcasmic]

Katharine McPhee models bikini in Mexico... after she and pal call bride a 'b***' and a 'loser' for 'getting mad at them after they crashed her wedding'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....shing.html

Oh my!

[Crusty Juggler]

Stop sexually harassing me.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Harvey Weinstein has to be kicking himself that he didn't give himself a chance to pop a money shot on her stomach.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Also, her friend looks like a pre-op tranny.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Police have released video of the sting that found Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy

Another conservative Bible-beater gets caught with his hand in some boys pants.

[sarcasmic]

I assume this means that everyone who reads the Bible is a child molester, correct?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Well, it does seem that way. I mean from the Vatican on down to Alabamastan Senate candidates you know.

[sarcasmic]

I expected such a basic logic fail from you. Thank you for falling into it.

[Palin's Buttplug]

False claim. I said it "seems" that way. You said "everyone" and I implied otherwise.

You fail informal logic 101.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

This buttplug doesn't recognize how much like Roy Moore(and Palin) it is. Delusions of grandeur.

[Mitsima]

So was he molesting boys or girls? or women? Nevermind, all that matters is that - until election day if he loses, but continuously if he wins - he's accused of molesting someone.

[Palin's Buttplug]

I assume this means that everyone who reads the Bible is a child molester, correct?

Reading is fundamental.

[Mitsima]

... down to Alabamastan Senate candidates ...

Indeed it is; indeed it is.

When 900 words you read, look as good you will not!

[Palin's Buttplug]

And that Senate candidate is a child molestor

WIYFP?

[Mitsima]

DJFUNW! LFJUSPO, so there. 😛

[Rhywun]

The Okie "boy" in question was 17. That is not "child molestation".

[neoteny]

Last month as part of a plea deal, Shortey admitted one count of child sex trafficking and the other charges were dropped.
He faces a sentence of at least 10 years in prison.

[Rhywun]

the state's child prostitution law applies to people under 18.

It's not "child sex trafficking" either, despite what some stupid law say.

[BestUsedCarSales]

That's weird that AoC and that are different.

[neoteny]

despite what some stupid law say

Yeah, well, that stupid law apparently mandates a 10 years minimum prison term, too.

We can bitch about the stupidity of such laws, but for those who run afoul of them, there's a heavy penalty for not acknowledging the lawmakers' philosophical position.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Whatever you say, Mr. NAMBLA.

[Crusty Juggler]

TIME magazine has named "The Silence Breakers" as the "Person of the Year."

"The Silence Breaker" is my post lactose-consumption* nickname.**

*I'm intolerant.
**I have loud butt burps.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

A real libertarian would show tolerance towards lactose.

[Mitsima]

Actually, several million tons of lactose are put into isolation every year - there's good reason to be suspicious - but what would you expect when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage? #rationalfearnotphobia

[Palin's Buttplug]

There is nothing in the links about the Con Man moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

That stupid motherfucker is going to set off another round of wars in Palestine/Israel. John Bolton must be jerking off right now.

[Crusty Juggler]

There's nothing in the links about Levar Ball taking his son out of UCLA?

[Jerryskids]

Trump will get around to moving the embassy to Jerusalem right after he slaps currency-manipulation sanctions on China, gets Mexico to build a border wall, locks up Hillary Clinton and releases his tax returns.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Fair enough. Precedent is certainly valid. His bullshit knows no limit.

[loveconstitution1789]

Funniest thing is you people think about this stuff 24/7, meanwhile Trump deports tens of thousands of illegals, rolls back a bunch of EOs, mandates 2 for 1 repeal of EOs, nominates Gorsuch, etc.

All those campaign promises are falling into place. After he completes most of them, I wonder what he will do in term two of his presidency?

[Tony]

If the Internet wanted to hear more mindless Trump cult cheerleading it would go to one of his combination Nazi and obesity anonymous rallies.

[BYODB]

Yeah, those stupid Jews keep shooting missiles into Palestine and Gaza!

Wait...don't I have that reversed?

[Crusty Juggler]

Literally OMGEEZIES: Conyers faced mounting sexual misconduct allegations as he weighed his future

Morse told The Post she quit her internship after Conyers drove her home from work one night, wrapped his hand around hers as it rested in her lap, and told her he was interested in a sexual relationship. When she rejected his advances, Morse said he brought up the then-developing investigation into the disappearance of former federal intern Chandra Levy.

"He said he had insider information on the case. I don't know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way," Morse said in an interview. "I got out of the car and ran."

I like how I even though I am a sad, depraved pervert I am constantly shocked by some of this stuff.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

They can't help themselves. Power is the perfect aphrodisiac for sociopaths.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I wonder how many times Hillary casually brought up Vince Foster.

[lap83]

Morse said he brought up the then-developing investigation into the disappearance of former federal intern Chandra Levy.

and she STILL didn't want to jump his bones? I just can't even with women these days

[Tony]

You don't seem shocked about that homophobic theocrat touching little girls in the vagina.

[Crusty Juggler]

Stop trying so hard, moron.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I prefer my perverts Republican. When they're Democrats, I'm shocked... even in denial.

[MarkLastname]

But do remind us how much you hate "whataboutism."

[Stormy Dragon]

Trump wants to create a private spy network entirely outside government control that reports only to him:

Trump considering spy network to combat 'deep state' enemies: Intercept

So yay, less than one year of Trump and we're getting our own Sicherheitsdienst.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Its OK if you're a Republican.

[MarkLastname]

It could have the same unconstitutional structure as the CFPB, your favorite agency.

[$park? leftist poser]

a CIA spokesperson told the Intercept, "You have been provided wildly inaccurate information by people peddling an agenda."

Exactly what someone with something to hide would say.

[Rhywun]

Wouldn't it be more effective to starve them of cash? The reason they're his enemies is because they're protecting their turf. Hell, he could probably executive-order half of them out of job tomorrow.

[loveconstitution1789]

Says the lefty "Hill" media outlet.

I wonder if they will foresee Trump's reelection?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Don't we already have a global spy network that answers only to the President?

[Stormy Dragon]

No, it also answers to Congress and the Courts.

[BYODB]

No, it also answers to Congress and the Courts.

Uhh...only sort of. Those agencies can cite executive privilege last I checked, even when under investigation by Congress. It's pretty questionable how it 'actually' works but I can link to the official bits.

CIA & Executive Privledge

[BYODB]

As opposed to the spy networks that already exist and ostensibly report to the President even while they used FISA obtained information against him as a candidate?

Sorry, but if you're only just now realizing that this might be a problem you haven't been paying attention.

[Jerryskids]

The House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to file a contempt resolution against top FBI and Justice Department officials "as quickly as possible."

They're starting with Clapper, I hope.

[Trigger Warning]

Why are the traditional values guys always the ones who are so horrendously repressed and twisted?

[Stormy Dragon]

Projection. The reason they're so worried about legislating morality is because they think everyone is doing what they do.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That's what's funny. I spend my days worrying no one is doing what I do.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The other question to ask is, is it true? There is a strong bias we have towards stories we see in the media making us think certain events are much more common than they are.

There is also the fact that we can come up with intellectually satisfying answers, like "Projection." Is it true, I don't know. Certainly it sounds good to me as well.

Is there an actual statistical correlation? We have a lot of biases as humans, and data is one of the only ways we can slowly attempt to overcome these biases.

[BYODB]

So Anthony Weiner was a traditional values candidate? I did not know that!

[damikesc]

So, the "Person of the Year" are women who allowed other women to be harassed, raped, groped, etc to protect their own careers? Truly courageous.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Weinstein's Complicity Machine

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The DC women's press corps tolerated abuse for years. And they tolerated it while cheering on so-called pro-woman legislation from the perpetrators. My sympathy meter is flagging.

[mad.casual]

The men who were sexually assaulted by other men or people just generally harassed by women 'in a manner that totally has nothing to do with their gender, popularity, sex appeal, or gender bias' can go fuck themselves or each other or whatever's legal among themselves.

[Aloysious]

Here is someone desperately in need of Crusty's advice:

Am I greedy to want sex in my marriage?

I would love to hear your opinion on sexless marriage ? is it possible? Marriage is a lot more than just sex ? it's about a melting together of families and building a life together ? but my husband's absolute non-interest in intimacy is not changing, and I wonder if I'm greedy to think I need that?

[Crusty Juggler]

Stop feeling guilty about having human needs and find someone with semi-functioning genitals, sad lady.

Or just invest in robot.

[BYODB]

I give even odd's that the husband wants sex too, they just fail at communicating that they both want to fuck in between all of their kids school & extra curricular nonsense. I'd say that's a whole shit ton of couples problem, too.

American's are terrible at talking about sex honestly and openly. Weird stuff, and we treat it like it's a crime to even want it these days. Hooray, New Puritans!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Police have released video of the sting that found Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy whom he had paid for sex. Shortey opened the door in a shirt referencing a Bible verse about wives submitting to their husbands.

Whole thing reads like some amateur erotica on the web. Hot.

[IceTrey]

The age of consent in OK is 16 the boy is 17 so he's not underage.

[BestUsedCarSales]

That's what I thought too. Someone mentioned above that the law for prostitution is 18 though. Which seems wrong.