SkyDekker

Do property assessments base don highest and best use, which will generally increase property taxes for gas stations in urban environments and you solve that problem.

Dairy Cats? Is that were soy milk comes from? I think until H5N1 reached human to human transmission and has R>1 there really isn't much change of widespread infection.

Maybe Kallend is smart enough to understand that we already produce more food than we need and that obesity is now a larger problem than hunger. We don't have a food production problem we have a logistics problem and a problem with inability to produce food in areas where large groups of people live. Climate change is going to have a further detrimental effect on those factors. Hence, if you really were worried about feeding the hungry, and we all know you really could care less about other people, you would be a climate change champion.

Just as a public service announcement: Palestinians are also Semites. Hence protesting on behalf of Palestinians cannot be anti-Semitic.

D Day was a success. About 4,400 allied soldiers were killed about 2,500 of them were American.

I know but us Canadians just depend on our US cousins....shamefully.

Or just by what he did in the seat of his own car.

Isn't the US grand, you even get to buy your own judge!

If the Chief Justice had any balls, he would deal with it.

Fair enough. I thought you had alluded to statutory rape laws preventing young marriage. Personally I think criminalizing sex for young people is not good policy. I am comfortable with "close in age exemptions" allowing consent for 14 year olds. But, I see no reason for anybody under 18 to get married. I specially don't agree with allowing parents to consent to that. Not all parents have the best interest of their children at heart.

Yes...so at 15 you can get married, but sex would be considered statutory rape. Wisconsin is another state where your argument doesn't hold true. 16 year olds can get married (with parental consent) but sex cannot be consented to until 18. But at least when you have sex with your underage bride you are only committing a misdemeanor in Wisconsin.

If you are 15 years old, a judge may give consent and issue the marriage license if the marriage is in your best interests. https://www.kscourts.org/Public/Apply-for-Marriage-License/Marriage-License-Application-FAQs#:~:text=You must be 18 years,not have a legal guardian.

This will be my last post on this. Corruption is as defined in relevant statutes. Much of what is being ascribed to politicians being corrupt isn't actually against any statute. Separate, but related, what doesn't help this perception of corrupt politicians is that SCOTUS has made it harder for politicians who do actually break corruption laws, to be successfully prosecuted. Now people, somewhat like you are doing, can have the following argument: Person A: look at all those politicians getting filthy rich, they are all corrupt. Person B: Yes. Just yesterday I read about politician A who took a bribe, but he didn't get convicted because the evidentiary standard is so damn high. Person A&B: fucking politicians are all corrupt. Person C: MAGA!! Trump is going to drain the swamp. Person A,B & C: Politicians are all the same, fucking corrupt bastards. Trump might be corrupt, but at least he is going to change it all. Why else would the Deep State be fighting so hard to keep him off the ballot. So Jakee, thank you for contributing to the popularity of Trump.

Yet in Kansas one could get married at 15, but sex at that age is statutory rape in Kansas.

So your idea is that when you are legally allowed to have sex you should be legally allowed to get married?

Ahhh I forgot it was you Jakee.....keep moving the goal posts to get the last word in my friend. I know you'll have a hard time sleeping otherwise and I would not want to be responsible for a deterioration of your mental health.

Wonder why you didn't provide the entire quote? "I think there is a giant overstatement of how many politicians are truly corrupt. But is is disconcerting when the US Supreme Court has made it pretty much impossible to convict a politician of taking a bribe." ahhh, because that would show it is two different issues.

True and you would be wrong calling it murder. Which has been my point.

Not corruption if it is legally allowed. Which was pretty much my point.

Personally I think a 16 year old should be able to get breast reduction surgery if it is causing serious back pain. Sorry to see you would object.

If there are medical decisions, a doctor should be involved. Wanting to get married may require a shrink, but it isn't a medical decision. Personally I do think that irreversible procedures not driven by an underlying medical condition should not be done on those under 18.

Right and it is exactly the rule of government to protect society against the negative impact of weird cults.

Is there? There are about 520,000 politicians in the US

What if a 6 and 7 year old want to get married and the parents are fine with it? The fact is that we have generally recognized that children are not capable of fully understanding the gravity of their decisions and need to be protected from themselves. We have generally set the age of 18 at which they can do so. There is no reason for marriage to deviate from that.

If a 14 and a 13 year old want to get married and the parents are ok with it, then why should the government get involved?