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Breast-feeding mom demands apology for indecent exposure ticket
GJsentinel ^
| July 28, 2005 - 11:33 p.m
Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt
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To: Asphalt
In this particular case, the people were stupid to ticket her, and the mom was even stupider to try to demand an apology.Good summary.
361
posted on
07/30/2005 6:20:09 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
To: Xenalyte
Did you have piles of "Readers' Digest" in your bathrooms growing up, too?
362
posted on
07/30/2005 6:20:49 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
To: after dark
"you prudes"
2nd time I've seen you go ad hominem. This is a debate/discussion. Why are you going "personal"?
363
posted on
07/30/2005 6:22:15 PM PDT
by
Alia
To: Tax-chick
My father's parents had TONS of them, all in the closets and bedside tables.
Those and "Weekly World News."
(Which explains a lot, eh?)
364
posted on
07/30/2005 6:23:55 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Tax-chick
can't we all just agree...
apparently not
365
posted on
07/30/2005 6:23:56 PM PDT
by
Asphalt
(Join my NFL ping list! FReepmail me| The best things in life aren't things)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Well, that long-winded explanation expands perfectly the first impression, so no new knowledge has been transferred. In response I will just make the modest observation that the slippery slope you describe can be made
exactly, starting with the premise that wearing baseball caps indoors also is bad manners.
My personal behavior would never allow me to wear baseball caps indoors, but my modest demands for self-importance equally prevent me from formulating a house of cards requiring minute control of such a trivial thing
in others in order to prevent huge tortured speculative future deviant sexual behavior.
I question the judgement of anyone who fears that the common sense of the general public can so easily be desensitized to accept that.
There has, in fact, been a huge degradation in public behavior in the last 40 years, across the board. Try to hold the tide back at your own risk.
Personally I would focus my efforts more along the line of dealing with the youth who murders another in order to steal his ipod.
Breast-feeding in public, in my universe, is trivial by comparison. We can't set right every degradation of manners, but we can exhibit a sense of proportion and priorities. We can display disapproval without being a boor. We can argue by example.
But that's just me.
366
posted on
07/30/2005 6:28:48 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Tax-chick
If this is the only dust-up of this kind the employee has been in, I think the supervisor should say, "Here's the law - see, you were wrong. Don't do anything like this again." And the employee says, "Yes, sir." This will never be acceptable with the outrage-of-the-week bunch.
Kudos for your modest common sense. I would choose the same. Nowhere in the story did I see that this officer has a habit to overreact, and I know from experience that the young and inexperienced with some authority tend to overuse it. But the smart ones grow up.
367
posted on
07/30/2005 6:35:11 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Doe Eyes
Are you comfortable with men urinating in public as long as they show a "reasonable amount of modesty"? As a convenience, never.
As a choice between that or wetting his trousers, sure.
368
posted on
07/30/2005 6:38:45 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Asphalt
"But they don't butcher the cow that they eat on the sidewalk. Is that a better example?"If you can dig up any examples of babies butchering and slaughtering ma for a little smackerel of something, then you've got something.
To: Xenalyte
Snoobage?
I learn more new words at FR!
370
posted on
07/30/2005 6:46:53 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I've not seen one post on this monstrous thread with the 'in your face, I'll do what I want when I want with no regard to modesty' from any poster here that supports breastfeeding.
Have you had a baby? Women lose alot of dignity during the birthing process. Modesty is not taken lightly.
Yes, I've seen the leftist mental patients that exploit the breastfeeding process to promote their go topless cause. Leftist mental patients exploit alot of good causes to promote their nonesense. The big slippery slope that should never be gone down is lending credit to their stunts by confusing normal activity with their antics.
371
posted on
07/30/2005 6:48:56 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Publius6961
We are an educational bunch, are we not?
372
posted on
07/30/2005 6:50:38 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Xenalyte
I play an online game called "City of Heroes," and the character I'm building up right now (who incidentally has a huge rack) is called Major Snoobage.LOL!
Is the Major female? or Ted Kennedy?
373
posted on
07/30/2005 6:54:22 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Xenalyte
We are an educational bunch, are we not? To a fault!
Plus, equally important, most of us seem to have a healthy humor gene...
374
posted on
07/30/2005 6:58:09 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Alia
The people who want to banish nursing women to bathrooms are being priggishly attentive to propriety. I'm sorry your feelings were hurt.
To: Calpernia
Encouraging women to breast feed is the dumbest way to destroy the family.The women may bond to the baby ,and then they will want to be stay at home mommies.Breast feeding is diametrically opposed to all the left stand for.The left wanted to set women free from the worthless work of taking care of children.
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Excellent excellent point Ghost!
377
posted on
07/30/2005 7:53:44 PM PDT
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: Publius6961
She's all she!
Right before I got offline, I ran into someone who asked the Major, "Are those upgrades?"
I said, "They are all natural, soldier!"
He said, "I meant your boots."
So I said, "Oh, no, those are indeed upgrades. Stiletto combat boots aren't standard military issue. As far as I know."
(It is a GREAT game.)
378
posted on
07/30/2005 7:53:53 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Cboldt
Actually, the deaf policemen came and killed those two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it, too.
To: Cboldt
Actually, the deaf policemen came and killed those two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it, too.
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