August 17, 2007
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- A 17-year-old kid dies after smashing his car into a tree in Central Austin
- Round Rock police, fed up with pesky juvenile delinquents, close down a popular skate park for a week
- Tropical Storm Erin was just a warm-up; Hurricane Dean might be on its way
- The Texas Attorney General closes a local illegal nursing home operation; one resident was found locked in a room with boarded-up windows
- UT students and others looking to live in the campus area, look out! A Craigslist scam artist is screwing would-be subletters out of thousands of dollars
- A former pastor in Lubbock molests a 6-year-old boy and gets 8 years in prison, while a woman in Round Rock has consensual sex with a 16-year-old and gets 23? Where's the logic in that?
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Dude, it is pastor, not paster. Learn how to spell.
Re: Bullet #6 Question.
There is no logic. What is there is an example of the Weltanschauung (WorldView) of Williamson County's Justice system. For another example see Naiti Gamez's excellent 10Under10 film, LUKE.
As for a double standard, see current story in AAS today (before they charge you for it tomorrow) at http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/19/0819ogletree.html
Women are supposed to be "pure" hence are judged more harshly for sexual conduct, real or fictional outside community norms or laws. Read Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter" for an idea of how long this has been practiced in America.
The above story is a perfect example of what was meant by Yacob bar Yusef, 1st CE religious leader when he said "The human tounge is more deadly than the poison of the most venomous serpent." Without proof, any one can be accused of any crime, and a majority will believe it, even if the accuser recants. I speak from personal experience.