Thanks! I was thinking about the general issue yesterday because I got into a conversation with the other Girl Scout moms that left me feeling poor because we can’t afford $12,000 sleepaway summer camp. (I live in Northern Virginia, where the incomes and the children are both above average.) And then I read something…

Technically, what she did was illegal. She and other protesters tore down a privately owned fence that was blocking off private property and then crossed onto privately owned land. That’s exactly what trespassing is. The land was not Native owned land. It was next to Native owned land.

This is a weird one for me. On one hand, of course, hate discrimination. On the other hand, it’s people renting out their personal homes. If I don’t want to rent to you based on whatever, even if it’s a shitty awful reason, then I’m not going to.

Many of those children with too much money are scammers and the children thereof. There’s a pretty staggering amount of organized crime in SoCal.

This is such a non-story! The woman looked at her like she couldn’t afford them?? LOOKED AT HER funny. I get funny looks all the time it doesn’t always mean something.

Or she was told that store policy was not to sell however many she wanted in one transaction and she threw a tantrum.

I feel like we’re missing some important information regarding the gift card story. Anti money laundering laws only allow stores to sell $500 per gift card brand per person per day. I wonder if that was part of the issue.

Not going to put it past the clerk to be racist, but usually some person coming in and buying a bunch of gift cards is seen as a scam because they try to buy them with stolen credit cards. All the time in the grocery store these shady people come up with stacks of visa credit cards and try to swipe to pay and that’s a…

No it’s in the name of (selective) secularism;

Yeah, I really think that it goes against common sense that it would be easier to rehabilitate a pedophile than say, a drug dealer or a robber. Not that we should just give up on rehabilitating pedophiles, but to say they reoffend less when their behavior stems from a sexual compulsion?

Are they really less likely to reoffend? Or just less likely to get caught a second time? How many offenses will they commit before they get caught the first time?

Heinrich had previously pleaded guilty to 25 federal child pornography charges, but denied any involvement in Wetterling’s disappearance.

Cinemark’s “victory” will ensure that there will be NO assistance for the next victims of any movie theater shooting in the US, whether the theater was negligent or not.

She could have gotten $30k towards her medical bills, she opted to be greedy. This isn’t because she is grieving, she wanted more money. Just because a person is hurt, doesn’t mean that they also can’t be an ass.

She should have taken the deal since that was all she was ever going to get. She really fucked it up for the rest of the other people.

It’s likely that they’ll agree to let it go in exchange for the plaintiffs’ not appealing. There's no way Cinemark is so hard up for cash that it's worth the effort of going after these poor people.

Won’t bother me or (I’m guessing) the majority of cinema-goers.

They offered then a pretty good settlement considering they were found not liable already and were clearly not at fault. And the plaintiffs didn’t take it.

Not really. Hopefully people will think twice next time an ambulance chasing lawyer calls them.

protip: innocent until proven guilty only matters in a court of law. You have 50+ women coming forward accusing you of rape, yeah i’m calling you a guilty motherfucker and as long as I don’t publish it and claim it as fact you can’t do shit. Deal with it.