Nudes in the news

[eyesup]

Yep, my toes are spreading out, returning to their original shape. Your heel is a single bone and can't change shape.

I try to stay in the washes which tend to be uneven and sparsely occupied with the prickers. Although sometimes the sharp stones do the same.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

Senate to Allow Breastfeeding Mothers to Bring Infants to Chamber Floor
Headline Apr 19, 2018
The Senate has approved a rule change that will allow nursing mothers to bring infants to the Senate floor during votes and to breastfeed them inside the chamber. The rule change comes after Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth became the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office. Duckworth has not been present in Senate votes since the birth of her daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, earlier this month.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/19/headlines/senate_to_allow_breastfeeding_mothers_to_bring_infants_to_chamber_floor

So, maybe a step in the right direction?

Jbee

[John P]

You mean they had a rule against it before? Well, they do think of everything, don't they.

Iceland seems to be in the lead in this particular aspect of life, however:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/icelandic-mp-breastfeeds-baby-debate-parliament-al-ingi-a7358681.html

[Greenbare Woods]

Crazy killer gets naked after mass murder. 


"Travis Reinking opened fire early Sunday morning at the Waffle House, killing at least four people, Nashville police say. At least seven others were injured. 
.......

"The suspect fled the scene wearing no clothes, dropping a green coat he had worn during the shooting, police say.

"Reinking was later seen wearing black pants but no shirt, police said."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/22/waffle-house-shooting-suspect-previously-arrested-outside-white-house/540394002/

[jbeegoode]

Well...that's strange. Even insidiously deranged murders. The clothing obsession apparently had woven a place into his disrupted thinking. I hate to see nudity associated with insanity like this. One sick soul in 300million gives a bad name to naturism and guns.
Jbee

[John P]

That French TV series is about to begin, where they're talking about how clothes have been banned so that terrorists can't hide weapons:
http://freerangenaturism.com/forum/index.php?topic=1046.0

[BlueTrain]

Well...that's strange. Even insidiously deranged murders. The clothing obsession apparently had woven a place into his disrupted thinking. I hate to see nudity associated with insanity like this. One sick soul in 300million gives a bad name to naturism and guns.
Jbee

I used to say that most people consider nudists to be harmless eccentrics but maybe that attitude will be changing. Doesn't matter whether he was a nudist or not. I've heard it said that if the police were told there was a man with a gun and also another man who was naked, they'd go after the naked man.

[jbeegoode]

Well...that's strange. Even insidiously deranged murders. The clothing obsession apparently had woven a place into his disrupted thinking. I hate to see nudity associated with insanity like this. One sick soul in 300million gives a bad name to naturism and guns.
Jbee

I used to say that most people consider nudists to be harmless eccentrics but maybe that attitude will be changing. Doesn't matter whether he was a nudist or not. I've heard it said that if the police were told there was a man with a gun and also another man who was naked, they'd go after the naked man.

Hmm. That's got me thought provoked...hmmm. "If I were a cop...."
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Wiltshire's Police Chief Constable has called on people in Salisbury to 'behave this summer' after a couple were caught having sex in a public place in the city.

The pair were spotted in a field near Queen Elizabeth Gardens at around 5.45pm last Friday evening (April 20th).

When police turned up, the couple ran away, naked, in the direction of Harnham.

A man in his 20s and a woman in her 40s have been asked to attend a police interview over what happened, for outraging public decency.

TOP COP'S REACTION:

The county's chief police officer has waded into the story too now, saying there must be 'something in the air in Salisbury'.

Kier Pritchard's tweeted his thoughts on what happened:

    "There's something in the air in Salisbury... something that shouldn't be seen in public! Behave this summer, we've already got enough to deal with!"

Outraging public decency is a criminal offence which can be punished with an unlimited prison sentence or fine.


https://www.spirefm.co.uk/news/local-news/2564640/chief-constable-calls-on-salisbury-to-behave-after-public-indecency/

[John P]

That's not naturism.

But several years ago, when Steven Gough was making his trek home after being released from prison in Scotland, he happened to pass by a school just as the children were being let out. Several parents called the police, and he was arrested and charged with "Outraging public decency" instead of the more usual public order offense. He spent a couple of months in prison awaiting trial, and then the charges were dropped. I thought then that "Outraging public decency" was some medieval anachronism that hadn't been used in a century, but when I looked it up I saw that it's used a few hundred times a year in the UK, most typically for public sexual activity. But it's interesting that there was a 80-year lapse in the use of the law, ending in 1989.

[Greenbare Woods]

Its becoming more and more apparent that a significant portion of the public is not "outraged" by human bodies being seen in public.

[eyesup]

My issue here has nothing to do with the breastfeeding. I tend to wonder whether the mother has her priorities mixed up. Raising her child or furthering her political career. You get one opportunity to raise that child. Blow it and there are no do-overs.

Plus your multi-tasking with a baby tends to hold proceedings up. A sort of self-centered personality.

Duane

[eyesup]

So, a deranged individual acts out and everyone focuses on the clothes, the weapon etc.

Why is the mental health not the primary focus here?
Because no one knows how to fix that in a 24 hour news cycle!

Take away the weapon or make’em get dressed and everyone can dust off their hands and pretend to have fixed the problem. See, lazy thinking again.

Duane

[eyesup]

I agree with that Bob. Seen against more serious events in the country and world most folks look at the report and just wonder, “So What?”

Is there such a thing as “public” decency? Who decides this? Was there a vote or campaign? When did this happen? Maybe it’s time that the definitions should be updated by resolution every 10 years. I did a search for “dumb laws still on the books” and it reads like a stand-up comedy routine. It’s all very funny until they get dragged out at an opportune moment. The problem is they are laws, they are on the books and people use them.

Duane

[BlueTrain]

Who gets to decide if you're crazy or not? Remember, in a democracy like the United States, people can vote to put someone to death (in some states, if they're guilty).

I'm not sure if there's a name for it, but it seems like those with the loudest voices run things. We talk democracy all the time and try, usually unsuccessfully, to remake other counties' governments in our image, sort of. And then there are those who call themselves conservatives who do their best (or rather, worst) to keep people from voting, at least for the other candidate, if not their own.

I'm jaded.