Talk about a tempest in a teapot. I heard a woman on Rush yesterday who was almost hysterical over the woman in Ohio who let her kids get sunburned. She was ranting on about “this woman has done this kind of thing before…the one child had a collapsed lung…second degree burns…”
Well, you stupid bitch, it turns out that the burns were first degree (I get sunburned every summer; light sunburn is a first degree burn), the one child had an underdeveloped lung because it had been born prematurely, and bottom fucking line, THERE WAS NO CRIME COMMITTED HERE.
I knew that as soon as sanity prevailed, it would turn out that there really wasn’t any story. Except for the story about police overreaction. If I were Eve Hibbits I would sue the Steubenville, OH police force for every dime they have. And I’d sure as hell get that biweekly visit from Child Protective Services stopped right the fuck now. I notice that the Fox story doesn’t mention that, I wonder if that order was quietly rescinded?
If people would just use the brains God gave them, we wouldn’t see personal stupidity and nanny-state idiocy like this. Common sense, people, common sense is all you need.
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I’m glad I found someone who agrees with me about the “sunburn incident”.
http://www.elephant-rants.blogspot.com/2002_08_01_elephant-rants_archive.html#80500305
As usual the liberal media decided to jump all over this story only to find out that there was no story. Much as I revel in their embarrassment, I find it a damn shame that an innocent woman had to languish in jail for 8 days before the cops admitted they’d screwed up. Which is why I hope she sues them for lots of money.
Yeah, fine, it would be great if every parent slathered sunscreen on their kids every two hours. In reality, we all know it doesn’t happen, and we all know that kids AND ADULTS get sunburned every day. The incidence of skin cancer has gone up among people who worship the sun to the extent of getting into tanning beds to maintain their tans year-round. The adherent panic about skin cancer in a specific group of people who have purposefully exposed themselves to continuous solar or solar-type radiation has, as usual, spread to become a general panic that if you get any sun at all, you will develop skin cancer. This is typically moronic junk science and deserves to be chucked into the same dustbin with the high-tension electrical wire scare of 20 years ago.