JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Statutory rape laws work. At what age can children raise children? What about rich kids? Currently, CA has 18 as the legal age of consent. Like speed limits, adjustments can be counter-productive. #Zeitgeist: Civil bonanza coupled with State restraint where evidence too weak for DA/City Attorney to prosecute alleged offender.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/sex-education-2018-statutoryrape101-sexualharassment101-botheringachild101

The Main Attraction

all the backing, polish and vitality anyone could ask for

What would Rose McGowan say?

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/gretavanfleet-aclockworkorange-clivedavis-thesoundtrackofourlives

Retweeted LAPD

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LAPD @LAPD

Anti and pro-Trump protesters face off in Pershing Square rally – LA Daily News http://dlvr.it/PzG67s 

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Joy Reid Retweeted The Hill

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Protestors troll Trump with “Welcome to Kenya” signs during Hawaii visit http://hill.cm/pGSvMx7 

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https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/mccain-asks-for-no-more-defense-nominees-they-drive-up-costs

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/21179

Zero Sum Game?

“Dead-enders?” Relativity.  Vikings and my biological paternal grandmother.

Thanks Danny Harrison.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/mccain-asks-for-no-more-defense-nominees-they-drive-up-costs

Chinese/Sufi Parable:

“If you lost your key in the house, why are you looking for it under the street lamp?”

“The power is out.”

Banks and other financial institutions cannot monitor every $100 transaction or notice every time someone with a potentially suspicious background rents a truck.  Yet because countering terrorist financing remains the job of treasuries and finance ministries, governments will keep looking in the wrong places.  As the saying goes, ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.’  As long as these ministries are in charge, that will not change.

Peter Neumann Foreign Affairs, NOV/DEC 2017 at 150

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/peter-neumann-and-his-critics-foreignaffairs-novdec-2017-p-144-150

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/hr4hr-first-pitches-by-sandy-koufax-don-sutton-kirk-gibson-and-steve-harvey-coming-soon

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