Totally a radio telescope. I would love to have access to that huge ugly relic from the past.

I hate to feed AC trolls, but please prove proof of your "Every crime ever committed against children comes from the current or ex boyfriend of some mother." claim.

I know you can't but I'm sick of the crap some people are willing to spit out. I would encourage you to also "use your freakin' brain" you moron.

So mothers shouldn't leave children with 'any' non-relative man? Please define what actions relate a man to the mother? What about a police officer, or a teacher? What if the mother was divorced and had a new husband, would that trip the magical 'he is related now' trigger and make the mother actions non-dubious?

People that live in constant fear of the rest of humanity are mocked, but when anything bad happens, people that didn't live in constant fear are mocked. You have to find some way to blame someone other than the rapist.

You sure seem keen on deeming out justice onto people.

You seem like a wonderful human being. A child is raped and you blame the mother.
You assume that a criminal record equals a child rapist.

From the article:
"His criminal history includes multiple convictions for theft and issuing worthless checks, as well as driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a canceled driver's license, according to court records."
So, if you ever steal something, write a bad check, drive drunk and have a canceled driver license you are also going to rape someone's kid. Gotcha, good to know.

Maybe because he wasn't abusive to the mother and wasn't abusive to the daughter until this incident?
All we know is that he attacked and raped this girl. We don't know if he was ever violent or threatening before. We don't know if there was ever anything to indicate that maybe he couldn't be trusted with the care of a child.

Society sure is quick to condemn the mother, even though there is nothing that we know of that would have alerted the mother to this man's danger until after the rape.

Sorry, the word 'pedophilia' does in fact have a meaning. Because you are too busy with your indignant rage to accept that doesn't make the word's meaning change.
Yes, the man raped the 12 year old, but that does not make it pedophilia.

And bravo to insulting people that provided you with the meaning of the word. After all, why should we let dictionaries tell us what a word mean?

AC wins. Too bad you are an AC, this needs mod points.

No AC, it is funny. The OP's post was understandable by context, and the reply funny because of grammar misuse in the OP.

"Best health care" - technically true, but you ignore that our access to this wonderful healthcare is a lot less than "best". Just our infant mortality rate alone should be enough to show that not only is our health care not the best, but that it lags behind those horrid evil socialized medicine having countries like Canada, the UK, and France. You can argue your point, but you can't deny the evidence that the healthcare in the US has severe quality and access issues.

So, why is it that when someone says anything that questions the superiority of the US v the World, people like you tell them to leave? People like you think that the US leads the world in all things good, regardless of any pesky facts. You are uninformed, or misinformed, so you ignore any criticism rather than listen and ask if maybe, just maybe, you could be wrong and we, as Americans, can do something to fix it.

You need to wake up and see that your "land of the free" is just as controlled as any other country, you just ignore that because it might get in the way of your rose colored view of the US.

The US has a huge amount of socialist system in place, you just pretend to not see it. But unlike you, I don't require you to shut up or leave.

Perfectly said.

You just highlighted my main complaints with the President. I voted for him, and I'm still glad I did, but to hear him now, you would think that all of the other crisis in US history were nothing and the presidents then had some kind of magic to make it easy.

FDR, Truman ,Eisenhower, and Johnson had their crisis, made a decision and fought to get it implemented. They led the cause. Obama is still trying to make the 'other' side like him and be part of the process. He needs to learn that while consensus is a wonderful thing, leaders lead. Regardless of the obstacles other people put in front of him, he is the President nd should lead. If this is too much for him, or he just doesn't want the fight, then maybe he should seriously consider not running again. For as much as I hated W.Bush, he picked (or was told) a goal and fought to get to it.

Obama could learn from that kind of determination.

It should be immaterial that 'everyone else does it'. Regardless of one's political bend, the utter pandering by candidates should be decried and condemned.

The US is doomed to failure if the best we can do allow our leaders to get away with lying to us. A person promising something then not being able to deliver is politics; the same person claiming they never promised it is just being dishonest.