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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:21 PM
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In Calif., no more tanning beds for under-18 crowd
In Calif., no more tanning beds for under-18 crowd



SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California has become the first state to make it illegal for teenagers under 18 to use tanning beds.

Gov. Jerry Brown said Sunday that he has signed SB746 into law. It goes into effect Jan. 1.

Currently, children 14 and under cannot use tanning beds in California. Children ages 15-17 can tan with their parents' permission.

The bill's author, state Sen. Ted Lieu, says California is the first state to set a higher age limit. Texas has the next highest age limit, banning tanning bed use by teenagers under 16.


http://www.wtop.com/?nid=209&sid=2584418
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:38 PM
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1. Well, how the hell are the Toddlers & Tiaras contestants supposed to get their color right?
Explain THAT to me, Mr. Governor!
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:41 PM
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2. Is that a real person or a doll?
Creeeeeepy
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:46 PM
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4. Highly retouched... real girl tho.
Edited on Sun Oct-09-11 03:48 PM by NYC_SKP
Creepy, indeed.

http://www.photoretouchinglab.com/
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:25 PM
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13. Okay, I spent way too long looking at that site
My conclusion - still creepy. Like the girl in your post is a cutie. Why the need to "retouch"? The worst part are these are still young and impressionable children and their parents are already putting the "you don't look cute enough unless we retouch" in their heads. There was a pic of a baby that was retouched! A baby!

:puke:
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:45 PM
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3. It's funny the way a society in which white is dominant in
power doesn't value its own whiteness, but seeks to become as brown as it can artificially.

Or maybe "funny" isn't the right adjective.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:53 PM
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7. It's because rich people can afford long vacations on tropical beaches.
back it the old days it was the opposite, being lily-white showed people that you were wealthy enough not have to work long hours in the fields.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:55 PM
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8. There's some sense in that. nt
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:19 PM
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12. not funny ha ha.....
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:50 PM
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5. sounds okay to me
only libertarians will be upset
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:51 PM
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6. Good. These things are horrible for you.
I know a woman who is 28 and uses a tanning bed every day if she can, she looks like she's 40 because of all the damage to her skin.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:08 PM
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9. And wait till menopause sets in.
Does she smoke?
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:13 PM
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10. Yup.
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:16 PM
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11. I hibernate in Florida
Tanning beds? You are kidding. I AVOID the sun at all costs. I have met women half my age here who looked like mummies from their sun worshiping. If you were born a "pale face" that is how were meant to be. Don't try to be anything you aren't.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:27 PM
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14. As a fair skinned red head, I agree
I chuckle a little at all those young women, tanning it up in their 20s. My dad is a tanner. He's 60, but he's LOOKED 60 for a LONG time.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:28 PM
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15. You got that right, although my sun damage was done at the Jersey Shore.
My dermatologist is on my Christmas Card List...LOL..
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 06:47 PM
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17. I lived on LI for 25 years
I must have gone to the beach maybe 5 times. The last 10 years I didn't even own a swim suit. If I didn't go then, why would I want to now? Just because I now live in Florida? No, thanks.
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 04:34 PM
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16. What would we do without the government
to protect us from ourselves?
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 07:36 PM
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18. Yet more nanny-state nonsense
Shouldn't parents be the ones to decide this?

All this nanny state nonsense does is make progressives look bad, especially amongst the 18-29, with the votes of said constituents going to libertarian or Republican candidates instead.
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