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Seventh-Grader Finds Barack Obama, All Presidents, Save One, Re...

According to the bible, you're also related to Bin Laden..Terrorist!  (Nov 3, 2009 | post #17)

Proctorville, OH

Remember Huntington in the 50's?

I've enjoyed reading everyone's memories! I didn't grow up in Huntington, but near by in Ohio. If only Huntington had stayed the way you remember it, it might be a good place to live. Now its pretty much over run with drugs and prostitutes and has an astounding crime level in general. Its very sad what the city has become and its starting to effect the outlying areas as well now. Soon it will be time to move on to somewhere else less crowded with hoodlums.  (Jul 11, 2009 | post #436)

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Woman jailed after man complains about her cooking

Couple of interesting thoughts..How do they charge an elderly person with assault on an elderly person? And why is he so wimpy that he has to call the cops just because she threw a phone at him? I realize he's 77, but I know plenty of people that age that are so spry they don't seem a day over 55. All I can say is grow some, Mr. complain.  (Jul 11, 2009 | post #25)

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Couple With 16 Kids, 12 Adopted, Found Shot Dead

As sad as it is to day, you always have to entertain the possibility that one of or more of the businesses the family owned wasn't exactly kosher. The things people managed to hide from the rest of their family, never ceases to amaze me. It doesn't seem likely that one of the children was involved in drugs somehow. I would think that they would go for that child, not the parents.  (Jul 11, 2009 | post #26)

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72-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Tasered at Traffic Stop

I can agree that there must have been another way for the cop to subdue her. Looking at how frail she looks she probably couldn't have done much damage to someone, even with a bat. I realize cops have a dangerous jobs, but I think they're way too quick to taser someone when it really isn't necessary. As far as cops not doing something stupid like that when a dashcam is rolling.. I recently saw video of 4 or 5 cops beating the hell out of an unconscious man after he wrecked his vehicle and was thrown from it. The man makes no move to defend himself in anyway, yet they kick and hit him over and over. But hey..what do I know, according to Captain Tightwad, cops would NEVER do something so stupid and abusive on film.. *rolls eyes*  (Jun 4, 2009 | post #27)

African-American

Wanda Sykes Suddenly Mother, Er, Father (?) of Twins: Wife Give...

Everyone forgets that single mothers raise perfectly healthy sons all the time. And single fathers raise perfectly health daughters. To you people that spew nothing but hate for these people and their "poor soon to be dysfunctional children" I hate to see how your children turned out. Are they as hate spewing as you? Are they the ones that constantly gay-bash people? Beat up poor black kids on the street? All because of your messed up beliefs? They're people. No matter what they look like, no matter what they believe, no matter whose sleeping next to them in bed at night. People deserve the same common decency you would expect to receive yourself. It isn't gay people who make this world messed up, its the people that have a problem with gay people. Why is it any of your business? Why does it matter so much to you? Because it gives you an "excuse" to be the truly hateful people you are? I'd rather live with a thousand homosexuals in my child's life than one single person so filled with hate for something as stupid as someone's sexuality.  (May 16, 2009 | post #505)

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Parents: Profanity in McD's Kidz Bop CD

My daughter got #6 on our monthly trip to the playhouse..I just listened to the CD again and no where in the song does it say "F-ing" It clearly says "looking. " Maybe the real objection by these parents is that its actually a good song for their kids to listen to..It isn't about b*tches and hoes.  (May 15, 2009 | post #26)

Smoking

Anti-smokers: a Cancer on Liberty

There are many other, easier ways to shut down bars and casinos. Pulling liquor licenses and checking to see if bars have reached their max capacity. Both are much easier ways to shut down bars in particular. The bottom line though, even if they do manage to ban smoking completely in bars and casinos, people who smoke will suck it up and go to them anyway. After all, people who smoke still go to movie theaters even though they aren't allowed to smoke in them. Never thought being rational would make me stupid.  (Mar 28, 2009 | post #105)

Smoking

Anti-smokers: a Cancer on Liberty

I could be considered liberal. I'm also a smoker. I'm a smoker that's considerate to other people. Smoking bans are good to an extent. Do you think a 3 year old should have to breath in your smoke? Did you know smoking around children can cause them to have severe ear infections and breathing problems? Adults have a choice to move away from smoke, but if you're a child in a restaurant and someone is puffing smoke in your face, what choice do you have? I can agree with smoking bans in restaurants, especially since there are no real dividers between smoking and non-smoking areas. Many people that I know refuse to smoke in restaurants that allow it for that very reason. Bars/clubs/casinos are not exactly family oriented. There has always been smoking in these places. People that don't like smoking don't have to go to these places, as there pretty much has always been places that don't allow smoking. Its a simple matter, and people want to fight and sling insults just to prove that they're right and the other is wrong. It isn't a matter of right and wrong, its a matter of compromise. Don't allow smoking in some places, and set up an enclosed smoking area for smokers in others. Allow smoking in some places. This would make some completely smoke free business, some businesses with a smoking area, and some that had smoking throughout, giving non-smokers the choice of whether or not they wanted to go there. Wow that was difficult wasn't it..  (Mar 28, 2009 | post #103)

Smoking

Anti-smokers: a Cancer on Liberty

Then wouldn't the non-smoker technically be infringing on the right of the smoker as well? If according to you, one person's rights end when infringing upon another's, then the non-smoker would be infringing upon the smoker's right to smoke, thus their rights are no longer there. Don't you hate it when you try to use something as an argument that could clearly work both ways. Think before you write such drivel. As I have said in other places on this topic, smokers have the right to smoke, and non-smokers certainly have the right to not be around it. Business that allow smoking will only loose business. People who did not like smoking never went to those places anyway and only to places who didn't allow it. And Vice Versa. Restaurants are more or less family establishments, smoking should not be allowed in places like these because children may be present and they aren't really being given the choice to inhale or not inhale second hand smoke. However, smoking in bars or clubs should be up to the person who owns them. You know, the person who paid for the building..pays for the taxes every year... What about that person's rights in the matter? The smoking/non-smokin g issue goes way beyond the rights of non-smokers and smokers. It also affects the people who own and run these businesses.  (Mar 27, 2009 | post #14)

Smoking

No smoking in Restaurants...

A lot of rich people donate to charities for a couple reasons. 1. They get every penny back at the end up the year, and whatever taxes they paid on it. 2. To make themselves look like something they are not to other people. 3. In some rare cases they actually give a damn. As far as a flat tax with people below the poverty level not paying tax, what would be the point? Have you looked at the joblessness rates lately? Maybe if some of the very rich weren't being given such high tax breaks before, there would be more people with jobs. Of course it was done under the assumption that these people would be creating more jobs with the money that wasn't being taken in taxes. Instead, they sent all the jobs to other countries so they could pay lower wages, and make even more money. I'm all for someone making some money. But you have to remember the little guys whose backs you used to get there. That is why the very rich pay higher taxes, because if they didn't there would be no "upper class" or "middle class," there would be the very rich and the very poor. I agree with the tobacco taxes to an extent, as it is a profitable tax for the government. Although it should be spread around a little. Tax alcohol and fast food. Spread the "sin tax" around a little instead of just slapping it on one product. The problem is that mainly poor people smoke. When they raise and raise the tax, less and less people are going to smoke, meaning less money. They start restricting the areas of smoking, which I also agree with to an extent, businesses are going to loose business. People may argue that they already are because people who don't like cigarette smoke do not go to those businesses. Technically, they aren't loosing anything, simply because those people NEVER went there to begin with. So maybe it should be, tax the very rich at a higher rate, and work your way down to the poor. Stop taxing the hell out of every commodity that exists. Leave smokers alone in their "smoking areas" and go make some "non-smoking areas" for yourselves. It should be that easy. No one has any common decency left. Everyone wants to sue everyone, and everyone wants to be in everyone else's business. Telling them who they can and cannot marry, how many children they should be having. Realize that people have their own lives, and since we live in America, and not Russia, we have the right to do pretty much whatever we want with it. Or we're supposed to.  (Mar 22, 2009 | post #1335)

Smoking

No smoking in Restaurants...

I suppose that some may feel that way, but literally everyone I know who smokes, goes out of their way to insure that it isn't bothering other people when they do. I think that saying smokers are selfish simply makes it easier for people to justify telling someone they can't do something they have every right to do. "They don't care about anyone but themselves so they shouldn't be allowed to do that." People being considerate to others has seems to have gone out of style. Its considerate not to smoke around people who don't like it, but its also considerate to set a place aside for people who do smoke. To a lot of people its "I smoke so deal with it" or "I don't smoke and I don't like it so you aren't allowed to."  (Mar 16, 2009 | post #1326)

Smoking

No smoking in Restaurants...

I'm a smoker and I agree that there should be no smoking allowed in restaurants. To me restaurant=family place. I don't allow smoking around my child, and go outside to smoke even if its 10 degrees. I'm sort of undecided about bars and clubs though. These places have always been okay zones, and aren't exactly family places. I agree that it's unfair to non-smokers to have to deal with the smoke. I think that it could be solved simply by having smoking and non-smoking bars/clubs. You could even have them adjoining, with an area in between to filter the air, so people that don't mind the smoke for a little bit could go back and forth. I think a lot of people miss the point, that just like non-smokers have the right to not breathe smokey air, people that smoke have the right to smoke.  (Mar 15, 2009 | post #1314)

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Daycare Owners Charged With Taping Sex With Children

Stupidity, it would seem, is a disease too. I'm sorry, but democrats don't sit around all day whining about the injustices being done to them, 10 minutes after they just did the same thing to someone else. Its long been the thought by quite a few people that republicans are uneducated rednecks, and I was simply pointing out that you're doing nothing to help your parties image. Another thing republicans are notorious for doing is completely changing the topic at hand, and using it for their purpose to show how "wonderful " they are or how "evil" dems. are. Get off your soapbox so everyone else can get back to the point.  (Mar 15, 2009 | post #90)

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Husband sues wife who a duped him for 17 years into bringing up...

The reason why, is because when a child is born, you sign their birth certificate saying that child is yours. In cases where your doubt the paternity of your child, you can request a DNA test before the child ever leaves the hospital and you sign. Legally, regardless of who the father really is, that child becomes yours and the legal rights of the real father are lost, because they weren't contested in any way when the child was born.  (Jan 22, 2009 | post #22)