#29 | Posted by JeffJ

If the student was being disruptive sure. However, the student wasn't being disruptive. First it was the teacher then it was the other faculty and LE that caused the disruption. They escalated the situation - an apparent silent protest. What happens in cases like this? The student was exercising his rights and not harming anyone. It was the figures of authority who escalated and created a confrontation. Should he have just acted like a sheep?

As for your opinion on the mother and the state of racism in this country it is totally beside the point. The student has rights and was merely exercising them.

#26 | Posted by docnjo

Yes you are correct on that and the existing bits of the wall have often royally screwed up drainage and caused issues.

#19 | POSTED BY AVIGDORE

How do you not see it? Just curious. I mean you have a student standing up for their American Rights to an adult authority figure. The authority figure denies the right and escalates by calling in the police and dean. Who apparently then continue to escalate the situation rather than deescalating and apologizing to the student as someone should have done. If anyone should have been arrested in this situation it was the teacher. We are talking about an 11 year-old child after all.

Hall him off to juvie and suspend him really? I think this kid is going to be rich.

#11 | Posted by MSgt

I know et al. tells us not to trust reporting on legal matters, but from reading the article the military seems to be making a somewhat regular practice of this with the navy alone opening 8 cases in the last year. Once you are out you should be out. I agree with Danni retired or ex-military should have all the rights they serverd to protect for the rest of us. It is ludicrous to even insinuate ex-military are subject to military regulations and justice - except in the case of crimes committed while in the military.

#27 | Posted by Maverick

The alex jones is strong in this one...

I guess I don't really find it surprising unfortunately and neither should a lot of people. Police ranks are full of racists.

Man - it was only an 80 pound cat - about 1/3 the size of a full size male.

I saw this guy on Faux News when I was in the break room.

He sounded kind of like an idiot even before they started asking rather simple questions.

They were asking where he thought the money for his office went. Turns out the county is FUBAR - revenue has plummeted and really is next to nothing - and he sounds like he thinks the only priority should be the the sheriff's office.

Don't get me wrong - the county should have a sheriff IMHO but the entire county only has a population of 11k and dropping and a median HOUSEHOLD income of $18,279. This is Coal Country butted right up against West Virginia.

88.6% Trump voters in the election BTW.

Throw Qanon and Alex Jones in prison for inciting and capitalizing on feeble minded idiots.

#8 | Posted by cbob

I agree. In fact I think he is lower than scum. I dare say his lies and rants border on criminal. He prays on some of the most vulnerable and feeble minded in society while exploiting true tragedies like the massacre of innocent children by deranged gunmen.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter

That's the positions you should have always taken... There are of course exceptions - like church / religious supply stores but they typically need to be prepared to serve every sect.

It was Arizona yes. But technically you can still argue it was an "accident". The shooting wasn't but the result of the shot was not the expected/intended outcome. If he lived would he have been charged? It actually doesn't say if they were hunting, I am guessing no though.

#40 | Posted by eberly

I would disagree with you on that. Certainly they look at transactions as a part of the process. The IRS looks for Red Flags on determining if someone is audit worthy. When they are auditing someone they ARE digging into wealth and wealth protection schemes.

I am sure this would face a true battle and probably lose. But the clause on direct taxation is not 100% clear either.

Frankly it took the 16th amendment to overturn the fact that income tax was considered a direct tax by the SCOTUS even though widely felt NOT to be. That said there are all sorts of other taxes that can be applied that would not be "direct" taxes and some quite frankly that feel like a direct tax and are on the books. An Inheritance tax for instance or even a Capital Gains tax. That said, clearly a Direct tax CAN be applied it just has to be based on population of a state and proportional...

I have to question how states are allowed to asses direct taxes if it is not in the power of the Federal Government to do so. I know States rights and all that...

We were talking about Cheney the other day... Here's a guy who ASKS his friend to shoot him: "Graham County Sheriff's deputies arrested Watson, and he faces a manslaughter charge."

Look High speed rail is not going to replace cross country trips. It would replace a lot of regional flights and driving. I take the train to Chicago when I go - just as fast as driving and no huge parking fees and headaches. If it was high speed rail... wow. East coast already functions on a LOT of rail.

On top of it, imagine not having the airport hassles... I would go Michigan to Florida on rail if it was viable. I have rode high speed trains in Japan and Europe. Wonderful things.

#20 | Posted by saginawmi

Are you really in Saginaw? Just curious, I live in the area.

#15 | Posted by humtake

I won't disagree there are racists on both side, but one side has a lot more to legitimately gripe about. It's still primarily a white world in the US.

#10 | Posted by MSgt

And BTW - personally I would rather have a small return than owe. Which btw if you owe too much the government will come after you to pay more ahead of time. I bet someone owing $4500 gets a nasty from the IRS threatening them and telling them they will have to start making quarterly payments...

#10 | Posted by MSgt

An interest free loan is true and a way to look at it. Others count on it as interest free "savings" that enables them to make needed purchases of expensive things or to pay off large bills. Be mentally honest - MOST people are not good with saving or managing money and especially so the lower you are on the income scale. This WILL hurt a lot of people and businesses. It was a trick to make the masses more accepting of the tax plan it was only a matter of time until it really sunk in with people - time being tax season...

#8 | Posted by humtake

You are WRONG on that. It's happening to a lot of people. $4500 is on the high end but I have spoke to several co-workers that went from $1000ish return to owing $1000ish and they are all bitzin. These are people making combined in the 100-120k/year range with their spouses. Let me say that the increase in my paycheck was small and does account for the swing on my end - if I didn't get a tax cut. Owe wait my tax cut was really that small. But I knew all that.

All the Trumpites I work with didn't believe what I told them, the cut was much smaller than the increase in their paycheck and the REASON for the increase in their paycheck was virtually all due to the decrease in withholding and the tax return they were counting on would NOT be there. People owing $4500 are in the higher wage ranges. What's funny is they blew me off and now I smile and shrug. I told them the tax cut was a scam on them.

#7 | Posted by AndreaMackris

And btw if you READ what you posted they just had nearly 2 years to get there...

#7 | Posted by AndreaMackris

As so many remind us we are a Country of Laws. It is illegal to detain him in a decision handed down by the SCOTUS. It isn't up to local or state officials to enforce federal immigration law. It is up to the Federal government. If ICE couldn't be there in time and he really is a bad guy they should try harder next time rather than worrying about some guy brought here legally by his parents 30 years ago. Seems they catch a lot of those guys...

It's amazing how much stupidity greed will cause people to do.

#11 | Posted by boaz

I am TOTALLY with you on this.

As for gtbritishskull & "Stupidly restrictive IT policies" - it is usually for a very good reason. You are talking about national security in the case of Hillary. Yes there has to be and is a way to get things changed if they are ok to change. It is a necessarily bureaucratic process in larger organizations. And speaking very very frankly anyone who thinks IT chooses to be "stupidly restrictive" for ----- and giggles should be banned from the network because it likely isn't the attitude in most IT departments today. IT is working to protect the government or other organization from people doing really stupid things without even realizing it. They don't want to make their own life harder and they don't want angry and unhappy users. It's the instant gratification nature of users that is the real problem IMHO. Nobody has any patience and is quick to blame anymore.

Personally - I have to fight to keep a balance within a private organization of allowing users to do things and keeping things "fairly" secure and IMHO "fairly" secure is downright insecure. More and more it is just not possible to allow a lot of activities without creating unreasonable risk to the organization and its data. Pretty much any activity you allow carries risk. I have personally seen several organizations shut their doors for multiple days in the past couple years while they clean up after user induced messes. Even fighting within the IT organization over clamping down more is a reality today.

The truth is the bad guys are always ahead of the good guys when it comes to finding holes and exploiting them.

However if you want to look at "stupidly restrictive policies" - I personally find this funny. I have a vendor who will not accept images in emails and has not for the 12+ years I have worked with them. JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc. - No bueno. The reason is according them the potential for viruses in those files and relationships with GOVERNMENT customers (Local and state level) who require that they not accept those files in an email. However they then tell you to put the images in a Word document or PDF which they do accept and send it to them in your HTML filled email and that simply blows my mind.