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Also in Gary, for about 10 more minutes, then on to Green Bay. O boy: cheese curds! :D

Precisely: teenagers constitute a distraction to the driver. What I'd like to see is more attention paid to the danger of being distracted [especially for truck drivers looking for an address, truck gate, etc] and not so much on the danger of just one particular thing. Any distraction is as...

I put 'bullets' in quotes because I don't know what kind of projectiles they are, but clearly, the gun fires something, and the activity could cause an injury to other schoolkids, so the school feels they have jurisdiction. Whether they do or not is a matter for the lawyers to decide, [!] but I...

According to the charts in the cite, states [which create the rules for welfare & food stamps] have long since enacted such regulations as work, education, or volunteering, as a prerequisite. My only personal experience is unemployment, when I used to get laid off every year, for about 6 weeks...

I admit I don't know - I was referring to the quote from the principal who said one kid was "hit while running away" which implies the gun shoots something, at least. And playing at shooting in the front yard, near a school bus stop, while waiting for the bus, is just asking for trouble. Even if...

People who portray all of any category of people [or professions, ie: cops, dispatchers] as evil are just portraying their own bias. Which always makes me wonder why they have had so many negative experiences with said group. Except the ones who just think it sounds cool to say things like the...

Trust Fox to portray it as an outrage, and LDB to accept that the headline is all there is to the story. :rolleyes: How does a kid in 7th grade [and his mother] not realize that shooting real 'bullets' in close proximity to noncombatants is a really dumb idea?

No, it's for real. It's kind of a 'he said/she said' thing, though, where the school alleges the kid was endangering others waiting at the nearby bus stop with his air gun - if that's true, he should be disciplined.

Congrats, Jpatt! I'm going to jump in on the side of those who think it's best to drive T/T for a year, even if you end up switching to a S/T. [Much easier than doing it the other way round, lol] Think of it as a postgrad education, or paying your dues, but when the year is finished, you'll have...

Texting may be the biggest problem in distracted driving, but it's still distracted driving [paying attention to something other than the situation around & ahead] that is the biggest cause of crashes, I believe. Focusing on this one behavior just makes the others seem less risky, and I think...

Dude, if how it looks is that important to you, you should pay more attention to spelling ['hilarious' is wrong. Again!] And punctuation. Just sayin.

I have a few [ahem] comments on Turtle's post, but it has to wait, as my break is over and I need to get back to work. Because there's no knight in shining [or dull, either] armor who's going to do it for me. :rolleyes:

With that, I disagree. Evil? Diminished values? I think the practice of having a lot of kids that you can't afford and haven't the temperment to deal with and teach and love, just because "it's expected - it's what everyone does" or because the Church thinks you should is evil. And I applaud...

Better call on Wonder Woman: it's too big a job for mere mortals, lol. ;)

Food stamps: How does the program work? - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com A little bit of actual factual info for your perusal. We can all agree that people needing assistance has mushroomed, but the difference is in the underlying assumptions about why. I don't believe human...

There's no policy against saying things that some find offensive. It's up to the other members to let the poster know what they think. Likewise, it's not against policy to repeat the same drivel ad nauseum, or to throw in lame non sequiters to deflect criticism [or the potential], or any of a...

Without imagination & creativity, some problems would never get solved. :rolleyes:

The irony of this comment about irony is hilarious [when spelled correctly]: the writer couldn't help belittling [dimwitted] and namecalling [Barry] in the very post he tries to lecture someone else about. You just can't make this stuff up, lol.

'Octomom' is a nutcase [and the doctor who abetted her lunacy should be in prison], and John & Kate were and are horrible parents, but there are some few who can and do raise many kids very well. It's something innate - a gift that most of us don't have. It's nice that they're able to make use...

I have quite a few problems with people who just want a free ride, and they should be made to reimburse whatever they got from taxpayers. I just don't think the overwhelming majority of people needing assistance are committing fraud, as some seem to believe. This week Blackberry laid off 4500...