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klg
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response 221 of 241:
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Sep 1 15:05 UTC 2003 |
Interesting note: The AL atty gen who is carrying out AL Sup Ct order
to move the monument is the same Bill Pryor whose nomination to a
federal judgeship is being blocked by liberal Democrats who allege he is
unqualified because he wouldn't enforce existing federal law.
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rcurl
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response 222 of 241:
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Sep 1 18:22 UTC 2003 |
Which federal laws has he refused to enforce? I thought the liberal
opposition to his appointment is primarly because of his anti-abortion
stance.
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klg
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response 223 of 241:
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Sep 2 02:27 UTC 2003 |
(Why would a state atty gen have been asked to enforce federal law?)
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rcurl
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response 224 of 241:
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Sep 2 05:55 UTC 2003 |
State attorney generals cooperate with federal agencies in enforcement of
federal laws. See, for example,
http://www.grandrapids.bbb.org/AlertDetl.asp?ID=24
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klg
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response 225 of 241:
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Sep 2 16:02 UTC 2003 |
(First of all, being anti-abortion automatically makes him a religious
zealot who ought to be demonstrating in the rotunda of the AL Sup Ct
bldg to keep the 10 Commands. monument there, right??
Second, tell us, what's the necessary connection between being anti-
abortion and not enforcing federal abortion laws?)
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russ
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response 226 of 241:
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Sep 3 01:56 UTC 2003 |
Re #225: There's a difference between being an AG charged with enforcing
the law under penalty of contempt, and being a life-tenured judge able to
make his rulings comport with his prejudices with no penalty at all.
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klg
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response 227 of 241:
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Sep 3 16:03 UTC 2003 |
(Or, in plain English, "There isn't any.)
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russ
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response 228 of 241:
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Sep 4 12:18 UTC 2003 |
If your reading ability is that poor, Kerry, you just go on thinking that.
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gull
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response 229 of 241:
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Sep 5 15:09 UTC 2003 |
Something relevent to the earlier conversation about bullying:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/09/04/sprj.sch.bullying.prevention.ap/ind
ex.ht
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"Bullying shouldn't be dismissed as a harmless schoolyard rite of
passage, according to a report that found bullies and their victims
often develop behavioral and emotional problems later in life."
It's really sort of sad that a study had to be done for people to figure
that one out.
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tod
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response 230 of 241:
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Sep 5 16:02 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 231 of 241:
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Sep 5 18:18 UTC 2003 |
Make him, tough guy..
:-p
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tod
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response 232 of 241:
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Sep 5 18:25 UTC 2003 |
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russ
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response 233 of 241:
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Sep 6 01:36 UTC 2003 |
I found that same piece on the Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2083004
Some excerpts:
Nearly 60 percent of boys who researchers classified as bullies in
grades six though nine were convicted of at least one crime by the
age of 24; 40 percent of them had three or more convictions by 24,
the report said.
"We can't afford to squander the early warning that bullying gives
that a kid may be headed for trouble," said Sanford Newman, president
of Fight Crime.
Those who are bullied are five times more likely to be depressed and
far more likely to be suicidal, said the report, citing U.S. and
European studies.
Bullying prevention programs are relatively inexpensive, the report
said. For example, it costs about $4,000 to train someone to
administer an anti-bullying program in a large school district, but
$100,000 to put a child with emotional problems in special education
for 12 years.
A 1998 study by Vanderbilt University estimated that each high-risk
juvenile prevented from adopting a life of crime could save the
country between $1.7 and $2.3 million.
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mcnally
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response 234 of 241:
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Sep 6 02:54 UTC 2003 |
> "We can't afford to squander the early warning that bullying gives
> that a kid may be headed for trouble," said Sanford Newman, president
> of Fight Crime.
What does he propose to do about it, I wonder? Just because bullying
is a predictor of likely future criminal behavior it doesn't mean that
correcting the bullying will have any effect on the likelihood of
future criminality. And even if bullying was a 100% successful
predictor and we *knew* bullies were going to grow up to become
criminals our system has no mechanism (nor should it) to allow us
to punish crimes that haven't been committed yet..
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tod
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response 235 of 241:
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Sep 6 03:05 UTC 2003 |
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bru
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response 236 of 241:
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Sep 6 21:05 UTC 2003 |
make bullying a crime. get them young.
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happyboy
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response 237 of 241:
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Sep 7 09:01 UTC 2003 |
shake them in a laundrymat!
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tod
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response 238 of 241:
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Sep 7 15:10 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 239 of 241:
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Sep 7 21:20 UTC 2003 |
play "Hide From The Social Worker"
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albaugh
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response 240 of 241:
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Sep 8 17:21 UTC 2003 |
What was that Tom Cruise movie about "guilty of the future murder of..."
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oval
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response 241 of 241:
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Sep 8 18:21 UTC 2003 |
minority report?
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