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Not when you're in a place that, back in the 1990s, came out with a two-strikes and you're out policy. Two felonies ... and you're in for a long, long time sometimes without possibility of parole. You need to pay attention. Oh, and a drug charge is oh too often one of the two or three 'felonies' that invoke the mandatory minimum sentencing standards. You're the one that is full of it. pubby

I think the real answer is that we lock up too many of our marijuana puffers and pill poppers for much too long a sentence ... and they don't. pubby

cptlo: If you drive and don't look for potholes, you'll need realignment services. You may not hit every pot hole, but they're there whether you look for them or not. All I've ever seen, except for some FBI propaganda from the old days where they'd show John Dillinger (Public enemy #1), in any law enforcement shooting/training situation are either silhouettes, or a drawn figure like those shown above. pubby

It does imply a certain kind of freedom, doesn't it pubby

That conversation has been moved to paulding place ... password to open the forum is ON. I thought, in the meantime, and to commemorate that display of raw emotion, I'd show you the ending production credit. which is a way of showing my contribution ... at least this is the raw version that is time compacted - it comes in, spends a few frames and then immediately exits. (there is no sound at present. I need a sfx.)

Now wait a minute ... this topic is about the Pat and Patti show and about the only thing I'll concede is that I wish I looked (for the show) as stupid as he does. What is even more upsetting is that no one mentioned the production company responsible for this or the spiffy graphic I made to debut it. pubby

Glad you liked it. Your comparison was like music to my thespian ears For those who haven't grasped the compliment, this was a comparison to the commercially successful film "Dumb and Dumber" However, we'll really know that we are on a roll when you start using Floyd R Turbo as your example: pubby

"Cleavage... I've got cleavage ... who would have guessed" That was Patti's line, not mine! pubby

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/01/21/windows-10-will-free-upgrade-windows-7-8-8-1-users/ Tis true. Windows is going to give free upgrades from windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to windows 10, a new operating system that the company wants to establish as a basis for computer users going forward. I've just heard about this but apparently the upgrade will be a serious platform upgrade that changes the paradigm for the software while integrating mobile, gaming and PC platforms. So if they are giving it away free, how are they going to make money? One thing they're likely to do is wow us

That is the focus of the effort ... to entertain and inform. We are expecting to do this weekly... different guests and I'm hoping for some more newsy bits. pubby

Fortunately I don't take myself that seriously ... or too seriously, although I do appreciate that you do I had fun doing it. pubby

A little irreverent excursion into the Paulding we all know and love ... well at least some of us Including a parody about the motion to withdraw the airports commercial service application likening it to the destruction of the Bridge over the River Kwai ... as well as discussions of an apparent open season on deer (unconfirmed) as well as a discussion of the big mystery surrounding the drama that invaded the Commission chambers on January 13th. You'll have to see it to believe ... but waders are recommended 'cause it do get deep.' Click for RECENT TOPICS click for RECENT TOPICS click fo

I tend to be forgiving for those who are 'too easy' ... there are both men and women who are just ready to jump in the sack at the snap of finger. Those who are too indiscriminate have had to endure issues ranging from STD's to surprises that at age 12 ask, "are you my daddy." Some families and cultures, particularly in the south (with its notorious double standard at least amongst the wealthy), actually celebrate the lack of celibacy. Gone with the Wind's Capt. Rhett Butler being far from an isolated example of activity that would be quite common, considering the number of elegant house

Well, Nitro, you might be surprised that Virginia also has statutes that remove the criminality regarding suicide but somehow, the Virginia Supreme Court, in finding no liability for a jail in which an inmate committed suicide, found enough criminal culpability in the crime to mitigate damages to the county housing the unfortunate inmate whose family was suing them for negligence in not properly supervising the inmate. The concept involved the derogation of the statutory law and involves the strict interpretation of the statute as it differs. This mechanism in the law is also in existe

As I read about this, it is a bit of discovery in defense of a law suit that was filed against the city which disallowed a referendum on a city ordinance. The subpoenas, which were written by a third-party legal team not under direct supervision (they're lawyers trying to do a good job for their clients and apparently weren't quite 'sensitive' enough to the PR aspects) of the Mayor of Houston. The five ministers whose public utterings were subpoenaed were associated with the group suing the city over the law and the statements made in public were part of the evidence being compiled for the c

Wait a minute. Using the same logic that says that the state can't force a church to marry a couple when the state simultaneously demands that anyone selling wedding cakes has to sell their goods to all also applies to the states. Indeed, the first amendment applies to the states and what has been going on is that individual states have been denying the gays the right to marry, which is a relationship sanctioned by the state (marriage) that includes specific benefits. The last time I looked, no state is a religious institution and being an institution that has never, like paper e

I think both you and Newsjunky are flat wrong. More likely is that the churches who shun gays won't have them in their congregations and if they wish to get married, they'll do it elsewhere with either a congregation that is accepting or in a civil ceremony. What you are suggesting is that churches, like bakeries, telephone companies, etc. are all there for everyone. They offer public accommodations and if you walk in with money, you ought to expect to get a cake and because those businesses are licensed and are required by law to sell to all comers without discrimination based on race, s

So, in you mind, the real wind in the sails of this civil rights expansion are the attorney's who are: aware that gay men and women are particularly promiscious believe that if they get married they will become divorced with increasing frequency will increase access to money and jobs in the legal fraternity by doing so solves the problem of too little work for too many attorneys And that is why it will move through the system as if the bowels were greased. So, from the perspective of the law, it is not about civil rights at all but about feeding attorneys who profit from the misery (and

First, I may be showing my age. Suicide has been decriminalized by more and more states since the 1960s. Even today, two states apparently retain their formal laws criminalizing the act and, of course, all but two states make assisting suicide a crime. That means its status as a crime actually depends on jurisdiction these days. Depending on the vagaries of the case involving suicide coming before the bench, it may still considered a crime under English Common Law even in the absence of a formal statute; particularly if the party that may have to pay damages for negligence is powerful (lik

I have to hand it to the Quincy (MA) police. They were both tenacious and appropriate in the enforcement of the four-person limit as to gatherings on the sidewalks with out permits (which may or may not be constitutional). We were not provided a picture of the protesters sign, which from the fleeting description, appeared to include images of chopped up fetuses which would not be classed as an appetizing graphic outside most local McDonald restaurants. That the police babysat him for a few minutes until he left his spot immediately in front of Mickyd's and no doubt would count themse

The not working is not malfeasance TP ... it is following through on the Republican pledge of bringing your smaller government. If you are elected to a job that you and other Republicans don't think should be done - you know, having to do with welfare, etc. - and you do nothing, you are by definition not only fulfilling Grover Norquists command to 'starve the beast' - i.e. cost the government money but you are providing limited government by limiting your activities. Now if you believe in a fair days wage for a fair days work, you've just defrauded the government by not doing anythin

I think that if you compare the article LPPT cited and the one presented by the BBC (which was more illuminating) you will understand more clearly than ever that the NYTImes is hardly that bastion of liberalism. Taking the editors of the NYT at their word - all the news that fit to print - their exposition of the topic leaves out elements such as this added analysis: That additional analysis was taken from a second story citing the OXFAM research which began with the example of the recent Ebola crisis. Apparently a leading researcher said that given the capabilities of science s

I think the real lesson here is that police ought not use pictures of real people as targets for practice. Here is the first couple of dozen images for "shooting targets" to come up on a google search. I think there was one photograph in the bunch (a pregnant woman which may say something about the misogynistic attitudes of some shooters) and the rest are either formal targets or silhouettes. I actually believe that using photographs of real people as targets would be appropriate if you are training assassins to kill particular people. You want a sniper to be cold and have no compun

The press as a general rule doesn't cover suicides usually. There are exceptions - usually they will cover a jail suicide and of course, they cover suicide by cop largely because they present themselves as standoff or hostage situations. As far as the location, I don't think there is any particular etiquette in this regard. Doing it at home may raise questions of murder and the mess also becomes another thing that the family has to deal with, typically with little help. Doing it at a public park does add a public dimension to the crime but takes the burden off the family. But I thi

Whitey: Thanks for posting that in this topic. The fact is that many of those assertions were 'proven' true, particularly in regard to the allegations that open meetings laws were violated. Those allegations were a part of most of the lawsuits brought and had they been true, the actions taken would have been ruled invalid by the courts. They weren't. pubby