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While not disagreeing with the findings; one critical observation is that the research needs to go a step further. I'll give you an analogy. In the case of people hiring, the person who gets the break and gets the job often reminds the person doing the hiring of themselves. I would posit that button down prosecutors are more likely to give someone who generally reminds them of themselves than someone whose culture and attitude is alien to them. Traditionally this kind of discrimination would have been happening with WASPs arrested the Irish Catholic or when the Irish Catholic prosecutor

GD is obviously uninformed. Ownership of things that are of national security interest are subject to immediate confiscation. See, this is where history tells a story. President Truman nationalized the steel industry, the railroads and the coal mines to wrestle control of these industries which were being put under siege by labor which was threatening to strike these essential industries during time of war (Korean). While the SCOTUS reversed his actions in the case of steel; the precedent was set that when push comes to shove; the Army can be called out to occupy private industry

If you caught a trophy cat like that, would you have it stuffed and mounted or would you have a feast? Personally, I like the taste of catfish. For the record, while this is definitely a large Blue catfish, in the context of all catfish species; some of which have been reported to expand to over 600lbs, this baby is a 93-lb weakling; so to speak. (world record catfish) pubby

I understand the general public's aversion to divorce as a topic. That aversion equates to ignorance of the entire system - people just don't know how being vindictive in a divorce can create utter hell for all parties. Those who go through it are usually too traumatized to talk about it. pubby

I suppose another concern is that with private prisons, the judicial system's penchant to become a marketing arm using an area of the criminal justice system that is potentially more corrupt is another concern. This from an editorial in the NYTimes regarding the penchant of municipal courts to extract money for their cities is an obvious source of injustice. I think we know that the Justice Dept. headed by Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions will turn a blind eye to this abuse. Then, of course, there is the continuing issue with how citizens are treated in some cases by LEO. All o

CC: That particular game didn't come to mind because, well, the directness seems less conspiratorial and more highway robberish in nature I will say that DVbp's post was provocative enough that I not only viewed a couple more videos but read a rather interesting Congressional Research Service report on the subject of incarceration of those who are being coerced to pay child support. It does go to the issue of what makes sense and doesn't in the collection of child support which is more broadly applied than I was immediately aware. Child Support enforcement was initially limited to c

Your video I'm sure depicts the circumstances that exist in some places. It is not unreasonable to think that some folks are base enough to abuse the system in this way but I do think that it is a mistake to assume that the entire society is as corrupt as portrayed. I mean such a system were as corrupt as you say and in play nationwide there would be not only ample evidence - I'm sure there is some but I'm talking about a lot of evidence and the most telling bit would be the shouts of tens of thousands of people in the street. And while I know that perfection eludes all including thos

I recognize the concept of regulatory capture. Among the most egregious ever has been the capture of institutions like the EPA by Pruitt; an industry shill if I ever saw one. These institutions, one might observe, have gone down hill in the last years as we have elected politicians who believed their main task was to destroy government and have adopted the tactic of maladministration as their primary tool. How better to destroy an institution that put people in office whose goal is destroy that office by perverting the task. Hell, even the DEA has been 'captured' by the biggest drug d

The nut of the issue is that the way funding for shelters and some other welfare, child services programs are funded with a federal matching grant that is based on collection of child support from non-custodial parents, the states have an incentive to hype the collections. The presumed fix is that parenting be more equally shared in the wake of divorce as the charge is the judges, in mediating typical divorces, side toward unbalanced custody agreements and do so to increase collection of child support. This impacts primarily single parent families where the custodial parent is on some sor

That contrasts with our President who encouraged LEO to treat those arrested badly including banging their heads into the door frame when they put 'em in cars. pubby

Yes, I would offer them a cake and include one of the tools used to write with icing and tell them that they can write what ever words on the cake they choose. However, if they insisted otherwise, I'd simply write God hates thugs on it and deliver it. They would complain and I'd say sue me. The tort in this case is a lot more clear than the wholesale refusal to provide service that the folks in the so-called Christian bakery are claiming. If they sued me, I would pay any judgment rendered by the court for my 'spelling error' ... which at most would be the cost of the cake. If I were

Wouldn't necessarily disagree with much of what you said but the suggestion was that day care to provide relief from the burdens of parenting - particularly necessary for single parent households - is an expedient act that had it been taken might have saved the lives of those two children. Drugs, abusive parenting, small minds and limited resources are a prescription for disaster. If everyone were responsible, that alone would mitigate a great deal of the problem but that simply is not the case. Still, even with the challenges, responsible people need to be responsible and figure strate

Actually, what I read is that she left the kids and they ended up possibly gassing themselves with the stove because they were unsupervised. Quite possibly the three year old turned on the stove - I'm assuming a bad pilot light - but was able to leave the vicinity and survive. Maybe I misread the story but how do you kill a child with a stove ... I don't think she cooked them for dinner. pubby

I think the answer is actually pretty simple. We could choose, as a society, to make available broad access to free child care but society, instead, has chosen to assert that all people must be responsible and, unless they have the personal resources to pay for such care, the individual has no choice but to be responsible with irresponsibility being the penalty this person will face. The underlying reason is that the cost of providing freely available daycare to all mothers would be comparatively enormous compared to the livees of the dozens of children who will die due to such tragedies a

But they've gotten demonstrably worse since that self-proclaimed non-racist Cliven Bundy talked about how blacks had it better during slavery on national TV and Donald Trump asserted without fact that Barack Obama was not a legitimate president and Trump then ran on the campaign stance first uttered by the America First committee that sought to align with Nazi Germany in 1939. pubby

I get how you are all about freedom but I'm perplexed how you can be so hyped on the freedom of a bakery owner to discriminate against people who walk in their door but so dismissive of a football player's freedom of speech to deny him the right to take the pledge on a knee. The reality is the law regarding public accommodation is the publicly defined contract that is just as valid as the contract the players have with team owners ... if not more valid. Yet you reject one and accept the other as a limit on expression. My point is that if the team owners want to fire their players; tha

In the early 1930s the Governor of Arkansas had to call out the national guard in Jonesboro Arkansas because a revival preacher came into the congregation of the first Baptist Church there and through manipulations created chaos that was threatening to become a religious shooting war among the congregants. The local police, who were members of the church and were taking sides, were therefore not trusted, especially by congregants of churches other than the First Baptist. It was a big enough deal to make the front page of the NYTimes. pubby

First, you do know that the law involved in this particular case is the Colorado public accommodation law: To wit: The 1964 law exempts 'private clubs' ... but includes places of lodging and where food is served generally to the public. While it does not specifically state bakeries or even department stores, this legislation affects businesses that conduct commerce but notably only prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin. Disability is now a condition that was added to the list of those who could be discriminated against by the 1964 civil righ

Oh Tundra; I'm quite rational. I just don't buy your nonsense. pubby

Actually, their business offers their goods and services to the public and they are a public accommodation and covered by the civil rights laws. This is established law. Let me ask you this. If this same bakery had the contract, say, to provide all cakes ordered by Kroger and the order came in for this as part of a contract that not only requires them to bake all the wedding cakes for Kroger but also constitutes half their business, what would the manager of the Kroger store do if they refused the work? Would he cancel the entire contract for breech? Or what if the baker had worked

You obviously have not been keeping up with the news on how the tweets, facebook shares and google ads were being frantically shared. The fact is, when an ad shows up on any web page you view that is one ad or ad impression. The number of ad impressions of all the campaigns, including the millions of bot-delivered items is cumulatively, enormous if not gigantic. pubby PS: I'm sure in those days it would have been fair to say the problem with our conservative friends is they thought that Ronald Reagan was going to nuke the Soviets meaning nothing made any difference anyway. I suspect

I grieve for the officer shot in the line of duty in New Orleans. The idea - pardon me - the false idea that police work is the most dangerous work around is overstated. Here is a link to that flaming liberal media - Forbes - which depicts the ten most dangerous occupations. Among those more dangerous are taxi drivers, traveling sales/truck driving, logging, roofers, fishermen, ranchers/agricultural workers and electric linemen. The mere notion that you would that the military should come in and take control is down right fascist; damn. pubby

He's never suggested that black people were better off during Jim Crow and that is a fact. What he is saying, and it is also a fact, is that he observes racism in his daily life. Being personally acquainted with DVbp and his case I would say that his claim to widespread victimhood of fathers generally by the domestic court system has been widely documented and I would suggest that you know persons who have made their concerns about the evenhandedness of justice. Certainly there have been news stories and academic studies made of the issue as well so it is totally inaccurate to suggest no fac

<adata-ipb='nomediaparse'href='http://adserv.paulding.com/x1/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a917e73b&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE'target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0"src="http://adserv.paulding.com/x1/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=2&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a917e73b"/></a> Torn diary tips SO toresident's sordid history as child molester (Paulding County, GA) In June of 2017 Detective SergeantLenny Carr, of the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office CrimesAgainst Children Unit, met with a complainant who presentedwhatappeared to be a diary created by suspect Timothy S

So Zorro; could you, in your criticism, shout so loud as to prevent me from being heard and would that be right, wrong or just how it is? pubby