Comments by lishad
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Posted on July 15 at 10:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ok, let me get this straight??? This fool was arrested, booked into jail, sat his "sober up time" posted out, and went to the court house to get his "permission" to go where I assume was back home. Am I reading it correctly to this point?? Was he DRESSED when he went to jail the first time? He's not from Covington County, he had to go to the court house to get permission to go home, so he didn't go home and change clothes when he was released, which leads me to my question...how in the world did he come into contact with law enforcement, get arrested, ride to jail, get booked INTO jail, get released, and ONLY when he went to court house to get paperwork did someone notice the pill in his pocket???? And only when HE apparently accidently pulled it out of his OWN pocket??? Does no one else see a problem here???? And for that matter, how did a guard at a security desk only briefly seeing something as small as a pill know just by glimpsing at it that is was PERSCRIPTION and not just an over the counter asprin or cold pill? (without actually TESTING the pill) And I guess I'm a little concerned as to how or why anyone decided that it was ok to confiscate this one lonely pill TO test it! I'm not in ANY WAY advocating the use of illeagle drugs. I am however concerned with the errosion of what USED to be our civil rights. Just doesn't seem quite right that someone briefly remove a pill from their pocket and the LAW decide to take it from them arrest them on the suspicion (and thats all it could have been is suspicion as the pill had not been tested at that point) that it is illeagle and throw them in jail! First of all, and I admit I could be wrong here, but I thought that we were supposed to be innocent until proven guilty? Following that assertion, one would think that you would give the person the benefit of the doubt that if they are removing voluntarily a pill from their pocket at the court house for a security check that the pill is probably innocent. What gave them any reason to take the pill away from the man in the first place?? And why did no one find it during the whole incaration process?? Just wondering???
Posted on July 14 at 8:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Cannon, when I mentioned the stress and pressures of drugs etc which weren't around when we were kids, I didn't mean by any stretch of the imagination to imply that there were no drugs when we were in school, drugs and mind altering substances have been around since the begining of time. What I meant, is that there are a whole lot worse things out there now then there were years ago. When we were in school ( a lifetime ago) kids were sneaking liquor out of mom and dads liquor cabinet, and smoking weed! They werent buying hillbilly heroin (oxycontin) or dilaudid, or smoking, shooting or snorting that poison that has now infected our society--METH! There are way more pressures and WAY more drugs today than there were years ago, and when kids feel hopeless they look for escapes, thats how this poison keeps claiming our children!
Posted on July 11 at 6:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
These tests are so wrong on so many levels! YES we must test. They should be tested on EVERY subject, EVERY semester! If they don't pass the semester test, they don't pass the class. This is stress enough for them, especially those who have issues taking tests! And yes, I Know that they have multiple occasions to take the graduation exam, HOWEVER, are YOU aware that it tests on ALL the material, that will be covered throughout ALL of the 12 years of primary education. In other words, while they are given opportunities to take the test in every grade in high schook, they are being tested on material BEFORE they have even been TAUGHT the material!! Even the exam they take in the first semester of the 12th grade is covers material they will be taught during the WHOLE
year, which means they have to answer questions on material they havent even covered yet! Thus it is ridiculous to base whether or not they are allowed to graduate on whether they are able to pass ONE test!
School is a series of building blocks. Each class lays the foundation for the next. A cumulative process if you will. So testing at the end of each class on the material covered during the class is the only logical way to hold the students accountable for learning and retaining the material. It is ALSO the only logical method for observing the TEACHERS ability to reach their students. If we are testing every semester on every subject, and there are an overwhelming number of students NOT passing one subject or another its pretty clear that the teacher is NOT doing their job properly! If we are only giving ONE test to determine graduation, how do we know which teachers ARE and which ARE not doing their jobs properly?? THEY TOO must be held accountable in the process, and semester testing helps to ensure that! As even the most likeable teacher with the most prestigious degrees and education (on paper) may NOT have what it takes to get through to the students so that they comprehend and retain the material they are taught. If we don't hold them accountable in every class every semester, how do we as parents etc. know whether it is our student just not getting it or not trying; or the teacher not doing their job and getting through to them?
The current system just DOESN'T work! Too many kids are falling through the cracks! Too many are dropping out simply because they can't pass the ONE test and know they wont get to "graduate" even if they finish school and pass all their classes! I personally have three women working for me, who completedd school within the last 10 years but did NOT receive a diploma or get to walk with their classes, EVEN THOUGH they carried an A-B average throughout high school and missed only a combined total of 10 days of school between them throughout their high school career! Its a disgrace that this is allowed to happen!
Posted on July 10 at 6:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
FINALLY! Something that makes sense! It is now and always has been absolutely ridiculous to base graduation after 12 years of education on ONE test result! Too many children have completed all 12 years of education with passing grades, only to be denied the opportunity to "walk" with their graduating classes and hold in their hands a diploma that tells the world that they FINISHED SDHOOL with passing grades!!!!!! The graduation exam was a poorly thought out plan in the begining. Too many people have test phobias, they totally freeze up when taking a test. These same individuals can pass the classes with flying colors as far as knowing the material and doing the work goes, but when a test is put in front of them they freeze! It makes SO much more sense to test them on a semester basis for the material learned in each class each semester! That system has worked perfectly well for many many many years!!!!! Who the briliiant soul was that cme up with the idea to decide if a child could graduate based on the results of just ONE test I don't know, but I wonder if they have a child in school?? Better yet, I wonder if they would have graduated themselves from high school or how about college if doing so had been based soley on the results of ONE test which encompassed EVERYTHING learned over a 12 year peiod of education!!!!
Pass this, I beg of you! Don't deprive any more children of the opportunity to Walk with their graduating classes and posses the diploma they earn after STAYING IN SCHOOL, doing thier work and passing their classes! Its hard enough in today's society to keep kids in school and interested in learning, with all of the social pressurs, the drugs, etc. that werent around when we were all kids, DON'T give them a reason to just give up and quit because they don't stand a chance of graduating because they don't test well!!!!!
Posted on July 9 at 6:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree completely, all part of treatment and rehabilitation. God alone is the answer there. No one is strong enough to overcome addiction whether it be meth or pills, heroin, or cocaine, alsohol or even cigarettes, without the intervention of the Lord our God. Humans are weak, thus the instances of addiction, only God can give us the strength to overcome the devils hold that drugs place on us! If anyone knows someone addicted to drugs, if anyone has ever seen someone they love try to overcome the hold the devils brew has on them, they know it is the HARDEST thing anyone can ever try to do. The physical sickness is worse than the worst physical illness anyone can imagine! The fever, chills, muscle and bone aches, the nausea, cramping, diareah, headache, the feeling of worthlessness, and the overpowering overwhelming want and desire for just one more fix to get past it is just unholy! An addict needs the help, support, love and understanding of each and every friend, family member, and persion they come in contact with during the process but more than anything else,they need to have the Lord in their lives if they are to even have the slightest chance of overcoming the devils hold!
Posted on July 8 at 8:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeah High Speed Chicken Feed is another snappy little name they call it--makes it sound cool to kids!
But we have to wake up folks, the pseudo law doesn't do as much as everyone would like to believe it does. All in reality that it accoimplishes is to make it difficult as all heck for Joe law abiding citisen to obtain anything worth tking for a cold or sinuses. You have to sign your name and show your ID and get put on a "PILL HOT LIST" just to get an over the counter medication fit to take when you have a stuffed up head! The dope heads, dope dealers, and Meth cooks have a way around the law, they have a whole network of friends, users etc that go from store to store, town to town and state to state to buy the quantity of pills and other ingredients necessary to manufacture their poison! so therefore we're not "busting" the people actually cooking the stuff! They are to ADDICTED to the cooking process (and yes COOKING the poison is AS addicting if not more addicting than using the stuff!) At any rate, they are too busy preparing to make the stuff to go out and buy what is needed.
I live in Florida and here the stores have pretty much banded together and put limits on the number of pkgs of box matches, lighter fluid cold tablets, nail poish remover etc. These are not laws, just limits on other items that can be purchased for the manufacture they don't have any LISTS you have to sign. This can be very frustratiing to the average person that just wants to buy cookout supplies etc, but it does help to cut down the manufacture.
The answer to getting rid of this mess ISNT more laws, or jails, or jailers, the answer is TREATMENT, UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISEASE, and EDUCATION!!! We need to have treatment and rehab facilities not only available, but ACCESSIBLE to addicts trying to get their lives back, we need to have an understanding of the drug and the disease of addiction in order to fight it, and we need EDUCATION for children and adults alike! Adults need to be aware of the signs of use, and the ingredients used in manufacture, in order to be able to intervene, children need to be made aware of the effects of the use of the poison and I mean made PAINFULLY aware of the effects, the half dead addicts and cooks that get busted should be mandatorily paraded to schools,k preschools, etc and made to tell their stories so kids can see first hand that its not as COOL as its made to sound and adults can see how truly DEVASTATING the long term effects are BEFORE they use the first time, and BEFORE they condem and turn their backs on the users who need help!
The whole issue is an epidemic theres no one easy solution! But sweeping it under the rug so people don't read our dirty laundry WONT eliminate the problem nor will it keep it out of the public eye--the addicts and cooks are out there, whether we talk about them or not, igoring them wont make them go away!
Posted on April 16 at 9:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Hanging is too quick and too compassionate for this degenerate! He should be dipped in honey naked, burried in a fire ant bed in the desert in the blazing heat with a baseball bat shoved into every available orifice FORCEFULLY before he is castrated, then and only then, should whatever is left of him be locked up in a Super Max prison with a toatoo on his forehead saying I'M A SHILD MOLESTER!!--The inmates would then take care of him from there--No matter what THEIR offenses were, one thing we can be sure of is that they ALL have mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and/or children of their own and they DON'T stand for guys who like to hurt children! Give him a little taste of the horror and pain he put that poor child through!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 11 at 8:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The sad thing is its a sign of the times! Grandma and grandpa are selling their meds to pay their light bills, or to buy food! They are doing without medicines they desperately need in order to make ends meet! While in no way do I condone it, I find it absolutely appaling that in this day and age they find it necessary to survive! Folks who have worked hard all of their lives and never had as much as a speeding ticket find themselves in their "golden years" having to break the law and sell their meds just to make ends meet. Its bad enough so many older folks already have to choose between taking their meds as perscribed, or having heat in the winter or a/c in the summer, or eating! The economy has now made it impossible for them to survive without finding someway to supplement what little income they receive!
Again I DON'T condone selling drugs, but we should all be ashamed of ourselves that we've allowed elderly folks to get in such shape that they feel they have to make such choices! We allow the government to make cuts to Social Security, to medicare, to senior food programs. We allow ourselves to live in a society where an 80 year old couple who have worked for 70 years paying taxes and supporting their family, get too old to work and are forced to live on a combined income of $750 a month, out of which $120 pays for their medicare insurance (which by the way doesn't cover the cost of their medications) then for an added slap in the face we tell them they only qualify for $19 a month in food stamps! Meanwhile down the road we have the welfare mom with 7 children and another on the way who draws $1350 a month in food stamps (which she sells), lives in a Habitat For Humanity House or has HUD paying her rent and has one charity or another paying her utilities every month! Then we wonder why and condem the poor old folks when they sell their medicine so they can eat potted meat and crackers!
If it sounds like I Know the players in this scenario, I DO and its a crying shame! While selling drugs shouldn't be condoned, this NEEDs to be a wake up call to everyone of us! Think about it, DO SOMETHING about it! Write your senators and congressmen/women! Make them see whats happening to our elderly! After all, how long will it be till WE are the elderly! Is that a choice we want to be faced with? Taking the chance of being arrested for selling the only thing we have to be able to survive???
Fix the economic crisis and eliminate the need for our seniors to sell their meds just to live, thereby getting THOSE drugs off the street! THEN round up all the meth cocaine and marijuana dealers, and the theives stealing folks meds and selling them, throw that scum in jail and THROW AWAY THE KEY!!!!!!
Posted on March 17 at 8:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ok folks, lets all be realistic. If you restricct the sale of firearms, and ammunition the theory is that there would be less guns on the street and therefore less guns making it to the criminals right??? The REALITY is that criminals don't acquire their weapons legally, they don't go down to the local Walmart and fill out their registrations and wait the legal waiting period while their background checks are run. I know its just really hard to believe but criminals STEAL!!!!!!!!!!
They slither aound in the cover of night, and break into grandma law abiding citizens house, and while stealing her lifes possessions and her grandchildrens inheritance, they break into her locked gun cabinet and steal her deceased husbands guns! These guns along with the rest of her life thats been stolen then find their way to the local drug dealers hands traded for pills or coke or meth or whatever the fix of choice for the day is! From there they end up traded and sold numerous times usually for the same reason until ultimately they end up in the hands of the person who will use them to harm or kill some unsuspecting honest, law abiding person--probably in the course of another robbery to acquire yet ANOTHER weapon or MORE DRUGS!!!!!!!
The only thing that making gun restrictiions tighter will do is keep grandma law abiding citizen from being allowed to own a firearm to protect herself from the thugs, murderers, rapists, andd druggies!!!!!!!! The scum of the earth will ALWAYS be able to get their hands on weapons when they want them!!!!! Just like locking a door doesnt keep a theif out, gun control doesnt keep guns out of criminal hands!!!!!!!!! The ONLY thing that will keep these idiots from killing, raping andd injuring innocent people is for ALL of the innocent people to not only be ARMED, but be trained in how to use the weapons and be ALLOWED to use them ANYTIME their homes, families or they themselves are threatened by these criminals!!!!!!!!!!
If the criminals ALL KNEW that we weren't easy marks, and the next door they broke into was going to have an ARMED person behind it that knew how to use their weapon, and weren't scared of going to jail for protecting themselves, they wouldn't be near as apt to try it, and IF they DID, well, there would be one less criminal on the street to try it again!!!!! Obviously prosecution and jail doesn't scare them--they know they will get out to do it again. The death penalty doesn't deter them, as it takes 20 years before anyone is ever put to death, and during that time chances ar good that the sentence will be reduced anyway!!!!
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Posted on August 5 at 8:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Come on people!!!!!! Lets quit looking for more reasons for the government to dictate our lives! There is no reason to enact a law to control personal cell phone useage! First of all, if you own a cell phone, you bought and paid for the phone itself, if you have the ability to talk or text on it then you bought and paid for minutes or a plan for the phone, therefore ITS YOUR! No law needed to tell you when you can and can't use it, just COMMON SENSE!! Maybe there should be a test required before one could purchase and activate a phone to assure the rest of us that they actually DO posess common sense!
Seriously though, talking on a cell phone while driving-IF you are using hands free--which is the ONLY way any INTELLIGENT human life form WOULD use a telephone while driving! is no different than having a conversation with the person sitting next to you IN the vehicle! And no one is up in arms about folks driving down the road talking to their passengers! And what about having children in a vehicle?? That is BY FAR the most distracting situation for a driver on the road, and no one is trying to make a law to make it illeagle for parents to drive their screaming, crying, dirty diaper having, bottle dropping, talking, giggling, wiggling, fighting children in their vehicles!
As to those of you who attempt to drive while texting...YOUR IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!! Only an IDIOT would get behind the wheel of a two ton piece of equipment and propel it down a crowded road at 50 to 70 mph in areas where men. women and children live, work and play, while looking down and TYPING ON A MINIATURE KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!
Again I say, no law making it illeagle required here--these morons are to ignorant to follow the law anyway! There needs to be a common sense aptitude test required BEFORE these phones are sold and activated! You must prove the ability to know your a** from a hole in the ground BEFORE you are allowed to purchase and use a mobile phone!
And for all of you who get your knickers in a twist over folks talking on their phones in public, whether in a restaraunt or a store or walking down the road...Get Over Yourselves! Unless they are just being obnoxiously loud, its no different than them having a conversation with the person dining or standing next to them! Now those that are obnoxiously loud while talking on their phones...well there are ALSO folks who are just obnoxiously loud PERIOD! For some reason they feel the need to be the center of attention wherever they are, and somehow believe that the rest of us actually give a d*** what they are talking about!
Its just a sad fact of life no matter where you are or what your doing there are ALWAYS going to be a few obnoxious, annoying ignorant, inconsiderate idiots, we can either choose to let it irritate us and ruin our days, or we can choose to ignore them and go on about our business--the choice there is ours!
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