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Don Abernathy May 10, 2013 at 10:40 pm
The criminals have more rights than the victims. First we cater to them in prison by giving them…Read More more benefits and services than we give to our veterans. Now we are releasing early without serving their full sentence. The worse part is when these early release criminals commit a new minor crime, they aren't charged, sentenced and sent back to jail, they are given "flash incarceration" for 5-10 days in county jail.
I have a suggestion for Jerry Brown, if the jails are too full how about taking away the comforts making it an actual bad place to be. Jail should be a bad enough place that the threat of going would deter criminals.
NKD May 10, 2013 at 10:01 pm
Well, I'm studying for Nursing and this subject is something that I'm not very familiar with. But I…Read More like the article and agree that it's not a right decision letting prisoners be released earlier. In addition, having all that comfort in a jail doesn't prevent them from committing crimes again once they get out.
Amanda May 10, 2013 at 09:15 pm
This article is very, very good..I am not for early release due to overcrowd, there has to be…Read More another solution. Take them to a island and just leave them there. Having a murder in my own family, is horrible and the thought of any crimnal getting out early just for that reason is not good enough, Think of something esle California...
James Gordon May 20, 2013 at 02:18 pm
Stephanie:
I don't recall asking for examples of licensees who made bad choices. I do recall asking…Read More if "you have an objective basis for your concerns?" You responded by identifying some anecdotal (as opposed to statistical) evidence that some licensees made bad choices. Your evidence fails to support your position. Here's a brief article discussing the number of licenses that Florida has revoked because of gun related crimes: http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2012/07/25/florida-approaching-1-million-concealed-weapons-permits/
Regarding your questions about G. Zimmerman. (1) I've already pointed out mistakes ziimmerman made, including following Martin. So, no, I would not want him to be the neighborhood watch captain. (2) I can and do avoid places where there are increased risks of violence (ATMs at night, check-cashing stores, prostitutes, drug dealers). That being said, I cannot accurately predict when/where I will need a gun. People are robbed in grocery store parking lots as well as coffee store parking lots. So, I believe the desire to have a gun in those locations is not unreasonable. More importantly though, I don't think people who are licensed to carry guns should repeatedly take their gun on and off all day long. This needlessly increases the risk of a negligent discharge. (3) The forensic evidence strongly supports virtually every element of Zimmerman's account of the incident. The significant element that is unsupported is whether Martin saw and attempted to grab Zimmerman's gun. Given that Zimmerman was already sustaining serious bodily injuries, this element isn't really necessary to believe the propriety of acting in self-defense. As to the two lies you reference, the first related to Zimmerman's finances. It was his wife who made the representations to the court. Zimmerman sat there "like a potted plant" in the words of the court. This obviously reflects poorly on him, but likely will not be presented to the jury. The second lie relates to his passport. A second passport was issued to him after he reported the prior passport had been stolen. The court itself did not believe Zimmerman was lying about the second passport, but that there were more innocent explanations. You apparently believe I think Zimmerman is innocent. I am waiting to see all the evidence before I make up my mind.
Stephanie May 20, 2013 at 02:39 am
You asked for some licensees who made bad choices with their concealed weapons and I gave them to…Read More you. Why don't you ever answer any of my questions? Knowing what you know now about George Zimmermans arrest record (before he killed Martin), would you want him in charge of your neighborhood watch? Does one need a gun to go to Starbucks? The grocery store? How can we believe anything Zimmerman says after he lied TO A JUDGE TWICE?
James Gordon May 18, 2013 at 09:51 pm
I dislike this new system. It allows for no formatting of comments. Leading to ugly "wall of…Read More text" posts.
True Freedom May 7, 2013 at 04:17 pm
@Elias: RE: carrying purchases in your hand...
like Chris Rock in "I'm Gonna Get You…Read More Sucka"... "F** the cup, pour it in my hand!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c
classic
Diana Swartz (Editor) May 7, 2013 at 04:17 pm
Thank you for your contributions to this conversation. Comments are now closed. If you'd like to…Read More continue sharing your opinions, please contact your local Patch editor about starting a blog.
rubberband May 7, 2013 at 04:12 pm
@Lisa:
cool.
Think of me as a Kung Fu type, wandering the earth playing my flute, visiting cities…Read More and hanging out...but w/o the moral lessons or grasshopper stuff. I laugh a lot.
p.s. bacon
p.s.s the dog pic is cute.
Greg Coppes May 9, 2013 at 11:58 pm
In our first meeting here I told you that I believed that any discussion or argument here was not…Read More done to change the minds of those involved, rather it was to influence those who are reading them; third parties.
You have been very helpful in that regard. Anyone reading our exchanges can see you for what you are.
I tried to have a discussion with you and could not even agree on the definition of words with out hours of argument
You have an agenda and you will not allow anything to get in the way of it. That agenda includes trying to circumvent and weaken the 2nd amendment and redefine it's intent.
Mark Paxson May 9, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Once again you misdirect. You made a specific statement about one California piece of legislation…Read More you claimed did very specific things and, therefore, was unconstitutional. I'm not arguing the constitutionality. I'm arguing that the factual basis, the things that legislation does, is wrong. We can't even begin to discuss the constitutionality if the facts are wrong. I have provided the evidence that your facts are wrong. You have yet to counter that evidence. And now you change the conversation to "the constitutional intricacies within hundreds of pages of proposed state & federal firearms legislation written in legalese." You made very specific factual claims about one specific piece of California legislation. I've provided the bill number as well as the analysis. And all you can do is now quibble over whether eristical is a word that I should have looked up.
I will never understand why you and the rest of the right-wingers are so incapable of understanding that if they post "facts" in the context of their arguments that are proven to be false, they believe the problem is with the person who proves them wrong. Seriously, Jeff ... if the factual basis for your claim of unconstitutional provisions is wrong, how can you keep arguing the legislation is unconstitutional? Why is it so hard for you to back up those "facts?" You're proving yourself to be no better than the rest.
Mark Paxson May 9, 2013 at 11:41 pm
You imply far too much, sir. But your further response implies other things. First, that I have…Read More ever questioned your interest in defending the Constitution. I have not. Second, that somehow those who haven't served in the military would somehow have less of a desire in preserving and defending the Constitution.
It's interesting, everybody I know who has served in the military who has expressed an opinion on the issue has stated that above all, they believe in the right of others to express their opinions, that what they were defending when they served was the beauty of the divergent views and opinions that exist in this country. Sadly, most of what you've done on Patch is contrary to that concept. As you have done everything you can to squelch any legitimate conversation about these important issues.
No, sir, I have not served in the military. A fact that I am not ashamed of. And a fact that is irrelevant as to whether or not I have a strong desire to preserve and defend the Constitution. Nothing I have suggested is an attack on the Constitution.
Pamela Smyth May 10, 2013 at 08:57 pm
We thank our teachers from elementary school through graduate school by remembering that spelling…Read More and literacy in the language of one's culture and community matters, that reading newspapers matters, that what we publish online represents their efforts to teach us how to articulate our thoughts and ideas, and how to read with care and consideration the opinions of others with that same thoughtful consideration. We thank our teachers by taking the work they do and the hours and hours of unpaid and free or volunteer work "behind the scenes" and the money they spend out of their pockets to improve the learning environment for their students seriously. Most of all, we thank them by growing up to be civil and to work hard at whatever jobs or tasks we are given in life to the best of our abilities; and if some of that work began with the encouragement and recognition given by a teacher, then that is a joyful word of thanks to all of us who were students and are indeed, today, teachers.
Paul S April 24, 2013 at 11:25 pm
always has been about sex or the promise of perfection or happiness- it's never changed- Robert…Read More Downy Jr's father - Robert D Sr did a movie in the 60's - "Putney Swope" - a good send up of the ad game- I worked as a copywriter in the late 60's and couldn't wait to get out- never disliked a business more than the ad one- yet- some ads are pure genius- many Bud ads definitely- those Honda blowfish ads are incredible - I love a good ad- they are rare
Jeffrey Sabatini April 24, 2013 at 07:22 pm
In the mid 80s & 90s it was "SEX SELLS". The late 90s into 2005 brought us funny ads…Read More that centered around dumb stunts, usually ending up with some poor guy getting hit in the 'boys'. Between then and now, the "heart tug" or "real men cry" ads like the Budweiser "Clydesdale friends forever" ad. Which of course was the perfect follower to Bud's "Mascot dog trains horse Rocky style" and "Donkey gets a shot" ads. All ad hall of fame'rs in my humble opinion.
Sadly, it looks like the ad world has taken two giant steps backwards with the bevy of male & female eye candy flashed over disclaimers of side effects such as : Nausea, vomiting, uncontrollable flatulence, sudden weight gain, sudden weight loss, skin rash, welts & boils, hair loss, blindness, heart arrhythmia, swollen glands, muscle atrophy, Turrets, short term memory loss and how the product should not be used by or in proximity to pregnant women or nursing mothers.
However, I would like to say "feek'n about time" for all the "thank you and honor our military and first responder" theme ads.
But if I could change ONE THING in regard to this discussion... It would be to finally apply "Truth In Advertising Laws" to political ads!
What say you?
Jeffrey Sabatini April 24, 2013 at 06:37 pm
Advertising is an art in itself. The ad spoof movie Crazy People showed how important the right tag…Read More line can be with "Metamucil, use it or you will die!". Or like the motto of my former firearms dealership... "If our guns can't kill it, it's immortal!". Good times, good times.
Nicole Mooradian April 22, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Robert Livesay
8 minutes ago
"Herr Carl Petrersen III I have some concerns about your…Read More postings."
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Sounds like someone is a little bit upset over getting proven wrong about his allegations about the cause of our economic crash.
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Carl Petersen III
5 hours ago
Robert Livesay
2 minutes ago
'ou folks that voted for Liberals need…Read More some lessons in economics.'
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Is lesson one how the Conservative economic policy of the Bush administration crashed the economy?
Gayle M. Montgomery April 5, 2013 at 06:39 pm
The cost of college is being put well beyond the reach of many students. Tuition as spiked rapid…Read More fire. If we don't push some job skills down to the high school level, to kids who are probably better prepared to receive them and to put them to use, we're going to be hurting as a society. There are not enough grants and scholarships to go around, not all kids know to settle down in high school cause they're getting over being kids and have that disease called teenager, which can be very frustrating for them and aggravate those around them, and we've got to find innovative ways to prepare them for fruitful lives.
Gayle M. Montgomery April 5, 2013 at 06:37 pm
With respect to the question about why teach technology? Because our old school ways are not working…Read More and doing nothing to help our economy. Getting young people prepared for jobs now, where they may not go to college anyway, would be better for them and for the rest of us. Back when the dinosaurs roamed, and I was in school, girls took Home Ec (oh, yuck), and boys took woodshop and/or auto mechanics. To this day, I am annoyed at my mom because she would not let me take an auto mechanics course. She said that is for boys. Well I could have saved myself some money on a few things and not felt like such a victim until I found a great mechanic.
Gayle M. Montgomery April 5, 2013 at 06:33 pm
Bob, my use of the F bomb has knocked a few on their keisters, too. LOL
navigio April 4, 2013 at 07:27 pm
You forgot the link to the declining performance.
Did you not understand my point that tuition is…Read More not the same as cost of education?
I picked an LAUSD school at random:
http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=sarc4&which=4507
search for 'expenditures per pupil from unrestricted sources' and see the district average. thats what actually gets to the school that is not set aside for something specific like additional intervention.
btw, out of curiosity, do you believe educational achievement would increase if we raised class sizes?
ATC April 4, 2013 at 06:28 pm
Once again, navigio, Facts matter; Stop making things up.…Read More
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_059.asp
http://www.edreform.com/2012/04/k-12-facts/
http://www.capenet.org/facts.html
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/private-schools-cost-less-you-may-think
Hello world March 8, 2013 at 04:24 pm
When it comes to the FREE newspaper (or anything else that's free) -- the old saying applies: You…Read More get what you pay for.
Jose Gonzalez March 7, 2013 at 08:49 pm
To call this "rag" a newspaper is a joke. They only put partial truths, always sided to a…Read More covert friend of the writer and never have done the background investigation to be able to establish validity!
Ken March 27, 2013 at 01:42 am
I see I have no response. And I'll bet the majority of people would respond "of…Read More course".....
Sorry folks, to the first airport in Oregon ( Medford,35 miles over the Northern border) , and flight time to San Diego (Southern border) from SF are nearly identical. WTH! Congratulations Bay Area...you are in Central California....Teachers need to teach and be allowed to do so.
The Captain March 27, 2013 at 01:30 am
Like I said, proves my point most definately, and Mrs. Java had a burning comment but couldn't…Read More disclose herself-Patch staff are Trolls and proven. I rest my case! Psst, change is coming, that's fine, that's only cause you mean emails will be matched and confirmed with thd person, you know Mrs. Java, like you did - post a comment, "First Name, email, and password-thank you for joint Patch :) ha ha, so easy. That would be better, but it seems you cant afford it yet! Ohh wait, trouble, if trouble is what you're trying to get us into, can we include you Mrs. Java for your Trollness ... I think you should. Common there's nothing wrong with being fair. Let's keep that in mind for the "change" woooo hooo, little baby cry.
LGCRC Coffee drinker March 26, 2013 at 02:05 am
all of you need to step way to the left or get ready to get run over.
we are coming. Change is upon…Read More us.
Lean Forward
Gail Grossman March 4, 2013 at 06:13 pm
Can't we finally get rid of this article and comments, it is almost 1 month old and we don't need…Read More anymore reminders of what an animal he was.
John B. Greet February 19, 2013 at 01:23 pm
Honestly, Ruehle, your constant brayish whining has become very tedious.
The comment you posted…Read More here at 11:43 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013 includes a link to a Google search you conducted. I'm not really sure what you're complaining about.
If you want The Patch to treat you as a columnist then perhaps you should try, you know, writing a column.
I have never *once* supported police misconduct and your Google search directs readers to not one single column or article in which I have ever done so. Not one.
Not everything you and others believe to be misconduct actually is. Nor, unfortunately, are investigators and prosecutors able to prove all allegations of actual misconduct. Whenever misconduct is proven I always stand right there with other critics loudly condemning it. Always. I did so in the case of Kelly Thomas and I did so in the case of former LBPD officer Brandon Preciado. I have done so consistently, any time an officer or former officer has been found guilty of crimes or other misconduct. Despite all your links and your incessant and childish whining you have never once proven otherwise and you never will because your assertion is and always has been entirely *false.*
Develop some honesty and courtesy, for once, will you? Stop trying to hi-jack article threads with your baseless and accusations and unfounded complaints.
Mike Ruehle February 19, 2013 at 01:20 am
Two days and counting on PATCH CENSORSHIP of links I posted TWICE demonstrating recently retired…Read More Long Beach policed officer John Greet's support of police misconduct. It's OK for Greet to post links in his above blog, but apparently its not acceptable for others to post links indicating how biased the Patch's bloggers are.
Gregory Brittain February 23, 2013 at 01:26 am
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, #23
Obamacare and the 29’ers
“How the new…Read More mandates are already reducing full-time employment”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324616604578304072420873666.html?mod=opinion_newsreel
“These employment cliffs are especially perverse economic incentives. Thousands of employers will face a $40,000 penalty if they dare expand and hire a 50th worker. The law is effectively a $2,000 tax on each additional hire after that, so to move to 60 workers costs $60,000.”
“The timing of all this couldn't be worse. Involuntary part-time U.S. employment is already near a record high. The latest Department of Labor employment survey counts roughly eight million Americans who want a full-time job but are stuck in a part-time holding pattern. That number is down only 520,000 since January 2010 and it is 309,000 higher than last March. (See the nearby chart.) And now comes ObamaCare to increase the incentive for employers to hire only part-time workers.”
David Lewis February 21, 2013 at 03:13 am
People worry about gun control nonsense killing people. Just wait till Obamacare hit's. It will kill…Read More more people than all the wars combined.
Gregory Brittain February 21, 2013 at 02:52 am
Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, #22
With Election Over, Obama Announces Medicare Cuts to…Read More Fund Obamacare
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/20/With-Election-Over-Obama-Announces-Medicare-Cuts-To-Fund-ObamaCare
pusddad February 14, 2013 at 04:59 pm
I was also thinking about the SLA shootout once Dorner was cornered. It played out just the same. I…Read More was 14 and watched on channel 2. The reporter was a young guy and was very close to the action. He described hearing a bullet zip by his head.
I am curious why the gun control debate has not made it way into the Dorner experience . It is highly unlikely he would have been able to kill two police officers and hold others at bay armed with something other than what would be classified as an assault weapon. He had no criminal history and certainly was trained in firearm safety. These weapons have no legitimate place ina civilized society, yet are so easily obtained. The deaths of these young men should not be accepted as a necessary cost of another's right to possess an instrument whose primary purpose is to kill other humans with such overwhelming force.
TGD February 19, 2013 at 04:37 pm
Jim C
10:49 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
"What is absurd is for an organization to take…Read More sides on a controversial issue that is not even part of their core mission......And to say that they should speak out on the AWB because there have been shootings on school campuses is just silly. Should they have a position on air pollution because it affects people breathing on campus? Should they have a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because some students are Jewish or there is a Palestinian club on campus? Should they have a position on the gear ratios in a '68 GTO because there is, after all, auto shop on campus?"
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Should they have a position that there maybe drug and alcohol abuse on campus? Should they have a concern about there maybe a convicted sexual predator hired as a teacher? How silly. They should concentrate on school dances and bake sale fundraising and STFU.
Jim C February 19, 2013 at 03:49 pm
What is absurd is for an organization to take sides on a controversial issue that is not even part…Read More of their core mission. This will cause a significant percentage of people to drop their membership to the PTA. It's bad stewardship, plain and simple.
And to say that they should speak out on the AWB because there have been shootings on school campuses is just silly. Should they have a position on air pollution because it affects people breathing on campus? Should they have a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because some students are Jewish or there is a Palestinian club on campus? Should they have a position on the gear ratios in a '68 GTO because there is, after all, auto shop on campus?
The PTA has, for the most part, been an organization where people of many backgrounds could get together and work for the betterment of schools and the education of the kids. This move divides people and, in my opinion, will hurt the PTA in the long run.
The Teller of Truth February 19, 2013 at 03:46 am
Well look whos buttin in and trying to start arguements over here in beautiful La Jolla.
(White on…Read More rice buddy!)
It's Raining Kumquats!
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