Posted on August 29 at 7:02 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
“apparently stray pit bull”.
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The “apparent” was referring to the stray status, I’m sure there was no apparent about being attacked.
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Treat “humanely”? YGBSM!! Humane is shooting a wild or uncontrolled animal before it hurts or kills an innocent bystander. Mind you, in a fair world, the cops would have shot the owner, but the most important thing is community safety. The only ABUSE here comes from the owner who trained the dog to be vicious and let it loose. The police absolutely did the right thing. You PETA guys need to try to achieve some balance between humans and animals, or else keep on being a very very bad joke.
On Charter to carry Big Ten Network
Posted on August 27 at 11:14 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I can’t see getting too spun up about not having the NFL Network. How many times every year do they carry your favourite team? When they do, there’s an easy solution. Head to your neighbourhood bar (or travel a little further if they don’t have a wide-screen set) and enjoy the game with a bunch of other Charter customers. NFLN has the Bears once this year, but no worries, look for me at Hooters that Thursday night. Hot wings and football, yummy!
On Let's discuss people in poverty, not attack
Posted on August 25 at 3:50 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
“All I see is comments not helping any situation . . .”
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Actually pwrtrip, this is what you call a consciousness-raising exercise. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know it exists. The Gazette staff, perceiving a problem in our community, has chosen this series to highlight it for our consideration.
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At this point, if you think you have a solution, you can post it here and probably generate lots of feedback. Or, if you’re so moved, treat this as a personal clarion call and get involved. From reading postings on this and other related articles, there are clearly several people who are now contributing to ECHO, or volunteering their time and services to help out.
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You can choose to help, or not. The ball’s in your court now. But the series has begun making an impact.
On Let's discuss people in poverty, not attack
Posted on August 25 at 8:07 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I think the “attacks” you see are the culmination of frustration many people have with our permissive society and the welfare system. If you profile someone who is working two jobs to support their family, and show beer in the icebox and cable on the TV, then I doubt anyone would criticize. But when you show someone on the dole, who is using our taxpayer dollars for luxuries while bypassing necessities, then the taxpayers are going to be indignant.
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In a similar vein, if you should decide to profile someone who has made some bad choices, and is working hard to get back on their feet and become self-supporting, the audience will be sympathetic. But if you find someone who thinks marriage is an anachronism, and is quite happy to father or mother babies that the rest of us have support, you can expect more indignant postings.
On Officer charged in apparent road rage incident
Posted on August 24 at 3:21 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
What on earth is a “terroristic threat”? Aside from the bad grammar . . . there’s nothing in this story that makes it sound like this was in any way a terrorist-related incident. Depending on the race of the people involved, maybe the reporter meant a “hate crime”?
On Poverty series something special from Gazette
Posted on August 24 at 11:58 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
justsome1here:
Excellent point. The problem is, you see the “her” dragging the kids around, never the “him”. It’s another area where lack of accountability in our society allows some (irresponsible fathers) to get off scot free, and others (the mothers who have the assorted kids at home) to not only shoulder the child raising responsibility, but also suffer the stigma of a subconscious prejudice. It’s not only a lack of accountability, in some quarters a man is considered a “stud” when he goes around impregnating women. It’s very, very, not “OK”.
On Poverty series something special from Gazette
Posted on August 24 at 9:13 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
“there's really only one cause: out of wedlock births”. Well, kinsohn is a bit off the mark, but he brings up a good point. We, as a society and individually, have a pool of compassion available to spend. This pool, as all pools are, is finite. If most of the people who were living in poverty were down on their luck, through bad health, jobs that have moved, spouses who left or died, etc, we could focus on getting them back on their feet.
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Unfortunately, we’ve evolved to a non-judgmental country, where anything goes and everything is “OK”. I recently came across a woman who had four kids from four different fathers, and had never been married. But that’s OK, we’re not allowed to judge, it’s her lifestyle choice. Sorry, but I do judge, and that is emphatically *not* OK. So you take her, and the many others like her, and they all start draining that compassion pool. And as much as I don’t care for her, and her partners, I do have to care for the kids.
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Until this country regains some sort moral compass, much of this poverty will self-perpetuate. Until it becomes wrong to be an unwed mother – and father – not only will the poverty continue, but our efforts to help the truly needy will be diluted. Out of wedlock births are not the only cause of poverty, but they greatly magnify what could otherwise be a fixable problem.
On They’ll watch concerts to thwart stoner terrorism
Posted on August 19 at 9:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I’ve often wondered why McNally’s columns were so inane and disconnected from reality. He makes it clear that years of recreational drug use have fried all his higher level circuits. His real concern obviously is that he’ll be caught on tape buying/selling/using illegal drugs. Hopefully, the last functioning brain cell that allows him to continue typing will fizzle out soon.
On Two bodies found in Edgerton home
Posted on August 18 at 1:49 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
StacyU2:
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No, we should NOT “stop these blog pages”. You need to stop reading them if they bother you. Just a suggestion to anyone who loses a friend or family member, and the story appears in the paper: don’t read the blogs. Because it isn’t all going to be sweetness and light. Some people will put up postings that are simply ignorant or mean, but some will quite naturally point out when the deceased did something foolish to hasten their own demise. So, don’t scream for censorship, just stop reading. And stop whining about it.
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On 1 deal reached, another near in baby bathtub death
Posted on September 4 at 7:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
It’s time we started introducing sterilization into some of these sentences. Neither of these two was fit to be a parent, and should have that ability taken away from them forever. Let them go off, have their drugs, and die miserably in squalor, without killing or abusing any more innocent children.