This should have been made clear to her by a probation/parole officer. I’ve known people who had to get rid of guns when they had a family member released from jail. If you’re a convicted pedophile you are supposed to register as one and in some states you have to be so many miles from a school. Why wouldn’t someone…

Oh, yeah, why didn’t she think of just moving to another state?!?

Great point! I hadn’t even thought of that. This story is so infuriating. Do you know how many wealthy people/snowbird types/anyone who has multiple residences in multiple states fuck up and technically commit voter fraud? Are those people getting 5 years in prison? Is Steve Bannon going to get five years in the clink…

How are the kids going “too far”? By demanding to not be shot anymore? Is there a compromise these people are looking for, where the students consent to being shot some of time, and not other times?

and not even a good job; he let his teammates get killed

They would be guaranteed to get back all of the money they and taxpayers contributed to their retirement accounts, plus 85 percent of any investment gains. The state would keep the other 15 percent.

Is...is that Kris Paronto character criticizing an unarmed student in non-combat situation for hiding during a mass shooting, and comparing him unfavorably to his actions as a soldier with a gun doing his job in a combat situation?

Yeah, All Souls! It’s a really great church—social justice-y as fuck, lovely people, a two top-notch choirs (my first Sunday checking it out, we sang Leonard Cohen AND Dolly Parton, so I knew these were my people).

Her sentence is harsher than that of the guy who killed someone and fled, or that woman who killed someone and fled, or the affluenza teen who killed FOUR people and fled. All Texas.

White privilege? Bah... doesn’t exist!

If for no other reason than “just as worse as” is incoherent and so they’re clearly in need of a steadying slap in the face. 

Five years of prison sounds insane for a non-violent, unintentional crime, even if she had a prior conviction.

“I don’t think I’ll ever vote again. That’s being honest. I’ll never vote again.”

So at what point does the government collapse entirely? Between the people who are incompetent at their jobs, the positions left unfilled, the people who retire/exit, and the people who are outright hating everything right now, who will keep the country working.

It’s a fucking shame that career civil servants are experiencing backlash for staying in and doing their jobs. Almost any political appointee is fair game for that sort of criticism. But most career civil servants have served, and will serve, presidents of both parties. They don’t choose their president, the American…

That ICE dude ... ahem, NO. ICE is literally ripping families apart. ICE is conducting unwarranted raids on workplaces, they’re dragging folks out of family services facilities and courthouses. ICE is the vanguard of the coming police state — they are the black forces in Children of Men.

They have been kicking the can down the road. I’m a teacher in Kentucky, and I pay 13% of my check to the pension fund. The state, on the other hand, hasn’t been funding their portion. They’ve been borrowing from the pension fund for years and now want to blame teachers for the shortfall. . The legislature needs to…

You fund the pension system by increasing revenue, such as raising taxes combined with employee contributions. Cutting the benefits for a drastically underpaid and underappreciated profession (who also happen to be women, no one ever discusses cutting cop, fireman or politician benefits) is not the way you balance…

I’m not the biggest fan of Amazon as a company but...

As I posted elsewhere, Trump’s hard-on for Amazon has nothing to do with the postal system or vanishing brick & mortar retail.; he couldn’t give a shit about either one. His actual agenda is to cause as much trouble for Jeff Bezos as possible since Bezos is the owner of the Washington Post which, along with The NY…