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"Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops her....
Its irrelevant whether it's "liberal" or "conservative". Its literally about economics. I'm not being snarky, seriously, read a book about economics and how it works. Not one full of propaganda for either side, but an actual economics book. It is a very complicated subject and there are a lot of factors that come in to play. Don't just sit back and let someone say a bunch of numbers and say, "oh, that's bad!". If you're going to discuss it publicly with intelligent people of either side, you need to know what you're talking about. It truly is more complicated than debits and credits like accounting. There's the matter of other countries' debts that we own, what interest rates are (on our debt and the debt we own/buy that belongs to other countries), how the GDP fits in, etc etc etc. You don't have to agree with me or anyone else, but you should educate yourself to the truth of such matters and not just blindly quote something from the news or a p
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I guess liberals don't think going in debt over 16 TRILLION dollars isn't a problem. That is not surprising considering no liberal understands the economy or how jobs are created. Obama's failed green jobs are a bust and his own Terry McAuliffe took taxpayer money to try to start up a green company too; it's bust. Obama has wasted more taxpayers money on his 'friends' scams than any Madoff scam ever did!!!
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I wish some of these people having a stroke about the national economy and the "debt crisis" would read a freakin book about economics. Or just read a book in general maybe.
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Joe; you said it. You are pathetic!
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Joe, while putting all your energy into only critizing conservatives; you fail to see all the lies, deceit, wickedness of your own party. And because of this character flaw....you intentionally or unintentionally 'help' destroy yourself as your party keeps taxing the poor working class people and causing food prices and gasoline prices and rentals and real estate more and more unaffordable. Intelligent people do not agree with wrong doing whether it's from your party or another party. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Party loyalty is stupid. That means you'd stand behind your party members no matter what they did or did not do. And that...shows the rest of us just what kind of character you have. Therefore, your comments fall on deaf ears and have no substance. It seems you don't even know what you are supporting as it will hurt you also.
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Hey Joe did you hear that? Only 14%!!! Doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about. HA!
People now starting to FEEL the socialist progressive mandates as they experience QUADRUPLE insurance rates and punishment for not buying insurance by taxing you a big fat FINE under Obamacare. And tax refunds? HA! Obama will just keep them now since you idiots won't buy into his Obamacare insurance scam. Enjoy your miserable life Joe.
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This weeks poll states that only 14% think the nation is heading in the right direction. So Obama's progressive ideals are NOT working!
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Typical democrats are always for and against something. They are undependable; unintelligent; foolish; uncaring; love taxing the poor while they use their positions in office to 'enrich' themselves; argue they cannot survive on over 100,000 dollars a year while expecting the working class to survive with 35,000 a year and still pay all their constantly passing taxes on anything that moves or stands still more than 5 minutes.
Pretty depressing when the democrats who wrote the obviously uneducated and stupid Obamacare are even 'admitting' to it's utter disastrous consequences. At least some of these fools have awaken from their stupor! For how long....I don't know. It's probably just a phenomenon as democrats usually flip-flop every 5 seconds on any given issue. They are pathetic.
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When Jeff Reeder witnessed someone being gunned down in his driveway in Williamsport's East End a number of years ago, he didn't stick his head in the sand and stay quiet.
He took action by organizing people in a neighborhood watch.
Reeder urged Montoursville residents concerned about last month's Jordan Avenue shooting to be proactive as well.
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Neighborhood watch coordinator Jeff Reeder offers suggestions on how to begin a neighborhood watch as Montoursville Borough Councilwoman Kim DiRocco looks on during a meeting at the borough municipal building on Wednesday. The meeting followed an alleged drug-related shooting in the borough last month.
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Pastor Robert Logan suggests keeping up with neighbors, especially the elderly, during a meeting at the Montoursville municipal building Wednesday.
"We now have 10 to 15 people show up for (neighborhood watch) meetings," he told about two dozen residents who gathered at the municipal building Wednesday night to discuss the recent Montoursville shooting and what can be done to keep their homes and lives safer.
Reeder said his neighborhood watches have made a difference by getting residents to know each other better and to act as eyes and ears against crime.
Kim DiRocco, a Montoursville councilwoman and mayoral candidate, called the meeting after witnessing the borough shooting just a few doors from her home on May 28.
She recalled hearing five shots and subsequently seeing two men racing up a nearby alley.
DiRocco then called police.
Donte Jamal Jones, 22, of Philadelphia, was arrested in the shooting on Sunday. He remains in the Lycoming County Prison without bail.
The second suspect remains at large.
State police have reported the shooting was an apparent act of retaliation against Chad Stutzman for stealing heroin, cocaine and two handguns from the two drug dealers.
DiRocco said witnessing the incident cannot be understood unless it's experienced.
"This has been devastating to a neighborhood," she said. "This is a serious situation."
She labeled it a "wake-up call" to all neighborhoods.
Reeder outlined some of the ways to make a neighborhood watch successful. It means reporting suspicious activity, keeping houses well lit or equipped with security systems.
He urged residents to get police involved, too.
"They work for you. You pay their salaries," he said. "Remember, you are making their job easier."
Rev. Robert Logan, 117 Allendale Drive, said Montoursville residents tend to keep to themselves.
"We have a lot of elderly people," he said.
Reeder said an important aspect of a neighborhood watch is for people to get to know each other.
Pat Brobson, 1418 Fairview Drive, urged everyone to become more "nosy" about what's happening in their neighborhoods.
"We need to get young people involved," added Lou Bassler, 400 Jordan Ave.
DiRocco urged those at the meeting to sign up for a neighborhood watch program.
"This was a very good meeting," she said.
DiRocco noted that by merely showing up to the meeting, people are showing they care.
She said she's hopeful borough police, who were not apparent at Wednesday's meeting, will become involved in the group's efforts.


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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Wando football doesn't want the asterisk.
Two years ago, the Warriors won 10 games and were anointed Class AAAA Region VII champs after Goose Creek was forced to forfeit its season. After an injury-plagued, four-win 2013 campaign, a talented senior core looks to lead a host of new starters back to the top of Region VII, this time winning it outright.
"We want to do what no other Wando team has done, and without people thinking we lucked into it," Warriors senior tight end Ben Jacques said. "We've got a lot of energy and leadership this year. We've got players who'll pour it all out for 48 minutes until the whistle blows and that's what it takes to win."
Jacques reportedly turned in a 4.5-second 40-yard dash and a 31-inch vertical leap at 6-foot-6, 240 pounds at the Rivals camp this summer. His athletic potential has earned him several FCS offers, including UNCC where he committed in July. He caught one touchdown last season while molding his game to supplement the Warriors' run-oriented, spread offense that averaged 23 points per game.
Wando head coach Jimmy Noonan expects the progression of junior quarterback Bailey Hart to help balance the Warriors' no-huddle, option-based attack this year and take the focus off of feature back Kenny Waring.
Waring rushed for 1,450 yards and 18 touchdowns as a junior last season, averaging 8.3 yards per carry. The versatile speed back was also second on the team with 21 catches. He's been clocked at 4.35 in the 40 and is a state champion in the 100-meter dash and long jump. Waring already has offers from South Carolina State and Charleston Southern and hopes to draw more attention by leading Wando deep into the playoffs this year.
"I want to lead this team to state," Waring said. "My expectations are to be better than I was last year to help the team. I want to be a leader, help the underclassmen out and get all of us ready."
The Warriors hope to see improvement on defense this season after allowing 30 points per game last year. Wando's 3-4 base is led by outside linebacker Tyler Ragsdale. The 6-foot-2, 216-pound senior led Wando with 81.5 tackles, 4 sacks and 18 hurries last season. Ragsdale power cleans 340 pounds and earned Wando's Ultimate Warrior title this summer as the team's top conditioned athlete.
With just three returning starters, this year's unit has recruited help from the offense, utilizing two-way athletes like Darius Wade, Tre Smith, Terrell Venning and Nick Taylor in its secondary.
"We need some guys to make an impact on both sides of the ball and they're picking it up very well," Noonan said. "We're very multiple on defense. We're going to be attacking and very active. These guys are excited to get their lunch pails and work boots on together."
Wando opens a three-game road trip week two at Ashley Ridge, followed by trips to Lexington and Summerville. Eight of the Warriors' first nine opponents won at least six games last season, four won 10 or more. Noonan says scheduling tough early and including Midlands teams like Lexington and White Knoll is crucial in preparing for Region VII and the Big 16 playoffs.
"You can't sugarcoat AAAA football," Noonan said. "A lot of folks run away from the challenge, but we don't believe in that. We want to build and build through the season. We're working for when the weather gets cold.
"We don't care who the opponent is. This is a true Wando football team. These players are going to lay it on the line every day for Wando."
Wando opens the season Aug. 29 at home against White Knoll.
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Naruto looks really cool with the entire jacket scroll and eyes thing imagine the eyes when he uses the power Itachi left to him!!!
Madness is the best comfort in this world as it is slowly consumed by the unseen darkness that casts a dreary shadow upon those who seek the light...
(If you cry,smile,then cry harder. its good for u.)
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If you guys read the Naruto manga then you guys would see that He gets ten times stronger than that. He is most def stroger than everyone in the village and saskae. this is the best place to read them for free (Mangafox.com)
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it's the new nine tails forum and he is also closer to become like his farther and mother.
i just got to the part where he is training for sage mode, it is awesome. i can't wait to see what happens next!
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well said, i think his sage look is awesome and that with itachi's power really is psychotically kool
What is Itachi's gift? All I remember is that he has sage mode and now and even cooler form which is his (almost) fully controlled ninetails state where he looks like his whole body is on fire. But back to my question I don't recall them even mentioning anything about Itachi's gift yet...
remember he poked Sasuke right after he died then got the Black Flames("I'm not spelling the damn thing") under his power he also touched Naruto too I think was in the Beginning("of Naruto Shippuden or mid-way of the series") for the search of Sasuke and Itachi ~ The True User Of Mangekyō Sharingan 12,000 points ~
it's just I have yet to really see Naruto show any kind of power yet Sasuke already showed his but I don't remember Naruto's.
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A shout out to Ketchum in Chicago along with Serta (and the Serta Sheep) for a fantastic getaway in Chicago the past two days including a hot stone massage on arrival, breakfast in bed, as well as - how smart is this?- Serta mattresses in every room at the Dana Hotel. Of course there are more good things coming soon from this event for me and one of you. You are not going to believe this one.
An Arsenio hand roll whoop (please say some of you are old enough to know what this is) to my husband for taking half the day off yesterday so I could go be pampered and stuff. (And for his Mom & Dad for taking the two littles to lunch.)
Huge shout-out to my Mom for taking the whole day off today to watch the kids. My hope is to buy her a new Coach purse soon but in the meantime she is going to get my old (but actually kind of new) king size bed thanks/because of that whole Serta thing I mentioned above.
Tasty shout out to summer weather that crept in this week, upon which the very first day we went to the park, filled up the baby pool, and then out for ice cream. (I had one scoop of horchata in a cone. Amazing.)
Long over-due shout out to books. I am finally reading again, and feel like a better writer and better person when I read. So I have been walking aimlessly and alone in the bookstore or library (one of my favorite things to do ever)- tonight I bought NurtureShock. Have you read it? I am making a big list so please send me your recommendations. Pre-emptive shout out to those of you that do.
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5 Movies That Sent the Opposite of Their Intended Message
It's not uncommon for movies and television to slip teachable moments into our entertainment. The Godzilla movies taught us all about the dangers of nuclear weapons and testing. Avatar taught us not to trust Australians. But what happens when these messages fail and end up communicating the exact opposite of what the creators intended? For example ...
#5. The Dark Knight Rises: Anarchy Is Not That Bad
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The Message:
Like Christopher Nolan's previous Batman movies, The Dark Knight Rises is awash with political commentary. A terrorist leader, Bane, seizes power in Gotham and starts giving speeches that read like a Wikipedia article about Marxism: The people of Gotham should rise up, throw off their chains made of rich people, and take over. The city's authorities are lured underground and trapped, and Batman is forced to watch from his distant prison as anti-capitalist anarchy destroys the city. The message here doesn't have to be spelled out in Mitt Romney bumper stickers: This is what happens when the 99 percent seize power, and it stinks more than the Porta-Potties in the second month of an Occupy Wall Street camp.
Why It Falls Flat:
Because Bane's anarchy-plagued Gotham works better than a lot of American cities.
Oh sure, we get a little montage of wealthy people getting dragged out into the street, and yes, there are some unfair trials going on. But for the average Joe Gothamite on the street? Life seems to be going pretty well. For example, look at these shots we see of Gotham's streets, months after it was taken over by Bane and his band of revolutionary thugs:
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Now let's compare those to what a normal city street looks like after 11 days of a garbage strike:
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Clearly, someone is collecting Gotham's trash, so we can only assume that there was a deleted scene in which Bane took a break from fist-based murder and held a meeting that detailed an orderly garbage-collecting roster using PowerPoint slides:
"When the polyethylene terephthalate bottles have been separated from the miscellaneous polystyrene,
then you have my permission to recycle."
The streets are also apparently getting plowed, which is more than Gotham's real-life counterpart can manage when it's not being occupied by evil mercenaries. Sewerage and water are presumably still running, judging by how clean everyone looks and how much typhoid they don't have. The cops trapped underground are being fed, which means that the occupation has a functioning welfare system that extends even to its political enemies. Electricity is common enough for people to talk about watching TV. And all this without anyone paying any taxes. Nolan's depiction of a socialist nightmare actually looks pretty sweet. Maybe Venezuela can learn from the masked sociopath, and prevent all those toilet paper shortages it keeps having.
Yes, Bane did have a bomb that was going to blow up the city. But that just means that Nolan's message ended up being "violent socialist revolutions are alright, provided that no one stumbles on any experimental nuclear weapons."
#4. Breaking Bad: Walt's Evil HMO Was Right
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The Message:
For those who have been sequestered with a jury since 2008, here's the basic plot of Breaking Bad: Walter White is a middle-aged chemistry teacher and a general life-failure victim who gets diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. He decides to cook meth in order to support his family and pay for super-expensive cancer treatment that's not covered by his HMO. This second part has been widely interpreted as a political message, judging by all the "Canadian Breaking Bad" jokes floating around the Internet:
These comics and articles miss the fact that Walt first decided to cook before he found out about the badass cancer-fighting doctor, but they do seem to have a point: If Walt's HMO had just agreed to pay up, Walt could have closed down his meth kitchen after his first batch, and all the bad shit that happened after that could have been avoided. In this version of the show, Walt and Jesse spend the next four seasons driving around the country in their RV, solving crime and giving chemistry lessons to underprivileged students. Hector Salamanca releases a Christmas album. Hank gets a full-body purple tattoo and solves his and Marie's marriage problems. Gale marries Ron Paul. Everyone could have been happy. Thanks a lot, America.
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In this alternate reality, the plane crash was caused by an air-traffic controller who stayed up late watching Bar Rescue.
Why It Falls Flat:
In the first episode, Walt is told by his HMO-approved doctor that his "inoperable" cancer gives him "a couple of years" to live. Walt rejects this downer diagnosis and chooses an out-of-network cancer-killing regimen that he pays for with his meth wages. Now, how long would Walt have lived if he'd survived long enough to die of cancer, rather than from the dragon that swooped down and killed him in the final scene (man, that was one unexpected twist ending)? Judging by his awful health in the last episodes, the answer is: about two years. In other words, Walt's out-of-network treatment with the "oncology dream team" doesn't actually achieve anything, except maybe provide an excuse to wear an awesome hat.
Many fictional characters gave their lives to allow this sexy Halloween costume to live.
Don't get me wrong, insurance companies can be dicks about denying optimal treatment, but in this case Walt's HMO did nothing wrong. If there is no advantage for a patient going out-of-network, then an insurance company has no obligation to pay for it, any more than it is obligated to cover experimental treatment based on visualizing unicorns. So, rather than a grim commentary on the American health-care system, we should see Breaking Bad for what it is: a really good advertisement for term life insurance.
#3. True Blood: Gay People Are Murderers
The Message:
True Blood has never tried very hard to hide its "vampires as metaphors for LGBT people" message. Its vampires (who "come out of the coffin" at the beginning of the series after Japanese scientists invent a synthetic blood substitute) are gayer than the opponents of a 13-year-old gamer who's losing at Call of Duty. The opening credits even display a church sign reading "God hates fangs," which is about as subtle as being stabbed by a rainbow. Accordingly, the vampire-haters on the show, such as the members of the anti-vampire "Fellowship of the Sun" church, are portrayed as religious bigots who want to murder the vampire race, just because they're all infected with a neuron-eating hate-virus.
Above: Not a portrayal of well-rounded individuals.
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Because, as has been pointed out before, the vampire-haters are actually kind of right.
The show's vampires reveal their existence to humans because the new blood substitute allows them to live without drinking human juice. This is very nice of them, but it means if you're a vampire who was alive before the fake blood came out, you've spent years hunting down and eating people like they were sentient hamburgers. Doesn't "hundreds of years of murder" deserve some sort of punishment? Now consider this: Modern society's default form of punishment -- sending people to jail -- hinges on the fact that you're taking away a chunk of their limited lifespan. But since vampires are immortal, they can go back to their youthful sexy-times as soon as their time in vampire jail is over. Jail just doesn't work for vampires, any more than garlic-and-holy-water-based torture would work on humans. So it's reasonable to figure that if a vampire has killed a human, the death penalty is the only really just punishment.
I fucking told you so, bitches.
OK, so maybe killing off all those sexy vampires still sounds extreme. But even so, it makes sense to approach vampires with a Vatican-sized portion of wariness (and maybe a shotgun full of silver and rock salt; come on people, they're vampires). These creatures have a centuries-old cultural tradition of viewing humans as walking groceries. They can roofie people with their minds. Consuming their bodily fluids turns characters into sex-crazed lunatics quicker than the imagination of a fan-fiction writer. So what is this show saying about gay people, exactly?


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It really picked up yesterday. I like the idea of what Carkner was trying to do, but I'm not sure why he didn't challenge Boyle. Boyle is a terrible fighter for his size, but he did accept Neil's challenge later.
Carkner asked no questions at all. Props to Boyle for taking on Neil later in the game. The Sens stick to their strategy they've used all year: Late game comebacks. Good to see Neil with the clutch OT goal. Its always the role players this time of year
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I watched it on live TV in the USA. Universal Sports gave us 18 hours of coverage on the 14th, 15th & 16th. Short & Long programs. I'm hoping they'll televise the Team championships next.
I watched it on live TV in the USA. Universal Sports gave us 18 hours of coverage on the 14th, 15th & 16th. Short & Long programs. I'm hoping they'll televise the Team championships next.
Just a reminder that the NBC coverage is today. 12:00 eastern. !0:00 AM mountain.
Just a note to say I love the DVR I'm using. I didn't even have to look or think. I checked this morning and it's scheduled.
Just finished watching NBC broadcasting. Bummer, they didn't show any pairs and from dance, they showed only D/W.
I don't have any hard feelings for Kevin Reynolds, but I'd rather watch V/M instead of him...
But I'm glad they showed both Gracie and Ashley. And watching Yuna's LP in a bigger screen was a gem. By the way, I've never seen Scott being so quiet before! lol
Crap i forgot it was on this morning.. Grrrrrrrr
I watched but there is a weather advisory issued so there was a banner at the bottom of the screen and a larger one off to the side. Almost couldn't see the skater.
One of the best skates was Carolina K. She skated to Bolero and it was one of the best since T&D.
The TV camerawork was well done. Appropriate distances & angles. No dumb skycams anymore. Sound was good -- remember the season when the skates scraping the ice was so loud? The NBC commentators were even quiet some of the time, the better for us viewers to appreciate the beauty of the likes of Mao and Yuna. Life is good.
And Scott did a (relatively) good job of explaining why Chan won & Denis Ten didn't. In fact, I didn't get very angry with Scott at all, unusual for me lately.
Both Kim & D&W were absolutely wonderful to watch on the TV And the commentators were relatively quiet during both skates.
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February 6, 2013
Mayor Gabriel ....
Old Lycoming has a tenant registration for years , they get 60% response if that helps.
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will i guess us tax payers wil be forking the bill on this one once and outside source like aclu gets hold of this like they did in hazleton who is covering the court cost we all know tax payers
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Saints-- how many of the homes "in a neighborhood near Belmont Ave or an area comparable" are rentals? Not many There are "non-white race" people in these neighborhoods, just not the race you seem to be alluding to. I believe you should examine the economics and residents of a neighborhood before you try and claim racism. And BTW, I am against the tenant registration.
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It is profiling. Even if the person is a criminal, and under the proper supervision, does he/she not have a right to rent. Unless, they are killers, or rapists, they do still have a right to rent. However, try letting someone of a non-white race rent from a landlord in a neighborhood near Belmont Ave or an area comparable to such. It would be surprising if that would be acceptable. I am not saying there is racism in those specific neighborhoods, but I am making it known that these "agenda" by the mayor supports the basis of profiling to a certain extent.
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i am laughing so hard tht i need to go take a gabe and wipe my mayor
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At this point I haven't heard anyone suggest that this database would be available to landlords prior to renting a home, only that new tenants would need to be registered. In fact it would probably be illegal to use the database to "discriminate" against certain renters.
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Netwarrior, I'm going to choose to ignore the knee jerk "take our guns away" portion of your post and stick to the topic rental registration. I used the gun analogy just to get a rise out of the gun rights crew.
Your own post stated that a responsible property owner should already be doing the proper checks on tenants. If they're not they should be held responsible. I've got no problem with home inspections for safety purposes but fail to see how a city wide database of renters will solve any of the issues you raise. At this point I have not heard
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Hey you know what djzlucky, i own property and a home in lycoming county and its all public knowledge. Anybody can walk into the court house on any given day and see who i am and what i own and im a law abiding citizen as you are and i have no problem with it. This list if it is ever created will remain confidential. I dont see how you can even compare gun registration to tenant registration other than the fact that the word "registration" is coined in each term. Its not like they are gonna register all tenants and then take their homes from them. If a national registry is ever created for firearms, that is exactly what will happen someday to them because they will know just where to find them. However, if a criminal or illegal is trying to live in my neighborhood, id want the proper authorities to know about it and deal with it accordingly. Normal law abiding citizens have nothing to lose and everything to gain in this scenario.
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You tell them spike!!!
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You can't control "guests" and "visitors "even if you collect every name of "legal tenants". Do you actually think drug dealers are renting apartments in their own name? This is exactly why this town is stuck on stupid when it comes to crime.
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So Netwarrior, you're saying that I, a law-abiding citizen, should be forced to register to rent in Williamsport to prevent the criminals and scumbags from doing the same?
If only the gun rights folks on here felt the same way about registering their firearms!
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...and there are still at least an average of "shots fired," or city shootings once a week. With some cases, still not being solved.
And yet another shooting in the city today.
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I'll tell you what, some of the comments on these pages never cease to amaze me, though i wish they did. Law abiding citizens as well as reputable landlords would have nothing to worry about. This ordinance is meant to keep criminals, skumbags, and illegal aliens out of williamsport. It would probably no doubt also be used to help law enforcement track down perpetrators of crimes and help round up those who have fallen off the grid for warrents to. It will give landlords a tool to help verify the identity of the person they are renting to. Alot of landlords are doing credit checks and all kinds of checks before they rent to people these days anyway. This would help them find out if the person they are about to rent to may be using someone elses identity to rent an apartment. Get real here people. Do you really want criminals and illegals setting up shop in your neighborhoods?
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When you own a property (and I don't so I state this info on my understanding of it) you have taxes and insurance, zoning, codes, etc to deal with, so it's virtually impossible not to know who owns a property, including those who are landlords. The 'registration' to me, targets tenants; they're just calling it "landlord and tenant" because they want it to look equal. Do Landlords not have to already list a property as a rental? (thought they did, maybe I'm wrong). So again this targets tenants. Not real sure why anyone disagreed with the initial question I posed, because I've yet to hear a response to it, so clearly no one has an answer.
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Have we learned NOTHING yet about this mayor. Honestly, if it has Gabo the Clown's fingerprints on it, we truly have to turn and run in the opposite direction of whatever it is he is suggesting.
Our mayor is a farce: he provides entertainment - a laugh a minute in fact. But take him seriously - NO WAY!
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So just what is the big deal hear? Anyone that owns a home has to do basically the same thing so I really don't see the problem. Kinda like ******** about an ID to vote from someone who lives off government money . . . Show it or lose it.
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Once a month* I mean, not once a week.
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This is ridiculous. You can bet the number of people will be out in force, if our so called "mayor," is able to get this passed. Big brother is out there everywhere. Honestly, how much crime, destruction, or sub par apartments could this deter? Please help me understand. In the meantime, the city is still footing the bill for the ice hockey team that drown (pun intended) and there are still at least an average of "shots fired," or city shootings once a week. With some cases, still not being solved. Determination this mayor lacks. Good luck to the next one, as he/she will have a bit of a mess to clean up.
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Maybe Gabe should have spent a little more time researching his tenant-- Outlaws Is he unaware Berwick is still finding meth labs even with their registration ordinance? Anyone remember the types of places his mother used to rent?
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The mayor should get some heat from this law. I often wonder if the mayor and his council really care about the housing situation here in Williamsport. Should this law pass, I feel it will put it's renting tenants in a more stressful situation. With the increase of rents due to the gas industry, it's already hard to find a decent place to live. If this law is passed will Williamsport have more homeless? If how will you deal with that issue? My wife and I find it a challenge to live here. It's just another way of invading one's privacy. Next we'll have to sign in and out of our living quarters. This law won't effect the mayor or his council, because even if they own rental property, they'll be "secretly" protected from it! I'm so tired of our local & federal gov't trying to push it's way into ours lives. So Mr. Mayor, should I cut you a key to my house? Focus on the issues at hand, like who's going to pay for the hockey deal? I know who, the residents of Will
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Furthermore, if they DO pass this law are they going to put pressure on slumlords to stop being...well slum lords? Are they going to start putting pressure on deadbeat tenants to pay bills/rent?
What is ultimately gained by this ordinance? Nothing.
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Made a bad decision (or should I say poor business execution) on the ice hockey gig.
Don't keep digging the hole deeper with this landlord-tenant law. This is not the city's core business. Fix the roads, keep the water and sewer working, provide an adequate police and fire department.
The story to protect people from domestic violence; emotionally touching but I don't buy it. Are you going to deny these people housing? No. Are you going to make sure they don't violate restraining orders? No. Are you going to make sure convicted criminals don't posses firearms? No. Does it change the behavior of a convicted or un-convicted child molester? No
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Legendary Dallas cop James Leavelle, who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald, honored at police headquarters
Several among the current generation of Dallas police officers have earned celebrity status with appearances on reality television programs that glamorize their profession.
But when it comes to their place in history, none of them will ever touch the legendary retired homicide Det. James Leavelle. That's why, this morning, Dallas Police Chief David Brown honored the man who was handcuffed to accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when Jack Ruby shot him in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on Nov. 24, 1963.
Brown presented Leavelle with the Police Commendation Award and officially renamed the department's Detective of the Year Award after Leavelle.
"This is an honor for me personally, being a Dallasite, knowing the rich history of Dallas," said Brown, who was 3 years old at the time of the Kennedy assassination. "Being able to recognize such an iconic figure is just special."
The moment of the Oswald shooting two days after President John F. Kennedy was gunned down was captured in an iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in The Dallas Times Herald.
"To say I'm surprised is putting it mildly," said Leavelle, who joined the force in 1950 and retired in 1975. "I can think of so many other officers who should be standing here, receiving this award."
The honor for Leavelle, 92, months before the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination follows a long overdue permanent commemoration of another legendary Dallas police officer. In November, a state historical marker was unveiled at the Oak Cliff street corner where Oswald fatally shot Officer J.D. Tippit 45 minutes after the Kennedy assassination.
Leavelle was there for that commemoration and Tippit's widow, Marie Tippit, was among those in attendance on Tuesday morning at Jack Evans Police Headquarters.
Following the ceremony, Leavelle met briefly with reporters and signed autographs.
He was asked what was going through his mind as Ruby fired on Oswald.
"I've been asked that question many, many times," Leavelle said. "And I've often wondered — maybe you can answer it for me — what goes through your mind when you ask me that?"
"You don't have time to let things go through your mind, you react," he said. "You do what you got to do. You don't stop to think."
He recalled spotting Ruby with the pistol by his leg and said none of the news reporters or other officers appeared to see it.
"I looked down and I saw that," Leavelle said. "I tried to jerk back on him and put him behind me," he said of Oswald.
But the men were too close together and all Leavelle managed to do was turn Oswald's body. He died at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
In the decades that have followed, Leavelle has granted countless interviews. He started telling his story, he said, because schoolchildren inquired about it and he wanted them to know what really happened.
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Very high-quality cocaine, usually right off the key and uncut. Doesn't look like regular coke---it's flaky instead of grainy, it's sparkly instead of dull, and it's slightly yellow-grey instead of being plain white. Good shit, since 1 gram = ~12 lines. Numbs all the way down and gives you a case of the chills.
That fishscale we got last night was the bomb.
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Specific type of high end cocaine, 90% cocaine 10% sulfide of sulfide composite
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The name is a reference to a highly potent form of cocaine named Peruvian Fishscale.
Wow son im straight buggin off this fish scale.
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The shiny flakes in rock cocaine. Fish scales mean high potency. Mistaken for fiberglass, due to an urban legend.
That soft has a lot of fish scales.
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A term popularised by Kaish, derived for slang terminology for high quality cocaine and subsequently assimilated to be descriptive of anything of high quality or good.
This shit is fishscale!
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The stuff that, in Dunkirk, NY, everybody wants, but only the puertoricans have.
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I love the way HTML 5 et al. and Silverlight will be internally competing (as well as complementing) at Microsoft and how you've gone back to embracing the Web. This should win back a lot of browser heretics, myself included.
Nobody should be knocking Microsoft for IE, lets face it everyone has used it and in the early days of the internet, everyone, myself included thought it was amazing. The fact is MS will never be able to keep up with the Open Source variety. I moved over to Firefox years ago as soon as i realised that i could bolt on free extensions to customize the browser. Perhaps MS should allow IE to go open source in an effort to compete with Mozilla. I just cannot see that happening though.
It is there, SVG in IE9, such a delight.
Basic shapes are mostly there already, and I hope support for gradients, masking and clipping very near.
I personally think MS will take similar strategy as Mozilla, leaving deep font and SMIL support to be the last features implemented, but we'll see.
SMIL is great, but I take their complaints about some inconsistencies between SVG+SMIL and CSS-transitions are proper ones...
But still, it's great to have SVG in IE finally!!
This topic/presenter suggests that Microsoft has finally jumped on board with SVG. Woot!
I look forward to being able to render SVG natively in IE9 - I just hope I'm not being over optimistic in expecting it in IE9.
It's incredible to see an MS employee discussing a topic that currently they DO NOT support in Internet Explorer!
I too feel it will be over optimistic to see SVG in IE9 as they've still have so much catching up to do in other areas of standards support.
There's also the issue of where Silverlight fits into all of this?!?
If IE9 supports all features like dynamic text intoduction in SVG; change FONT of text thats available in web server, scaling of Pictures, without any addon plugins then it ll be really great one.
Good news ,.. Success for IE9, (for Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web)
sure Scottz,. hope it's be really great one,.
I know its too easy to pick on IE, so its just a matter of hoping that they will release a browser now thats not full with all kind of bugs
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The 6 Most Horrifying Child's Beauty Pageant Contestants
If you've never seen Toddlers & Tiaras, your soul is less tainted than those of people who have. It's a program on TLC about parents who hate their own offspring and make them perform like deranged mascara-ravaged monkeys on stages with similarly soiled children in evening wear and sequined vomit cloaks so that the audience can try to discern who is the most soulless and abominable in any given episode from among a malevolent circus of bestial subhumans who pretend to be supporting their child's hobby but are generally exploiting them for shallow and pathetically crass purposes. It's a joy to behold.
While the idea of a beauty pageant for children is objectionable in and of itself, things can actually get worse. How much worse? Oh man, look!
#6. Hooker Kid
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As a people, we have decided that we don't want children to be exposed to certain things -- bullies, the Saw movie franchise, the music of 2 Live Crew, and maybe dressing up like an honest-to-goodness, $20 for a blow job prostitute. Now, let me say right off, I do not condemn prostitution; it's probably one of the most honest business transactions in the world. But dressing a child up like a prostitute is a whole different ballgame (the game is called Mom's a Dipshit).
In this case, a 3-year-old girl featured on an episode of Toddlers & Tiaras & Terrible, Brain Dead Fuckstick Parents was released on stage to a cheering crowd of like-minded mouth breathers as she danced to the song "Pretty Woman" dressed just like the pretty woman herself, Julia Roberts, as seen in the movie of the same name in which she played someone who polished Richard Gere's ball sack in exchange for nice dinners and some flash money. Remember when he buys her that necklace and he closes the box as she reaches for it and she busts out in boisterous laughter? That necklace was a gift for anal.
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"I'm ... earning ... matching earrings!"
Sure, it's just a movie, but it's a movie about a whore. Even if she has a heart of gold and all her own teeth, she is someone who porks strangers for cash, and that's the kind of thing your kid should wait to experience, at least until she can properly pronounce her Rs so the word comes out as "whore" instead of "ho-wah."
After the non-insane world erupted in an uproar over this, the little girl's mom was apologetic and promised to use more sense when making decisions about her child from then on. Just kidding -- of course that never happened. Instead, her mom is proud of her choice and all the media attention it garnered for her li'l victim because, as you'll notice, most if not all of these parents seem functionally incapable of actually caring for their children, as opposed to using and exploiting them for whatever it is they get from competing in pageants, whether it be money or notoriety or a chance to be mocked mercilessly by online comedians.
#5. Fake Boobs and Ass
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When dressing your child as a hooker doesn't go far enough toward needlessly sexualizing her, you can always try to compensate for her lack of having reached puberty yet by giving her fake breasts and a fake ass. This of course brings to mind the original name of the show, Toddlers & Tiaras & Tits.
In this case, the little girl in question was 4 years old, and her mom, as deluded as all the other mothers who do this pageant stuff, thought it would be an awesome idea to dress her daughter like Dolly Parton. Incidentally, a Dolly Parton costume is always a blonde wig and D cups, that's about it.
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Atta girl, you're halfway there!
This story gets special attention for hilarious irony, in that, while defending putting the girl in pageants, Little Boobula's grandma pointed out that the money they win can go toward expensive schooling. I can't imagine that tuition at clown college is really so pricey that simply putting a bit of your salary in savings week to week wouldn't cover it, but what do I know? Maybe it's DeVry's Clown College and tuition hits four digits.
To put the whole issue into perspective, the mom reasoned that people are going to get a bug up their ass about anything. For instance, if your child is in gymnastics, she has to have her hair and makeup done too, so what's the difference? At this point, not a single person jumped into frame and said "Tits! You gave your toddler fake tits and a fat ass, you great simian oaf!"
#4. Tooth Bleaching
It's all fine and good to alter your kid's appearance with strap-on dildos and hoof hands and whatever other abusive thing you can think of, but all of that comes off at the end of the day. The kind of thing that stays around in the long term requires chemicals and discomfort, because children have no business not being treated like jeans from the 1980s.
As you can see, Mama Snaggletooth is pretty convinced that this is necessary and OK to do to her children, despite most dentists suggesting that it's not recommended until a child's adult teeth have grown in. But a woman who does this once a week clearly knows better than professionals by the transitive powers of bug fuck nuttery.
Mom's reasoning for this is that other kids use fake teeth, like awesome porcelain grills, but those are fake and altering what God gave you, which she is against. Best to just bleach the color out of what God gave you the unnatural way, like Jesus would have if he were alive today and a heavy smoker and/or drinker of coffee.


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