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Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
re: #26: Josh, you have no idea what you're talking about, and clearly have no reason to be here other than to troll me--why not call off your dog (Mindy), loosen your own jaws from my skirt, and attend to discussions on your own threads? Your pal Pete is probably missing you. re: #25: That is not necessarily true, rickeysays. You are assuming again that should environmental influence hold any kind of sway, that everyone is automatically affected the same way--instead of bio-robots, they are now culture-robots. Part of anyone's experience in this life is the fact that events shift and change individually; people respond differently at different moments of their lives, depending on the stress loads and available coping skills--right down to the very moment. We are an unpredictable lot, and saying that you can pinpoint how kids are going to deal with a given set of factors or variables is to say that you have isolated some "essence" of human nature, and that you know how to control all variables of every experiences. A diagnosis of ADD can be helpful if vetted carefully, but it is quite notoriously overapplied, as studies will show. In fact, with the amount of time you spend on this topic I am surprised you'd hold on to the ADD as reliable. Be sure to write a long response, rickey, to give me time to recover from this carpal tunnel--and to develop a little ADD, if it is the only path to free choice :)— August 5, 2009 12:33 p.m.
Blackwater Head Wants to Rid World of Muslims: Testimony
What's your point, Mindy? Do you have anything to add to this discussion?— August 4, 2009 11:54 p.m.
Blackwater Head Wants to Rid World of Muslims: Testimony
Whoa, SurfP--I rarely find it useful to pick on other folks' grammar, but in this case, your sentence structure is impeding my understanding of your points. Your first point is that people like Prince are damaging the reputation of Christians in general? Or that they are doing a fair enough job without him? Second point: Prince obviously feels that Muslims ARE attacking Christians, but history proves him wrong? Sorry--just really want to understand :)— August 4, 2009 11:23 p.m.
Blackwater Head Wants to Rid World of Muslims: Testimony
"Warriors," "crusaders," or "soldiers" for Christ: a very common concept among fundamentalist Christians even today--and an easy one to wield--history lesson or no (emphasis on 'no') against 'heathens' of all kinds. Your summary is neatly packaged, SurfPuppy, but it isn't clear what it is meant to demonstrate.— August 4, 2009 10:56 p.m.
It's a Runner
Hey tiki, does that mean you were chosen as a winner? Congratulations, dear!— August 4, 2009 8:53 p.m.
Blackwater Head Wants to Rid World of Muslims: Testimony
"...views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe..." And we thought they were just soulless mercenaries...— August 4, 2009 8:51 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
rickey, no one who has spent any amount of time researching in the social sciences will propose to have resolved the paradox of biology vs. environmental and social influence. If they do, beware and be skeptical of their motives. I'm sorry, but I don't get your conclusion: "Because the people are different." Also, you'll have to explain to me what point you are making with the article. What I am getting from it: A certain percentage of kids in what they are calling "hot zone" neighborhoods join gangs, and there are attempts to understand factors influencing these kids's decisions. A multiple choice questionnaire used for measurement purposes is mentioned, but there are no specific details. From my "real life" work with kids at risk of joining gangs and dropping out of high school, I concluded that home life and social influence played a huge part. If parents were available and attempted to be involved in their kids's lives and school, they were more likely to resist other influences in the neighborhood. Those kids from 'broken' or abusive homes, with parental neglect due to drug use or other factors, such as extreme poverty forcing parents to be absent and work around the clock to pay rent and food bills, were like sitting ducks. This is where my 'mentoring' team came in, and tried to fill in where these parents left off or had no choice but to leave off. We tutored and helped with homework, counseled, and hung out with the kids after school, partaking in 'healthy' social activities they liked, including dances and field trips. I did not compile any official data based on these experiences, and am speaking anecdotally, but can say that at least three kids on my caseload who were slotted in the 'most at risk' category eventually graduated, and made it to community college.— August 4, 2009 2:57 p.m.
All Boxed Up
Givemewine wrote: "Isn’t this exactly what Charles Shaw does for $1.99? Charles Shaw is a master of marketing and understands the consumer’s weakness to Romantic quality." You can see an article a few months back in the New Yorker: Charles Shaw, apparently, is not a master of anything--rather, he is a broke IT worker in Chicago. Everyone in Napa knows and hates Fred Franzia, master of the boxed wine, and relative of the Gallos, who bought up Charles Shaw's bankrupt label like so many others, to produce the execrable and inconsistent "Two-buck Upchuck" in partnership with Trader Joe's. He buys bad and good surplus grapes alike, and dumps them together to blend and bottle under labels like "Forest Ridge" and "Salmon Creek." They are often 'corked,' (tainted), and have a musty, sour taste, but decent restaurants still buy and mark them up thrice, for the consumer of "romance," as you put it.— August 4, 2009 1:21 p.m.
Tijuana, My Kind of Town
Congrats to you, JohnEdwardRangel!— August 4, 2009 12:43 p.m.
Fetish Much?
Well done, singleandawesome! Coincidentally, I am working on a story about a shoe fetishist. To be posted soon in Banker's Hill, if you are interested :)— August 4, 2009 12:41 p.m.