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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Port Orchard minister admits to rape of girl on tape | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:55:25 +0000

Do a google search on "truth about Ghandi" Gandhi found it easy to embrace poverty. It was chastity that eluded him. So he worked out a series of complex rules which meant he could say he was chaste while still engaging in the most explicit sexual conversation, letters and behaviour.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Southbound I-5 shut down in Marysville after deadly crash | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:41:32 +0000

It's called "Target Fixation" Wherever you look, that is where you will go. That's why race drivers are taught to look through the corner, not at the outside of the corner, even when you are pretty sure you're gonna hit the guard rail.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Southbound I-5 shut down in Marysville after deadly crash | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:39:27 +0000

Dementia is no excuse for killing people. If a person is not a safe driver, they should not have a license! If you get hit by a drunk, elderly, or stupid person, you are still dead.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Southbound I-5 shut down in Marysville after deadly crash | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:36:32 +0000

I'm amazed how many negatives I got. Shutting down the highway for 4 or 5 hours and disrupting people's lives is not going to bring the dead person back to life! The cost of thousands of drivers being late for work is significant, and worth a helicopter flight. There are always ways to improve efficiency - I identified one area and gave a viable solution. I guess too many people operate on emotion and have no concept of logic - no wonder the state is such a mess.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Southbound I-5 shut down in Marysville after deadly crash | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:30:36 +0000

It's utterly absurd to shut down a major freeway for four hours to take pictures and measurements. All that the investigators need is a graduated carpet.... Call it the Kanzler Karpet if you wanna give me credit. Get a white carpet 50 feet long by 2 feet wide, mark lines every foot with longer lines every 5 feet, like a giant tape measure. When there is a major accident, roll out the carpet, fly a helicopter over and take aerial photos, then the pictures can be later printed in 1/12th scale so that measurements can easily be taken. Some items, like skid marks, may need to be highlighted with chalk to ensure that they will be visible in the pictures, but even with that, the road could be cleared and traffic moving again in 45 minutes!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Schram: It\'s time for restrictions on red light cameras | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking N

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:37:31 +0000

With the Southpark 14th street drawbridge closed, that road is no longer an arterial, which makes the traffic signal camera at Cloverdale and 14th an illegal camera. RCW 46.63.170 (1) (b) Use of automated traffic safety cameras is restricted to two-arterial intersections, railroad crossings, and school speed zones only. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arterial_road

Laughing Squid : If Calvin Took Ritalin (A Tragedy In Four Panels)

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:21:39 +0000

Look how creative the Beatles were when they were on drugs!

Laughing Squid : If Calvin Took Ritalin (A Tragedy In Four Panels)

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 04:02:25 +0000

Yes. There's a balance to find. As a person who might have benefited from medication or psychological therapies that are now available for kids, I can say that a kid that needs medication and doesn't get it can be just as much of a tragedy. "Happy, creative kids who fail school and get frustrated don't stay happy and creative for long. " Exactly. Alcoholism and drug addiction and social failure are not at all uncommon for those who never adapt and learn how to fit into society. Calvin is more like a kid with Asperger than ADHD, but that's highly debatable.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Teacher sends boy, 5, home with bag of poo | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:04:40 +0000

Teachers should be spending their time teaching, not conducting child psychology. The teacher doesn't need to be sent to classes about psychology - she should be able to send the kid to the principal, and then he can judge whether a psychologist needs to be brought into the situation. This is why kids come out of public skool with such poor educations - the teachers are so busy dealing with behavior problems they can't tech the basics anymore.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Teacher sends boy, 5, home with bag of poo | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Now I know that I have Asperger's Syndrome (So does one of my kids, which is how I recognized it in myself). But likewaise, I think every time a kid misbehaves, we are now prone to diagnose him with a learning or behavioral disorder, rather than the possibility that he or she just isn't really trying to behave (or behaving at their potential ability). I've seen kids with learning disorders allowed to behave like wild animals, and it's sad because it eventually ruins their lives because they never realize their (sometimes limitted) potential. I was lucky - I was different, but also scholastically gifted & my teachers recognized my potential.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Teacher sends boy, 5, home with bag of poo | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:00:36 +0000

In an earlier post someone said that soon 1 in 8 kids will be diagnosed with autism... I think a lot of that has to do with diagnosis, not an increse in autism. When I was a kid, children who act out were believed to be doing it for attention. Even psychologists said that kids acted out in order to gain attention - and even negative attention met their need for more attention. They said that even though the kids knew of the negative outcome, they couldn't help themselves because there was a strong need for attention, and it was almost instinctual. I was one of those kids.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Teacher sends boy, 5, home with bag of poo | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:31:35 +0000

B.S. They can't hide it from the kid once they go to the media. The other kids' parents will end up discussing it with their kids, and it will get back to the classroom. The kid is now doomed to be ridiculed because the parents wanted fame (and probably a lawsuit). They should have handled it privately with the pricipal, and then the school board or other authorities - not the media.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Teacher sends boy, 5, home with bag of poo | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:25:12 +0000

I have a child with a learning disability (A.S.), so I am not speaking from ignorance. Mainstreaming kids who aren't ready for a normal classrom is another stupid "diversity" related policy. If a kid can't follow the rules (including using the bathroom reliably) he may not belong in a classroom. It's ridiculous to expect teachers to all be specialists in dealing with every type of mental disorder a kid might show up with. Special needs kids can sometimes be accomodated in a normal classroom, but not always - and we need to be more willing to keep kids who don't belong in a normal classroom out of there.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:37:43 +0000

What I was eluding to is that the amount of medical & emergency personnel was adequate for the conditions, and they got to the scene in a very reasonable amount of time (just try to walk from the stadium floor up to the stands and see how long that alone takes) The safety level was not deficient in any way. There is risk in everything. When you get in your car, you assume a certain risk level. If you want the risk level at an entertainment event to be near zero, then the question arises - do you live the rest of your life this way. Driving a car would be safer with a helmet. People die from head injuries in traffic accidents, and often a helmet would have saved them. If you expect the Tacoma Dome to go to extraordinary measures to ensure your safety, then it'd be hypocritical not to do the same in your day to day life. Reasonable is what I would expect, and it's what was in place.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:09:19 +0000

To all you people who think they should have cancelled all of the subsequent shows out of respect for the family... Go quit your job and give away everything you own. Do it out of respect for the family. Give the money to some charity in the child's name. That would be equivalent. The company would go bankrupt, employees would lose their jobs, and a different (competing) organization would have added more shows to their schedule to take up the slack. Be realistic, and think about the full ramifications. Think... don't just "Emote". Don't let emotion overcome all logic - think about what you would do if you were in the other peson's (promoter's) place. But think about all of the consequences, not just some touching gesture (which would cost them their existence). They offered refunds to anyone who didn't want to go to subsequent events. They could have publicized that better, and made it clearer whether the event was going to happen at all, or not. But they were probably overwhelmed, and had to learn how to handle continuation of the business from this too.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:54:45 +0000

My understanding is that the driver has quit, permanently. That means he gave up a career many of us can only dream of. I'd say he felt pretty bad, to say the least.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:50:47 +0000

Yeah, one medical person for every 50 spectators, right? And we'll add the cost to your ticket. Medical staff spend most of their time doing nothing. They would have been no faster getting there. Ever go skiing? Do you want ski patrol on every run? Can you afford it? Reasonable and prudent measures had been taken. Trucks have scatter shields, kevlar transmission blankets, driveshaft loops, etc. All shrapnel get deflected downward. This was a freak incident where safety devices failed... it happens. Do you wear a helmet in your car on the freeway? Why not?

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:36:42 +0000

Some people think destroying machinery is like Gladiator Death Matches. Mainly, they aren't smart enough to tolerate what they don't understand. It's easier to call something stupid than to understand that it's entertainment, and tastes differ. (Some of them might even pay $100,000 for a paint splattered dropcloth because they have superior tastes) There's nothing wrong with mindless entertainment (though if you look deeper, usually you see some clever invention involved).

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:28:18 +0000

Truck ahd issues. Isuues were not related to the failure. Racing vehicles have issues constantly... if you disqualify them for the day (even if they fix stuff) you would be insane. People, think! Quit letting emotion destroy your ability to reason. If they'd stopped the show, thousands would have gone to bathrooms & snack bar. By keeping it going, people were kept in their seat. When someone dies, you can't stop everyone else's lives. If an accident happens on a freeway, should we shut it down for a few days to show respect? Stuff happens. It's horrible. Life goes on for the rest of the world.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 6, killed by flying debris at Tacoma monster truck rally | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Ne

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:27:18 +0000

Continuing the show was the right decision. If they'd stopped, thousands would have got up to go to the bathroom or the snack bar (even if you ask them to stay seated). By continuing the show they kept the crowd in their seats, which made the emergency personnels' jobs much easier.