en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/4025163 Comments by Rainchild http://www.komonews.com/news/national/NY-school-bus-monitor-fine-with-bully-punishment--160964395.html#IDComment393473967 I am glad that Ms. Klein has gotten so much money from her supporters. I am glad that the students who bullied her are getting suspended for a year--it's the least that they deserve. I hope that the video and the suspension put black marks on the bullies' academic records for years to come. But let us not forget one very important thing. The abuse that Ms. Klein endured one time for ten minutes is no different from the abuse that many students endure more than once a day, every day, week after week, month after month, school year after school year. Notwithstanding all the lip service paid to reducing bullying, this kind of abuse will continue until schools have the guts to do with bullies what we all do with the contents of our colons--expel them! Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:49:08 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/NY-school-bus-monitor-fine-with-bully-punishment--160964395.html#IDComment393473967 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Death-threats-pour-in-against-boys-in-bus-abuse-video-160009075.html#IDComment393469475 I agree with Locallady. However, I think that some of the other commentators should remember the difference between public humiliation and making death threats. The law allows freedom of association, which includes the freedom to make social outcasts of socially noxious people. But death threats are another matter because they are far worse than what the bullies said to Ms. Klein. Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:38:06 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Death-threats-pour-in-against-boys-in-bus-abuse-video-160009075.html#IDComment393469475 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment393214736 In answer to your questions, white racism is the reason. Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:41:51 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment393214736 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Chimps-attack-US-student-in-Africa-reason-unclear-160966785.html#IDComment393212284 I have to agree. Too often, television portrays chimps as comical and gentle creatures. That may be true of baby chimps, but the adults are ornery and dangerous. Only human beings are smarter and more diabolical. When we look back at the accomplishments of Jane Goodall, we should remember more than her research, and admire the bravery and the keen perception of chimp behavior that probably saved her life and limbs! Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:36:00 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Chimps-attack-US-student-in-Africa-reason-unclear-160966785.html#IDComment393212284 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393204077 Hear hear! Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:14:07 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393204077 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393203905 There is not now, nor has there ever been, the slightest evidence that executions, public or private, do anything to deter crime. America, along with that shining example of moral rectitude, Communist China, is one of the few rich industrialized nations that still executes people, yet we have more violent crime than Canada and virtually every industrialized nation in Europe. Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:13:35 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393203905 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393202081 I'd like to see a fight for more aid to the families of murder victims too. But I don't see the point of cheer-leading for the death penalty. Cruel and unusual treatment is when the state, on behalf of the people, behaves just as brutally as the murderers do. To allow cruel executions is to make the people's objections to murder as morally meaningful as a battle between two hungry shrews under a bowl. Are you better than a murderer? If so, what better way to prove it than to respect the American Constitution's ban against cruel and unusual punishment, even when the person being punished is the worst of the worst? Sun, 1 Jul 2012 07:08:42 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Fight-over-public-executions-could-come-to-Wash-state-160948615.html?clmob=y#IDComment393202081 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment392418968 Uhhh, what does the hair have to do with anything? Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:20:11 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment392418968 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment392418612 If gun-control is so counterproductive, how come rich countries that have more gun control have less gun crime than the USA? Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:19:24 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Federal-Way-shootout-suspect-ordered-held-160781555.html#IDComment392418612 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Defense-George-Zimmerman-back-in-police-custody-156904265.html#IDComment373509609 Why did you put scare quotes around the term 'lies'? He lied, period. What else has he lied about? Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:01:08 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Defense-George-Zimmerman-back-in-police-custody-156904265.html#IDComment373509609 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Photo-Zimmerman-bloodied-after-Martin-shooting-151949105.html#IDComment362813507 Zimmerman did call the police. They advised him not to go after Martin. Zimmerman did anyway. As for marijuana inducing paranoia in a high percentage of users, it does NOT induce violence in any significant percentage of users. Zimmerman did not have to go after Martin, therefore he did not have to shoot him; there simply is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Fri, 18 May 2012 19:45:08 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Photo-Zimmerman-bloodied-after-Martin-shooting-151949105.html#IDComment362813507 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Photo-Zimmerman-bloodied-after-Martin-shooting-151949105.html#IDComment362382341 This evidence does nothing to exonerate Zimmerman. If he attempted to subdue the teen by hand before shooting him, he could have started the fight. If he had *obeyed* the 911 dispatcher who told him not to pursue the teen, the fight and the shooting would never have happened. As for the marijuana in the teen's blood, puh-lease! A drug that prompts nothing more vicious than the desire to consume sweets is hardly evidence that Zimmerman was facing a berzerk attacker. Incidentally, since when do news stations and political organizations govern when evidence is released? Fri, 18 May 2012 01:22:47 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Photo-Zimmerman-bloodied-after-Martin-shooting-151949105.html#IDComment362382341 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/150789075.html#IDComment357702449 Hi, Ben, I'm happy for you and your son, and do not abide political correctness as an excuse to make personal remarks. That said, however, I can answer your question. Psychiatrists have documented that reparative therapy doesn't work and causes harm. In medicine, which includes psychiatry, the administration of treatments that are currently known to be both useless and harmful is called malpractice. If a gay person wants to be straight, he shouldn't be told that a psychiatric treatment will make him so if in fact the treatment has no such effect. Thu, 10 May 2012 08:24:33 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/150789075.html#IDComment357702449 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132258918.html?#IDComment346473719 Is this guy being tried on an internet thread? Talk all you like--I'll wait for the investigation and the trial. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:35:14 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132258918.html?#IDComment346473719 http://www.komonews.com/news/entertainment/Michael-Bay-tells-Ninja-Turtles-fans-to-chill-143596276.html#IDComment322335343 Bay's contempt for the fans doesn't bode well for the quality of his TMNT movie. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:11:15 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/entertainment/Michael-Bay-tells-Ninja-Turtles-fans-to-chill-143596276.html#IDComment322335343 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314817565 Yeah, those zero tolerance policies have made school discipline a joke, which is the last thing that the victims need. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314817565 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314816965 Don't forget that depression can be exacerbated by abuse. You may be right about the suicides, but that doesn't absolve anyone involved from the duty to reduce bullying. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:38:15 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314816965 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314813638 Allowing parents to beat up their kids will not reduce bullying. Neither will parents who expect the school staff to do all their parenting for them. That said, parents and schools should tighten discipline, and allow schools greater freedom to flunk students who won't do their work and expel students who won't let their peers learn. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:32:31 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314813638 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314808006 Adults don't have to "resist" being harassed and assaulted every day; why should kids? Reducing bullying begins with punishing bullies--for a change! Blaming the victim doesn't help. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:22:52 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314808006 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314806270 Truer words never spoken! Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:19:41 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/142073193.html#IDComment314806270