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17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Amazon may take a bite... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hooboy! Proud of that white skin and ready to reinstate the Jim Crow laws aren't you?
How about this, you get the he$$ out of my country- my people were here first- take your lily white skin and go back to Europe.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Amazon may take a bite... · 1 reply · +1 points

Good one! Too busy on the, lets make this an all white country thread, overwise known as the illegal immigration tuition thread, to come up with a real response?
Better call Rush.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Spokane to detonate sq... · 0 replies · -19 points

A complete disregard for any life form other than your own.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Amazon may take a bite... · 2 replies · +1 points

I wish some of you puritanical censorship lovers would get the "shaft."
What an incrediably racist and nasty thing for you to say.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Officials uncover scho... · 0 replies · +1 points

Except abortion isn't murder.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Officials uncover scho... · 4 replies · +3 points

Oh please, you bring abortion up as a cause to school shootings? Totally uncalled for.
Maybe these kids don't get enough of something at home, like attention from parents who are busy with their own lives and don't have time to get to know the children they have.
Morality is not the problem. Religion is not the answer. Parents who pay attention to their kids and notice the small changes that would occur in a child's personality and demeanor that would precipitate an action this grand. This was planned, so don't tell me that these kids were acting perfectly fine at home.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Should sobriety checkp... · 0 replies · -1 points

I'm good with outlawing cars actually. People have proven over and over again that they can't handle driving and with the climate change issue we would be better off not to mention healthier without them.

I honestly think that you are way too worried about the government running your life. You want total privacy and the ability to do what ever you see fit because you see yourself as an intelligent person that makes the right choices but you are not taking into consideration the high number of idiots that we share this fine state with. Who is going to rein in them? Who is going to keep them from killing others in a senseless, preventable way, you? So the way I see it if we don't allow the government to step in occasionally and put laws in place to help us rein in the stupidity then we fail as a society. Not everyone is intelligent , reliable and trustworthy. what do we do about them? Wait until they kill someone, someone who is a worthy member of society?

Yes life is dangerous and we could be killed any number of ways everyday but why not try to do something about the preventable ways?

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Should sobriety checkp... · 0 replies · +2 points

The penalty is set up to hit people where it hurts, the checkbook. It's supposed to make people think twice about driving after drinking. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for most people.
I don't drive if I drink either, I don't see it as a terrible burden. I'm with you, it just isn't worth it.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Should sobriety checkp... · 1 reply · 0 points

Here's a solution, forget the checkpoints, instead make the penalty greater. Get a DUI and be fined half a million and lose your license forever. Kill someone while driving intoxicated and be executed.

Realistic....hardly.

People drive all the time uninsured, unlicensed, too fast, drunk, tired, etc., so obviously no one cares about the "laws" so what are we left with? We are left with trying to prevent tragedy before it happens and if checkpoints will cut down on all of the things that I listed then it is a reasonable thing.

17 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Should sobriety checkp... · 3 replies · +1 points

But people die when others drink and drive. I don't see how waiting until the end result of someone killing someone else due to intoxication is an answer.
If a check point can save someone's life, including yours or your loved ones I'm all for it. I'm just sorry to hear that you are willing to sacrifice those you love in the name of your so called "rights."

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