Most people grudgingly put up with the evil relatives rather than fight them. They put up with the secretly drawn up wills, the secretly changed beneficiary names on life insurance policies and certificates of deposit, the attempts to hijack memorial proceedings, the disappearance of personal property, and the fights over family photos, the control over ones heritage. People should not put up with it. They should speak up and fight. They should be very careful who is appointed guardian and conserva.tor to their parent's estate. Elder-on-elder abuse is some of the ugliest and pathetic abuse one can witness. I find it is just as likely the Greatest Generation is doing the victimizing as well as being the victim.
Tea-rrorist Party or Naz-Tea Party is more like it. They could careless about democracy or the will of the people. All I heard during the healthcare debate from them were threatening code words for violence and death. They should fade into history.
Round up everyone with a ferris wheel tat. What lamo gangs.
Mr. Schafer is right to prosecute Ms. Brown. She took it too far and crossed the line. I'm sure Mr. Schafer's record for prosecuting violent prisoners is exceptional. He's probably stood up for every prison guard who has been attacked in Ionia. When one of their own goes rogue on a handcuffed prisoner, it's sad to see the knee-jerk reaction. The issue is simple. Reverse the roles. Say a prisoner handcuffs a guard and viciously beats them with another pair of handcuffs for 60 seconds. We can agree there's universal condemnation for that, and you bet they'd be prosecuted. The county prosecutor has to be impartial. If the county prosecutor looked the other way, it would just invite the federal prosecutor to stick their nose into MDOC's affairs. So who would you rather perform the investigation and prosecution? Stop sticking up for poorly trained guards who can't control themselves around handcuffed prisoners.
Hey! People who are jobless beyond their last emergency unemployment extension ARE COUNTED as unemployed! In Michigan, unemployment stats are determined by a phone survey. If you are looking for work, they count you; if not, they don't. WOODTV did a good piece about it last March. Search the website and you'll find it.
I disagree with across-the-board cuts to colleges and universities. They don't make across-the-board cuts in the Corrections Department budget; they pick and choose and close facilities. It's time to cut the flow of public funding for some of these institutions; it's time to fully privatize the already semi-private University of Michigan and conserve the remaining funding for those institutions which perform well and show they can maximize the use of additional funding.
I smell some fried green tomatoes on that whopper. Good for you grrl!
All those Teabaggers who think Michigan's unemployed would have better job prospects by moving out of the state only reveal their narrow-mindedness and inability to see the problem. It doesn't matter if other states have lower unemployment rates; what matters is if they have job growth. They do not. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its latest regional and state jobs report, "In December, 13 states experienced statistically significant over-the-month changes in employment, all of which were decreases," and "over the year, 44 states experienced statistically significant changes in employment, all of which were decreases." There is no job growth anywhere in the country yet. It takes more time and all those hard working folks who got thrown out of work thro' no fault of their own deserve to be carried over these troubled waters until the economy begins to pick back up.
The University of Michigan should be fully privatised. Percentage-wise it gets the least amount of state funding and is mostly funded by endowments and tuition. It is the public university in the best position to be spun off. Why should Michigan taxpayers subsidize the education of other states' workers? We should not.
Must have made their retreat up the White Pine Trail, which runs right behind the car wash, on a mountain bike with fat tires to ride the panked down snowmobile tracks. Headed to Hersey, perhaps. I'm assuming the car wash made a more lucrative target than the Paris State Bank & Hair Salon.
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