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Mar 31, 2014 16:19:25   #
Duckie was a nickname her biological mother gave her. It was unkind, Duckie has a deep curvature of her spine (she is now undergoing treatment) which caused her to walk with a roll of the hip. Much like a duck waddle. Her walking has improved now that she has the right shoes and a spine support brace. She was also diagnosed as being a "slow learner" among other things when she came to live with us. We had her tested and found that she is dyslectic, so we hired a specialist to help her in learning to read and write. Thanks to the tutor, she was placed in her proper grade level of 10 and is a 3.8 gpa. She came to us early December and has blossomed! Her avatar. I do animal rescue and I also own horses. She loves to ride and she dreams of owing her own Arabian. We recently rescued a horse like the one she uses as an avatar who is very pregnant. I think that Duckie prays each night for that horse and if I would allow it, she would sleep in the barn. She is quite the survivor and a real blessing to us!
bahmer wrote:
I never did find out how she came up with the name "duckie". And then the beautiful black horse avatar just didn't jell. Maybe the horse was named duckie.
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Mar 31, 2014 15:58:05   #
I do not know how it turned out or how the policeman in this case felt. I do not possess that ability.

It is good to live in a nice neighborhood. In my area, everyone knows everyone else. We have police, they know me and I took my newly adopted daughter and introduced her to the police so they would know which family she belonged. Living as close as we do to DC, our crime rate is very close to zero. And when there is a crime, it has always turned out to not be a resident of our town. My daughter is being taught respect for all and how to behave should she get into trouble. All young people do silly things, so knowing how to react is very important. As you can see, I support law enforcement as well as our firemen. Both occupations are difficult and many lose their lives in line of duty. Indeed it is shameful the way people treat these people. In fact the forwarding on of videos in emails and social sites such as this, harms our police even more. Too many people do not engage the though process when doing so.


Patty wrote:
Yes Im sure it was considered justified and the policeman definitely felt terrible but that isn't the point.
I am just glad that I live in an area where when the last guy retired in the 80's we saw no reason to replace him. With 90% of homes here having guns in them there is no home invasions and it is not considered odd to see people with guns anywhere. It doesn't even get a second glance here. The closest police is at the State Barricks about 40 miles away and we have 0crime rate. I have to conclude that it isn't the police who keep us safe and crime free.
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Mar 31, 2014 15:45:25   #
Thank you, I am much better. My kind friend, you have never been unkind. You have been assertive, but not crude or rude.

My daughter, she misses her friends here on OPP. She was always happy talking with the folks here. She just ran into one very touchy individual. I read the exchange, although I had to laugh, it was not even close to an infraction of even common kindness. Oh well, she is happy now h*****g with her friends. Plus not long ago she got her driver's license so naturally being a good mother felt that she needed her own wheels. I am sure you remember the fun and freedom of your first car. So, she can now go visit her friends and of course go to school functions. We are now looking for the right prom dress. Thank goodness I know the young man that invited her. One less thing to worry about. Duckie wants a pink dress. We have been to so many places.... and I h**e to shop. I wear jeans and a shirt. And only on Saturday can you find me in a dress. So this is painful. Perhaps I will just have our tailor make her dress. It is fun being a mother again. She keeps me thinking and keeps me on my toes!

Billhuggins wrote:
Ginnyt: Glad to see you back with us. Since Duckie put Duckie to bed why not give birth to new life, like Upbeat or, something. Gees, I am guilty, along with hordes of others, of trespassing on the feelings of others to a far greater extent that what you have described. I think the grounds for exile were unfair, unless it was a self imposed exile. I recall reading her posts and enjoyed them.
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Mar 31, 2014 15:26:23   #
When you are pulled over by the police, first thing is you do not get out of your vehicle. You keep your hands on the wheel. This person got out of the truck and started reaching back into the vehicle. You heard the police officer, he told him to drop the gun. They thought that he was armed and going to fire at them. What can you expect when you make all the wrong moves? How were the police to interpret his actions? Put your self in the police's shoes. The driver must have been doing something to cause the stop, such as erratic driving. Ergo, the driver could have been drunk or on drugs, therefore the police were already pensive, he gets out of the truck....and then reaches in and comes out with what looked like a gun.


Patty wrote:
They're being trained to shot first and not risk it unfortunately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iorUWfK-5yw
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Mar 31, 2014 13:08:55   #
My money advisor, who has worked with my family for years, has the impression that the economy will not stay flat, therefore he is advising me to increase my portfolio in commodities and put an extra $1M into my daughter (Duckie) future. I think that, because he has never lost money for me, that I will go with his advice.

Patty wrote:
Me personally I think it will go up slightly till the end of April. I don't know if you have noticed since the Fed is stuck in their stimulus debacle and cant really get out by any real significant cut back in buying debt I have noticed that pm's dip after every Fed. announcement. The next announcement is April 29-30th. That is just my thinking and it could end up biting me if they actually do announce any significant tapering but think I will hold off any increase in pm's till end of the month.
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Mar 31, 2014 13:03:53   #
Perhaps you have a point. But, the beat or patrol officer does not write the laws. They are entrusted with ensuring the laws written are upheld. If we think about it, who stands between the citizen and the crazy with a gun or knife. These people have a very difficult job. And that job is compounded by people either getting more brazen in their crimes and showing off their arsenal or people are just getting more stupid in their actions as time goes on. And of course there are those who would rather shine a spotlight on the end result than be impartial and review the entire incident. This of course will publicize worst case of law enforcement. It is rare to hear the everyday heroics of these brave people. Whereas your article highlights a bad outcome, there are thousands of these people that put themselves between people threatening others with knives, or those with loaded guns, or mobs ransacking stores and churches..... the list is endless. I ask, would these people that you mention have died if they were not armed and presenting themselves as a threat? Would they have died if they raised their arms into the air without a weapon? So far, for this year the statistics show that an increase of 16 percent in police deaths over last year.
•According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, an estimated 1.2 million violent crimes occurred nationwide in 2011
•A total of 1,539 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 57 hours or 154 per year.
•On average, over the last decade, there have been 58,261 assaults against law enforcement each year, resulting in 15,658 injuries.

The veteran homeless population is a different issue that I prefer not to discuss in this thread.

Patty wrote:
I think it was well written. There are so many things driving us into no respect for the law mainly people naturally rebel against their leaders, who are completely above the law writing more laws than can ever possible be adhered to.
Sadly this was this PD's 23rd shooting in a year I believe I read. With 58,000 homeless vets in this country and no jobs for them the police have gotten a bad attitude towards them and there have actually been laws passed that it is illegal to feed them. How sad is that.
Also another problem is that to increase the profitability of the military complex when equipment becomes a year or two old the military wants to dump it for the newest gadget and all the old stuff is being sold to local law enforcement at 1/20th the price it was bought for a year before. Got to keep those tax dollars coming in.
http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/
The largest town near us which isn't very big had made it so that we needed a monthly permit to give food to the homeless but we found that it was cheaper to risk getting caught than to get the permit every month. Yes, that's right. Im a criminal it would appear.
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Mar 31, 2014 12:34:03   #
Funny world we are living in. People talk about s***ery ad nauseum, but praying is not allowed. Even history books are rewritten to make b****s appear superior and w****s as bitter ens***ers without a conscious or humanity. Movies about God or Jesus are panned by the press, but anything dealing with s***ery regardless of how untrue or how bad the performances are is considered a number 1 box office smash. Makes me think, perhaps overcompensation is the correct analogy one can make.

OldSchool wrote:
Yannow that Twelve Years A S***e only won an Oscar due to Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and white guilt, kinda like how Obungler go elected twice. Here’s a s***e movie that won’t win an Oscar.
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Mar 31, 2014 12:24:24   #
I guess today would be an excellent to buy more gold for my future. It will only go up again in another 6 months at which time I will sell. Thanks for the investment hint.
Patty wrote:
Behold: the "8:30 am" risk repricing catalyst, because sometimes you just have to laugh... of course we also know how this has ended for 10 days in a row too.

"Normal"
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Mar 31, 2014 12:16:02   #
My husband was bald, he refused to do anything about it. To be t***hful, his lack of hair was not an issue for me; I loved him anyway. He always said that some men waste their hormones on growing hair. :lol:

Loki wrote:
I will order a truckload.
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Mar 31, 2014 12:12:46   #
Is it really a matter of honor? Strange perspective. Never thought of it in that way. Anyway, I trust. People to me are all inherently good. Not many people want to cause harm to others. Yes I know that there are some people that are amoral. But, those people are few and far between. The average individual will not go out of their way to cause harm. Also, when a person does cause harm by oversight or an unkind word, it is their responsibility to recognize the error and tend to it. To hold a grudge is a personal e******n; but that is just my opinion. Again, your response is appreciated. I am still back to the question on forgiving.

Secret Alchemist wrote:
Which is more honorable, to remember an injustice but overlook it for a higher purpose or to blindly trust someone because you've truly forgotten the harm they've caused you?
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Mar 31, 2014 11:54:50   #
There is an increase in police using deadly force, and the increase has steadily grown over the past 10 years. One problem is the loss of respect they once enjoyed. I can remember when a police person represented absolute law. Now it is not uncommon for people to be belligerent, disrespectful, and more often than not threatening. When a suspect is armed, our law enforcement are faced with snap decisions: will this person shot, stab, use that cane to strike, throw rocks, or use their fist and so on. Parents no longer teach their children to respect the law, but they go to lengths to teach their kids how to evade and lie. Couple this with the many other stresses of their job, such as wearing 20 pounds of gear, being sent on calls back to back, being in all types of weather from extreme cold to hot for hours on end. Mobs are exceptionally hazardous to police an attack can come from multiple directions at once. And finally, more people are armed with cell phones that take videos. Most of the time these videos do not show everything. That is from the first encounter (no one is thinking when the see a police person that something bad is going to happen so they tape from start of the encounter) through to the end. Also, the angles are mono-perspective; that is it is not a video from all angles, just from where the person is standing so while viewing these one must consider that you are not seeing everything.

I have to wonder, why would a man in his 70s be armed with knives and why pull those knives on the officers. If a person is not doing anything wrong, why run when approached? Same with car chases, why speed off if you are not already wanted by the police or know that you are wrong? Although I am not for gun control, I do question why a person would pull a gun out and point it at a police officer? My son carries a gun, he lives in AZ where it is legal. He knows that if a police person stops you in your vehicle or on the street, never reach for the gun. You tell the officer you have one and then you do not grip it as if you can fire it when handing it over. So, again I have to ask, is it police using unnecessary force or are criminals, homeless, or wh**ever the case lacking in commonsense. And anyone that participates in a mob, well that in itself is a real dumb idea.

This was not well written, so I hope you understand my meaning.

Patty wrote:
Video http://rt.com/usa/albuquerque-police-tear-gas-269/

Greece anyone.

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-protest-albuquerques-trigger-happy-police-department-025224412.html;_ylt=A0LEVzMfdzlTwi8AYIJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0Ym85a21lBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDIyNl8x
In the last three years, Albuquerque police department officers have shot and k**led 23 people -- one of the highest per capita fatal police shooting rates in the country. One of the most recent was James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man. The incident was captured on video, and shows Boyd, armed with two knives, standing several feet away from officers. He is turning away from them when he is shot. As he lay on the ground, officers fired beanbags at him and set a police dog on him. He died the next day.
police face hundreds of protesters Associated Press
Hourslong protest turns to 'mayhem' in Albuquerque Associated Press
Mayor: Wrong to say Albuquerque shooting justified Associated Press

Albuquerque PD chief Gordon Eden said the shooting was justified because Boyd "directed a threat" at one of the officers and they'd already used non-lethal force to no effect. As we know, if police officers think they are being threatened -- whether that threat turns out to be real or just a 70-year-old man reaching for his cane -- they are allowed to shoot people.

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About 1,000 people took to the streets on March 25 to protest Boyd's k*****g. Even a retired APD officer participated, telling KRQE: "The methods they used were not methods I'd ever been taught."

A few hours later, another officer shot and k**led Alfred Redwine, though he was armed with a gun and may have fired at officers before they shot him (officers say he did, neighbors say he didn't).

On March 28, the FBI announced that it was investigating Boyd's shooting. The Department of Justice has been investigating the APD for years.
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Mar 31, 2014 11:25:30   #
Good article, thank you.

Dave wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/party-rich-congress-democrats-040228270--e******n.html

Rich elites using minorities and the poor purely as fodder in order to maintain their political power -
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Mar 31, 2014 11:19:32   #
This would work if they were still capable of learning. Most of these folks do not want to learn, they have completely closed their minds and eyes. Therefore, as long as they have breath they will wail and complain and defend Obama. Sad, but true.

bahmer wrote:
Just picture in your mind a two year old sitting in the middle of the room having a hissy fit over something of little or no consequence. Now with this image in mind you have your typical Obama worshiper. When our children were little and had a tantrum we just let them go until they realized that no one was paying attention to their rantings. After awhile they learned to act civilized and behaved. Maybe these Obama worshipers will learn over time if treated this way although I highly doubt it.
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Mar 31, 2014 11:10:01   #
You always make me smile. Thank you! Biotin for the hair, it works even with male pattern baldness. Takes about 2 months, but it is a vitamin that is missing in modern diets.
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Mar 31, 2014 11:07:40   #
DUP
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