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Legalization would legalize it, so it would reduce crime ... because it wouldn't be a crime. Regulation is what is needed. And taxes.

It's a very small group. No need to discriminate, I say, for the small cost involved.

The location of the Elgin St. office contradicts Corrections Canada's own written guidelines that stipulates a parole office can't be within 300 metres of schools, parks and residential neighbourhoods. Looks like they won't have much of a case. I wonder too whether there is any requirement of consulting with the public. This duty to consult is in court on another 'neighbourhood' issue ... mining ... and the public's right to have input into a variety of land uses may just become the issue of the future. I hope this case doesn't go anywhere, because it could get really messy if we can't object to development in our neighbourhoods for fear of being sued by businesses! http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/imper..._hear_red_chris A long battle over the public’s right to be consulted on large mines and other industrial projects is now heading to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Supreme Court decided today to allow MiningWatch Canada to appeal a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal.

Harper's big ass It didn't make it to this video, but Harper immediately turned around, bent over and flipped his jacket up to show his "big ass" (now forever naked in chaps in my memory. thanks for that Oleg. ) Big oil big ass ... yay Jack layton ... funny is funny. And Harper displayed himself a surprisingly good straight man. I just love this clip of history. Unfortunately, this is the stuff that gets lost to history. Harper's 'big ass' gesture is lost. sigh

Get over it, Bill. They have. It has nothing to do with this topic.

Absolutely true. But why is it a problem for law-abiding owners to register their guns anywhere?

To me this just sounds like someone questioning/rejecting religion, as we are all entitled to do. If xians are getting upset to the point of attack ... that's pathetic and a problem for the law to deal with. Nothing here but free speech.

Who needs both a mom and a dad right? Every kid does, though they don't have to live together. Your point is ... what? Your point has virtually nothing to do with the topic, absolutely nothing to do with this case, and unnecessarily smears single parents who are doing the best they can. Abused children often become abusers. That's the problem. Poverty, violence, drugs ... that's the problem. What do career criminals have to do with those under 18? Again, off topic. He wishes he could start over, but not at the beginning. He grew up in a crack house with a mother who used and sold drugs. In Lotts' case, court documents reveal that he was sexually abused as a child. When child welfare officials took Lotts from his mother at the age of 8, they noted that he "smelled of urine and had badly decayed molars as well as numerous scars on his arms, legs and forehead." "Quantel had a lot of anger because of all he has been through," said stepmother Tammy Lotts, 45, whose son Michael Barton was Lotts' victim. iReport.com: Sentence 'totally unfair' At the time of the crime, Tammy Lotts said she left her children for several days with her husband to get high on crack cocaine. "But I don't believe that Quantel did it," she added. "They took care of each other. They didn't see each other as stepbrothers; they considered them brothers." Most young offenders serving life without parole were exposed to poverty, violence or drugs during childhood, the Equal Justice Initiative reported.

You can't 'stand up' without dumping on someone else ... you can't stand up. period.

He wasn't part of the demo. Just walking home from work, hit from behind with a baton (which can cause a blood clot sufficient to cause a heart attack), then pushed to the ground. Moments before the video was shot, around 7.20pm on 1 April, Tomlinson was struck with a baton and thrown to the floor by a riot officer who had covered half his face with a balaclava and concealed his badge number. • Police move quickly to push away those protesters and bystanders who were aiding Tomlinson, including a man on the phone to the ambulance service. The ambulance service wanted to be put in contact with the officer, who declined to take the call. • The reaction of protesters is important. After the demonstration, police accused them of impeding Tomlinson's treatment by subjecting the officers and medics to a hail of missiles. In the video, a missile is seen to be thrown but you can hear someone in the crowd saying: "There's someone hurt. Don't throw anything." This indicates something was thrown, but certainly there was no barrage of missiles on film, and nothing reached the police. A man is also seen, standing with his arms in the air, shouting: "There is someone hurt here. Back the fuck up." • The riot officers have concealed their faces. Pause at 56 seconds. There are four officers in shot. Three have their face masks pulled half-way up their faces. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/g...tomlinson-death

12 October 2005 There are at least 2,225 child offenders serving life without parole (LWOP) sentences in U.S prisons for crimes committed before they were age 18, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a new joint report published today. ... According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, there is no correlation between the use of the LWOP sentence and youth crime rates. There is no evidence it deters youth crime or is otherwise helpful in reducing juvenile crime rates. For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole but it has youth crime rates lower than Missouri, which imposes the sentence on child offenders far more frequently. “Public safety can be protected without subjecting youth to the harshest prison sentence possible,” said Parker. Nationwide, black youth receive life without parole sentences at a rate estimated to be ten times greater than that of white youth (6.6 versus 0.6). In some states the ratio is far greater: in California, for example, black youth are 22.5 times more likely to receive a life without parole sentence than white youth. In Pennsylvania, Hispanic youth are ten times more likely to receive the sentence than whites (13.2 versus 1.3). The United States is one of only a few countries in the world that permit children to be sentenced to LWOP. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by every country in the world except the United States and Somalia, forbids this practice, and at least 132 countries have rejected the sentence altogether. Thirteen other countries have laws permitting the child LWOP sentence, but, outside of the United States, there are only about 12 young offenders currently serving life sentences with no possibility of parole. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also challenged the presumption that the youth offenders are irredeemable, which is implicit in the sentence they have received. http://www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=6313 unfriggenbelievable! Thanks for bringing this up, bjre.

Which law is that?

Na ... only a low life if he has to dis others to stand up for himself.

What about the low lifes in Alberta? How do you deal with them? Yourself, for example ...

I hope you like takeout! No f'n way women should be expected to do MORE than men! You screw it up, we fix it up ... make yer own f'n dinner... and mine too! Nothin' sexier'n a man in the kitchen when you get home!

oh ya, cuz ... YOU look like a great alternative

Military personnel and federal government employees working outside the country are also included, as military bases, external affairs embassies and consulates are deemed to be Canadian locations. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/documen...1_T9_V1-eng.pdf

I think it's clear that since we don't know what's being compared, conclusions are not warranted.

I doubt that very much.

Apparently a lot of people who claim they won't kill anybody with their weapons nonetheless are unwilling to register theirs either. Why is that?

Life in the Australian Army... Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland ) Dear Mum & Dad, I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing! At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!! This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload! Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster. Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer. I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is. Your loving daughter, Sheila

Uh oh ... who let Archie Bonkers out!! Was it Jack Daniels again, Oleg?

YEEEHAWW!!!

Apparently it's not illegal.

Maybe it's simply a question of deploying one's teeth in the appropriate direction!