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• Student jailed for 2 nights when she can't show ID

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • Denise--yes, the young woman is "accused of calling the police officer names." When a police officer knows darned well that he is doing something he should not, then he will try to manufacture something--they will beat someone yelling "stop resisting" so that the witnesses can be asked "did the …

• Personal trainer gains 70 pounds to empathize with overweight

  Sun Oct 23, 2011
  • Tera--even nutritionists do not understand nutrition; they are guessing (go read up about how we wound up with transfat in our diets). Even doctors have no idea what makes one person lose weight easily and the next person gain weight on precisely the same regimen or medication.

• Personal trainer gains 70 pounds to empathize with overweight

  Sun Oct 23, 2011
  • I see a script about someone who thinks he is clever but can't communicate in Standard American English: "I see the beginning of a script about a down-and-out, former trainer whose brilliant plan led to catastrophe."

• Personal trainer gains 70 pounds to empathize with overweight

  Sun Oct 23, 2011
  • He is a young man who has temporarily gained weight--as if, perhaps, he'd had an injury and couldn't exercise. He will have more trouble than he expected losing weight--but it will come off. He hasn't had it on long enough (and he isn't older or female), and it won't be overwhelmingly difficult.

• Homeless stake a claim at 'Occupy' protests

  Tue Nov 1, 2011
  • At some point, most of you would profit from learning the distinction between socialism (a governmental system) and communism (an economic system).

• Disabled vet says airline left her to sit in own urine

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • Mark--what airline do you fly? Never once I have had the wheelchair first. Of course, if you are talking about first class--or if you are talking about major hubs where the attendants have to keep their schedules--maybe you have been asked to wait. But, no, I've never had that privilege.

• Disabled vet says airline left her to sit in own urine

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • People with disabilities get on the plane first. They get off the plane last because it is too hard to assist them while others are standing in the aisle. Trust me--I've done it myself.

• Disabled vet says airline left her to sit in own urine

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • Mark--I call BS on you. Never once was I told to leave first and never once has anyone been asked to wait for me while I de-planed. I was always told to wait until others had de-planed and the assistant would then come in and help me.

• Bear injures hunter in Grand Teton National Park

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • Any rifle that will "kill an elk" can't kill anything--guns don't kill grizzlies, people kill grizzlies. Unless the hunter has time to aim and the proper angle/distance to get a shot that will be fatal, it's quite likely that the first shot might just make the bear madder.

• Calif. sex offender parolees face Halloween curfew

  Fri Oct 28, 2011
  • john doe-4397227--the problem with giving accurate recidivism rates (and, yes, I know that yours are accurate as I've looked this up on the Bureau of Justice Statistics before) is that people tend to prefer and remember the extreme.