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  Do you vote now?

  by sass_my_frass in

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  do you think it matters?

  how long did it take for you to start voting?

  was it liberating?.

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  onintwo

  Of course I vote! How can you not? Unless you want others to decide matters for you that will affect you. And affect you they will, trust me. Besides, I had enough of that sort of thing in the "truth".

  I find that the hardest part is actually researching the candidates and issues. It takes some time. Unless you're simply going to go down your ballot and vote in every Republican or Democrat or Independent, or whatever your preference is. Straight ticket as some people do.

  I voted every election since I was out. By the way, my voter registration card fits nicely where my blood card used to be!!!

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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

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  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  Thank you, Jankyn. That opens my eyes to crime statistic reporting. Can be subjective, very subjective.

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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

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  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  Thank you, Jankyn. Well stated opinion. Appreciated the part about 3 or more young males traveling together. Guess that's why law enforcement always has an eye on the car that's full of young males.

  But I didn't realize local agencies had such leeway in the classifying of crimes. Can you give an example of how a crime might be described by one agency and differently by another?

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  Smells that evoke memories...

  by LittleToe in

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  isn't it funny how certain smells can have a strong effect in evoking distant memories?.

  i was reminded of this when i just opened my desk drawer.

  a little earlier today i bought a local newspaper (which is unusual for me) and didn't have time to read it so i stuck it in the drawer.

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  LT, that's good! I haven't thought about this topic for years and years. But since you brought it up. I remember getting out of bed about 10:00pm when I was about 9 years old. I was smelling the most horrible smell I ever smelled. Came downstairs and my mom and dad were messing with the stove in the kitchen. Mom had dropped a handful of rubberbands onto the burner (electric, I think). The smell of burning rubber never fails to remind me of this. It's etched into my brain.

  Car squeals out at a traffic light, and I smell burning rubberbands. Pulley slipping on my tablesaw? Burning rubberbands. It's funny.

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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

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  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  onintwo

  Whoa! Hold on there! How and when did income get mixed up in this discussion? I didn't introduce this idea. Poor vs. rich?.... Unwanted babies can also be from a young woman in college who becomes pregnant and it would be terribly inconvenient, just now, at this point in her life, to carry the child to term. Don't want to sound callous about it. Not at all. But just that abortions are not the exclusive domain of low income people.

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  Did Your Experience As A Witness REALLY "Damage" You?

  by Englishman in

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  or was the experience just a glitch that can be overcome?.

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  Lots of missed opportunities..the kind that cannot be re-lived. Born into the "truth", so I made and raised three kids in it. Now, I realize that the damage I did to myself, or the damage the "experience" did to me, (however you want to phrase it) has been passed on. Fortunately, two of my three have seen the light, and do not associated with the Borg at all.

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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  onintwo

  So, it's a book? Do you recall the author? Does it seem to be valid?

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  crime statistics and roe vs. wade connection?

  by onintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  stepdaughter came home from first day of school.

  at dinner she presented an idea she'd heard.

  goes something like this: during the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise.

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  Stepdaughter came home from first day of school. At dinner she presented an idea she'd heard. Goes something like this: During the seventies and eighties the crime rate was still on the rise. But by the nineties crimes statistics dropped. That's about the time that the results of more readily available abortions would be kicking in. (from the roe vs. wade decision)

  Unwanted babies generally receive less nurturing. Less nurturing, more mal-adjusted kids. Which equals more crime. So...the argument goes, women that aborted unwanted babies unwittingly slowed the crime rate.

  Not saying I buy all of this, but have others heard of this?

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  Will the WTBS ever relax the current clothing/dress/grooming standards?

  by Utopian Reformist in

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  as numbers and meeting attendance statistics continue to decrease in western lands, do you think the wtbs may someday relax it's current clothing and grooming policies to facilitate better attendance and make the meetings more comfortable?

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  please share your opinions of why/why not.

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  I liked the comment about how the Borg uses the local brothers to decide on the specifics. I remember wearing a pastel dress shirt in the late sixties, (with coat and tie of course) to read the WT on a Sunday. Don't remember if it was light blue or grey, but I got counseling afterwards about how White is the "preferred" color for dress shirts. Never forget that. Also, men were to wear a suit, not a sport coat and slacks, no matter how nice they looked together, for parts on the meeting. That soon changed, as the "light got brighter and brighter".

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  Men are more intelligent than women.

  by PaulJ in

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  men are more intelligent than women.

  (link).

  discuss.

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  onintwo

  Is an oak tree stronger than a rose is beautiful?

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