Happy Anniversary, OC and Dave!
If it was legal in Texas, would you two want to get married?
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My Partner and I have been together for 10 years today!
by ohiocowboy ini am very proud that we have been together for 10 years!
being raised a jw, it was always hard for me to find a long term relationship.
most people that i met weren't interested in anything long term, and each time one ended, it left me feeling like i would never find someone who shared the same feelings.
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Reading is NOT Overrated!
by White Dove inhow do you read?.
i find myself attracted to certain authors and book series.. which reminds me, i need to download the grapes of wrath.. i love steinbeck's writing of historical fiction.
looking into the history of frontier america is so interesting when written in story form.. i read from most genres.. what's your poison?.
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@Glander: I read Keith Richards' book, Life, after you talked about it on here. It was amazing. You might enjoy Patti Smith's "Just Kids". I didn't realize until I was finished with it that she was raised as a JW.
Interesting thread, White Dove. I love getting tips on authors I haven't heard of. I enjoy pretty much all genres as well, except for romance novels. Right now I'm reading a book about supercave explorers that's blowing my mind.
For fiction, I love Chuck Palahniuk, Kate Atkinson, Robert Olen Butler, Graham Greene, Richard Russo, William Goldman and the late great David Foster Wallace. And too many others to list...
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My son was murdered today
by truman ini have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
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This is just awful. ((((Truman and husband)))))
Did your son have a wife or children?
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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Dallas (DFW area) members - BREAKING NEWS: TORNADOES IN AREA
by SweetBabyCheezits injust noticed three tornado warnings that included dallas, arlington, and fort worth.
nws text for these warnings stated that there were two "large and extremely dangerous tornadoes" confirmed on the ground in the area.
james_woods or terry, what's the scoop?.
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" Right now there's a tornado on the ground in Addison."
Yup, just got out of the stairwells here, too. I keep calling my daughter in Oak Cliff (just south of downtown), because she tends not to take these things very seriously.
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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The original arrest was in New Jersey.
" People, my point is this: If the supreme court had ruled against ANY strip searches, it would have been interpreted that ALL strip searches should be banned.
The only power the SC has on this is to say that a strip search is a violation of human rights - thus extending the ruling to ALL strip searches."
I get what you're saying, but nothing I've read indicates it's that black and white. I agree with Breyer:
"Justice Breyer said that the Fourth Amendment should be understood to bar strip-searches of people arrested for minor offenses not involving drugs or violence, unless officials had a reasonable suspicion that they were carrying contraband." (from the NYT) -
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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" Does anybody know of any nation on earth that has legally banned strip searches for prisoners in their penal system?"
For all offenses, even "unpaid" traffic fines?
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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" Are you people ACTUALLY saying publicly that you want all strip searches for incoming and transferring jail inmates outlawed???"
Of course not. We're discussing the Supreme Court case in the OP, which was determining whether jailers get to subject people arrested for minor offenses to strip searches. Some states/municipalities do this for minor offenses and some do not.
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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" Hemp Lover - do you realize that you are doing more complaining about the strip searches than for the actual wrongful arrest of the guy in question and keeping him behind bars for six days?"
Um, no, I didn't. lol
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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest
by Bangalore insupreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.
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jwoods: " However, the greater issue is whether the protester was LAWFULLY arrested in the first place."
Have you read the story behind this court case? The guy was arrested for an unpaid traffic fine. The fine was actually paid and he showed a letter to the arresting officer attesting to that fact. He was still arrested, strip searched twice and I believe spent six days in jail. He wasn't even driving the car when he and his family were pulled over on the way to dinner.