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  Best Cover Songs

  by kerj2leev in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrfzfmeq9o

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  Catherine wheel, Wish you were here.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWwIV0ZfRa0
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  Best Cover Songs

  by kerj2leev in

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  2. friends

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrfzfmeq9o

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  Storm Large, Where is my mind

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzpLa6Y4cnk
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  Singer Songwriters who should be household names....

  by hillary_step in

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  over the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.

  some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.

  this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .

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  Another one by Mickey Newbury. His version of a song he wrote, covered by the fifth edition. I just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/161863/3023535/reply.ashx
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  Damn Alaska. Supreme court lets sex offenders off the hook.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  alaska justices put limits on sex offender registry .

  dan joling/the associated press .

  originally published saturday, july 26, 2008 at 8:50 a.m. .

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  Yes, watered down S.O laws suck. They make light of actual offenders like the one I mentioned. The system needs reformed. No, I'm not trying to pin it on Palin, unless she had something to do with it. In that case if the shoe fits....
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  Damn Alaska. Supreme court lets sex offenders off the hook.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  alaska justices put limits on sex offender registry .

  dan joling/the associated press .

  originally published saturday, july 26, 2008 at 8:50 a.m. .

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  avishai

  bttt
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  Damn Alaska. Supreme court lets sex offenders off the hook.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  alaska justices put limits on sex offender registry .

  dan joling/the associated press .

  originally published saturday, july 26, 2008 at 8:50 a.m. .

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  That sucks. Does the Governor have anything to do with this, or is the supreme court of Alaska a totally separate branch?
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  What do you think about John Doe's pink avatar?

  by asilentone in

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  avishai

  Pink is a great color. My first car was pink.
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  Damn Alaska. Supreme court lets sex offenders off the hook.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  alaska justices put limits on sex offender registry .

  dan joling/the associated press .

  originally published saturday, july 26, 2008 at 8:50 a.m. .

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  Alaska justices put limits on sex offender registry
  
  Dan Joling/The Associated Press
  
  Originally published Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 8:50 a.m.
  Updated Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 6:31 p.m.
  
  
  
  
  
  The decision Friday was brought in the case of a man convicted in 1985 and listed under the pseudonym "John Doe" in the lawsuit.
  
  The Legislature in 1994 passed the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act.
  
  Justices said detailed personal information about sex offenders required by the law and posted on the Internet cannot be applied to "Doe" or others convicted and sentenced before the law was enacted.
  
  That would violate the ex post facto clause of the Alaska Constitution, justices said. An ex post facto law is a one passed after the commission of an act and which retrospectively changes the legal consequences.
  
  The decision reverses a Superior Court ruling in favor of the state. It was written by Justice Robert L. Eastaugh. Chief Justice Dana Fabe dissented.
  
  According to the decision, "Doe" was charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, one of his daughters. He pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and one count of second-degree.
  
  He was sentenced to 12 years in prison with four suspended and he went behind bars in August 1985.
  
  With a reduction for good behavior, he was released to mandatory parole in December 1990. In September 1991, the Parole Board released him from mandatory parole two years early, determining that he had participated in rehabilitative counseling and posed little or no threat to the public. He completed probation in 1995.
  
  The sex offender registration law took effect Aug. 10, 1994.
  
  The law requires sex offenders to register with the Department of Corrections, Alaska State Troopers or local police. They must disclose their names, job location, aliases, driver's license numbers, information about their vehicles and anticipated address changes.
  
  They must periodically reregister. Their photos appear on the state's Web site, labeled as sex offenders.
  
  Attorneys for "Doe" contend the law substantially altered the consequences attached to his completed crime and that the Alaska Constitution afforded him more protection than the federal version.
  
  State attorneys said the measure was a regulatory law intended to help protect the public, not a penal law aimed at the offender and was not intended to punish convicted individuals for past acts.
  
  Justices disagreed, concluding the law's effect was punitive. It places a severe stigma on all to whom it applies. Offenders face intrusive duties under threat of prosecution and are subject to profound humiliation and community-wide ostracism, the decision said.
  
  State attorneys argued that negative effects on employment and housing opportunities would exist even without the registry and result not from dissemination of information but from the conviction itself. State attorneys said there was no evidence that Alaskans have directed any wrath at convicted sex offenders and that the sex offender registry Web site warns not to commit crimes using information from the site.
  
  Justices did not find those arguments persuasive.
  
  They also said every person convicted of a sex offense must provide the same information, and it's published the same way, whether they're convicted of a Class A misdemeanor or the worst offense, an unclassified felony.
  
  The state sex offender registry is off-line until Monday, according to a note on the site.
  
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  On the Net:
  
  Recent Supreme Court decisions: http://www.state.ak.us/courts/sp.htm
  
  Alaska Sex Offender/Child Kidnapper Registry: http://www.dps.state.ak.us/sorweb2/default.aspx
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  letter

  by John Doe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i got a letter today from some jw relativesmy aunt and uncle.

  i must admit to feeling a mixture of conflicting emotions about it.

  on the one hand, i know they are genuine and good people and have always helped my family and been friends through good times and bad.

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  Ask them if they know that the society actually pays for law school for their in house pit bulls.
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  JWS IN GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i understand that there is at least one jw in the guiness book of records.. aperson who caught the biggest barracuda?

  was a jw..

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  The lady with the record for the longest time in an iron lung was a JW. Did an awake article about it.