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I can understand people "understanding" how this could've happened. i can't understand the somewhat congratulatory tone many people are using when they talk about his actions.

[Hidden Content] It's the feel-good story of the week, if you ask me.

    which should've helped him a lot. Palin's nom for VP killed any chance he had.

Believe it or not, I like a lot of what Uncle Ted has to say, but in the end, he's a little too radical on a few too many issues for him to ever be taken too seriously.

[Hidden Content] None of this made the Tea Party article.

It reads about as glowingly as Obama's article would read if it were written by the Democratic National Committee.

In the classroom, sure. But in the hall with their friends, they should be able to speak what they want. Keep in mind this district is something like 50% Hispanic. I don't see how she can be surprised that this backfired. Regardless of your stance on immigration, these students can hardly be blamed for wanting to speak the language they're most familiar with.

I'm not saying he was wrong or wasn't. I'm just saying that particular argument is unprovable either way.

the thing about "reaching for something", is there's no way to prove whether he actually did, or if the father just said that to justify what he did.

i agree, but i'm not sure they would've wanted a vote.  i've seen where it's pretty divided there, not the overwhelming support that russia is reporting.  but then again, i know nothing about this area.

  i meant the article... we have a long-standing debate on here when some people post stuff from crazy websites and i'll refuse to discuss the issue because of the source.

the question is, how would the vote have gone had the area NOT been flooded with Russia forces...

I don't even think it made fox. To be fair to the "mainstream" media, there are members in the African American community who bring attention to stories like this and take action and demand that the media cover it. In some cases, they are justified in doing so. In other cases, people like q-tip X push their agenda by over exaggerating or fabricating stories. But realistically, do you honestly feel that this case deserves national attention? A low-level employee at an irrelevant school no one has ever heard of sends an inappropriate email that is both discriminatory and racist, but the school immediately fixes the problem and releases a statement condemning the action. I don't see this as worthy of national news, unless we're going to praise the school for doing the right thing.

But it came before the movement for allowing gay marriage. So the movement for gay marriage is not "responsible" for these crazies who love their animals.

He can't just write it off, either. It came from fox!

I guess so. And I respect the fact that you and I can respectfully disagree.

Could you direct me to the "straight" chromosome. I just personally believe it's a trait people are born with. And every homosexual I've talked to has said they've known since they were little. Why would such s large group of people make a choice to be discriminated against, ostracized, and even hated by some people. Personally, the thought of sex with a man disgusts me. I know it is not something I could ever choose to like.

This is a completely moronic statement.  those aren't homosexuals.  those are pedophiles.  There's a large difference between two adults participating in consensual sex and someone raping a child. 

i'm not acknowledging that at all because it's not.  i was curious, since you clearly do believe it's a choice, if you could tell me the moment you made that "choice".  of course, you can't, because it wasn't a conscious choice you made.  it's just how you always were.

they've been doing so in different parts of the world for several years now. 

How old were you when you chose to be straight?

There has always been craziness. Used to when a guy was banging his horse in the sticks, it wasn't plastered all over the Internet. Stuff like this isn't anything new.

I can see both sides of the coin on this one. If as a father there's a boy in your daughter's room, and she says she doesn't know him, then you're immediately going to think "rape". I don't know many fathers who would walk in a room where it looked like their daughter was being raped and not do the same thing. That being said, you also have to feel for the boy's family as he was invited into the house and wasn't armed. I snuck into a few bedrooms in my time, and I can't imagine being shot for it. I don't really think you can blame the boy or the father in this case, if everything is being portrayed properly in the media. The boy was doing what high school kids do, and the dad also was doing what you'd expect him to do. I'm not sure if the girl can be held legally accountable, but she's the one who's most responsible here. Not only did she let him into the house in the middle of the night, but then she lied about knowing him, which in the end was probably the deciding factor on whether or not the dad shot him.

Perhaps there are two separate problems.

So is it your viewpoint that the father was wrong in this instance?