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13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Number of Wash. state ... · 0 replies · +7 points

While the background checks are probably good protocol, requiring the volunteers pay for the check is probably not... I would not volunteer my time AND money. If I am donating time already, asking me to pay a fee to prove that I am a good person is just a slap in my face.

I'll say thanks, but no thanks.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Protesters climb up fl... · 1 reply · +1 points

Fringe wacko... More of the my side is better than your side garbage.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Person shooting at fir... · 0 replies · +46 points

If you've ever shot at a trailer full of explosives, you might be a red neck.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - \'Your Voice, Your Vot... · 0 replies · +7 points

My ancestors walked the Trail of Tears... Don't showcase your ignorance.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - 31 brought up on drug ... · 0 replies · -1 points

It's not the republican party, it's one person.

/independent

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Tails, you lose. Ducks... · 0 replies · -1 points

I love reading the sour grapes of the haters... So much emotion. So little class.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Lone survivor: Seattle... · 0 replies · +11 points

Don't forget about spoons! Way too many people are dying due to obesity (far, far more than gun violence) 300,000 people are killed in the U.S. each year because it's so easy to buy spoons.
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality....

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Deputy who shot and ki... · 0 replies · -2 points

He is involved in multiple shootings, one of which ended a mans life. The situation deserves the extra scrutiny.

/Former LEO

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - PDX income tax propose... · 0 replies · +1 points

You sound old and friendless. Internet hug! ((((Earlyboomer))))

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Efforts to relax pot r... · 0 replies · +6 points

"The criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance... While the judiciary is the governmental institution most directly concerned with the protection of individual liberties, all policy-makers have a responsibility to consider our constitutional heritage when framing public policy. Regardless of whether or not the courts would overturn a prohibition of possession of marijuana for personal use in the home, we are necessarily influenced by the high place traditionally occupied by the value of privacy in our constitutional scheme."

/Decriminalize it... Should not have lied to the American People to criminalize it to begin with... H.J. Anslinger
/ /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Marihuana_and_Drug_Abuse

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