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Comment on Spirit Week Slideshow by KFraz

KFraz — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:14:20 +0000

Awesome slideshow!!!! well done everyone!!! Although on the slideshow there are some pictures where I wish I could see faces!

Comment on Prison inmates shouldn’t receive free college education by Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:54:52 +0000

let me clarify… a FREE college education that TAX PAYERS have to pick up the slack…

Comment on Prison inmates shouldn’t receive free college education by Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:53:55 +0000

So… I agree that inmates should not get a free education, but does anyone have an instance where the inmate was actually given a FREE college education… I sure can’t find one.

Comment on Spirit Week Slideshow by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:30:02 +0000

i love this (:

Comment on Prison inmates shouldn’t receive free college education by Emilee

Emilee — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:28 +0000

College education should not be free to prisoners. If everyone else in the world has to figure out a way to go to college they have to do it to. Honestly the whole idea is extremely ridiculous, all we would be doing is spending more money on those idiots to enable them to get “smarter.” If they were smart in the first place they wouldn’t be in prison. Right now I am in college and I am struggling to pay for it. For god sakes if people in prison ger a free ride to college I might as well commit a crime. That way I would have a free ride too instead of working two jobs just to pay for my college.

Comment on MHS blood drive pumps students up by jerry

jerry — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:26:13 +0000

What an inspiring headline!
Looking at the picture some students seem pumped about giving blood but a little drained after it was done.

Comment on Prison inmates shouldn’t receive free college education by Captain Sandwich?

Captain Sandwich? — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:13:49 +0000

1. Your comment is riddled with grammatical errors. I hope they’re intentional. If they’re not, then your opinion means even less to me than it did before. Hopefully you’re one of the Danish students, because this level of error is inexcusable of a native speaker.
2. “You have people everyday making bad decisions does that mean we get to deny them human rights. The constitutes states we all have the right to a education.”
Umm…I assume you mean the Constitution? And it doesn’t…and this isn’t about the “right” to an education, it’s about getting government assistance. Your statement here could not make less sense.
3. “…a education…”
If we have a right to education, why haven’t you taken advantage of it?
4. “You can have a white male convicted of the same crime of an African American and the African American is gone away from society for 10-15 years longer”
Cool. Baseless and irrelevant, but cool. Since you have no reference or proof of this, and to try to show some mercy on you, I’ll pretend that you’re right! But white people are given equal access to these prison aid programs…so your point is still ridiculous.
5. “REALLY! Who determines what rehabilitation means? and what it looks like”
The same people who have put these prisoner aid programs in place. I’m not even sure what the point of this sentence(s) is.
6. “we have people in the world who don’t realize their are laws that has been created and but in place to convict people and give them ridicules sentencing (time)”
Wait a second. You mean people create laws to CONVICT people of them? Not simply for fun? That’s nuts! How oppressive is our government that they create laws JUST to arrest people for breaking them!? Please give an example of these laws. I cannot imagine what they would look like. “Any citizen found to be worthy of arrest shall be arrested randomly (especially if a minority) just for the lolz.”
7. “It is remarkable how we as citizens only have compassion when it is convenient for us”
You’re right. We should distribute our compassion indiscriminately. Mass murderer? Well he deserves just as much charity as all the law-abiding poor people in our country! We’re all equal, except for the murderer who gets financial aid because of his troubled past (which we’re assuming he has because, as we know, nobody ever murders anybody for any reason other than their childhood).
8. I addressed your sentences in reverse order. Sorry.
9. “Who knows that one ex-offender could come out into society and save the life of another with what they learned”. I’m Juz SAYING!”
Amen! Laws should be created based on what is extremely, extremely unlikely to ever happen. You have yet to explain why criminals are more deserving of aid than the financially troubled. For all you know he/she could just be some upper-middle class opportunist law-breaker who got caught. You assume that crime is exclusive to the poor and troubled, as though helping criminals = helping the poor. It doesn’t. It’s just a way for politicians to play off of people’s desire to be compassionate and unassuming for votes.
10. Sorry. I think this was somewhat of a waste of time. There were comments more deserving of criticism than yours.

Comment on Prison inmates shouldn’t receive free college education by Sheretta

Sheretta — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:08:02 +0000

It is remarkable how we as citizens only have compassion when it is convenient for us. Everyone deserves an opportunity to change their life. I’m unclear here. Is financial free? Or maybe I’m ms-understanding here. Or maybe we have people in the world who don’t realize their are laws that has been created and but in place to convict people and give them ridicules sentencing (time) . You can have a white male convicted of the same crime of an African American and the African American is gone away from society for 10-15 years longer. So who gets the blame for that.? Who gets the blame when our United States constitution continues to read criminals shall be in-slaved if convicted of a crime. REALLY! Who determines what rehabilitation means? and what it looks like. You have people everyday making bad decisions does that mean we get to deny them human rights. The constitutes states we all have the right to a education. Who knows that one ex-offender could come out into society and save the life of another with what they learned”. I’m Juz SAYING!

Comment on Middletown Heritage Days 2011 by Mullins

Mullins — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:01:55 +0000

These are great pictures. I like that it is easy to view them in a slideshow
format.

Comment on MHS students retake and retry the HSAs by Mullins

Mullins — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:19:07 +0000

Fantastic picture for this piece. There could be a whole story here.
What is at stake for these students?