If Trump wants to institute cruel and unusual punishment for cases like this, I wouldn't say no. Jesus.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: November 18th, 2016, 10:46 am
by Adam54
Along the lines of Trump & Cruel and Unusual punishment, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions is apparently going to be the new Attorney General.
So long, all brown people in America. It's been real.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: November 18th, 2016, 1:10 pm
by Dalty
OK - I am clinging onto the belief that America is generally not going to suddenly become a totally non-progressive state that shifts direction completely.......... is it? Surely there will be a sense of equilibrium somewhere?
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: November 18th, 2016, 1:32 pm
by Adam54
There's going to be severe, extreme over reach before the majority of people see a need to fight back. If they ever do.
But either way, the overreach is coming. No doubt about it with these cabinet picks.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: November 18th, 2016, 2:09 pm
by Dalty
I am viewing it as an elastic like correction. It's pinging back too far the other way after being stretched but sooner or later it has to settle in the middle. Hopefully before Jan.
But I feel I may be over optimistic.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: November 25th, 2016, 8:44 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Hey, look, the Alabama school system's actually considering doing away with paddling:
The page's "Comments" button isn't working for me, but I imagine a lot of the comments that will wind up on the page will be pretty predictable. There are sure to be some angry people complaining about how the absence of spanking is what's wrong with modern society. I'm sure there'll be talk about how the kids of today are too entitled and don't know their place and about how spanking would give them structure/put the proper fear in them/learn them some respect. I'm sure someone will eventually pull out the ol' "I was spanked as a kid, and I turned out fine!" line.
AL.com is sort of the Alabama version of USA Today. I say "my old school," but it's not exactly accurate. Crossville now has a grammar school, a middle school, and a high school, and each gets its own building on its own plot of land. When I was there, K-6 was called "elementary," 7-12 was called "high school," and both were in the same building. Whatever the case, the graduation rate seems to be up. When I was a senior, only eighty-five percent of my class (sixty-eight of eighty students) graduated.
It's a decent profile, but I'm a little miffed that my mother, the assistant principal, isn't mentioned a single time.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: August 8th, 2017, 10:23 pm
by Jubbers
I was also miffed by that. And still miffed that she's not getting to replace the retiring principal.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: August 8th, 2017, 10:31 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
My original post got pretty specific, miff-wise, but I decided to cut everything but what is now the post's last line.