Charles Rangles' Idiocy
Don D
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The guy is a senator. I think he's another pride and joy of Ray and Whatever's fine state. Tonite he's on O'reily saying that 16 and 17 year olds who commit felonies should not be held accountable because society has 'fixed it' so they have no alternatives to crime and deviant behavior. Who elects these clowns?
He opines that it's not their fault because the rest of us have not provided adequate opportunities for them. Then he remarked that the government should provide what he called "All night basketball" so they would have activities so they would not rob and kill and slash and whup ass. I guess I'm old fashioned; but, what happened to the daddy who would snap off a switch and whip your ass for misbehaving, or the grandmother who would get ahold of your ear and drag you to a chair in her house and pop you sideways while you reconsidered your behavior?
You take this kind of mentality and couple it with the liberal/democrat idea on open borders and we're all gone to hell in a handbasket.
But, what I really need is sensitivity or diversity training.....
He opines that it's not their fault because the rest of us have not provided adequate opportunities for them. Then he remarked that the government should provide what he called "All night basketball" so they would have activities so they would not rob and kill and slash and whup ass. I guess I'm old fashioned; but, what happened to the daddy who would snap off a switch and whip your ass for misbehaving, or the grandmother who would get ahold of your ear and drag you to a chair in her house and pop you sideways while you reconsidered your behavior?
You take this kind of mentality and couple it with the liberal/democrat idea on open borders and we're all gone to hell in a handbasket.
But, what I really need is sensitivity or diversity training.....
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He's a joke. He may as well have joined Jesse's Freak Parade at the King Center yesterday. Personally, I think it's a disgrace to whatever constituency continues to keep him in office.
BTW, Don, not busting your chops or anyhting, but his last name is Rangel, a hispanic last name. His paternal grandfather was Puerto Rican. He plays both cards very well.
Gene
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Although I do not align myself with the democratic party, I disagree with your notion that open borders is purely a liberal/democratic concept. See my other post in the President Fox thread for a more thourough debate on this topic. And no , you don't need sensitivity nor diversity training, you just need a wake-up call. x:D
Don, if you end up in one of those sensitivity classes I hope you'll let me know where it is - I'll try to bust you out of it before they get you to start reciting Stuart Smalley affirmations. I don't think you need diversity or sensitivity training - I think there are a lot of other folks that need REALITY training. Sorry - I forgot that I promised to get off the soapbox...
Yep, me too. I was a strict mom and my rep was well known to our kids' friends. But though they occasionally whined about what their friends were 'allowed' to do, they have since thanked us for having firm boundaries and raising them with discipline.
Cheryl C.
And what you really need to do is to stop watching shows like O'Reilly--where the concept is not reasoned discussion but discussion with shouting, interruptions etc. particularly by conservative/republicans who try to drown out all opposing voices while allegedly giving the opposition a forum.
When O'Reily first started coming on, I wouldn't miss it for anything. Now I will not watch it at all unless I'm flipping by and see someone I want to listen to. If Dick Morris is on, I'll watch. He is arguably the brightest man in the political arena as far as correctly reading and forecasting things. I've emailed O'Reily twice about shutting up and letting Morris answer a question. He even read one of them on the air to my surprise. I will also stop for idiots such as Rangel or Boxer or F(rank)einstein. There's just something about comedians, trainwrecks and idiots that I really enjoy watching. x:-)
When I was young I can tell you who had the biggest paddle in the school and it was hanging on the wall behind their desk, the principal. Everyone knew that if you screwed up that was going to be your fate, a meeting with the biggest paddle you ever saw. Parents, even the neighborhood adults, would discipline the young uns for misbehavior.
It’s a sad state we are in and even worse that people will agree with this idiot who says it’s our fault these kids commit crimes. Someone needs to take him to the woodshed and beat the $hit out of him. Get the razor strap, switch, whatever, hell, hit him over the head with a bible but just beat some sense into him or is that possible. Who in their right mind would vote for this idiot, probably the same adults who blame society for their lot in life due to poor decision-making on their part.
I am passionate about anyone who blames me/society for his or her problems. We’ve all had problems in life but to blame it on someone else is a cop out. These types of people are major contributors of the ‘society’ that precipitates the juvenile criminal who should be treated as an adult and held accountable for their actions.
I'll start a drive to send both Hillary and Rangel to MS.
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But, if I changed my name to sound Mexican and drove a truck stuffed with drugs I could get past your borders? Whatever, you can ride shotgun with me.
I like and admire Charles Rangel very much!
Don, you have a standing invitation to attend my next diversity training. I am including the film, Blue Eyes Brown Eyes and we will review the entire project from that period. It has wonderful implications for this liberal/conservative stuff going around today.
I love you all -- have great weekends.
Dash, are you nuts?
Another thing, I know that you would always send a helpful email to those participating on the Forum that did not have their profiles enabled. So, livin"don"south, enable your profile so we can all get a better look at ya'!
Pretty sneaky referring to yourself in the third person in your post, but the cat is now out of the bag. Everyone, meet DON RESURRECTED!!!!!!!!
Actually, I did not respond to the specifics in your original post because I did not see the show and hear the comments. However, I do not mind commenting on the two issues raised (but remember they are colored by my life filters).
1. Recently, the juvenile and/or adult status of a person charged with a crime changes with the severity of the act or the status of the accused, rather than age. The criteria used/applied is variable and open to the mercurial decision of a few. Charging a 16 or 17 year old as an adult results in differences which can not be justififed by a just system when arbitarily applied. An horrendous crime does not give a society a right to throw out laws that are designed to apply equally. Does that depend on whether it is your son or mine?
2. A program called Midnight Basketball just so happened to have been created by the spouse of a former teacher in my daughter's school in suburban Maryland over twenty years ago. It was an outstanding program endorsed and encouraged by polititians of varying outlooks as well as community leaders, and designed to give young men (at that time) something constructive to do with their time and energy. It had leaders who in addition to the sport took opportunities to mentor and train. A number of the participants did not have desirable male role models and those responsible for them -- while hardworking and law abiding, did not exercise control needed to sustain them after a certain age. In any event, the program was successful at the time I knew of it -- as it utilized community centers which otherwise would have been empty, so the program cost was extremely low.
"Congressman Charles B. Rangel is serving his seventeenth term as the Representative from the 15th Congressional District, .... Congressman Rangel is the Ranking Member of the Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman of the Board of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Dean of the New York State Congressional Delegation."
He has been involved in numerous causes including: Federal Empowerment Zone demonstration project to revitalize urban neighborhoods throughout America, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and Work Opportunity Tax Credit.
Additionally, he has led the fight against drug abuse and trafficking as chairman of the Congressional Narcotics Abuse and Control Caucus.
Somebody must like him in the Harlem district.
Today I heard the debate is continueing. We have an estimated 11,000,000 illegals in the country. Politicians and others are hopeless that we can find and deport these folks.
Now they want to charge them $2,000 each to become American Citizens. That would raise $22 billion dollars. Our citizenship is for sale.
In 1986 we did the one time, only amnesty for the illegals in the country at that time. I guess to get around the one time amnesty, anyone with $2,000 can be legal
We can throw lots of rocks at the plan and come down pro and con - but what makes anyone think this will work if we don't address the problem. In another decade we will have several million illegals in the country again because of the porous borders and the lack of will to fix the problem.
What next? I guess we can sell passports to terrorists with suitcase nukes.