About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Duke, with all due respect, BULL!!! The whole concept of trickle-down economics has proved to be an abject failure as far back as the Reagan administration ... Want proof??? How about the fact that household wealth -- the value of assets like homes, bank accounts and stocks, minus debts like mortgages and credit cards -- suffered its biggest quarterly loss in more than two years and average household income, adjusted for inflation, fell 6.4% last year from 2007, all while corporations have increased their cash reserves to a record level of 2.1 TRILLION dollars??? Does that sound to you like they're putting their money back into the economy, as the trickle-down philosophy posits???
In the name of accuracy, let me correct one statement: She spent only nine days in jail after her arrest. The point remains, however, that she did not get off without ANY punishment. Her sentence, as it is called for in the law, took into account mitigating factors.
So let's see, safny, if you get hurt on YOUR job and the injury affects your judgment, you're telling me you would want to be held COMPLETELY responsible for your actions??? It's not like the woman got off scot free; she spent more than a year in jail after her arrest and is going to serve home confinement, probation and do community service ... What you call a "dangerous activity" was her career ... Would it have made a difference if she had been a firefighter or a construction worker or taken part in some similar "dangerous activity" that you approve of???
Shirley, Paterno was not the one who abused the boys ... Don't get him confused with Sandusky, who should be shot and then hung for what he did to those children who looked up to him!!!
You've got to be kidding me??? Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are nominated and Rush is left off the list??? Who are the idiots choosing the nominees, and how much did Joan Jett have to pay them to get on the list???
Banning something isn't going to make it go away; just ask drug addicts. If you regulate it, however, you can exercise at least a modicum of control.
If someone is that intent on gambling (an addict, if you will) and you take away their website, they're just going to take the two- or three-hour drive to Turning Stone or Mohegan Sun or they're going to find so-called backroom games. Taking down these websites is only affecting the casual player who wages a few dollars here and there and the professional player who makes his living (and in some cases a pretty good one) in these games.
As long as there is ANY form of gambling (legal or illegal), there are going to be gambling addicts, just as there will be drug addicts as long as there is ANY way (legal or illegal) to obtain marijuana, cocaine or whatever the mind-altering substance of choice is. Too many people in society have yet to realize that you can't solve a problem simply by simply outlawing it.
Again I must dispute your comment about our conduct here. We cannot simply publish allegations because they are allegations; that would be not only journalistically irresponsible, but also potentially open us to legal action.
For us to publish allegations, we need supporting evidence AND an on-the-record source for these allegations. You have not responded to my offer in a private e-mail to provide us with that evidence and you obviously do not want to put your true identity behind these allegations, so it is not our fault that you can't find a forum for them.
We simply cannot take your word for the fact that something is going on because I'm guessing you wouldn't be willing to pay the legal settlement if we lost a libel case.
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Thanks Jeff!!!
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