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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2700 on: February 15, 2018, 04:37:58 pm »
He's 4 now Curt but we're gonna give him the ol' redshirt year for sports and development purposes.

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CurtOne

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« Reply #2701 on: February 15, 2018, 04:41:42 pm »
Good idea.   
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« Reply #2702 on: February 15, 2018, 04:49:02 pm »
You being serious?

A good friend of mine is a principal at Battle Ground Academy in Nashville and strongly believes in it.
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« Reply #2703 on: February 15, 2018, 05:00:53 pm »
Situations are different for each child, and each child is different, but an example from my life.

My two oldest daughters were two years apart, and our oldest daughter was extremely assertive, an outstanding student and very well socialized.  In retrospect, she totally dominated her younger sister.

When it was time for the younger one to enter school, we had a choice of waiting a year or starting her as soon as she was eligible.  I feel we made the wrong choice when we started her early.  For the first 5 years of her life, she was the youngest child in the house, and was never the leader.  Her sister decided what games to play, etc., and dominated her life.  When she began school, she was one of the youngest kids in her class, and at that age, the difference between being 5 and being 6 is significant.  As a result, she almost never got to be the leader, seldom got he own way.  To make matters worse she was in the same school as her straight A sister, and was always being compared to her by the teachers that had them both.

In retrospect, I wish we had started her in school a year later.  As one of the oldest kids in the class, she might have had more of a chance to be a leader, and less frustrated by always being dominated by everyone that surrounded her.

Just my opinion.
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Jes Beard

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« Reply #2704 on: February 15, 2018, 05:02:35 pm »
Dusty, the question remains in our discussion about the Second Amendment.

Quote from: Jes Beard on February 15, 2018, 12:02:58 am
It was NEVER intended for people to hunt.  There was never any concern about people ever have been denied the right to hunt, and if THAT were the concern, you would think there would be SOME mention of hunting -- you can be allowed to have a firearm and hunting can be made illegal (and in fact in many places that has happened, and there has never really been any dispute about whether it was Constitutional.

Did you pay much attention in your history classes, particularly the history of the Revolution?  Remember the reference to "the shot heard 'round the world," which was a reference to the colonists engaging the British at Lexington and Concord in the first pitched battle of the Revolution?

Do you have any memory at all of what was happening or why?
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« Reply #2705 on: February 15, 2018, 05:10:52 pm »
Quote from: method on February 15, 2018, 02:06:29 pm
The issue here is there is no apparatus in this country to prevent mentally ill people from purchasing guns.

People knew this guy was sick in the head. Yet, there is no apparatus to prevent him from buying a firearm. none.

this is the end result of 4 decades of ignoring mental illness treatment and a much longer obsession against any regulations against gun ownership.

Civil involuntary commitment is available.  Saying nothing can be done is simply not true.
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« Reply #2706 on: February 15, 2018, 05:17:34 pm »
It is available.  But it is extremely difficult.  Especially when the person is not known to have committed a crime.

The biggest problem with it is that there are tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people that have a very similar history to this killer.  The vast majority go through life without committing mass murders.
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« Reply #2707 on: February 15, 2018, 05:26:46 pm »
Thanks Dave.

Im done having this conversation with you Jes.

I told you that I will no longer have these debates with you anymore.

Like Ive said before...you win.
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Jes Beard

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« Reply #2708 on: February 15, 2018, 05:36:49 pm »
Quote from: davep on February 15, 2018, 05:17:34 pm
It is available.  But it is extremely difficult.  Especially when the person is not known to have committed a crime.

The biggest problem with it is that there are tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people that have a very similar history to this killer.  The vast majority go through life without committing mass murders.

Civil commitment by definition does not involve a crime, and while you describe it as "extremely difficult," I'm not sure what you base that conclusion on.  My own experience and observation is that it is not "extremely difficult," though, of course definitions matter.  If someone wanted to revisit the standards to be used for civil commitment, I suspect courts, lawmakers and the public, would be quite receptive to it.
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Jes Beard

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« Reply #2709 on: February 15, 2018, 05:40:38 pm »
Quote from: DUSTY on February 15, 2018, 05:26:46 pm
Thanks Dave.
Im done having this conversation with you Jes.
I told you that I will no longer have these debates with you anymore.
Like Ive said before...you win.

Not much there to qualify as either a conversation or a debate, and it never was a matter of whether I won.

YOU raised a matter of considerable interest and importance, but your comments indicate that not only are there a number of things you have not thought of or are not aware of, but even that if you knew a bit more, you likely would change your opinion.

Not surprisingly, you actively want to avoid learning anything more.
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« Reply #2710 on: February 15, 2018, 05:42:04 pm »
Dave...

Ryne's strong,able,big,smart,potty trained,speaks well,counts to 50,knows his ABCs,and all but Im in no big hurry to run him off yet.

From the time you're 5 till you reach 65 you've gotta get up every morning and go. I work evenings so we have our days together and Ive enjoyed raising him and I just want to let him be a little boy a little longer.

My friend at BGA said he's seen several not hold their kid back and regret it but he's never seen anyone who did hold their kid back that did.

Its not just for sports. Its for everything.

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2711 on: February 15, 2018, 09:36:37 pm »
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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2712 on: February 15, 2018, 11:37:33 pm »
82, Congrats to the Lions on your Regional Championship.
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« Reply #2713 on: February 17, 2018, 07:12:07 pm »
Ive started a Yahoo fantasy baseball league that isnt gonna draft until the last week of Spring Training.

You are all welcome to join...

https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/33697/invitation?key=1e7f1b70b0b95b84&ikey=28ad92b2aa11d8a0
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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2714 on: March 06, 2018, 05:48:53 pm »
JR not only lost his security job for the Nashville  mayor, now it comes out as her accountant he couldn't hide her thefts either.  What a loser.
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