Judge Puts Temporary Halt to Teacher Drug Testing
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Posted: 10:25 AM Dec 29, 2008
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From The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Kanawha County School Board member Pete Thaw says he expects the district will prevail eventually in a fight to require random drug testing for teachers, despite a setback in federal court today (Monday).

Thaw says it's sad the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia is fighting drug testing when the policy would protect students.

U.S. District Judge Robert Goodwin granted an injunction preventing the Kanawha County school system from implementing the policy Jan. 1.

The policy would allow random testing of Kanawha County school employees, including teachers.

The injunction was sought by the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia. In its lawsuit, the teachers union contends the policy is unconstitutional. Goodwin agreed, saying it would force teachers to submit to an unconstitutional and unjustified search.


UPDATE @ 11:49am
A federal judge has granted the teacher's union a preliminary injunction in its case against random drug testing for teachers in Kanawha County Schools.

This means the policy set to take effect on January 1st will be put on hold.

Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for more information.


ORIGINAL STORY
By: The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A teachers union is asking a federal judge to block the Kanawha County school system's new random drug testing policy.

U.S. District Judge Robert Goodwin scheduled a hearing Monday morning on a lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia that challenges the policy. The teachers union is seeking a preliminary injunction to halt the policy, which is to take effect Jan. 1.

The policy allows random drug testing of Kanawha County school employees, including teachers. The lawsuit contends that the policy is unconstitutional.

The teachers union originally filed the lawsuit in Kanawha County Circuit Court but it later was moved to federal court.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Posted by: Darren on Jan 14, 2009 at 05:22 PM
I have been listening to all the press going back and forth about drug testing. I have a daughter in the school system and knowing what I do about some of the teachers (not all) they need to be drug tested. Everybody else has to be drug tested so why not someone that we trust our kids to for 7 to 8 hours a day? If the teachers win their law suit and say that random testing is illegal then everyone that has ever been fired for failing a drug test has a suit for discrimination. I was always under the impression that teachers care about the kids first but that don't seem like the case. All the parents need to contact the Governor and see what he can do to make sure that a sober teacher is teaching our kids
Posted by: Chad on Jan 6, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Do you know why most companies mandate drug tests? To protect themselves from lawsuits. Don't worry testing supporters, it'll pass right after someone brings up a lawsuit against the school board for the actions of a teacher on drugs. Personal responsibility? Never heard of it!
Posted by: UncleSam on Jan 6, 2009 at 04:24 PM
Its discrimination of the highest degree. If it is legal then should we not also give them a DNA test and ban all the teachers who's genetics show predispositions to unfavorable conditions or behaviors. Or if we're trying to set good examples for the children, why don't we fire all the overweight teachers as well. Think before you react.
Posted by: amanda on Jan 2, 2009 at 07:45 AM
to all the teachers out there whinning and complaining... GET OVER YOURSELVES!! we as parents have to finish your jobs any way with 2 hours of homework everynight, so what is the big deal? just pee in the cup prove you have nothing to hide, quit wasting money for judges and time in the court and get back to doing what you should be doing and teach! sometimes i think you all spend more time trying to get out of work than anything else. i swear i could just scream! i am so tired of "our educational system" doing everything but educating! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! i had to pee in a cup when i started my job and you don't hear me crying about it!why? because i can pay my bills and feed my children! that's why! be thankful you live in the U.S. with a choice. as far as i am concerned it would just be a common courtsey to the public and parents. your not any better than we are.
Posted by: Frank on Jan 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I am a teacher who does no drugs or medications and believe that if someone is suspected of being under the influence they should be tested. I do not believe that teachers who spend many more hours at home or afterschool working to prepare, help, and teach our students should be asked to leave a classroom full of students to have someone watch them urinate, allow access to personal medical information, and be subjected to scrutiny or prejudice by their superiors who find out they are being medicated for anxiety/depression, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, infertility issues, or similar ailments, illnesses, or conditions. Many of which could be used against them in a prejudicial manner without any provocation by narrow-minded individuals. Teachers are not exposing students to drugs, that is in the news, the neighborhood meth houses, the dealers, and even in some homes. Lets not blame teachers and subject them to embarassment so that we can avoid the real drug issues in our neighborhoods.
Posted by: Sharon on Jan 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT TEACHERS SHOULD BE DRUG TESTED! THEY TEST ALL OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, LABORS, CARPENTERS, OPERATORS, TEAMSTERS, IRON WORKERS, ETC. THEY ALSO TEST ALL EMPLOYEES AT WAL-MART, K-MART, SUPERQUIK, AND MOST MINUMIM WAGE JOBS I KNOW OF, ALONG WTIH ALL AIRLINE EMPLOYEES AND REALLY EVERY JOB I KNOW OF NOW. A GAS STATION EMPLOYEE, A CONSTRUCTION WORKER, OR A RETAIL SALES PERSON GETS TESTED AND THEY ARE SELLING GAS, CIGARETTS, CLOTHES, OR DIGGING A DITCH. GET REAL PEOPLE!!!! YOU EVEN HAVE TO TAKE A DRUG TEST TO STOCK AT NIGHT AND NO ONE IN THE STORE, SO IT ONLY SEEMS LOGICAL TO TEST TEACHERS! AFTER ALL THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE MOLDING THE MINDS OF OUR FUTURE GENERATION. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO BE SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE, SO WHAT REALLY; IS THE PROBLEM? ALL JOBS I KNOW OF DRUG TEST, WHY SHOULD THEY BE EXEMPT?
Posted by: ts on Dec 31, 2008 at 05:33 PM
Karen, maybe you need to read my post again. I am not against testing. I am against testing everyone. You can test me any day, all day long. Test the ones that are suspected. Use the rest of the money to help the children. I didn't say that all people on Welfare do drugs. I said that 75% of the parents and children don't care about their education, and that getting welfare is what they look forward to. That is the case where I teach. Unless you are in the classroom, you have no clue. You shouldn't bring your grandchildren into this discussion. I take my job seriously, we don't get coffee breaks, we don't have help in the classroom. Most teachers spend many personal hours in training and doing our jobs. Again, I think anyone that does a job and has a problem should be tested, not just teachers. You guys act like druggies and sex offenders are only in the schools, maybe you should look next door,or in your churches, there are more there than you think. Do you drug test your preachers?
Posted by: Todd on Dec 31, 2008 at 03:10 PM
I work as a school bus driver, and we are random drug tested. When the contracted company pulls the list of drivers to be tested, they notify the main office, who then gets on the radio system and calls out the drivers by name and advises them that as soon as they finish their morning run, that they must report for a drug and alcohol test. We get less than 2 hours notice. All drivers, students on the bus, school secretaries and anyone with a home scanner hears us being called in for testing. And all of this is not embarrassing or an infringement of our rights. So why can the teachers not be tested. When they get notified, no one will know about it other than the teacher and the principal, so how can this make them feel bad. I say test everybody, custodians, cooks, teachers, principals, coaches, we all impact the children.
Posted by: Ask The Taxpayers on Dec 31, 2008 at 12:19 PM
This is the most disturbing thing. What is wrong with peeing in a cup if you do not have anything to hide? Ask the taxpayers that pay in to the state and vote for the levy that increases these teachers pay. I bet they would say have them tested. I really don't know what the teachers have to hide!! Do we have a bunch of druggies teaching our children and are afraid to be tested? Maybe we as citizens should be outraged!!! Afterall our children our now tested just to play a sport for the school. This isn't a problem for them. They just want to play on the team so they do what they have to and what they are told to. Why should teachers be any different? If they want to continue teaching then they should be tested!!!! I would have no problem if it were me. I think that it would put confidence in the parents to know that teachers really are clean and not druggies. Afterall denying being tested does leave alot of doubt in the mind of the public!!!
Posted by: Buckeyre Jim on Dec 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Random testing is no good. Test ALL teachers. I had to get drug tested to work where I do becuase of safty concerns. A person on drugs can cost themselves and other thier jobs as well as thier lives. Drug test ALL teachers.
Posted by: concerned on Dec 30, 2008 at 09:42 PM
Since when has it been unconstitutional to protect our children? I think anyone involved with kids should be tested. If they refuse or can't pass the test, then it's time to hire someone who will. No other job gets by with this. Are they better than everyone else? Sorry judges. That's what it all comes down to. Won't order drug tests for teachers and turns dope dealers and drunks loose when our cops catch them. Next time someone you love gets killed by a doped up bum or drunk, don't go after them, go after the judge who turned them loose last. Legally, that is.
Posted by: OMG!!! on Dec 30, 2008 at 06:50 PM
My husband is a Union Laborer and is subject to random drug testing at any given moment! His safety and the safety of others is of the upmost importance. You would think that the safety of a child would stand pretty high on the list of of requirements to become a teacher! What is this world coming to when the ones who are around our children the most during the day are immune to being tested for drugs. Gee, lest just not drug test law inforcement either, it might infringe on sone kind of right or something.
Posted by: Yikes on Dec 30, 2008 at 04:30 PM
To anonymous at 1:25, I hope you aren't teaching your children English. You should brush up if you are planning on home schooling any time soon.
Posted by: Amy on Dec 30, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Wayne, that was the most asinine comment I've ever read in my life. Drug tests make people abuse alcohol and drugs that can't be detected? What planet are you from? Addicts are just that...addicts. If you have an addictive personality you're going to be addicted plain and simple. Guess what? If you have nothing to hide and don't do drugs, it's not an infringement on your rights to be tested. ESPECIALLY people who are around our children for at least 12 years of their lives. I've had to be tested for nearly every job I've ever had, guess what? I passed every time and never worried about being randomly tested because I don't do drugs. It's really simple, don't do drugs and you don't have to worry about it. Wow, it's really rocket science isn't it?
Posted by: RoaneCo. on Dec 30, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Well now ever person in the country should be screaming at the top of there lungs. If this is unconstitutional for teachers then it is uncomstitutional for any citizen of The United States. I sure hope the Unions take this and run with it! Let's all go on strike. Like Wayne said, we need to stand up for our rights. I'm sure Wayne and millions of other won't mind the effects of every truck driver in the country shutting down until his/her Constitutional Rights are given back.
Posted by: Linda on Dec 30, 2008 at 02:56 PM
If someone isn't doing something wrong why would they care if they were tested? I would think they would be glad to know they aren't working next to some drug addict. I've worked in the medical field for 30 years and can't tell you how many times people were caught stealing medication. Maybe if they had been tested they wouldn't have had the chance to pull this kind of thing...at least the management would have known what they were hiring and trusting with patients lives.
Posted by: GetReal on Dec 30, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Drug testing in schools to protect our kids is about as beneficial as removing soda from schools was. Which was recently proven to not have any measurable benefit and in fact had negative consequences as schools lost that extra revenue. Apparently kids are going to get their soda whether its at the school or not. Duh! Its just like drug testing. If they're testing for this, people are gonna start doing that. Please don't let your minds be clouded by fear and jump to the easiest, least effective solution. If drug abuse truly is a big problem with teachers, we should be able to come up with a better solution. Our misguided war on drugs has cost us over 500 billion dollars over the last 37 years and with what to show for it? We're still the number one drug consumer. I think our resources would have been better spent on a war against stupidity.
Posted by: Saul on Dec 30, 2008 at 02:23 PM
Wow so many angry comments after a victory for our freedom. Sounds like most of you guys are just mad that you have to take drug tests and teachers don't. Maybe you should take that up with your fascist employer. What proof is there that drug testing has had any positive effect on the workforce? The negatives are obvious: wasted tax dollars and time, reasons to try more dangerous and harmful drugs that aren't tested for (Some people trip on cough syrup for God's sake), Please folks get this crazy druggie fear out of your mind and try to think clearly. Don't you think schools would know if a teacher was abusing drugs as it would interfer with their job. If they're using and it doesn't interfer; what's the problem. You need probably cause, "no unwarranted searches or seizures" on teachers who are doing a good job and may have experimented with a drug. The greatest astrologist of our time, Carl Sagan, smoked pot and I would be honored to have him teaching my child.
Posted by: mercedes on Dec 30, 2008 at 01:44 PM
How is it unconstitutional when the bus drivers have to do it? I am a parent and a tax payer and I think I have the right to expect teachers to be drug free. My children have told me about a few teachers who are druggies. Why wouldn't the good teachers want the druggies out? These people are the employees of taxpayers. WE HAVE RIGHTS TOO! But we don't have a union and maybe that's the problem. Parents and citizens should organize a march to demand the safety and integrity of our schools be first. Shame on the judge.
Posted by: teacher on Dec 30, 2008 at 01:01 PM
I agree test everyone. I believe that the people on welfare should be drug tested every month, before they get their checks. Drug test the parents as well. Test everyone and there will be no problem.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 30, 2008 at 11:07 AM
WASZ ARE YOU ABLE TO GET A COPY OF THE PETITION I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHOS BEHIND THIS INSANITY
Posted by: Wayne on Dec 30, 2008 at 10:16 AM
OK, well it has become obvious to me, that WSAZ has an agenda, and will not allow intellegent, logical discussions to be presented, if they are against the stations agenda. Much of states problems stem from just this kind of media, report only what fits into our ideaolgy. My post had no language that should have cencored it. (none that hasn't been used by other posters). I guess the get their talking points from Murdoc too, what a shame
Posted by: jerry reede on Dec 30, 2008 at 09:32 AM
teachers should give a drug test, who wants a teacher teaching us how to do brain surgery or flying an air plane all stoned up on drugs. i say test them all. set the example for our children.
Posted by: Just Me KY on Dec 30, 2008 at 09:23 AM
We are asked to trust teachers to have our children in their care every day. Why are you so concerned with your privacy? If you are doing illegal drugs, even if on your own time...I do not want you around my child let alone with my child 7 hours per day. If you have perscriptions for medications...no one has a right to know that. If you are taking a drug illegally...the school board has a right to know so you can do your drugs as much as you want. I work for a company that drug tests...I don't care if you take narcotics that you have a script for...but if you don't have a script and you take a handful and come to work...it becomes my business as well as the cops!
Posted by: Wayne on Dec 30, 2008 at 09:22 AM
Are you people really that stupid? "I have to take one,so you should too", so its my fault you don't have the courage to stand up for your rights. Drug screenings encourage abuse of harder drugs and alchohol, the most harmless drug on the planet is the easiest to detect through drug screening. So, what happens when drug screenings take place at a particular workplace, their employees abuse much more alcohol and harded, less detectable drugs. The meth epidemic is a direct result of drug screening. You people really need to get off your high horses and think logically for once. I know for some of you,that is impossible.
Posted by: me again on Dec 30, 2008 at 08:31 AM
I am sorry if what I posted offended anyone, I do agree with People being on welfare if its just a temp. thing and are trying to do something to get off of welfare. But I know people that live on welfare because they are just too lazy to go out and get a job. I hope that I didn't offend anyone with what I said. But I do think it is fair.
Posted by: me on Dec 30, 2008 at 08:26 AM
I don't see any problem with the teachers having to have a drug test. I have to have at least four done a year. If you stay away from the drugs then you have nothing to worry about. As a matter of fact, I think that if the working people have to have a drug test done to keep our jobs to be able to pay taxes so people on welfare can get their money, then the people on Welfare should have to take drug tests to get their money that WE earn for them!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 30, 2008 at 04:47 AM
THIS STATEMENT MAKES NO SENSE-force teachers to submit to an unconstitutional and unjustified search.ITS AGAINST THE LAW PEOPLE TO HAVE UNSCRIPTED DRUGS.
Posted by: gvn on Dec 30, 2008 at 03:10 AM
Lets have online school and lay off all the teachers , Ive heard them complain for decades push to consolidate schools refuse to consider merrit pay raises . If we held class online we wouldnt have to send kids into the morning darkness for an hours buss ride each way , no peer pressure , no buildings to heat or maintain . The cost per student would be a fraction of what it is now , no books to buy or lose , no school lockdowns and locker searches . Time and time again people who homeschool have proved through testing their kids are well beyond the norm .At least let kids opt out of regular school and do an alternative online school , its the future of education . Lets face it school teachers are prone to use drugs just like the rest of the population , I can name several who regularly see a pain doctor and keep a constant supply of loritabs and vicadin .My kids suffered at the hands of poor teachers who were more concerned about their job description and coffee breaks .
Posted by: Tony on Dec 30, 2008 at 02:44 AM
When we look at the number of people arrested for drugs in the news each day we ask ourselves about the reason. We ask about their backbround and ask about the street associations. More and more this problem has grown from one of crime to kept from working to just plain greed. What seems to be wrong with our country again is "me first". Now we have teachers saying they feel imposed upon because they fear an imfringment of their rights. What about our childers rights to be free from association with known and unknown drug users and pushers? We continue to see this in every walk of our lives including the people that are paid to ensure our childers safety and well being. My opinion is if they have something to fear then get them out of the system, if not let it be known that you are one of the good guys that will step up to the plate and be counted as such. The old saying was never truer here, either you are part of the solution or you are part of the problem.
Posted by: Karen on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52 PM
This is to ts, if you are so proud to be a teacher, then why the initials, do you have something to hide? Let me tell you that having to have help from welfare does not make a child a drug users.Just about every job my husband and I have ever had required drug testing, I thank God I had a job and didn't care to take a drug test.What makes you are better than those of us that don't have a degree and are just laborers. I thank God my grandchildren don't go to the school you teach at. With an attitude like your's maybe you should consider another line of work because it sure sounds like you don't like what you do and don't want to protect our children. Teachers like you make the profession laughable. No wonder there are a lot of kids being home schooled and being on welfare does not make people stupid but people like you that think like you do, to me that's sounds real stupid, did you breed stupidity. I hope I spelled every thing right, wouldn't want to appear stupid.
Posted by: Scooter Rose on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:26 PM
With all the free time teachers have with teachers' assistants manning the classrooms , student teachers, parent volunteers, and "free periods", the teachers have plenty of time to be swirling down large amounts of coffee which will enable them to easily pee for the mandatory drug testing. How difficult is that, teachers?
Posted by: Kat on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:21 PM
As to Shelly's comment (a bit off subject since it wasn't about teachers)----Hospital employees ARE subject to drug testing. Without all the drama, too. Teachers are professional adult people so what is the problem with submitting to drug testing? What profession doesn't have to do this anymore?
Posted by: Larry on Dec 29, 2008 at 10:53 PM
I have been drug tested for the past 20 years. I have nothing to hide, how about you teachers out there?
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 09:31 PM
Hi shelly, I work for a hospital and I submitted to a pre-employment screening and can be tested randomly at any time.
Posted by: Old Professional on Dec 29, 2008 at 07:25 PM
Stop all drug testing… but, if you are caught, fined or found guilty for possession, dealing, or DUI, which would include alcohol, or drugs of any kind, you would be immediately terminated from your employment and/or face expulsion from school. Your license to drive, teach, practice medicine, etc. would be no more. This would be without any appeal process. Perhaps that would solve a few problems…….
Posted by: Hum, I wonder on Dec 29, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Are these the same teachers that were such staunt supporters of the drug testing for students that wish to participate in extra cirircular activities? Hum, maybe some students should take it before this same judge and see what the results are. I have random drug testing at my place of employment as do many, many others across this county and state. Why do the teachers feel they are above it when the students they are responsible for each and every day are required to take drug tests to simply play sports, or be on the debate team?
Posted by: concerned parent on Dec 29, 2008 at 07:08 PM
There have been 8 incidents in the past year related to teachers and drugs. These are just the ones we KNOW about. Educators obviously have something to hide. I'm in the medical field and undergo random testing. I don't do drugs so I couldn't care less..We already have to worry about teachers being sexual predators to our children..and now we have to worry about them being stoned too???
Posted by: Investigate Goodwin on Dec 29, 2008 at 06:39 PM
I say Goodwin needs investigated - this battle has been fought over and over and what does he think he is going to get a headline? Oh he did my bad. However I believe teachers should be drug tested - service personnel have been for years now it is time for the teachers to step up an accept responsibility for the developing youth they are responsible for!
Posted by: ts on Dec 29, 2008 at 06:18 PM
I am a teacher and have nothing to hide. I was drug tested when I started teaching. If teachers should be drug tested, maybe parents should be. Students get their drugs somewhere and learn the behavior in the same place. I think the money to do drug testing and fighting this in court could be used to better the schools, go for more teachers, tutoring and numerous other items to help the students. Most teachers I know, are there because they want to teach and help students. Kinda hard to do when you have 30 students in a class. 75% of them and their parents don't care about education and you spend most of the class time dealing with behavior problems. Their plan in life is to collect welfare like the rest of the family. Take care of the teachers that show a sign of a problem. Use the rest of the money to help the students, to break the cycle of welfare and lack of parent involvement. Stupid, breeds stupid. As teachers we should be able to teach, not raise everyone else's child
Posted by: shelly on Dec 29, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Maybe hospital staff should be considered for drug testing also. The public might be suprised
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 06:05 PM
whats the differnts im a truck driver and i get random drug tested so why shouldnt the ones we trust with r kids be tested to
Posted by: James on Dec 29, 2008 at 05:46 PM
They've got to be hiding something. The only people that don't want drug tested are people on them. I don't see the what difference it makes. Maybe the state is getting ready to have a really big shortage of teachers. I think it will help, besides how many times has it been in the news about teachers giving drugs to students
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 05:45 PM
Why not test all members of society? If teachers should be tested, then why not anyone with a social security number or driver's license? Anyone on drugs is a potential threat, so why stop with teachers? If one group is to be tested, all should.
Posted by: Michael on Dec 29, 2008 at 05:44 PM
I personally know of a handful of teachers that smoke marijuana and take xanax and or valium (not prescribed). They state that's its the pressure of the job and the uncontrollable children that have made them this way. Now...go wonder what they have to hide.
Posted by: Upset on Dec 29, 2008 at 05:28 PM
Construction Workers have had to submit to random drugs tests since the early 90's. It is NOT unconstitutional, no one will be forcing the teachers to test, if they refuse, they can go to work in another profession. Nothing unjustified about that!
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 04:15 PM
If You teach our children leed by example.You are suppose to be pillars are you not.What a disgrace for West Virginia and a slap in the face to teachers everywhere
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 03:03 PM
People are ignorant if they think drug testing makes anyone safer. It just gives people a false sense of security. I'm more worried about a child molestor in the system than someone who might be using drugs. Why not drug test parents? Why not drug test anyone with driver's license? I think it's because we live in a free country.
Posted by: beth on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:54 PM
thanks judge.....glad to see we are paying you for nothing
Posted by: Fuzzy on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:33 PM
If a teacher takes their own prescribed medications at the prescribed dosage they have nothing to worry about. If they abuse prescription drugs or street drugs they need rehabilitation for their problem like anyone else. If they choose not to get help and still use drugs, the board of education should dismiss them. We can't forget they are responsible for children.
Posted by: PJ on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:28 PM
I want my sons teachers drug tested. There are too many problems out there for our youth now. And kids usually know who the users are - I sure don't want a role model of a teacher using drugs for my child. Maybe it is time that the public got involved in this.
Posted by: Lee on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:27 PM
What are teachers so afraid of? I've never had a job in the past 20 years that didn't require a drug test before and state on your job application you were subject to random drug testing. If you don't use or abuse get over it and just "pee in the cup."
Posted by: katjina on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:09 PM
i think all teachers should be drug tested, no matter what county they are in... they are with our kids as much as we are. i am like everybody else what are they hiding?
Posted by: ANONYMOUS on Dec 29, 2008 at 02:04 PM
WHY NOT BE TESTED? MOST JOBS INCLUDE RANDOM DRUG TESTING, MINE DOES, MY HUSBAND'S DOES, (ONE IS UNION) ARE THEY SPECIAL?
Posted by: D.L. on Dec 29, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Well, the longer they can put off getting tested, the more time they have to flush their systems.
Posted by: scared? on Dec 29, 2008 at 01:44 PM
The teachers must be scared of what activities they partake of on their off hours. I've worked in industry for 11 years, random drug testing is a normal part of the process....would they want us to eliminate random drug testing from folks driving our vehicles, that way they can be involved in an accident and kill innocent people? They say it's an "invasion of privacy"...BS! All your doing is peeing in a cup for a result. The teachers and their union are a bunch of cry babies. I know that I do not want either of my children being taught by a teacher on drugs. The teachers need to grow up and get off of their "high horse" and submit to the drug tests or leave the state, there are many other teachers that need a job here and I'm sure will take (and pass) a drug test. I wish I had the power to do so, I would fire any and all teachers or any other employees of any company that refuses to take a drug test.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 01:25 PM
if i was a teacher in a way i m a teacher i teach my kids right from wrong i would'nt care to be drug tested i want to know who is teaching my kids is drug free to many teachers are getting caught doing drugs and having sexwith under age kids hell wake up its up to us parents to see to it that they get tested saying i dont do drugs dont cut it in this day and time
Posted by: get real on Dec 29, 2008 at 01:15 PM
It sounds to me like the people fighting this have something to hide. I work in public service and I am subject to random drug testing. Why shouldn't the people that I trust my children with daily be subject to the same.
Posted by: John on Dec 29, 2008 at 01:05 PM
The union workers of the tri-state building and trades have to take a yearly drug test and random test all the time been doing this for years just to work out in the weather, and most of us are not around any other people but ourselves, but you will not make it mandatory for teachers who is around our children and is supposed to teach them, what kind of a roll model are they showing?
Posted by: Lisa on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
I don't understand why the teachers are resisting? Is there is a clause that is unreasonable? If not then the teachers are being difficult and acting as if they have something to hide. Most professionals and service workers are subject to random testing...why are our educators...the ones that our children spend the majority of their day with...should be tested without exception.
Posted by: chuck on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM
If its unconstitutional, then im for the union.
Posted by: Joab on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Good. Drug tests should be unconstitutional anyway.
Posted by: Concerned in WV on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM
How is random drug testing considered unconstitutional? Teachers are in constant contact with children. They are very impressionable; therefore teachers should be drug free. If they are on prescription medication, then there will be documentation. I just don't understand why someone would fight against it if they have nothing to hide. The last time I checked, our children should come first.
Posted by: DN Parent on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:34 PM
You know this is sad, random drug tests in the work place have been here since the 80's. Steel workers, truck drivers, and even telemarketers have random drug screens and they are dealing with material items, but the teachers dealing with our kids can not be drug screened. Do you people not see something wrong with this picture. If the teachers are not doing drugs then what are they trying to hide or what is the problem.
Posted by: Concerned Parent on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Help me understand what they are afraid of. I can pass a drug test and I expect those in charge of my children to as well.That IS NOT asking too much!
Posted by: concerned: on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:20 PM
What are they afraid of?
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM
So teachers dont need drug tested, but students do?
Posted by: Really? on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Why would teachers not want to be randomly drug tested? Unless they have something to hide!!!!
Posted by: Larry on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Another nail in the coffin of unions. What are teachers hiding?
Posted by: Ari on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM
what have you teachers og to hide, if teh students and eveyone else can get random drug searched and everything the teachers, day care workers, ect. all need to be drug tested-Why is this not done already!!?!??!
Posted by: RoaneCo. on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM
If it is unconstitutional for teachers to be drug tested then it should be unconstitutional for any employee to be drug tested regardless of his/her field of employment. What makes these teachers think they are better than a production worker at NGK? If they can twist up a joint without fear of random testing then why can't the rest of us? 2 2 isn't adding up to 4!!
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM
What are the teacher's afraid of?
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 29, 2008 at 10:40 AM
if this teachers do not have anything to hide why are they so worried. personally i think our schools need cleaned up and this needs to begin with the facility. i know the county that i live the schools are ate up with drugs. this is not only the high schools it is also the middle school. i am sure that there are several of our teachers that are using drugs on schools property even. it is so sad when you have to worry about sending your children off to school. we sure do not have teachers at school now that are there to teach.
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  • Posted By: news bias: i saw video of people protesting coal.I DIDNT SEE people protesting being taxed into poverty,THE TEA PARTY.this is why more and more people are realizing the left wing so called news are being found out about their socialist agenda.where would t.v.stations get their power from ,if not coal.they can talk the talk,but can they walk the walk.all talk,no substance.liberal thru and thru...
  • Posted By: nurse: cps says young kids can't use a weed eater or so i hear. so then why can these same kids put on football pads during the summer and have the coaches w/ parents approval run til they puke or get sick from heat exhaustion. and yes if your kid wants to play football then you do have to allow your kid to go through all that or they wont get to play. so why cant the same child weedeat.
  • Posted By: buck: why is it w/ summer sports it seems the parents make it all about them instead of the kids. am i wrong or do alot of these parents seem to want to relive life again through the kids. or even worse make a claim to being so good at whatever the sport the parent did that they push the kid all because of what they did 'or never did'. These parents also seem to be the really high ego type person. funny thing is if the parent was so good then why arent they pro or at least a great college player. what i have noticed is the the kids w/ the parent who did play college or was on the verge of being pro does not press the issue. they allow the kids to play ball. just my opinion
  • Posted By: Kerry: I would just like to give the city of Huntington a great big THANK-YOU!!! for the wonderful fireworks show. Despite the slight drizzle we had a great evening out. Also had an amazing dinner at "5 guys". Thank you!!!!
  • Posted By: ProudAmerica: On this holiday, I want to send out thanks to all the soldiers, veterans and their families. Without your service, this holiday would not be possible. Please know that you are very much appreciated.
  • Posted By: Anonymous: My comment is about the WV Unemployment office. The people who work there must be the most incompetent baffoons imaginable because it seems that they can never get anything right. It is bad enough that you have to wait in line for hours with all the other people who were unfortunate enough to lose their jobs due to the bad economy but when you finally get to see someone, they always manage to completely mess things up. As if to add insult to injury, they also seem to take great pleasure in denying someone because of their mistake which forces you to appeal their "decision" and go through it all over again. These people are far worse than your typical state employee, they are morons.
  • Posted By: Eve: Has anyone had people soliciting at their homes for "Cabell County schools"? Had a female come to the house this morning (on the July 4 holiday) from "University of Georgia" on behalf of Cabell County to talk to local parents. She had no list of student names and made the assumption that we had kids by the toys/bikes in our yard. She had a notebook with "local parents" names that she had talked with, but I didn't recognize any of the names. She asked about the neighborhood and if any other kids lived there. I didn't disclose any info except that lots of kids live in the area. Didn't let her in the house. Just suspicious because of the holiday and local home robberies. Called Huntington Police to inform them. Wanted to post to get more info out to other families. Have a safe holiday and if anyone else has similar info, please call the Huntington Police Dept. @ 696-4470.
  • Posted By: : To By?? Sounds to me like your doing some bashing too. Let's keep our feelings about each other to ourselves.
  • Posted By: : Seems to me the more than one person has too much time on their hands. I don't understand why people get on here and bash each other's comments. Why don't you all get jobs. WOW, don't think I will return to this section of the webpage anymore.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello working people of WV this is Big Earl and people there is nothing wrong with eating good wholesome foods like bacon sausage eggs lard flour and the like all these PETA types are ganging up on our good food like you cant go to a baseball game now and get a hotdog without a PETA nut bothering you boo hooing about the poor little pig that turned out as a hotdog. Now my favorite restaurant in the world Kentucky Fired Chicken has thrown in twith these nuts and is grilling chicken now. Chicken was never meant to be grilled only fried regular or extra crispy. So people I say get busy we have work to do they is two states in front of us we in WV have to reclaim our top spot as best fed in the whole country go down to the foodland or kroger and get a cube of regular mountain dew a sack of Lays chips and some good ball park big red smokeys with a big bowl of chili and have a grill out tomorrow to celebrate the fourth of July in style and may I say God bless the USA and coal miners too.
  • Posted By: food for thought: Yes I am a Christian. I do need to understand the book of Revelation more and the end time prophecy. Like most I have the concept of it. Just to make it short, government dependence(happening more than ever) and is almost being forced for the citizens of this country to rely on. Cap and trade?(sign of the mark of the beast?)I don't know. I am ready. You that believe in science is fine, I do too. I do not go as far as to believe every report they give out. I pose this question. if you are so worried about global warming that means you don't like heat or burning:correct? Hmmm, think on this of what in Revelation I do understand. The lake of fire is where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched. Eternity is forever, on this Earth we are just passing through.
  • Posted By: to why: no ,hetrosexuals wont go to hell any slower than gays.adultry fornication,stealing lying murder etc,are all sins.every one sins,it just that you cant say you want to be a christian,and keep on with bad habits or not want to change and expect god to say thats all right.life is a struggle for all of us.we are expected to repent and try our hardest to do whats right.god respects that.you are not in any more danger than any other sinner.i know that homosexuality is a sin but so is adultry.would we tell an adulter that its all right to keep on hurting their marriage and spouse and thats alright,no.i would rather live beside an honest caring,productive gay person than a dishonest evil selfish nosy buissybody any day.we are only responsible for our own sins and actions.you sound stressed,lighten up.but homosexuality is a sin,like adultry and fornication,nobody gets a free pass.
  • Posted By: Patty: Good points, Htiek, but the status quo with coal mining, which is a dirty business, no matter how it is marketed, i.e., "clean coal" (coal is dirty, period), will remain till the resources are depleted, the land and environment of the coal fields are destroyed, which is pretty much the case at present.
  • Posted By: bonn: One more thing and I really will stop. Why does the weather cycle? I do not know everything-no one does. But everything has its purpose. Sometimes, more cold is called for. If we don't have hard winters snakes and mosquitoes thrive, for one. Mosquitoes are a large part of fish diet. And snakes keep rodents in check. But too much cold hurts other things that call for warmer temps. Quail is one thing that comes to mind that suffer in the frigid temps. We just don't understand all of the workings of these things. But it is all to keep a balance-many times in things we ourselves have killed off, such as bear and wolves. Even if we don't like some species, they all serve a purpose and nature helps keep that balance. Our world really was wonderfully made. With all the changes in temperature, we still have seasons. You can know it will be cold in winter and hot in summer. The excesses serve a purpose we sometimes can not see. Strive to learn of all of her wonders, not follow blindly.
  • Posted By: bonn: I would like to apologize if I have been short and critical. I really am sorry. It is no excuse, but I have a very sick child who may be dying and I get so upset at the state of our world. I do have to quit reading these comments. But I hope I have caused a few people at least to think with their own common sense instead of blindly following whatever. Some theories may be correct. But many ARE for monetary purposes. We each were given a mind to think with. Question everything before taking it as it appears. And be sure and thank a veteran for the freedom we celebrate this weekend. Too many have died to protect it to just give it up willingly. And whether or not you are religious, lets try to love one another. Love can fix so many things! Try to keep our world clean, But that doesn't have to bankrupt us. We can all do our part in whatever ways we can. The old saying "Give a hoot, don't pollute" should not have gone out of style. And use your wikipedia to read "Ice Age" to see cycling.
  • Posted By: Follow up on cap and rape: CNSNews.com) – The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that. This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.In other words all your appliances-heating-stove -fridge-windows-would have to meet green standards before we sell SOCAILISM HAS ARRIVED YESWEDID
  • Posted By: ANOTHER YES WE CAN: First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face fines of more than $1,000. The details were unveiled Thursday in a health care overhaul bill supported by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.SOCAILISM IS HERE The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines would raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals
  • Posted By: bonn: Good grief! The brain washing has gone so far it will never get better. Some of this way of thinking makes me physically ill in my stomach. All of one mind! Mindless devotion to whatever is contrary to common sense and whatever theory is being passed around. Most families have both parents working, some two jobs, just to make it now. Soon you won't even be able to work enough to carry your family, the government and the ones who won't work. Then you will be disposable and they will start killing you off because you can't give them enough money. But you will blindly keep following. It is easy to see how Hitler took control and how it is being set up for the antichrist to take control. I quit. I will never read another comment. And Kris, did that nut not know the sky has always appeared blue? Hahaha Goodbye. I know you will reply, but I won't be reading it. Never again. Either you believe God or the scientists. I choose God. And freedom!
  • Posted By: cap and trade: world net daily has an informative article on home ownership and all buildings in u.s.it is about total government control of everyone.you will have to answer to the gov.or else.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To Pearl: Thanks for the comment. I try to be an adult and make the usual comments and complaints, But how would you feel if every time you wrote something, Someone would respond back with their own opinions and say that you are wrong! Just the other day I wrote how my child was injured at Camden Park! Of course RoaneCo. had to write something and attack me about my decision to get angry about the situation. Yes, I agree that I should just turn the other cheek but I was raised to stand up for myself!! Why I'm a target I'll never know but I think that I have a right just like everyone else on here and to say my opinion on things whether people agree or not.
  • Posted By: Why?: EVERYONE SINS! Why is being gay the worst sin that sends you "straight" to HELL? Heterosexuals can do all the "sining" they want and still go to heaven but LGBT can't.
  • Posted By: Justme: Coal mining has been around for years and years. I'm sick of all these nuts that are griping about mining. You nuts are always griping. Maybe you need to get a life. If your so against it.. Then turn your lights out. And stop using the power. Move on, and stop taking jobs away from our miner's.
  • Posted By: Htiek: What always amazes me about people in WV is their slavish devotion to coal mining even though it is killing the planet, costs more jobs than it creates, poisons the water, destroys the mountains, scars the land, kills the snail darter, and other horrible things. Things are all so backwards in this country why dont we switch over to something that lasts and is free like the sun and wind? Even if the president said that stuff and I doubt he did and even if he did you are misquoting him or taking him out of context he is right if there is one sure way to get people to stop turning their air conditioners down to 76 it is to raise the price, just like gasoline. People we can learn to ride bikes and walk again, just like they did in the old days, that will help give us exercise and decrease the obesity rate in WV. Food is another area, the slop that people eat like MacDonalds, trans fats, regular soft drinks, anybody with half a brain knows the intelligent thing to do is tax regular soda pop.
  • Posted By: Gandalf: A tea party? Oh my! I must relay this information to my friend Alice and the Mad Hatter. Door Mouse and Rabbit too. They will be thrilled! Oh my bad, must have picked out the wrong book today. Ta Ta!
  • Posted By: Pearl: Roane Co why dont you and Jane pursue your romance elsewhere the yell is for complaints.
  • Posted By: Kris: Just throwing this out there. I'm sitting on my couch wearing sweat pants and short sleeve shirt. I'm thinking about shuting my windows and turning on my heat. Shouldn't I be turning on the air conditioner instead? It's the 2nd of July. Not saying it's global warming but it doesn't seem right. Haven't heard of any heat warning anywhere is the US so far this summer. Great for us but doesn't feel right.
  • Posted By: Kris: Hi Bonn, it is true that these cycles do occur over time. Scientists have taken core samples from the earth and the ice to show these cycles. However, none of the samples show such a dramatic change in such a short period of time. I am a smoker and I will admit that my second hand smoke can and probably will effect the lungs of a non-smoker. The tons of carbon monoxide and other pollutants that we release into our atmosphere HAS TO have an effect on our atmosphere. True story: there was a scientist that day after day after day couldn't figure out why the sky was so blue and clear. Then it struck him, there hadn't been ANY planes in the air for three days. That was 911. What you put out, is what you get back. If you put love out, you will get love back. If you put out negativity, you will get negativity back. For every action, there is a reaction whether it's good or bad. It's in our hands to do our best not to cause an adverse impact to our planet. Peace to ALL!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again good working coal mining people of WV this is the coal miners friend Big Earl with news of yet another hippie plot to stick there big noses further into our business now some of these people in Congress has throwed in with the tree huggers they are trying to make it so you cannot sell your house without some nut from the hippie EPA coming in and inspecting it to make sure you are green enough to suit there tastes. This so called cap and trade bill that these busy body do gooders are pushing on us will destroy our jobs and run up the electric bills so that everybody will have to live like the Waltons with 27 people under one roof just to keep warm. Now the average hippie longhair don’t care noway because they would have us all living in mud huts riding mules wearing sandals and weaving baskets to load down with califlowers and arougalas tofu and alfalfa to take up on some worthless mountaintop as an offering to there windmill god instead of having nice homes, cars, a job and cool air in the summer and heat in the winter ALL THANKS TO THE COAL MINER. Anything to bother people attracts these hippies like flies to a cowpie.
  • Posted By: to hteik: hteik has 2 comment .the global warming one was hillarous.it was june 30.he must not have gotten the same public education i did,he was taught that we had satellites in colonial time.but then again he think algoe is really smart,he doesnt know al didn,t really invent the innernet.i think fox news and conservative talk radio would do him a world of good,he,d be shocked at what he doesn,t know.
  • Posted By: Amy: Hey Keith, I must have missed that interview because I was busy clinging to my guns and religion. No, really, I did see it. It's kind of strange how people become so shocked when this stuff is introduced in the House of Reps. Obama outlined every plan he intended to get pushed through and a lot of people just didn't listen. Next time I hope people vote for the best candidate not the best slogan. Yes we can....bankrupt the nation!
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party: There will be a tea party in Grayson, Ky on July 4th. It will be held at the City Park from 4:00-6:30PM
  • Posted By: Dave: The seat belt law is no law. Its nothing but a deliberate attempt to extort money off the American people,use communist law and control the populace. THE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER VOTED ON IT, BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WILL SAVE LIVES. TELL THEM TO GIVE YOU THE FIGURES ON ACCIDENTAL OPERATIONS.And if that doesn't satisfy you then why are we allowing our young brave soldiers to be killed,and for whom? WHY AREN'T THESE NEWSPAPERS BRINGING THIS INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE? Because the nations 96% are owned and controled by the WEALTHIEST.
  • Posted By: bonn: I was trying to make a point. Perhaps not in the best way. I get so discouraged seeing what is happening around us. One group of scientists call for us to spread soot on all the snow up north to absorb heat to counter the coming ice age. Another (more popular) group calls for painting our roofs white to reflect the heat that is melting our ice caps. Which group is right? Neither. Our earth is doing exactly as it has been doing all along. Cycling naturally. Did it plan it all on its own? Hardly. But no one wants to hear that. It reminds me of "chicken little" yelling "the sky is falling". Only this is not so funny-this is control. And what is even sadder is-people seem to WANT to be controlled. This earth will continue as always until one preplanned day it all comes to a screeching halt. Then a new earth will be created. I will not be caught off guard. I read The Book. I know where I will be. Do you? And do you really enjoy giving those schemers your money that much? I hope one day...
  • Posted By: Keith: A few questions for the Yell audience: Does anyone remember when Obama gave that interview in SanFran Cisco and said that he would not prevent the construction of a coal fired plant, but his policies would bankrupt anybody that tried to build one? That policy was cap and trade. I heard O say that energy prices, under his administration, would "necessairly skyrocket." Is this the hope and change you guys voted for? How will you afford your electric and gas service under this man who cares so much for the poor? Obama said once that he was not bothered that the price of gas had risen so high, just that it happened so fast. How does everyone feel about the gas price? Obama raked John Pablo McCain over the coals for suggesting health care benefits be taxed as income, now he is going to do the same thing to pay for "free" care to illegal aliens, deadbeats, etc...but union workers will be exempt from this tax. How does that make you feel if you work for a living and are not in a union? H&C
  • Posted By: Amy: Hteik, "all is well" because people like us! Give me a break. If all were well, we would not have the largest unemployment rate in 26 years. The stimulus package would prevent it from going above 8%, remember? How is Iran not our business but Honduras is? The people of Honduras have a Constitution very similar to ours and we should support the people not an extremist who is trying to take over their country. The 22nd Amendment does a great service for our nation. IF it would be reversed that would be O.K too. At the rate Obama is going W. could beat him in 2012. At least I would sleep better at night.
  • Posted By: Just Me: Wow Jane Doe, give it a rest. I really don't think God would be please with this going on and on and on...healthy banter is fine, but this is not healthy banter. Christians absolutely can and do get angry, it's what they do with that anger that counts. It doesn't matter where, when, or even IF you go to church...what matters is that you have accepted Christ into your heart and asked for forgiveness of your sins. God didn't save us to judge others, he saved us to lead others to him. I've said many times...what if the person you just yelled at, told off, or whatever showed up at your church on Sunday? Would you be proud of your behavior?
  • Posted By: Sophie: Roane County is a beautiful place. The country roads snake along past fields, farms and old homes we wish could talk. Looneyville is indeed named after the Looney family, so is Gandeeville. My father was from Roane Co. & graduated from Walton High School in the 40's. He told me tales of his school days, friends, boyish pranks, old cars and the fun they had at the 4-H camp. Spencer was a big place to them. Roane Co. gave us many war veterans and kept distant family & friends together with the annual "Roane County Reunion". I don't even know if they still have it, but we used to go. I remember seeing Sen. Robert Byrd play his fiddle there. The Black Walnut Festival in October(?) is a good time to visit Spencer. They usually have a parade, arts & crafts and a museum. You can enjoy a slice of Americana, along with a slice of homemade pie.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: The great Dale Carnegie once said "You never win an argument".Most of you know he wrote" How to Win Friends and Influence People'.Some of you should put this on your Christmas List.I think I will dust it off and revisit this old classic.
  • Posted By: cap and trade: welcome to ''before tax and tax'bill going thru the powers that be.look at your electric bills this monthe there is an enviornmental tax at 2.2cents for every kilowatt you use.can we even imagine what our electric bill will be,not to mention every thing we consume,food water ,every necessity that cant be done without.we in easternky have good reps.in washington,every one in surrounding states should put your so called reps a lot of pressure to defeat this tax and tax bill that is being pushed by a few people to make them richer and control every aspects of productive peoples lives.look at your gasbill also,you will see only a very small portion for gas but the rest in fees and taxes.look at your phone bill you will see a 100percent markup in taxes and fees.its time to put pressure on politicans to protect the citizens and not the lobiest.
  • Posted By: justanotherfly: sounds like jane doe is looking for an easy way out ie a lawsuit
  • Posted By: to bonn: i couldn,t have said it better myself.some things have to be explained like you are talking to a 5year old.but like some 5year olds that are stubborn and spoiled rotten they dont listen.wait till the cost of every thing sky rockets and they will be the first to rant and rave that nobody told them.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To my biggest fan, RoaneCo: Ummm! It's sounds to me like you have a lot of anger. You have to pick on everyone's comments! I think I speak for everyone when I say (Get a Job)!! Cause you obviously have none! You have all this free time on your hands! Why don't you spend this free time helping others instead of puttin them down! You know..WSAZ has job postings...Maybe you could find one on there!!!!I'm not a negative person. Maybe I'm just like everyone else that has a job and three kids and a lot of things to do! I get stressed out, I know that goes way over your head,You don't get stressed. But because you go to church doesn't mean you can't get angry about stuff!!LOL My father-in-law is a Deacon at my church and even he has a temper!! Look out craveontruth! Looks like RoaneCo. has found someone else to pick on!Good Luck!! Have a perfect day ( I know you will)!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Yes Craveontruth, there is a place named Looneyville.(no Jane Doe that isn't where I live) It is on Rt.36, nothing there but the Looneyville Post Office, and I am not joking. There is also a Lefthand Post Office on Rt.36, always wondered why there wasn't a Righthand also. Our County seat is located in Spencer, (middle of nowhere) which for years was only known for its State Mental Institution. (no Jane Doe this isn't my Alma mater) It was closed years ago and now a Wal-Mart is on that location. I guess the only other thing to speak of would be the Black Walnut Festival which is held in Spencer every October.
  • Posted By: bonn, the simpleton: Don't we have a smart earth? She formed herself from a dust cloud, they say and planted herself just the right distance from the sun to support the life she would create. She also filled her insides with molten heat to maintain the right temps and if that builds too much she decides to blow some out holes (volcanoes) to keep from exploding. She makes her own rain, knowing whether she needs a gentle soaking rain for her plants, or a gully washer to cleanse the filth. It pours down the mountains, into the rivers and out into the ocean which she just happened to fill with salt (her natural sanitizer). And she knows if she doesn't have ice she will over heat, but too much and she will freeze, killing her life she so carefully made. So she melts some, then as it heats up, she freezes more. All just coincidental happenings? She is brilliant! But not so smart as the humans who are making a fortune controlling the other dumb humans by convincing them THEY are causing her to do these things!!!
  • Posted By: passing by the yell: I met someone from Looneyville once. It's named that after a person's last name from what I was told.
  • Posted By: Hteik: Well it is nice to see that the war in Iraq is ending under President Obama. Who would have thought, it seems the world is backwards right now, huh? Obama gets elected, the world understands our good will, and all is well. Just like history, Republicans start wars, Democrats finish them. Hate to say we told you so but we told you so, I just get fuzzy inside thinking about all the people that love us now that hated us because of that old Bush. Another thing too, leave this Iran thing alone, that is none of our business. I dont recall anybody from Iran coming over here to help us in 1776 so why should we stick our nose in their business? When you get a strong leader like in Honduras, a good strong leader with a military background, everybody goes nuts because the guy takes things over well I support him and Obama. In fact, some people are so needed we better start now to get rid of the 22nd Amendment, it was only put in by jealous radical extremist crazy Republicans to hurt FDR.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: I don't think I have ever been to Roan County.Nothing against the good people of that neck of the woods.I did enjoy looking it up on wikipedia.Is there really a Looneyville there? If there is then I must visit!Who's with me?
  • Posted By: food for thought: 2-10 years for almost killing a child? Where are our priorities? I know they are nestled in the mountains or wait lying deep in the ocean waiting for anoother person to adopt them and claim rights to the next whale that is proclaimed Shammu or Willy. Get real people lets protest these laws that allow some cook to wanna kill his child and only have to pay his debt of 2 - 10 years. Oh and Kris your right our God won't kill a 1 yr old or a 100 yr old just do to it. He would do it for his glory and maybe take them from being around a half heartened sadistic person that would do this to a child. Oh i love the lights and the A/C and my car, but most of all I love my GOD "Jehovah God" whom i think first and foremost for all I have, then i thank a coal miner and an AEP worker and a so on and so on.
  • Posted By: Kimberly: Raising the WV Toll price? I see a lot of arguments coming from this. Where is all of this money going to? Mansion might be a good governer, but when it comes to things like this, it needs fixed. WV roads are awful and I know after all of these years, surely the toll money has added up to more than enough to fix these roads!!! What an awful awful idea!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Bonn, people like you are the very reason I have stated that I respect ones right of freedom of religion. Although I have different views, I have no issues with anyone going to church and trying to live according to their interpretation of the bible. I think that is wonderful. I also thank you Bonn for being open minded and seeing the point I was trying make. And for Anonymous on Jul 1, 2009 at 03:11 PM, no Craveontruth and I are not the same person. We do agree on some issues, and disagree on others. And when we do disagree (speaking for myself of course) we do it without anger. Also, for Bob... sorry, it isn't working. I have a two year old that comes up with better jabs than you. But I respect your right to try.
  • Posted By: Sophie: Just a few comments on current Yells: Big Earl - I just can't read you anymore because it's the same things over & over. Yeah, we're with you - there are a bunch on weed-o's coming around these days trying to shut us down for the sake of some owl...We get it. We all hate it. Roane Co/Jane -It appears Roane has been very hurt in their lifetime by family conflict involving belief. Many people get hurt because of superstition & misinterpretation and overzealousness. It has been this way since time began. I hope Roane can someday get past the hurt & retoric to work out his/her own salvation. Simple belief in Jesus Christ is where it starts, the rest as I put it, is just "gravy". Jane: I'm sorry your child was hurt. This indeed must be reported. I got hurt @ CP one time too on "The Whip". It beat me so hard against the side I had a major bruise on my hip. I strained my arms trying to keep from slamming into the side. A fun thing was not so fun. No rides for me, anymore. Not there.
  • Posted By: : I think RoaneCo. and Craveontruth is the exact same person? Who's with me?
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good people of WV this is Big Earl and I for one am sick and tired of all these out of state know it all nosey people bothering us if it is not these smelly hippies trying to run our jobs off or rename the WVU mascot now they are calling the good citizens of WV fat. Well people I am here to tell you that this bunch at the so called CSPI and no you hippies I don’t mean the TV show calling us fat should look in the mirror they look like something off night of the living dead pasty faced scarecrows and beanpoles and what is so great about that. WV has some of the best staple foods anywhere in the world I have eaten paotatoes beans meat flour and corn meal all my life cooked in lard and I am not one bit worse off for it and can mine coal with anybody. People all the good foods we eat are natural growed in the garden or on the farm so it should even make a tofu eating hippie type happy. I am more bothered that two states beat us out in the race for the top so I tip my hat to the people of the great states of Alabama home of the best country music band ever and Mississippi but people of WV get busy we have to reclaim our title to best fed in the USA I recommend the Kentucky Fried Chicken with gravy and biscuits as a good place to start our comeback.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Actually Jane Doe, growing up I did attend church and read the bible. Being subjected to religion for many years I would not consider myself "confused" or uneducated. If one looks at organized religion with an open mind it isn't hard to see who is confused. For example, you have one bible yet there are numerous religious groups ( methodists, baptists etc...) that believe their interpretation is the only correct interpretation. This is understandable because the bible itself is very contradictive. In my opinion the the bible and organized religion is nothing more than a tool created to control the masses. Yet this tool has pitted man against man, brother against brother, state against state and country against country, not to mention the wars, death and destruction it has caused. I have witnessed in my lifetime many family fueds, broken marriages and busted churches at the hands of organized religion. I have heard the words of hate spoken by christians. I am not confused.
  • Posted By: To Fat Earl: You're losing! Ha,Ha!
  • Posted By: Kris: God does not control the weather!If so then he would be responsible for killing hundreds of innocent people every year in America alone! If that's your God, you can have it! My GOD is loving and compassionate. He would never take the life of a one year old nor a hundred year old just because he felt like creating a tornado that day or a hurricane the next. Get a brain and use it simpletons!
  • Posted By: bonn: To Jane Doe: I am afraid RoaneCo's common sense is more attractive than your comments. Read your last post at 8:58 and see if it shows the Light you are suppose to give. We are suppose to control our anger. Yes, we are forgiven, but it is not a license to keep repeating our faults. It is mercy so we can improve. Viciousness does not become a child of God. RoaneCo., may God forgive us for driving you and others away from Him with our failure to shine the Light of Love. And Jane Doe, I am the one you called ignorant just because I was showing compassion (another expectation of a Christian). It is scary about your child. But that person was not attacking your child, nor joking about it, only disapproving of your outburst. Not very attractive in anyone, especially one called to set an example for others to follow. If you must get angry, use it to accomplish something good. Christians are hated enough WITHOUT cause. Love is the answer.
  • Posted By: Bob: I think we might need to contact someone in state govt.about inspecting our amusement parks to many in the public simply dont care if kids get hurt this could have been something really really bad but I guess there is always a few who would crack jokes at anything even a child getting injured.
  • Posted By: cap and trade bill: you wont hear on liberal obama mania news reports whats in the cap and tax bill.only conservate talk radio and conservative news are telling the contents of this country destroying bill.liberal dont want you to be informed,it would be to dangerous for their so called news networks.did you know that,as i somewhat understand it,that every house in the country will have to be at gov.standards before it can be sold,they will be allowed to change therules in mid stream if they want.even if you dont like conservative news,remember only a well informed person can try to stop tyranny.look for facts,have you heard 1 liberal news tell you whats in this bill thats detrimental to this country and freedom.i challenge wsaz to look up whats in this bill and report accuratly whats in it.i dont think thats going to happen.
  • Posted By: food for thought: AMEN Bonn I could never have said it any better, being a Boone county coal miner and all. We do no get a very well reputation anyway.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: RoaneCo.can hurt but often the truth does hurt.I support RoaneCo.To Jane Doe,I believe RoaneCo.does know quite a bit about Christianity and is not confused at all.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: Thank you everyone for your support!!You know RoaneCo. Nobody is perfect, That goes for Christians too! Are we allowed to get mad??Yes! But are we forgiven everyday? Yes!Obviously you don't know much about Christianity! That's why you critize so much!!You're confused!! We are not perfect! I guess you are!!
  • Posted By: VOTE NO ON CAP AND TRADE: I know its a repost but i think its Worthy 'Liberty Or Tyranny?' House Passes Cap-And-Trade Republicans Warn Bill Gives Federal Government 'Virtual Control' Over 'Every Aspect Of The Lives Of The American People. Thank the Dumbocratic controled house as it will raise the average consumers power bill $175.00 This on top of the energy companies already asking for an inctrase will put such a burden on the American people that only the wealthy will survive.Please write or call our Senators they are the only life line we have left and ask them to VOTE NO on cap and trade. Republicans were overwhelmingly against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of a recession while burdening consumers with a new tax in the form of higher energy costs.And there was plenty to work on in a House-passed measure that pointed toward higher electricity bills for the middle class.Budget Office and the other from the Environmental Protection Agency — that suggested average increases would be $175.00 a year.
  • Posted By: cap and trade survey: against cap and tax,85percent.people who work and are productive.15percent for cap and tax,,,people who work for government or live off the fat of the land and dont mind other people being taxed into poverty....
  • Posted By: : If new drivers would slow down and actually pay attention to what they are doing, then maybe WV would'nt have these new laws for teenage drivers. Personally myself I believe that all states should have this law. It would make the roads a little safer to drive on.
  • Posted By: bonn: About global warming- our temperature is (and always has been) constantly changing. GOD controls it. Anyone who thinks we can are puffing themselves up bigger than we are.Are we suppose to believe we are responsible for the Ice Age thawing that is suppose to have happened way back when as well? How did that happen? Certainly not carbon emissions. Use some common sense and realize people are using this to line their pockets and gain support for their pet projects. I know- you don't want to hear this, but it is not realistic. Don't let America be controlled with this, PLEASE!! Let us remain free!
  • Posted By: Bob: Dont worry Jane Doe I have notice RoaneCOs posts are generally always on the rude side I am sorry to hear about your daughter.
  • Posted By: Just wondering: the 3 people that was killed on alt rt 10. 2 being st. joe's students. Did they ever release the cause of the accident?
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: I do care about the safety of our children Anonymous on Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01 AM, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Our children are our future. What I don't care for is someone like Jane Doe on here week after week preaching her little sermons all the while calling people ignorant and showing her hostility toward others. It has always amazed me how most christians will belittle someone else but the minute you catch them being unchristian like they always come up with the old "we christians ain't perfect". Well I know they are not, but by golly they are the first to judge everyone else. These hyporcitical self proclaimed christians are one of the reasons I turned away from organized religion years ago. I just don't agree with these people shoving religion on everyone else. I respect Jane Does right to religion and I would even fight for her to keep that right, but she, like so many others need to keep their religion in their church and their home.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal mining families in WV this is Big Earl and I for one am very disappointed that this cap and trade bill got passed into law the other day no thanks to our good representatives from WV. People all I can say is get a woodpile and a bunch of cow chips because your electric is going to get real expensive real quick. These hippies has run up to Washington DC and boo hooed to them tree huggers and longhairs in the EPA until they got even worse done to our jobs but then again what do you expect from a bunch that has a leaf from a dope plant on there sign like the EPA does if you don’t believe me look on this very website I seen a picture of it. Birds of a feather flock together that’s why the good working people were kept out and not allowed to talk at that hearing and the hippies let in. People these hippies has slandered our great state and coal miners first they bring in professor moonbeam from NASA to insult us then he tucks his tail and runs back to NASA and wont debate Mr. DB then they attack our state university mascot the WV mountaineer. Well people I Big Earl have a solution to this lets call WV the “Ivory Soap State,” make our mascot a bathtub that’s a sure fire way to get rid of these smelly hippies and longhairs and keep them out forever.
  • Posted By: ME: We christians are most always judged by our actions and that is to be expected since we are not perfect in any way. We all make mistakes every day,we get angry,we say things we shouldn't and act out our frustrations sometimes to those closest to us and our friends. We try to do better and ask forgiveness when we do stumble from our christian path. Actions speak louder than words at times, good or bad. Yes we adults act like children at times and children try to act like adults all too soon. We never know who we are influenceing with our actions and words so we need to always try to act,say and do what is right. As long as we are on this earth we will stumble but we should strive to be the best we can be and treat people with love and respect no matter how we are treated. I have turned the cheek many times and been slapped alot and will keep on doing it as long as I breath. My time will come soon enough to be judged as to the way I have lived and treated people.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I love people on the Yell!!! They give me a chance to laugh everyday. Thanks guys!!
  • Posted By: just looking: UMMMM do you people think that christians are perfect??? Do you think we dont get angry?? Only one person is perfect and that is Jesus Christ...And if a christian says they are perfect, then they arnt a very good christian. We all have faults. Alot of you people cant wait to get up and look at the faults of others and criticize what they believe in....
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party. There will be a "Tea Party" July 4th from 4:00-6:30 PM at the City Park in Grayson,Ky
  • Posted By: Donna: Please! enough of Michael Jackson. He died, now he will appear before God and face his punishment for his sins against children. He was a morally bankrupt person who the media has presented as an icon. It's no wonder children are so messed up today,too much TV and not enough parenting. You too, are responsible for making him appear as a person to be looked up to. He and others in entertainment and sports are not what the children need, they need moral examples to look up to, please stop the glorification of immoral and indecent individuals.
  • Posted By: food for thought: To those of you telling me to watch out for Fox news, please go back and read carefully what I said about the media and the government. I thank each of you for your information. I am not out to attack anyone whether acclaimed or the average joe. I just know what I have read from reports and from different sites. This information is what our scientists, meteorologists and so forth use in reference to report the records of weather and temperatures. Again thank each of you, and at last Fox news was the channel the fine people at our local (American made) dealership had channeled on the tube, personally I just watch WSAZ, at the local level.
  • Posted By: : Roane Co., why are you not concerned about the safety of small children at amusement parks?
  • Posted By: Htiek: Right on Kris you tell em about Fox News. Everyone that watches knows that the dependable networks are ABF, Anyone But Fox. I am just like everyone else in the know, they lie all the time but please dont press me to cite anything specific as I am having coffee right now. I am new to your side, so pardon me if I get something confused. Those photographs of the ice caps are proof positive as far as I am concerned, these flat earth types that dont believe global warming should compare them to the satellite picutres from the colonial period and over the years since for comparison purposes. I once heard the hottest year on record was in the 1930s but what does that prove. And before one of you know it alls talks about Al Gore riding everywhere in a private plane and having such a huge house and running a company that profits from selling carbon credits, some people in life earn their special privileges simply by showing up and enlightening the rest of us, so there.
  • Posted By: polar ice caps: the weather is always changing.sometime it freezes sometimes it melts,thats gods doings,not mans.wasnt it the great mind of ted danson many years ago that explaind that in 15 or 20 years that the oceans were going to raise so many feet that it would destroy and overflo inward to apolipicate level.i guess the people that live on these coast lines dont know they are under water.we americans are so silly.let me explain what a great creator said,it rains but the oceans are never full.ice melts but the oceans never overflo.i think i,ll believe him instead of a.gore or ted danzen.p.b.s last week on a travel show,,i think,,,,the guide said the glacier there had been melting 150years.that was certainly before the industrial revolution.as for fox,world net daily,newsmax,etc.the liberal press has lost it monolopy on liberal so called news.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: After you finish showing your true colors, go back and read my post again Jane Doe. Better yet let me cut and paste it for you. "I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are." And just for the record, I would never "make fun" of a child, but don't think for one second that I won't point out an adult being hypocritical. Are you not the same Jane Doe that three weeks ago was preaching about God, then in the same breath calling someone "IGNORANT"? So let me say it one more time, I hope your little girl is ok. As for you, thank you for proving once again how kind, loving, patient and understanding some of you fine christians can be.
  • Posted By: Kris: This respectfully goes out to "food for thought" for what they said about fox news and global warming.FOX has great movies and tv shows but their view when it comes to the "news" is so far on the "right" way of thinking that it totally obscures reality in their opions of the subject at hand. They'll twist their views to make sure that it is opposite of "liberals" or people on the "left" and how they feel about the subject.Asf or global warming, we have actual time lapsed pictures of the polar caps melting at an alarming rate. You can actually see it happening. If things are cooling down, then why are the polar caps and icebergs melting at an alarming rate? The evidence is right in front of our faces. I sure do hope you're right because if I am, our planet is doomed. Sincerely, Kris
  • Posted By: Jethro: WHATS WRONG WITH YOU ALL UPDATE THE YELL!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP!!!!!!
  • Posted By: Keith: Never thought I'd sit around and miss Bush...well the wrecking ball has appointed a racist to the supreme court, one that is inept and incompetent too. Did you notice her latest ruling was overturned today? The economy is not getting better, those of you out of work have my sympathy because this clown is not doing anything to make it better. He never held a real job, never ran a business, just a rabble rouser and agitator. How do you feel about cap and trade energy tax? All over a phony problem that doesnt even exist; WV will wither away to nothing but hey we can all get jobs in the windmill factory, cant we? How do you feel about having your health benefits taxed to pay for Obamacare? How's the hope and change working out for everyone? What do you think card check is going to do the economy? Check out an article about Obama the African Colonialist on the American Thinker Website, dated June 25th. It explains him to a "T." Obama is a wrecking ball, and he's gonna roll over everyone.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal miners of WV this is Big Earl and people I have come to the conclusion that we need some friends in Washington DC that has got some clout. Some people up there has got big names but nobody apparently listens to, that is if they show up at all in court to help you out, those who are sick are excepted. Then there are some people in Charleston who should be in Washington who shall remain unnamed because nobody in Gov. Joes office asked me to say that. But remember who had that bunch from FEMA down here handing out checks before two weeks after the flood water hit and figure out who has clout. You people that went up for the hearing last week should be thanked but the good people never got to say a word but these hippies did, they are apparently now running around the creek with microscopes looking for fish that cant be seen with the eye, something called a microbe, now they are blaming the coal miner for killing off this worthless animal and I sincerely hope Captain D or old Long John will never put some slop like that on my plate when I want good seafood. If you dont see it it cant be of no good use anyway, sort of like a certain US senator with a big rich name who was nowhere to be seen last week.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To RoaneCo. How dare you critize my comment. This isn't just some fun arguement!! My child is hurt! Do you think that's funny? Do me a favor, Next time I write about my kids, Don't comment! I hope you don't have any kids because you don't see the harm and worry in my comment, You just want to fight and make fun of someone!! This is really serious!! I don't see the humor!!!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Did any of you people see those PETA nuts on the TV 3 news last night boo hooing about having to tie there dogs up hello again working people of WV this is Big Earl and I don’t know about you but I always thought it was rude and inconsiderate and just being a bad neighbor to let your dogs run wild all over the neighborhood digging up peoples backyards rooting around in garbage cans and doing there business all over the place. Have any of you people in Huntington ever lost a chicken to a wild dog. Even these back to nature types and hippies up here in Boone County tie up there dog to guard there dope patches but they don’t have no sense anyway if they aint going to Washington DC to try and rook us out of our jobs by carrying signs and yelling about some invisible fish that is no good to anybody they are screaming about the coal miner killing polar bears and other animals that don’t even live here. Apparently this bunch had the bright idea to go down to the park on Sunday down in Huntington when people was out with there families trying to walk around and enjoy things and they chained themselves to trees with real dog chains trying to get people to sign a protest petition to of all people a mayor named Wolf now I don’t know about you but that mayor better forget the beware of dog sign he needs to put a beware of the PETA nut sign up in that park.
  • Posted By: The Seeker: @food for thought: It is indeed important to check facts, and it heartens me to see that you're of the type that actively seeks them (even thought I fall on the side of the debate that believes in climate change, as it has solid science behind it). However, I caution you on taking anything from FOX news at face value. This is an organization that in 2000 won a case in Florida appeals court in which the court ruled that FOX has no obligation to tell the truth to it's viewers, and can misinform the public under the first amendment. This is also an organization that has been proven to have an agenda, and frames every bit of it's coverage to favor one political party over the other. My advice is to seek out less obviously biased news sources, especially in cases such as global warming, which is an issue that transcends political parties and affects every being on the planet.
  • Posted By: Hugh: Hey WVa. Checkin out the YELL. Kind of quiet today. Enjoyed my visit there. Met John Henry at the Big Ben Tunnel,saw the big bridge. Stood at Hawk's Nest and viewed the scenery. If I wasn't so old and crippled, I'd bungee jump from the New River Gorge Bridge. Have folks who live in the Talcott area and some around Hinton. Well won't take much of your time today. Just wanted to check in.
  • Posted By: what is foor for thought?: foor?? for thought, you do know Bush made those he commissioned to study it alter their reports when he found out it supported global warming, don't you? Anyone who just sees pictures of the ice caps 30 years ago and now would have to be mentally handicapped not to know there's global warming, the only thing that's possible to debate is the cause of it. Wonder why Fox didn't mention the Bush fiasco? Well I don't really wonder.
  • Posted By: more p.c at wsaz: gays in usa sounds like it was written by a gay person,so it was printed.it was,nt written by a gay person.it was a second thought,after i commented on other sins,such as adultry,but plainly written by a heterosexual person.it was not printed because im straight and not gay.so goes our country and freedom.
  • Posted By: Lou Ann: Ive had a similar bad experience at camden park several years ago. Havent went back since. The pricing is just another deterrent to doing business locally. I love this area but am very discouraged by the lack of pride in our appearance in several of our towns, the prices of doing business, the attitude towards the customer , the lack of merchandise. I could go on. We definately are not tourist friendly in the great ohio valley area.
  • Posted By: foor for thought: Looks like my comment on June 24th may be right. I have done some reading about this Global warming fad the government is putting on. I was sitting in a local car dealership and FOX news was reporting on the government sitting or "burying" studies by two of the highest ranking EPA officials contradicting this myth. Some of the comments from their studies proves the Global temperature if anything has decreased. Although, you should be skeptical about anything the media reports especially when it involves the government these are facts that have been recorded over time. I ask how come when these bozos as Dr. Hansen whom is from NASA(which has done innumerable amounts of damage to our air with their testing) never mention facts as these when trying to prove things they are claiming is a fact. People we in America have became lazy in seeking the truth, I am not disputing anything these scientists and the government tells us, but as we learned in elementary school check facts of both sides.
  • Posted By: gays in u.s.a.: another reflection on gays.if you think god doesn,t care about you because you,re gay ,he must love you more than you can comprehend,if not you could have been born ina muslim country.islam has no homosexuals ,they are not rehabilitate,just beheaded.as a loving and compassionate god says"GO AND SIN NO MORE".that doesnt mean just you it means all of us.yes god allows you to choose,he must really care.
  • Posted By: City of Milton: I'm glad that the City of Milton has so much money to spend and that they spend it wisely. Every time I drive through town on a nice day it never fails that someone is washing their personal vehicle at the VFD. Good to see that they budget personal car washes into the city budget. I think I'll stop in there today and see if I can wash my car as well...should be a nice day!
  • Posted By: Valorie: About four weeks ago, I sent a letter to Camden Park with a friendly suggestion to open the park to the casual visitor again. As of today, I still haven't had a response from them. There used to be a small fee for admission to anyone who just wanted to visit. Once inside the park, a visitor could buy a corn dog or pay to play a few games or ride a few rides. Now people have to pay a full admission price for all day rides, even when they don't plan to stay all day. A lot of people are grandparents who just want to watch their grandchildren ride for an hour or two. Some are young parents with small children who tire easily. As empty nesters, my husband and I would like to drop by to get a bite to eat, play some games or just walk around. Everyone I have spoken to said they would visit Camden Park a whole lot more if they didn't have to pay the full admission price. I challenge everyone to contact Camden Park and ask them to give the people a choice!
  • Posted By: to gay question: god is not a cruel and unfair god.we all have our faults.is homosuxality a bigger sin than adultry,pornography,lying,stealing, and the list goes on.the clue to these behaviors is wanting to make our lives better.we cant blame anyone but ourselves for what we do.if anyone doesnt change its what they want to do.but as long as it doesnt affect me thats between you and god.but it is wrong,just as cheating on your spouse is sin.would we tell the adulterer that its not sin and not to try being a better person,i think not.celibacy would be better than the same old behavior.these have been struggle since creation.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Losing your religion Jane Doe? What happened to "turn the other cheek"? I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are. But next time you read of someone else being "furious" or commenting on their personal issues, maybe you should keep your bible quotes to yourself.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I recently went with my church and my family to Camden Park this past weekend. Me and my 6 year old daughter rode the Spider, We thought it was going to be lots of fun, we were wrong! It was a nightmare! It went on for 10 minutes and was going way too fast! My daughter was terrified and was screaming! I was furious when the man that helped us off asked if she was okay and I said what do you think and he laughed!! I have rode this ride for many years and loved it, But this time I could tell it was different! But then it gets worse, A friend of mine that stayed at the park longer than us informed me that after we left, The spider closed down and said they had crossed wires and the ride was malfunctioning!!! My daughter can't hardly walk today and has a four inch bruise down her back! I'm taking her to the doctor in the morning. If there is something seriously wrong, I will be speaking to the owner and this situation will be takin care of!!!!!
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