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This is how I remember life early on! HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009 Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies. 2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it. Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not sit still in class, he disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability. Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman. 2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist. Scenario 5: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock. 2009 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English. 1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college. 2009 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English. Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed. 1957 - Ants die. 2009 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. Scenario 8: Wally falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Nancy. Nancy hugs him to comfort him. 1957 - In a short time, Wally feels better and goes on playing. 2009 - Nancy is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison... Wally undergoes 5 years of therapy. This should hit every email inbox to show how stupid we have become!!

Good thing the only zoo around here is my house lol

This is the ultimate wrong to me in the world as far as Im concerned bullets are the only solution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42108748/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

I want to do the zoo one myself.......

http://www.ltgov.bc.ca/ltgov/biography.htm OK I agree with all of the it the parents responsibility to raise their children to be respectful, responsible additions to society. I did this as a parent and I am tremendously proud of all my 3 boys. I have told them all of their lives "I don't care if you are a ditch digger as long as you are a good person" (no offence to ditch diggers). My husband and I had rules and they were to be followed or there would be consiquences. In our community our High school always places close to last in some stupid list for the BC government and alot of people commplain how horrible the school is. I have always defended the teachers (as no how useless some of the parents are)and it is very true that if a child has no interest in learning, they are not going to. Case in point oldest quit school grade 11, did both grade 11 and 12 in one year and graduated with a b average, he is now the forman for a construction company. Middle child quit school in grade 10 did not go back, he hated school and now has a full time job with a demolition company. Last one graduated with a c+ average is now in collage, now this collage reuires 80% in all classes to pass. He did badly on a term exam 78% but for some reason the teacher lowered the bar for him or gave him 2% more. Now did they do that because he is an First Nations student, I sure as hell hope not. He also feels pretty down and will make that extra effort and I think that is the key is the fact that he saw his own failure didnt blame anyone else for it and recognised that he had to try harder as he understands how much money this is costing his parents. Teachers and the community are only tools in raising our children us as parents are the one responsible for our childre. Now as far as the artical I have posted above. This man is a very good example of where it becomes the childs responsibility for their own destiny. Judge Point use to come here for court and he never let anyone get away with anything just because they are native. My freind was the court clerk in one of his postings when there was a case involving two young men that were committing serious crimes. Judge point listened to them whine and cry around about how their parents were alcoholics, abusive ect. When they were finished this is what he said to them My parents were alcoholics My parents were abusive My parents never gave anything towards my education And then he said there is a time in a PERSONS life that they need to take responsibilty for their own actions and being native is not an excuse for bad behaviour. He is now our LT Govenor General Now with all of that stuff with in each racial group there is also racisum. When my husband was growing up here because his family didnt live on reserve he wasnt concidered indian enough, and because his mother was native he wasnt considered white enough. Also there is the clan issue, he is from a clan that works hard and is very well known in the community, the ones who want to sit on their asses and collect social assistance will go to him and call "white boy" ect. There is so many types of racisum in our world, it's just not a topic that will go away as when we solve one issue another group will call the rasist card and it will always be one revolving door. All we can do is be responsible for ourselves in the end. My racisum is "I cant stand people that have NO Common sense" and I have no time for them at all.

Personally I dont give a crap He is rude and if he uses that screen name just to be rude then Admin should ban it. That is the problem with being on the internet you never really know who you are dealing with or what their mental state may be.

Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars..... See if they slow down. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to Expresso. In the memo field of all your cheques, write "for marijuana." Skip down the hall, rather than walk, and see how many looks you get. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face. Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go". Sing along at the opera. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you "have a headache." When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I won! I won!" When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives! They're loose!" Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go." Pickup a box of condoms at the pharmacy, go to the counter and ask where the fitting room is. (i know a few here that would do this one) Send this to someone to make them smile!! It's called "THERAPY" Enjoy the ride, life is short!!

OK I will bite on this one. It always amazed me that it was the skinny little pecker heads that teased the fat kids. And normally the bigger one can beat the crap out of them as per what happened in the video. The reason that the big kid got suspended is that he really could have done some serious injury to the little one. I hope this kids parents are supporting him at home as there is only so much that a bullied kid can take. There is no need for bulling in our society at any level and it takes parents to teach that to our children. I have been lucky with my boys (scrappy as they are) they do not tolerate bullying ever and when they see it they will step in. My youngest use to go to the extent of wearing pink socks (they were mine of course) just to get the bullies to say something. They never did, I really wish the more kids that are confident in their own being would take the stance for the ones that dont have the self esteme. For example this artical http://www.suite101.com/content/anti-bullying-campaign-in-canada-a219531 Happy

Does independant mean alone because that is the only I can understand out of your garble

Wonder what Freud would have to say about crotch having a white dog as his avitar.....

Whats really a shame is most white chicks will date a mexican or asian, but cant bring themselves to go black.

As someone that lives in a distinct culture it can be a difficult situtation at times. I have great difficulty in thinking that role playing would be of any great advantage. If you want to learn cultural you should have a class just with the facts and they should be pertanant to the medical field for ex First Nations have a bruise looking birthmark and in many cases are on the buttocks and mistaken for abuse, if you dont know what the culture is just ask they will tell you. As for Crotch just because someone dosnt sleep with a different ethnic group they are racist wow I have to admit that is one of the most just plain dumb thing i think iv seen in actual print. EVER

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We had a similar case about 6 months ago. Our who had life style issues (etoh for 50 years) collapsed in his home. The gf called the amubulance and was instructed to do CPR, she said she couldnt do it (again etoh issues) so she went next door to get help. The gentleman came over and started CPR. That was about a 5 min span. We arrived approx 5-7 min later, so did the local fire chief. Between all of us we continued CPR attached the AED, applied O2. 3 no shocks from the AED and off we went. That was about another 10 minutes. We arrived 5 minutes later and another 1-2 min to get in the ER room, it took about 3 minutes to get the drugs going. Approx 5 mins later they were going to call him gone and they did one more check, He actually had a pulse. Once he was stabalized enough to be medivac, they had him sent to Vancouver. Now the pt didn't survive more than 48 hrs and Im pretty sure it was due to his life style but it did show is that good CPR asap will make a real difference in the out come of pt. I sure like the "If they dont look dead, then dont stop" And come to think of it he really didnt look dead.....

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This is a problem all around rural area's. In my situation we have streets and roads. If I get a Avenue in the address I know that it is a different community. Most of the houses here do not have numbers on them, and I have complained about it but on deaf ears. Then the next kicker for us is on the reserve they have changed all the English signs to the Haida laungage so even is I get the right name I cant translate. After years of this we finally discovered that every road had certain numbers assigned and they are all in numerical order so now we count the houses as we go down the road. Another problem that comes up is that there are some streets and roads with the same name. We were called out a few weeks past to Eagle Street for a possible stroke. I did ask dispatch if they were sure that they were sending us to the right Eagle, they said yes, then I asked for a pt name as it will help me in finding my pt. They didnt have one , so anyways they had the wrong address and then sent us in the right direction, thank god the Pt was fine as it delayed us by 20 mins. The funny thing was the pts husbands first words to us were Im sorry I think I gave them street instead of road. We have 2 fire depts in my area and they have both had the campaines of addresses on the fridge and it has worked good so far.