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10/15/09
They do have an out of pocket maximum per year to protect the little guy like me though. The most I'll ever have to pay in a year is $15,000. That's just a little over half of my annual pre-tax salary! Yay health insurance! We have the best system EVAR!
WTB Obamacare."
I got this in an email from my boyfriend this morning and feel that it needs to be shared.
(WTB is world of warcraft lingo for "Want to Buy" for those that don't play.) #billnelson
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And the Everglades is a truly amazing place, guys. I think yearly field trips and Girl Scout stuff sort of numbed me to how unique it really is, but there is no place on Earth like it.
09/29/09
I love this series. It was so interesting it took me away from House. I went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton this year, and it was so beautiful in both parks words could not do it justice.
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I understand the beautiful wild birds causing a hat frenzy and whatnot, but what's nature's explanation for the current FL trend of mulleted Nascar caps? And how can we use Congress to reduce this horrific fashion-ethics violation??
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Recidivism rates are 43% for sex offenders. 68% for non-sex-offenders. Keep in mind these are for all reoffenses including sex offenders who were later arrested for drugs or writing bad checks. Only 5.3% of sex offenders were arrested for another sex crime. That's a terrible thing when it happens and people get angry in cases like Jaycee Dugard or Polly Klass. But instead of trying to target the 6% who are likely to reoffend we have just gone after all of them.
Painting all sex offenders with the same brush only makes it hard for us to identify the truly dangerous ones. It also causes people to have a false sense of security. A parent thinks their child is "safe" because they don't live near sex offenders when, statistically, the people most likely to harm that child are family members and friends. It's almost as if people want to create this "other" group to deny the reality that sex abuse happens in many families.
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He was arrested at age 13 for touching another kid's privates, for a split second, nonviolently. A kid his own age. He was sexually confused, and felt horrible for it, and confessed immediately. He had been molested at a young age himself. He was tried as an adult and sent to jail for 6 months.
He thought I would leave him when he finally told me his secret- the reason he couldn't stay over my house (neighbors have kids), the reason he tried to kill himself at 17 and cut himself for years.
So yeah, I think people need to consider that not all sex offenders are malicious predators, but are victims themselves, whose lives are severely screwed by the ridiculous laws this country has enacted.
09/25/09
Wow! I did a little more research and I am stunned that this sort of thing can happen pretty regularly. I'm so sorry for what has happened to your boyfriend.
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Why do they *have* to evict the families who already live there? I mean sure there might be other places to live, but there might not be. I feel like in making one group not homeless, they're risking another group with children, becoming homeless.
Thought: I know they have to live *somewhere* so why can't they just use a vacant apt. building? When the economy collapsed, a lot of already finished apt. buildings were abandoned or foreclosed (I'm probably using the wrong term, forgive me) on. I know where I live there's more than a few, and I'm positive there's some down in Florida. I mean, they used one in NY to house actual homeless people (and on the governments dollar!) why can't they do that here?
While it's unfair for the sex offenders, and I feel bad for them (slightly), it's unfair for the families, too.
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I was actually referring to something like this, which I referenced in my OP: [consumerist.com]
No need to be snarky.
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upthread @MadgeCypselus describes the innocent act that got her boyfriend smacked with the "sex offender" label at the tender age of 13. i don't think that the sex offender label is fair for the "crimes" that some of these people commit. i wish that there could be at least two levels of sex offenders -- divided perhaps between those types of crimes that are more likely to be repeated than those that aren't.
the way we treat sex offenders is so contrary to the general idea that our judiciary system allows you to serve time for your crime, and then be allowed to try again at a normal life.
/rant. sorry.
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However, I have to say that your opinion is not shared by all survivors of child sex abuse. Like, say, me.
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