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Jythier's Articles In Current Events
November 10, 2007 by Jythier
Before the 2007 baseball season, Jordan's Furniture did two things - one, they ran a promotion on certain items, saying that if the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, any of the (certain) furniture bought would be free. Second, they took out a little insurance policy to cover it in case of a win. I don't know the odds here, but someone must have to underwrite it. Also, why couldn't the guys just go off to Vegas and put enough money down on that bet to cover it? It's the same principle...
October 19, 2007 by Jythier
Our children can get some tax-payer birth control and start screwing right away. No more waiting until you're married, no more waiting until you're even in a long-term relationship (well, a month is long term, right?), no more waiting at all. Kids need to be sexualized right here, right now, get 'em going. I mean, it's not like we can stop them, so let's start assisting them with it. If there's no one to catch you, you can't get caught, right? So where's the deterent? Then, when t...
July 1, 2007 by Jythier
Link "THE LAWSUIT CITES data collected from states by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, saying that in five of the six years between 2000 and 2005, Rhode Island had “the single highest rate of substantiated child abuse or neglect occurring to children in foster care among all states that reported data.” And those rates “far exceeded benchmarks set by the federal government.” In the 2004 federal fiscal year, 1.32 percent of foster children in Rhode Island were maltreate...