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We got exactly what we expected.

Yes, there are going to be some isolated incidents. That's why you need to have a _Federal_ minimum wage. That way when a bad manager responds by cutting hours and telling everybody to work harder the employees can do this .

Those of us who oppose it are usually castigated as "alt-right" haters who "cling to our guns and religion"...

Your president has expanded civil forfeiture.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/polit...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

https://reason.com/blog/2017/0...

I'm assuming nothing.
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news...

See where it says facebook=27%?

Modern society disagrees with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/tammy-cooper-texas-mom-arrested-kids-unsupervised-video_n_1900113.html

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/01/15/parents-charged-with-neglect-for-kids-playing-outside/21821723/

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/mom-charged-with-felony-for-letting-son-walk-to-park-alone-video/

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/free-range-parents-found-responsible-child-neglect-allowing/story?id=29363859

Seriously, have we degenerated as a culture to the point where we need scientists telling people to stay inside during a thunderstorm?

Apparently so. And again, and again and again.

The practice of too-quick yellow lights was SOP for red-light cameras for years, because otherwise they would have failed to generate enough revenue to justify themselves.

None of this is new, it's been covered in the main-stream media before, Florida tried to do this state-wide and got caught a year and a half ago. Here's the map identifying the traps.

The practice of too-quick yellow lights was SOP for red-light cameras for years, because otherwise they would have failed to generate enough revenue to justify themselves.

None of this is new, it's been covered in the main-stream media before, Florida tried to do this state-wide and got caught a year and a half ago. Here's the map identifying the traps.

Really don't worry. "They" are already a step ahead of you: http://www.wtsp.com/story/news...

You mean like this article?

In Florida, your behavior is a moving violation equivalent to driving on the wrong side of a double-yellow. You may not like it, but you are breaking the law even if everyone else is speeding. Get to the right lane.

No it's not. Just last year, Florida passed a law which fines people $60 for driving MORE THAN 10 MPH BELOW the speed limit in the LEFT LANE on a highway.

Given that they had to institute a specific law for people driving FAR BELOW the speed limit in the LEFT lane, I sincerely doubt they are going to pull someone over for driving AT the speed limit in the CENTER lane.

I owe readers of my previous comment an apology. Red light cameras were installed in a town near where I live at. At the time, I read a piece about them, including statements that indicated that the contracting company offered incentives to reduce the yellow light time. Unfortunately, I can't find the piece in the time since and so my previous comment is only partly valid. I will point out that several places where these are installed HAVE reduced the yellow light duration -- http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=316418. Again, my apologies.

Indeed it's not, as demonstrated by these recent events.

Actually, I've pretty much only have seen the vitriol spewing forth with idiocy from the usual race baiting crowd. Most reasonable, thinking people have remained silent on the issue, waiting for the wheels to turn.

Say it isn't so!

http://winterhaven.wtsp.com/news/news/former-kkk-leader-mayoral-candidate-speaks/49273

The late Senator Robert Byrd would be proud.

It is serious shit, lying to a school to gain access to their kids.

These 6 and 7 year old children were edited into the video in a way that would achieve maximum shock value. That is a good working definition of "pornographic."

The publication of the video violates any notion of privacy, any notion of informed consent by the parents, the teacher, the children or the school.

The law in Michigan does not give you a "Photoshop" defense. The depiction of a child - or any part of child - that is pornographic in context is criminal.

It doesn't matter that the children near heard the obsence lyrics. It matters that audiences were being led to believe they were part of the performance.

That a singer whose career has been going nowhere fast did this simply as a "prank" stretches credibility to the breaking point:

Parents learned on Wednesday that the video was first shown on Valentine's Day while Emory was performing at a local comedy club

Evan Emory's YouTube classroom video turns into felony sex charge for singer

Now, maybe you can argue that the judges at the roadblock are not applying the same standard they normally do in the office. But that's not a criticism of the program, it's a criticism of the performance of the judge that (allegedly, as no evidence of this claim is put forth) loosened his standards.

From TFA:

It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test.

The article implies that the judge will just issue the warrant. Not that he will consider it, or hear arguments, or look at evidence: "issues a warrant."

So you're saying that there are no situations in which someone may need to be killed?

No. But with guns it rarely works out that way.

Your strawman about stopping a rape with a gun is matched with my strawman about your toddler shooting you with your own gun, your toddler shooting another toddler with your gun, your toddler shooting herself with your own gun...(man these toddlers are dangerous; good thing we got guns to protect ourselves from them, huh)...you shooting your toddler and yourself with your own gun, you taking the law into your own hands, etc.

Firearms exist because firearms exist. Your rationalization for the massive proliferation of firearms exists because you think it makes you safer, when it doesn't.

What I find strange is that the actual burglary culprits were charged with murder when the person who died appears to have been shot by the homeowner: http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=149990&catid=8

Charging them with burglary - fair.
Endangering lives - fair.
Murder? Sounds daft to me.

Is this sort of thing normal in the USA or just Florida?

Not exactly the same, but... http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=111489&provider=top