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GNTLGNT said:
...that's one of the issues with corporation owned Institutions, they pay nothing-so take anybody wanting a job....training is poor to non-existent, therefore security is compromised and safety is absent...this is a definite case of "you get what you pay for".....
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The reporter that wrote this article was a prisoner in Iran for a couple of years so he knows a bad prison when he sees one. ;-D If you read the article, I think there is a link to the article he wrote on his Iran experience. That's a good article too.
 
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fljoe0 said:
I read this article in Mother Jones on private prisons. A reporter went undercover for 4 months as a prison guard at one of these private facilities. It's an interesting read but very long. It's amazing how easily he was hired but I guess with what they were paying, they'd take anyone. He didn't lie on his application and even gave his real name. I'm sure they are doing a little better on their background checks after hiring a reporter. ;-D

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation | Mother Jones
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Good article. Thank you.
 
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Sigmund said:
Awww...I don't think Mr. Bush was *smirking* or dancing a *jovial jig*. I think he got caught up in the music (and maybe forgot where he was). (I don't know what that hand gesture to people in the audience was about. :shame:)


George's jig: Bush's dance at Dallas memorial goes viral


I am concerned about possible dementia. :dispirited:
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...he was swaying and moving to an uplifting piece of music, and the gesture was merely an acknowledgement to someone he saw in front of him....people make way to much of this stuff...it's not disrespectful to have your spirit moved by the music and to celebrate lives well led....that's not dementia, he was always a bit goofy....
 
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GNTLGNT said:
...he was swaying and moving to an uplifting piece of music, and the gesture was merely an acknowledgement to someone he saw in front of him....people make way to much of this stuff...it's not disrespectful to have your spirit moved by the music and to celebrate lives well led....that's not dementia, he was always a bit goofy....
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I'm not sure. Laura is looking at him oddly, almost like a, "stop" look.
 
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fljoe0 said:
Why was this man shot?

Miami shooting: Man was on ground with hands up, he says - CNN.com
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He was resisting arrest, running away, had a bad attitude...in a few hours we'll know he had a warrant from years ago for unpaid tickets, had gangster stuff on his Facebook, he's illegal, he had domestic violence record, he's a criminal...

And remember, the video doesn't show everything. And even if it did you don't see what's happening from all possible POV so video doesn't prove anything. :p
 
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Stranger waiting in line behind Texas teacher pays for her school supplies
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Lester Brown (left) poses with teacher Sabrina Drude after paying for her $97-worth of school supplies.



SAN ANTONIO -- Sabrina Drude was doing what many teachers do before the start of the school year -- shopping for supplies for her students -- when she noticed a man standing in line at Wal-Mart examining her items.

With a cart full of hundreds of notebooks, pencils and markers, the seventh grade teacher was anticipating an eye roll or two as she checked out.

Instead, she got a question, several actually. The man behind her, noticing she didn’t have any children with her, asked her why she needed the supplies.

The teacher at Francis Scobee Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, explained that she teaches in a very low socioeconomic area where kids can’t always afford what their peers can.

Touched by the woman’s kind gesture, the man offered to pay for everything in the woman’s cart. She thanked him, but said she couldn’t accept his money.

But when $97 flashed on the cash register, the man, later identified as Lester Brown, jumped between Drude and the cashier with a bill in his hand.

“He said, ‘Put your wallet away,’ and I just started crying,” Drude told CBS News. “That’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Drude didn’t understand why someone would do something so sweet for a stranger.

“Because teachers don’t get the recognition that they deserve,” Drude recalled Brown telling her.

Throughout the year, Drude often spends money out of her own pocket to benefit kids in her class. The $250 tax deduction that teachers receive doesn’t even put a dent into what we put into our classrooms, Drude said.

“I teach in a very low socioeconomic area,” Drude explained. “Some of my kids can’t afford what their peers can. I don’t want them to have to deal with that embarrassment or them not even wanting to tell me.”

Thanks to Brown, Drude’s students have the supplies that they desperately needed.

And Drude said she plans to tell her students about the man’s good deed.

“This is exactly the type of person I want to influence my kids to be,” said Drude, adding that she plans to ask Brown to join her class for a pizza party. “I want him to inspire my kids just like he inspired me; if any of my kids grew up to be half the man he is I’d be very proud.”
 
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