My turn...

I've taken statistics in College, and I know that they can be "Skewed" or "Cooked" to reflect any Stat that is desired, depending on who is performing the task.

Does anyone think that the new "higher" unemployment rates could be the result of the recent graduates, both from College and High School entering the Job Market?

With that in mind, are the "higher" unemployment rates something to worry about or is it a trend that will historically pass?

I've heard that this trend is the same this time of the year, every year.

Is this a democratic scare tactic?

Comment me plz :-)

 

I've been researching an Idea that I heard the other day.  Do Tax Cuts actually increase Tax Revenue?   Leave me a comment. 

Thanx

~RileY~

For those of you who are not aware, There is a Military Training Facility being planned for NE Marion County Just North of Ft. McCoy School.

They are leasing the property (2,568 acres) from Ocala Lumber Company, G&M Cattle Company & MAM Properties Investments, LLC to develop:

*Air Strip

*Race Track

*Rifle Range

*Dormitories

*Hangars

*10-ton vehicle infrastructures

*Explosives bunker

Location is South of 199th Street Rd between Hwys 315 & 318 North of Ft. McCoy School.

Imagine constant NOISE POLLUTION from helicopters & aircraft over your property, SAFETY ISSUES regarding student pilot errors, AIR POLLUTION from exhaust & emissions, EXPLOSIVES stored on-site, DEGRADATION of the ENVIRONMENT, DEMAND for WATER, ROAD WEAR by supply trucks and personnel.

PRESERVE your privacy, safety, health, serenity, & rural way of life.

PROTECT your property value & the environment.

EMPOWER your American Rights to voice your view & make a difference.

PROTEST the Zoning variance to our agricultural area.

WRITE a simple letter of Objection, IN YOUR OWN WORDS to:

          Zoning Board of Marion County

            Director Michael E. May

            2710 E. Silver Springs BLVD.

            Ocala, FL  34470

             352-438-2675

             Zoning ID# 080707 SU

AND:

Show up and voice your objections.  

           Zone County Meeting 

             Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 5:30PM

             601 NE 25th Avenue

             Ocala, FL  34470

             352-438-2675

       County Commission Board Meeting

              Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 2:00PM

          601 SE 25th Avenue

               Ocala, FL  34470

                352-438-2675

TIME IS CRITICAL, PLEASE WRITE THE LETTER AND MAIL NOW!!

Stay Tuned to Riley34470's Blog for updates and news!  ~RiLeY~

             

 

             Zoning ID# 080707 SU

 

         

Tradegdy, Speed and Age do not mix well.

 

Riley34470 Blogger was there.  I saw MyfoxOrlando, but they obviously didn't recognize me and snubbed me!  anyways here is my footage!!!

I'm just kidding MyFoxOrlando!!   I still love ya!

 

 In 2004, Lafave was also charged in Marion County with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. Authorities accused her of having sex with the same boy as another teenage boy drove them around  Marion County in a sport utility vehicle.

Those charges were dropped in March 2006.

The same charges that Debra Lafave is on Probation for were dropped against her in 2006 in The Marion County Judicial System.   They  refused to prosecute because they didn't want to cause the the minor boy who "did it" with her to go through anymore "emotional trauma"  than he already has by "doing it" with a hot female teacher. 

Therefore, if she had only committed the initial crime  in this county only, rather than in addition to the county that prosecuted her, she would have already been free to roam again in search of young boys/girls.

Probation for child molestation.  Why that's just a piece of paper.

I wonder how many people will be surprised that she violated her probation, by ignoring the terms that she was "lucky"  to get in the first place.

Deputy is fired over firearm incident Sheriff's Office says man pointed gun at co-worker.
BY AUSTIN L. MILLER
STAR-BANNER
OCALA - A Marion County sheriff's deputy who admitted pointing his service weapon in the direction of other officers was terminated Tuesday, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The deputy's action reportedly was in response to what was perceived as an inappropriate remark by another deputy.

Gregory Pickering, 29, a four-year deputy with the Sheriff's Office was accused of violations related to firearm safety and the departmental operational directives and code of conduct.

"As an agency, we determined that his action was unacceptable for the Marion County Sheriff's Office. The State Attorney's Office will determine if it rises to a level of criminal violation," said Maj. David Sperring, who is in charge of the Community Policing Bureau.

Pickering said in an interview with the Star-Banner that "due to the perception of the incident, I can understand the disciplinary action. But, in light of what truly occurred, it was a misunderstanding." He added it was a misunderstanding "in the sense that [deputies] didn't see me clearing the weapon. All they saw was a weapon pointed at them. They didn't know my intentions. They thought I intended to point the weapon at them, but I did not."

Pickering said even though he has not made a final decision, he will likely appeal his dismissal.

From an Internal Affairs report prepared by Sgt. Scott Patch, Deputy Walter Ray stated on Oct. 13 around 6:48 a.m., that he and other deputies were sitting in separate patrol vehicles at the intersection of Northwest 60th Avenue and County Road 318, when Pickering arrived.

The deputies were there to investigate a robbery at the Kangaroo convenience store located at 17980 N. U.S. 441.

Ray reportedly addressed Pickering by his wife's maiden name. (Pickering had recently married a co-worker.) Pickering, the report noted, uttered an obscenity, drew his .45-caliber Sig Sauer pistol and pointed it out the driver's side window.

Ray said he wasn't fearful about Pickering's actions, "but rather became angry over the incident," according to the report. Ray said Pickering then holstered his weapon and left the scene. In the report, Ray said he "did not believe that Deputy Pickering's pistol was pointed directly at any of the deputies and was only in the general direction of the passenger compartments."

Several deputies, who were at the scene, confirmed Ray's statement. One deputy, Heather Lay, however, said she didn't hear or see Pickering display his firearm.

On Nov. 13, Pickering was told about the inquiry and two days later, Patch interviewed him. Pickering told Patch that once he heard about the robbery report, he left his home and hadn't had a chance to inspect his weapon.

The incident didn't come to light until Nov. 13 when Patch contacted Capt. David Pistarelli. At that time, Pistarelli told Patch on Nov. 6, he was told about an incident involving two deputies where one pointed a firearm at the other. Then, on Nov. 11, Sgt. Scott Byrd told Pistarelli that Ray was overheard talking about the incident. Then Pistarelli and Byrd contacted Ray, who told them about the incident.

At the scene, Pickering said he removed the magazine, along with a bullet from the chamber, and inspected his firearm. He did say he pointed his weapon "into the passenger compartments of Deputies Michael Dodd and Ray's patrol vehicles," and that he thought that Dodd was the one who had made the reference to him by his wife's former name. In the interview with the Star-Banner, Pickering said the weapon was empty.

In the report, Pickering said drawing his weapon was "a stupid thing to do." He explained that the weapon was displayed because it was already in his hands "when the comment was made and he [Pickering] talks with his hands."

The report stated in its conclusion that "Deputy Pickering's statement that the firearm was unloaded is irrelevant." It continued by saying "the perception of the deputies that witnessed the incident was that the weapon was a loaded duty firearm."

Pickering said the reference to his wife's name was "not a big deal and it doesn't offend me." He said that's "how we joke with each other."

Pickering's personnel file showed that he had been written up in the past for other incidents, including not following through on an investigation, but nothing involving anything as serious as a weapons violation. He also has been recognized for outstanding work, including several times for being the top producer of the month for having the most arrests, traffic stops, and citizen contacts.

8:05 a.m.: Justices uphold welfare home searches Associated Press Article Launched: 11/26/2007 08:03:31 AM PST
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected a challenge today to San Diego County's practice of routinely searching welfare applicants' homes without warrants and ruling out assistance for those who refuse to let them in.

The justices refused, without comment, to intervene in the case from San Diego County, where investigators from the District Attorney's Office show up unannounced at applicants' homes and conduct searches that include peeking into closets and cabinets. The visits do not require any suspicion of fraud and are intended to confirm that people are eligible for government aid.

Failure to submit to the searches, which can last an hour, disqualifies applicants from assistance.

The 10-year-old program was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of six single parents who were seeking assistance. The welfare applicants argued that the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches, protects them from the home visits.

"When the investigator conducts the home inspection, no part of the home is off-limits," they said.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the program, said the Supreme Court in 1971 allowed social workers to visit homes in New York to determine eligibility. The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, said the visits do not even constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment in part because people are free to turn away the investigators.

In dissent, however, Judge Raymond Fisher said it was unlawful for an investigator from the district attorney's office to go "walking through the applicant's home in search of physical evidence of ineligibility that could lead to criminal prosecution either for welfare fraud or other crimes unrelated to the welfare application."

First Americans All from Siberia, Study Confirms

By Dave Mosher, LiveScience Staff Writer

posted: 27 November 2007 12:05 pm ET

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Humans somehow made their way into the Americas from distant lands, but knowing precisely when and from where they made the journey are matters of heated scientific debate.

New genetic evidence, however, backs up a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait. The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past.

"We have reasonably clear genetic evidence that the most likely candidate for the source of Native American populations is somewhere in east Asia," said Noah Rosenberg, a genetic researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Rosenberg explained that the evidence stems from two genetic trends between Siberian and Native American people: One, that genetic similarity between the peoples thins out the further south a native is sampled, and two, that a unique genetic mutation can be found only in Native American and Siberian ancestors.

"If there were a large number of migrations, and most of the source groups didn’t have the variant, then we would not see the widespread presence of the mutation in the Americas," he said.

Because the harmless genetic fluke is reliably found in the two populations, Rosenberg added that the first humans of the New World likely made a single migration—not in several waves as some alternative theories posit.

Rosenberg and his team sampled DNA from 50 populations from around the world and looked specifically at 678 unique genetic markers to investigate human arrival to North America. The technique allows them to glean information about long-dead ancestors of those tested.

The scientists said genetic oddities in those genes are very fresh, which they take as a strong sign that humans migrated in a recent and single wave instead of arriving in several waves all across North and South America.

How they ventured south once traversing an icy northwestern passage, however, is another question. In Rosenberg and his colleagues' study, detailed in a recent edition of the journal PLoS Genetics, the scientists support the idea that humans migrated south along the coasts by boat rather than toughing it out on land.

"A migration route along the coast provides a slightly better fit with the pattern we see in genetic diversity," Rosenberg said.

How did we pull off a political figure at a speaking event on National TV withOUT someone getting tazed?   I'm talking about the News Conference President Bush held this afternoon.   Did you notice how many times the President had to Shut them down like children?    He didn't need any minimum-wage, paranoid, taser happy security gaurds to tase someone to shut them up!!!  You go George!!!!!!!    :-)

"Go ahead and take the next step in being a bad blogger and delete everything I said here. It only proves you need seroius mental help.'- SN withheld

HAS THIS BEEN MEDICALLY  PROVEN?  Does the way that someone blogs and presents themselves on a blog provide an ACCURATE  and HONEST window into that person's thoughts and intentions?    Does a fellow blogger become an authority on another bloggers mental status simply by looking at text on a screen?   Would you be comfortable with someone passing judgement on your character and mental status by what and how you blog on a computer site?    What did use as a gauge b4 blogs?  That means that LonelyGirl15 is real right? 

 

 

2 all the ppl out there that are trying to do an "organized blog" kinda thing.   I want you 2 know that I'm not here to do that.  I am not new to blogging and I understand the concept of it.  It's a mass of information that is being constantly released from certain sources IE(me) (you).  Me being an "individual" have different views and different directions that I want to Start and see what happens so that I can make a determination, again "individually" using the information that I have chosen to use as my source.  This may be someone that blogs alot that I always agree with when he/she puts out a blog.  Maybe I'm interested in seeing someones elses point from "Their Blog".    I'm subscribed to certain people's blogs who i like to "listen" to.  

Sometimes I don't want everyones "point of view" in my face.  

Anyways, that's about it, just letting you know that I will blog where and as much or as little as I want.  Please respect that.  Noone is under any obligation to come to my blog, yet there are people that do.

This is freedom of speech and everyone should be able to put the information from other's blogs together and form their own "organization"  This is not a government.  And Frankly I don't want it to be.  I won't be a part of it.

Thanx for the concern, but I don't need anyone to organize it for me and I choose not to participate.

God Bless the USA

 

 

Any1 evr c ppl walkin round w/ those stupID ear "bugz".?     Thay walk around and it lookz like thay r talkin 2 themselvs but thaz on da fone?    How r we, suppOssed 2 no which 1's r the crazie 1's and which 1's r on the fone?????   

Please know fellow bloggers, that I DO NOT AGREE with this guy.   I think he's nut or it's an act for subcribers on youtube