Deborah Collins

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Earl Granville September 5, 2016

Earl Granville This is a gem we found on the #AtlanticCity boardwalk, remembering our #KoreanWarVeterans. Modern day wounded vets....we are very glorified and respected in todays society, and I'm grateful for that...Here's to our past warriors who may not have had that privilege. May you never be forgotten. ??#KoreanWarMemorial

Earl Granville
This is a gem we found on the #AtlanticCity boardwalk, remembering our #KoreanWarVeterans.
Modern day wounded vets….we are very glorified and respected in todays society, and I’m grateful for that…Here’s to our past warriors who may not have had that privilege. May you never be forgotten. ??#KoreanWarMemorial

Shorpy September 5, 2016

February 1943. "Daytona Beach, Florida, street scene." Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information; Photobomb by Humphrey Bogart.

February 1943. “Daytona Beach, Florida, street scene.” Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information; Photobomb by Humphrey Bogart.

Happy Labor Day!

Labor Day has its origins in the labor union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Labor Day

 

Alaska Labor Day Wknd Traffic Watch traffic “back-ups” in real time.

Greater Anchorage area traffic cams

 

Links to your favorite road and weather cam’s?

Do you, or someone you know  have a weather cam?

I still want a home weather station, especially a wind gauge.  No desire to have a home weather  cam.

 

Mapping Alaska September 4, 2016

Laurel Andrews: Alaska maps released this week are most precise ever

 

Alaska Public Lands Information Centers

 

Alaska Mapped and the Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative

Carol Swartz September 4, 2016

Carol Swartz is a member of the Alaska Women’s Network (AWN website updated soon, maybe next week).

Dana Stabenow: Introducing Carol Swartz

Courts & Sentencing September 4, 2016

  • Filed under FYI

A 21-year-old woman in the small town of Hawley, Pennsylvania is facing life in prison for selling heroin to a person who then died of an overdose. Brittany Ann Banscher is being charged under a new initiative that’s aggressively targeting heroin trafficking in Pennsylvania. It’s part of a growing number of states that are using “drug dealer liability” or “death by delivery” laws to stringently punish drug dealers. An earlier version of Pennsylvania’s law was ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court.

Anna Merlan: Woman Charged Under ‘Death by Delivery’ Law With Selling Heroin That Led to Overdose

 

 

Comments Welcome:

Across the board sentencing crimes in the US, or each state?

Would that help eliminate disparate punishments and court costs?
For example:
After receiving a driver’s license should there be a standard sentence for all criminal acts while driving? Raise the legal age for driving to 18, they could then be sentenced as adults. First time offense equates to x punishment. Each re-offense for the same act doubles or triples the punishment.  Age, race and gender is not a consideration with the severity of the crime.

Is the reason for the crime a consideration for sentencing?  A crime of mercy such as  assisted suicide?

How does equate the crime to the damage of the victim? Age of the perpetrator and age of the victim(s). Physical and psychological damages?   Long term effects of the crime?

Right now my focus is on physical and/or mental cruelty.  if the act is posted on the internet, it can not be erased.  It is a perpetual hell for the victim.

Bullying is another criminal topic.

I am going to stop for now~

Semi’s Bad, Good and Almost September 4, 2016

Bad:

Truck Driver Surprised To Find He Was Dragging A Car Down The Highway

 

Good:

Justin T. Westbrook: Terrifying Video Perfectly Explains The Purpose Of Runaway Truck Ramps

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mxer: In CO, we’ve got one that goes nearly straight up! Judging by the video, there isn’t much control when you hit the gravel, making it butt clinching. Of course your truck is already out of control so you might already be in code brown.

 

Almost~

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DeliciousTurboSoup: Here’s a good one from today on the same exact ramp

 

drluccia:  If you use it, you also get to pay the cost of restoring it, get a ticket for losing control of your truck, and if your truck is company-owned, you’ll most likely get fired, again for losing control of your truck. If you don’t use it, you and numerous others just might die as your rig hurtles to the inevitable plunge off a cliff.

 

 

Images September 4, 2016

 

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Ron Howard’s Beatlemania September 4, 2016

John Paul Titlow:  Ron Howard’s Eight Days A Week

Perception September 4, 2016

Dante would have added another level of hell in Inferno if he’d known about high school when he’d written his poem.
Jodi Thomas
Lone Heart Pass

Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie