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In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost'(NPR)
NPR ^ | 12/8/15 | Reginald Dwayne Betts & NPR

Posted on 12/08/2015 2:02:38 PM PST by Drango

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To: Macoozie
That's an attorney I wanna hire! /s

Maybe one of the youths he defends will shank him.

There was a guy here in Washington state that kept stabbing his attorneys, with whatever he could find, pencils, pens. In a testament to attorney intelligence, he managed to stab three of them before they stopped working with him.

The Everett Herald link

21 posted on 12/08/2015 2:25:05 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Drango

It’s all Reagan’s fault. /s


22 posted on 12/08/2015 2:26:09 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: Rinnwald; Bryanw92

Yeah, but did you guys have braces?


23 posted on 12/08/2015 2:26:33 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Drango
This punk-ass bitch whines about being sentenced to a real prison for using a gun to commit a carjacking?

Where the F did he plan on going if he got popped, Junior High School Prison?

24 posted on 12/08/2015 2:28:00 PM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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To: Drango
And so when I think about the bastards of the Reagan era, when I think about what didn't happen for us, I think we were essentially abandoned by society in large ways, and you can't look at our lives and see that circle of love and care and nurturing around us.

So what was Reagan supposed to do, Reggie? Let the crack dealers off the hook so they could come back to your neighborhood and hook more of your people on crack? And if you wonder why you didn't have a "circle of love" around you, ask your mother. She's the one who should have been supporting and nurturing you, not Ronald Reagan. What an idiot.

25 posted on 12/08/2015 2:31:43 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: muglywump

Though I really disagree with NPR hosts being blatantly leftist and worthy of ridicule, I now feel poorly poking fun of her voice.
Apparently she suffers from a neurological voice disorder.

http://www.npr.org/people/2101067/diane-rehm

In 1998, Rehm’s career nearly ended because of spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder that causes strained, difficult speech. Rehm sought treatment, returned to the show, and called attention to the condition. The National Council on Communicative Disorders recognized her work with a Communication Award, and ABC’s Nightline devoted an entire program to a conversation with Rehm about her disorder. In 2011, Rehm was awarded the Voice Education Research Awareness (VERA) Award from The Voice Foundation for her sustained contributions to the field of voice communication.

Rehm is a successful author of three autobiographical books: Finding My Voice (Knopf, 1999), in which she describes her childhood, marriage, career, and voice disorder;


26 posted on 12/08/2015 2:34:14 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: DuncanWaring; Bryanw92
Yeah, but did you guys have braces?

Yes.

But I didn't have any excellent adventures until I got them off.

27 posted on 12/08/2015 2:34:22 PM PST by Rinnwald
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And the gun I had was on safety, and I didn't even know how to operate the gun.

Look here, Yale Law School student -- if you really didn't know how to "operate the gun" then you would have no way of knowing whether or not the safety was on.

28 posted on 12/08/2015 2:35:13 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Macoozie; Scirparius; FreedomPoster

See post #28


29 posted on 12/08/2015 2:39:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rinnwald
I was 16 in 1980, and managed not to carjack anyone. Damn you, President Reagan! (sarc)

This punk was born in 1980 when Carter was President, and Bubba was president when he committed his crime, so naturally it would be Reagan's fault...

30 posted on 12/08/2015 2:39:35 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Drango
I took my son to a museum in Chicago and we were watching a short clip about woolly mammoths, and something I saw really struck me as profound: If you see a site of trauma, a site of huge tragedy, a mudslide or something ... you'll see the children in the middle of a circle and all of the mothers around those children.

And so when I think about the bastards of the Reagan era, when I think about what didn't happen for us, I think we were essentially abandoned by society in large ways, and you can't look at our lives and see that circle of love and care and nurturing around us.

He doesn't realize that society was protecting it's children from him. He was the danger.

31 posted on 12/08/2015 2:43:22 PM PST by toast
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To: Drango

I got robbed at gunpoint once when my driver’s side car window was down from just having gone through a McDonald’s Drive-Thru on a balmy day. The exit to the street was behind the building, and there was nobody around that day, until a guy like this guy (only older, maybe 40) stuck an automatic in the window and said, “Gimme yo munny.”

I gave him my money without hesitation and blessed him, speaking kindly to him and he ran off. I went immediately to the precinct police; they posted an inaccurate APB and refused to correct it. I looked at mug shots and didn’t see him so they rode me around the projects (I am a white woman and I was young then). I didn’t see him there, either. I later heard he also robbed the Burger King next to the McD where he robbed me. I got pneumonia from the stress and lost 20 pounds. Easiest diet ever.

He looked like someone who worked for a living, yet got into drugs over his head. He only got $20 from me because it was a Thursday and I was low on cash, as he must have been himself. But it has cost me thousands in all the 25 years since from stress reactions to situations and also from always running the car air conditioner so that I never again have driven anywhere with the car window down, even when I moved far out into the suburbs. Besides the move itself to a higher tax base, there has also been the extra expense of increased mileage from widely skirting various neighborhoods I once bravely sailed on through, believing in the overall low crime stats that existed there in our city, where one of my big clients was the metropolitan police headquarters, working directly with the Commissioner and his staff — a thing that has no influence whatsoever when there is a gun in your face.


32 posted on 12/08/2015 2:43:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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If this punk was so underserved by society -- who was paying for his orthodontia?
33 posted on 12/08/2015 2:52:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Drango

That is a gold star recruiting drive for the FSA.


34 posted on 12/08/2015 3:03:29 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Scirparius
And the gun I had was on safety, and I didn't even know how to operate the gun.

Not knowing how to operate the weapon, how did he know the safety was in fact on????

35 posted on 12/08/2015 3:08:41 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: BenLurkin

Us.


36 posted on 12/08/2015 3:14:09 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Drango
feh...
37 posted on 12/08/2015 3:18:57 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Albion Wilde

Wow. Sorry you went through all of that.


38 posted on 12/08/2015 3:47:45 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Drango
Liberals have this screwy idea that if the fed gov. doesn't specifically tell would-be thugs that it cares for them, then the thugs have no choice but to go out and commit crimes.

Both Reagan and Thatcher were blamed for every bad thing that happened during their terms in office. Because (sniff, sniff) those nasty Republicans and Tories just didn't care (sob).

39 posted on 12/08/2015 3:52:03 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Drango

Don’t steal cars at gunpoint.

L


40 posted on 12/08/2015 3:55:36 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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