Can we get out of the Middle East, plez!

reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by bionicarm http:///t/392941/can-we-get-out-of-the-middle-east-plez/60#post_3493443
Those incidents are a rarity. Of course parents are responsible for their children. The "problem children" are those that come from lower-income or single parent families. These are the kids you see running around the streets at 2AM on a school night. The single parents have little control when they are concentrating working low-paying jobs and trying to keep food on the table. Now not all single parents have problems. Those with middle-to-high incomes have a history of having very responsible and successful klids. It depends on the environment they were raised. My younger daughter has a friend who is 17 that lost her mother to cancer two years ago. The father disappeared, and this girl took control of all the finaces, including maintaining the home she's lived in for the last 15 years. The only family she has locally is her 22 year old sister. For about a year, she was living in her house alone, with a state-approved guardian helping her with finances. She works a part time job at Baskin Robbins, and still takes AP courses and maintains a straight-A average in school. The moral of the story is not all kids have to have the support of their parents. It's the support of friends, the community, and in this girl's case, her teachers that encouraged and inspired her to fight through the adversities and make something successful out of her life.
Bigger than the inner city single parent issue is the inner city culture that causes problems. A lot of two parent households there with problem kids too. For whatever reason their parents don't want to go against the tide and make their kid toe the line. We had it pretty easy where we raised our kid because there were 3 high schools in town. One was more upscale, one was in the university area and quite frankly full of freaks and one was more rural and had a lot of cowboy wannabes. Our kid went to the school with the wannabes. Most of the problem kids were in the university area but even there the problems were a drip compared to what you see in big metro areas, that is why I moved to Montana in the first place.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Now CNN is reporting the murdered ambassador had written in his journal about his concern of being a target and lax security. Of course the 0bama administration is trying to deflect attention away from their failure and are attacking CNN for reporting it. Nixon had nothing on these clowns when it come to trying to handle the press.
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by reefraff http:///t/392941/can-we-get-out-of-the-middle-east-plez/80#post_3493626
Now CNN is reporting the murdered ambassador had written in his journal about his concern of being a target and lax security. Of course the 0bama administration is trying to deflect attention away from their failure and are attacking CNN for reporting it. Nixon had nothing on these clowns when it come to trying to handle the press.
It's not just the Obabm Administration lambasting CNN for releasing that diary. His family isn't too pleased as well.
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/392941/can-we-get-out-of-the-middle-east-plez/80#post_3493715
His journal was recorded in a government owned notebook. His family have nothing to do with it, it's an official journal.
It was a PERSONAL journal of his final accounts while serving at the Embassy:
The U.S. State Department criticized CNN for airing information based on the late U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens' "personal journal," the Daily Mail reported.
Politico explained that CNN reported on content from the journal Sept. 19, but it wasn't until Sept. 21 that CNN's Anderson Cooper said its original source for that report was the journal which CNN said it "found on the floor of the largely unsecured consulate compound where he was fatally wounded." The Sept. 23 CNN report on the journal, "CNN finds, returns journal belonging to late U.S. ambassador," notes that "the journal consists of just seven pages of handwriting" and CNN "took the newsworthy tips" it found in the journal "and corroborated them with other sources."
The State Department's Philippe Reines issued a statement about CNN's reporting accusing CNN of invasion of privacy and breaking "its promise to the family" of Stevens, according to the Huffington Post. Reines said:
“What they're not owning up to is reading and transcribing Chris’s diary well before bothering to tell the family or anyone else that they took it from the site of the attack. Or that when they finally did tell them, they completely ignored the wishes of the family, and ultimately broke their pledge made to them only hours after they witnessed the return to the Unites States of Chris’s remains.
"Whose first instinct is to remove from a crime scene the diary of a man killed along with three other Americans serving our country, read it, transcribe it, email it around your newsroom for others to read, and only when their curiosity is fully satisfied thinks to call the family or notify the authorities?"
Further Reines said CNN had contacted Stevens' family or permission to report but only waited "four days." (See the full statement on Huffington Post's site.)
But, CNN responded by arguing the journal was newsworthy, saying in part to Reuters
"We think the public had a right to know what CNN had learned from multiple sources about the fears and warnings of a terror threat before the Benghazi attack which are now raising questions about why the State Department didn't do more to protect Ambassador Stevens and other U.S. personnel."
Further, CNN added to Politico that it "ultimately reported Friday on the existence of the journal was because leaks to media organizations incorrectly suggested CNN had not quickly returned the journal, which we did." CNN said it handed the journal over to "a third party" for Stevens' family "within less than 24 hours" and that "Out of respect to the family, we have not quoted from or shown the journal."
We're writing to the State Department for further comment and will update with any response.
We wrote yesterday about the U.S. Embassy in Algiers' claim that Algerian newspaper Ennahar ran a fake photo of Stevens. The newspaper defended the photo.
 
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