Two hours of 60 Minutes last night and all repeat stories. Fuckers. Probably didn't want to compete with the NFL
El Chapo popping up out of the sewer and jacking two straight cars that broke down is vintage Mexico.
The worst part about these terrorist kidnappings is that the people who are over there that get taken are some of the best human beings out there. This guy was an aid worker. He literally dedicated his life to going to less fortunate parts of the world and helping people, and this is his outcome.
This Coal CEO looks like Paul Bearer. Also, how many sad stories as 60 minutes done about West Virginia. What a seemingly terrible place.
Death penalty story was really good. Wish they would've focused on the Hispanic guy vs the crazy fat white guy. Basically a for/against death penalty argument.
Team in favor of (sparingly using) the death penalty. Seems like the Hispanic guy in the segment shouldn't have gotten it. Not sure what the full story is and, as much as I love 60 Minutes, I don't pretend to think they always tell us the full, unbiased story in these types of segments because they don't.
Not 60 Minutes related, but I also think Sunday Morning is also a fantastic show. I especially enjoyed the Death By Selfie segment yesterday. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-by-selfie/
That assisted suicide piece was absolutely heartbreaking. Anyone who liked that should check out "How to die in Oregon"
St. Benedict's Prep story was awesome. Amazing to see kids from some of the roughest neighborhoods in the country flourish.
I like the peer leadership program they have going. It is amazing how kids will not listen to anyone but their peers sometimes. I coach football and baseball, and we use the peer stuff a good bit. Like if a kid is acting up, make the whole team do punishment exercises and the one who got the team in trouble be the one to lead the count. No one wants to let their guys down, so usually it brings their best out. We also let the team decide the captains. The segment about Dr. West was solid as well. I certainly don't agree with everything he does, but it seems like he sees through a good bit of the BS.
Yeah I know. I wasn't trying to act like I invented the wheel or anything, just saying how I like it, and pointing out a real life example of it working on a smaller scale.
The part where the head guy was saying that school is rarely/never a question of intellect was amazing. If all K-12 schools embraced that, our education system probably wouldn't be such a mess.
My thoughts as well. Id be interested to see how they got to that point. Here it would have to be an incredibly long transition, if ever.
They are all about rehab and not punishment for anyone. To the point that their "cells" are basically dorm rooms with all the amenities. If you are a good prisoner who follows the rules they give you, you then get work release. Even if you're a murderer. The one guy they interviewed was a murderer and got a life sentence but he's served good time so he's likely going to get out in less than 20 years.
One thing that stuck out to me when I thought about how it would work here.... In the US we have way more homeless people. Homeless people that would kill (literally) to be able to live like those German "prisoners". Thus....we'd have to fix the homeless problem first.
Be interesting to see more about the issues they touched on. Islamic radicalism was hinted at, but feel like it could be a big issue as I'm sure it doesn't vibe with fitting back into society. It seems like that is by far the best prison and from the looks of it they have tons of different tiers of prisons with small populations. Curious to see the bottom of the barrel one. Really like the philosophy though and is already making an impact here.
The piece from Sunday on Congressional Fundraising was absolutely infuriating. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congress-becoming-telemarketers/
Was going to go down this path once I saw the notification from the reply. Then I realized I didn't have the energy. Enjoy
You can feel free to do all of the mental health and homelessness research you want to do. At any rate, I think it's a huge issue, hence why I said it'd be important to start there "More than 124,000 – or one-fifth – of the 610,000 homeless people across the USA suffer from a severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. They're gripped by schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression — all manageable with the right medication and counseling but debilitating if left untreated."
I don't know and I haven't looked for any evidence to support it but it seems to me that serious malnutrition and the overall awfulness of it probably rapidly develop what would otherwise be manageable and rather insignificant issues that most healthy/non homeless people face/deal with.
K. Well anyways https://news.upenn.edu/news/housing...pays-itself-according-university-pennsylvania Cliffs: helping the mentally ill homeless by providing them basic shelter and treatment would save more money than what we currently pay to deal with them. Seems like a pretty good starting point to me.