JERRY CURTIS WILLIAMS AKA THE RAPIST WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON YESTERDAY...HE ONLY RECEIVED 3 YEARS FOR RAPING LITTLE GIRLS......HE IS A GANG MEMBER AND A RAPIST. THE GIRLS HE RAPED HAVE MAJOR ISSUES. THEY ARE SCARED. THEY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE LOOKED UP FOR A VERY LONG TIME...BUT OH NO...THEY RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE KERN COUNTY DA SAYING HE WOULD BE RELEASED YESTERDAY.....SO KERN COUNTY THIS MAN SERVED 2 YEARS FOR MOLESTING LITTLE GIRLS...AND THESE BABIES WILL BE DAMAGED FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES......WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE RECEIVED 6 YEARS FOR STEALING ...AND THIS PUNK SERVES 2 YEARS....HE IS NOT ON MEAGAN'S LAW, YET...PAROLE DOES NOT HAVE HIM IN THEIR SYSTEM...WHERE IS HE?

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My husband and I hang out with 5 other married couples on a regular basis. The females are very good to their husbands in my opinion......the men all cheat. I don't understand. They all have been together for a very long time. They all own homes, have children, and have excellent jobs. The women in these relationships have no clue. The men do not hide their infidelity from me because they know that I would not ever tell ...... I truly feel it is none of my business. I was always taught that whatever is done in the dark will come to the light. I have been married for many years  and my husband is a very faithful man...I think..lol. There are so many diseases out their. Cheating is not only morally wrong but they are putting their entire family at risk. I don't understand it.

Is it for the sex?

Is it for the thrill?

Why would you cheat on a woman that loves you and has been there through thick and thin?

 Why do men cheat?

Arrested on a felony charge and two misdemeanors, Desre'e Watson of Avon Park, Florida, sat handcuffed in the back of a patrol car last March. On arrival at the police station, the alleged culprit was carted off to county jail for fingerprinting, a mug shot and time to think long and hard about her crimes. Then her mommy came to pick her up.

Desre'e was 6 years old. According to the police report, the tantrum she threw in kindergarten last spring was criminally disruptive. She was charged with battery on a school official and disruption of a school function. What was the charge for crawling under a table when the police showed up? Resisting an officer.

"Different situations call for different things," Pam Burnham, principal of Avon Elementary School, told the News-Sun paper in Florida’s Highlands County. "A 6-year-old can inflict injury to you just as much as any other person," Avon Park’s police chief Frank Mercurio told The New York Times. The charges against Desre'e, however, have been dropped.

"She's scared to go back to that school," says the girl's mother, Lateshia Wilson, who is planning to sue the police department and Avon Elementary School. Wilson has since enrolled her daughter in a different school.

Shocking as it may seem, similar arrests of small children, many Black, are happening nationwide. "There is a trend to criminalize minority children rather than send them to counseling or bring in their parents," says Nayyera Haq, press secretary for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), which investigated the issue.

In March, a 7-year-old boy, Gerard Mungo, Jr., was hauled off to a Baltimore police station for allegedly riding a dirt bike on a sidewalk. Police wouldn’t discuss the case because of a pending lawsuit against the department by the boy's mother. A 2006 study of Florida public schools, conducted by civil rights organizations, found a reliance on police to manage even minor transgressions by children.

Research from the CDF cites racial prejudice as a factor contributing to the arrest of Black youngsters. And in areas like Pinellas County, Florida, Black middle and high school children accounted for more than half of the 688 school arrests made during the first semester of the 2004–2005 school year.

Then there are the long-term effects of arresting children. "If a 7-year-old is picked up off the street because he's on a bike, he comes to distrust the government," says Haq, referring to Gerard. As for little Desre'e, her mother says she is still terrified. "My baby was abused and neglected," she says, adding incredulously, "I don’t know anybody who cannot handle a 6-year-old."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination.

President Kennedy urged civil rights in 1963. An Ohio community was discriminated against from 1956 to 2003.

Each of the 67 plaintiffs was awarded $15,000 to $300,000, depending on how long they had lived in the Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County in east-central Ohio.

The money covers both monetary losses and the residents' pain and suffering between 1956, when water lines were first laid in the area, and 2003, when Coal Run got public water.

The lawsuit was filed in 2003 after the Ohio Civil Rights Commission concluded the residents were victims of discrimination. The city, county and East Muskingum Water Authority all denied it and noted that many residents in the lightly populated county don't have public water.

Coal Run residents either paid to have wells dug, hauled water for cisterns or collected rain water so they could drink, cook and bathe.

"As a child, I thought it was normal because everyone done it in my neighborhood," said one of the plaintiffs, Cynthia Hale Hairston, 47. "But I realized as an adult it was wrong."

The jury in U.S. District Court found that failing to provide water service to the residents violated state and federal civil rights laws. The lawsuit was not a class-action. Colfax said 25 to 30 families live in Coal Run now.

The water authority must pay 55 percent of the damages, while the county owes 25 percent and the city owes 20 percent, plaintiffs' attorney Reed Colfax said. The water authority no longer exists, and the county would be responsible for paying that share of the judgment.

Zanesville attorney Michael Valentine said in court that he intended to appeal but declined to comment further. The county commission also plans to appeal.

Attorney Mark Landes, who represented the county and water district, called the verdict disappointing. He said jurors were not allowed to hear defendants' testimony that neighborhood residents were offered water service years ago and refused it.

Colfax said he was unaware of any evidence that was excluded from the trial.

"This was a case that was started and fired by out-of-town lawyers who saw an opportunity for a cash settlement," Landes said.

The plaintiffs' attorneys will receive a separate amount to be decided later by a judge, Colfax said.

John Relman, a civil rights attorney based in Washington, D.C., who represented the residents, said the jury heard hours of testimony and saw hundreds of pages of documentation over the seven-week trial.

"This verdict vindicates that this (treatment) was because of their race," he said. "The jury agreed with that and issued a verdict based on a full airing of the facts."

Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers said she was pleased.

"This decision speaks firmly about the importance of treating citizens with equal respect, regardless of race," she said in a statement.

Plaintiff Frederick Martin said the long wait was worth it.

He and his nine siblings shared two tubs of water between them on bath nights when he was growing up. He left Coal Run, built on a former coal mine, in 1970 so his children wouldn't have to endure the same living conditions, he said.

"Today I feel that we are really blessed, to know and to see justice being met," Martin said. "And to see, regardless of who we are, there is a price to pay if you discriminate against people."

The plaintiffs' attorneys successfully argued that the decision not to pipe water to the plaintiffs was racially motivated, painting a picture of a community with a history of segregation. Black residents of Coal Run Road were denied water over the years while nearby white neighbors were provided it, they said.

Landes countered that about half of Muskingum County residents are not tied into the public water system even today. Among those without it are county commissioners, judges and other prominent officials, he said.

Zanesville has about 25,000 residents on the edge of the state's Appalachian region. One in every five families is below the federal poverty level, and the unemployment rate in Muskingum County in May was 7.4 percent. The national unemployment rate that month was 5.5 percent.

I will ask all of my fellow bloggers for a bit of advice. I do not like my job. I love the people I work with but I feel different about the people I work for. I have several reasons why I want to move on....here they go

• I make at least 25% less than my co workers
• I have children that are being raised by daycares and my teenagers are raising themselves
• I was thinking if my children were kidnapped today I could not tell the authorities what my children were wearing...because my husband and I leave home at 5 am
• I am under a lot of stress because I feel I am not being the mother I need to be
• I feel when you have teenagers you have to keep both eyes on them at all times
• My family is more important than my career

With that being said.......I was thinking of opening some type of small store. Maybe even a small thrift shop. I could employee children that need help (gang members, young moms, poor children) and teach them customer service, cash handling, organization, and much more. I could set my own hours and help others at the same time. What do you guys think?

I will this pass this by  you guys before I sit my husband down this evening and tell him my plans. ...

Should you stay at a job you dislike? Should I be afraid to make this move or should I say screw this I am quiting and move on?