I was suprised to read this.
Tuesday’s shooting marked the second time this year that a school employee was fatally shot.
My prayers are with the families and the community.
Author: Ron Shank
Catching potential Internet sex predators – Dateline NBC – MSNBC.com
Everyone should read this. Be sure and watch the video clip to get the full idea of how creepy this is.
Catching potential Internet sex predators – Dateline NBC – MSNBC.com
In any home where there are kids with computers, there are parents with concerns. Teenagers can spend hours chatting online, but who are they chatting with? On the other end of that instant message could be a complete stranger – or a sexual predator. It’s a dangerous side of the Internet, one that’s growing and many children are at risk. So we went undercover, filling a house with hidden cameras.Soon, a long line of visitors came knocking, expecting to find a young teenager they’d been chatting with on the Internet, home alone. Instead, they found Dateline.
We want to warn you some of what you’ll read is explicit. But parents need to know what their kids can confront when they sit down at the computer.
Look, here are some simple rules.
1. No computers in the bedroom. Keep any computer hooked to the Internet in a public room like a den or something.
2. Get a filter. Try BSafe Online’s filter free for 10 days. (yes, I work for them, but I get nothing for recommending the product, and I recommended it before they hired me.). If you don’t like their filter, get one you do like.
3. Know what your kids are doing online. There is never any reason for them to go in a public chat room – and Instant messaging should only be with friends they already have – not for making new one.
4. Don’t let them fill out a profile. It only works as pervert-bait.
Did I miss anything?
Alito ‘Respects’ Roe V. Wade
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat, said Alito told him the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision establishing abortion rights “was precedent on which people, a lot of people, relied, and had been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect.”
Also from that story.
“He assured me [Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)] that he has tremendous respect for precedent and that his approach is to not overturn cases due to a disagreement with how they were originally decided,” she said.
Sex Offender Map
Here’s a good thing to do. Go to this site and enter your address and then find your child’s school and click on that. You get a list of all sex offenders and how far they are from your school.
The site doesn’t work as well as it should in Firefox, but it’s pretty new and they appear to be off to a good start.
Speaking of sex offenders – Did anyone catch Dateline NBC last Friday? I missed it, but saw some of the highlights on MSNBC. I’ll blog more on that later.
Another abortion-related insight on Samuel Alito
Here’s a possible red flag for those who think that Alito might be the key to overturning Roe v. Wade
Senators Praise Nominee’s Candor
On the issue of privacy, the legal underpinning for the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling, [Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)] said: “He satisfied me that he recognized this to be one of the unenumerated rights in the Constitution, and he led me to believe that he felt that it was an established right.”