Mike Patterson, founder of MyDeathSpace.com, which every day features the profile pages of about 25 MySpace members who have died, said so many people had been writing nasty things that he removed the comment function from the site in June. Mr. Patterson restored it two months later, after adding software that flags keywords and requiring users to register if they want to post comments.

Still, problems arise.

Pamela Tay said she felt ill when she discovered a discussion on MyDeathSpace about her 18-year-old daughter, Kelli Laine, who was killed by a drunken driver in 2001.

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is there a problem that this solves? what inspired this?

here’s info for the Mayor’s office:
Office Hours and Location
City Hall — 3rd Floor
Monday through Friday
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Contact Info:
Mayor Nancy Cozean
845-541-6073
NCozean{{a.t}}cityofpoughkeepsie.com

http://www.cityofpoughkeepsie.com/common.html

The Common Council is the deciding body before this goes to the state.

Thursday, September 7, 2006

City splits over peace officer plan

Fire inspector, animal warden may get powers

By Michael Valkys
Poughkeepsie Journal

City of Poughkeepsie Councilwoman Gwen Johnson is worried that designating fire inspectors and the animal warden as peace officers could infringe on residents’ constitutional rights through warrantless searches and arrests.

City officials countered that would not be the case and defended the proposal.

The designation would give the inspectors and officers certain powers, for example conducting warrantless searches at fire scenes or homes where animals are being confiscated. The powers would only kick in during the performance of their official duties.

Peace officers can also make arrests and detain people when they deem it necessary during an investigation. Officials stressed the city’s peace officers would not be armed.

“I just don’t see the need for this,” said Johnson, D-7th Ward, of the proposal before the Common Council. “I think they’re doing a good job with the powers they have right now.”

Effect downplayed

Fire Chief Kenneth Boyd told the council Tuesday night at city hall that inspectors do investigative work at fire scenes. He said giving inspectors peace-officer status does not mean they would patrol streets and make arrests, and that police would still work on suspicious fire investigations.

“There seems to be a significant amount of misinformation,” Boyd said after hearing resident concerns. “This is certainly not a return to the Wild West or the Dark Ages. … They will not be police officers. They will not be performing a police function.”

Officials said peace-officer status would not apply to firefighters, only fire inspectors. Boyd said fire inspectors are peace officers in Rochester, Buffalo, Utica and Syracuse.

Poughkeepsie Corporation Counsel Stephen Wing said residents should not be concerned that peace officers have too much power.

“A fire inspector cannot just traipse down Main Street and start arresting people,” Wing said. “This is not a broad-based thing where they go out and arrest people willy-nilly.”

Wing said peace officers would be allowed to serve appearance tickets on alleged violators and handle criminal complaints in court. The measure would also allow peace officers to interview suspects at a scene and compel them to read suspects their Miranda rights.

But several residents who spoke Tuesday night said they were concerned about the “We have police in our community to do what they need to do,” said Mae Parker-Harris, who worried that authorities might target the city’s predominantly minority north side.

Resident Eunice Johnson said the prospect of peace officers entering homes would be “against our constitutional rights,” and that police already serve and protect the public.

“We don’t need others interfering with what they’re doing,” said Johnson, who is not related to the councilwoman.

The council took no action in the proposal, instead referring it to the Public Safety Committee for review.

If the council passes the measure, it would still need to be approved by the state Legislature as part of a home-rule request.

(i kno i had a similar idea once… was this is?)

but yeah… say… a cheese grater… for forgiveness

i can rub a cheese grater against my face the wrong way… and be fine… i could rub it the other way.. and grate the skin off my face…

forgiveness is like this…

when u look back over time to the actions of people in your life… you see things through the filter of the causal chain AFTER the deeds…

if u look with timeless objectivity… from BEFORE the deeds… and give… freely.. what was taken… you Fore-Give… and claim that the deeds were ok… because.. it was not theft… but a thing freely given…

that’s forgiveness

you have to look at things from the right direction… or you’ll get your face cut

buy this cheese grater for a friend.. it’ll remind them of Jesus…

right?????

so why not a whole series of things like this?

all sorts of late night ron popeel products… with lil sermons in em…

“ur gonna fill ur home with crap anyway.. .why not let that crap remind you of the teachings of the lord??”

reality show:
different religions.. or just Christian denominations live together and try to evangelize each other…

how about

product placement in evangelical ads?

“david… drink Gatorade… and pray… no fear”

“daily word brought to you by coke”

these are vehicles… is that bad?

if it is bad…

is that bad??

i feel like… sometimes the most evil stuff.. and the most holy stuff… are the same…

what could be more evil than to scourge and crucify the son of god?

he seemed like a nice guy…

that’s evil as hell…

but what a holy occasion…

im serious

(this has not been proofread for sense or grammar…)

what should have been a simple poop… became a flood… involving two floors… a couch… a computer… mopping.. laundry…  cursing… and this entry

fuck

what a way to spend ur day off

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i found this out at some candle-lit event… like… a cocktail hour with a power outage… everyone was standing.. idle… social.. familiar.. LH wore glasses.. everyone was so professional… she told me she couldn’t “do anything” until we did… meaning somehow that my child with CH would effect her planning her child… I didn’t understand… then CE explained to me that she was pregnant too…
(asynchronous) i had to get my car from the junk yard in the woods… there was an anchor woman there.. she was aging… she needed a ride… the black yard attendant was leisurely arguing with her and told me not to help her.. she had to learn a lesson… i made like i was going to give her a ride… i wasnt certain i wouldnt yet… and said i wasnt even sure if my car would start after so long… i got in.. and locked it up.. she tried to get in.. it was already running.. i took off… i felt like i had done the right thing because she was his woman/his to deal with/his customer… and he knew what he was doing… altho i felt a little guilty…. but i didnt kno either of them and thought it best not to involve myself.. maybe she WAS trying to scam someone… any judgement wasn’t my call to make..

at home i was back in time… i had the opportunity to not get “cheryl” pregnant… we were newly weds of some sort… our home was fairly grand (spacious.. nice molding.. metropolitan.. historic) and barren… i was an inventor or something.. .i knew that i had a short amount of time to bring my inventions to fruition before the ladies would have my babies… “9 months” i thought…. “no… 6… no… 3 months… I have 3 months to establish myself and get to the point of living my dream career as an inventor and being able to afford all these kids” i took xmas lights out of a box and they were connected to/in a network.. and i strung them around the room… partially on the tree… and mostly on the computer… the display wasn’t a display… it was part of my creation.. but as a display it looked like weakness… there was no symmetry… everything was slight and saggy… it looked careless and ignorant..

she criticized me for putting up xmas lights in september… i told her… xmas IS coming…. trying to hide the absurdity.. knowing she wouldn’t understand the invention.. and knowing that i would never bring it to fruition in time to afford all my kids… she wasn’t pregnant yet… this was back in time.. this was to be my redemption… everything was beige… this was my chance not have another kid… we began to fuck on some boxes… i HAD TO repeat the drama… and set the failure.. because caution would be an admission that i didnt believe in my inventions… i had to go “all in”… this WAS my redemption.. the living room had a window in it to a control room like a studio of some sort… the studio was occupied but the people weren’t people… they weren’t present… “cheryl” was some sort of professional woman.. in a business skirt… which i lifted… penetration felt so good I woke up

I <3 NY