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FRIDAY, NOV. 22, 2013 THE LEAF-CHRONICLE A3 FROM THE FRONT ble situation for the children." According to DCS, between 2010 and Sept. 30, a total of 1,305 children statewide have been removed from homes where methamphet-amine has At the time, Alexander said Democrats, then in the minority in the Senate, threatened the federal government with a "train wreck" by their frequent use of filibusters to block the judicial appointments of former President George W. Bush. "The train wreck I am talking about is a threat by the minority to 'shut the Senate down in every way' if the majority adopts rules that will do what the Senate has done for 200 years, which is to vote up or down the president's appellate judicial nominees," Alexander said in an April 2005 floor speech.

Contact Paul C. Barton at pbar- tongannett.com Follow on Twitter Paul C. Barton partisan political power to say we can do whatever we want to do," Alexander said. He added, "The only cure for that is a referendum next November. I deeply regret the action the Democratic majority took today.

It is the most dangerous and the most consequential change in the rules of the United States Senate since Thomas Jefferson wrote those rules at the founding of our country." Fellow Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee issued a brief comment. "I could not be more disappointed that (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) has chosen this course of action," Corker said of the Nevada Democrat. Alexander, meanwhile, has been a key figure in past debates about changing the rules on filibusters. In 2005, for instance, he joined former Sen.

Jim DeMint, in defending the right of then Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee to call for changes in filibuster rules. how much money it takes to deal with these situations" in juvenile court, Barnes said. "DCS has an attorney, the child has an ad litem attorney, the ex-father has an attorney, the new father has an attorney and the mother has an attorney. That could be five attorneys, all at the state's expense." Another trend Barnes has noticed is an increase in prescription drug abuse. "When there's a decrease in one type of drug," he said, "there's an increase in another type." He noted a recent case where a mother, who was a nurse, became addicted to prescription drugs.

"She had two (juvenile) petitions, and when I first saw her, she was a nice looking woman," he said. "The last time she came to court, I didn't recognize her." Barnes also commented about children growing up in homes where drugs are used. "You can talk to (General Sessions) Judge (Wayne) Shelton; he's on the third and fourth generation of drug offenders," he said. "I don't know how we are going to break this cycle." Mark Hicks, 245-0721 Multimedia Journalist markhickstheleafchronicle.com Twitter: markhicksleaf Meth Continued from Page A1 dy and child neglect cases in the county, said "a very large percentage" of child neglect and abuse cases here involve drug abuse of some form. "When methamphet-amine is involved, it is an especially dangerous situation for children," Barnes said.

"They are exposed to the noxious fumes from the manufacture of meth, and they are exposed to the kind of people who use meth in the home." While the magistrate wasn't familiar with details of the Pembroke Road situation, he said DCS will automatically remove children from a home where meth is used or produced, not only because of the exposure, but "because the parents are going to jail." Additionally, he said there are often unrelated adults in such homes. "So you get people living there who are not related to the children, and they are under the influence of drugs, so you have situations where bad things happen," Barnes said. "You have physical abuse, you have sexual abuse and you have neglect. It's a terri- Filibuster Continued from Page A1 ended with 51 votes. Changing Senate rules through use of a simple majority vote has long been called the "nuclear option," and both parties have entertained the idea over the past decade as they alternated control of the chamber.

Most recently, Democrats had grown increasingly irritated over Republican filibusters that prevented President Ba-rack Obama from filling several seats on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. Alexander, in an impassioned floor speech, said that was insufficient justification for changing rules that epitomized respect for minority rights in the Senate. Quoting former Republican Sen. Arthur Van-denberg of Michigan, Alexander said, "If a majority can change its rules at any time, there are no rules." The Tennessee lawmaker added, "I hope we will resist turning the Senate into an institution where the home team can cheat to win the game to get whatever result it wants at any time it wants." The rules change, Alexander said, reflected an absence of bipartisanship similar to that marking the health care reform debate of three years ago. Democrats, who then controlled the Senate and the House, passed the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote in either chamber.

"If the Democrats proceed to use the nuclear option in this way, it will be Obamacare II: It will be another raw exercise of 3 nee i nmminq 2' 65 ft. Bucket Track wilt ucuvciy flr i.t i i i mil 111 Licensed We will beat any FREE Leaf Removal w2 Tree Trims A i TN-0000948760 been found. The yearly numbers have actually dropped from a high of 486 children in 2010 to H. Merydith 224 so far this year, but Barnes by no means thinks the problem is diminishing. Federal money that in the past has been used to help clean up meth-mak- ing operations, which involves several haz- J.

Merydith ardous materials, has been cut, he said, and in some counties, especially in East Tennessee where the meth problem is rampant, "there is less of a push to go after producers because they don't have the resources to clean it up. And it is very costly to clean up." Cleaning up the family situation also is costly. "People have no idea were filled by folks with graying hair who appeared to be in their 50s and 60s: boomers. "There's not enough young people here," Stone said at one point. Generations are funny things, if they even truly exist at all.

An event that changes reality for one generation can, with the passage of time, be a mere historical footnote for another. The Kennedy assassination still resonates across American culture and will for many more years. But for those who came of age with it, who watched events spin out after it all the way to another time-stopping reset at 911 is it so unexpected that they "read backwards" to that weekend in 1963 and its message that things would never be the same? "I was only really aware of how profoundly it changed the country years later when I was in college, because Kennedy's assassination started a chain reaction a kind of house of cards started to come down, not immediately but gradually over the next decade," Steven Spielberg, born in 1946, wrote in "Where Were You? America Remembers the JFK Assassination." Author Stephen King, who has infused his I ffl'H II II I boomer sensibilities into many works, spent 849 pages in 2011 delving into what the world might have been if someone could have traveled back in time and stopped Lee Harvey Oswald. King's "112263" poked a stick into a central boomer worry: that the world isn't what it appears to be, and that the Kennedy assassination ripped away the veneer. "For a moment everything was clear," King wrote in the book, "and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all.

Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dream clock chiming beneath a mystery glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark." What more is there to say? About this, will there always be more? To deploy an old Kennedy metaphor, the torch is being passed to a new generation of Americans. What they will do with it -and whether they can, or even should, let it go and move on is the JFK assassination story of the next half century. JFK Continued from Page A2 Prove Us Right," "The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination" and "We Were There." And new movies, too.

One, based on Bill O'Reilly's book, "Killing Kennedy," stars Rob Lowe as JFK. Another, "Parkland," chronicles the Dallas hospital in the hours after the assassination and, two days later, the Oswald killing. A few weeks ago, USA Today came forth with a 48-page special commemorative edition about the 50th anniversary. Among its headlines: "Death is dividing line between eras." Last month, people fascinated by the assassination gathered in Pittsburgh under the auspices of Dr. Cyril Wecht, the forensic pathologist who has spent much of the half-century since Kennedy's death investigating it beyond what the much-maligned Warren Commission did.

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