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Yeah right...caught you in another one, unless it was before 9:30 this morning sweetie

That's it! It's not my fault that you're moronic. When I was invited onto this thread, I was at work and I kept up with it until 5pm when I left to run errands and come home. I wasn't anywhere NEAR FR at 9am this morning. My first post to this thread was at 3:14 PM this afternoon and there is an hour gap from appox. 6 to a little after 7. You evidently made your little attack while I was still playing catch-up on page one and making posts to others. You sure assume quite a bit to have no reading comprehension skills to speak of.

You are obviously no better at reading time stamps than you are at locating original founding documents.

Don't worry about praying for me, honey. I prefer that my friends help me in personal matters.

Oh puhleeeeze...spare me the sob stories, I left for work at 5:30 this morning,drove the 52 miles to work, did my job handling payroll which was due early because of the holiday, HR duties, contract administration, purchasing, receiving, accounts payable and receivables, covered things for my boss who is out of town, freeped on my breaks, stayed after work for 30 minutes so hubby could have some time to unwind before I got home, left at 5:15, drove the hour home, cooked dinner, did the dishes, called my kids, tucked hubby in bed, and made coffee for in the morning. Oh, yeah...and I fed the cat. You apparently think you are the only one with a life. Wait a minute...this is a life? What am I thinking...well, the fact remains...I was right.

Ummmmmm...nowhere near here at that time?

To: marshmallow

There was a TV news show done on this very same thing about 4 or 5 years ago. This child evidently has the same medical condition (can't remember its name) that these other children had. Most of these parents had also been hounded to death and/or had their children snatched by overzealous, non-medical personnel from CPS even though many of these parents had other children who WERE within the 'prescribed' weight limits! There were several doctors and pediatricians on this show who stated that the ONLY reason these children lost any weight in foster 'care' was because they had been ordered to ONLY allow these children to have xx amount of certain kinds of food per day while in their care. Some of the foster parents were also interviewed on this show and stated that they had listened to these children cry almost constantly from hunger!! (several of these "over weight" children were 2 and 3 years old) and they were pretty certain that the children's biologic parents would have been unable to stand to listen to their own children "cry hungry". The physicians went on to state that the medical condition IS treatable but, of course, it would first have to be diagnosed by someone who was familar with it. Point being - none of us should be willing to throw stones at other parents until we know ALL the circumstance and not just jump to conclusions that the parents are somehow 'pigs' or 'lower life forms'.

4 posted on 7/29/02 9:27 AM Pacific by KentuckyWoman [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

I beg your pardon missy....gotcha again...don't ever underestimate the power of a TEXAS woman.

BTW, I agree with you about children in the "system"...that is one thing we apparently have in common, but we'll have to discuss that on a different day, but for now I know I am vindicated on this issue. Well, gotta go to bed, it is now past 11:00 PM here. Y'all have a good fight...ummmmm...I mean a good night. "See" you all tommorrow, gotta go say my prayers...sweet dreams...