Posted on 11/19/2004 10:30:49 AM PST by Mo1
Of course, that 32%, IMO, is about 32% more than they should take.
I'm not sure about that one. I haven't run across it. I know from our perspective if a baby is abandoned, we don't have to make a great deal of effort to find the parents. If they show no interest in the child and do not make themselves available, we can have their rights terminated and make the baby available for adoption fairly quickly.
That sure sounds like a good idea to me.
Blue thingies come out several hours before the boom box.
Night time, night time.......
See ya. :) I need to go do sumpin about dinner and take care of my very sore arm. I had a pneumonia shot this afternoon and my arm is really starting to ache.
sweet, I meant to tell you, I was at a holiday party this weekend and the hostess served her new favorite, a concoction she called "Orange Thing" LOL. No tequilla in it, though, best I could determine, it had vodka, orange juice and Grand Marnier.
Now, I'm really gone :)
And here I was duped into believing I could go anywhere I wanted to. Duped into believing I could actually run my own business, and raise kids to lean towards redemption, love and honor. Duped into believing I could go to Free Republic.....wait a minute.....*Looking around*......ahhhhhh, they want me here......
On top of that now I realize I will be zieg heiling our fearless leader daily, all the while he tortures me with the electric probes i can't even see......*Light bulb*....The Matrix....Why didn't I think of that earlier?
Dang......now I know we live in Hell and are food for them.
Maybe they are Michael Moore....oh noooooooo.
Hey bud, sorry I got carried away there....freepmailing you...
I like a concoction called "Wild thing".
Don't know what's in it, but it sounds just perfect.....
:-)
There are still kids that get trapped in the system, but it is because custody will be returned to the parents because they seem to be doing all the right things, and then the children end up back in foster care, at which point, the process starts all over.
Another way they can get trapped in the system is like my one case with the 11 and 13 year old girls. In that case, even though there were protective service cases opened on the family everywhere they went, the children were never taken into foster care before because every time it would get to that point, the family would up and move, often leaving the county of jurisdiction, or even the state.
That puts the kids in a precarious position. Their home situation was horrible, but now they're in the position where their useless parents are doing very little to improve their living conditions or their parenting skills and are not moving any closer to accepting any responsibility for their actions, but if they don't, then what? At 11 and 13, the kids' options are extremely limited. It isn't like people are lining up to give a permanent home to kids that age with serious issues due to the sorry life they came from, but once they're in foster care for 12 months, we have to either be getting them back to the parents or having the parents' rights terminated. If they are returned and nothing is changed, then what was the point? And if they don't go home and the parents' rights are terminated, what do we really have to offer them? It's really a two-edged sword.
Looks like a Punk Rocker cat.
And, in the absence of capturing Osama, while TSA continues to molest Americans at the airports this holiday season, I contribute the Woman Traveler's Carol (to the tune of "I'll Be Home for Christmas") -- the scansion isn't perfected yet, but here goes:
THE WOMAN TRAVELER'S CAROL
You'll be groped for Christmas,
If you choose to fly.
Friendly skies are friendlier
If you're not a guy.
You'll be groped for Christmas,
Just you wait and see.
TSA found T&A
Underneath their tree.
If you scream in protest,
You will miss your flight.
You'll be groped for Christmas,
Or jailed for Christmas night.
(As that radical Ben Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.")
79 posted on 12/05/2004 9:35:40 PM PST by macclim8ed
This sounds bogus. Do you have a credible source?
Thanks.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I think we may disagree on what is reasonable.
You know Loddy the WTC was the concept of the Rockefellers ....they also set up the land for the United Nations....and maybe they were tired of those two out dated towers that do not fit the 21st century?:)
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Spot on correct, Resty.
Take good care, and stay safe up there.
Evenin' folks. Yep, I have to agree that the airport screening doesn't bother me much. Of course I wish it wasn't necessary at all but since it is, it's an inconvenience more than something to get all lathered about.
Although I did hear on some talk radio show today about a woman who's metal knee replacement hardware kept setting the detectors off . They had her taking off her shoes and she kept telling them "it's my knee". Heh.
Hi nully.
Prairie
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