[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Abolish all Child Protective Service bureaucracies.

NOW.

[Brilliant]

Hasn’t it occurred to these fools that foster care might be a worse fate that a few swigs of hard lemonade?

Maybe they’ve been drinking.

[Verginius Rufus]

On FNC this morning they said they were going to have Prof. Ratte on, but the next 30 or 40 minutes were on other topics (mostly the destruction from the tornado in the Norfolk area) and I had other things to do, so never saw the interview.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

For once a left-winger gets a taste of the nonsense he supports at the polls.

[ml/nj]

"These are the times that try men's souls."

ML/NJ

[WayneS]

Does this mean my six year old has to stop smoking cigars?

[wendy1946]

Sounds pretty much like communism...

[SamAdams76]

The ironic thing is that alcoholic beverages like beer and wine are much healthier for children than soda pop and other corn-syrup laden junk that is peddled to our kids these days.

[ml/nj]

BTW, good thing these $#!+#E@D$ never showed up when I took my little daughter to fancy NYC French restaurants. (She used to fight me for the sediment!)

ML/NJ

[Paved Paradise]

This is why I am against products that label themselves in ways that can be misleading. I could see someone having “Mike’s Hard Lemonade” in their frig at home and a person (not just a child, but even an elderly person) that might not know what “hard” means.

[spanalot]

amen

[Locomotive Breath]

Anyone else watch “Bones”

I can hear this prof saying, “Hard lemonade? I don’t know what that means!”

[nickcarraway]

The starnge this is that most kids that age will not like the taste of alcohol.

[Condor51]

The kid will prolly come out of (cough) ‘Foster Care’ a trained assassin at best, or at the worst - an antisocial psychotic killer who will wipe out his family with an ax the first chance he gets then go on a cross country killing spree.

ALL 'Child Protective Service' bureaucracies are E-V-I-L. I seriously doubt any of them ever actually "helped" a child.

[metmom]

ping

[HamiltonJay]

Now how is this possible? As the legal guardian of a child you do have the right to allow them alcohol within reasonable context. Hell every Italian family on the planet should have their kids taken away if this wasn’t true. Wine with special occasion dinners is virtually a birthright.

[metmom]

"You know this is an alcoholic beverage?" the guard asked the professor.

"You've got to be kidding," Ratte replied. He asked for the bottle, but the security guard snatched it before Ratte could examine the label.

But an ER resident who drew Leo's blood less than 90 minutes after he and his father were escorted from their seats detected no trace of alcohol.

This guy got screwed by some over-zealous rambo-wanna-be security guard.

No excuse for going beyond notifying the father of the alcohol content.

The father is lucky he had connections or he wouldn't be seeing his kid for months.

[Homer1]

everybody involved should be fired asap

[Bon mots]

Latricia Jones, the CPS caseworker assigned to their case, recommended that Leo remain in foster care until she had completed her investigation, a process she estimated would take several days.

It was only after the assistant attorney general who represented CPS admitted that the state was not interested in pursuing the case aggressively that juvenile referee Leslie Graves agreed to release Leo to his mother - on the condition that Ratte himself relocate to a hotel.

Latricia Jones was gonna show him who was boss!
Latricia hadda do a 'vestigashun an it was gonna take a lo-0-O-N-G time!

[TalonDJ]

I don't watch TV at all. If someone tried something like this over something I ‘should have known’ I would go absolutely ballistic.

[mombonn]

When my daugter was a junior in high school, we had a "fancy" dinner at home for several kids. Good china, crystal, serving the meal in courses, etc.

I found some "pretty" beverages to serve. Fortunately, my daughter read the labels, or I would have been guilty of serving minors!