Here is a Haleigh Poutre-related story from the news earlier today. It does not ease my worries about Haleigh very much to know that Massachusetts has hired four times as many doctors and increased its child-protection power. It was, after all, a Massachusetts psychiatrist who helped kill the state's last high-profile child victim (Rebecca). She, the psychiatrist, is the one who diagnosed the child as a mental case at age two and started filling her with the drugs from which Rebecca eventually died. It was state doctors who asked to kill Haleigh, too. There has to be a better way to help battered children than pretending government can do parenting any better than it can fix potholes.
New positions boost DSS medical expertise / High-profile cases prompt hirings
It is a classic approach of the cnivil servants.
If something needs fixing, throw money at it. If things continue to get worse, throw even more money at it, and if it is going downhill even faster, throw even much more money at it. It touches on that old saw about insanity. "Doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result". But that defines cnivil servants and liberals and all their kind.
Yes, this is a good time for a short winter break. I think I will celebrate by shovelling some sparkling new snow. It is a great and stimulating exercise, much more healthful than having fun.
p.s. cnivil is not to be confused with Snivil, who is a scandanavian and may even be an ancestor of mine. Nor is it to be confused with cevil which may be more descriptive.
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