Many Blessings to you and yours Bev.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beekaytee - Nov 17, 2008 5:17:14 am PST #1759 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
beekaytee - Nov 17, 2008 5:19:43 am PST #1760 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
A big smooch to you, Tep. Thanks for the virtual fist-bump.
if a ward of the state can't be accomodated (often teenagers)they get sent to juvenile detention until a spot can be found. So if you're a homeless kid you get sent to jail. Very very Oliver Twist work house, you know?
Isn't it ironic that knee-jerk, fear-based reactions to things tend to actually create more of what we say we don't want?
Sue - Nov 17, 2008 5:19:44 am PST #1761 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Somehow, my boss has an impression that I am a detailed oriented person that can track changes being made to templates on the fly and whether those changes are ad hoc, or should be global. I am not that person. And going back and realizing you've judge one dept. on one standard, and meanwhile changed the standard for another dept. is crazymaking.
Toddson - Nov 17, 2008 5:29:20 am PST #1762 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've been reading about the Nebraska law and the consequences. It occurs to me that the people who are dropping off their older kids are parents who care, but can't cope. A story in Sunday's paper mentioned one mother who brought her kid, all his medications (which implies some significant problems), and stayed to make sure he was comfortable and would be taken care of.
What's scary are the people who don't care enough to make any kind of effort, even of leaving their kids someplace they'll be taken care of.
And, in NJ when I was growing up, girls who were handed over the the state (PINS - persons in need of supervision) were dumped into the state mental asylum.
Lee - Nov 17, 2008 5:49:55 am PST #1763 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I am so sorry about your cousin, Matt.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2008 5:54:08 am PST #1764 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Matt, I'm so sorry.
DavidS - Nov 17, 2008 5:54:46 am PST #1765 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, and don't think I didn't see what you did there, mister!
I'm trying to save you from a fate worse than Brezhnev!
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2008 6:01:06 am PST #1766 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So sorry to hear, Matt.
Sue - Nov 17, 2008 6:01:11 am PST #1767 of 10002
hip deep in pie
I'm so sorry Matt.
Amy - Nov 17, 2008 6:03:22 am PST #1768 of 10002
Because books.
Oh, Matt. I'm so sorry. Peace for all of them.