I'm willing to bet it's not the names that got the kids removed. But I guarantee bringing news crews into your house is inviting closer scrutiny.

You're probably right.

You're probably right.

I wish they'd released some details, though. Don't they usually? Like, when they find the kids who have been starved or chained up?

Again, not that I don't think they're most likely disgusting people and horrible parents.

I wonder if they'll try to get little Adolf to change his name. The girls at least have normal first or middle names (JoyceLynn and Jeannie) they can use, but I can't imagine trying to explain to a 3 year-old "Well, your mommy and daddy named you after one of the worst mass-murderers in history...how would you like to be called Bill from now on?"

Seriously.

Don't they usually?

I think what is released is the (public) information of what the parents may be (criminally) charged with. I don't think that if the parents have lost custody temporarily so that the family can go through counseling there's any obligation to release that information. I can't believe this isn't still in a "temporary" category because it usually takes a lot (time, hearings) to completely lose custody of your children.

I'm willing to bet it's not the names that got the kids removed.

I so very much hope not. As repellent as the names and the parents' ideology are, on their own they're not enough to justify separating toddlers from their family. Though we'll probably find out all the details any minute...if the parents were rageful and wounded and cluelessly publicity-seeking over the birthday cake flap, they've got to be completely wild by now.

My office just announced a viewing party for the innauguration. AWESOMESAUCE!

In my office, if there was an inauguration party, it would probably involved people muttering about how Obama isn't eligable to be president or that he's a commie or something.

In one of the articles about the cake thing, they mentioned that DYFS had already been in contact with that family. One of the things that they insisted on was that they take the swastika off the family car, since they said it was dangerous to drive toddlers around in a car that was attracting negative attention like that.

In my office, if there was an inauguration party, my department wouldn't be allowed to go (remember, we are the department who isn't allowed to listen to the radio, listen to music, talk to each other about anything non-work-related, or make or receive personal phone calls on the company phone; if the entire company was subject to those rules, it wouldn't suck so bad, but it's just us).

Oh! And relatedly, I know I forgot to tell this story: we're behind in production, and incompetent!boss told us last week that, because we're salaried employees, "we" (which never means "him") have to be willing to work more than 40 hours a week due to the "dire circumstances."

And then he said -- I wish I were making this up -- "On 9/11, newspaper reporters couldn't just tell their editors, 'Sorry, I only work until 5:00, I'm going home!' "

Because being late with a pharmacy journal is JUST LIKE thousands of people dying in a terrorist attack. JUST. LIKE. IT.

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