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- I always wonder about the morale at DPS. The fact that one trooper just won $900,000 in a discrimination suit by a trooper can't help.
- Speaking of discrimination, Avery Johnson and Ron Washington won't have a claim once they are let go.
- If an agency or company is ever involved in a scandal, all they need to say is, "We will conduct a complete and thorough investigation and, thereafter, will take the appropriate action."
- Moving those kids from the polygamist compound to foster care is simply awful. Why we just sit back and accept governmental abuse of power is beyond me. (And the best summary of the situation is here. Simply shocking.) Heck, go look at the check out line in Walmart and you'll see kids in worse situations than those kids being forced from their moms.
- Twenty years from now we will think about how close the Mavericks were to a championship in 2006.
- The Messenger publisher will have a quick letter hand delivered to me every now and then. It's always positive. Always cool.
- I used a $30 electric hedge trimmer from Home Depot for the first time yesterday. Worked like a charm. I had to contain myself from making a shrub sculpture of an elephant.
- Regarding the weather over the next four days, I don't think the weather guys have a clue.
- Me loves me some Erin Andrews.
- George Lopez is 47 today. I watched his show once and am pretty sure it was written by a fifth grader (but not those smart fifth graders on that game show.)
- Bear carnage. Just saw that a huge bear that was in Will Ferrell's movie last movie has killed its trainer.
- The cliche, "at the end of the day" drives me nuts.
- Edit: Greatest one page lawsuit against Mark Cuban ever (here - one page pdf). And I love how the author copyrights his name: Jonathan Lee Riches©
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Rule No. 1 for wild animal trainers--"Don't get killed by your animals"! Ouch!
Those kids are much better off in foster care than with the FLDS cult.
I'm tellin' ya Barry. Read Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven." I promise you'll change your mind about children living with Polygamist Mormons vs. abuse of government power.
Those people are horrifying.
Ah, the George Lopez show, which uses some of the worst cliches of your typical sitcom.........but the actresses who played his wife and daughter are pretty darned HOT (and the daughter was over 18 when she appeared on the show....I know because I Googled her)
George Lopez's success baffles.
I'm with jarhead...those kids appear to be well taken care of and "normal" because they've been forced into a sick kind of submission. And the mothers are definitely neglectful for allowing them to undergo some of the "discipline" that's been reported by ex members of the cult to have taken place.
Also...who knew that one could subdue a man eating grizzly with pepper spray.
Removing the children from their parents is a clear case of government abuse. Regardless of their beliefs and living arrangements, those people have rights as U.S. citizens. The rules of law and evidence apply.
Most people, including myself, do not agree with FLDS practices. However, many people don't agree with some ultra-right christain practices either, doesn't mean we can take their kids away.
CPS has a notorious record for making 2 mistakes 1) interfering with a family when there is no need & 2) not interfering when there is a need. Its difficult for me to believe in their "good for the children" claims.
More and more, we citizens should question our government. Its all good as long as it is not you and your kids - but you never know.
I worked very closely for 2 years with the first black guy I ever saw work out of Decatur before he became a trooper. He was known for an incredible work ethic,sense of decency and being an all around easy going, cool guy to be around.
A supervisor of the office who knew me but didn't know about my friendship with the black trooper once went into detail about what a troublemaker he was an all. It was the first time I thought there might be something to the tired phrase "Institutionalized racism"
I think we have many abused children around here but neglect and sexual abuse are two totally different things. I agree with jarhead, what goes on in those compounds is horrific and we should protect the children.
It is Wed. thanks for reminding me,tonight I'm winning the lottery and then it's so long suckers! I mean,wait "Of course I want to thank all the little people who made this possible..."
Hang on Barry. The "former" residents of FLDS tell a different story. I understand people living in a different lifestyle but when you prohibit people from "walking out" or routinely through-out the vast majority of young males (because they create too much competition for the young girls), I want to see what the kids say.
im kinda torn on the flds thing.
what do you do after years of trials and hearings and you find out that, say 300 of these kids were not abused or the result of statutory rape or any other thing?
do you just call the mother and say" sorry come get your kid"?
guns dont kill people, bears do
First off..."Hey Now!" for that photo.
I concur with the Messenger, from time to time you deserve some support for this blog and how it fosters public discussion.
I too cringe every time that I hear "at the end of the day". What once was a fairly helpful, creative and reasonable statement has completely lost all meaning because of its overuse by the general public. But, it's not the only statement that has been overused and then become a beating. On the bright side, this is one reason you should be glad that you're a Baylor fan. There's no real danger of being taken over by the frontrunner crowd. Those of us that supported a certain UniversiTy during the down years are now diminished by the many bandwagon fans that have joined since we became successful.
I read Under The Banner of Heaven as well. It's a very good book, although it's probably not an unbiased opinion of the Mormons. It paints a very ugly picture of the Mormon compounds that are similar to the one in the news. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it has clouded my view of the current compound situation, so I'll avoid comment on that.
George Lopez must have "NBC Dateline" type pictures of TV Execs. There is no other explanation for him having a show.
If I happen across a story of someone geting killed by a bear or cougar while out hiking or whatever, it really strikes a chord with me and I feel awful. A trainer or bystander of a performance animal?- nothing.
Some goob with a dancing bear or a photogenic African Lion? No thanks,I choose life.
My kids and nieces and nephews always thought they were missing something,I say,"Yeah they missed getting their jugular and spinal cord severed by a bear or getting their face ripped off by a lion." That's what I say.
The inmate with lawsuit has one very valid point: please DO put restraining order on rest of Mavs season. Playoff performance is horrible. Not even worth watching!
Anyone who thinks those young girls will be allowed to wait until they are legal age to consent, and then consent are nuts.
Those adults are breeding future concubines! The children need to be taken away and the adults imprisoned.
The paper is regularly filled "sex offenders" photos who have done far less.
God will take care of those men for doing it in His name, but until judgement day, the community needs to step in and save those children.
Not to mention how many of those women and children are on welfare.
For all you liberal weenies. Please answer this question. If you want the government to step in to protect the children, where is your outcry for the government to shut down all abortion clinics and stop the slaughter of thousands of innocent children each day?
Who would want at least 3 wives bitching and nagging at them all the time? And what woman would want to share their husband with other people...I mean it would be nice when you just didnt want to have sex you wouldnt have to fake a headache or something.
I would hate to be the parents of these children...if they get their children back they will never be the same because they have now been exposed to a world of things they never knew of. The children omg so much new stuff and everyone telling them the only thing that they have ever know is wrong and against the law. Some of the younger ones wont remember much if they get to go back but the older ones will have a hard choice to make. To believe in what they have been thought their whole lives or what they are told now and to see some of the truths that have been lied about or hiden from them their whole lives.
Where are the men fighting for their 10 or 20 children?
Welfare? Those women and children are not on welfare. If they were the state would have some record of their medical history and they would know what child belonged to to who. They might be now but only because the government has stripped them of their home and everything they have.
My goal in life: death by Cougar!
What?! I'm just sayin'
Cps is a guilty until proven innocent organization. 400+ children have been taken custody of in response to a prank call from another state. The vast majority of these children are being held without even a allegation that they have been abused and years from the age @ which anyone could claim abuse is imminent. Debating if flds is abusing children or not is fine but the point with this case is that American citizens are having their fundamental liberties violated by the state at the sole discretion of cps and one judge. How can the state take children away from parents without allegations or evidence and fellow citizens think this is a good thing???
The 'State' can and will do anything it wants,get your mind wrapped around that and it will make accepting when it's your turn a little easier to take and take it YOU will.
I don't know what the big deal is about the polywogamus marriage thing. I mean, have you seen those women? We really aren't missing anything with them out of the dating pool.
Funny that the Christian religion exists only because a very, very, very old man decided to impregnate an underage girl who, incidentally, was a virgin and ALREADY married to another guy. It's also funny that when tribes and "other cultures" practice the same sort of thing all over the world, it's consider a "documentary" and "interesting" how other cultures work.
i recently opted for the $70 electric hedge trimmer. i had a crappier one before, and the difference was amazing. you can rip the **** out of some foliage with that thing.
i am such a total consumer. yawn.
oh yeah, and at the end of the day, my sorta-boss uses the phrase "at the end of the day" at least 3 times in every conversation we have. some time ago, it replaced the phrase "where the rubber meets the road" as the euphemism for "here's how it's going to be...".
I am really turn about those children as well, However I agree if there is abuse protect them. But is wrong is how the State officials Have violated those peoples rights. Therefore how can anything they find be used against them,and what does this say about anyone elses rights? I don't disagree with protecting any and all children, I do disagree with the way the Original Warrant was obtained/used. Please lighten us Barry and help my confused mind. HOw could any evidence be valid? When the search warrant was not? Or is this a major point the atty's will use in court at a later time? I am so lost here? Where does anyone thing justice is being served.
And thanks Jarhead, I will look for that book too,
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