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Helen Thomas, Lynne Stewart, a vat of anchovies and me ... indeed!
-Glenn Reynolds

The British Government Considers Saving a Child's Life

As a rule, I think that governments should stay out of people's household's and not interfere in the parent-child relationship except in the most extreme of circumstances but in this case, the Brits should come in and save this boy.  If his family was poisoning him with arsenic instead of food, there would be no question.  In the end, the result will be almost as bad ... an emotionally scarred child who will die very young and will suffer before he does.  The fact that the parents mean him no harm will not change the results one bit.

Folks, some people just aren't made to be parents.  They just don't have the skills or instincts or will for it.  Some of those people, who are not necessarily bad or malicious, have children anyway and it may be up to governments to protect those children.

It may not take a village to raise a child, but sometimes it may take a village to save a child.

 

Update: That poor child.

Posted by: Jheka at February 27, 2007 01:40 | link | comments |
general idiocy, miscellaneous musings

They Welcome Their Winged Overlords

You just know that a surrender is imminent ...

On a related note, Go Sarko!  The Hungarian that can save France.

Posted by: Jheka at February 21, 2007 10:55 | link | comments |
politics, humor

Friday Poetry for Winter

On a cold, cold day like today, what poet could I pick but the great Robert Frost?

Acquainted with the Night
    
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost
 

Posted by: Jheka at February 16, 2007 14:14 | link | comments |
poetry

I'm a Real Boy and I'll Never Grow Up!

Dennis Kucinich spins on a chair ... rumor has it that, while on the campaign trail, he likes to jump up and down on the bed in his hotel room ... his last campaign helped Dennis (D-Keebler) finally get a girl ... I wonder what he's after this time around.

Dennis is but one of the many no-hopers from both parties that have thrown their hats into the ring for the 2008 Presidential race.  Here are the others (so far).  To make it clear, TDB is officially saying that the following people have no hope whatsoever of becoming President.  None:

Joe Biden (When he's not plagiarizing, he has a huge foot-in-mouth problem)

Mike Gravel (completely nutty ... seriously, read the man's website ... he would like to run the country by referendum ... nuttier than Kucinich)

Christopher Dodd (almost as much charisma as Bob Dole without the record of achievement)

Al Sharpton (who will he be blackmailing and extorting next?)

John Cox (um, he's president of the Fireworks for Kids Foundation ... um, yeah ...) (warning, links opens to a loud,  annoying speech)

Al Gore (if he runs, he'll discover that more rabid supporters don't equal more supporters)

Duncan Hunter (because if there's anything 2006 taught us, it's that America is yearning for an angry right winger they've never heard of to lead us)

Ron Paul (a Republican (sort of) who doesn't support the War on Terror and who isn't popular with his party ... going after that big Buchanan voting block, I guess)

Tom Tancredo (one issue candidates just don't win national elections or primaries)

Tommy Thompson (because former Bush appointees with no particular accomplishments are going to be all the rage in '08)

Jim Gilmore (trying to fill that Republican from Virginia void left by the George Allen wreckage, I guess)

Mike Huckabee (do you heart Huckabee?  Neither does anyone else ... and Republicans are not voting for any more Arkansas governors)

Sam Brownback (the author of the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2006 ... everybody who wants just a bit more censorship in their lives will be a Brownbacker)

Newt Gingrich (negatives of Hillarian proportions ... some holes are just too deep to dig out of)

Chuck Hagel (it doesn't help that much of his own party has disdain for him and the rest don't care)

and the TDB surprise no-hoper:

John Edwards (the Obama candidacy kills Edwards ... all of the "young charismatic American hope" karma without the "I was spanked by Dick Cheney" baggage ... Edwards will flame out early)

The rest ... Richardson, Vilsack, Clinton, Guiliani, McCain, Romney, Obama and Clark ... have some kind of chance ... a small one in some cases (Vilsack, Clark, Romney and Richardson) but a chance nonetheless.  One of those eight people will be the next President of the United States.

TDB guarantees it.

Posted by: Jheka at February 11, 2007 23:47 | link | comments (6) |
politics