It is the law. Because children are the property of parents, if parents are found to be negligent or abusive, the accepted response is for the state to take them and put them in foster care. Records are sealed and the hearings are confidential so the parents cannot find and retrieve their children. The problem with foreign born is that in every other nation children have rights and cannot be given to strangers. Parents can designate friends as guardians and/or object to the separation. So, at last count the Biden Admin. is still looking for 400 children that were taken and are to be returned to relatives. There are half a million children in foster care in any given year because they have been "taken." It"s property law, eagerly supported by parentalrights.org They are very up set with Ilhan Omar for urging the Senate to ratify the UNCRC. Like slaveholders of old, parents do not want give up their property. We are, as GWB explained "an ownership society." The UNCRC was signed by Bill Clinton but the Senate refused to ratify. Problem is that treaties into which the U.S. enters have the same force of law as the Constitution itself. Family values trump human rights when it comes to our children.
Bought gasoline today. $5.19/gallon. Adjusting for inflation, that would be 59 cents per gallon in 1968 dollars. We get 33 mpg around town; in 1968 11 mpg would not be bad. So 59/3 = about 20 cents per gallon. Back then I paid 27.7 cents per gallon (with double blue chip stamps and a free glass with every fill-up). So gasoline cost per mile is in real terms no more, and if anything rather less than it was 55 years ago. Speaking as one of The Ancient Ones, It still sounds like a lot, but I remember my folks telling of the old guy they rented a house from in the 1930’s, who flat out refused to pay more than ten cents for a dozen eggs.
Hmph; that's odd. Of course others who have tried that have not been successful so far, and it could be he thinks that in Federal Court he would be subject to political persecution by the Biden administration. ----Alan
Trump officials ordered to account for family separations in court [Click]
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DeleteUnder oath! Wonderful!!
Rock on, Justice system!
It is the law. Because children are the property of parents, if parents are found to be negligent or abusive, the accepted response is for the state to take them and put them in foster care. Records are sealed and the hearings are confidential so the parents cannot find and retrieve their children.
DeleteThe problem with foreign born is that in every other nation children have rights and cannot be given to strangers. Parents can designate friends as guardians and/or object to the separation.
So, at last count the Biden Admin. is still looking for 400 children that were taken and are to be returned to relatives.
There are half a million children in foster care in any given year because they have been "taken." It"s property law, eagerly supported by parentalrights.org They are very up set with Ilhan Omar for urging the Senate to ratify the UNCRC.
Like slaveholders of old, parents do not want give up their property. We are, as GWB explained "an ownership society." The UNCRC was signed by Bill Clinton but the Senate refused to ratify.
Problem is that treaties into which the U.S. enters have the same force of law as the Constitution itself.
Family values trump human rights when it comes to our children.
Mary Ellen Wilson [Click]
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Josh Marshall: Trump’s Two Storylines [Click] A good and very timely essay.
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Watch: The Robot wolves trying to scare off Japan's bears [Click] I hadn’t known how many bear attacks on humans there have been lately.
ReplyDeleteDeja vu’s lesser-known opposite: why do we experience jamais vu? – podcast [Click] An Ig Nobel prize you might have not heard of.
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‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two families for ever [Click] In the end, both families handled it well—notably including the kids.
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Oops--that DNA story was intended to be a free-standing link, not a reply to the previous post about jamais vu.
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Bought gasoline today. $5.19/gallon. Adjusting for inflation, that would be 59 cents per gallon in 1968 dollars. We get 33 mpg around town; in 1968 11 mpg would not be bad. So 59/3 = about 20 cents per gallon. Back then I paid 27.7 cents per gallon (with double blue chip stamps and a free glass with every fill-up). So gasoline cost per mile is in real terms no more, and if anything rather less than it was 55 years ago. Speaking as one of The Ancient Ones, It still sounds like a lot, but I remember my folks telling of the old guy they rented a house from in the 1930’s, who flat out refused to pay more than ten cents for a dozen eggs.
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ReplyDeleteHow the Impeachment Hearings Are Going [Click] Very not well.
Panicking Republicans Turn to Glenn Youngkin [Click]
Trump’s Sprawling Legal Defense Effort Under Strain [Click] Nowhere near half enough strain to suit me.
Appeals Court Refuses to Delay Trump Fraud Trial [Click]—Alan
DT won't try to move Georgia case to Federal court
ReplyDeleteHmph; that's odd. Of course others who have tried that have not been successful so far, and it could be he thinks that in Federal Court he would be subject to political persecution by the Biden administration.
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Here is the story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution [Click] with some plausible speculation.
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The 7 Butterflies this year were named:
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Dorothy
Scarecrow
TinMan
Cowardly Lion
Glinda
Toto
The Atlantic: Basil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to Do [Click] “The National Zoo’s newest resident isn’t colorful or exotic. That’s exactly the point.”
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Declared dead but very much alive: Missouri woman tells of ‘nightmare’ ordeal [Click] “Madeline-Michelle Carthen was added to a death master file by SSA ‘in error’ but to this day she cannot revive herself.”
ReplyDeleteThe war on motorists: the secret history of a myth as old as cars themselves [Click]
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