w00t w00t booyah

And I did tell you the current TSA widgets made me toss the pomegranate jelly...but let me carry the beeswax candles, wicks and all on a flight to SFO not that long ago.

So the meth capital (one of many in the central valley, trust me) can't handle...HONEY fumes.

The stupid, she doth burn brightly.

Dumb as dead cats. *shakes head*

You gets what you pays for.

Killeen Furtney Group public relations firm retained.

Well, why not. It took two insurance companies and a whole team of lawyers to manage one Workmans Comp case after things got complicated enough. I can relate.

Kicker is, these guys work on commission - and they wouldn't take her on unless they knew there was $$$ to be made. And they'll make money for her now, no kidding. It's what they do.

The word is deluge. Frankly, I don't think anyone has been courting the attention - so they called someone in who knows what to do with it. They won't need your welfare, thank you very much. Come again, and would you like fries with that?

The attention - has been nothing less than never-ending, vicious and very profitable for the media outlets at large.

No, I don't think the taxpayer dime is getting NEARLY as much of a workout as the ones being POURED by the bucketload into the advertising machines. Willingly, of everyone's free will, as fast as it can be produced.

Go ahead - post that outrage. Hit the refresh button. You just incremented all those banner ads - congratulations.

...

People really missed the original intent of that warning. It's not about IF she's right, IF she's a welfare whore, IF she's got her head up her ass.

It's all about how YOU are getting used. YOU are being counted, YOU are getting manipulated, YOU are being taunted at every turn to put your two cents in. (And most of them bad pennies at that.)

Taxes. BAH. There's no money there, compared to the people who make a living selling soap. And they are making it hand over fist and you aren't going to see ANYTHING out of it (unless you think abusive language towards women with children is entertaining).

And you STILL don't know anything. That's the part that kills me. People are walking around repeating this stuff and it's not even what you'd get from the public record, complete or even credible. And of course, the embellishments in the lack of real content is just giggle-worthy by itself. Until someone wants me to take them seriously. Seriously. With the lack of information I KNOW there is?! PUL-LEEEZE.

(And by the way, ladies? You want kids bad enough to do IVF - you're obsessed. If you were seriously listening to these people, of course. *twirls finger*)

*throws up hands* You guys go there. Mean people suck - and then get boring. I got other things to think about.

I guess I should be satisfied that everyone is getting what they want out of this. Me? I know there are things I don't have to be a party to - and this definitely qualifies.

It's none of my business, and nobody is asking me for my opinion. And that's all there is to say about it.

Killeen Furtney Group public relations firm retained.

Well, why not. It took two insurance companies and a whole team of lawyers to manage one Workmans Comp case after things got complicated enough. I can relate.

Kicker is, these guys work on commission - and they wouldn't take her on unless they knew there was $$$ to be made. And they'll make money for her now, no kidding. It's what they do.

The word is deluge. Frankly, I don't think anyone has been courting the attention - so they called someone in who knows what to do with it. They won't need your welfare, thank you very much. Come again, and would you like fries with that?

The attention - has been nothing less than never-ending, vicious and very profitable for the media outlets at large.

No, I don't think the taxpayer dime is getting NEARLY as much of a workout as the ones being POURED by the bucketload into the advertising machines. Willingly, of everyone's free will, as fast as it can be produced.

Go ahead - post that outrage. Hit the refresh button. You just incremented all those banner ads - congratulations.

...

People really missed the original intent of that warning. It's not about IF she's right, IF she's a welfare whore, IF she's got her head up her ass.

It's all about how YOU are getting used. YOU are being counted, YOU are getting manipulated, YOU are being taunted at every turn to put your two cents in. (And most of them bad pennies at that.)

Taxes. BAH. There's no money there, compared to the people who make a living selling soap. And they are making it hand over fist and you aren't going to see ANYTHING out of it (unless you think abusive language towards women with children is entertaining).

And you STILL don't know anything. That's the part that kills me. People are walking around repeating this stuff and it's not even what you'd get from the public record, complete or even credible. And of course, the embellishments in the lack of real content is just giggle-worthy by itself. Until someone wants me to take them seriously. Seriously. With the lack of information I KNOW there is?! PUL-LEEEZE.

(And by the way, ladies? You want kids bad enough to do IVF - you're obsessed. If you were seriously listening to these people, of course. *twirls finger*)

*throws up hands* You guys go there. Mean people suck - and then get boring. I got other things to think about.

I guess I should be satisfied that everyone is getting what they want out of this. Me? I know there are things I don't have to be a party to - and this definitely qualifies.

It's none of my business, and nobody is asking me for my opinion. And that's all there is to say about it.

The more we find out it doesn't get any better.

That murder-suicide case, with both parents med-techs at the Kaiser hospital in West LA?

They were rad techs. Yup. Same union as Jim, same job title. Both of them.

One was interventional, the other mammo. He's stumped as to what could have caused them both to be fired at the same time.

It had to be nasty. Like, really stupid nasty. We know the union is better than that, too. He's taken stuff to them himself and gotten satisfaction - they're a good group.

And it looks like both of the parents planned this.

I've asked Jim to keep his ears open on this one - but I'll put this to the world at large.

HAY. I'M A LICENSED FOSTER PARENT IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. I'm also pretty typical.

You want to think of what might happen to your kid in the foster care system, think of me? There are also a lot of me out there, who you will never hear about - because of the confidentiality requirements? Trust me on this?

Just...tuck it away somewhere.

Jim's firmly of the mind we'll never figure this out. I'm with him.

It's Rabbit Hole Day.

It also has the distinction of carrying two REALLY awful news stories as well.

Five children under age 10 and their mother were fatally shot inside a Wilmington home this morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police said that the assailant appeared to be the children's father and that he apparently committed suicide after faxing a letter to KABC Channel 7. Channel 7 then contacted authorities, police said.

The LAPD was dispatched to the 1000 block of McFarland Avenue at 8:22 a.m. Officer Sam Park said the man apparently committed suicide.

The story is damning. Kaiser union employees, both husband and wife - fired - according to the letter they faxed to KABC. (Oh, and it's likely they might have been regular listeners of KABC Talk Radio as well.)

Compare and contrast with this story:

A deputy shot and killed a woman armed with a knife during a confrontation Wednesday night north of Lake Elsinore, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.

A deputy was initially called to the 16900 block of Lake Mathews Road because a person made a suicidal threat.

Parent dead - kids alive. *weighs*

Of course, everyone is in a lather because the poor thing was shot in the back during the confrontation - but.

Rabbit Hole Day.

Do me a favor.

Remove the guns from both these stories and rewrite them. Or - write in someone with a brain with regards to handling weapons and rewrite them.

Cos' I can't do it right now.

Guns and unhappy people - not gonna end well. Just saying.

It's Rabbit Hole Day.

It also has the distinction of carrying two REALLY awful news stories as well.

Five children under age 10 and their mother were fatally shot inside a Wilmington home this morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police said that the assailant appeared to be the children's father and that he apparently committed suicide after faxing a letter to KABC Channel 7. Channel 7 then contacted authorities, police said.

The LAPD was dispatched to the 1000 block of McFarland Avenue at 8:22 a.m. Officer Sam Park said the man apparently committed suicide.

The story is damning. Kaiser union employees, both husband and wife - fired - according to the letter they faxed to KABC. (Oh, and it's likely they might have been regular listeners of KABC Talk Radio as well.)

Compare and contrast with this story:

A deputy shot and killed a woman armed with a knife during a confrontation Wednesday night north of Lake Elsinore, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.

A deputy was initially called to the 16900 block of Lake Mathews Road because a person made a suicidal threat.

Parent dead - kids alive. *weighs*

Of course, everyone is in a lather because the poor thing was shot in the back during the confrontation - but.

Rabbit Hole Day.

Do me a favor.

Remove the guns from both these stories and rewrite them. Or - write in someone with a brain with regards to handling weapons and rewrite them.

Cos' I can't do it right now.

Guns and unhappy people - not gonna end well. Just saying.

You find the darndest stuff on korean adoptee blogs, I tell ya.

( Ready for this one? They now have 'adoptee disruption ranches.' )

Some of the stuff just makes your blood boil.

The oldest of four, Sasha and his siblings were first adopted by a
Colorado family, an arrangement that quickly unraveled. Sasha moved
on to a second household, also in Colorado, while his two sisters and
a brother were split up and placed in several other states.

Soon after, Sasha tried to poison his new mother—slipping crushed
pills into her sandwich. Charged with felony assault, he was sent to
juvenile detention.

“My new mother told me that I should forget them [his siblings], but
I couldn’t,” the 23-year-old said recently, sitting in the ranch’s
cozy kitchen. “I went nuts.”

UHHHHH. I'd go nuts, too. Can you imagine? Never - not ever - in any of the training we've gotten, have we been advised to separate a child from any kind of family they had prior to coming to us. Foster, infant adoption - whatever. You never cut a kid off from any kind of attachment or bond they ever had in their lives.

And I totally agree. Who'd do such a thing. That's rhetorical.

When all efforts have failed, Sterkel starts a new placement process
with a call to A Child’s Waiting in Akron, Ohio—one of the few
adoption agencies that works with youths they did not originally
place.

Children are listed as green, yellow and red, based on the difficulty
of finding replacement families for each.

Their numbers have risen so dramatically that A Child’s Waiting plans
to build transitional housing specifically to accommodate that group,
said Crissy Kolarik, co-director. “The red kids have the most
significant issues, such as sexual predators,” she said.

How dare you. Like this is some kind of Lego system where you can 'replace' pieces that don't work anymore.

*fumes* Kid, I promise you right now. I'm going to do my level best not to be stupid when it comes to you - and that includes your birth family and anyone who cared for you before I showed up. Surely not to be as meanly stupid as this stuff is.

http://kadnexus.wordpress.com/ is a real keeper - go take a look.