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I KNEW I shoulda gone for the dengineering degree in college.

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we just watched 'the secret of kells'. a timely and shatteringly gorgeous commentary on knowledge and beauty and how they keep darkness and ignorance at bay.

huh.

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Jeez, that's awful. I hate that children have to live through something like this. There's a case study I use in abnormal Psych where the woman goes through awful, awful hell and develops some serious disorders...but she does recover. Students ALWAYS ask where CPS was, why didn't anyone do anything and I don't have much to tell them other than they're really busy and sometimes their hands are tied by the likes of pautards.

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Don't be down. These are the people who try desperately to prove guilt-by-association with chalkboards and endless Ayers/Alinsky/Soros insinuations, yet here they are, doubling (tripling?) down on a story, defending "their own" whose guilt isn't even close to being a tenuous Beck-drawn link. It is not even a question.

You can't possibly punish the kinds of shitburger-people, like Brian The Doughy, any more than they already are, just by being themselves.

You will never have to say something like "I wish your personal politics were so abhorrent that the very best pinnacle example you could find as a spokesmodel for your beliefs was a court-sanctioned kid-abusing total shitbag" .... because they have done it to themselves.

Take heart that these people are ALREADY fucking themselves with rusty bayonets.

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This link was posted by someone on liberalheretic's blog. <a href="http://archive.seacoastonli..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://archive.seacoastonline.com/2005news/hampto...">http://archive.seacoastonli... Apparently this guy had a 14-year-old girlfriend when he was 18. There's a term for that.

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Oh yes! That's right! The "research" in the original "stoled babby" peeparty article heavily relied upon surfing the couple's Facebook pages. "Their pictures look normal." Very in-depth research, right there! That is the kind of journalism we expect from high quality sources, so opposite from crummy newspapers.

Why doesn't CPS just search for Facebook profiles featuring pictures of beaten children? Think of all the tons of tax money that could be saved!

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Some background from <a href="http://www.theliberalhereti..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.theliberalheretic.com/blog/node/1161">http://www.theliberalhereti...

<i>Why would a newborn be taken from a woman who says her job is "caring for my kids" and who seems to be a stellar mother, for no other purpose other than the father of her baby belongs to Oath Keepers?

If she has other kids, as her job title implies, where are they? Why only take the newborn?

If they are so concerned for their kids, why does the father have the time to contact the media, appear on Alex Jones' show, and not have the time to contact an attorney, Child Protective Services, or the police?

The father, Jonathan Irish has a history with police, who have been called out to their residence more than once regarding Irish and firearms, including possession of concealed weapons without a permit,

A 21 month investigation against both of them for child neglect which also led to a trial to terminate their parental rights. They are awaiting that decision.

In order to regain custodial rights of Stephanie Taylor's children, Jonathan Irish was required to attend Ending the Violence with Scott Hampton, a simple course on how to not abuse your loved ones. It must have been too difficult for Mr. Irish to bother with, because he never attended, and Stephanie Taylor's kids are still in state custody.</i>

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Hey rugged individualist/tea-partier whinebags? Walk it off. Man up. Even Muscular Butch Jesus of the AFA says you better stop your fucking mewling, or he's going to burn your fucking house down.

Look, it is simple, wingnuts: your media manipulators, such as the dailypeeparty.com, or the pudgeblogger Brian Doucherty, took a calculated risk in presenting you with an issue so overstuffed with emotions, in order to play the "Gubmint = Evil" card, without ever checking on <i>who</i> they were propping up, or <i>what</i> they were glossing over, or <i>why</i> even the Gubmint might actually be acting in the best interests of everyone by removing the child from the dangerous environment.

Those bloggers <i>are precisely the jackasses</i>, in this whole mess, who ought to have done "more research," as you mention in your pule.

But of course, being a kneejerk follower who is led by the nose by these media manipulators, it is your very lot in life to virally spread the contemptful fingerwags, yes? GUILT ON, SHAME-WARRIORS! Lob all of your emotional grenades!

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i can't follow all of this. it's like a dickens' novel.

are there cliffnotes?

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I understand that hanging an American flag upside-down issort of the universal symbol for distress, you know, "something is terribly wrong in here! HELP!"

Apparently WP's apostrophes are trying to tell us something.

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Too bad "The Weakest Link" is off the air.

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<i>...an unruly mop of hair and soft pudgy cheeks that look like they’ve been cultivated off a steady diet of Dr. Pepper and Cheetos</i>. Now that's going too far.

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I would like to provide Brian Doherty with links to stories of women whose boyfriends seriously harmed or killed the woman's children. He can take pleasure in these heartwarming stories because the children were not removed for the home by CPS.

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Don't forget the Breitbart site as well as almost any place that allows comments. The 'patriots' are incredibly vulgar and asinine in their comments but can't stand being called out for it.

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