Sounds like you might expect insane people to understand logic, empathy and self-control. Maybe if we start putting anti-psychotics in the water supply...
That's the magic question. What the fuck do we do?
Because I got no plan to stop this monster. He can't be stopped unless the GOP joins us and 25th Amendments his ass. I do NOT see that happening, ever.
I'm fixing to get me a bus full of kids. Living here in Round Rock, with a detention center just down the road in Hutto, has been really difficult. I was one of those baby mamas who was crazy attached to her baby. She's 13 now and I still have those feelings. When I had to start taking her to daycare (freaking expensive daycare) after maternity leave, I cried every day at work for a month. Something shifted in me when I had her. To think of all these kids who need so much and feeling so helpless has made it hard for me to function.
Texas Youth Commision (which the kids called Total Youth Control) had engaged in programs for "adjudicated youth" that retraumatized young victims of sexual and physical abuse who had been remanded to TYC "care" for offenses which included "willful disobedience" and what we now call "intellectual disability". In 2011 that travesty was abolished and their "rehabilitative" programs were absorbed into part of the newly formed Texas Juvenile Justice Department. (Full disclosure: I worked with an Amarillo-based youth diversion contractee one very, hot long summer.) This Wikipedia entry seems to barely mention the extensive and heinous abuse scandals that resulted in the dissolution of the Commission, but if you scroll down to contractors you can see that one of them was Southwest Key (Houston). This kind of abuse, detailed in the ACLU's detained unaccompanied minors case, is characteristic of the Texas juvenile "justice" system, in general (and has been FOR DECADES): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
In "Stranger In A Strange Land", the President of the world government is a folksy, charming dunderhead everyone likens to their grandfather while his wife, the true power behind the throne, consults an astrologer before making any decisions.
Before any Trumpanzees gleefully point out that some of this horror occurred when Barack Obama was President, what you are arguing is the right to be as bad as the Obama administration. Is that the standard you want us to hold you to?
that's a good question. not too many would be my best guess but there's also duration and scale to consider as factors. if you include indentured servitude of any kind, it's probably AOT, K.
Sounds like you might expect insane people to understand logic, empathy and self-control. Maybe if we start putting anti-psychotics in the water supply...
That's the magic question. What the fuck do we do?
Because I got no plan to stop this monster. He can't be stopped unless the GOP joins us and 25th Amendments his ass. I do NOT see that happening, ever.
"Why are ANY children being sent there?" Do you really have to ask?
Some subjects just aren't going to get the laughs. Makes it tough on Wonkette and late night hosts.
:-(
Yeah, let's get to work on that. Where do we start?
I'm fixing to get me a bus full of kids. Living here in Round Rock, with a detention center just down the road in Hutto, has been really difficult. I was one of those baby mamas who was crazy attached to her baby. She's 13 now and I still have those feelings. When I had to start taking her to daycare (freaking expensive daycare) after maternity leave, I cried every day at work for a month. Something shifted in me when I had her. To think of all these kids who need so much and feeling so helpless has made it hard for me to function.
Sterno butt fire.FIFY
... with deafening silence from #alllivesmatter
Texas Youth Commision (which the kids called Total Youth Control) had engaged in programs for "adjudicated youth" that retraumatized young victims of sexual and physical abuse who had been remanded to TYC "care" for offenses which included "willful disobedience" and what we now call "intellectual disability". In 2011 that travesty was abolished and their "rehabilitative" programs were absorbed into part of the newly formed Texas Juvenile Justice Department. (Full disclosure: I worked with an Amarillo-based youth diversion contractee one very, hot long summer.) This Wikipedia entry seems to barely mention the extensive and heinous abuse scandals that resulted in the dissolution of the Commission, but if you scroll down to contractors you can see that one of them was Southwest Key (Houston). This kind of abuse, detailed in the ACLU's detained unaccompanied minors case, is characteristic of the Texas juvenile "justice" system, in general (and has been FOR DECADES): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
Yes I’m aware, he invented waterbeds in that book. See earlier. :)
I don't; it's similar but not quite the same.
These atrocities should be prosecuted in The Hague.
In "Stranger In A Strange Land", the President of the world government is a folksy, charming dunderhead everyone likens to their grandfather while his wife, the true power behind the throne, consults an astrologer before making any decisions.
He wrote that in 1963.
Before any Trumpanzees gleefully point out that some of this horror occurred when Barack Obama was President, what you are arguing is the right to be as bad as the Obama administration. Is that the standard you want us to hold you to?
I am DESPERATE for a GONZO voice in this brutal wilderness!
that's a good question. not too many would be my best guess but there's also duration and scale to consider as factors. if you include indentured servitude of any kind, it's probably AOT, K.
Who has never had slavery?