There's a very true saying that "the more I learn about people, the more I like dogs."
I really love dogs. I really miss mine. And after reading this morning's news I really, REALLY miss him. Why?
-- This story (click) out of San Francisco that the State of Nevada has been dumping mental patients in San Francisco. Hundreds were given one-way tickets and told to dial 911 when they got there or simply told "good bye!"
Nevada authorities are harumping, saying this certainly isn't their POLICY, but the numbers argue otherwise.
-- This story (click) that three teens in Oklahoma were bored, so they decided to kill someone. A baseball player, an Australian kid here on a scholarship, was jogging by so one said "There's our target," and they got in their car and shot him. He's dead, the teens are in custody.
Words fail.
-- As predicted, Iraq (click) is returning to its sectarian civil war style, with waves of car bombings, neighborhoods walling up, strife intensifying and so on and so forth, precisely as a lot of us predicted. Hell, there were those of us who predicted it would end up this way before the invasion -- Sunni, Shia and Kurds, all hate each other, all forced to be in one country together, all held together only by brutal dictators or equally brutal military occupation. And we go in and try to spread democracy and happiness, with no plan at all how to do it.
What could go wrong? And yet you know there are folks who are going to say "Obama is at fault, he pulled us too soon."
Cripes.
-- While Hill Air Force Base employees are moaning about their flight line cafe being closed due to sequestration, 57,000 children across the nation, including 100 in Weber County, are being booted from Head Start.
This means 57,000 chances for kids to grow up in poverty, alone at home, while their parents struggle to get by on minimum wages jobs -- working poor are Head Start's target clients -- that will never pay them a living wage because there are folks in this country who actually think the minimum wage should be lower, not higher.
The kids will grow up somehow, right? Of course with minimal instruction and guidance early on, they could also end up the kind of kids who sit around, getting bored, and actually think that shooting some passing jogger for fun is a good idea.
But what the heck, if they live in Nevada maybe someone will give them a free ride to 'Frisco.
Here Rover! Time for a walk!
Re: "57,000 children across the nation, including 100 in Weber County, are being booted from Head Start."
ReplyDeleteCharlie Charlie Charlie, you just refuse to understand. These are 57K children who now will have the opportunity to accept responsibility for their own pre-school learning and school readiness. [Didn't you listen to Mitt's 47% speech?] Now if we can just cut all federal support for public school lunches as well, think of the thousands upon thousands of children who will have the opportunity to become responsible for their own hunger and abating it... every single day. Just think of the opportunity for personal growth and self-reliance we'll be giving them! And the money saved may allow us to cut taxes for the 1% even more and ease their pain. Maybe allow Mitt to put in a second elevator for his cars. Win/win looks like to me, que no?
Damn. Curmudgeon = Bob Becker.
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