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- THURSDAY FUN LINK: You’ve been waiting all morning! This week’s “Thursday Fun Link” was selected because we no longer can distinguish between “fun” and “brutal social/economic/political tales of terrible sadness.” Hooray! It’s about Nebraska’s “safe haven” law that lets people abandon their “out-of-control” children — up to 19 years old — at hospitals because they have no money or health care or access to psychiatric services and they have dead spouses OR because they’re lazy pieces of drunk shit. We’re looking forward to the Great New Depression, too! [NYT]
Funny! Jim, you should try stand up comedy sometime.
This will lead Nebraska to become the first state to allow full-birth abortions.
On the bright side, we now have the answer to competing with China’s cheap labor rates. Thanks Nebraska!
Quitters.
Damn, I wish they had this back in the day; 41 could have just dropped W. off down there guilt-free.
I like that the 34 year old guy had 10 kids and the oldest was 18. Don’t they know that in liberal elite American you don’t have to start having kids until you are 34?
Small Town Values!
Thank God for the Republicans, who saw this coming and had the guts to make the laws we need to dump our kids to get through the Depression
awright! ahm a-headin out t’nebrasky, drop off th’whole pack o’brats… bless thar hearts, i’ll be free at lass… ah mean, i went t’sckool an all, but nobuddy tole me that if’n ah put that thang down thar inta… wall, y’know, i didn’ know babiez woold come along later, iss all ahm sayin… it ain’t mah fault…
This explains why the Humane Society animal shelter near me had a litter of puppies and a 17 year old in a box in front of their building.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Does the bloated hospital bill get paid in any way by federal dollars? If so, that’s another great example right there of red state values being worthless welfare queens and draining our country.
Better safe than sorry. It’s a return policy. Thought you only had 14 days with a receipt?
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http://www.democratbydesign.typepad.com
Lousy welfare gummint bloodsuckers. Whatever happened to the days you floated ‘em down the Mississippi in a basket of reeds and some Iman-lookalike takes you in, then you grow up and lead a slave revolt but the joke’s on you ’cause you die before you see the Promised—er, Dollywood.
superfecta: I imagine his wife died from exhaustion, which is common among women who spend 18 months a year getting pregnant and delivering babies.
At least they’re not black. Then it would be a REAL problem, about how teh blacks can’t afford their mortgages OR their ugly babies. Dead beats.
Dammit. So, we can’t just drop Grampy off with a tape of his appearance on “Morning Joe”? Can we at least apply for involuntary committment for him? That would give us a quick 72 hours before we’d have to hear him try to speak again, if nothing else.
Dumpster babies should be in dumpsters, dag nabbit! Why es dat guvment always gettin’ in da way?
Tommy Says Soooo: Moses floated down the Nile on a basket of reeds, and look how life turned out for him? He’s FAMOUS.
mkay, ah went back an read th’whole sorry story… my laugher has stopped laughin and my cryer has started up… good lord, what’s to become of us? what hav we become? what we alwayz was, i guess…
slappypaddy: WIN…finally, for christ’s sake.
Too Bad William F. Buckley died before he could abandon his grandson at a Nebraska hospital.
shortsshortsshorts: Yes, but he’s Heeb famous, like that Goldstein guy from Screw magazine. Lousy anti-Semites couldn’t let anyone have that much fame so they trumped Moses with Karen Carpenter.
Cindy McCain is dropping off a certain “brown” child as we speak.
Special Agent Jack Mehoff: thanks, jack… been workin on it…
Breaking news: Sarah Palin moves to Nebraska after losing the election, abandons Trig and Piper, as they are no longer much needed political assets.
How Palin should have handled Couric:
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49162N20081002
Maybe some Chinese actress will adopt them…
facehead: Punches at first, then a lesbo 69 love-fest… that would have been must see TV!
I prefer to think of them less as abandoned children than America’s new migrant workers.
Oh that’s rich!
They won’t kill a clump of inconvenient cells before the trouble gets out of hand, but when the bastards get to be teens they’ll drop ‘em in the night deposit slot at the local hospital.
Culture of life indeed.
At least they “chose” life.
It’s like leave a penny, take a penny - but with fun!
Gopherit v2.0: That’s right! And they ain’t none of them brown illegals, too! Nope we gonna breed our OWN cheap labor force! Fuck Mexico!
We have forgotten the most important point, that Nebraska is geographically raping Kansas, home state of Hopey and Mott the Hoople.
Palin has a bailout plan for these people: Get Congress to put the abstinence plan to work… with a bonus for pulling out early.
WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.
Where to begin. Heart palpitations are starting…feeling faint. Seriously.
Okay. Soooo. They want you to have the babies–no abortions GOD HATES ABORTIONS–so the state can raise them? Also, you need a license to drive a car, but not to have a baby? This is like that Louisiana Representative’s eugenics plan, by which I mean that there are precautions we can take so that we don’t have to pass extreme laws. For example, mandatory parenting classes, therapy for parents and children, addressing the root issues of domestic strife, i.e. poverty, joblessness, drug abuse, physical/emotional abuse. We’re saying it’s okay to pop out kids and then drop them off with the Gub’ment “cuz it’s hard, ya’ll.” There are already many MANY children that are never adopted in the US. They’re wards of the state and they cycle from foster home to home abused and emotionally battered. This is unacceptable. Good God, maybe we need our numbers thinned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYWV_9pYvg0
How can you ‘abandon’ a 19-year-old? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
so, NAMBLA’s an adoption agency now?
facehead: You read reuters?
You have no place in America. You elitist. Take your babies with you.
NoWireHangers: USA!!!1!!! USA!!!!! USA!!!!!1! Even the Third World can suck it at sucking at child care, we can screw more kids up quicker! Our fundamentals are strong!
Why are Nebraska’s abandoned children in the tank for Obama?
NoWireHangers: Take Ken’s advice. Start drinking early, Hangers. Sounds like you could use it.
You might appreciate the following clip from The Daily Show last night:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186764&title=gamsgammer&byDate=true
Too bad McCain’s daddy didn’t get to use this law.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
Gopherit v2.0: I think there’s beer in the executive fridge. Might have to use stealth tactics to steal a few dozen…
TGY: Rail riding post-teen punk-spanger “street kids” are the most annoying thing.
Well, at least we’re not in the Great Depression 2, yet…they had happy fun stories, too:
The date was Nov. 24, 1934, and the “Babes in the Woods” would become one of the most sensational crime stories of the Depression era…
The three sisters were apparently killed by their father, Elmo J. Noakes, 32…
Police theorized that Noakes, penniless and without prospects of employment, killed the girls on Nov. 21 rather than let them starve. Autopsies determined that the children had not eaten for 18 hours before their deaths…
trondant: Yep… though nowadays they’re doing business as the GOP. Much more respectable, relatively speaking.
They didn’t mean to write the law that way. They’re fixing it now. It was in the papers a few weeks ago what had been actually happening with the new law, and everyone is freaking out and we will get the law rewritten soon to only cover parents abandoning infants, and it will have good ideas in it to prevent this like classes, rehab, hotlines, help in general, etc.
We were one of the last states to get a safe haven law and we just kind of messed it up for some reason. Most of us aren’t too bright.
If they were all corn fed, I can certainly imagine a new use for them young’ns. Mmmmmm, brat-wurst.