Comments on: Little Kids in Jail. In America.

By: JoyB

JoyB — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:16:41 +0000

nellieh! That’s worth quoting!

By: nellieh

nellieh — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:27:34 +0000

We are trying to create terrorists here so we don’t have to fight them over there. This administration’s DOJ and DHS are Flucked up.

By: Blub

Blub — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:09:07 +0000

Something weird has happened to the compassion of Americans, of late, and I suspect being ruled by shrub has something to do with it… from this, to reports that water and medical care is being routinely withheld from Mexican border crossers at ICE detention camps in the Arizona desert, to the Katrina prisoners left to fend for themselves in rising water, to the reintroduction of chain gangs around the country, to the permanently imprisoned TB patient in AZ who was, for months, denied books, phone calls, writing materials, visitors or access to a TV because this was “procedure”, to the near-total official neglect of mass rape reports on native American reservations (cited by Amnesty International this month) to the increasingly virulent and systematic police attacks on gays and lesbians in American cities (also cited by Amnesty last year) to even our country’s increasing infant mortality rate. And so forth and so forth. It’s almost like shrub has brought out the worst in Americans, in terms of human rights….

We’ve become a country of mean people, who do cruel things to people who can’t protect themselves, just because we can. I guess it’s all consistent with the spirit of the Torture Presidency.

By: JoyB

JoyB — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:49:09 +0000

I don’t want to believe this horror. The people close to this situation allow this? How does this happen? I struggle to get to work on time, to make a potluck salad for a gathering, to remember to throw the clothes in the dryer. I sit here reading posts and a hundred comments. While these girls and their parents sit in JAIL?? It makes me crazy how much precious time I waste. Where to even start.

By: HotFlash

HotFlash — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:04 +0000

It is fairly common for humans to demand free access to something that they want but don’t have, and to go all protectionist when they have it. People making these demands usually characterize them as ‘fair’ when they make them.

My ancestors came from Europe (Germany and Ireland, mostly). I don’t know a lot of history and google isn’t helping me, perhaps someone here knows: what were the immigration procedures like 250, 150 and 50 yrs ago, compared to today? My impression is that it has gotten progressively more complex, and in the olden days (150 yrs and more) you were ok as long as you could physically get here. Or am I just remembering movies? Can’t believe there wouldn’t be forms and fees of some sort. I know there were quotas at various times, too. To clarify, I mean official immigration procedure, not resistance to immigrants faced on arrival.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:59:29 +0000

Oops — thanks, Lou!

By: Lou Costello

Lou Costello — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:57:30 +0000

Christy Hardin Smith @ 52

Fresh thread, gang.

Try again…*wink:
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....-evidence/

By: oddmommy

oddmommy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:57:08 +0000

Loo Hoo @ 46

Whom she calls Slam Dunk or Slam throughout the piece. It is kinda funny.

Yeah.
And I gotta say it….I know this is not popular with some folks, and it is something I would ONLY say about a woman like her whose constant MO (heh) is petty sexual slandering……I think the femme fatale has some rather obvious, uh, deprivation issues.

By: Guitar_Playing_Bastard

Guitar_Playing_Bastard — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:56:57 +0000

Peterr @
44

Oh, and GPB: It’s always a potential BBQ day at my place. But reading your comment . . . I can smell the brisket already!

I can only do it on the weekend, I’m just too busy with work.

But the meat is already taking on that pink “cooking in progress” look.

Crab, onion and swiss omelets for breakfast.

Why yes, I CAN cook.

By: Guitar_Playing_Bastard

Guitar_Playing_Bastard — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:54:39 +0000

Loo Hoo @
45

Now I’m getting hungry. GPB, I’d put some potato salad with that puppy. Dakine, pork chops again?! Do you leave the peel on the potatoes? I do except when we have company.

I got the P-salad at the store when I went for more charcoal and Red Stripe beer.

I don’t usually drink in the morning but I’ll do the Kristofferson thing when I’m barbecuing. =:-D