tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8805423583230548912..comments2024-03-28T03:36:23.587-05:00Comments on Althouse: 7-year-old girl tells bus driver she dressed herself and left for school on her own because she couldn't wake up her parents.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5566500702839589132016-10-06T16:48:15.545-05:002016-10-06T16:48:15.545-05:00As sad as this is, its probably better that it hap...As sad as this is, its probably better that it happened sooner rather than later. Hopefully, these children can regain some of their childhood back. richardssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427872009804067649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64763619417834681462016-10-06T07:22:24.897-05:002016-10-06T07:22:24.897-05:00"AllenS, don't you think it is more likel..."AllenS, don't you think it is more likely that they started it with alcohol?"<br /><br />Or cigarettes, for that matter. The fact is a lot of people use lesser drugs and never graduate to the heavy stuff, and certainly never get abused by it. I'm fine with trying to deal with those who have a real problem (addiction) while still allowing those who don't to go about their lives without us trying to control them.Brandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219319435229314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67512002372946874472016-10-06T06:01:08.028-05:002016-10-06T06:01:08.028-05:00"The harsh reality of this situation where bo..."The harsh reality of this situation where both parents ended up being heroin addicts, is that they most likely started their drug curiosity with marijuana. You know, the drug that should be legal because it isn't harmful. Right?"<br /><br />AllenS, don't you think it is more likely that they started it with alcohol?Largohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15082394436785605297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53270534564173963072016-10-06T05:48:30.659-05:002016-10-06T05:48:30.659-05:00"Who's to say what's best for the kid..."Who's to say what's best for the kids?"<br /><br />Often that's a difficult question, and we should avoid putting ourselves in a position to answer it. But there are cases where the answer is objectively obvious. Heroin junkies overdosing while they have children in the house is one of those objectively obvious cases.<br /><br />Should we look at a case where parents are repeatedly beating their children and scalding them with water because the kids refuse to be drug mules, and say "sorry, who are we to judge how you raise your kids"?<br /><br />"Sure, and those addicted will trundle off to work each weekday, earn a paycheck honestly to not only buy their own drugs, but to pay for their food and shelter, then and only then will they zone out on heroine in a perfectly safe manner. Is that your fantasy? "<br /><br />Your example applies to those addicted to heroin. What about a casual marijuana user, who wants to toke a bit on weekends just as the rest of us enjoy a glass of bourbon? Why are we lumping them in with junkies?Brandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219319435229314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6872211595022912212016-10-05T22:46:54.507-05:002016-10-05T22:46:54.507-05:00"I really am wondering if you think that peop..."I really am wondering if you think that people with easy access to heroine are going to lead productive lives as anything but artists and performers, work that is remarkably scarce."<br /><br />How hard do you think it is to get heroin in these places now? <br /><br /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/05/why-hardly-anyone-dies-from-a-drug-overdose-in-portugal/" rel="nofollow">How do you think Portugal does it?</a>Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59275238407248838152016-10-05T21:50:29.207-05:002016-10-05T21:50:29.207-05:00This isn't so much of a tragedy as it is a cri...This isn't so much of a tragedy as it is a crime of child abuse and neglect by the parents, who finally succumbed to their lack of impulse control. According to other family members, all of the children are suffering from both health issues and developmental disorders brought on by the parents' lifestyle. <br /><br />Look at the photos of the house from this link. If the parents weren't already dead, they should have been shot. <br /><br />http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-house-horrors-heroin-overdose-8983146 <br /><br />JCChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16155396416213333906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13383512444624608712016-10-05T21:07:50.085-05:002016-10-05T21:07:50.085-05:00You can't "fundamentally transform" ...You can't "fundamentally transform" without breaking a few eggs. These kids and their parents are the collateral damage of the war against racism and inequality, against global warming and the despicables clinging to bibles and guns. We can euphemize them away. After all, it was a government employee who discovered the truth and rescued the children. Government is the thing we do together, the village that it takes to raise our kids. This was not the end of a bad story but the beginning of a great and glorious one.Moneyrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12940253500799383224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88519473668080647332016-10-05T20:09:31.987-05:002016-10-05T20:09:31.987-05:00What a terrible world where people would rather ge...What a terrible world where people would rather get high than function making a living and being sober for their children.<br /><br />What does it take for us to stop this? To demand more of ourselves, that we become morally centered to do our duty for our children, not to escape into our selfishness?<br /><br />If any candidate talked about THIS, this ROT in our moral world, where we do not see a point in the absolute beauty of knowing our children, or working hard for their welfare, that candidate would be winning hearts and minds and elections.<br /><br />Why do they not? Are they so addicted to the drug money they have lost any humanity?Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01760659382790453648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65215292747966751472016-10-05T19:59:52.595-05:002016-10-05T19:59:52.595-05:00It's a sad, sad story. And no one has an idea...It's a sad, sad story. And no one has an idea or a plan to prevent these young people from dying.wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74559947882581554902016-10-05T19:40:10.416-05:002016-10-05T19:40:10.416-05:00Thank God the oldest left and told adults. Yes, it...Thank God the oldest left and told adults. Yes, it would have been better if she'd told people in the morning that her siblings needed help instead of when faced when going back home -- but they didn't starve to death the way they would have if the oldest was two, and might have if the oldest was five.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50044446946861025462016-10-05T19:06:45.482-05:002016-10-05T19:06:45.482-05:00Has anyone seen Lonesome Jim?Has anyone seen Lonesome Jim?HThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164697644251374452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60311673433438701082016-10-05T18:49:48.359-05:002016-10-05T18:49:48.359-05:00Decriminalizing drugs would lead to quality contro...<i>Decriminalizing drugs would lead to quality control.</i><br /><br />Sure, and those addicted will trundle off to work each weekday, earn a paycheck honestly to not only buy their own drugs, but to pay for their food and shelter, then and only then will they zone out on heroine in a perfectly safe manner. Is that your fantasy? <br /><br />I really am wondering if you think that people with easy access to heroine are going to lead productive lives as anything but artists and performers, work that is remarkably scarce.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75084510486022391652016-10-05T17:36:10.090-05:002016-10-05T17:36:10.090-05:00MayBee said...
David- the family was trying to get...<i>MayBee said...<br />David- the family was trying to get custody of the kids, but are concerned that pushed her even further away from them.</i><br /><br />If they were convinced that the kids needed a change of custody, why were they not checking every day? Or even more often?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18221607185866270432016-10-05T17:33:22.406-05:002016-10-05T17:33:22.406-05:00Joe said: "Who's to say what's best f...Joe said: "Who's to say what's best for the kids?"<br /><br />Certainly not these parents. Under that circumstance an alternative is needed.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62467236690216794722016-10-05T17:31:16.266-05:002016-10-05T17:31:16.266-05:00Inject H a few times and it does not matter if you...Inject H a few times and it does not matter if you are strong or weak. H is stronger.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31017683662904029462016-10-05T16:53:25.452-05:002016-10-05T16:53:25.452-05:00Decriminalizing drugs would lead to quality contro...Decriminalizing drugs would lead to quality control. Parents probably hit the usual volume of heroin, but it was more potent than normal.Would be interesting to see comparisons of OD on legal drugs vs. illegal. FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57472974924284862692016-10-05T16:50:21.161-05:002016-10-05T16:50:21.161-05:00Ignorance is Bliss said... [hush][hide comment]
...Ignorance is Bliss said... [hush][hide comment]<br /><br /> <i> JLScott said...<br /><br /> I hope you're joking. The girl is seven!<br /><br /> Coupe is what I would call a humor troll. He says intentionally provocative and offensive things, intended for humorous effect.<br /><br /> So yes, he's joking.<br /><br /> And no, he's not funny.</i><br /><br />Umm, someone upstream commented how the girl was taking care of her siblings, and probably had been for quite awhile. Coupe was only wrong about the criminality. BTW, no doubt seven year old expected Mom and Dad to wake up soon.<br />FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28157007928746488902016-10-05T16:32:29.817-05:002016-10-05T16:32:29.817-05:00JLScott said...I hope you're joking. The girl ...JLScott said...<i>I hope you're joking. The girl is seven!</i><br /><br />You know how legislatures make everything a felony now, and judges make the children adults? It's all a racket.<br /><br />It's kind of funny, that if a teacher has sex with a 17 year old, the guy is a child, but if the 17 year old murders a teacher, all of a sudden he's an adult.<br /><br />It's a conundrum...<br />Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46593407048805415082016-10-05T15:43:19.694-05:002016-10-05T15:43:19.694-05:00Laughing crowd gathers to WATCH as married drug ad...Laughing crowd gathers to WATCH as married drug addicts slowly lose consciousness in the street after overdose<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3823409/Facebook-Live-video-shows-couple-gradually-falling-unconscious-middle-street-overdosing-heroin.html#ixzz4MFHWPr9T" rel="nofollow">Daily Mail</a>viatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210255358385745222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42629554642667690842016-10-05T15:27:20.479-05:002016-10-05T15:27:20.479-05:00If we are going to take the libertarian position o...If we are going to take the libertarian position of legalizing drugs, then we will be forced to take the libertarian position that those who abuse them and find themselves destitute are out of luck, let them die in the gutter, children with them, good riddance to bad genes.<br /><br />Guess what? We won't take the latter position, so the former position is therefore impossible. Sometimes I think "libertarian" is an alternate term for somewhere on the autistic spectrum. tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61248049749226036502016-10-05T15:23:54.766-05:002016-10-05T15:23:54.766-05:00Joe said...
Who's to say what's best for ...Joe said...<br /><br /><i>Who's to say what's best for the kids?</i><br /><br />The parents, as Laslo made clear @8:27 and @9:33Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338942311894099159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87708457380391867592016-10-05T15:13:22.589-05:002016-10-05T15:13:22.589-05:00Our laws are too far in favor of biological parent...<i>Our laws are too far in favor of biological parents to the detriment of what's best for the kids.</i><br /><br />Who's to say what's best for the kids? Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450897654318345683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7156699225963740252016-10-05T14:59:50.544-05:002016-10-05T14:59:50.544-05:00JLScott said...
I hope you're joking. The gir...JLScott said...<br /><br /><i>I hope you're joking. The girl is seven!</i><br /><br />Coupe is what I would call a <i>humor troll</i>. He says intentionally provocative and offensive things, intended for humorous effect.<br /><br />So yes, he's joking.<br /><br />And no, he's not funny.Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338942311894099159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85393444420786095162016-10-05T14:46:43.544-05:002016-10-05T14:46:43.544-05:00coupe said:
I thought it was telling, how the girl...coupe said:<br /><i>I thought it was telling, how the girl complained about having to dress herself, but had no thought to her brothers and sisters who couldn't fend for themselves.<br /><br />She decided to go to school and have a nice day. Piss on them.<br /><br />She should be arrested for felony child endangerment and tried as an adult.</i><br /><br />I hope you're joking. The girl is <i>seven</i>!JLScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05331258121164576599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69587468677311811742016-10-05T14:33:15.204-05:002016-10-05T14:33:15.204-05:00Cause when the smack begins to flow
And I really d...Cause when the smack begins to flow<br />And I really don't care anymore<br />Ah, when that heroin is in my blood<br />And that blood is in my head<br />Then thank God that I'm as good as dead<br />And thank your God that I'm not aware<br />And thank God that I just don't care<br />And I guess I just don't know<br />Oh, and I guess I just don't knowjr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.com