Hmm

I’m curious what peoples’ thoughts on this are.

Personally, I would say that, as wrong as the mother was, CPS has no right to remove her children based on her beliefs.
If they’re trying to argue that raising your children in an environment where they’re taught hatred is abuse, then they’d better start removing the children of all those fundamentalists now before they’re taught to hate teh gay. Oh noes.

I also like her statement:

A black person has a right to say black power or black pride and yet they’re turning around on us and saying we’re racists and bigots and neo-Nazis because we say white pride. It’s hypocrisy at its finest.

This is all too true. The issue, perhaps, is that white pride is typically associated with violence and hatred towards other ethnic groups… but there is no evidence here of that. They removed her children based purely on the fact that she was proud of her heritage… they didn’t even show that she was teaching them to hate (so even that argument hasn’t been proven to be valid).

So yeah. They haven’t shown abuse or neglect in any way.
I dunno.
I feel like the government is in the wrong in this particular case.

Best website ever
Bonus: If you wait a little bit and refresh, the page seems to change.

Lease has been signed. We now have a huge and awesome 2-bedroom apartment right in the middle of the financial district (and less than 15 minutes from my work, by foot).
I’m very happy.

Pics once we move after July 5.

Completely unrelatedly… What. The. Hell.
Some Muslims are insane.
It’s one thing to condemn a book, especially one that you haven’t read (a lot of people do, it’s true)… but quite another to call for the murder of the author and everyone connected to it… and worse still when you’re the leader of a country doing so.
Seriously, WTF.

I swear, religion in general pisses me off more and more every day. It seems like it’s doing so much more harm in the world than good.

Once again, completely unrelatedly… a completely out-of-context quote:

But deputy TSA administrator Gale Rossides said that morale is “very good” and that screeners “are very much turned on” and focused on security.

WTF are they screening? No wonder the TSA is fighting for the ability to “examine contents of laptop computers.”

The most common, widely publicized conflicts have involved pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control pills, morning-after pills and other forms of contraception. They say they believe that such methods can cause what amounts to an abortion and that the contraceptives promote promiscuity, divorce, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and other societal woes.

You have your beliefs, fine, but once those beliefs start getting in the way of you doing your job you need to find different work. It is not okay to force the job (especially if it directly impacts customers) to adapt to you.
If you are paid to dispense drugs at a pharmacy, you had better dispense those drugs when someone comes to you with a prescription and you have that drug in stock. Don’t impose your twisted morals on other people.

This seems like a good idea… having pharmacies that don’t carry and sell them in the first place. That way this problem doesn’t come up.

The pharmacies are emerging at a time when a variety of health-care workers are refusing to perform medical procedures they find objectionable. Fertility doctors have refused to inseminate gay women. Ambulance drivers have refused to transport patients for abortions. Anesthesiologists have refused to assist in sterilizations.

This pisses me off so much.

Ugh… I feel like many of the problems with society today stem from religion (or the misuse of such).

Today was awesome.
There are photos here.

Wheee!