Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
1 Out of 168
Linebacker Dude's biological mother was scheduled to visit him for the third time today. She was a no show. Human Services is only asking her to show up for one hour per week to visit with her son. She has lost parental rights on all of her other children. One hour per week, out of 168 hours in a week, and she cannot make it? No wonder he is so cold and rejecting when he sees her. He has been there and done that too many times!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Okay, I'll Take His Brother!
Via The Splatter Zone and MSNBC comes this story with a happy ending. Guys, are we really this interchangeable?
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Leadership and courage
Maggie's Farm connects us to this tale of courage and leadership by a high school student in a Wal Mart parking lot.
A Sting On the Perpetrators of the Latest Fraud
The Classical Values blog has photos to show that the honey bees have not vanished.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Sauntering Among the Flowers
Hanging out with Linebacker Dude, who is actually getting a tiny bit of appreciation for flowers. Since I won't let him pick them, he tries to blow them, like a dandelion gone to seed. Actually, his favorite thing to do is to wander (saunter, MizzE?) out into the middle of the street to see if I am really correct that the cars will hit him.
It Was Worth A Try!
Today was a special day for our foster daughter, Viola, whom we call Vi Vi. Her relatives arranged for her to be baptised. However, soon after she got home, five-year-old Greg announced, "Dad, the baptism didn't help Vi Vi; she is still hitting people!"
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Difficult Times
My family has been going through hell for the last week. It all started a couple of months ago, when my stepson, who will be eighteen in August, came to my wife with a request. He told her that he wanted to get some help for the intense anger he felt toward his biological father. My wife, Colleen, made an appointment with a therapist.
In the very first therapy session my stepson gave the therapist details of sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse he and his two siblings had suffered while living with his father. Colleen had been driving weekly from Steamboat Springs, Colorado across two very high mountain passes to her job as a school psychologist in a rural mountain county just west of the Denver metro area. The three small children were left at home with their father, while she supported the family. Colleen and I were married eight and one-half years ago. Her marriage to the children's father ended after an incident in which her first husband was convicted of false imprisonment of Colleen (not allowing her to go to the aid of her crying daughter), (until she whacked him with a hair dryer and got free of him and took the three children to a shelter).
My stepson told his therapist that his father would instruct him to fondle his toddler sister while father watched. In the second therapy session, the therapist and my stepson called the authorities in Steamboat Springs to report this sick S.O.B.
However, my stepson still had more he wanted to get off his chest. He confessed to his therapist that when he was fifteen and his sister was thirteen, he persuaded her to engage in some mutual touching of private parts. Both were fully clothed. He has apparently been experiencing tremendous guilt and shame, and needed to tell someone. It happened only that one time.
The therapist immediately reported my stepson to the police and social services, and demanded that my stepson resign his positon as lifeguard. My stepson has been a lifeguard for over one year. On two separate occasions he has saved the life of a child (two different children). He is very proud of that. He had decided to pursue a career in law enforcement, because he likes protecting people. This lifeguard job is the second job he has held. The other was at a bagel restaurant. In that job he got up at five a.m. to make bagels, and loved the responsibilities involved in the job, as he does the lifeguard job.
The other demand made by the therapist was that my stepson not be allowed to return to our home until the investigation was completed by police and social services. So, for the last six days and nights, my wife has been staying with him in a motel that is costing us an arm and a leg.
His next step is to undergo a "risk assessment," to determine whether he is a low, medium, or high risk to the community. As I understand it, the risk assessment is like a very thorough psychological evaluation. The police detective will file his report to the D.A., who will decide whether to file criminal charges against my stepson. His sister has no memory of the incident that he shared with his therapist. We will be getting therapy for her, too.
My wife is utterly devastated by this whole experience. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will guide us to make wise decisions in the best interest of all of our children.
In the very first therapy session my stepson gave the therapist details of sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse he and his two siblings had suffered while living with his father. Colleen had been driving weekly from Steamboat Springs, Colorado across two very high mountain passes to her job as a school psychologist in a rural mountain county just west of the Denver metro area. The three small children were left at home with their father, while she supported the family. Colleen and I were married eight and one-half years ago. Her marriage to the children's father ended after an incident in which her first husband was convicted of false imprisonment of Colleen (not allowing her to go to the aid of her crying daughter), (until she whacked him with a hair dryer and got free of him and took the three children to a shelter).
My stepson told his therapist that his father would instruct him to fondle his toddler sister while father watched. In the second therapy session, the therapist and my stepson called the authorities in Steamboat Springs to report this sick S.O.B.
However, my stepson still had more he wanted to get off his chest. He confessed to his therapist that when he was fifteen and his sister was thirteen, he persuaded her to engage in some mutual touching of private parts. Both were fully clothed. He has apparently been experiencing tremendous guilt and shame, and needed to tell someone. It happened only that one time.
The therapist immediately reported my stepson to the police and social services, and demanded that my stepson resign his positon as lifeguard. My stepson has been a lifeguard for over one year. On two separate occasions he has saved the life of a child (two different children). He is very proud of that. He had decided to pursue a career in law enforcement, because he likes protecting people. This lifeguard job is the second job he has held. The other was at a bagel restaurant. In that job he got up at five a.m. to make bagels, and loved the responsibilities involved in the job, as he does the lifeguard job.
The other demand made by the therapist was that my stepson not be allowed to return to our home until the investigation was completed by police and social services. So, for the last six days and nights, my wife has been staying with him in a motel that is costing us an arm and a leg.
His next step is to undergo a "risk assessment," to determine whether he is a low, medium, or high risk to the community. As I understand it, the risk assessment is like a very thorough psychological evaluation. The police detective will file his report to the D.A., who will decide whether to file criminal charges against my stepson. His sister has no memory of the incident that he shared with his therapist. We will be getting therapy for her, too.
My wife is utterly devastated by this whole experience. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will guide us to make wise decisions in the best interest of all of our children.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
This Can't Be Good
Ann Althouse links to this New York Times article alleging that our honey bees are vanishing.
Monday, April 23, 2007
White Privilege!
The University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Metropolitan State College, Regis University, the Gay and Lesbian Fund, along with several other sponsors, have just concluded a three day conference in Colorado Springs on White Privilege! Among other things, the conference addressed religion and other systems of privilege/oppression.
A Confederacy of Asswipes?
The New Editor links to a story in the Washington Post about some of the more rabid members of the Global Warming religion. Sheryl Crow wants to restrict the amount of toilet paper you will be allowed to use to one square per trip to the restroom.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
A Cold-Blooded Killer
Here is a New York Times story that gives some details I had not seen about the Virgina Tech killer, whose name I will not mention in my blog.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Our ACLU Culture Combines With Our Corrosive Passivity
One of the most insightful things I have heard or read so far in the aftermath of the spree by the murdering punk in Virginia was uttered this morning by Bill O'Reilly on the Laura Ingraham radio show. O'Reilly laments the "ACLU Culture," whereby the individual evil person's rights are protected, but the rest of us are at risk. Mark Steyn speaks of our corrosive passivity. A deadly combination!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
A New Kid On The Block
This little male kid was born this morning. Five-year-old Greg is his owner, and he has named the little fellow "Noisemaker." Noisemaker is a Boer goat. Can you believe how big he is on day one?
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