I Guess My Parents Are Eco-Criminals

May 7, 2007 6:56 PM
Posted By:Pam
Filed in: Global Warming, National News

I am one of nine children and I guess that would make my parents criminals….

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

That is just a taste of the article, but here is the reaction to it:

  • Micael FW is getting things rather confused I think. Eugenics is what we are practising now in the form of selected embryo implantation to circumvent inherited diseases. What is being proposed is that the world should voluntarily limit its population. Not a likely scenario I grant you.As for what can sustained ask any ecologist (i.e. professional scientist as opposed to ‘greenie’) and you will get a shrug of the shoulders. No one really knows how many people can live on the earth in harmony with their surroundings - maybe it’s zero!We must also remember the Judeo-Christian-Islamic philosophy is built upon the principle that nature is there to be exploited by people.When combined with the powerful drive that each of us has to procreate and thus propagate our genes. I am inclined to my son’s point of view. Perhaps we should all just carry on and cause the extinction of ourselves and many other species.  You can be sure of one thing though the insects would survive. (Tim A, Bournemouth, )
  • Tim in Bournemouth frowns at the unsustainability of the US per-capita resource utilisation. I hope he is not feeling too smug about the same statistics for the UK, as there is precious little difference from the point of view of the impoverished 80% of the world.I’m still waiting for Al Gore to stand up and admit that his decision to have four children was a mistake. Maybe he could even tell us which two of the four he’d choose to pack off to the Soylent Green reprocessing centers in his ideal world.Chris, Enfield, England
  • It always makes me laugh when people claim we need more children to look after an ageing population.Talk about not looking further than the end of your nose. Who will look after them when they are elderly?The majority of the worlds woes boil down to there being too many people on it. It is certain that there will be a ‘correction’, though it is up to us how painful this will be.

    Simon, Cumbria,

  • In response to Eileen McCloy - I don’t think anyone is questioning the potential productive capacity of her 10 children. It’s rather their propensity to consume that is at issue. We have all seen the statistics that if the whole of the world’s human population consumed at the rate of the US per capita then we would require the resources of many Earth sized worlds to support it. The arithmetic is very simple and the conclusion even simpler - there are aready too many people.As to how to reduce that number - well I haven’t yet seen any serious discussion. Perhaps “Bird Flu” is the answer. Or maybe other ways. I don’t know. But until we start taking the subject seriously nothing will change.All our efforts to reduce CO2 rpoduction will be pointless unless and until we tackle the issue.

    Tim A, Bournemouth,

  • As this “debate widens”, I’m just waiting for some ‘expert’ to say that its an ‘eco-crime’ to live past 70.Michael Cope, Singapore,
  • Sorry, Eileen McCloy is wrong. There is no reason to have children to “look after our elderly” - and I’m sure in truth that was not her reason either. When will people understand that breeding like rabbits has already brought us into a situation where we’re rapidly depleting the Earth’s resources? The pill was invented for a reason - use it, for goodness sake.Paulina Smid, London,
  • Global warming is a symptom. Population growth is the disease.Had population grown at the current rate for the last 2000 years, there would now be 50,000 people per square foot of land in the world.Figure it up!

    John A. Broussard, Kamuela, Hawaii

  • So typically leftist and arrogant. Maybe these people who suggest such totalitarian idiocies ought to start with their own extended families and save the rest of us the trouble. The left used to whine about “FOR THE CHILDREN”, now they’re blaming families who have ” THE CHILDREN”!

    I guess that makes communist China the most moral nation on the planet since it mandates how many children the hoi polloi can have. Like I said, so typically leftist.  

    Hankmeister, Urbana, USA/IL

  • As the proud father of nine children, I say “Balderdash!” to this poppycock. If reduction of carbon emmisions and population control are the real goals of the eco-fascists, please have the intestinal fortitude to assert it thusly.  

    However, it would be more beneficial to have ADULTS reather than children be sacrificed. After all, adults are larger, weigh more and consume more than babies.

    To accomplish the eco-fascists’ goals, suppose we start by dispatching all homosexuals, criminally insane, retarded and ugly, overweight people. Sieg Heil!!

    Neil Tagle, Hockessin, DE USA

  • The last thing I’ll be thinking about is the environment when planning a family. That might be what the eco-terrorists think about while they burn SUV’s and complain about the melting polar ice…  

    I’ll be thinking about how I’m going to pay to send five kids to college, and providing for the family. Don’t these hippies know smoking crack is adding to the greenenhouse gas emmissions?

    Jim, Virionga, USA

  • Excellent, now I need to have three MORE out of spite!  

    William the Impeached, Buffalo, NY

    This report and the opinions supporting it are frighteningly close to Third Reich Eugenics. Who decides whose children should be born and whose are an eco-crime, i.e. “Unwertes Leben”?

    This report gives the term Eco-fascism a whole new dimension.

    NE, London, UK

  • Why would someone want to limit couples from the joy of having as many children as they want for some personal aesthetic they have of how the think the earth best should be? How about live and let live? There’s plenty of wilderness left in the world for those who want to find it.  

    In any case, in time problems associated with high population densities will be solved, as our technologies improve.

    Robert , Seattle,

  • Tim in Bournemouth frowns at the unsustainability of the US per-capita resource utilisation. I hope he is not feeling too smug about the same statistics for the UK, as there is precious little difference from the point of view of the impoverished 80% of the world.  

    I’m still waiting for Al Gore to stand up and admit that his decision to have four children was a mistake. Maybe he could even tell us which two of the four he’d choose to pack off to the Soylent Green reprocessing centers in his ideal world.

    Chris, Enfield, England

  • Europe is already choosing not to exist by having the lowest birthrates on earth. Of the 20 nations with the lowest birthrate, 19 are in Europe. Italy, Russia, Spain - all of these nations are beginning to cut their numbers in half with each generation.  

    You may say “great”! Less problems to deal with.

    But wrong. Demographics is destiny, and while those responsible for the creation of Western civilization are choosing to breed themselves out of existence, the ENEMIES of Western civilization, particularly radical Islamists, are choosing to do the exact opposite.

    Muslim birthrates are very high, which is the only reason France has such a high birthrate. They are moving into Europe in record numbers and now literally breeding Europeans out of the majority. In one more generation, two at most, Europe will be Eurabia, and your great free societies will now be just another Middle East, complete with Sharia law, lack of gay rights, subjugation of women, etc.

    This is what you want?

    Dunn, Fayetteville, USA

  • As a Green Party member let me reassure Michael FW: it is NOT Green Party policy to limit family sizes, and is highly unlikely ever to be. Labour and Tory ‘Think Tanks’ come up with equally ludicrous ideas at regular intervals, most of which are never heard of again; let this Green version have its moment of lunacy too.  

    Actually, they appear only to be advocating voluntary limitation, which we would have no quarrel with - though I doubt there would be very many takers.

    Bill Linton, London,

  • This person must have his head in the clouds, or is it the sand. Does he realy believe that the Muslims people are going to cut down there population expansion when they want to rule the world. Or the Indian peoples are going to cut down on their children when they are needed to support the older members of the family. I would suggest that looks once more around the world and see it as it is, and will always be.  

    victor arram, westclff on sea, uk

  • As usual the experts concentrate on non issues. Co2 and more importantly methane emiissions will continue to rise whatever we do in Europ, Maybe they havent noticed but birthrates in India and Africa will continue their inexorable rise as will their co2 and methane emmisions as their living standard improve and more importantly as they industrialise.
    Maybe we should think of having less cattle sheep and coal fired power stations per family. Maybe the experts should mention this to the developing world.  

    james, perth, western australia

  • This is nothing less than eco-facism, the Greens are now advocating Eugenics policies akin to those we more readily recognise in dictatorial nations of the far right and left.  

    This is one policy too far and will prevent me from even being tempted to vote for them.

    the populations of many western nations are already in decline (Italy, Germany, France). if we have an average of 1.5 children per couple that would precipitate a drastic fall in population all over Europe.

    Ask any economist population growth in the third world will be cured by pension rights. in every economy in the world population growth was only stabilised when affordable pensions, reasonable and trust-able were introduced

    Indeed pensions are necessary for all kinds of thing like labour mobility and personal capital growth. it is typical of those who don’t know their subject that they advocate force, “the last resort of the incompetent” to achieve their goals.

    Michael FW, Snowdonia,

  • If the British fertility rate is 1.7, the EU average is 1.5. and some countries, such as France, are offering a financial incentive to women to have more babies, who exactly is overpopulating the world? In this case, it appears not to be white Europeans. I am sure you are not allowed to draw such a correlation.  

    Ruth Wollacott, Hornchurch Essex,

  • It always makes me laugh when people claim we need more children to look after an ageing population.  

    Talk about not looking further than the end of your nose. Who will look after them when they are elderly?

    The majority of the worlds woes boil down to there being too many people on it. It is certain that there will be a ‘correction’, though it is up to us how painful this will be.

    Simon, Cumbria,

  • In response to Eileen McCloy - I don’t think anyone is questioning the potential productive capacity of her 10 children. It’s rather their propensity to consume that is at issue. We have all seen the statistics that if the whole of the world’s human population consumed at the rate of the US per capita then we would require the resources of many Earth sized worlds to support it. The arithmetic is very simple and the conclusion even simpler - there are aready too many people.  

    As to how to reduce that number - well I haven’t yet seen any serious discussion. Perhaps “Bird Flu” is the answer. Or maybe other ways. I don’t know. But until we start taking the subject seriously nothing will change.

    All our efforts to reduce CO2 rpoduction will be pointless unless and until we tackle the issue.

    Tim A, Bournemouth,

  • As this “debate widens”, I’m just waiting for some ‘expert’ to say that its an ‘eco-crime’ to live past 70.  

    Michael Cope, Singapore,

  • “The pill was invented for a reason - use it, for goodness sake.”
    Gas chambers and atom bombs were invented for a reason - that doesn’t mean that they were a good idea or that they should be used.  

    Bernard Mahan, Edinburgh, Scotland

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55 Responses to “I Guess My Parents Are Eco-Criminals”

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  1. Eben Says:
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    No that would make your parents Roman Catholics

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    Peejz -

    Your parents and my kid’s parents as well! M’Lady K and I have 5 lil’ carbon criminals running around and I wouldn’t trade them for anything - well, maybe one of them for a really BIG offset …

    Just think, however, of all the good we’re doing for our carbon criminality. After all, to generate the carbon for that equivalent 600+ flights, we’ve bought enough stuff to keep a smallish Chinese province headed down the road to Capitalism for at least a couple of years. We’ve kept hundreds of illegal aliens busy busing tables, mowing lawns and painting houses.

    In fact, we’ve done everything the Left would ask us to do. I guess they just don’t realize what it costs to support the rest of the world in the manner to which they have become accustomed. I think we deserve to be given carbon offsets or at least some Green Stamps (I’m dating myself here) for being the great global citizens we are here in the USA.

    Instead, we just get picked on for being people who enjoy procreating and having lots of kids. I tell ya’ - us big family types - we just don’t get no respect …

    Blue Collar Muse

  3. Toasted Tofu Says:
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    One of NINE? :shock: No wonder our resources can’t keep up with all of us. Some of you multiple like inconsiderate puppies. :lol:

    Hope your future generations learn about this tool,
    http://www.trojancondoms.com/

    Seriously, at one time it made sense to have a shitload of kids (because you needed them to work the farm and knowing some would die in childhood). But nowadays, having that many kids is just obnoxious upon societies resources and ablity to absorb them in a healthy way.

  4. Robert Says:
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    But nowadays, having that many kids is just obnoxious upon societies resources and ablity to absorb them in a healthy way.

    Why don’t you tell that to the illegals…

  5. snowy egret Says:
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    The over populationsist wackos want us to have the same one child policy of red china typical of radicals like PAUL WATSON frankly someone should shoot a few torpedos into watsons garbage scow him and his sea shapard freak society sail around in:mad:

  6. FrmrArtyOffcr Says:
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    Hey Tofu, here are a few ideas on how we can handle the problem and do it without impacting anyone who can support their kids without being a drain on the rest of us. Of course they are brutal but very cost effective. They’re either free or come with adequate savings as to make them virtually free.

    Want to cut down on over population? Not a problem. Send the illegals back to wherever the came from where their kids won’t get free medical care courtesy of the US taxpayer. The increased infant mortality rate should help. Stop all of the AIDs prevention and treatment programs in Africa. It’s not like they’re actually stopping the Africans from propagating. Maybe if AIDs wipes out half a generation of them, they won’t be able to have an obscene number of children for the rest of the world to support. They also won’t continue to produce AIDs infected children who are using up resources needlessly. Likewise forcibly sterilize every woman that goes on welfare. Then you won’t have any 29 yr old welfare leeches having 9 kids and expecting the taxpayers to provide her with food, clothing and housing for them all. Yes, it happened during the 1996 campaign. This 29 yr old welfare leech got up and asked Michael Dukakis when was the government going to give her housing to accomodate her 9 kids. When Dukakis, in a rare ballsy comment for a Democrat, asked her what was she doing having 9 kids while on welfare, she indignantly replied “I have the right to have as many children as I damn well please and you’re responsible to make sure I have housing for them.” THAT was the comment that lead to the passage of the welfare reform movement in 1996.

    Of course you’d never support any of these measures and probably claim that they are racist, bigoted, etc etc etc. They are none of the above. They are in fact Darwinian as they support the idea of natural selection that the liberals are so fond of. They are far more intelligent than telling people who work and can support their own kids, that they aren’t allowed to have above a certain number. Wouldn’t it make more sense to winnow the population by reducing the number of those who use more resources than they produce than the other way around? Illegal aliens consume BILLIONS in taxpayer funded medical services annually. As a result, many border states are losing hospital emergency rooms due to lack of funding. Billions are being dumped into fighting a losing cause in Africa on the AIDs front. Yes it is reducing infection rates, but then the ones who survive simply reproduce more children that they can’t even feed.

  7. Robert Says:
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    #6 :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Politically Incorrect! You can’t do any of that!!! Liberals would rather just sit and complain than do anything about it!!!

    :shock: :shock: :shock:

  8. PCD Says:
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    I think people who bitch about too many people on the planet should remove themselves from the planet. Mindless Wankers the lot of them!

  9. Peejz Says:
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    Blue Collar Muse- I’ll gladly be in your company..how wonderful for you!

    I forgot about S&H greenstamps…:wink:

  10. Peejz Says:
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    3-

    But nowadays, having that many kids is just obnoxious upon societies resources and ablity to absorb them in a healthy way.

    How so?  Society never fed us, clothed us or housed us. My parents did..they had as many kids as mom could not how many they could afford..So how exactly did my parents put society out by producing 9 children that are all well educated and productive members of society?

  11. PCD Says:
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    10, Peejz, Tofu is just regurgitating the crap he read from groups likr Earth First! They think the continental US should only have a population of 10 Million people. You can figure how they think the population should be reduced, but just FYI one of their ideas involved recruiting terminally ill patients to cause nuclear accidents at power plants in CA. They got arrested, tried, and jailed for that one.

  12. Peejz Says:
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    You know, this discussion could get very interesting at this point:

    If we are to limit the amount of children, who decides who gets to have the extra kids? I mean just look at my siblings….1 sister has 1 child, myself and 2 others have none…so who in society gets to make up for that? Are we alloted amounts per lifetime or can a man start over with a new wife? Hubby had 3 children with first wife…

    I took no offense at TT, because someone nailed it above..are we going to limit illegals bringing families in that they can’t afford? In other words, are we going to allow people on welfare to just keep adding to the check amount each month? Wouldn’t it be smarter to have a cap of 2 kids per recipient for a new person to welfare that has one child? You can’t do anything legally with those that already have the kids…but if someone comes in with 3 or 4 and is not pregnant, that should be their cap amount…

  13. PCD Says:
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    13, I can hear the poverty pimps screaming at you Peejz. Just because Dukakis went down the tubes when the welfare queen told him that she had the right to have all the babies she could and it was Dukakis’ duty to feed, clothe, and educate them all, doesn’t mean the Lib don’t believe you have a right to have more kids while on welfare. Remember their mantra when it comes to abortion, “It’s the woman’s body and she can do with is as she wills.”

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  28. Toasted Tofu Says:
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    12 - “myself and 2 others have none”

    NONE? Tons of kids waiting to be adopted. I thought you were anti-choice/’pro-life’? Don’t you think these kids deserve homes? Time to step-up and stand for your convictions.

  29. Peejz Says:
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    15- TT, walk me through the adoption process of those tons of kids you are talking about…

    Seriously..lay it out for me…

  30. Toasted Tofu Says:
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  32. PCD Says:
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    17, Tofu, you should shut up on subjects you know nothing about.

    Peejz, you know I adopted a Korean girl, don’t you?

  33. Peejz Says:
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    17- Just as I thought..you have no concept of the adoption process….Do some actual research and get back to me…Brochures are not the answer….

  34. Toasted Tofu Says:
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    18- Korean? Tons of American kids in the system waiting… waiting… waiting…

  35. Peejz Says:
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    I know you did PCD and I think you would say that it is the most rewarding expirience of your life, as I know that she makes you so proud.:smile:

    Rhetorical question, no need to answer if you chose not to…Would I be correct in assuming that it was easier for you to adopt abroad rather than domestically?

  36. Peejz Says:
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    20- Tons of American kids in the system waiting… waiting… waiting… And why are they not being adopted? I am waiting for the answer…

  37. Toasted Tofu Says:
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    22- Dunno, Peejz, what was your experience entering the US adoption arena?

  38. Peejz Says:
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    23- Are you saying that you made a statement that you obviously can’t back up?

    Newborn American babies- Let’s see…the average wait for an average American is approximately 10 years average…the more money you have the faster the process and the more they charge you for the child… It is a graduated scale..

    Now let’s look at all those at risk kids…The chances of a person getting to actually adopt these kids is slim as the court process of terminating parental rights is cumbersome. Now as for me? My husband and I looked at adoption as IVF was out for me medically, but chose against it…I just never had this dying need to actually have a child..we started the process but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it…I jumped ahead of people that were desperate and I didn’t feel that urge you should feel, and hence, I live vicariously through the eyes of my neices and nephews…At times I kinda say oh I wish I had, but really? Nope.. I look at it this way, I didn’t have kids and therefore got to help with my Mom..

    Not picking on you..just saying, do some real research on our adiption process and you will have a change of heart..there has got to be a better way!

    Just my opinion

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  40. Toasted Tofu Says:
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    24- “I jumped ahead of people that were desperate and I didn’t feel that urge you should feel”

    Jumped ahead of who/how?

    A friend of mine and his, now, ex-wife ended up going with IVF. $30k for the procedure, divorced shortly after the child was born. Kid, now at 5, is mentally fucked, young son smothered by mom who now has nobody in her life expect her child.

    No, adoption is not, and should not, be easy. Probably should get your feet wet first with foster care. The state has to deal enough with the kids real parents fucking up that you shouldn’t be surprised a person or family needs to prove themselves to obtain the blessing of a permanent adoption.

  41. PCD Says:
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    25, Tofu, you are speaking out your ass again. You know nothing.

    American adoption is screwed up because of state agencies who would rather keep kids in foster care to keep state jobs.

    Interracial adoption is also fraught with red tape and the racism of the socialworkers. Had a co-worker who adopted black kids no one wanted. LA County social worker said he wasn’t raising the kids right. The SW’s main beef? The kids didn’t hate whites.

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  43. Peejz Says:
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    25- Those not in my income bracket, and had been waiting 5+ years, that is who!

    And it isn’t the adoptive parents that are holding up the procedure, it is the crack addicted mother that doesn’t have her parental rights severed that holds up the process.

  44. FrmrArtyOffcr Says:
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    Amen to the comment about the crack momma collecting her welfare check and the state refusing to sever her parental rights. I once had a very well dressed middle aged woman come into a store I was managing carrying a delightful little baby. I asked her if she wanted to purchase a set of infant Reeboks for the baby while she was there and she said “I would, they are so cute, but she’s going back to her mother in a few days.” She then went on to tell me how she and her husband (the foster parents) had wanted to adopt the baby but the state had blocked it. She had cared for the baby as it went through DTs for crack addiction because the mother had been smoking crack throughout her pregnancy. The state in its infinite wisdom was returning the baby girl and her 2 yr old brother to the crack head momma after her umpteenth trip through a rehab program. Instead of this little girl getting a shot at a good life in a loving home, the state was consigning her to the care of a welfare recipient crack head. The Arizona Dept of Family services/CPS isn’t any better. They’re contantly returning kids to abusive or addicted parents. One police officer caught a woman putting a lit joint to her 2 yr old son’s mouth. Yes, she was arrested. I wouldn’t bet against her getting her kid back in a month or two. One of the biggest jokes of the whole thing is the idea of turning custody over to other family members. What a joke. Like they’re actually going to stop their daughter or sister from taking custody of the child as soon as she gets out of jail.

    BTW The adoption process is a mess, and has been for over 40 years. I’ve seen how messed up it can be from the inside. I was two when I was adopted and my (adoptive) brother was adopted as an infant when I was 7. They don’t care how loving a home may be, only if there is enough money there to put food on the table. My parents tried to adopt for 2 years before Dad changed jobs and started making enough to satisfy the state. For the first 6 months after I was placed, the adoption officer would come by for home visits. I would run and hide under the bed for fear she’d take me away. I had been in a number of foster homes, so this was a real fear. It took them another 3-4 years to adopt my brother. They later tried to adopt another child, but the only one that the state offered them was so mentally messed up from the foster home she was in, that she needed to be an only child.

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    28, FAO, you are a survivor. Iowa CPS was really messed up and then Gov. Vilsack hired Jesse Rassmussen, sister of NE Sen. Bob Kerrey who really took the agency down the tubes. Kids were dying in state facilities. A social worker ignored repeated calls by the public to remove a girl from a home. The girl died. Her name was Shelby Duis. “Shitsack” decided to protect the agency and the unions rather than make needed changes.

    Tofu, I had a speedy adoption. It only took 14 months, and 2 home surveys and 2 states checking me ouot because I had to move one month before the first survey ended. Brenda is now a naturalized citizen.

  46. snowy egret Says:
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    If that PAUL WATSON wacko wants few people on the earth then we start with him and the members of his wacko group of eco-freaks:roll:

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    Obama Says 10K People Died In Kansas (video)

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    Tropical Storm Andrea heads off the season 3 weeks

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    The Baghdad Security Plan at the 90-Day Marker

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  50. Susanna Harriff Says:
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    Been hearing for years that the earth was running out of resources. It was supposed to have run out many years ago.

  51. PCD Says:
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    31, that was the Paul Erlich bet. You can Google that name to find the bet and when it was made, add ten years, subtract that from the current date to see how long we’ve been living on borrowed time OR how long one moonbat has had to try to live down his stupidity.

  52. Eileen MCCloy Says:
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    Peejz.?
    What kind of alias is that? We don’t use that kind of the stuff in the UK.

    What is your problem? My husband works all the hours that GOD sends to put bread on our table and pay the rent.How dare you judge me. You think it’s easy here?
    Apart from having a degree from university in Geography and Planning, I have a second degree in teaching.
    My children are YOUR future.
    They are turning out to be wonderful human beings, God fearing,moral, productive members of society. You have been taken in by the Malthusian argument. Poor you! Have you ever heard of intergenerational wealth?
    mAYBE NOT!
    Let’s debate if you have the courage?
    If not - I am not surprised.
    HOw long did it take you to join the War against Hitler?
    Eileen

  53. Peejz Says:
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    Dear Eileen,

    A. I am a product of generational wealth. Our family believes in paying ones own way in this world, and giving a hand up to those in need. Education is the same as taking a breath…you can’t live and function without it.

    B. I would debate you but I am not so sure you even know what the debate is about…

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