I loved The Wiz! Diana is brilliant in “Brand New Day.”

She’s not telling them they can’t have any water, in fact, she’s asking the staff if they could please arrange for everyone to get a drink after the next segment. They probably have a cooler of sippy cups nearby, there just isn’t time for a family water break in the 30 seconds before they had to be on the air. I can understand that, maybe it’s just a different perspective as another mother of a mob, but I totally see what’s going on and I don’t fault her a bit!

But I have noticed on several different occasions that along with the cases of parents who have beaten and neglected their own children, you list cases of parents leaving their kids in cars.

It’s horrible. But it’s not intentional. The knee-jerk reaction is always hatred at the parents. It would have to be deliberate, people say. How could anyone leave their kid in the car in the hot sun? And there are some few cases where it is deliberate. I’m not arguing that.

Sometimes, though, it isn’t. The article I’m linking to explains it better than I could. It’s all too possible to go into “autopilot”, and if the child is quiet, to assume that they’ve already been taken care of. Even hypervigilance can only be maintained for so long. The human brain just isn’t designed for it.

It’s an awful way for a child to die. But to be a parent who knows that this is not a nice death and it’s your own fault that your child died that way because of one stupid mistake you made, and there’s nothing you can do to make it right again, and carry that knowledge with you for the rest of your life… I can’t even begin to imagine how hellish that must be. It’s not the same as being an abusive parent - those may shed crocodile tears, sure, but it’s very different.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html

EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!

George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her.

“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (blog of drizzten).

“One of those ‘very leasts’ [was] George Bush’s personal complicity in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of [then] president-elect George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).

Leola McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.

BEWARE: If the president of the United States hates one—for whatever reasons—he can continuously criminally stalk one to the point that one cannot get away from it, and one ultimately commits suicide in desperation to escape. He can murder people in this way.

Bush is getting away with his murder of Schoedinger—with no sheriff, prosecutor, or court willing to uphold the rule of law.

Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.

Bush should confess, come out with the names of all of the people whom he murdered in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger, undergo execution, and accordingly find himself at the intersection where he would be free.

(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. It exists very extensively in all major search engines. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her,” hit “Enter,” and find innumerable results.)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

I would not like to see:
Greece when Spartans held Helots as slaves and culled them regularly
The Spanish Inquisition
The then Belgian Congo
Pre-sewerage London

and now I’ve run out.

I’d like to see just about everywhere on earth as it was before humans became really numerous and sedentary, when they just criss-crossed lands according to the seasons and didn’t change anything very much. There would have been so many more species of other animals, and they would have been much less shy.
There wouldn’t have been any feral cats in Europe, but at one stage there would have been lions (going by the cave drawings near the Cro Magnon cliffs). In some places you would have been able to walk under trees hundreds of years old for hundreds of miles, and there wouldn’t have been much undergrowth because they wouldn’t have left sufficient light get in. I find it hard to imagine how different it would have been. I can never get anyone else interested in this vision of things; they always look at me blankly and/or say: ” but this is a forest”, referring to the Eucalyptus and pine plantations nearby.