Yoo hoo! Terri Schiavo's "angels", here is your big chance. Save this child .....

[Bluebear]

A disabled foster child whose liver is failing has been removed from a Central Florida hospital's organ-transplant waiting list because hospital administrators fear the state's shaky child-welfare system cannot ensure he has a permanent home in which to recover.

Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from a waiting list for organ recipients after administrators determined the boy's unstable living conditions make him a poor candidate for a transplant, said Nick Cox, the Department of Children & Families regional administrator in the Tampa Bay area, where the boy lives...

The boy has had a difficult life, even for a foster child.

Removed from his mother at infancy because she could not kick a crack cocaine habit, the teen had been living with relatives under DCF supervision until about a year ago, when his relatives were unable to continue caring for him. Since then, he has been in foster care in the Tampa Bay area.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/596995.html


Where is Jesus on a trailer hitch?

Where is hysterical nun?

Where is giant spoon lady?

[Justpat]

1. The giant spoon lady

has probably gagged on a big helping of her own self righteousness and stupidity.

[liberal N proud]

2. Depends if the regime needs a diversion

If they do, you might see something happen, but I doubt it. In the right wing fundamentalist "chri$tian*" view those on welfare are not worth saving.



* chri$tian as opposed to a True Christian who would focus on the poor.

[SidDithers]

14. Mmmm... porridge...

Do you take yours with or without sugar?

Sid

[Nevernose]

3. He can come live with me.

Can he have a liver now?

[dolo amber]

6. Seconded

:patriot:

[Ian David]

4. They're probably where ever they were when George W. Bush signed The Texas Futile Care Law. n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Rhetorical questions, right?

[Bluebear]

7. :nodding:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. after they all took meds for their syphilis, they have been magically cured of their hysteria

and apparantly still dont really care about live human beings





yes, i am kidding.

[Schema Thing]

9. Wow. This made me cry spontaneously

Who are we?

Who.the.fuck are we?

[noonwitch]

10. If they hear about it, they will protest the decision

I don't think that people who would picket for Terri Schiavo would be uncaring toward this child. They may not be aware of the situation yet.

[Bluebear]

11. I would hope you are right. I somehow doubt it though.

It's easier to parade around with a spoon than actually step in and give a child a home.

[malaise]

16. I doubt it big time n/t

[KamaAina]

12. And why can't the state ensure he has a stable home, you ask?

DCF caseworkers are also trying to get the boy services from the state Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Cox said, but APD rejected his application because the agency has a waiting list with more than 15,000 Floridians seeking care.

Wonder what that number was before Jeb! took office?

[TNOE]

13. K&R

[malaise]

15. Getting up off the floor

Don't expect a repeat. DWB has two meanings - one starts with Dying :D

[Bluebear]

18. DWB says it.

[Dukkha]

17. getting more acting lessons from Calculon

on dramatic outrage method performances

[krispos42]

19. And where is this guy?

Oh, we need LOTS of him!