Why is it disturbing that they met online?
I think it should be illegal for me to ever have kids. Because I just totally laughed at this.
Sad. Very, very sad.
At least the waterboarding can't be considered abusive.
Good point, avatar.
A two year old... A TWO YEAR OLD??????????????????
Beating her with a belt when she doesn't say "please"?
A FREAKING TWO YEAR OLD?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
I hope they throw the key when they put these two in jail. And I hope that the second that the mother delivers her new baby that it is taken away from her forever.
@1 - Yeah, what's wrong with that? I met my wife on-line (on the now defunct Stranger Personals, no less).
I hope the Democrats stopping approving money for abstinence sex ed, but they are such chickenshits they just did a month ago.
uh, the bold text signifies the significant part. you know, the part about her being pregnant and all. the online part is merely plain text.
No. Everything in the sentence after the phrase "In other disturbing details:" is a disturbing detail. That's what the colon means.
The bold is there to indicate the writer used The Stranger Stylebook for Being Annoying.
I met my wife online too, and I'm offended.
My bet is the couple were both abused when they were children under the cover of "discipline". Thus the need for earlier interventions.
Since this is a stepfather thing, it should be under the headline Every Child Deserves A Mother With Good Character Judgement & Common Sense.
Once again this shows that two parents of the same gender are totally unfit to be parents? Okay Dan, time to shift into second gear and present two parent/same gender loving homes that buy the kids a pony for Christmas. We get the point via the negative, now make the point via the positive.
The bold is there to indicate the writer used The Stranger Stylebook for Being Annoying.
So I'm not the only one puzzled and occasionally irritated by the Savage/ECB fondness for random application of boldface? Good.
As for the article, I found myself figuring that Royce Clyde Ziegler Sr. was probably as shitty a father as his son turned out to be.
come on, stepfathers! let's turn this thing around & stop killing & raping other men's spawn. i don't - you could emulate me!
just because every other ape does the same thing doesn't mean we have to - i mean, we have awesome monotheistic religion to guide us!
Amen! @ #13. I get what you're saying, although I'm not sure you worded it the way you meant to...? This is the point I tried to make earlier this week. Dan. I love you. But come ON! Yes these people are worse than smegma. But it has NO bearing whatsoever on the rights of gay people to be parents! There are straight scum that should never be allowed to procreate. I can guarantee that there gay scum that should never be allowed to adopt, or be artifically inseminated, or whatever as well! There are also wonderful straight parents out there, as well as wonderful gay parents (as I'm sure you are). Give us some heartwarming stories about them. Or something. :-)
Ugh, that's awful.
My 15,314th repeated suggestion: Parental Licenses mandated for anyone remotely capable of reproducing themselves when in the vicinity of other similarly equipped.
Auto/drivers licenses, hunting licenses, bicycle licenses, wedding licenses, poetic licenses mandated. How come no license to predictably and irresponsibly fuck up legions of the innocent early born?
Truly, Rhett Oracle
It's a wonder the Bush administration hasn't suggested that this sort of thing is a fine way to treat detainees because it's how we treat our children...
@18 - Scary thought. I think I'm a good parent, but I also think Jesus is stupid and pot should be legalized. Do you think our government would give me a license?
Hey, it's only waterboarding, right? Doesn't seem so bad.
Let's hope the next one is better behaved....
Dan this story sorta reminded me of the "SHOULD HAVE SAID THANK YOU" grave site in your neighb around Halloween
I'm so proud to call Texas home. In case this story doesn't tip the scales for you in favor of moving here, maybe this one will about how the Texas Ed. Agency just fired the director of science education because she was too scientific, i.e.-- wouldn't get behind creationism. http://wonkette.com/politics/creationism-claims-another-victim/
Since this seems to mostly happen with stepfathers, shouldn't the Bush administration just make divorce illegal? And marriage out of wedlock?
hey 20, jesus wasn't stupid--it's the jesoids who are. i'm sure he would agree, were he here to defend himself and condemn them.
Ok, while I fully understand the sentiment of "people should be required to get licenses" to be parents, no one ever seems to have a good answer to this question: who gets to decide who is qualified? I'll bet I have a very different idea of what makes people qualified to be parents than say, George W. The reason no one has a good answer is because there isn't one. So can we please just stop suggesting it and move on?
What Dan's trying to say isn't with the "Every Child Deserves..." posts isn't that straight people are terrible parents, guys. He's pointing out how fucking absurd it is that the Christian Right uses that kind of rhetoric to try to keep gays and lesbians from adopting or inseminating when nothing is done to keep unfit straights from having children. Since it's nearly impossible to keep those convicted of rape, abuse, and violent crime from having kids without resorting to creepy 1984-like enforced castration, it's a moot point to talk about what children "deserve" -- the government should have no right or ability to limit gays from having children unless they start limiting everyone.
Hey I have an idea: everyone should be given a reversable tubal ligation/vasectomy at the age of twelve. When they can afford to pay cash to reverse it, they can reproduce.
Even better, the government could put $5,000. in a saving account every time a child is born. If the child lives to age 18 without committing murder, mom and dad get the dough. If not, the $ could go toward paying health insurance for everyone else!
My nephew just turned two. The kid knows between 50 and 100 words, total. Yes, one of them is 'please', and another sounds like 'thank you' [well, sorta - but he can use it appropriately]. 'Sir' is definately NOT on the list!
I view these parents as an obscenity - two-years-olds can barely understand what a word means. They simply don't have the reasoning or experience to use words appropriayely. [My nephew claims anything he doesn't like is 'hot' - it's great to watch him refuse ice by saying 'no, hot!'] That this PRIMATE actually thought that a 2 year old COULD say 'yes, sir' and 'no, sir' amazes me. That he thought that 'spanking' with a belt was appropriate punishment absolutely appauls me [it sounds more like whipping to me]. It's grotesque.
Yeah, Dan, I doubt if any same-sex couple could sink as low as this male-female couple has.
We could sure use a man like that in our prisons, here and abroad...
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