In Butler County, Ohio the social workers are currently on strike.

Butler county is just north of Cincinnati and is John Boehner's home county. It is strongly GOP-led.

The county social workers have not received a raise in at least three years. The GOP county commissioners are not negotiating with the social workers.
County commissioners are recruiting replacements for the social workers.
Meanwhile, children's needs and those of others are going unmet.

This is not my home county, so DUers closer to the scene may want to add details.

Thanks. This is an example of why I come to DU.

I don't come to debate or argue my opinion.
I come to learn from the wisdom of others.

Poor kid in the top picture -second from left-

dragged along to this by his father.

The kid is too young to know what's what, but here he is forever memorialized with these fools.

A twofer! nt

I'd like to know how long Darren Wilson hung around looking

at the body of Michael Brown.

When did he leave the scene and go to the hospital to "checked out?"
When did he write up his report?
What timeline does the public have on Wilson's activities?

Aren't there photos of Darren Wilson hanging aound Michael Brown' body in the street

for a time after Wilson killed him?
I don't know how long he remained on the scene, but somebody knows, maybe even some who post here.

Those photos need to be examined closely.
Examine Wilson's eyes in those photos.
Examine Wilson's facefor swollen features.

Let us know what you find.

I understand the principles of Church opposition to in vitro fertilization

and the destruction of the surplus embryos, but I have not heard a solution to the problem of abandoned frozen embryos.

IOW, are abandoned embryos to remain frozen in perpetuity unless "adopted" by willing women who will bear them until birth and then either keep and raise them or give them for adoption?

If they are to remain frozen after abandonment, who will assume the cost of maintaining them in that state?

Pope Francis has phoned the family of James Foley,

according to a Vatican official who gave permission to Fr. James Martin, SJ to share this news via Fr. Martin's blog.

The Pope has had tragedy strike his own extended family within the past few days in the deaths of his nephew's wife and two children in an auto accident.

The problem I have with the Church's prohibition of embryonic stem cells

is that there are untold thousands of these that are frozen and never claimed by the people who produced them. There is obviously a cost to store these frozen embryos and at some point, when the "parents" are no longer willing or able to pay to store them, I presume they are destroyed or left to die.

What does the Church say is the proper procedure for them when the embryos have been abandoned?

Does the Church really believe that a sufficient number of persons will come forward to "adopt" them, in other words, tens of thousands of women will take these unknown, unclaimed embryos into their wombs and bring them to term as babies?

Is that at all realistic? Have you ever heard a plea from the Church for women to do that? Perhaps nuns should come forward to bear these embryonic "children?"

If someone here has better insight into this situation than me, please come forward and inform me. Thanks.

Bingo!

And I am pleased to not be irritated.
However, my list predates yours by ca two months.