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(A hearty at tip to Sir Guido for raising our blood pressure and screwing up a rather productive and otherwise happy weekend.)
Those with weak constitutions might want to skip this post and go straight to the ones below it. Those of you who continue reading it should probably remove any throwable objects or firearms from within reach before continuing… Go on, we’ll give a few seconds to take care of things… Done? Good.
If Hell does, indeed, exist, there’s a VERY special place reserved for these monsters.
PHILADELPHIA — Four social workers were among nine people charged Thursday in the death of a disabled 14-year-old girl who authorities say wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds.
Danieal Kelly’s mother was charged with murder; counts against other defendants range from involuntary manslaughter to perjury. District Attorney Lynne Abraham said any of the nine could have foreseen the horrific fate of Danieal, whose emaciated body was found in her mother’s squalid house covered with bone-deep, maggot-infested bedsores in August 2006.
Abraham had scathing words for the city’s Department of Human Services, calling its handling of the case “callous, indifferent, unconscionable” — and all too familiar.
“Danieal did not fall through the cracks,” she said. “It was a failure of institutional inclination. Saving Danieal was just too much trouble.”
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Abraham said that although at least 55 children have died under the agency’s watch, it has given only “lip service to halfhearted corrective action.”
“You can’t continue to bury these children and say things are getting better when they’re not,” she said.
Guess which party has controlled every aspect of Philadelphia Filthydelphia’s Socialist Services for as long as anyone can remember? We’ll give you three guesses and none of ‘em count, because it’s the same party that has controlled the Socialist Services in every major metropolitan area shithole across America since LBJ’s Great Socialist Society was enacted. (And well before that, in most cases.)
But, like every other aspect of inner city festering ghetto life that the Dhimmicrats Communists have managed to miraculously uplift spectacularly fuck up, nationalizing our health care will be another resounding success story absolute nightmare. Bring on the Obamessiah and Shillary’s plans to emulate Philly’s success at taking care of its most vulnerable!
F.E.T.E.
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Does not surprise me in the least. I had a patient of mine killed by a state inspector practiciing medicine on him. He died in screaming agony because of what the inspector did. When I tried to get the police to file murder and practicing medicine without a license charges against this asshole I was blown off. When I went to the Attorney Generals office to press my case I was told they would be happy to defend the state inspector if I managed to get any charges filed against him. The government is not your friend.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 PMUsing
The article mentionned 55 children already died at the hands of these incompetent assholes, and NOBODY seems able to do anything about it!?!?!?
Ya gotta be shittin’me! A huge bureaucracy, filled with arrogant, uncaring incompetents receiving the protection of other bureaucrats for practicing torture and murder, because that’s what this is, and voila, government at its best.
Murderous slimes.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 PMUsing
The state has no soul. The legal establishment amplifies this. Herewith the result.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:47 PMShould the American people be subjected to government control of the medical profession, those doctors and nurses who posess good conscience will surrender their licenses and give it up. And how many more innocent lives shall be lost by the turning of bureaucratic backs?
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Anyone that trusts the government to manage health care is by definition insane. The country is at the edge of a very defined cliff. It appears we are willing to step over the edge.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 PMUsing
The father wasn’t around? Or was he forbidden to see his kids? Child services is not known for their affection for males of any stripe, most of them run by hatchet faced females who’s faces remain only suitable for striking matches. I’m not in the least but surprised. I’ve known of abuses for years, it’s ongoing and pervasive. Then to talk to some of the kids resisting their brainwashing, they too, often pay dearly. I do remember the relief I felt when my daughter turned eighteen, that’s when I turned up the heat full in many letters and editorials I composed for local papers here. I am decidedly unpopular with certain school districts and such in these parts. But they also know they can’t do a goddammed thing about it. Sadly, my first instinct regarding these people , including the mother, would be to slowly beat them to death with a baseball bat, or my feet if no bat was to be found. No, I forget the medium rare with the blowtorch. Then the bat. Then I would love to see the politicos supporting them charged as accessories to murder. Then to make damn sure they were GP’ed in prison.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 PMSimply another example of how the left is willing to lie, enslave and yes, kill to achieve their perverted goals of dominion. Keep your powder dry, folks….
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Funny thing, if the liberals want the straight dope on socialized healthcare, they should talk to us military members. We HAVE socialized tax payer health care! Heck, we even get free dental.
All the Motrin a boy could want, and two hour lines at the pharmacy. Who needs surgery when they can just cut you a waiver, and hope the problem fixes it self. Yep, real quality treatment here. In the meantime,
-I can’t sleep for more then 4 hours a day. Tried no caffiene. Tried no cigarettes. Tried meditation. Tried getting pisspoor drunk. Asked for medication, got told to get more sleep, can’t figure out how.
-Doctor can’t explain my 125 pound weight. I’m a 5-9 24 year old male. I’ve been this weight ever since I’ve been in. I lost twenty-five pounds (140 to 125) in Airforce basic on what was probably a 5000 calorie intake. Had a girlfreind living with me for a year, cooking damn good southern fried food every single day. I never did gain weight. I restock and run the snack machines at work for god sake. On the plus side, PT testing is cake when you have a 27.5 inch waist.
- My eyesight is terrible. I’m decertified on hoisting, towing, or forklifting, due to my lack of depth perception. My dominant eye is so poor that the front sight of my rifle is blurry when I’m aiming. The last time I was in they told me that my peripheral vision is going out. In spite of this, I’m still M-16 qualified, I’m still worldwide qualified, And I was given glasses that give me frequent blinding headaches. I was given motrin for the headaches. On the firing range my friends call me Mister Indirect. The only reason I pass is because I’m a southern boy, and my shooting can only suck so bad, even blind. Air Force targets don’t move, don’t pop up or down, and are only a good fifty yards away. I can miss half the targets and still pass. The doctors told me that I don’t quite yet qualify for any “advanced treatments” yet. Come back in a couple of years. Hopefully I won’t be in the brig, I almost clipped a roadguard a couple of weeks ago because I couldn’t see her and her reflective vests until she was ten feet off my front bumper. Maybe it was ten feet. I can’t quite judge it with no depth perception.
Socialized Healthcare! It’ll save us all!
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 PM:em98: :em01:
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A couple of buddies and I have a Stupor Duper C-Krit Plan™ to piss in the eye of socialized medicine. The best and most rewarding part is that the plan legally exploits lefty-supported pet institutions and belief systems to accomplish it AND it is absolutely foolproof! Naturally, it must remain under wraps for now, but if it becomes necessary to implement it, you’ll shit your pants when you hear how we did it! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :em95:
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 PMUsing
Yeah, let’s socialize American medicine, and then we can have government bureaucrat-controlled medical care JUST LIKE they have in Cuba, North Korea,…………. :em41: :em38: :em12: :em98:
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 PMUsing
You hit it right on the head there Caveman. I just took my son down to Florida to rescue his kids, his ex had moved in with her mother, mother threw her out but kept the kids, mother is on a fixed income and couldn’t afford to keep them, state was going to put them in foster care. Fortunately his ex-MIL was decent enough to call him.
I would like to take a large bureaucracy-smashing hammer to the mis-named Florida Dept of Health and Human Services. Not only are they completely useless, but like all government agencies they resist any attempts by others to do their jobs for them (because their budgets get cut if they are proved to be half as incompetent as they are). Fortunately my grandsons are out of it, if I have anything to say about it they will be out of it for good.
As for socialized medicine, my wife was diagnosed with lung cancer on December the 6th. Thanks to the best health-care system in the world, the docs predict full remission in another month or so. Under a socialized system it is likely she wouldn’t have even seen an oncologist yet, much less been treated, and certainly wouldn’t be so close to remission.
Thanks to the company health insurance the bills have been manageable, but if insurance had not been available I would have gladly worked for the rest of my life to pay them.
This happy turn of events is not by chance. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, etc. etc. are for-profit entities, and they know that the better they are at their jobs the more they get paid. Subsequently, the better the care is for us. Expensive? Yes, but as has been pointed out by many in the past, you don’t know expensive until it’s free.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 PMUsing
:em12: Everyone involved with that girl, directly and indirectly should be locked up for life
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 PMUsing
At least some of the little fuckers are getting what they have coming to them…
That was the part that I found astounding. Not that the stupid oxygen wasters had let this girl die, but that four of them were getting charged in it.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 PMUsing
Socialized medicine would just mutate into another federal slush-fund the way Social Insecurity has.
Philly just keeps sliding deeper into the shitter especially since the Rendell days. :em72:
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 PMUsing
This is why I have suggested that when there is reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused and an investigation is being conducted, the child in question should be put into temporary foster care until it’s complete.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 PMUsing
If health care is nationalized, then EVERYONE will get treated the same way the V.A. treats us vets… cattle call clinics instead of appointments, shuffled through a system, often never seeing the same doctor twice, and health care withheld because the surgery to replace your knee (or that heart medication you need) “isn’t cost effective”.
And if only four social workers were indicted, you know it means more like 20 were involved and the four that are charged are just the ones that the S**t rolled downhill to.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 PMUsing
LittleRott84 writes:
Sorry LR, really can’t go along with you on that. Suspicion is NOT enough to justify ripping a kid out of his parents home. You want a much higher standard of proof for doing so.
Otherwise, the state-run system of financing foster care parents builds an empire by taking people’s kids when a social worker in the schools reports the parents because the kid showed up to school with a bump on his head.
In the case in the cited article, there was evidence aplenty, but nobody gave a damn.
I’m a father of two wonderful girls. I just don’t get people who can abuse their kids like that. Just don’t get them at all.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 PMUsing
No surprise. It’s the way Libtard Social Services groups run everywhere in America.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 AMFilthydelphia is a fitting monument to the administration of cheap thug and ward fixer, Ed Randell, who is now screwimng up PAt the way he screwed up thye city.
After Obama’s coronation we will all benefit from such government attention.
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Intellectual Bitch Slap is the operative here.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 AMUsing
Socialised anything is not about whatever that anything is.
Socialised medicine has nothing to do with medicine or healing the sick or providing health care.
It is only about power and you can’t let little things like the death of a handicapped girl get in the away of it.
Not if you are a leftist piece of shit anyway :em12:
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 AMUsing
That’s why limited govt is important. I like these type of topics because this happens to be one of the areas that I agree with yall on.
P.S.
Just letting yall know i am doing just fine and treated my first real trauma of this deployment to Afghanistan. A local national came in with a gunshot wond to the head, thanks to the insurgents. His vital signs were surprisingly good for someone in that condition. We had to evac him to the main hospital, but when we got him on the evac he was still hanging in there surprisingly well.
It is sad that these people will do this to each other. The man who was shot was a local national working on our base, and that is probably why the insurgents targeted him. All that just for trying to help us rebuild thier country.
Also, trying to quit smoking, any thoughts?
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 AMUsing
I’ve got to raise a flag of self defense on this one and clarify a point for the kingdom. Social workers of the ilk described in this story ARE NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN part of any professional medical structure in this country. By and large they are liberal arts graduates with a burning desire to save the world, and a misdirected sense of justice. In other words, mindless, spineless clue-fucks.
I’ve been in health care for thirty years, practicing the craft of emergency nursing, and for the most part, if we run into a situation where a social worker is involved, we either start from scratch because they have no information to give us as far as patient or family history goes, or we provide our own discharge planning assets for follow on care.
Do not lump the health care system in with this bunch of scum, we have nothing to do with it, and never will.
p.s. Southern Lib, congrats on your save! Airway, Breathing, Circulation. The keys to success.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 AMUsing
The Southern Libertarian asks:
GeekWithA.45 had some pretty wonderful things to say about a product called Chantix.
We talked about how effective it was during my visit to see him and his family for Independence Day 2007, and he was very happy with it at the time. (Then he gave everyone his thoughts about the product publicly a couple of months later in the post referenced above.)
For this year’s visit to Freedom House, I touched on the subject again just to see what he thought of the solution a year later. He says he now is at the point where he looks back on his days of smoking and literally can’t understand what the attraction was.
So there you go. :em69:
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 AMUsing
1oldleg, by no means was there ANY intent to besmirch the wonderful work that the vast majority of NON-socialized medical workers in our country perform, day in and day out.
Just wanted to clear that up. :em04:
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 AMUsing
Uh.. Southern Libertarian . There’s an old saying about first things first. How about you making sure you don’t get shot, then worry about the Marlboros? I’ve been shot at, several times, and every fucking time I was unarmed. But my feet work real good. They took me places, real fast.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 AMBe careful…….
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I live in Philadelphia. And while I love my city, this sort of thing does not come as a huge surprise to me. It’s gotten to the point where I expect corruption out of the city government. Like, when I hear about a municipal politician who is (apparently) honest, I am shocked. The same Democratic machine has run Philly for decades. It has become entrenched and complacent. But DHS is a special animal in that the culture of corruption which pervades it goes far deeper than it does in other city agencies. I’m not sure how to fix it, but the local DA seems poised to give no quarter. And this is such a high profile case within the city that hopefully, DHS will have no choice but to actually do something.
But then again, I’ve been wrong before.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 AMUsing
[...] B.C. delivers the Sarcasm Smackdown™ to Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, which stood by as a disabled 14-year-old girl wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds. These are the same <expletive deleted> that want to ru(i)n everybody’s health care. [...]
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 PMUsing
You won’t ever hear me say such a thing.
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 PMUsing
Hey Argive!
I’m in Philly too. We should have a local Rott-meet.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 PMUsing
LC HJ Caveman82952
Good point, you always have a way of putting things into perspective. Thank you.
1oldleg
Well it was a team effort, but it’s definatly important to stick to the basics and always to remember to not panic. One of my old Sargeants used to tell me that the first pulse I should be checking in a trauma is my own. Basically what he meant by that was that I won’t do any of my patient’s any good if I panic. Good advice in my humble opinion.
Ag Tiger
Yeah, I’m gonna try to order some of the stop smoking patches. It’s hard to stop smoking, especially when I get stressed the craving gets the better of me. TY for the advice.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:56 AMUsing
S.L. nicotine is the addictive part but its the tars that kill you. if you can manage with the patch stay with it, the chantix has too many bad side effects to risk in your situation. good luck.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:58 AMUsing
Slightly off topic, but app-re pro in the vein of not wishing to link health care to government; it seems that some hospitals are doing the governments’ job and deporting ILLEGAL aliens, albeit after already expending great sums of public funds in care before doing so.. naturally, the NY Slimes takes great umbrage at the lack of compassion shown to fellow human beings….poor darlings being sent back to countries that don’t provide even basic first aid, much less top-flight specific care. :em38: :em98: :em98: Seems it’s OUR responsibility to provide no-cost care for ANYONE in the WORLD according to the Slimes.. :em96:
August 4th, 2008 at 10:00 AMUsing
The key word was reasobable. I’m not talking about an accident-prone kid that is always covered in scrapes and bruises, like I was. I’m talking about stories and injuries not adding up, about kids who are being treated as an ashtray. If a small child has cigarette burns on his arms, he’s most likely being abused. That’s the kind of stuff I’m talking about.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:06 PMUsing
Yesterday, at a news conference, our mayor, Nutter, blasted our local DHS, actually saying that he was pissed off at what happened. Now, I just hope he’ll take the appropirate action and reorganize that cesspool. I’m hoping he will but is expecting he won’t. Stay tone, people.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:18 PMUsing