Pervasivelight 5.0

A British mom is still suffering through a nightmare that began one year ago on a vacation to the Big Apple – when the city’s child-welfare agency seized her daughters after she took ill, and put into a database information that prevents her from becoming a foster mother.

After Yvonne Bray contracted pneumonia during a Christmas-week shopping trip last year, her teenage daughters were held in a group home for 30 hours by the Administration for Children’s Services, and she was hit with charges of abuse and neglect.

The traumatized schoolgirls – Gemma, 15 and Katie, 13 – said they were strip-searched, asked if they were ever sexually abused or suicidal, and were subsequently split up during the ordeal.

They were given medical examinations and told they could not leave.

RTWT at the Daily News

State Health Commissioner Richard Daines has become the point man for one of the more controversial of Gov. David Paterson’s revenue-generating budget proposals: The so-called “fat tax” – an 18 percent levy on sugary drinks like non-diet soda.

Daines’ … insisted he is neither surprised nor daunted by the Q poll’s findings nor deterred by the “nanny state” arguments about keeping government out of people’s personal lives.

“Simply because you can’t or don’t want to do everything doesn’t mean you can’t do the first thing or the most important thing,” Daines told me during a recent interview.

“…The message here is moderation, not abstinence,” the commissioner continued. “I’ve seen lives ruined and controlled by things like obesity and tobacco and other addictions. If you really want your life controlled by that, it’s like having a dominatrix instead of a nanny.

but this made me laugh.

“Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don’t think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more.”

You know… “enough already” like “one gun a month” and stuff.

On Glock(s):

Favored by gangbangers because the product name is short and rhymes with other short, rap-friendly words.

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