Bowling for Cold dead hands (was : Amanda)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
wrote:
> 
> Discussing it in too much detail would go well into the discussion 
> of current political issues. But anybody who is praising BFC should
> be aware of the issues mentioned in:
> 
> http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110003233
> 
> That link is from 'The Wall Street Journal', a fairly reputable
> news organ.

Even tho' it is well-known that the editorial and opinion pages of 
the Wall Street Journal are full of raving lunacy (as when they 
declared Singapore had been found to be the free-est developed 
country), I checked out the link you gave, and promptly found one 
statement that I am SURE is false, and others that I suspect to be:

<< Mr. Moore makes the preposterous claim that a Michigan program by 
which welfare recipients were required to work was responsible for an 
incident in which a six-year-old Flint boy shot a girl to death at 
school. Mr. Moore doesn't mention that the boy's mother had sent him 
to live in a crack house where her brother and a friend kept both 
drugs and guns--a frequently lethal combination. >>

Mr. Moore DID mention that the mother and her child moved in with 
this relative (alleged relative, according to follow-up news stories 
on the actual killing) because she couldn't afford to rent a place of 
her own (housing is expensive). His theory, backed up by sound bites 
from a police chief, was that children would not be committing crimes 
if their mothers were home keeping an eye on them rather than away at 
jobs. If momma walked sonny to school in the morning (instead of 
being on a three hour bus ride to work), she would have noticed he 
had helped himself to uncle's gun and take it away from him. That 
claim may be wrong, but is not preposterous.