Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.

Yeah, I don’t think that woman is capable of ever not being self serving.

She’s off to preemptively stage a defense of the War on Christmas. Only 133 days to prevent its fall. Winter is coming...

Go into a bathroom and turn off the lights. Light a candle and throw water on the bathroom mirror. Then say forcefully:

Even O’Donnell is not claiming that the other technicians weren’t licensed. Where... are you getting that?

I used to work at the Center for Medical Progress, and one time I heard my coworkers planning to frame Lee Harvey Oswald for the Kennedy Assassination.

How would a phlebotomist know which papers patients signed or didn’t sign? Does she draw blood, which is her job, or lurk around spying on patients?

Sure you can. That’s literally the whole point of rehabilitation.

Even if they were in prison for 3 years, wouldn’t they have probation after that? It sounds like the psychiatrists who have examined the girls think that one of them can be rehabilitated. Telling a 13 year old she will be in prison for 45 years seems like the definition of cruel and unusual punishment to me. The US is…

I’m not sure, but I think they will be held in a juvenile facility until they are 18, then transferred to adult prison. I just think it’s inhumane to give that long a sentence to a child, especially if they can be rehabilitated through mental health treatment. For a 13 year old, even 3 years seems like an eternity.…

Mary Bell never killed again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell

At the same time, developmentally, they can’t be held to the same accountability as adults. They need intervention, whatever that is, but to lock them up and throw away the key is an awful miscarriage of justice. Trying them as adults doesn’t undo what they did or what led them to this place, it just sort of dumps…

Well, we could start by having an honest discussion about and plan to reckon with mental illness in our society, instead of resorting to the false “life in prison”/“do nothing whatsoever” binary approach we seem to have now.

You answered your own question: Long term care. It blows my mind that the US habitually punishes people because they are too stupid to accept the fact that we don’t have a cure for this shit. Treat till we learn folks. Then maybe we can get smart on the whole prevention thing.

I’d vote for a juvenile mental institution where they could get intensive therapy and finish high school. It sounds like one of the girls may be able to recover given the right treatment. At least that is what the experts testified. The other has very serious early onset schizophrenia, which tends to be hard to treat,…

You seem to forget that 13 year old children do not have a developed prefrontal cortex, which helps to deal with aggression, planning, and abstract judgement, among other things. This is just one reason why this is complete bullshit.

But remember - anything Josh Duggar did at 14 or 15 should be disregarded because he was “just a child” himself.

Trying 13 year olds as adults is inhumane. Trying a 13 year old who is also mentally ill as an adult should be a violation of the constitution. Why is the US so batshit crazy when it comes to the criminal justice system?

I spent years working in the juvenile justice system. Anyone who thinks that a 13 year old has the same judgment therefore should be tried in the adult court knows very little about current research. Having kids tried as an adult is a political move by people who want to look tough on crime, not a move based on any…

When I worked at a kid’s bookstore I once had a customer ask if a book came “in a girl version,” because she didn’t want to give a girl the “boy version.” I must have looked at her like she had three heads, as I tried to explain that books aren’t sold in that fashion. She kept insisting that she could not buy a girl…