Florida DCF doesnt seem to monitor anything

Two news stories (and personal experience) have brought me to this conclusion. First, an investigation I am re posting by the Tampa Bay Times regarding the complete lack of licensing requirements or monitoring of Children's homes in Florida by DCF. Basically if your group home doesnt want to follow the rules set out to protect the kids in your care, you can claim religious exemption and make up your own rules(including corporal punishment) and DCF will still send you kids and $$. The second is a recent story in the Palm Beach Post where DCF admits its doesn't monitor nor does it have any idea the amount of anti-psych drugs jails and similar institutions use on kids in care. (Though the paper estimated the jails bough enough for nearly 500 pills a day per kid) The concern being that institutions are using pills not for psychological needs but as a chemical restraint/shackles. Much easier to control kids if they are all doped up regardless of whether they are actually in need of the medication. And any doctor who claims he knows what these drugs do to growing brain is flat out lying. But acoording to the story the Drug Companies give these therapists 5 figure bonuses to promote the medications regardless of the lack of science.

So basically, if your a foster kid placed in a group home you can be physically abused for the first half of the day and forced into a drugged up coma for the second half, and there would be nothing "practice wise" wrong with that because DCF isnt paying any attention and has no authority beyond placement. And no one from the public would be any wise because of privacy/hipaa shelter the company from public/family scrutiny and accountability.  

Joe's Music Pick the Week: Kid Rock's Born Free

Kid Rock is a really flexible musician..Rock Rap, County whats next? Its also kool he plays with a little person (who sadly passed)

Book review:Orson Scott Card is a closeted hypocrite

I've been reading the fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" by Orson Scott Card. Card is better known for his sci fi series Ender's Game, which has been made into a movie to be released in November. He is also known for membership on the National Organization for Marriage and his outspoken political efforts to ban gay marriage in his home state of North Carolina.

I didnt like Ender's game. I couldnt really connect with the main character, a child who takes over earth space military and saves the universe. I've only read the first 3 books of the Alvin series so far but that farther than I got with the Ender's series. In The Tales of Alvin Maker, each chapter is from a different characters point of view, much like George Martin has recently done with his now famous Game of Thrones. Its good writting, set in the colonial period in an alternate history US where the war for independence never happened and George Washington's was beheaded for treason. Colonial American History is a great setting for fantasy, full of unsettled wilds and superstition. And its relatively untapped. So I like them thus far..but...

Cats will save your sock drawer from ninjas in Lamborghinis

Body found in hotel water source; Hotel not closing.

ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew. Ok everyone is taking this waaaaay to lightly! The hotel isnt closing the people staying there were like "The water did have a funny taste..The shower was awful, when you turned the tap on, the water was coming black.".  Just a funny taste? You just drank two week old DEAD PERSON!! EW. Even if they completely disconnect the water tower with the body in it, the dead person flakes still went all through the hotel pipes. You'd need to completely flush the whole system...several 100 times. And maybe bring in a priest to cleanse it spiritually. EW How can they not close the hotel?

Pirate Bay to host 3D templates (like for printing organs)

Everyone's favorite Swedish political party/mp3-movie database its its taking an interesting step into the future by offering to host public 3D templates. These are schematics 3D printers uses to "print" objects, such as human organs. I'm guessing this will be useful to non profit burn units ? since I'm not anyone else actually uses this tech yet. But it sound kool

Joe's Music Pick of the Week: Broken Road

Rascal Flatts : "God Bless the broken road". Great song - shocked! seriously that its sung by a dude. Esp at the beginning that sounds like a chick.The guy must sit on a bag of ice before each performance.