More at last: Insanity, that is.

After taking a short hiatus from the art of rant in an effort to balance myself a little, I am back with a vengence on the heels of a story about more adopted kids being tortured. The latest from cnn.com:

NORWALK, Ohio (AP) -- Child-welfare workers had heard rumors that a couple kept some of their 11 adopted children in cages two years before the youngsters were removed from the home, a witness testified in a custody hearing Tuesday.
Officials tried to follow up on the rumors in 2003, but Michael and Sharen Gravelle would not cooperate and a full investigation was never conducted, said Jo Ellen Johnson, an investigator for the Huron County Department of Job and Family Services.
The children were finally taken from the Gravelles after Johnson visited the home and examined the chicken-wire cages.
"They were piled one on top of another. It looked like a kennel," Johnson said.

It seems we have yet another state in our fine Union that probably spends more on shining the floors of their State Capitol Building than they do on their so-called Dept. of Family Services. Notice in this case that it's Dept. of Job and Family Services; that means that instead of just having half a dozen people working hundreds of family case files, like most other states, these half dozen also have to not only keep a bunch of losers from abusing their kids, but also find jobs for them. Can you say 'recipe for alcoholic state workers'?

So now what? We keep hearing these ghastly stories about kids being tortured, but the next day the story is gone and it's back to the everyday topic of how terrorists are being tortured. Indeed, it isn't right for anyone to be tortured, but it's also not right that they these few get the attention that our nation's foster children should be getting.

We've got parents locking up and beating the crap out of helpless kids that they're being paid to take care of and the window-licking morons of the press and all these civil rights groups are more worried about terrorists! How about we worry about the rights of this country's children for more than 5 minutes? Where is the Congressional probe into the ability of our state governments to protect the Constitutional rights of Amercian foster kids?

It's a sad, sad state of affairs ladies and gentlemen. So much for balance. I can feel my ying trying to beat the crap out of my yang already.