Posted by voolavex in birthday, mother, serial monster, funeral, life baggage, loss, dead, death certificate, guilt, My Mother, Social Issues.
Tags: Folding Shoes, Internet, women
Today is my late mother’s birthday. Had she lived, she would have been 95. And had she lived I wonder what would have happened. I wonder about it too often, I think.
When I was a girl of tweenage – 11ish I’d say I went to Ballroom Dancing School in Salem, Massachusetts. The teacher, Harriet James, was a kind of crone ‘too old to be teaching much of anything’ and she was bitter because she was teaching dancing school in Salem, Massachusetts. Dreams do not always come true. She had a sort of Boston Brahmin/British accent, dyed hair, and a clicker. (Used to be sold to kids at Halloween as well as in dime stores. I have one-…thought I would “train” kittens and I knew better – cats come trained. But I digress). As we stumbled and counted in time to the music and we tried to learn the upper crust skills for the cotillion or debutante ball none of us would ever go to, she clicked at errors in waltzes, box-steps, cha-chas and the record would abruptly stop and we would start over again. And boy, could she work that clicker with malice aforethought. The sound still haunts me. I hate to think what she would do with a Flicker Spinner today. It was a class for boys and girls. Mostly girls. This culminated in fancy dress “Ball” we all wanted to attend and of course to win the 1st prize or just be the best. Something like that.
I was a very thin child and wore glasses and in my own mind, no beauty. Clothes usually never fit right but the real problem was shoes. I had feet like snakes. Long and thin and in order to actually wear shoes, they had to be ordered from St. Louis. From the shoe factory direct and so no Thom McAn’s for my AAAA/AAAAA feet. (How I longed for cute, chubby feet with little cute toes). And, we are talking “good” shoes – au courant ballet flats for wearing with full length, tulle ball gowns. Black or red or white (red was best) or, dare I say – gold or silver. As I recall, my good shoes came a long way from St. Louis but color-wise they still had a long, long way to go in the metallics. I had to endure jokes about glass slippers and sox and of course, I had no clue about my single mother’s money situation. I just wanted “good shoes”, for the Ball. And I knew how to whine. And whine I did while my wonderful mother searched high and low for some sort of “good shoes” for me to wear to Miss Jame’s’s Ball.
I went to the lessons weekly and actually got the hang of the various dances but the thrill was gone. Shoes were my only concern. The dress was purchased. Filene’s Basement. And one fine day my mother came into the house with a shopping bag from a department store and announced she had found the shoes. In gold, in my size and she presented the shoes to me with a smile and a sigh of relief as I tuned up and started to pitch a running fit. “These are FOLDING SHOES”. ” They FOLD. I don’t want shoes that fold”. I will not wear them and don’t get shoes that FOLD.” A full-fledged tantrum and she was about to cry. “Just try them on”, she pleaded. I screamed “No” and sobbed. And they sat on the table in their tacky plastic case, gold and FOLDED. Night fell, I pouted and we went to bed. By morning we had both gathered our arguments like Philadelphia lawyers and the “shoes” were once again on the table. “No,” said I. “I just won’t go”. And went to my room. And waited. And then as only mothers can – she said, calmly through the door she would take them back and left them on the table. And went down the stairs and out the door. What could I do now; ungrateful, spoiled snake footed bitch that I was? I attacked the plastic case, unfolded the shoes and put them on. And they did fit. And they did sparkle and they would work perfectly. And because my mother was beautiful and perfect and wonderful, I went to the Ball and my shoes never got mentioned. But they were the first in a long series of folding shoes I wore until I watch a real teenager and the memory still makes me laugh.
Now, of course, comes the irony of ironies, she didn’t live to see that rebranded folding shoes are now “amazing” and “cool” and “all that”. She would never see them all over the Internet (she wouldn’t see that either). She would never gasp, as I do, at the prices asked for what used to come, folded, in a tacky plastic case for $2,99 at Jordan’s. Choices unlimited, all colors and made mostly of pleather and vinyl and sometimes even leather and always “imported” from the Mystery Land of Folding Shoes. Who would have ever thought?
So for -, Happy Birthday Momma. You left far too soon. But I see you in my dreams. and in memories of the damn folding shoes.
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Posted by voolavex in despicable, Domestic Violence, Genital Matters, guilt, Guilt relief, Halter tops, Harvey Weinstein, illegal, marriage, murder, serial monster, sex, sexist, sexy, sins, Social Issues, solutions, The 45th, vagina.
Tags: anal sex, copping a feel. being felt up. finger f*cking, inserted objects., Internet, oral copulation, political, politics, questions, rape, sex, sexual assault, women
I have been informed that I have made some errors in this post. There are 51 sets of sexual assault laws in this country. They can be found on findlaw.com. These are the 50 states and Federal law. I did not check all of them and I did not include territories or possessions, however each body of laws regarding sexual crimes have various types, sentencing recommendations and those that cross state lines become federal. What I sensed in those I read was that various degrees of these crimes exist but I also think – only my opinion – that they should be codified better throughout the various legal systems. And I hold to the idea that the accused and the abused should both have due process. I should add that sexual crimes are very complicated and very much disagreed upon globally. But indeed they are, in this country, set down by each state and the federal government and guidelines, statutes and many laws exist. I apologize for not researching this better and I hope that simply by searching a state’s sex crimes law on the Internet these resources will answer questions I cannot. I am not in law enforcement nor am I an attorney. This post has been edited to reflect my errors.
What happens when you unleash predators and dump them into a big cage with room for many, many more? Some are misdemeanor predators with only one egregious act to their name and others are serial predators who would still be doing it if they had not been exposed. It’s a valid question because every crime on our books has degrees of offenses. Sexual crimes do as well (see above) – I would guess because it has been ignored, not believed, excused or just plain denied by the offenders or the legal and LE systems these laws may slip through the cracks. It has a statute of limitations in some states so if you got assaulted 26 years ago – time has run out and the offender walks.
For many reasons – that of shame, trauma and fear of not being believed,what are considered criminals among us who don’t get charged and we have #metoos who do not get their day in court. All these particular offenses are are not equal and herein lies the rub (sorry). Is a pinch on the butt equal to a rape in an alley? Is workplace harassment comparable to a gang rape in a fraternity house or at a party. Is substance abuse a factor? Is domestic abuse with rape the same as rubbing up in subway car? Can a husband rape a spouse legally. Is flirting frought with danger. Is it an invitation or is it so complicated a message it can be a crime to even do it? You know the variations on this theme and you also know that the acts themselves are not all the same. They may make us feel violated and threatened and dirty; but they are not all the same.
Those accused – whom we so readily name and those who are not named but pointed at – areoften not charged and therefore not proven guilty. The millions of #metoos are still only making accusations. And while these offenses include the murdering of the souls and psyches of the women and male victims who have been abused and violated, there are still very broad interpretations of such crimes by judges and juries. Frequently the evidence in any court would be one word against the other. I suspect even lawyers on both sides have issues with this problem.
How could you apply a statute of limitations on better defined degrees or would all sexual high crimes and misdeanors be treated exactly the same. Anthony Weiner provided proof of his own aberrations – and he made himself the villain because he was the villain. He is in the fedslam. He has been disgraced and he is being punished through the legal system. Due process.
Because a culture of fear and shame denied the violated, the violated were denied due process. I think if I were so inclined, I would sue those who perpetuated this. And if I were in the legal arena, I would collect all the evidence available and bring causes of action in each case that could be a cause of action. I would not favor the race or age or gender of the accused or their value to a college or a career or a future. Let Justice be blind. We are a nation of accomplished finger pointers. We use reputations to defame and extol many people who deserve neither. But I am more concerned with the way in which these crimes or alleged crimes (because people do lie) are handled and have been handled. And I speak personally; that not all people violated have their lives ruined. Many do, but many don’t. There are those of us who can relegate memories to a place where #metoo no longer has a daily impact or incessant pain. We are the fortunate ones.
While members of the Congress and commerce are resigning in droves and without due process we are committing further injustice and a rush to judgment outside the courts of law. This is wrong too.
I do not claim to have answers that are effective in the moment. But the crimes of a sexual nature; the rapes, the rubs, the feel-ups, the date rapes, the marital rapes, the campus rapes the injury, the accused who do go on trial, the anger, the retaliation all have to be placed in a context that other crimes against society and people are placed. This body of crime has existed for all of humanity. Some sought power, some sought satisfaction, some went nuts in war and kept on abusing. But in any context – this is not new. And as such we need to make it fit into our legal system better and be adjudicated as we do many other offenses.
And please remember that women and men can be #metoos.
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Posted by voolavex in birthday, mother, serial monster, funeral, life baggage, loss, dead, death certificate, despicable, Domestic Violence, guilt, Mann & Mann, marriage, murder, My Mother, serial monster, Social Issues.
Tags: death certificate birthday, funeral, life, loss, mother, murder, police, serial monster, women
Back in the days when domestic disputes were shameful and unreported, my mother was the dead body in a domestic murder.
In a small blue-collar town in Massachusetts. On January 24, 1978. It was a long time ago and it was a moment ago. It was the tragic finale to many phone calls and plane ticket reservations and telephone commiseration for a mother who simply couldn’t. She fought back, she screamed, she saw a doctor, she drank, but she could not leave with my two much younger siblings, or the pony or the house or the lingering affection she carried for a man who was a serial monster. Bigamist, philanderer, narcissist, sociopath and murderer. One sib says many calls of service were made to the local police – their hands tied by 1977/1978 concepts and legalities. Another sib tells of death threats made to them on the night of my mother death. I did not know anything about this part. I only knew my mother wrote and cried and simply said “he” had a girlfriend and she was confused and didn’t know what to do. At 54 she was probably menopausal. Not much to go on. She didn’t want to move out with the children or leave the pets and the laundry list of excuses women have conjured for time immemorial. I was in Los Angeles and not welcome in her house. (Actually on February 10, 1958 I was no longer welcome in her life. At 12, I thought it was because he really loved her.) I blame myself for not listening harder and asking more questions. And I had no idea that physical violence was part of the picture. Neither of my siblings (19+ and 15) called me to ask for help. My mother had pride that went before all else. Including her funeral.
Her death certificate from that time reads COD: undetermined. A residual fear stops me from requesting a new one. She will still be dead.
She was only 54. Today is her 95th birthday. May I say she was beautiful and gentle and kind? May I say by the time I arrived at her house, anything of sentimental value that had belonged to her was gone? That her grieving husband knew I knew and it was not pleasant? That I swallowed my rage, stepped back and stayed for the children ( I am my mother’s daughter)? That I drank and sobbed and that the tables overflowed with funeral meats and that 200+ attended her funeral in Boston? That mourners continued; people I never knew, arrived in tears? That it was the same funeral home by her high school best friend’s parents? Mann & Mann. That I had played as small child in their huge house upstairs? That my family went back as close friends of the Manns? That the grieving husband read a sickening tribute?. And that my own father wept with me in stunned sorrow?
In 1978, it was simply another domestic dispute. Perhaps still in the local police records – on paper in a box; with so many others of the time.
There was no investigation. I knew of no interviews with siblings. That police never asked me anything. My grandmother thought it was a heart attack. She had just lost her only child. Was it mine to reveal? Information continued to seep through and very long after I found out the history of the man she had married in 1958. From his children; who loved my mother. I should have wondered more about the words of my dear step-brother who walked in, in 1978, crying, and said to me, sotto voce, “what did he do to her?”
I have always known it was murder. I have always known he patiently waited. I knew she did not wash down 40 or 50 pills with vodka. She didn’t ever take Darvon and that’s what they found. I know he sat beside her and watched. I have no idea how he managed to make it happen. He died five years later; alone in a rented apartment in Lawrence; the other woman long gone. He was soup when they found him. Dead five days of a heart attack in a fall from the up high liquor shelf. One he needed a step stool to reach. In a closed apartment on a sweltering summer day.
He was short and bald and had good teeth.
I could kill him again and again for his crime but she would not have wanted that. And dead never ends. They would have been married twenty years on that February 10th.
She has been gone 39 years. Since the day my broken heart and endless anger met all at once. And no one of us leftover has ever been able to move on. We try to unpack that valise, only to realize that some things travel with you forever, in your life luggage.
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Posted by voolavex in Elections, freedom, guilt, Health, Medical, Politics, Politics & Religion, sex, sexist, Social Issues, vagina.
Donald Trump can kiss my ass. How dare anyone – man or woman – imagine a punishment for an abortion? What could be worse than the entire situation itself. Somehow the self-righteous right (and many others, sacred and profane) think women have abortions when there is nothing good on sale at Bloomingdales or K-Mart? Is that what they imagine. Well imagine this – you are pregnant and it is not a thrilling fact of your life. Rich,poor, any ethnicity and no one is faced with this truly except women. Casual sex, marital sex, oops sex, rape, you are knocked up. And you had no intention to become a parent – actually – a mother. Your choices should be unlimited in a normal society. But in the eyes of mostly men – you are so low and foul – even in Chanel – you not only are a slut to be shamed but you should be punished if you can manage to make a personal choice. Hoe dare he. How dare they? I will not face this decision again in my life but I have in another time of my life. I have chosen and if you do not think that choice was a difficult and emotionally wrought one – then you are ducky. Women may be relieved after this choice – but they carry it inside them forever. In their minds, their hearts and their body’s memory. I do.
So despite this being a medical decision for the doctor and an emotionally medical one for the woman what more is there to exact? A fine, probation, stay 30 feet from a penis for the rest of your life, have it stitched shut, have a tattoo on your face like Hester Prynne? Community service in a creche or nursery? Lose the children you have and love because you didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t have another that you did not want to bear. Birth defects – how dare you – you MUST have a baby with no quality of life – including yours and that of your family? That would be an agony that covers a lot of ground.
Was he quick to retract his statement? WOW. You betcha’ because he knew he had crossed a line of voters who do not play that period. And I suspect he actually was sorry about the pressure he bore for it. I think he believes all his pompous, dangerous demagoguery. I’ll bet he had a laundry list of nasty punishments for bad women who chose choice. But Donald is not alone. He just bleats his ideas (?) more easily. I suspect this is the stance of most GOP men and some women. And I also bet they have paid for numerous terminations about which they have no guilt, whatsoever.
Men. Stay out of our vaginas unless you are invited in. Men. Stay out of our wombs unless your opinion is requested. Men. Worry about your frequently out of control dicks and refrain from making medical decisions for females. It is not your right. You have no standing to do so.
And this: Back once more – hectic few months. Hating this Election Season 2016
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Posted by voolavex in common sense, despicable, freedom, guilt, Social Issues.
Tags: Akron Ohio, bigotry, court, judge, jury, KKK, outrage, plea bargain, Racism, rapists
Sadly, there was no music in the Akron Ohio courtroom that railroaded Ms Kelley Wiliams- Bolar. It should should have included this treasure from the Good Ol’ Days of whuppin’ slaves and sellin’cotton.
“Come, listen, all you gals and boys, I’m just from Tuckyhoe;
- I’m gwine to sing a little song, My name’s Jim Crow.
- Chorus: Wheel about, an’ turn about, an’ do jis so;
- Eb’ry time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow.
- I went down to de river, I didn’t mean to stay,
- But there I see so many gals, I couldn’t get away.
- I’m rorer on de fiddle, an’ down in ole Virginny,
- Dey say I play de skientific, like massa Paganini.
- I cut so many munky shines, I dance de galloppade;
- An’ w’en I done, I res’ my head, on shubble, hoe or spade.
- I met Miss Dina Scrub one day, I gib her sich a buss;
- An’ den she turn an’ slap my face, an’ make a mighty fuss.
- De udder gals dey ‘gin to fight, I tel’d dem wait a bit;
- I’d hab dem all, jis one by one, as I tourt fit.
- I wip de lion ob de west, I eat de alligator;
- I put more water in my mouf, den boil ten load ob ‘tator.
- De way dey bake de hoe cake, Virginny nebber tire;
- Dey put de doe upon de foot, an’ stick ’em in de fire.[1] “
I am shocked at the lack of outrage. Where is Morris Dees, Al, Jesse, The NAACP and anyone else who could stir an uproar over this late term abortion of justice? Why wasn’t she bailed? Who was her lawyer? I don’t hear much very good lately about Ohio but its neighbor Indiana, is ass over teakettle in KKK membership. state lines must blur. I gotta say this one tops even my wildest, sickest imagination. Kucinich sues over olive pits. Think about it.
According to one of the many reports I have read the DA’s office insisted on the charges. Yet they plea bargain rapists. This woman was sent to jail because she wanted her daughters to be safe. She lived in public housing and fudged on her address. Capital Felony what? And the school system wants restitution and this woman, this mother, about to become a teacher, is now a felon and can’t teach. This woman is my hero. By her actions and her love for education and her kids she has been screwed up the ass by the State of Ohio and where is the outrage? I can hardly type for my own anger. Who is the DA and who is the jury and who is the judge and what is going on in the land of the free and the home of the brave? The school system of Akron spent $6 grand following this arch criminal . Don’t cry poormouth Akron.
I am so tied up in knots on this one I think I must do some cooling down and additional research on this matter, Like finding out who the jurors were; her lawyer, the ADA and WHY it happened.
This an outrage. This is almost as ugly as Emmett Till. This has to be repaired.
Someone must step forward and reverse this outrage and fast. Who has the balls????
Who?
FYI:Call these officers of the court at this number:
| CRIMINAL DIVISION |
Harold K. Stubbs Justice Center
217 S. High Street, Room 203
Akron, Ohio 44308
(330) 375-2730
(330) 375-2281 facsimile |
| Elisa B. Hill |
Police Legal Advisor |
| Craig Hanus |
Police Legal Advisor |
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Posted by voolavex in common sense, despicable, guilt, immigration, Jews, kosher, Pets, Social Issues, talmud, torah.
I was recently writing an email to a family member regarding the Middle East War in Israel and as I wrote some cold thoughts came to mind that I had not addressed before. Troubled times call for fierce examination. Troubled times make people point fingers and assign blame. Sometimes I think the simplest truth can explain the most complex problem. I kept getting a zetz* from some annoying truths that begged for air. As a humane gesture to my kishkes** I started letting them out. They are my own truths – but they may zetz you too. They are not very likeable – but they do ring true. See what you think.
Bernard Madoff and Aaron Rubashkin are two of the worst things that have happened to the Jews since Pharoah’s armies got grounded. The two of them feed into the worst depths of Anti-Semitism and serve that end as examples of what people who (check one) mistrust, hate, avoid, slur and or revile the Jews, see as a benchmark of the entire Jewish tribe (except the one you know and he/she is a really nice person). And why wouldn’t they? The name for what Bernie Madoff did is affinity scam. Taking advantage of your own to establish credibility and then keeping at it until you are either caught or die. Underlying the entire con is the knowledge you personally know it’s is wrong, illegal, lies and misery for your victims. You know this when you start and you it know when you give it up, die or get caught. I would say that essentially it is driven by greed no matter how you slice it. This is the man for whom the term Greedy Jew was created. And in this troubled time this is the man who may have slowed; maybe even stalled the engine of the world. And because he used his Jewishness to this end he merits every bad name one can call him. Bernie Madoff is NOT good for the Jews. His money is treyf*** and so is every penny that may have been touched by him. Think of Bernie as a pig disguised as a lobster pretending to be a matzo ball.. Before you even work your way through to the “others” who got shafted all 163 pp of them (which I have read) find the Jews. The ones who lost big. These are what “others” will label “Stupid Jews”. Bernie Madoff is not good for the Jews. By the time one gets to the others it hardly matters who they are in terms of ethnicity. The blood libel has been revived and some stupid, greedy Jew did it. This makes me livid and is going to take a long time to fix . Why isn’t every Jew vocally enraged by this man and what he has done? Not content to go in head again first at the deep end let’s move along to the next question. What does Aaron Rubashkin have in common with Bernie Madoff? Greed.
Aaron Rubashkin and Agriprocessors ignored Jewish law and screwed the Jews. Aaron and his family deny every single allegation and for this he is even more of a problem for the Jews. He exemplifies the slur “Those lousy Jews will do anything to make a buck”. Because that is precisely what he did and would have kept on doing if he had not been caught. Close friends of mine excuse him and tell me he has done so much good that he cannot have done what the law says he did but I don’t think prior good acts exonerate him. It’s like saying some Jew hater loves dogs. I love my friends and therefore I won’t argue with them but we disagree. Rubashkin is guilty of another kind of exploitation that was so specific to the Jews that it is disgusting. It’s not bad enough he exploited illegal and underage workers to work in his kosher meat factory. He is accused of breaking federal laws and religious law by his slaughtering methods and factory conditions and by doing so has made questionable every mouthful of kosher meat every observant Jew has bought under his aegis. This meat has been chewed and swallowed. Is it treyf? Part of the problem as I see it is in the entire behavior of Rubashkin and his cohorts. As with Madoff – they knew and they did it anyway. If you cut corners on one thing – where do you stop? And he did it in violation of Jewish law. He violated a mitzvah. He is a goniff, a hypocrite and betrayer. This makes me livid and is going to take a long time to fix . Why isn’t every Jew vocally enraged by this man and what he has done?
I don’t care if my meat is kosher and I am not observant but those who are deserve better than this. You might ask what happens if these folks ate the meat. Nothing except it is morally indefensible and therefore causes mental anguish among ****landsmen who have placed enormous trust in this product. If you recall how outraged we were in this country about the tainted dog food and baby formula – there is no difference. And the first tainted food was PET food. Think about it and get angry and let people know you’re an angry Jew.
Giving bigots a reason to use ethnic slurs is not good for the Jews. I think it is okay to be angry and vocal about both these men and what they have done. I think Jews should be outraged and say so. Nothing excuses them . Finding Bernie and Aaron outside the pale doesn’t do anything but say that you find this behavior unconscionable for everyone and especially the people that were targeted. Bernie Madoff is not good for the Jews. Aaron Rubashkin is not good for the Jews. We should all be much angrier than we appear to be.
* zetz = poke ** treyf/treif = not kosher ***kishkes = your gut ****landsmen = your co-religionists.
Comments are welcome but I will delete anyone using the term – self-hating Jew – just so we are clear.
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Posted by voolavex in common sense, guilt, health care.
Nadya Suleman is beginning her journey to fame down the yellow line in the snow with passengers. If this were the early 20’s she’d have already set her sights on Ringling Brothers and joined the circus side show by now. She missed her decade and her destiny I guess. She is here and now, and because we know the world spins forward, her own public dog and pony show has yet to reach its apex. And let’s face it; it’s hard not to watch. So let’s talk about that.
First. I seriously doubt grandma Angela Suleman is blameless in this situation, but I can also say from an age standpoint she surely did not want babies in her late 50’s. Six kids under 7 works for some people; usually the very religious or the very rich. The litany of things Nadya has done over the last 8 years; degrees, school, worker’s comp, cosmetic surgery makes me wonder how she had time to get pregnant. Seriously – being pregnant all the time is hard work. Ask anyone with a bunch of kids.Two or three of these crumb snatchers seem to have spectrum disorder. That’s not easy to handle. Most autistic kids need extra time and attention. Because I don’t know where they fall in the birth order I can’t say whether she knew about the health matters and should have thought twice before going on. She went on anyway. She had octuplets.
Second. A long time ago I nannied 4 little boys in a house just like the Suleman’s abode . If I am not mistaken theirs is a 3 bedroom, one bath with a garage, on a lot the size of a postage stamp. In my case, 4 little boys under 11 slept in one bedroom in bunk beds with a crib for the baby (who was two). Both parents worked full time and I lived in and was paid weekly. The dad was ex-military so once a month they went to Long Beach and stocked up at the Navy commissary. No welfare. No food stamps. All boys with appetites and needs. The big outing for all of us was the DAV thrift store. Apparently Nadya’s big outing is the fertility clinic. In between classes, pregnancies and plastic surgery. So what comes into my mind is something is amiss.
Third. Leaving the lower portion of her body (aren’t you glad) – there is the question of her alleged plastic surgery. I am kind of surprised there have no before photos of Nadya floating around. She looks pretty fake to me. And she is no Angelina Jolie. It looks like cheek implants and probably lip puffer. And it looks fairly recent. (I would love a blepharoplasty for under my eyes. Ain’t gonna happy. Just saying). I did notice she also has a nice French manicure – no clue what the current cost is on that – but say $30 a month. Ten half gallons of milk. I see a tummy tuck and bosom revamp in the future somewhere in the windmills of her mind. We’ll see.
Fourth. I am pro-choice. I am not pro-choice on the state’s nickel. I do not believe these innocent children are a gift from God – I believe they are exploited children with a severely disturbed mother.
Fifth. As it appears she is already in the welfare system, I would go a step further and make all these hapless kids wards of the state until it can be determined she can care for them. Can you feed six kids on $490 a month (plus WIC)? I think $120 a week is a stretch for six kids. What is the quality of life for these kids? Begging for donations on a website while taking state funds sounds like wanting many bites of the apple -say about 14. It also sounds a little bit crooked.
Sixth. What about Dr. Kamrava? You can look him up at the Medical Board of California. His record seems blameless. I suspect that’s gonna change. But other than losing his medical practice or some other nasty fate – what does he care and why should he.? Thus far nothing about IVF seems to require moral or practical advice. In the words of Tom Lehrer, singing about Werner Von Braun “Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down; that’s not my department says Werner Von Braun.”
Seventh. Back to Grandma Suleman. While I am not an advocate of physical abuse of any kind – someone should have knocked some sense into her only child about 13 kids ago. Or got her a couple of pets. Grandma is either a door mat, mentally disturbed ( genetic maybe), stupid or is on some sort of guilt trip whose bill has come due. She blows hard about “not taking care of the kids anymore” but I seriously doubt she will go into the Witless Protection Program and get outta’ dodge. If she is counting on media pay-offs; Nadya may hit the jackpot by selling her life and kids to some tab (like the Dionne’s). Nadya however doesn’t seem to believe in the trickle down effect. I doubt Grandma will see a penny.
Eighth. Who is the father? Does Nadya know? Does the dad know? I seriously question the motives and thinking of rich baby collectors like Mia Farrow and Brangelina but one thing may be said – they have plenty of money to behave as they do. Nadya Suleman is not going to be “Mother of the Year” this year or any other. And sadly, in the big picture – I doubt the law, the state, her parents or anyone else can do much about it. Watch this space.
*The name of this post comes from a tomato paste commercial jingle for Contadina . by Stan Freberg from 1956. It went: “who put eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?”
www.lewrockwell.com. I shouldn’t have to explain further.
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Posted by voolavex in bribery, carbon emissions, carbon offset, global warming, green, guilt, Guilt relief, hippies, Hummers, Kyoto.
Tags: Guilt relief, Kyoto
Without entering the complicated world of global warming and planetary catastrophe- let’s just have a look at carbon emissions and how you can still have them and feel green too. To be clear, I am speaking only for the US because I don’t know if anyone else in the world has a similar buy out. Having said this – it is not hard to understand why Americans talk the green but drive the car. People were green in the 70’s and got laughed at so often they gave up. It was viewed as some lunatic fringe behavior that was a holdover from the hippies. Plus the fact there was no tangible return on the effort. The heart of the matter: return on the effort. We like to be paid for everything. No good deed should go unpaid in this country. Including litigation if you happen to do one out of kindness and get caught. But we have sunk recently to a new low with the advent of Terrapass. According to the NYTimes “”…companies like Terrapass allow consumers to invest in projects like renewable energy and reforestation in an effort to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere equal to that produced by their cars, airplane trips and home energy use”. So this is really having your “fill in the blank” amount of cake and eating it too. No restrictions apply. Not to mention having had ample time and warning for the upcoming climate change and all it brings with it; face it, using the planet like a styrofoam cup is not new. Now we have guilt relief and it’s cheap too. I give up. Where did it say it should or would be easy to try to fix the environmental problems we face. Why should it be easy? Shouldn’t all of us have to do a lot more to try to save the only place we have in the entire universe to live? As it says in the Times “give us your money and we’ll deal with the problem”. And of course you get a snappy bumper sticker to let others know just how lazy and willing to pass the buck you are. Stop. We need hands on efforts to face this dilemma – not pay-offs to the private sector to assuage our guilt while we toddle around town in our Hummer, SUV or other gas guzzler. I think what we need are rules – not guidelines, laws, not suggestions and participation, not bribery to bring this country into being a more aware and involved partner in fixing our global health. I promise you, that should the moment come when it gets too hot to handle and we start to be a serious part of it , global warming will NOT exclude the US and its pay as you go citizens. No matter what anyone thinks. We sould have signed Kyoto.
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