Yeah well I had all these extra embryos…what’s a girl to do

Ok, I am all for the right to choose how you live your life and all but sometimes those choices are just ridiculous. Case in point…the woman in California who has just added eight more children to her brood, keep in mind that she already had six kids. And yes that makes 14 in all for those of us who tend to be math challenged.
In the story the woman’s mother says that her daughter has always been obsessed with having kids…duh… The woman whose previous children are ages two through seven has had this latest litter via fertility drugs, the same way, as it turns out, that she had the first six. When asked how she could afford all the children she simply said that she got paid for it. (I wonder what that means….)
According to news accounts the woman wanted to implant the remaining embryos from her first fertility pregnancy because they were going to be destroyed if she didn’t….so the doctor, obviously tittering on the brink of insanity himself, implanted all of them and guess what…she ended up giving birth to ALL of them. Wow who would have thunk it….
The woman is a single mom and a full-time student who now has an entire class of her own….so here’s my question for the day…what about these kids? They are going to grow up in a group home for this woman’s way-ward embryos. The father is absent, apparently by the mother’s choice and while I don’t think that you need a man around to raise a child properly, shouldn’t this woman at least have an assistant coach? Children take time and attention and even the best of intended mothers have a difficult time spreading that attention around with as little as three kids, what kind of attention could a single mother give to 14 of them at one time? The answer is sparse at best. While the doctors on the televised news conference seemed quite pleased with themselves I’d be willing to bet that once mom leaves the hospital none of these doctors will be offering to babysit. The woman’s mother is so distraught that she has said, once the babies are home, she is out of there which means mom will be alone with 14 kids all between the ages of two and seven. (if you mothers out there are counting…that means at least 10 in diapers at once…)
When the woman went to her fertility doctor he should have offered her a straight jacket instead of more frozen kid-pops for the freezer womb. Seriously…what doctor thought that this was a good idea?

If you want the whole story so that you can scare your own kids away from fertility doctor’s visit http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090131/Octuplets/

Your want your what back?????

Gift giving is an age old tradition and when you’re married the gifts you receive can range from a diamond ring to a new washer and dryer. (Although my mom hated it when my dad gave her something that she could do housework with) In today’s society a gift is no longer simply a gift. When a guy and a girl go their separate ways there is often a question of “hey when do I get my stuff back?”
We’ve all heard the stories about guys breaking it off with their ladies and demanding that items be returned. Spurned lovers have gone to court over homes, cars, money, and clothing and even, sadly, the dog. No longer do we live in an age when once you give someone something it is theirs to keep. Nope…break my heart…and damn it give me my stuff back….all of it. Well this week one guy may have taken that adage a smidge too far…and this is where it gets ridiculous.
In Victorville, CA a man is on trial for attempting to take an item (actually two) back from his ex-girlfriend. He is on trial for breaking and entering of the insane kind. In July of 2006 this young man (26 years old) stabbed his ex-girlfriend six times in an effort to “take back" breast implants that he paid for. Yes, you heard that right….he was trying to take back his gift of boobage. The man was quoted in court as saying that he was “gonna cut em out and get em back”. He is on trial for a bevy of things including false imprisonment, stalking, burglary and…well…attempted murder. I wonder if he can also be charged with stupidity.

If you need to shake your head and reconsider the next gift you accept, read the whole story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28926834/

Seriously...Cheese?

I can think of a lot of things I would ban from coming into the United States. Guns, weapons of any kind, drugs, lead poisoned toys, tainted food, stuff made by countries that are guilty of human rights violations (did I say China, cause I didn’t mean to name a country that is guilty of human rights violations that imports crap to the United States every day…no…I don’t think I said China), there are a number of things I guess but I do believe that the one thing that would NEVER cross my mind is... cheese.
Yes folks, in the last days of his presidency, W decided to make a stand on….cheese. As a matter of fact Roquefort cheese to be exact. It appears that in a playground move any second grader would have been proud of George decided that if the European Union was going to ban imports of U.S. beef containing hormones then by-God he would hit them back in the cheese…Roquefort to be exact. The Bush administration via U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab imposed a 300 percent duty on the smelliest of cheeses which makes it now impossible for your average snob…or person who enjoys Roquefort, to get the French cheese. It is an amazing and ridiculous move on the part of the Bush administration. (I know, I know…how often you have heard that over the last four years…)
The long and short of it is this… the price the French will pay for wanting to ensure that their citizens are not eating beef that is altered and not natural is no more Roquefort imports to the United States. The message: “Eat our over hormonal, chemically changed cows or we won’t eat your natural cheese!” Some days you just have to say…wow…..

If you have a need to shake your head while fighting back tears of laughter, visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28907462/ for the whole story.

The Art of Ridiculous

It is an art form that is being refined everyday…the art of being ridiculous. Only in American can we reform something so well that it becomes an acceptable form of communication, story-telling and even religion.
There are stories in the news, on television and even in the streets every day reciting how someone somewhere has made yet another decision that not only sparks of irresponsible or downright meanness but ridiculous to the point of being…well…almost unbelievable.
So who am I? I am the simple observer. I watch the world around me on a daily basis as we, as a nation, continue to accept our lives being handed to us through spoonfuls of something sweet, (coated in oil, iPods, laptops, the internet, promises of a better tomorrow…) in order to hide the taste of our waning civil rights, disappearing privacy and sense of freedom while our quality of life crashes to the ground in a fiery ball wrapped in our most recent bank statements and stock portfolios. What is even more amazing is the consistent finger pointing. From space America must look like a porcupine with all those fingers in the air. Now, no one is apparently to blame, taxpayers are bailing out the government and trust me fellow observers…before it is over they will end up blaming the very people who bailed them out…us…somehow this will all end up the fault of the American tax payer.
So…here I sit ready to point out the trends, the lies, and the stupidity and yes…the ridiculousness of it all. I have to do something because if I don’t I’ll just go numb ……