March 8, 2011
Where do I start?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to sue McDonald’s restaurant if they don’t stop putting toys into their Happy Meal. WTF? These people, whoever they are, are equating the happy meal toys with candy from child predators! What????
Number One: This still being America, it is MY decision and MY decision alone what my children eat. If I don’t want them to eat a Happy Meal I will tell them NO myself. I don’t want or need your help to do it. Rest assured, The Center for Science in the Public Interest…….I got this.
Number Two: Who the hell are you anyway? I never asked some random anonymous group you to represent my public interest. I can handle that quite well all on my own, thank you very much. I’ll be doing that right along with deciding whether or not my kids can have a Happy Meal!
Number Three: Butt the hell out! Here’s an idea…..how about you concern yourself with kids who have no one to make that decision for them? How about you take your “science in the public interest” and use it for some real public interest? You can use all of your influence and backing (from God only knows where) and fix the foster care system in this country. Or you can use it to try to infuse some common sense into politics, like maybe instead of forcing people to purchase medical insurance, you can set it up so that those of us who are free Americans can decide for ourselves if we WANT to buy insurance. Oh wait…..That’s the opposite of what you do, right?
Number Four: Who told you what the public interest is? I don’t recall having a vote as to what my public interests are. And I can promise you this: it will be twenty years after the end of the world before I let some random group whose aims and goals I know nothing about, decide anything for me.
Number Five: What science? Who are the “scientists” who are providing you with your information? Is this real science or junk science? Or is it maybe science of the “let’s see how many dumb asses we can get to back this lame idea without thinking about it” variety?
Number Six: What ever happened to parents making the decisions for their children? That is our JOB! We decide what we are going to allow. You can’t legislate stupid out of the world. If we could, YOU would be the first to go!
*sigh*
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Posted by thought4food
January 15, 2008
Does it seem odd to you that the CBS morning news should be reporting on Britney Spears court nonappearance in her child custody case? Are there not a couple of areas in the world in which we are in military combat that might require more immediate attention? Is there not a murderer on the run somewhere in the world who murdered an eight month pregnant woman, whom he allegedly raped, then burned and buried right in his own back yard in North Carolina? Are there not weather systems going haywire? Isn’t there a dog stuck in a well pipe on 7th street in some backwoods town in East Bumphuc Egypt?
And while I’m on the subject, does it constitute a low speed chase if only the psycho paparazzi are involved? Isn’t it a prerequisite that the legal authorities be involved for it to be classified as a “chase” of any kind and to be shown on the national news, for God’s sake?
And, again, while I’m on the subject, does anyone really have an objection to Britney not being there to fight for custody of her children at the moment? Before you all get up on your high horses and start to judge her as a horrible example of a mother for not being in there fighting for her kids with all her might, let me set you straight. Britney did the most motherly thing I’ve seen her do in a long time this morning. She let her kids go to the best place they can be right now. Does anyone really think they need to be in Brit’s custody right now?
Permanent Custody is a relative term in the court system. Until a child is eighteen years old, or until a parent’s parental rights are terminated, nothing and I mean NOTHING is written in stone. We’ve seen this over and over in this case already. This could very well be Britney’s first step towards healing in a very long time. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
If I were her and I pulled up in front of that courthouse, with no chance of success inside and that gauntlet of press to run outside, I would probably have done the same thing. Please note the “If I were her” at the beginning of the sentence. Because every expression on my face on the way out the door would have been worth thousands to some undeserving asshole whose only ticket in is a camera in his hand and the dexterity to plunge the freakin button on it. Which means a blind monkey in the right position could make that money shot over and over again. So much for the “talent” portion of our event.
And that’s all for my Britney rant today.
Next……
The four hundred eighty five things you DID do today don’t count. It’s the ONE thing you didn’t do that matters. Don’t forget that.
Crackers trump the electric bill every time.
You can spend all of your time working on a problem and someone who has never been involved will STILL think they can see it better than you.
Criticism comes easy from the least expected people.
Support comes from the most UNexpected people.
People who were deliberately absent when all the work was being done will make sure to point out all of the shortcomings of any project. The harder the project, the more vocal the pointer will be.
Sometimes I’m a bitch.
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Posted by thought4food
October 28, 2007
Some people just shouldn’t become famous. This poor kid got famous when she was what…..zero? She’s had a bodyguard almost the entire time she’s been conscious. Ever since her first hit song, I bet she’s been told “No” about 3 1/2 times, because she is surrounded by people who are paid to tell her yes. There is no such thing as a personal, private moment ever for her because every person she ever comes in contact with, including her husband(s), will sell her out to the highest bidder in a New York minute if she pisses them off. She can’t take a dump without worrying about the press trying to hide a camera in the commode, for God’s sake! Think about it.
People wonder why she always plays to the camera and doesn’t seem to take the custody hearings seriously. Hell she has absolutely NO idea what is really going on. In the years during which she should have been forming her adult personality, she was being courted by sycophants and leeches. She was being cared for by hired help and yes men. There was not one ounce of reality in her life anywhere. For her, she IS taking this seriously. For her entire adult life, the way to deal with any crisis was to get more press!
As for drug and alcohol abuse, when you have “handlers”, it’s my belief that it becomes far easier for them to handle you if they can control you. If you never open your own drink, or fix your own meals, it’s easy for people to make you whatever they want you to be. And in an altered state it’s hard to gel your thoughts enough to realize what’s happening.
Anna Nicole Smith is a perfect example of what happens to isolated stars when there are no outsiders around to check on what goes on. Britney Spears is everybody’s favorite target recently and we ridicule her relentlessly. But she is VERY young and she has had nothing that remotely resembles a normal life. I can’t imagine how we can expect her to react normally to a situation when she has no skills under her belt for normal life.
Maybe……If you could get her to spend a night at a Holiday Inn Express……………..!!!
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October 4, 2007
I watched the news today and saw a story about a foster child being sent into court ordered risk of child abuse. I have first hand experience with exactly this issue. It is both astonishing and sickening how many people will blindly send a defenceless child into danger simply because the letter of the law says to do so. It sounds eerily similar to the Nazi’s claiming that they were only following orders.
In the case of the foster child, he is 2 years old and has lived with the foster parents virtually his entire life. His parents have lost all parental rights and the foster parents want to adopt him. The birth father, a convicted pedophile who is a Mexican national, stated in court that when released from prison he intends to return to Mexico to live with his mother. His birth mother never showed up for the hearing.
However, before the foster parents can adopt him the state must try to find a blood relative who is willing to take him. After a 2 year search, the mother of the pedophile finally agreeed to take the child. Yes, this is the same woman that the pedophile father will be living with when he gets out of prison. In another country. Where the United States, the birth country of this 2 year old child, will have no jurisdiction. And the state is actually defending their position of sending this AMERICAN child there and not letting him be adopted here by the only family he has ever known.
He will be taken away from the only parents he has ever known and sent to a country he has never seen to live with people he doesn’t know, who speak a language he doesn’t understand. And why are they even thinking about doing this? Because the stated goal of Social Services Departments in this country is to keep families together. NOT……I repeat NOT the welfare of children. Look it up.
If this isn’t a case of court ordered child abuse I’ll kiss your ass on the courthouse square at high noon.
Did you know that if you have a child crossing a county line for visitation and they are abused, if you do not see the abuse yourself, and there is no physical proof of abuse, you cannot report it in your county? Because YOUR county doesn’t have jurisdiction in any other county. Think about that for a second. This means that you have to literally stand outside the windows on the sidewalk peeking in and witness the abuse yourself in order to report your child being abused in another county. Scary isn’t it?
Can you imagine what it would be like for a child to be sent into another country? No offense to Mexico, I happen to love that country. The fact that it’s another country just makes it exponentially more likely that he’ll be lost.
We wonder why people are so much more violent than they were in the past. It isn’t the availability of guns. It isn’t violence in movies and on TV. (although it might have something to do with the JackAss movies and Bam, but that’s another blog) It isn’t even drugs. For the most part those things are all symptoms and tools. Until children are big enough to DO the things that catch our attention, we allow the most atrocious things to happen to them and we hide behind the letter of the law like that makes it alright.
It took My Dearest Husband and I years of anguish and pain, along with the help of an incredibly wonderful counselor who was willing to actually DO something, to finally get our daughter out of a sentence of court ordered child abuse. And now we are seeing all the unfortunate effects of the time she spent in that hell. She will never be who she could have been if there had been more people like her counselor. She will never be the happy, light hearted little munchkin she was the first time I saw her. With alot of hard work, she CAN be a fantastic, wonderful, caring, happy woman. Unfortunately, she will have to fight a fight she had no business having to fight. She should have been protected. She wasn’t. She was tossed under the wheels of the bus by the Social Services system who believes that the law is more important than the well being of children and that blood is more meaningful than love to a child.
What the hell are we thinking?
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