SICK
So apparently that miscarriage art, it was a hoax. I don't know what is sicker: really inducing your own miscarriage for art, or just pretending you did to get attention.
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IN STRANGE COMPANY
Ha, Mare thought to do a little googling, and she found that we don't know the only Hitler cat. There's a whole website of 'em: Cats That Look Like Hitler. I'm gonna get permission to add our kitteh to the bunch.
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Actually my roomate told me about it. She told me Tabby cats, like your inlaws, always have a little black patch on their lip if they are female. I just thought Kitler was hilarious.
Posted by: Mare at April 17, 2008 04:43 AM (EI19G)
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I never noticed a black lip on my female tabbies... then again, they were black and grey tabbies...
Posted by: Green at April 17, 2008 09:23 AM (6Co0L)
BAGHDAD – Spotting irregularities is a tactic that is drilled into the minds of Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers throughout training and in practice while in Iraq. Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag. Once the woman dropped the bag near the gate, internal alarms were ringing and a careful search was called for and conducted.
That search yielded a newborn baby wrapped tightly in several cloths. Soldiers raced to the bag, retrieved the child and brought him to the aid station to be examined. “We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive – and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, the Aid Station NCOIC at FOB Callahan. “He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”
And what's to happen to the little bouncing boy? That's the best part of the story:
The baby is to be adopted by the brother of a local national, who works at the base. The brother and his wife have been married five years and have been unable to have a baby of their own. The interpreters at FOB Callahan have taken a collection to donate to the family to help care for the baby.
A happy ending for everyone. Plus I like thinking about manly soldiers in Iraq changing diapers and cooing over a newborn.
Heh, that reminds me of the time we went to visit some friends who had just had a new baby girl. While we were there, our friend was telling my husband about the new pistol he'd bought. He brought it out to show my husband, and oh how I wish I had a picture of my husband holding a newborn baby girl under one arm and aiming a Glock with the other.
WOAH
This is just...well, awful. It's one of those stories that on the surface sounds funny if it weren't so damned serious and sad.
'World peace' hitcher is murdered: An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The artist's sister says it all:
"Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust."
I wonder whether Democrats ever indulge the suspicion that "world opinion" may be bunk? Let's contrast, for example, the popularity of Israel (19 percent positive, 52 percent negative) and North Korea (23 percent positive, 44 percent negative).
You can imagine the juxtaposition she sets up between Israel and North Korea. Why do we care if Europeans don't like us; if they nestle us in betwee China and North Korea, they're the ones with problems, not us.
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This story honestly makes me wish I would have grown up during my grandmother's generation...although, at 92, my grandmother is still alive. Good grief...the wierdness (and that's the best word I can come up with) of this world is out of control.
Posted by: Nicole at April 03, 2008 09:39 PM (YHVU/)
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Apparently I can't spell...*weirdness* (if it's actually a word)
Posted by: Nicole at April 03, 2008 09:44 PM (YHVU/)
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Everything I've heard on this story is doublespeak.
The pregnant person has, and was born with, all the female equipment needed to get pregnant. This person is NOT a male, just wanted to be. But the PC world keeps referring to her as a man. I find it very disgusting that they are even playing it up.
Posted by: Ruth H at April 04, 2008 03:54 AM (wWMQq)
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IÂ’m with Ruth H. This freak isnÂ’t a man.
Let me get this straight, she wants to be a man but was born a woman so she is in the process of changing her sex. But sheÂ’s so convinced she should be a man that she felt the need to give birth to a child. Yes, how manly of her.
I feel for the child. How screwed up with that kid be?
Posted by: tim at April 04, 2008 04:14 AM (nno0f)
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Ugh, this made me so mad. I try to be open minded about things, but either you are male or female. I don't see how you can feel that you should have been born male, take all these steps to become one, and yet say "leave the uterus! I might need it one day!" Basically what this is, is a pregnant woman in man-drag. So why is that news?
Posted by: Ann M. at April 04, 2008 08:25 AM (HFUBt)
Posted by: Green at April 04, 2008 08:49 AM (6Co0L)
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Wow... I'm a little flabbergasted by some of the comments, but I recognize every one's feelings are valid.
However some education might be in order, for those that are curious/interested.
My opinion first: I think anyone who truly wants children and can have children and do go ahead and have children, well there's worse scenarios I can think of. Anytime a child is wanted, that's a positive thing in my view. Regardless of whether the person identifies as male or female.
Some background info...
Gender ambiguity occurs in 1 out of 20,000 babies.
I recommend reading Middlesex to better understand transgender/ambiguous gender or AIS experience.
Many people are born with certain combinations/levels of X and Y chromosomes that determines whether they clearly have a penis or a vagina.
Some people are born with different levels so their sex is ambiguous(not clear) which can result in having the genitals of one sex but they have the emotions and hormones of another sex - which tends to show up in puberty. Some have characteristics of both males and females.
Doctors often assign a sex early when gender is ambiguous or a baby has characteristics of both genders. But when this happens, sometimes the assigned sex isn't the one the baby later identifies with. This is why you sometimes see the phrase "trapped in a man's body or a woman's body etc"... they are literally stuck with the gender assignment that was given at birth. This isn't liberal-speak, it's medically, scientifically a reality for many people. These people are not freaks or "confused" either, they're human beings. They don't deserve better than pity or scorn.
Another good source of information: http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/intersexuality_faq.htm
Posted by: Crys at April 04, 2008 12:24 PM (dqGUK)
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::flushes red::
I mean... "they deserve better than pity or scorn."
Major typo on my part, my apologies.
Posted by: Crys at April 04, 2008 12:47 PM (dqGUK)
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I did not mean to make you cry this morning...
but being a Mom, makes you cry, a lot...
and most of them are the biggest tears of JOY ever...
and I sit and look at my children while they sleep, and I seriously think "God gave these children to me."
"these children".
I have more to learn from them, than I have to teach them...
Posted by: awtm at March 23, 2008 10:51 AM (i0YYY)
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And now AWTM has made *me* cry. She and Sir Rowland should come over and hang with me and Sir Ronin. Dear Ronin, who is nearly six and completely crazy with just about zip self-control. Especially at night while I am trying to sleep...
Posted by: Kate at March 24, 2008 05:38 AM (JIGe1)
LINK
The Girl sent me a link to the new issue of Stars and Stripes, marking the 5 year point in Iraq. I can't recommend enough that you go to the site and poke around.
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BABY BOOM
I've been checking Angie's website every day waiting for the news, and it's finally come. Baby Boy #4 was born. Camo teddy #4 needs to get finished asap so he can join his teddy tank crew.
LONG WALK
In college I did something called a Crop Walk, where we walked 20 miles to raise money for hunger. It sucked. I will never forget how badly my feet hurt after walking 20 miles.
These guys from Resolve to Win are walking from SC to DC to show support for the troops. Hot dog, that's a long walk. I hope their feet fare better than mine did!
If you're in the DC area, these walkers deserve a hearty welcome when they arrive.
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TABLE TENNIS CLUB
If you've read my 100 Things post, you know that I am one of the, oh, ten women in the United States who doesn't like the British accent. That said, I can't get enough of listening to Pat Condell, accent and all. Most of you have probably seen his youtube rant called The Trouble With Islam. His new video, Appeasing Islam, is good as well. And I just love the line "If only they'd had a table tennis club": perfect delivery.
AFW's GONNA LIKE THIS ONE
I was laughing out loud at Mark Steyn's article today. I'm copying a big chunk of it in case it disappears, because it is too good not to have archived:
As Ali Gallagher, a white female (sorry, this identity-politics labeling is contagious) from Texas, told the Washington Post: "A friend of mine, a black man, said to me, 'My ancestors came to this country in chains; I'm voting for Barack.' I told him, 'Well, my sisters came here in chains and on their periods; I'm voting for Hillary.'"
When everybody's a victim, nobody's a victim. Poor Ms. Gallagher can't appreciate the distinction between purely metaphorical chains and real ones, or even how offensive it might be to assume blithely that there's no difference whatsoever.
On the other hand, Barack's ancestors didn't come here in chains, either: His mother was a white Kansan, so was presumably undergoing menstrual hell with the Gallagher gals, and his dad was a black man a long way away in colonial Kenya. Indeed, Obama would be the first son of a British subject to serve as president since those slaveholding types elected in the early days of the republic. As some aggrieved black activist sniffed snootily on TV, Barack isn't really an "African American" – unless by "African American," you mean somebody whose parentage is half-American and half-African, and let's face it, no one would come up with so cockamamie a definition as that.
As for victims, you have to feel sorry for John Edwards. He was born in a mill. He weighed 1.6 pounds and what did his dad get? Another day older and deeper in debt. John spent most of the 19th century as a spindly 7-year-old sweep with rickets, cleaning chimneys in Dickensian London until Fagin spotted him and trained him up as a trial lawyer. And it worked swell in the 2004 primary but it counted for nothing this time round because, even with all that soot on his face, he's still a white boy.
Bill Richardson was the first Hispanic candidate but nobody needs a Hispanic called "Bill Richardson." Hillary assumed she'd be the last identity-politician standing in a field of bouffant poseurs like Joe Biden, only to discover that by the time she got to the final round the Democratic primary process had descended to near-parody – or, as The New York Times headline put it, a "Duel Of Historical Guilts."
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Oooh! Oooh! More from the "I'm a Victim" chorus!
GAH!
I once thought I was going to be murdered because after about an hour of hearing about how hard it was to be a descendant of slaves in a college class (and this was in my most liberal stage) I mentioned that my husband was a direct descendant of slaves, too.
Oh really!
Yes, his family were Russian serfs.
That really didn't go over too well, truth or not.
Posted by: airforcewife at March 10, 2008 12:37 PM (mIbWn)
COOL EXERCISE
I watched Casablanca recently and apparently had the same thoughts that Roger L. Simon did. I just scoffed that the movie could ever exist today, but he's (at least as an intellectual exercise) working on the script. It's a great post; thanks for the link, David.
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HE IS CALLING ME DUDE
My husband found this perfect video. This Cake song came out in 2001, but I swear it looks like it could've been written for the Obama movement.
POPPING IN
I've been busy hanging out with Heather and trying to distract her in the last few days before her husband returns, so I haven't been on the computer much.
EXACTLY
Lileks is right; let's not talk about the NIU killer. Let's not look for root causes and make excuses and find a way for this to make sense. Instead, click on Lileks' link to the victim's story.
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