song du jour: Three Babies (Sinead O’Connor)

Each of these
My three babies
I will carry with me
For myself
I ask no one else will be
Mother to these three
And of course
I’m like a wild horse
But there’s no other way I could be
Water and feed
Are not tools that I need
For the thing that I’ve chosen to be
    
In my soul
My blood and my bones
I have wrapped your cold bodies around me
The face on you
The smell of you
Will always be with me
    
Each of these
My three babies
I was not willing to leave
Though I tried
I blasphemed and denied
I know they will be returned to me
Each of these
My babies
Have brought you closer to me
No longer mad like a horse
I’m still wild but not lost
From the thing that I’ve chosen to be
    
And it’s `cause you’ve thrilled me
Silenced me
Stilled me
Proved things I never believed
The face on you
The smell of you
Will always be with me

Each of these
My three babies
I will carry with me
For myself
I ask no one else will be
Mother to these three

Single Mother Of Six Gets Implanted With 8 Embryos And Gives Birth To Octuplets… WTF?

Let me lay it out again… Single mother…  No husband, no boyfriend, no… no nothing.  Not a job, not even her own home.  She lives with her parents.  With all 14 of her children.                  

She’s 33 years old.  She already has 6 children ranging in age from 2 to 7 years old–including 2 year old twins.  This means she is having at least one child per year. 

She’s apparently unemployed.  And living with her parents–who filed for bankruptcy in March 2008.

I’m so blown away I can’t stop shaking my head.

First, there are only 24 hours in a day.  With 14 kids, even if you NEVER slept, that would be a whopping 1.7 hours of undivided attention per child.

Let’s not even talk about breasts or arms or anything like that needed to care for a child, because most of us only have two of those.  14 children, 2 arms, 24 hours per day, zero income…  you do the math.

And what about the “doctor” that implanted the 8 embryos in a 33 year old unemployed woman, living with her bankrupt parents, that already has six small children?????

Besides the 14 children, who is going to pay for all this?  Doesn’t this just seem so, so wrong on so many levels?

photo du jour: Barack Hussien Obama’s Hand On The Bible On January 20, 2009

photo: Obama gets sworn in (again…. correctly…)

Another (Better) Satellite Shot Of Inauguration Crowds

Satellite Photo of Inauguration Crowds

photo: W leaves DC in a helicopter on Inauguration Day

song du jour: December (Collective Soul)

Why drink the water
from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards
your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don’t scream about
Don’t think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don’t worry about
Don’t speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am.
Don’t throw away your basic needs,
Ambiance and vanity.

Don’t scream about
Don’t think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don’t worry about
Don’t speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing

Don’t scream about
Don’t think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don’t worry about
Don’t speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Oakland Police Chief, Wayne Tucker, Resigns

If you follow my blog at all, or even if you have eyes that see and ears that hear, you know that the City of Oakland, CA has been getting a LOT of press lately and it’s pretty much to gone to hell in handbag.  Apparently there has been a lot of infighting, which (in part) has resulted in inadequate policing.

“I don’t want to be here with this council. I don’t have any faith in this council,” Tucker said as several members of his command staff and acting City Administrator Dan Lindheim looked on. “I doubt their sincerity in seeing that reforms are done.”

Tucker previously served as assistant Alameda County sheriff and was a 38-year veteran of the sheriff’s office before former Mayor Jerry Brown appointed him Oakland’s top cop in February 2005.

Read the whole story here.

Who on Earth would want to be the Chief of Police for Oakland, CA?

Who would even want to be on the Police Force there?

sond du jour: Can’t Let Go

And now…  The Theme Song For God, I mean Rod, Blagojevich

Told you baby one more time
Don’t make me sit all alone and cry
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

I’m like a fish out of water
A cat in a tree

You don’t even want to talk to me
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

He won’t take me back when I come around

Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m goin’ down like a train wreck
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

See I got a candle and it burns so bright

In my window every night
Well it’s over I know but I can’t let go

 

You don’t like to see me standing around

Feel like I been shot and didn’t fall down
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

He won’t take me back when I come around

Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m goin’ down like a train wreck

Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

 

Turn off trouble like you turn off a light

Went off and left me it just ain’t right
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

Rounds every corner something I see

Bring me right back how it used to be
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

He won’t take me back when I come around

Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m goin’ down like a train wreck
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

 

He won’t take me back when I come around

Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m goin’ down like a train wreck

Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go

Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go
Well it’s over I know it, but I can’t let go