Though I couldn't be at BlogHer, my heart was there. I'll be scouring the site and sites of others for info and details. For example, Beancounter learned that blogs should be, to gain and keep readership and focus, one of three genres.
Mighty and small loyal readers, sticking to one focus is not in my DNA so don't worry nothing will change here.
I am thinking of rescinding the daily post statute. You may not want to read the dictionary while "SueWorks." I actually have tons of things to say but I self-censor because politics, sex and the workplace in real terms are all verboten. If you haven't realized there is not much left after the workplace (even in unreal terms), sex and politics, except for a rant.
There are two undocumented people living in LA who recently had quadruplets after having a set of triplets about two years ago. The triplets came as the result of using illegally obtained fertility drugs (which is a whole other story.) The mother is or was nearing 40 and the father wanted to have a son before they got too old. Again, referring to a newspaper story, now there are four more mouths to feed and diapered bottoms to change. These four were not the product of drug intervention only a resistance to nauseating birth control. Haven't these people heard of condoms!?!
I could go on and on about how and why the system broke down but at the end there is a family living in similar conditions to what they faced in Mexico, according to the LA Times anyway. The article described the decisions of the mothers' siblings as related to child raising and creating a life in a foreign country. The siblings decided to think like members of the United States. They learned the language of the Constitution and raised their children, all 2.4 of them, to value education.
I hear people moaning now, the right wing Christians saying every sperm is sacred, every sperm is blessed. I hear the Minutemen loading their rifles. I hear Mahoney and the Catholic Church in LA opening its large lead doors. I hear women's rights groups, I hear the social liberals. I also hear the four new arrivals, the three toddlers and their already struggling three other brothers and sisters (oh, the father also has daughters from a previous relationships), all screaming for their denied opportunities. They will have school at taxpayers expense though it will be inadequate with 40 kids in a classroom. They will have medical care, again from the taxpayers, and it will most likely be inadequate as well. What I would like to give this family is the best sex education available to be combined with a decent K-12 education. Is this possible? I think it would cost only one US-provided Israeli bomb.
