Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman Received Over $165,000 In Disability.

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O.K. ...O.K. ...

I've held my tongue long enough on this one...

Excuse me for just a moment...

<............!!!!!> - That's the sound of me screaming in absolute horror and utter disbelief.

When I first heard about someone producing Octuplets recently, I was under the mistaken impression that there was a 'happy couple' involved. There isn't. (Nadya Suleman is single and lives with her parents.)

Not that that's absolutely necessary. But, that's not all.

Then, I heard that this Real Life "Octopussy" already has Six small children at home.
Well, they're not at Her Home. They're at her mother's/parent's home. But wait, there's more...

She's also unemployed.

No big deal - so am I...

But - being a sensible, responsible and somewhat sane individual -
I'm Not living with my folks... and I'm certainly NOT spending my time intentionally giving birth to litter after litter of offspring.

Then, it comes out that one of the six at home is Autistic...

... Hold on a minute...

I have a dog. (Just follow along for a moment) I LOVE my dog. I've only learned since taking her in - that being a responsible, caring and worthy dog-owner requires much patience, time, energy, love, planning and... money - to keep her happy and healthy (which she is) and me sane (which I... er)... well, at least a close facsimile.

I bring this up because raising One Child requires all of the same things and Much More.
If you then add several more children, the needs grow exponentially.
Now, imagine that one of the children is a special needs child.

O.K.... I believe that - at this point - an intelligent and sane person would reasonably think, "O.K. My plate is full.
If I add any more to it, things will start to slide and end up on the floor... Kerr-SPLAT!"

Then, I heard that she used invitro-fertilization - in spite of the donor asking her not to use any more of his sperm. Nice.

Then, I heard that her IVF-provider was claiming that only four embryos were implanted... and the four must have all split... As if implanting four made any sense for someone in her position with six kids at (her parent's) home?
Now, the State Medical Board is investigating the M.D., because (now) the number of embryos implanted was six - which is above and beyond the recommended two.

It's recently been revealed that the irresponsible and perhaps mentally ill Mother Hubbard had recieved Over $165,000 in Disability payments between 2002 and 2008 for a "back injury" recieved on-the-job at her former employer...

Which happens to be... Get this... (Somehow, I'm not the least bit surprised)...

A State Mental Hospital!

But, wait... There's more...

Apparently, records show that, although she is listed as starting work there in 1997, most of the time, "... she was unable to work."

Wow!! Someone call Ripley's!

This woman has undergone a Miraculous Recovery!!

She went from (allegedly) being Completely Disabled and Unable To Work and receiving a sizeable Disability payout...
To... Being Healthy and More than Able To Physically Carry To Viability and Birth 14 Children!

How does a 'physically incapacitated' woman whose injury makes it impossible for her to hold any kind of job, suddenly find herself capable of this incredibly physical feat?

Jeez... If her back hurt in 2002... surely she's immobilized by pain now... No, she did that interview sitting upright.

In that first interview, Nadya said (about her most recent IVF implantation), "Yes... I knew what I wanted. I wanted to have kids.".
.... Umm...Hello?...
Nadya?... You already do "have kids"... SIX of them... back at your folks house... Remember?

IMHO, what she's doing is thoroughly reckless, incredibly irresposible, singularly selfish and - for the religious-leaning - Sinful.

(And, I'm not even remarking on the indications that she committed a $165,000 Fraud by collecting disability when she obviously isn't disabled. I'm more concerned about our planet and it's resources.)

If you've studied enough history and biology, you might've learned that civilizations and species who became too numerous for the resources available to support - died out and disappeared.

Hello?
People of Earth?
You are not Excluded from this Possible Fate.

Trust Me: The Earth Can Survive Us.
But, We Can't Survive without The Earth.

I recently heard that someone in Great Britain has proposed a 2-child limit for couples.
I say, "BRAVO!"

But, based upon the initial negative response from people, I may be 'outnumbered', so to speak.

<.....!> - (That's the sound of Indignant and Ignorant Shite hitting the Fan.)

I happened to catch the women of ABC's "The View" discussing this enlightened 'Two-In-Two-Out' proposal.

One of them remarked that to impose a child limit is "...Un-Constitutional".

No, it is not.

I think one said that such a limit "... goes against Democracy.".

No, it does not.

In A Not-So-Intelligent Design Flaw... Of Great Detriment to Humanity...

Anyone With Working Parts Can Reproduce.

That's All It Takes. Period.

Not Any Other Skills or Abilities are Required.

No Basic Intelligence nor Emotional Intelligence Is Necessary.
No Psychiactric Exam.

No one checks for any issues with Abuse/Being Abused or any Improper Behavior With Children.

Shite!

We are Required to pass both a written and an actual get-in-the-driver's-seat-and-drive test before we are allowed to obtain a Driver's License.

But, as for obtaining living, breathing, helpless Children...?

Gabba Gabba Hey!... Anything Goes!

... And, boy, does it SUCK.

We don't hesitate to control the populations of other life forms when someone decides: "Well, there's just too many of them.".
But...
If anyone dares to suggest that we Voluntarily Control Our Own Number... People suddenly turn Indignantly Apoplectic

Like I said: Detrimental.

Personally, I have known since earliest memory that I never want to have children.

I've only become more sure of my choice to remain...

Not "Childless"...

But, Ecstatically CHILD-FREE!

And, if I ever changed my mind (not likely) I would adopt a child.

Peace.
L


(From: seattletimes.nwsource.com/.)

Octuplet Mom Got More Than $165K In Disability

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES —

A California agency says it paid the mother of newborn octuplets more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job back injury. The payments made over six years to Nadya Suleman were disclosed Thursday to The Associated Press following a public records request to the Department of Mental Health. The payments were made between 2002 and 2008, during which time the single mother gave birth to most of her six other children.

Suleman, who gave birth to the octuplets last week, was employed at a state mental health hospital from 1997 until December, when she resigned the position. Records show that for much of that time, however, she was unable to work.

Scientists Say Massive Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Man-Made

AP Photo/Geo-Sat Image
Zipingpu Dam

I know what you're thinking... "Man-Made Earthquakes"?...

Yeah... Sure...

... Probably man-ufactured by the illuminati... or some other not-so-secret, evildoing darling of conspiracy theorists...

Right.

But, wait...

It's True.

The "Man-Made Earthquake"-part... Not the "Illuminati"-part.

Scientists in both China and the U.S. are saying that last May's massive 7.9 Sichuan earthquake - which left 80,000 people dead (and, if you think 80,000 is a tough number to get your head around, try this one:) and five million people homeless (Yes, I checked it. It's really 5 Million.) - was likely caused by the massive Zipingpu dam. The dam - which is 511 ft.high and holds back 315 million tons of water - is 550 yds. from the quake's faultline and 3 mi. from the epicenter.

And... Believe it or not...

There's a documented history linking dam-building and dams with increased seismic activity that even includes the Hoover Dam in Colorado.

Whew! What a relief!

At least it wasn't those Dastardly illuminati!

Peace.
L.

Oh yeah...
In a related story...
Did You Know... Teacher Liu Shaokun was detained and sentenced to one year in a labor camp for posting photos of collapsed schools in Sichuan online. He's believed to be the third person detained for doing so.

Apparently, at least in the eyes of Chinese authorities, pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is considered a more heinous crime than using crap materials and shoddy workmanship to build hundreds of unsafe and deadly schools.

But, that's another blog...

(From: telegraph.co.uk/.)

Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Man-Made, Say Scientists

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Last Updated: 12:06AM GMT 03 Feb 2009

The 511ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line, and three miles from the epicentre, of the Sichuan earthquake.

Now scientists in China and the United States believe the weight of water, and the effect of it penetrating into the rock, could have affected the pressure on the fault line underneath, possibly unleashing a chain of ruptures that led to the quake.

Fan Xiao, the chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau in Chengdu, said it was "very likely" that the construction and filling of the reservoir in 2004 had led to the disaster.

"There have been many cases in which a water reservoir has triggered an earthquake," said Mr Fan. "This earthquake was very unusual for this area.

There have been no seismic activities greater than a magnitude seven quake along this particular seismic belt before."

The 7.9 magnitude quake struck last May and left more than five million people homeless. It remains a raw and emotional topic for most Chinese, and the government has been quick to quash any suggestion that Zipingpu may have been responsible for the catastrophe. Researchers have been denied access to seismological and geological data to examine the earthquake further.

Zipingpu is only one of nearly 400 hydroelectric dams in the earthquake zone. Mr Fan said the government had been warned of the danger of building so many large-scale projects in a seismically active area, but that the warnings had gone unheeded.

"I not only opposed the construction of Zipingpu, but also the overdevelopment of the reservoirs on Minjiang River. There are ten major reservoirs on the main river, 29 on its tributaries and a lot more smaller-scale reservoirs, all of which block the flow of the entire river, and are very hazardous to the local geology," he said.

Although Sichuan is an earthquake-prone region, many scientists were caught by surprise by the magnitude of the quake. Christian Klose, a scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said there had not been any "major seismic activity" on that fault line for millions of years.

He argued that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have simultaneously relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and also increased the direct pressure enough to cause a violent rupture. The effect was "25 times more" than a year's worth of natural stress from tectonic movement, he said.

Although the official government line is that its massive construction projects had nothing to do with the quake, some state researchers in Beijing have called for a full investigation. Lei Xinglin, of the China Earthquake Administration, said that the Zipingpu reservoir "clearly affected the local seismicity and it is worthwhile to study the role it played in triggering the earthquake further". He added that firm conclusions remain "premature" however.

There is a history of earthquakes triggered by dams, including several caused by the construction of the Hoover dam in the US, but none of such a magnitude.