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What happened to the good news?

January 30, 2009 - 8:49 am - by Roger Kimball
Whistle_Blower
2009-01-31 11:55:03

U-P-D-A-T-E
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I guess I’m not the only one who feels repelled by the “Octuplets” incident. (See my posting #1 above)

I quote from today’s update story whose title is:

GRANDMA: OCTUPLET’S MOM OBSESSED WITH HAVING KIDS

LOS ANGELES – The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through IN VITRO fertilization, *IS NOT MARRIED* and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, HER MOTHER said.

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“It can’t go on any longer,” she said in a phone interview Friday. “She’s got six children AND NO HUSBAND. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn’t want to get married.” (Awww gee, how noble of her. . .how individualistic)

To read the whole sordid story, go here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

I wonder who’s paying for all this mess?

I’ll tell you who: you and me via the State of California, is who – a state near bankruptcy, I might add. (and now you know why).

If I weren’t writing in a respectable public forum, my choice of words and my delivery, I assure you, would be quite different.