Open Letters

Just when you think....

....you've heard it all, then you hear something like "Black Dog Syndrome"

"The conjecture that black dogs (and cats) are less likely to be adopted from rescue shelters than animals of other colors"

Are you kidding me? Who would say no to a cutie pie like this?

Read story here

Not Pussified

That’s right “Not Pussified” That’s the name of the music video that the Heene's (I am lumping Papa & Mama Heene together) made with their three sons. As I watched that silly video, and I am hard press to believe that this family did not pull off the biggest national hoax ever for the sake of fame. Music video,being on a reality show and now desperately shopping for another one, it’s clear that they love the spotlight.  At first I thought “No this couldn’t be a hoax! Who in their right mind would pull something like that?” I was certain that it was a mistake, now the tangled web is unweaving before our very eyes.

 

Today Gawker has published  a paid interview  with Robert Thomas, who has worked with the Heene's,doing a variety of stuff, from science experiments, to pitching their reality show, to handing out flyers, even babysitting their kids.   He mentioned that it would be difficult for an adult to get into the crawl space of Heene's attic, but a small child could, with the assistance of an adult. Therefore this Falcon could not have gone up there himself! This interview cast Richard Heene as eccentric and that’s ok with me. But I do have a problem when we are forcibly subjected to it through the media. Fortunately I caught the media blitz at the very end with MSNBC Tamron Hall breathlessly telling us that the balloon was less that 500 feet and would hit the ground shortly at which point the camera view who be cut off for viewing audience. What a waste of time and money. Right now they are estimating that the cost of helicopters, emergency officials and shutting down an International airport is around $2m.

 

Go ahead Colorado charge these fools and let them reimburse this money. Am I happy that there was no boy in this balloon? Yes! Am I happy he was only hiding? Yes! But, I am so over these attention seekers who have nothing to offer mankind. From Paris Hilton, Heidi and Spencer, and the John and Kate  et al. Give us a frigging break!

Well Deserved

President Barack Hussein Obama has been awarded the 2009  Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations to him and its well deserved. Can't wait to hear what his haters have to say about this--- you know the ones who have been encouraging the weaker minds to buy guns because there is going to be a revolution. Yes, the same bloviaters who have hijacked the airwaves both the radio and television, stoking the ignorant among us to scream "I want my country back!" The minions who wave offensively racist posters of him as a monkey or other nasty caricatures.

Yes what do you have to say for yourselves today?

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

Read the reset of the story here

The Forgotten Continent

Is the world paying attention to what's happening in Guinea, Africa? 

"They were raping women publicly," opposition activist Mouctar Diallon said in an interview with French radio station RFI, adding that he had witnessed soldiers raping women with rifle butts during Monday's protests."

The Guinean Organization for Defense of Human Rights has reported over 157 people killed and more than 1,200 wounded. There has been no intervention to quell this uprising from the European Union or the USA, and France has suspended all military ties with Guinea. Why are these African countries forgotten? Recent history has shown the horrors of many wars throughout various African countries and it seems as if the world has once again turned a blind eye to what's going on. Rwanda's massacre wasn't long ago, regardless of the news report, Congo is far from stable and oh and let us not forget Darfur. 

Captain Moussa  Dadis Camara an army captain, seized power after the death of Guinea's long time leader  Lasana Conte last December, he promised democracy but has shown erratic behavior and very little power since. Announcing recently, that he intends to run for President has created these riots. He has little or no control over his military stating that " .....it's difficult to control soldiers when there was tension in the country"

Camara dude, you are the military and don't tell me that a woman who attends a protest ends up with a rifle in her vagina! Doesn't  this scream inhumane and outrageous to you? And I am left to believe that leaders within EU think this is ok too.

"The military is going into districts, looting goods and raping women," Mamadi Kaba, the head of the Guinean branch of the African Encounter for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO), told AFP......A doctor at a government hospital in Conakry said his wards looked like "a butchery"."

PEOPLE WE HAVE ANOTHER NEGLECTED AFRICAN COUNTRY ON OUR HANDS AND THIS WILL LATER CAUSE US EMBARRASSMENT AS THEY ALWAYS DO!

Read story here

Intergender Awareness

The moment the story aired about Caster Semenya, the South African athlete, I knew this was going to be an unfortunate mess for all involved. Let me just state, that I am amazed and disappointed at the IAAF, and the way they  humiliated Caster by publicly announcing their intentions of performing a gender test on her. Didn’t it occur to someone (anyone in that damn group) what these test meant and how the results could be emotionally devastating to the individual and her family?  How dumb could they be to subject someone to such public scrutiny?

 

I am almost certain that even though Caster exhibited masculine features they were no doubts in her and her family’s mind that she was indeed a female; after all she had female parts. Now that some results  are in, it turns out that she has internal testes and no ovaries, imagine the emotional confusion that she may be facing. How could they be so damn sensitive?

 

This isn’t uncommon as we would like to believe, we have all heard of hermaphrodites (the more PC term now is intersexuals or intergender depending on their medical complexity), it’s not a myth and there is nothing freakish about it; because it does happen!

 

A few years ago I joined a Mommy and Me class and befriended a wonderful woman. I knew that she had reproductive issues and her child was born to a surrogate. During one conversation she told me  both she and her husband went through a series of reproductive test only to find out that she had no ovaries (even though she produced eggs) and had abnormally high level of testosterone. She explained that she has never had a period and remembered being told by a doctor as teenager that she never  would. No one really explained it to her and she figured back then that "no menstruation " is OK with her, she was just as happy not to deal with this monthly issue. After finding out that she had eggs, they decided to harvest,  inseminate and use a surrogate to start a family. She told me about her emotional state during the process and what it meant and how she felt for 38 years prior to her daughter. I was so ecstatic at her happy ending story that I never gave it a second thought; until  Semenya story broke.  I remembered my friend’s story and was immediately outraged at how it was being handled. They made such a big deal out of it.

I am sure many fertility doctors can confirm that they deal with this as a reproductive issue more  than the IAAF would like us  to believe its a gender issue. Its  not until some women experience difficulty conceiving , that they find out about either chromosome issues or intergender issues. Without the voyeuristic eyes, an intersexual lives a regular life being who they want to be. Now Semenya has to deal with  a private issue under public scrutiny in addition to sorting out her feelings.  I only hope the best for her and may this bring the awareness to a condition that’s really not that uncommon.