May 08, 2007

Oooh Paris Hilton has to go to jail for 45 days. Poor pitiful her. NOT. Hello the biznatch did the crime, she does the time. She goes to a hearing and her mother shows so much contempt for the process as if her name alone will get this spoiled brat off. Thank god it didn't and shame the shit out of her for even expecting her foolish daughter to get off for a crime she committed.

NOW we have a petition to Schwarzenegger to pardon her before she even steps foot in the jail. How frightened she is and how she didn't know that her license had been suspended. "Oooh I don't know what I'm doing. Oooh I didn't know my license was suspended. Oooh I never suspected I was punished the last few times I was drunk driving. Oooh I'm a celebrity, I deserve special treatment, I'm fragile. Oooh I can't live in a 4x4 cell, my skin will chafe."

Why the 20 days wait, throw her ass in there now. And if Arnold gives this biznatch a pardon he needs held down and pummelled. Sorry, Paris, that thing that you call fear should have served you better when you were even thinking about driving without your license, or driving under intoxication or whatever else there is. Hopefully your cash won't get you out of this because you definitely need to learn the lesson that you aren't the end all, be all of the world just because your family is rich. Suck it up and do your time.

And your parents need to consider paying for better nannies if they are going to be so distant from actually raising you with proper morals and a respect for authority and society. Maybe if they cast themselves on your sword to do your time I would consider a switcheroo... after all, they bear an obvious responsibility in your deficiencies. Heck... let them have the top bunk in there with you.

Posted by Ravennacht at 10:07 PM

November 06, 2006

Right to Life

Being a male, I place myself squarely within the realm of the Right to Choice camp in most measures concerning the abortion topic. I am not comfortable legislating what a woman will or won't do with their body AS I am male. I do not pretend to understand the emotions that are involved with the process of pregnancy, for I shall never carry a child (nor father one), though I do understand the biology of it. I do not agree with abortion personally, however, I do understand the necessity of it in some circumstances.

I choose not to view this topic in the vein of theological interest. I see the whole Right to Life movement as nothing more than a religious hypocrisy from top to bottom. Logic must come in somewhere.

I see Right to Life more as a Right to Birth. The movement is more interested in ensuring that all children, under all circumstances, are born. Peaked interest seems to lie only from the moment of conception to the second of birth and first breath... after that, the fervor of caring for this child that was such a vehement topic completely dies off.

Where is Right to Life when it comes to ensuring that unwanted pregnancy does not occur. Abstinancy is not a complete viable option. Yes it is favorable, but REALISTICALLY, how many young adults has it dissuaded from early sexual practices versus those that just do it anyway. You have to make a net of options, so that when one option fails, another takes its place. Where abstinancy fails, sex education must step in. Don't want a sexually transmitted disease or an unwanted pregnancy, use a condom, get on birth control, use other options. You aren't promoting sexual behavior by making sure your people know about sexual education, you are promoting safety, responsibility. Wake up.

Where is Right to Life after a child is born. Adoption laws in the United States are largely a bundle of snares and hurdles the likes of which are so disheartening that a good many couples try to go elsewhere to adopt children. Where is Right to Life when a gay couple tries to adopt a child into their family? How about cross-racial adoption roadblocks? A stable family is preferable to State wardship being shuttled from foster to foster. Yet again, other issues encroach upon the possible stable raising of a child. Why is there a stigma against adoption as an option, why must everyone HAVE a child of their own flesh and blood... because we are bombarded with it nonstop.

Where is the restructuring of the foster system to ensure that families stay together... that SIBLINGS stay together when moved out of a bad situation with their birth family... that fosters are correctly trained and motivated to do the right thing for their charges rather than just taking a State check every month. Where is the vehement and righteous indignation for the children then?

Why isn't there a federal sanctuary law for unwanted children (ie. baby's may be surrendered at a police station, fire station, hospital by a mother with no questions asked).

Where is Right to Life when so many children live in poverty without proper healthcare.

I do not condone abortion. I do however, dislike the zealous tunnel vision of religion constricting this topic down to such a seemingly 'easy' moral decision. This isn't about religion. Responsibility for life doesn't end at birth, it continues throughout the child's life. Should these parents be unable to provide for the child and the child enters the 'system', it is all of our responsibilities to ensure that the child is properly provided for and taught... not mangled in a system like a piece of meat until the age of majority.

Posted by Ravennacht at 01:28 PM

May 12, 2005

Trotwood Tantrum/Abduction Footage

I am not entirely certain how much coverage the recent "abduction" video from a Trotwood, Ohio, Cub Foods, got on the national scene, but it was pretty much all over our local news stations for a few days.

Tuesday, store cameras catch a 9 year old being bodily removed from a store and being placed into a car, clearly against his will.

http://www.whiotv.com/newsarchive/4475043/detail.html

We find later that the situation was a severe tantrum, where the mother and/or Aunt were attempting to extricate the child from the public place.

I have only seen bits and pieces of the footage, but I must say for a tantrum, the mother handled it pretty darn well. Short of roping and hog tying the kid, she lifted him kicking and screaming from the pavement and got him into the car after he scrabbled and pulled to keep from even being taken outta the store in the first place.

It definitely was reminiscent of some of my brother's younger days, where he would throw knock-down drag-out tantrums in stores.

I say shame on the people criticizing her for having to bodily remove her child from the store. Mind your own business and let the parent parent. Go Mom! Drag him by the feet if you have to.

Posted by Ravennacht at 12:57 PM