Sadly, I read in the news that Randy Pausch, the author of the ever popular and much viewed video on YouTube "The last Lecture" has died. We've discussed this video/lecture a couple times in the past here on the Coffee Blog - and I mistakingly read that he had passed away about 2 months ago - only to find out he was still alive - but this time it's in the national news that yes, he has passed on.




PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.


Pausch died at his home in Virginia, university spokeswoman Anne Watzman said. Pausch and his family moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's relatives.

Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the Internet.

In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death.

"The lecture was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful," Pausch wrote on his Web site. "But rest assured; I'm hardly unique."

The book "The Last Lecture," written with Jeffrey Zaslow, leaped to the top of the nonfiction best-seller lists after its publication in April and remains there this week. Pausch said he dictated the book to Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer, by cell phone. The book deal was reported to be worth more than $6 million.

Labels: News

No plastic bags in LA stores beginning July 2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles shoppers soon won't hear the question, "Paper or plastic?" at the checkout line.

The City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores beginning July 1, 2010.

Labels: Frugal, Happy Housewife, kids, News, politically correct, rambling, Useless information

About four years ago I got curious as to who got the honor of picking out the names of our countries hurricane's. I've always been interested in names and when I was younger always wished I could find a job naming orphaned babies at hospitals and children's homes. I could spend hours dreaming up whole families of names and filling papers with baby names, siblings names and entire generations.

Later when I was older I was going to be content to be a consultant for cities to come to me to name all their streets. No one ever did though - except for one developer whom I was speaking with while I was an Assistant Director at my old job... I suggested 'my' name for the next cul de sac in his new development as he stated he already used his daughters names as well as their family cats.

Anyway, I had wondered who gets to name the hurricane's, so I looked it up. We already know from the news that hurricanes are named alphabetically, so the first tropical storm or hurricane of the year has a name that begins with "A" and the second is given the name that begins with "B" and so on and so forth.

But we never have hurricane's that start with the letters "Q" or "U". That one surprised me as I thought I remembered an Umberto but I guess not.

Here was the interesting thing; There are six lists that continue to rotate. The lists only change when there is a hurricane that is so devastating, the name is retired and another name replaces it.

Aren't you glad you know this now?

For the record, Hurricane Dolly is making the news this afternoon (which is where this blog post stems from) and so, I give you a list of the current 2008 Hurricane Names:

Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred

Labels: News, Useless information

Tonight I was reading the news and when I saw the headline of one article I thought; "There must be more to this story!" but... there wasn't.

A man taking photographs of his own children going down a slide at the park was called a pervert, asked to stop and told he was probably taking pictures to post on the internet.

What nuts!








*The title is a quote from a novel by Dean Koontz that I use fairly often as it seems to come in handy in todays world.

Labels: News, ranting

This was from our local news; can you imagine hiring a house sitter while you are vacation only to come home to find they almost burned down your house!?





A house sitter was watching the home when the fire broke out.

Fire officials said the house sitter started the grill, went inside, and when they came back out the grill was in flames.

Three fire departments were called in to help.

The family's dog was safely rescued and no one was hurt.

Labels: News, What More Can Go Wrong

I was reading the entertainment news the other day and came across this question to "Dear Margo";


DEAR MARGO: Each night I lay awake wondering what I'm going to do down the road when my daughter starts questioning her parentage. While she's still young, not even 2 years old yet, I know this is going to come up eventually. She has a wonderful, caring, loving father figure who is planning to adopt her once we get married. My unease is that she will eventually figure out that he isn't her biological father. There is no father named on her birth certificate. I became pregnant by rape, though I never went so far as to press charges. I don't want to lie to my daughter about something as important as this. But on the other hand, I don't know how to explain the truth without her losing some part of herself in knowing that the man who helped create her did something that terrible. She is by far the most wonderful creature to ever come into my life. There is not a single regret in my mind. But I was young once, too, and I know that my rationale that it was all worth the pain may not go over with her. Is there a third option I'm not looking at? A suggestion? My fiance is open to support whatever decision I make.

--- ANXIOUS





What do you think?

I turned "halo" comments on so you can comment if you'd like.

I have a friend who went through this exact situation.

My friend was a strong Christian who was semi-sheltered, very naive and a little unsure of herself because she was overweight. She graduated college and got a job working at a church with children and was/is very friendly, outgoing, warm and just... wonderful. She was asked out on a date and in the end, suffered through date rape. She was a virgin and was too emotionally damaged to press charges at the time and just wanted it to go away. It didn't.

She found out she was pregnant.

Her boss (the pastor of the church) called her a liar, shunned her and made life so miserable she was forced to quit. She moved back home with her parents and had the baby. With their help she got through it.

About 10 years later she remarried a wonderful, wonderful man and they had another child together. How did she handle the situation with her oldest child? She's known from birth and all her life that her mother was date raped. It's never been a secret. My friend decided that there was no reason to be secretive about it. SHE did nothing wrong. HE DID. That baby grew up being adored by her mother and her Grandparents!

She is a very warm and wonderful, healthy and extremely happy 18 year girl with no qualms about the way she was conceived. She knows she has a mother and step-father who adore her and that her Mom was a warm and trusting person who was raped... but something wonderful came from it. She did.

Labels: Friends, News

Wow... I just read this in the news and I'm not quite sure how I feel about this! LOL. Crazy.






JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Guests at an Israeli wedding hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.

"It's new in Israel and the world," Aya Alon Kaufman of the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said on Israel's Channel 10 television. "It's very convenient ... guests can give a gift even if they forget their chequebooks."

She said couples pay 500 shekels ($155) to rent the device, which resembles an automated teller machine, and the recorded funds are transferred into their bank account the next day.

The machine, shown being used in the television report, prints out a "deposit" slip with the guest's name, which can be put into an envelope along with a congratulatory note and inserted into a slot in the device for the couple to retrieve.

Rather than bring boxed gifts, guests at Israeli weddings usually leave cash or cheques in envelopes they slip into a safe placed at the reception hall's door.

Labels: News

After I was married and moved to Southern California when I was 18 my parents wanted us to stay in touch with our old hometown and got a newspaper subscription for us. It only came out once a week (or was it every 2 weeks back then???) but I remember being so thankful for it as I was a teenager living 2000 miles from all my friends and family and this little piece of 'home' gave me a chance to see what was going on with my old neighbors and friends.

Our hometown had a population of just over 3,500 people so the news in our paper wasn't like a big cities. Odds were good that you knew every person in every article and the biggest draw is the social page to find out who hosted a ladies tea that week, who had their baby, who died and who got married.

After a year or two I stopped getting the hometown paper and cut most ties with our old stomping grounds as all my friends had gone off to college or had gotten married and moved away and little by little I didn't know the people in the articles anymore anyway.

A couple years ago our hometown started to put their local paper online. This opened up an opportunity for me to quickly check in, read the news and the obituaries and sometimes grab a glimpse of where my old classmates are today either as they've moved back to the area to raise their own families with the values and ethics that only small-town Midwest America can give, or to see a glimpse of their name listed with their current city/state in the obituary of a parent or grandparent.

Once in a while though something really interesting will be featured in our old hometown paper and last month... this was it.

A large tornado was in the area and one of the residents took this photo....


Isn't it amazing? I am always interested in weather related stories, photos and novels so seeing this tornado was just captivating to me. I'm also impressed that the lady that took it got that close (before hopefully going down into her basement....?). LOL.

We get some incredible storms here in the Midwest and sometimes, when we are lucky, we get some incredible pictures too.

Labels: News, Useless information

Even though I always wanted glasses as a child (I know... I'm weird, I wanted braces too...) I had good eyesight and never needed them. There was that time when I faked my eye exam to convince the doctor and my parents that I needed them but uh... that's a post for another day. LOL. I was blessed at the time with perfect vision so I never had to decide between glasses and contacts.

As time went by another choice entered the field. Lasik surgery.

I first heard about Lasik in 2001 when a friend of mine had it done. She was a busy Mom of four under the age of 12 and hated her glasses, hated the way the bridge of her nose ached and had a permanent indentation from the glasses and how they got in the way of doing fun activities like water skiing with her kids. She was telling me about the surgery she was going to have... and that was the very first time I heard the word Lasik.

So - for my readers today, let's pretend that you are as uninformed as I am and let's go over some basic LASIK information. First off, I was interested to read that scientific data shows 95.4% of Lasik patients worldwide are satisfied with their results. That's pretty good odds for an elected surgery.

What is Lasik? Today’s Lasik combines 3D mapping and treatment for the first all-laser technology. (The US Military & NASA have approved this combination on personnel including pilots and astronauts. It’s the pinnacle of LASIK technology.)

Is everyone a candidate? Nope. On average 20-25% of people are ineligible. Those with thin, irregularly shaped corneas or unrealistic expectations are not considered good candidates.

If you are considering this surgery, talk to people and ask for referrals to find a good physician. The best patients do their own research. The estimated 2 hour exam includes 3-D mapping, customized wave-front measurements of your eye and an examination of your corneas.

Will it hurt? A little. It's fast and nearly painless.

What about complications? Complications are less than 1%. These may include dry eye, halos & double vision that resolve over time or are managed by enhancements or therapy such as drops to replace the eye’s moisture.

There you go. Lasik in a nutshell.

Labels: News, PP, Useless information

*Rolling my eyes*

Remember when I blogged about seeing an article in "HEADLINE NEWS" on CNN that a 15 year old girl texted almost 15,000 and can... brace yourself... 'text without looking'? And how I couldn't believe that they wasted an interview, a photo of her and an entire article about it right next to the REAL headline news in the world like bombings in Iraq, political upsets in Washington, the price of gas and the stock market?

Well, if you don't remember that post, you know it all now anyway. Ha.

Ok- so the reason I rolled my eyes is that as a parent of teens I can tell you that they ALL can text without looking. My son used to text messages with his hand under his desk - complete conversations and sending it while he was talking to the teacher and answering a question at the same time.

And the number of texts per month? He averages between 14,000 - 15,000 right now and about 8,000 during the school year when he is in school most of the time and can't text as much. That's just life as a teen today. It's what they do.

Just for kicks I looked up a past bill for Coffeekid - and sure enough, this was May/June (when he was still in school and couldn't text as much) and he was at almost 14,000.



So... where is CNN? I've got a cute 15 year old teenaged boy they can put in their headline news. :)

Labels: News, rambling

Watching with frustration, irritation and interest.... it's like trying to reason with a petulant six year old brat with a loaded gun in his hand. There is no reasoning. God Bless President Bush and his aides for having to deal with crap like this. It's certainly not been an easy presidency.






TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired nine missiles on Wednesday and warned the United States and Israel it was ready to retaliate for any attack over its disputed nuclear projects.


Washington, which says Iran seeks atomic bombs, told Tehran to halt further tests. Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer, says its nuclear program is only for electricity.

Iran's missile tests rattled oil markets, helping crude prices to rebound about $2 a barrel after recent falls.

Speculation that Israel could bomb Iran has mounted since a big Israeli air drill last month. U.S. leaders have not ruled out military options if diplomacy fails to end the nuclear row.

Revolutionary Guards air force commander Hossein Salami said in televised comments that thousands of missiles were ready to be fired at "pre-determined targets." Missiles were shown soaring from desert launchpads, leaving long vapor trails.

"We warn the enemies who intend to threaten us with military exercises and empty psychological operations that our hand will always be on the trigger and our missiles will always be ready to launch," he said, according to ISNA news agency.

Labels: News

OMAHA, Neb. -- A boy caught lighting fireworks with a cigarette in Council Bluffs this weekend led to the arrest of his father.

Council Bluffs police said Lewis Coleman, 28, was charged with child endangerment.

Police said an officer saw the 8-year-old boy lighting fireworks with a cigarette and asked to talk to the boy's parents.

The boy brought Coleman out of the house, and Coleman told the officer he couldn't get a lighter to work for the boy, so he lit a cigarette for him, police said.

The child was released to his mother.





ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT???

Yes - even I (miss vanilla herself!) was lighting fireworks with cigarettes when I was 8 years old. Do you know how many matches me and my brothers and cousins used to go through? And we did use punks, but we never had enough for all 8 kids so the adults would light a cigarette for us and let us use those. I lit bottle rockets, fire crackers, smoke bombs, cherry bombs, etc. with them. Granted, you can't even light those kinds of fireworks here anymore... those are all illegal now.

Cigarettes stay lit better and longer than punks and matches. They are perfect for lighting everything from sparklers to snakes.

But guess what?

My kids - Mrs. Vanilla's kids... HAVE LIT their FIREWORKS WITH CIGARETTES before. AND I'm not even a smoker so there!

Goldarnit. Sometimes this country makes me wonder how in the heck we've gotten to where we are today. So much crime but daily I read news stories that just don't make sense. While he was arresting this Dad there was a woman being raped, a robbery going on, a car jacking, a house being broke into, drug deals going down.... but aren't we all safer now that this Dad has been arrested for letting his child use a cigarette?

Labels: kids, News, ranting, supermom

In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press, the publicist said: "Nicole and Keith Urban are delighted to announce that Nicole Kidman gave birth to a baby girl on Monday morning, July 7, 2008, in the United States. Sunday Rose Kidman Urban weighed 6 pounds, 7 1/2 ounces. Husband Keith was by Nicoles side and mother and baby are very well."


Sunday Rose.

Hmmm.

Kind of catchy.

I like it.

Labels: News

Things like this just make me so mad. WHY would you do this besides TRYING to make a political statement, TRYING to stir up problems and TRYING to get in everyones face?

If you are ASKED TO SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM of our OUR COUNTRY... then sing the dang national anthem! WHY in the heck would you CHOOSE TO SING ANOTHER SONG (and even worse... sing different lyrics to our National Anthem) unless you had a big old chip on your shoulder and were trying to make waves? Don't try to play stupid. You knew damn well what you were doing.

When we want to show our respect and honor our country we sing the National Anthem. This is what they asked you to do.

Sigh.

I hate stupid people.






DENVER (KWGN) — The State of the City address Tuesday started with all the traditional hallmarks of a civic function.

The Pledge of Allegiance, the presentation of the colors. And then Rene Marie was introduced to sing the national anthem.

Instead of the "Star-Spangled Banner,", the crowd heard "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," sometimes called the "Black National Anthem," first sung as a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday 108-years ago.

Marie sang the lyrics to the tune of the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Mayor John Hickenlooper says, at first, he was offended.

"We were as surprised as anyone and she didn't tell anyone, she made this decision with her husband, her musical mentor and decided just to do an artistic expression and she kind of wove the two songs together," he said.

Marie says she meant no disrespect and wasn't trying to make a political statement.

"I decided to sing my version. What was going on in my head was, I wanted to express how I feel about living in the United States as a black woman." She went on to say she "wouldn't change a thing" about the performance.

Hickenlooper said she did apologize for making the change.

But still, the choice set-off a firestorm of controversy and criticism. Councilman Charlie Brown said the address was "not an NAACP convention."

Nationally-syndicated conservative writer Michelle Malkin called it "racial separatism at an official government gathering."

That frustrates the mayor, because now the focus is on the song and not his vision for the city for the future.

"You know, in retrospect, as bad as my voice is, I probably should have sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' myself."

Labels: News, rambling, ranting

When this man accidentally dropped his cigarette lighter down a hole in a pavement he made the ill-advised decision to try and retrieve it – with his feet.

It was a choice he lived to regret. Having misjudged the diameter of the 18 inch hole, which workmen had dug to fix in a lamppost, he became wedged in it up to his armpits. A crowd of more than 100 people gathered around to watch as he struggled to wriggle free. Some tried to pull him out, but he was stuck fast.

The unidentified man was eventually rescued by firefighters, after being laughed at and photographed by morning shoppers in Swansea, south Wales, for more than two hours.

"The man said he'd gone in feet first to retrieve a lighter he'd dropped in the hole and got stuck.

"God knows how he even managed to squeeze in the hole because it was only 30 cm in diameter.

An ambulance was on standby, but the man was uninjured.

Labels: News

Obama spoke with Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination today. I would have loved to have been a little fly on the wall to hear what really was said since campaign insiders have said all along that the former president's rage was still so great that he supposedly told friends Obama could "kiss his ass" in return for his support. Also, that Clinton doesn't believe Obama can win the election.

I'm trying to keep all political talk off the blog and bite my tongue... I really am. But I just can't help but throw up a little every time Obama has to weasel his way out of something new. Do you realize how many people he has had to 'distance' himself from after the media picks up all the negativity surrounding this guy! "Uh, he's not my pastor anymore..." "Yeah, that guys not my friend anymore..." "Well, she didn't mean it that way..." "Oh, I fired him. He doesn't work for me anymore since he said that..."

Ok. Whatever. *Rolling my eyes*

Labels: News, Pathetic, politically correct, ranting, Useless information

I try not to get on the topic of breast cancer much because, we'll, I'm liable to get a little pissy about it and get on a soap box. Let's just say that if 1 in 8 men got penis cancer and *every man in America* was asked to get his penis checked yearly for that cancer AND the *only* way to check for that cancer was to smash his penis as flat as you could possibly get it between to sheets of glass... do you think they would have improved ways to check for that cancer in oh, about 2.8 seconds?

Uh-huh.

Yet women have had to endure the pain, discomfort and embarrassment of smashing our boobs for years. And the obscene amount of money raised for breast cancer research? Where is it going?! No really... WHERE the hell do these billions and billions of dollars go each year?

Uh... ok... see - I warned you. It's a topic for me, let me tell you!

Anyway, this pissy-ness I feel is partly why I haven't yet submitted myself to the torture of smashed boobs. Nope. Won't do it. Pisses me right off. The whole topic.

So imagine my happiness when I read todays news and saw that the MBI might replace traditional breast cancer screening! Woo-whoo! Looks promising. Check this out; The photo shows a traditional mammogram showing NOTHING, then look at the MBI on the right. SAME WOMAN and guess what? CANCER! Dude, this is huge.

And considering my Mother got breast cancer at age 51 when *no one* in our family history has ever had it... I'm excited for this.




These undated three-picture combo handout photos provided by the Mayo Clinic show the work of researchers trying to improve breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts, which mammograms don't penetrate well. The left image is a 50-year-old's digital mammogram, showing no problems. The right image is that same woman's MRI, showing what turned out to be an early cancer. In the middle, Mayo Clinic researchers found the same spot with experimental 'molecular breast imaging' that they hope will prove to be a cheaper, easier test than MRI.

Labels: Medicine Talk, News, ranting, venting

Last night when I returned home from mini hell the mall with my daughters, I read the news and saw that a 17 year old boy was decapitated at an amusement park. If you've missed this one, here is a little snippet;

".... The 17-year-old park visitor was killed after scaling two fences -- one of which was six feet tall -- around the Batman roller coaster, park spokeswoman Hela Sheth said in a statement.

The teen, who visiting the park with a church group from Springfield, South Carolina, was decapitated, she said."


Source here

You all know I have teenagers. I have a 17 year old daughter and an 'almost' 16 year old son. Would my daughter go into a restricted area to get a hat or even a cellphone or purse? Nope. She would have told a park employee (or two or three and demanded someone get her stuff) but she wouldn't have scaled two fences to do so.

My son.

Ah yes.

The male mind.

Would my son have done it?

Maybe.

When my children were younger I might have said 'no'. You see, I have awesome kids. I really do. They are typical teens, but we have a great relationship, we talk about pretty much everything, there is a trust thing there where not only do I love these kids more than my heart can hold, but I trust them and think they'll generally make excellent decisions.

But... the teenage male mind. Now that is something else.

If my son was with a friend or two and they lost their hats after a ride... I can't say that my smart, funny, intelligent and trustworthy kid wouldn't impulsively decide to jump a fence, scale a second, 6 foot fence, and then run into a restricted area. He just might. Especially if he is with his friends, laughing, talking, having fun and not stopping to really think about what he's doing.

Because teenagers make bad choices.

They are impulsive. They live for the moment and rarely look ahead to the consequences of their decisions. They don't have an adult mind, they don't have a lifetime of experience behind them.



In the end, this story made my stomach flip flop, and of course I immediately thought of my son, his friends, my daughters 17 year old boyfriend and our 17 year old neighbors. While my heart goes out to the family and the church group they were with, I do hope that people remember it's not the parks fault. Signs and 2 fences were in place and obviously are enough security... but we are humans. Imperfect humans that sometimes make bad mistakes.

And in the end... yes I told my kids about this story as one of my *many* examples of "a learning experience" (!). I tend to point out many of those to them. Let's just hope some of them stick.




Here is a little bit more information updated;


A 17-year-old park visitor was struck and killed by roller coaster when the teenager jumped over a fence labeled danger zone, said Hela Sheth, a spokeswoman for the park. .

The victim has been identified as 17-year-old Asia Leeshawn Ferguson of Springfield, South Carolina. Ferguson was part of a group visiting the park on an annual trip from Oakey Springs Baptist Church in Springfield, authorities said.

“We do not know why this person was intent on gaining access to this restricted area, Sheth said in a written statement. Multiple signs clearly state ‘Do Not Enter’ and ‘Authorized Personnel Only’," said Sheth.

Some witnesses have stated that the teen was trying to retrieve a hat. Others reported that he was trying to touch the ride.

"This is merely speculation at this point, and we are working with park visitors and local police to learn more," said Sheth.

An off-duty police officer from nearby Marietta witnessed the accident and summoned help, said Six Flags officials in a statement. Park security and Cobb County emergency personnel arrived quickly, and the medical examiner confirmed that the victim was killed on impact, the statement said.

Labels: News

You know, everyone makes such a fuss over the Duggar family with (currently) 18 children. Years ago this was more common (my Dad went to school with a buddy of his that was one of 21 kids) and I myself am best friends with a woman who is the youngest of 10 and another classmate of ours was in the middle of 14 kids.

Just to continue on that little trend even today - I'm friends with 3 women that have 7 children and 1 that has 8 (so far and counting!). It's not so rare, but I suppose the media wants us to believe it is. Just for the heck of it I did a very quick (2 second) search of families with 17 kids and brought up a couple in mere seconds;




Rancho Cordova, California: When Vladimir and Zinaida Chernenko were newlyweds in Ukraine, they spent six months trying to get pregnant and feared they never would; now they have 17 biological children.

Having emigrated eight years ago to escape religious persecution, the family now spends evenings after homework singing Christian songs in Russian. Neither Vladimir nor Zinaida speaks English.






There is a little house on a hill in Lake City that houses the Murphy family.

The family is made up of a mother, Jeannette, and a father, John, four biological children and 17 adopted special needs children.

Three of the biological children no longer live at home, but everyone else lives together. The house is small, and there are four children for every bedroom. But it is a home -- a cramped home, but a home none the less.

"It's crowded, but it's filled with lots of love," said Angel Murphy, one of the adopted children.

The tight living space for the large family began to attract the attention of other people in the area, and in 1993, a lawyer named Don Keenan decided to help. A year and a half ago, Keenan and his children's foundation took up the task of raising $300,000 to build a new home for the Murphys, and they accomplished that goal in January.

A new home -- in McDonough -- is now being built for the family as a result of the Keenan Kids Foundation's efforts. The family broke ground for the new house on June 19.






I love big families. LOVE them. I say if you can afford it, have them. The ones I would say "Close your uterus" to would be those with multiple 'baby daddies' ( 11 kids by 6 different men!), those who rely on the government to pay their housing, food, health insurance and schooling and those that are here illegally and come with the sole intention to give birth here for the government help their child will then get.

When I see the Duggars videos (I know they were on tv but I don't watch tv so I watch their videos online) I just smile.
:)

Labels: Baby Fever, News, rambling, Useless information

A Massachusetts politician and defense attorney has touched off a firestorm with his shocking public vow to torment and "rip apart" child rape victims who take the witness stand if the state legislature passed stiff mandatory sentences for child sex offenders.

Rep. James Fagan, a Democrat, made the comments during debate last month on the state House floor.

"I'm gonna rip them apart," Fagan said of young victims during his testimony on the bill. "I'm going to make sure that the rest of their life is ruined, that when they’re 8 years old, they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.”

Fagan said as a defense attorney it would be his duty to do that in order to keep his clients free from a "mandatory sentence of those draconian proportions."






Hmmm... I wonder;

What would he think if a 250 lb. Bubba trapped his skinny little butt in a corner or on the floor and 'had his way with him' using not only the gifts God gave blessed males with but perhaps a few other things in the general vicinity, including household items. Just to make it a little more real let's make sure he rips like a piece of a paper when something 10 times his opening is inserted.

Once he has been in a position of a child... let's see if he would still feel the same way about it.

What an arse.

Labels: News