Weather Malfunctions!

I have a serious problem! Well, not serious really. There are worse things!

I have no clue how to dress with the weather in Chicago. I don't listen or watch anything about the weather and I am getting shafted because of it. When I didn't work in Chicago, it didn't matter what I wore because I lived like 6 blocks away and it just wasn't a big deal. Now, that I work in Chicago it is something I should probably start thinking about.

Today, for example, I wore a skirt...it is windy, like tornado windy...and I am giving peep shows every 45 seconds! The other day it was raining and I wore a white shirt so it was more like a wet t-shirt contest than professional dress! I wear all black on days that are 90 degrees and climbing. Then the next day I wear a sleeveless shirt and it's like 40 degrees out. I never have an umbrella, a jacket or a sweater. I refuse to pack extra clothes, just in case...or to even wear a jacket if it's not necessity (I hate coats and jackets). I don't think that watching or listening to the weather is going to help either, because they are dead wrong most days.

So, how is it that I am the only one in Chicago who is never prepared for the weather? Does everyone else have some sort of weather radar that tells them what to wear and bring each day?

Boner Issues!

Christopher Woods has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized. He bought the beverage, drank it and then the next morning he woke up "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment that day for the condition, called priapism. He underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another. Woods later had problems that required a hospital visit and penile artery embolization, a way of closing blood vessels.

Does anyone else find if hilarious that his last name is Woods??? Oh, I am dying here, really that is funny shit! If he drank the beverage at night and then woke up with a woody (he he he) how are they sure that it is from the Boost Plus? I would love love love to be a juror in that case, although I would probably be held in contempt of court because of my uncontrolled laughter roaring through the court room!

Less Dog Shit On My Shoes!

A German police boat (top) runs over Greenpeace activists (bottom) in their inflatable boat offshore the G-8 summit. The activists tried to enter the security zone...dumb fuckers. I abhor Greenpeace and this just made my day...actually helped to scrap some of the shit off my shoes!

I Stepped In Dog Shit!

My mood lately as been very much like stepping in dog shit. I would not consider myself "depressed", but rather just the feeling you get when you step in a heaping, steamy pile of dog dung! Like nothing is going right, but nothing is really going wrong either, but you still can't avoid that pile. It's a funk that I can't seem to get out from under lately, and I can't exactly pinpoint the cause(s) because there really isn't anything causing it. I don't know how to explain it, but I am sick of stepping in dog shit and having the lingering smell follow me everywhere.

So now that I got that off my chest, let's move on with other randomness!

I am really super excited for tomorrow night! The girls (Sarah/Ashley/Jeanette) and I are going to 10 Pin a super fun bowling, eating, drinking place. Your table is right on the lane so you can eat and drink while bowling. It kind of makes bowling not so white trash.

In Barcelona's Ramblas area, members of the Anima Naturalis movement lie in mock coffins to protest the torture and death of bulls at bullfights. Why are they laying there in their underpants??? Does that help save the bulls or does it just draw more perverts to their cause???

Just a cool peaceful picture of fish!

Paris Hilton was released from jail early today because of an unspecified medical problem and will fulfill the remainder of her sentence for probation violation in home confinement with an ankle bracelet. I wonder what her "medical" condition was??? Any guesses? I bet she was sick of not being able to do what she wanted!This tree in Rosemont, Illinois is causing a stir, it is said that the pattern in the bark resembles the late mayor Don Stephens. Ok, I don't see shit...I guess it would help if I new who Don Stephens was and what he looked like!

My New Mission!

Here's a disturbing piece of news...Police are looking for the guardians/parents of a toddler left in a stroller outside a convenience store. The boy, about 1½ years old was found by Ali Hamdan, the store's manager, who said he saw a woman talking on a cell phone and standing next to a stroller on the sidewalk outside the store. He said he heard her say, "If you don't come, I'll leave." When he looked again, the woman was gone, and the boy sat alone. Hamdan wheeled the boy inside, where Hamdan washed out the boy's empty bottle and gave him juice and cheese and crackers. When 20 minutes had passed with no sign of the boy's caretaker, Hamdan called police. Hamdan said the boy didn't cry inside the store, and seemed happy to drink the juice. "I'm the grandfather of 13, and I want that baby's mother to come back," Hamdan said. "He needs love, he needs to be in his mom's arms."

In my opinion that child will NOT be better off in his mother's arms, but with an adoptive family that would love him and not leave in at a convenience store! That poor boy was happy to drink the juice because he probably gets feed root beer and rib tips every day! How can a person leave a baby like that? It makes me sick, angry and sad!

I think I need to stop reading the paper, because all it does is make me angry and upset about people and the shit that goes on. It just makes me want to make it my personal responsibility/mission to torture and kill these pathetic wastes of flesh....kind of like a movie character...I could be the angel of death...or I could be the "Deliverer Of Hell to Fucktards Everywhere!" Can anyone think of any other names for my new profession...I will have my spandex suit made shortly! I am also recruiting a side-kick...anyone interested???

What Happened Here?

Daryl Hannah shows her hand covered with oil in Ecuador's oil region in the Amazon. She visited Ecuador's oil region where locals are demanding oil company Chevron Texaco pay for damages they claim have been caused to the environment. Wow, is that really a chick? Wasn't she considered to be like super hot a few years back???

Oh, Paula...first you do a TV broadcast drunk, now your deformed boobs are hanging out...what's next??? Eating your boogers while judging the "talent" on American Idol?
Demonstrators break through a fence in a field to get near the venue of the Group of Eight economic summit in Germany. Aren't they a scary group...if I was part of the military that is protecting the G8, I would be shitting my pants right now! Are they actually proud of themselves for knocking down some poor farmers flimsy gate???

Throw Down!

I read this Article and this Article and it pissed me off beyond belief, not the article, the situation. I am glad that finally some schools are doing something to control ignorance at graduations.

I experienced this 1st hand at both of my sisters 8th grade graduations. I live in a very diverse community so you can find just about every possible race imaginable around our area. I am not a racist, but sure, I have prejudices just like everyone else (don't lie and say you don't). At both graduations, during the roll call of graduates, there was obnoxious outbursts, whooping, hooting and hollering when a certain child's name was said. Now, before they begin announcing the graduates, the announcer tells you specifically to hold your applause to the end so that EVERY name can be heard! I find it so fucking ignorant to not only show complete disrespect to other graduates and their families by whooping loudly so that others names can't be heard, but to not even listen to the speakers directions. How fucking obnoxious! I was so angry during both of my sisters graduations and it kind of ruined a very special moment.

This one school "made students and parents sign a contract promising they would remain silent or the students wouldn't receive their diplomas." Seriously, you should NEVER have to sign a contract spelling that out and the fact that this has been established is a pathetic show of the ignorance in our society. I am pissed off at the fact that people are saying that, "it is more about race than etiquette." Shut the fuck up and put your race card back in your fucking pocket! You cannot eliminate the fact that the primary race that is this obnoxious at graduations is black! This statement is a generalization and of course other races participate in this ignorant behavior, but you cannot hide the fact of majority rules.

So all of a sudden it is racist to think that you should be respectful at a graduation!

Give me a fucking break! Graduation is an emotional event for families, but you can shoot off guns and whoop and celebrate at home when it doesn't drown out the names of other graduates. It is important that every graduates name be heard and that obnoxious cunt families don't disrespect that! The only reason this is becoming a racial issues is because some races need to make everything into a racial issue, maybe if they hung up the race baiter bullshit for once we could end all this entitlement crap and finally move the fuck on!

I don't think that the students should be punished because they are in a family full of ignorant disrespectful dick hole cunt rags - but really, what other solution is there? I don't care if you all think I am a racist bitch, this shit is just fucked up!

Leave race out of it and be respectful at graduations - it's that simple! FUCK!

Chicago Olympic Logo

Chicago is in the running for hosting the 2016 Olympics...I don't really want to have it here because of all the mess, but whatever. I am super proud of the proposed logo...I think it is quite great! I posted this because of James and his post of the London 2012 Olympic Logo. Chicago is known for its captivating skyline and I think this is one of the most creative and representative logos of the host city...could just be my view because I am a Chicagoan!

Caption Contest!

Okay...So I am totally copying this "Caption Contest" thing from like 50 other bloggers, but I can't resist! Also, sports seem to be a popular topic as of late, so here is my contribution! I have been working hard today, so blog friends, please make me laugh my ass off!

No Time! Just Curious!

I don't have much time to blog today...busy as a beaver!

Just Curious...does anyone know who these people are??? They attended the MTV Awards and I haven't a clue!

V-A-G-I-N-A

Intense competition???

Matthew Evans of New Mexico celebrates (with a spelling boner, better not move his sign) during the sixth round of the Scripps 2007 Spelling Bee in Washington.

Round Seven:

Spell VAGINA.

I sure hope he can spell vagina because he certainly will never see one!

Crazy Magnet!

Here is a tip for those of you riding public transportation...Do not, under any circumstance, read a book that remotely hints at something religious! The BAMF's are reading Eat Pray Love, which I started reading this morning on my way to work. I read on the train every morning, it gives me something to do, helps me not stare at the lepers, and prevents people from trying to talk to me (at least that's the understanding). Now, of course there are the crazies and the homeless on the train, but it is the Bible banging God thumpers that are the ones that scare the living hell out of me. Here's why!

The crazies will just masturbate, pee, talk to themselves, lick the windows, pick their nose and are generally in mild-moderate schizophrenic states, but they are for the most part harmless and fairly pre-occupied with their imaginary friends too much to bother you.

The homeless will go train car to train car announcing that they need money for food. After no one makes eye contact for about 3 minutes and they have filled their quota of asking at least 5-7 times, they move on. Not too inconvenient to passengers, except for the smell of rotting ass that trails behind them.

Now to the Bible Bangers! They are freaks, not like peace and love Jesus freaks, but 100% unadulterated, need to be committed, tied down and exorcised psychopaths! By the way, does anyone know where I can obtain Holy Water??? They tend to walk up and down the train car preaching to the masses about redemption, the devil (very popular), saving your soul and all sorts of crazy doom's day, every one's going to burn in hell, the devil is in you, kind of shit. They are relentless and get right up in your face and don't let up no matter what you say to them. It makes me so fucking angry...that is so not how Jesus did it! It literally makes me want to spit in their face...leave me the fuck alone, I do NOT want to buy your damn book mark!!! So, back to today...here's what went down:

Setting:

Me: Sitting quietly reading my book in the corner closest to the air conditioning and the conductor.

BBW aka Bible Banging Weirdo: Standing quietly by the doors and sees that the seat next to me has opened up and decides to pop a squat next to me. She rubs her fat thighs against mine with the body heat of a 500 pound woman emanating through her clothes.

Conversation:

BBW: Whatcha redin?

Me: (Holds up book in response...thinking that if she asked, hopefully she can read the cover.)

BBW: Eat??? Pray??? Oh, girrrrrrllllll, your soulz is gonz be gets to heaven!

Me: (Closes eyes, starts to pray that I am the schizo and she will disappear when I open my eyes up again, she is just a figment of my imagination!) Uhhhhhh, okay! (No such luck...still there...FUCK!)

BBW: Whatch likes to eat?

Me: flteysa ads adsfi jids fuk aadsfa cu jk

BBW: What???

Me: I would really like to read my book now.

BBW: Oh, waz it bout?

Me: (Holds up book and points at page number 8 to show her I just started) Just started, would like to find out!

BBW: I gots me a book I gonna reads now too.

Me: Great! (Fucking finally, shit!)

BBW: You wanz trade? (As she pulls out some 36 point font illustrated religious book)

Me: Nope (Oh, fuck, now I am going to have to spit on her)

BBW: Do yaz thinks me gonna go heaven?

Me: NOPE! (Gets up, walks to door, exits train at Western...would rather deal with gang-bangers and guns right now than crazy lady...pray pray pray...she doesn't get off with me!)

FYI: She was NOT retarded!

WHY GOD, WHY??? Why me, why single me out with the nut jobs? Why test my patience and ability to control my tongue/actions??? Why do I have a sign on my forehead that says "Fucked Up People - Approach Me!!!" Why, God, Why???

Moral of the story, don't read anything even remotely religious on public transportation! I will keep this book for at home reading from now on and bring books like, "Don't Touch Me...I Have Crabs!"

In unrelated news,

please help me welcome new blogger

Ashley

to blogworld!

Grilling Season!

Mom wants to eat what???

Placenta!!!

Goats do it. Rats do it.

The Nevada woman wanted to eat her child’s placenta after birth, the hospital refused to return the organ on the grounds that it contains blood and might carry infectious disease. Though mammals ingest the placenta, the disposable sac that transfers oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the baby and removes waste, humans are a bit more discriminating. Those who do eat it generally believe it has medicinal properties such as helping with postpartum depression.

The woman planned to have her placenta dried, ground into a powder and packed into capsules.

After a baby is born, a woman’s hormonal level plunges, which can lead to a serious mood crash. The belief is that the nutrient-rich placenta, which contains the hormones progesterone and estrogen, can help alleviate symptoms of depression. The problem is that like any other body part, placentas contain a lot of blood which can carry infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.

I’m not the least bit tempted to dine on the blood filled sac!

But I do think if you want your placenta, for whatever reason, you should be able to have it. There are no laws barring hospitals from providing placentas to patients and if Swanson doesn’t have HIV or hepatitis, what’s the risk? This seems utterly disgusting, but to each their own, right???

Hand Over The Chili Sauce, Bitch!

A Wendy's restaurant manager almost lost his life to a disgruntled customer.

The cause?

Chili sauce.

The shooter wanted more of this highly addictive and delicious sauce. As the man picked up his meal, he told the Wendy's drive thru worker that he wanted extra chili sauce, "I foshizzel needs me somez dat chil saus, bitch." When he didn't get his sauce right away, he began arguing, "Wendyz be full of rasis mufukas!" Then, when he did get his sauce, he wanted more, "You cheap ass mufucka, whyz you gots to beez skimpin my ass, white devil, keepin me wayz from my chili." The attendant told him restaurant policy prohibits a customer getting more than three packets, "Sir, a human just doesn't need to consume that much chili sauce! You will have fire coming out of your ass within the hour!" The customer insisted on 10, "I'z be gotten 4 burgers an som dat chili n be needz mo den dat". The worker complied, "Just shut the fuck up and take the fucking 10 chili sauce packets, you cunt", but the customer continued arguing, "Dam bitch, bess be stepping off my shit!" The worker asked the customer to pull up so the manager could come out and speak with him, "Sir? Could you pull the fuck out of my face and go talk to that greasy dickhole that makes me give you only 3 packets of chili so that we can save 8 cents." The manager came out to inform him of company policy, and he was shot several times. I have never had the opportunity to taste Wendy's chili sauce, but it must be the most wonderful sauce in the world! What is chili sauce anyway??? I know Wendy's has chili, but what would the need for chili sauce be? Is that like hot sauce, but fancier???

More Billboard Shit!

Some residents are up in arms over a billboard advertising a local spa and cosmetic surgeon.

One woman said, "I was shocked, I was offended as a woman, angered as a mother and embarrassed as a resident of Glenview." She also said, "It doesn't represent us as people whose beauty emanates from within, I'm a mother, a wife, a member of the PTA, and this is an affront to everything I work for and try to instill in my children."

Translation:

"I am a fat piece of jealous shit that would look like a beached whale if I were laying on the beach like that. All those Greenpeace people would try to save me! Think of my husband, he should not be shown that kind of attractive female specimen, he may be tempted to touch himself !"

The salon owner will not be bringing down the billboard and said, "You know what? My next billboard is going to be of a 300-pound woman and it will say, 'Could you help me please? Then everyone would be after me saying, 'My son is traumatized because you showed me a fat woman.' You can never win!"

Good for him for standing his ground!

I Smell Something Burning!

A South Korean protester burns a North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally. It doesn't look like the flag is the only thing that this bastard's burning! Maybe people should stick to making signs of protest instead of burning flags...all flag burners should be drowned (it would be more ironic that way) no matter what country's flag they are burning!

Weekend Recap and Other Junk!

Memorial Day weekend was a really really long weekend for me. I haven't had a true three-day weekend since I can remember. I always worked Saturdays so just having two days was a treat...but with three days...oh, man...did I not want to work today. I could totally do the mom stay at home thing. Don was out just about all weekend, I think he slept at home on Saturday and was home for a total of 6 hours, that is about it. I felt like a single mom and it was lonely. Donovan and I had a great time, we went shopping, planted flowers and herbs and did A LOT of reading - If I have to read one more book about trucks, I will just die! We also had a plumbing nightmare with the bathtub, I found out that I don't know how to use a plunger correctly - who would have thought that there was a right and a wrong way to plunge!

I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on Saturday and found it mildly entertaining. I really enjoy the movies but I don't get a massive boner or anything over them like Sarah does. I have to say that at the end of the movie, Orlando Bloom shocks the shit out of me and is actually hot! Like hot hot! Weird!

Can someone explain to me what would poses someone to not shower regularly? People just smell fucking bad - can they not smell themselves??? Especially, now that it is a bit hotter out, riding the L has been a nasal nightmare. I have had to sit on the train holding my nose and looking like a creep, moving to only be next to another person with intolerable BO. I have a sensitive gag reflex for nasty smells and I am sure that one morning I am going to spew on someone, and when they get pissed at me for spraying them with chunks of vomit, I am going to (politely) tell them, "Now will you take a shower?"

The picture above is Riyo Mori, Miss Japan 2007, after winning the Miss Universe 2007 pageant! I wonder if her talent was demonstrating different techniques of DVDA???

Salad Dressing With A Side Of Semen

A judge has ordered a 17-year-old to pay a $750 fine and perform 120 hours of community service for contaminating salad dressing with semen and returning it to a suburban Chicago high school's cafeteria. DuPage County Judge Terence Sheen also placed Marco Castro on two years probation Wednesday and ordered him to write a letter of apology to Wheaton North High School officials. Castro must complete his community service work for an agency that works with AIDS patients. Sheen called the prank "beyond stupid." "If you prove to me you're worthy of another chance, in two years, then I will give it to you," Sheen said. Castro pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection with the Dec. 6 incident. He admitted taking a bottle of ranch salad dressing from the school cafeteria to the bathroom and ejaculating into it, and then returning it to the cafeteria where juniors and seniors eat lunch. Students reported Castro, and the senior was expelled from Wheaton North. There were no reported cases of illness following the incident. Castro told police he thought of the prank after watching a movie filled with crude stunts. "I have no explanation for what I did," Castro said in court. "I felt bad after I did it. "Harry Smith, Castro's attorney, noted that the teen already had been punished, including missing the end of his senior year and humiliating himself and his family. "It has not been without consequences," Smith said.

*** Okay, that's not cool, but so funny!

The Blame Game

The father of Josh Hancock filed suit Thursday against a restaurant, towing company and stalled car driver, claiming a restaurant provided drinks to the St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher even though he was intoxicated prior to the crash that killed him.

Mike Shannon's Restaurant, owned by the longtime Cardinals broadcaster who starred on three World Series teams in the 1960s, is a defendant in the case along with Shannon's daughter, the restaurant manager. Other defendants include Eddie's Towing, the company whose flatbed tow truck was struck by Hancock's sport utility vehicle; tow truck driver Jacob Edward Hargrove; and Justin Tolar, the driver whose stalled car on Interstate 64 was being assisted by Hargrove.

Authorities said the 29-year pitcher had a blood content of nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol in his system when he crashed into the back of the tow truck. He was also speeding, using a cell phone and wasn't wearing a seat belt. Marijuana was found in the SUV.

Hancock went to Shannon's after the Cardinals played a day game against the Chicago Cubs on April 28. The lawsuit claimed that Hancock was a regular at the restaurant bar and was there for more than 31/2 hours. "It's understood that for the entire 3 1/2 hours that Josh Hancock was there that he was handed drinks," a lawyer for Dean Hancock said. "It's our understanding that from the moment Josh Hancock entered Mike Shannon's that night that he was never without a drink."

The lawsuit claimed Tolar was negligent in allowing his Geo Prism to reach the point where it stalled on the highway, and for failing to move it out of the way of oncoming traffic. A police report said the Prism became stalled when it spun out after being cut off by another vehicle. Police said Hargrove (tow truck driver) noticed the stalled vehicle and stopped to help. The report said he told officers he was there five to seven minutes before his truck was hit by Hancock's SUV. But Kantack said the tow truck may have been there up to 15 minutes, yet failed to get the stalled vehicle out of the way. "Were the police contacted?" Kantack asked. "Why weren't flares put out? Why was the tow truck there for an exorbitant amount of time?"

Dean Hancock said in a statement that the "facts and circumstances" of Josh's death "have caused great pain to all of Josh's family." As administrator of his son's estate, Dean Hancock said he has an obligation to represent the family on all issues, "including any legal actions necessary against those who contributed to the untimely and unnecessary death."

*** So, let me get this straight...Josh Hancock was drunk, driving his car, talking on his cell phone, speeding, possibly smokin' up, plowed into a tow truck and now his father is suing everyone else! Let's talk briefly about taking responsibility for your actions. Josh paid the consequences with his life, but really it should be his father who dies a very miserable death! I cannot believe this bullshit! I cannot believe that there are lawyers who would take this case...it's such a crock of shit. Your son was a drunk that took his own life by driving and now you are blaming everyone else for his mistakes! If I was one of the people named in this lawsuit I would probably end up serving time for beating Josh's dad to a bloody pulp!

I'm Sick Of These Motha Fuckin Snakes On This Motha Fuckin Plane!

Customs officers at Cairo's airport detained a man going to Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane. The officers were stunned when a passenger told them it contained live snakes after he was asked to open the bag.
He opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers not to come close. Among the snakes, hidden in small cloth sacks, were two poisonous cobras. The Egyptian said he had hoped to sell the snakes in Saudi Arabia. Police confiscated the snakes and turned him over to the prosecutor's office, accusing him of violating export laws and endangering the lives of other passengers. According to the customs officials, the man claimed the snakes are wanted by Saudis who display them in glass jars in shops, keep them as pets or sell them to research centers. The value of the snakes was not know.

As cheesy as this post is, I am seriously dying from laughter...I just can't help it, I crack myself up!

Donovan Pics!

I have been feeling a bit guilty since I haven't posted pictures of Donovan in a while.

My little swimmer. He has always loved water which has been pretty nice because bath time is actually fun...not torture. He's a Pisces so of course he loves water! Below is a picture of my Pisces tattoo for Donovan, on the opposite side of my ankle is my Leo tattoo.
Enjoying Shrek 2 and getting annoyed that mom is in his face with the camera demanding he smile and say cheese.
He looks nothing like me...except for his toes!
This is the face that we have named Darth Maul...he does this on command and it can be quite entertaining when in public. I say, "Do your Darth Maul face!" and he gets this ugly mug on and starts snorting...don't know where the snorting came from!
And more Darth Maul!

http://geewhizjenny.blogspot.com/2005/10/chewbacca-baby.html - this is the link to my post of Donovan in his Chewbacca Halloween Costume!

Apocalypto 1/2 Review

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto came out on DVD yesterday. Don and I started watching it last night, but since I am a buzz kill (I like to go to bed before midnight), I only watched the first hour. So far it is very violent but intriguing. I hate watching movies that depict severe, cold hearted violence against children. Since I became a mother those types movie situations have really bothered me and just about bring me to tears when watching. You can kill all the men and woman you want in movies, but the babies just really get to me. Especially when the children in the movie remind me of Donovan. The little boy that is the son of the main character is just like my boy, and then I can't help but think of what I would do in a situation like this...I would definitely try to bust out a can of whoop ass, but that just seem futile against warriors. Good thing I don't live in an ancient Mayan village!

The movie depicts the very violent story of the Mayans. It has subtitles, which I don't like, but it actually makes the movie much better. There is a lot of blood and graphic violence and the one Mayan warrior (pictured below) is really really creepy...like make me wet my pants creepy!

The opening scene is a group of young men out on the hunt and they enjoy some comical banter which at first I thought was very inaccurate for the movie, but what do I know...I wasn't there during that time period and even if I was I would have been back at the hut with 12 children sucking at the tit. The jokes that they made seemed like what a group of jocks now a days would say to each other if they were hunting tapir. But I guess ball jokes are timeless and even the Mayans thought it was funny!

I can't wait to finish it...I think I will enjoy!

Bleed No More!

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first birth control pill that completely eliminates a woman's monthly period. Taken daily, the pill, called Lybrel, continuously administers slightly lower doses of the same hormones in many standard birth control pills to constantly suppress menstruation. This will be the first and only oral contraceptive designed to be taken 365 days a year, allowing women to put their periods on hold. Studies showed Lybrel is as effective at preventing pregnancy as standard birth control pills and completely suppresses menstruation for many women within the first year, although some women experience sporadic bleeding.

The pill's approval was welcomed by birth control advocates for providing women with another option. "Every woman's birth control needs are different, and the best methods are those that fit a woman's lifestyle and meet her needs," Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Critics questioned whether enough research had been done to be sure it is safe to suppress menstruation long term. "There may be important health consequences that we don't know about," said an endocrinology researcher. "I don't think we understand everything that the menstrual cycle does well enough to say with confidence that you can abolish it and not have any consequences." Others criticized the pill for fueling biases and misconceptions about menstruation. "It perpetuates a lot of negative attitudes and taboos about menstruation -- that it's something that's bothersome and dirty and debilitating and shameful."

The FDA said there is no evidence of any long-term risks and that suppressing the menstrual cycle can have many benefits, especially for women who are plagued by cramps, bloating and mood swings.

Others said menstrual suppression could actually have some health benefits. For eons, women had few periods because they were either pregnant or breast-feeding for most of their reproductive lives. "We weren't supposed to have 13 natural periods year after year after year," said an obstetrician-gynecologist. "We as a society have already changed what nature intended for us."

The pill isn't for everyone, the FDA said. About half the women enrolled in studies of Lybrel dropped out, many because of irregular and unscheduled bleeding and spotting that can replace scheduled menstruation. Because women taking Lybrel may not know if they are pregnant, the FDA said women taking it should undergo pregnancy tests regularly.

I know my girl Sarah will have some things to say about this. In my layman's opinion it doesn't seem right not to menstruate. And of course we don't know long term effects because we haven't study it "long" term - one year doesn't count. There is also increased risk of certain cancers when taking birth control so will the risks be even higher from taking hormones everyday? I just think it's unnatural to not have a period. Maybe this will be the first step to change the evolutionary cycle and will allow men to bear children!

What do you think???

Got Skillz???

Special forces' got skillz...Belarus special forces soldiers demonstrate their ability to break concrete slates with their foreheads, at the opening of the the 4th international exhibition of arms and military hardware, the Milex 2007, in Minsk, Belarus. Are these guys fighting in Iraq...because they should be! Let a bunch of them loose in Taliban territory and I think we may be good to move out in a few weeks!

Ocean's Thirteen & Meat

Ocean's Thirteen is coming soon, not that I am so excited about the movie, but wanted to take the opportunity to post pictures of Brad Pitt. Doesn't he look so much better without the hag and kids??? I think so!
Meat...doesn't that look great??? I want some meat!

Circumcision

I have never had the privilege of seeing an uncircumcised penis in person, pictures yes, in the flesh no! I assumed that most (meaning like 95% of men were circumcised) but I was way off. When my son was born it was a no-brainer for us, he was going to be cut. I don't regret it and I would do it again for the next one too. But there seems to be a declining trend in circumcision which I was totally not aware of.

The rate of U.S. babies being circumcised before leaving the hospital has gone from 85% in 1965 to only 57% in 2004. In the Midwest, 80% of boys are circumcised compared with 59% in the South and 32% in the West.

Wow, that is crazy! I really assumed that everyone had their son's circumcised. Is circumcision a form of genital mutilation? In Africa, woman have their vagina's sewn together to ensure virgin marriages, and that is just disgusting, but are we doing the same thing to boys by cutting off their foreskin? What is the purpose of foreskin anyway? Since I am a Midwesterner, most of our boys are cut, but in the South, just under 1/3 are. I know that there are medical reasons to circumcise because of infection, but at the same time it is a seemingly unnecessary cosmetic surgery that were are putting the baby boys through that risks infection anyway.

Just curious what everyone's opinion on circumcision is!