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Those twerps aren't virgins. They're castrati.

Ok.
One: I can't believe I just read that thing about "16 and Pregnant." Really? If anything some girls are just going to be encouraged to get pregnant so maybe they can be on the show too.
Two: Obama is the shit. I loved that video. Even though it was really short I liked being able to see him on a candid level. If only presidents would actually talk to the American public like that we might have more respect for him.
Three: Those trailers made me happy. Thank you for that.

What really pisses me off, is the fact that suddenly it is a "reality" that 16 year olds are having kids.
What about all those inner city kids who were having kids back in the 80's and 90's?
White girls are doing it now, so it's neat to film it.

mmm. Taken by Trees... do they have their cover of Sweet Child O Mine on their album? That made the trailer for the new Last House on the Left seem decent.

I was so distracted by the baby-makin' kiddies that I forgot to say:
Hail to the Chief. Kanye is a jackass, now by presidential decree. That was pretty funny.

But, at risk of gettng Pajilynched, Prez needs to get a little more savvy.
Rule #1) If you are mic'd you are being recorded.

2) EVERYTHING you say WILL be held against you.

3)The media have NO scruples and will play anything they possibly can to feed the gaping maw of the 24hr news cycle.

Obama is no doddering old relic who is unclear on this newfangled technology. He should be media savvy enough not to flash his proverbial boobies to the camera just because he thinks the interview hasn't started yet.

Oh, and I am a little disturbed that he even has 1 single solitary brain cell focused on the existence of Kanye West, MTV, or awards shows. A better response to the CNN Douchebag's leading questions about the incident would have been:
"Kanye who? I am running the free world here, I have no time for such ridiculous crap."

Some random thoughts:

MTV's 16 and Pregnant Show--I'm glad I don't have cable or satellite, and I'm glad I'm me and didn't have a hideously unfit mom or get myself knocked up when I was still a kid myself.

Obama on Kanye: Awesome.

Blockbuster closing: Kinda sad that more people will be out of work. I went to Hollywood Video all the time, but one day they started charging $2.50 for old movies instead of $1, and then had the gall to offer you a reduced rate of 50 cents IF you paid them an additional $8 per month. So I get to pay $8 for the privilege of getting a video for only TWICE what it cost before. That's when I switched to Netflix. I know brick-and-mortar stores have higher costs than online stores, but doubling the price overnight is not a good way to attract new customers or keep the old ones.

Ebay: I consider myself kinda geeky and wouldn't pay a cent for that crap. That Beckinsale head was creepy, and for a second I read the description as "one-sixth flesh" head instead of "one out of six" flesh (colored) head. My brain immediately started churning out all sorts of hideous possibilities as to how the artist incorporated living flesh in there.

Kohl's: my mom shops there too. Not exactly the trendiest place to open a new clothing line.

I can usually enjoy a lot of cheesy or guilty-pleasure shows, but when I came downstairs a couple of months ago and saw my mom watching 16 and Pregnant, I literally had to leave the room to keep from yelling at the TV. Those fucking Juno style animations? Could the producers of that show be any more shameless? It's disgusting. Also: a girl I went to high school with (she just graduated this June) is about six months pregnant and always has facebook statuses that say things like, "Angela is watching 16 and Pregnant with her mom, lol so good!"

And Megan Fox has now far surpassed the ratio of Crazy - Hot on Barney Stinson's "Crazy/Hot" graph.

I can't believe someone (even KOHLS) would put that line for sale. It's hideous, and just sad, but the biggest sin is that it's completely unoriginal and boring as fuck. This girl actually went to fashion school? If I were the school I'd have her killed, because that sort of advertising will do them no favors. "Hey look! Come to our school and learn to make shapeless sacks and someone will buy them!". Gah, The Hills has bred nothing but sacks of vomit and douche.

Oh, and I wonder how soon Kanye starts claiming that "Obama doesn't care about black people". Just to say something.

I'm probably about to start a tornado-sized shit storm, but why don't some of these teens that get pregnant sit with their parents and discuss getting an abortion?

Since we're talking about the semi-anonymity of the Internet here (everyone in Pajibaland at least doesn't know what I look like), I will admit that I had an abortion when I was twenty-three, and I'm not ashamed that I did it.

One night my boyfriend and I got drunk and stupid and then had sex and the condom broke. When I found out I was pregnant I was devastated, but I knew for a lot of reasons it wasn't the right time for us to have a baby. We were only in our fourth month of dating, he was a divorced single dad, and I had (and still have) a medical condition that I take Depakote for. Depakote is a powerful anti-seizure drug that causes severe birth defects (all over the bottle it says DO NOT GET PREGNANT), and after talking to my mom (a nurse), my aunt (an OB/GYN who once delivered a set of twins to a twelve year old), and researching the quality of life for a child with these birth defects, my boyfriend and I decided to get an abortion.

Of course it was emotional (I cried and threw up the night before), overwhelming (my boyfriend had a Catholic friend he had known for over twenty years say he couldn't be friends with him anymore if we were going to go through with it), sad (he and I blamed each other, blamed God, blamed the condom), but in the end I wouldn't have changed my course of action. At the time I was laid off from work and he was struggling to pay child support. How could we afford a wheelchair? Therapy? Special schools? A funeral when it eventually died before the age of five?

What makes me enraged about pro-lifers is that most aren't pro-life, they're pro-birth. No white fundamentalist Christian is adopting a crack baby, a black AIDS baby, a fetal alcohol syndrome child from Russia. Not one person picketing when I went to get my abortion, who screamed at us and made me cry and my boyfriend had to carry me inside with a jacket over my face, not one of them said "listen, I'll adopt your child. I'll pay for your psychologist. I'll love it even if it can't feed itself or hold its head up and I'll tell him how much you grieve for it every day because you know you want children and you can't give them the life they deserve." I actually emailed the Duggar clan (they of the 19 children and the Quiverfull movement) asking why they didn't adopt children that were already born. They sent a form email back.

Abortion isn't easy. It's not dinner conversation, it's not simple when someone asks us if we have kids, it still hits me when I see a little boy that looks like my boyfriend (except with my blue eyes), I pause before I tell people why I have tiny heart tattooed on my ankle (I usually say its for someone who died). My boyfriend late at night in the dark still says he's afraid of being judged by God, of picturing what his son would look like. We've lost friends, he and I have sat at opposite ends of the couch silently thinking about who could have done what differently, if we had more money, if he had no children, if I had lied and said I was strong enough to go through all the pain and doctor's visits and birth and dead with him because we loved each other and that was enough.

But I still would have done it. And that's what these teen moms and Bible beaters need to understand. That there is another choice out there. That gives you time to grow up. Time to mature. Time to find the real love of your life. But it doesn't make it any easier.

Re: 16 and Pregnant. When I was 15 my mom thought it would be best if I baby-sat for every single one of her friends. One of the babysitting jobs was a weekend with a 1 year old and a 3 year old. I thought about becoming a nun after that weekend. I'm 29, no kids.

I'm just waiting for the day when one of those Jonas twats says their band is better than The Beatles, then the whole world will see them for the sham they are.

Scorzi, I'm in love with you, and I think you really hit the nail on the head. Seriously, who the hell isn't pro Life?

Glad you liked my little quiet rant. Actually taking boyfriend applications down the road, as Mr. Scorzi and I are breaking up after five years. Will always love and care for each other (it's the most mellow breakup I've ever had), but he's decided that he never wants to get married again (and I've never been married and I want to have a family someday.)

Wow scorzi, that is some heavy shit for you to go through. Big hugs. And shame on your Catholic friend for abandoning you. It's pretty clear that you had the child's life in mind when you made what was clearly a tough decision, and I say this as a Catholic whose mother used to be a counselor at an abortion alternative clinic. (For the record, the clinic was peacefully run and did not endorse or condone screaming protests. Any people like that were not welcome.) If you were my friend, I would have had nothing but hugs and understanding for you. Hell, I already do and I only know from the post you just made.

While we're talking about options for these girls, let's talk about adoption. The chances of these girls having healthy babies are pretty good. So if they're not able to give the child a proper life and be emotionally available forthem while still fulfilling their own aspirations, why not give the child up for adoption? There are a lot of men and women out there who cannot have children of their own or simply wish to adopt for altruistic reasons. It does not make sense to me that a teenage girl should have to be saddled with a burden that they are not financially or emoionally ready for when there are plenty of future parents out there on adoption waiting lists.

Lindsey with an 'e', I think your mother and mine must have gone to the same school of "How to raise your daughter." after my mother had the no sex until marriage talk with me (later amended to 'no sex until you're in a long-term relationship with someone you love and please use a condom' when I was in college), she told me the exact same thing your mother told you. I've been married for five years and still am child free because my husband and I just can't emotionally provide for a child yet. Someday soon, but not yet.

1. My commute home takes me through a major intersection and yesterday there were pro-life protesters along the intersection with giant posters of fetuses (feti?) post-abortion. Most of them were past 70 years old and all were outfitted with flags, pins, buttons, hats, etc. covered with the stripes and stars. A lot of them were also wearing Republican and Conservative paraphernalia and this is where I lost it. They have the nerve to protest my freedom? My decision over MY body? Yet, they scream "socialist" and "communist" and "fascist" and "Hitler" at Obama for wanting to revamp the health care system? Banning abortion is the epitome of all those ideals.

2. It's not a "baby", it's a fetus.

3. scorzi: I am amazed and terribly sorry for your experience.

The chances of these girls having healthy babies are pretty good. So if they're not able to give the child a proper life and be emotionally available forthem while still fulfilling their own aspirations, why not give the child up for adoption?

I'll just do one. They might die during child birth.

Regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue, you must admit that asking a woman to carry a pregnancy to term is a huge thing to ask.

That was pretty friggin' well said, scorzi. Should we ever meet, I'm buying you a coke.

Hugs to you, Scorzi. And I, too, am angered by the "pro-lifers" - way too concerned with the birth, and absolutely no interest in what comes after.

Just today I saw a "True Life" episode on MTV that was about really young mothers giving up their babies for adoption. That show's always been above and beyond other MTV programming, and this one was really moving and very well done. Both the girls were single, barely out of school, struggling to make ends meet. One of them was pretty sure from the beginning that she wanted to give the baby up for adoption, and even though she almost wavered once she had the baby she decided that she couldn't raise her well at her age and gave her up. They decided on an open adoption, so that the mom would visit the baby every now and then. It was very sad and moving, but I was glad that the girl made the right decision.

The other one,though, was a different story. She was all set on giving the baby up for adoption, and she had even found a lovely gay couple to give the baby too. But the baby's father came along and decided he wanted to keep the baby, even though he and the mom weren't together anymore. So the girl changed her mind at the last second at her ex's urging and decided to keep it. Then she had it, decided she couldn't raise the baby and gave custody of the baby to the father, who at the end of the show was raising her alone. It was really heartbreaking, because you could see at the birth that the girl didn't want the baby, and a lovely couple missed out on a baby.

So, anyway, this really resonated when I saw the story here. Teenage pregnancy is a serious problem, but if the girls decide to go through with the birth, adoption seems like the best option to me. They (usually. I'm sure there's other stories) give themselves a better chance, they give the baby a better chance and can make a couple incredibly happy. Sometimes the hard choice is the best one.

Done randomly ranting now.

"Flight of the Navigator"! I was literally talking about it last week. Actually, I brought it (& The Goonies) up in a discussion with some friends when I asked them what movies did they love as a kid that they would want their kids to see?

Great minds, Stacey, great minds.

Agent Scully, when I was in college I saw a similar demonstration outside of the university library. The only difference between the one you saw and the one I saw? The protestors at the one I saw were middle-aged....and had their young children with them holding the disgusting signs and handing out literature. I was so fucking pissed that after I stopped crying I called child welfare on their hateful asses.

Abortion is the worst hell you will ever thank your lucky stars you went through. And if I ever have a daughter I'm mashing up birth control pills into her food when she turns 12.

There was a Pro-Life group with posters set up on part of my campus today. Everyone sitting at that table was male. I briefly thought about walking over and pointing that out to them but decided it was best not to engage.

My mom toed the "no sex until you're out of high school and really in love" line… and had me on ortho tri-cyclen when I was 14. For my cramps. But also because the rate of accidental pregnancies in her family is pretty high and she just wasn't taking any chances.

Thank you for sharing your story, scorzi. I'm sorry you had to deal with that kind of tragedy, and it really hit home for me because I'm 23 right now and can't imagine having to go through that.

Oh god, I picked a great time to drop a random comment without reading anything else first. Please excuse me.

as for obama, the reporter asked him what his daughters thought of kanye's outburst....so i'm guessing his kids were watching it, and then he found out about it later--like the rest of us, since i doubt not too many people around here watch that shit when it's on...and then he proceeded to say what everyone else said...

Yeah, Scorzi, I don't get it, either. I've seen a lot of episodes of 16 and Pregnant (if anything, it's great to have your teen daughter watch--they don't romanticize anything on that show) and it always baffles me why abortion is not even MENTIONED. Not even discussed! I realize if the girl has an abortion, well, the episode is kind of over, but seriously, not to even consider that?

No comprende, man.

And your story was amazing. You are absolutely right: they are pro-BIRTH. That's it. Not pro-woman, not pro-baby, not pro-life, just pro-birth. I've always found that so strange. No thought for quality of life at all? How can you just disregard that?

Agent Scully, that's my one small hope for a happier, more tolerant future; so many of these hateful wackos who scream "fascist" and "socialist" (and I guarantee you they don't even know the definitions, or that you can't be BOTH) seem to be old. They're dying out. One of these wackos said on a message board that all the liberals had were the young people, which struck me as one of the most stupid things I've ever heard. The younger generations are generally far more tolerant, more open, less racist than the old folks, and they have many, many more voting years ahead of them.

I know I'm in the minority on this, but I don't think I'll endorse birth control pill usage for my daughter when she's a teenager. It doesn't prevent STDs, which are an absolutely bitch. A couple of dear friends of mine caught herpes and it sucks to have to tell every damn partner about it - never mind something even worse, like AIDS. Condoms are highly effective forms of birth control and, frankly, I've got no problem putting the onus on the dude screwing my daughter.

"so many of these hateful wackos who scream "fascist" and "socialist" (and I guarantee you they don't even know the definitions, or that you can't be BOTH) seem to be old"

I try and try and try to take comfort in this, but I just don't think it's true. That woman who asked a "Nazi" question to Barney Frank and made him say "What planet do you spend most of your time on?" didn't seem that old. This week, in my area, some teenagers (!!) were hanging up "Obama with Hitler mustache" posters and an elderly gentleman/Holocaust survivor confronted them and they pushed him down.

It's hard not to hate the world some times.