Living in Filth ....

My job as an Environmental Health Specialist for the local government has taken me to some interesting homes .. though honestly using the word "home" seems to be the wrong word to use here.  Using that word implies things like "home is where the heart is" and some kind of warm environment surrounded by people you love.  I would say these are more like cold dwellings.  I always knew that everyone had their own opinion regarding house cleaning but I think I was woefully unprepared for how some individuals keep their houses.  I have seen garbage stacked as tall as I am, feces (yes human and animal) scattered throughout the house.  Animals running around the house peeing wherever they desire.  Cockroaches so thick they are climbing out the light sockets in the middle of day.  Fleas jumping so violently that the carpet looks like it is alive and my new favorite, bed bugs competing for space on the bed.  It it is bad enough that an adult might chose to live like this, surrounded by their mounds of garbage, but when they decide to have their children live like that I have to say it ticks me off. 

Recently in the news you may have read about the two young boys found locked in a dog kennel if not check this link out
http://www.knopnews2.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2981:children-rescued-from-kennel&Itemid=105

Now this is not a case of a hoarder with some kind of mental illness such as OCD that has had years to manifest, this is a case of four young adults who simply should not be allowed to reproduce because they are obviously idiots who are lazy.  In my pre-mom days I struggled to not only get pregnant but to stay pregnant and here these people have children and treat them quite literally like dogs.  The thing that makes me really sad is that most likely they will end up with some kind of suspended or minor punishment, be allowed to take "parenting" classes and then the idiotic court system will want to reunite the children with their parents because they are under the misconception that is is best for a child to be with their "birth" parents.  Look I am a mother and do understand that bond but let us be honest not everyone is a good parent.  They may be able to pop out a child but that does not mean they should ever be allowed to raise one. I am pretty sure if you are stupid enough to think it is okay to lock your children in a dog kennel that you are only rowing with one ore in the water.  Do you really think that these people will take a parenting class and the light bulb will suddenly click on?  "ohhhh we should clean up our house and the dog kennel is actually for our dogs NOT our kids" .. "thanks Division of Family and Children for teaching me that???".

The solution is easy.  Everyday in newspapers all across this country there are infertile couples begging to adopt children, there are people who wait years for the opportunity.  Let us stop the spread of stupid and give these kids a real chance at life and stop giving them back.  Look in some cases it should be ONE chance only not dozens.  So many of these children will be placed in foster care, given back, placed in foster care, given back .. you get the picture.  If we have to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars on trying to turn these people into parents I would rather spend the money having them sterialized.  Yes I said it .. what a heartless person I am.  I am just sick and tired of reading (and witnessing) cases of abuse against children.  It is a sad world we live in where a mother can even attempt to justify locking her kids in a kennel, a basement, a closet, or beating them, putting cigerettes out on them, not feeding them, drowning them, the list goes on and on .. and what do we do .. we attempt to educate them why it was wrong.  Perhaps we should just treat them exactly how they treated their kids.  They should go to jail .. the rooms are too large, no instead let us buy them a lovely kennel to stay in.

Climbing off the soap box .. have a great day!

Life as a news junkie ...

I have to admit I comb through several different sites and read the news from more than one angle because the truth of the matter is that you have to realize that news is often slated by the opinion of the person who is reporting it and lets face it most of the media is pumped full of what I would call overly liberal politically correct idiots.  Yep I said it idiots.  How many times have you tuned into the evening news and watch an interview and thought WHAT kind of question is that???  Really they shove a microphone into the face of a family member who just found out their loved one is dead and they ask "how does that make you feel to find out that your loved one was killed by a drunk driver who did not have a license?"  Really anyone with an IQ higher than a slug already knows the answer to that incredibly stupid question.  Worse yet how is it possible that we can have soldiers die half a world a way it it barely registers on any news stations or articles?  Young men and women are dying and leaving behind a huge hole in the life of their families and friends and we are more concerned with what dress Kim Kardashian wore in her wedding or what are the latest antics of Lindsey Lohan?  That is a sad state of affairs that as a country we have become so concerned with the mundane idiotic lives of so called famous people that we have forgotten what really matters.  I find myself wondering if all this is leading to the dumbing of Americans in general.

How is a person to find the truth if you can not trust most news agencies to report the real facts?  That of course is a conundrum in itself.  I usually try to find more than one article pertaining to a topic and read it from more than one angle realizing that the truth is most likely somewhere in between the lines.  People are fixated on worth less and senseless news stories because of the sensationalism of the story itself.  For instance death and gore stories are always popular and to make up for making your feel bad they will mix in the occasional piece of "feel good" fluff.  Most of the time a news station never even bothers to follow up to let it's viewers know how something turned out because they assume our attention span is not long enough to recall or care .. sigh how sad is that.  How many times have you heard a story about a murder or tragic event yet you never hear any follow up?  That 69 year old you read about that was beat up and left for dead .. you never hear if his assailants were captured, tried and convicted.  Yet you are well aware if Mel Gibson settled his case with this ex-girlfriend AKA baby's momma.  Seriously how is it that we have resorted to this level where gossip is more important?

Ah as for me I will do my best to keep my children from being a part of a giant cog that is forgetting how to think for itself.

Jennifer