James A. Carrington
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Octomom's Fertility Doctor Has License Revoked (ParentDish)
Jun 1st 2011 10:32PM "Octoskank"--I like it!! SO true!
Octomom's Fertility Doctor Has License Revoked (ParentDish)
Jun 1st 2011 10:28PM Good! Unfortunately, we're STILL paying for this doctor and his patient's selfish stupidity via welfare, Medicaid and food stamps until these kids turn 18, which really makes me angry because I never had any children of my own because I knew I couldn't afford them, yet this selfish woman came long and did it anyway, knowing full-well that she couldn't afford to feed and house herself and her existing children as it already was.....and yet, she got knocked up again, this time with 8 more, and we're all paying for it! Only in America do the responsible ones get penalized while the careless, selfish and the ignorant contunue to do what they want to and never have to face the consequences for their irresponsible actions.
As a side note, I can't help but notice that this doctor appears to be well-fed......what a pig .
Jeff Conaway in Coma After Apparent Drug Overdose (PopEater)
May 19th 2011 4:18PM Addiction IS a disease; some of us can CHOOSE to try drugs and alcohol or even use them fairly regularly but responsibly without getting addicted, while others do indeed have an inherited predisposition to addictive behaviors, and it is indeed a DISEASE. Why am I able to party when I want to and then put it down with no cravings or problems? Because I don't have the disease of addiction, which is a mental disease, that's why. Some of us have a predisposition to developing cancer, some to mental illnesses and behavior disorders. I worked as a nurse, I know about these things. Alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, food addiction, etc., are all very real diseases. I have cancer, but I'm not "offended" by addiction being called a disease, because it IS.
Britney Campbell, 8-Year-Old Botox User, Taken Out of Mother's Home (Video) (Stylelist)
May 16th 2011 3:28PM Unfortunately, some damage has already been done to this child; even more unfortunate is the fact that most children who are taken away from unfit parents are eventually reunited with them. All the parent(s) have to do is complete a relatively LAME parenting class or two and perhaps do a few other easy tasks, then WHAMMO--reunification takes place. I know all too well how this usually works out; several years ago, my cousin, who is developmentally disabled, had a child and lost custody of him because she chose to leave a shelter (along with leaving behind her 11-month-old son)to go back and be with her physically abusive, sexual predator husband (this guy lost custody of his two other sons from a previous relationship due to sex abuse) because he was more important to her than her own son. Anyway, I stepped forward and was granted custody for over a year, and I fully intended to adopt this boy and keep him from his child-molesting father permanently. However, here in Ohio, the parents almost always win their children back (and consequently, usually lose their children again in the future, but I digress) and the results are usually disastrous. In my case, the parents got this kid back, then later divorced, with the father getting unsupervised visitation.....and, you guessed it, a few years later, when the boy was 6, his father began molesting him! As far as I'm concerned, the damage is done, as most of these children end up with lifelong emotional problems as a result. By the way, it was the SAME JUDGE who accepted a plea bargain from this monster in the previous molestation case who sent this boy back to his predatory father to be molested. Anyway, I wish this child the best, because she's going to need it; and for all of you out there who assume that this mother will lose custody permanently, think again.....because tragically, this is so often not the end result. I just hope the laws are better for the children involved in California than they are here in Ohio.
Mom Defends Decision to Give 8-Year-Old Daughter, Britney Campbell, Botox (Video) (Stylelist)
May 12th 2011 8:50PM This girl's mother is obviously mentally ill, and yes, she is trying to re-live her own beauty pageant dreams vicariously through her daughter. Also, this incident does indeed bring the JonBenet Ramsey case to mind, yet another glaring example of what can happen when parents try to sexualize the very children they're supposed to protect, making their 7-year-old girls irresistible to each and every pedophile on the planet. This is absolutely sickening, and I sure hope the local Children's Services Department investigates this matter immediately......and then removes the child from the mother's care until she has completed an intensive course of treatment in psychotherapy. I can't believe that this woman was actually sick enough (not to mention STUPID enough) to boast about it on a national television program, and then demonstrate it as the cameras rolled!
Are You Guilty of Housesnarking? (Shelterpop)
May 10th 2011 7:15PM Sherrie: No, I didn't "housesnark" you, and if you took it that way, then you misunderstood the thought I was trying to convey. I said "cheap" as in tacky interior colors and designs, as many inexpensive as well as expensive mobile homes from that era were. For that matter, many new houses were also decorated in what I think of as hideous color schemes. But I'd never walk into your home (or anyone else's) and rip it apart, which is what the article was about, rude people who are GUESTS in your home trashing your decorating taste or the actual structure. For the record, I have seen people like YOU who live in mobile homes that they have completely redecorated and it looks great; not only that, it wouldn't bother me to live in one. I'm simply referring to the often ugly designs and colors of that time, and it just so happens that most manufactured housing, i.e., mobile homes, often used those same prints / patterns / colors, etc. I suspect that you have a chip on your shoulder because you live in a mobile home and / or are poor, but you shouldn't feel that way, even though there are many people out there who DO look down upon mobile homes (and I'm NOT one of them); you're doing the best you can do; lots of people don't even try. Funny how no matter what you try to say on these comment pages, there's always someone who makes it a point to get offended because they misunderstood the CONTEXT of what was posted.
Are You Guilty of Housesnarking? (Shelterpop)
May 10th 2011 3:26PM Yes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and NO, you shouldn't expect everyone to love the choices you make when decorating your living space; however, it is quite rude to ridicule others for any accomplishment(s) they may achieve, no matter how small, and it is just plain rude to blurt out snide remarks about the host or hostess's decorating style in front of a room full of other guests. You've obviously missed the point of the article: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. I have often heard people justify their snarky remarks to (and about) others by saying "I'm just being honest....". Yes, well.........there is a right and a wrong way to convey that supposed honesty......a way that doesn't include cutting the other person down. But that's just how many people are anymore......nasty, condescending, and outright hateful at times.
Are You Guilty of Housesnarking? (Shelterpop)
May 10th 2011 3:04PM I had a friend (now an ex-friend, but for other reasons) who used to do this to me. In particular, he made nasty remarks about my wallpaper; I know there are many out there who hate it, but I hate plain, white walls because they're, well........ plain. As well as boring. And it wasn't like I had crazy or gaudy wallpaper patterns; they were classic, very traditional styles, very elegant, really. The reasons I hung wallpaper there were numerous: it was December and I was in a rush to get the place presentable for the upcoming holidays and I HATE to paint. Since many of the walls had been poorly drywalled and several seams were showing, I knew that wallpaper forgives a multitude of bad drywall sins. Also, a few rooms were covered in paneling, making it look and feel like a cheap mobile home right out of the 1970's, and since I had discovered (only after moving in) that these rooms also had NO drywall underneath them at all, the only way to go was to cover all of that dark, ugly paneling with an elegant, classic silk and satin paper (which also has the added benefit of being heavier than other wallpapers, therefore making it an excellent choice to hide all of those paneling grooves) that would dress up the overall appearance.
Everyone who came in raved about the decor, and several people actually asked me where I had bought the wallpaper from, and asked if I could hang it for them as well. Dated or not, I personally feel that there will always be a place for wallpaper in interior decorating, and I DO happen to like wallpaper. But, I digress.
This friend belittled my house from top to bottom, with several choice insults reserved for the wallpapered rooms.......and I was really hurt by his nasty remarks. He had always been critical of others, including me at times, but this really hurt. I wasn't trying to fish for compliments from anyone, but I was raised with the stern rule that if you didn't have anything nice to say, you were to say nothing at all. Which is exactly how this friend acted at first. The only reason for his remarks that I can think of is that, well........he was jealous? I just don't know; he never seemed like a jealous person before. He himself lived in a very old and run-down house in a bad part of town, a house that I helped him with many, many times.........from re-plumbing the entire house from galvanized pipes to copper ones to installing new laminate flooring for him in a few bedrooms, I was always there to help, and to my best recollection, I never insulted his house nor any of his furnishings because I knew he was relatively poor and that what he DID have was the only thing he could afford, which is why I bought and installed for him a dishwasher, water softener, etc. I know what it's like to be poor because my parents were poor; as such, I could never cut someone down like that because not only is it hell being poor, it is often impossible to escape from a poverty-stricken life, except by death. Oh, well. This friend ended up being a textbook sociopath who suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder as well, so who knows? Maybe he really was jealous, like many of my other friends had suggested.
Which Food is Most Likely to Make You Sick? (Slashfood)
Apr 30th 2011 3:59PM I caught campylobacter once a few years ago from a bucket of fried chicken that was undercooked; I didn't realize that it was undercooked until it was too late--I had already been eating it when I saw that the juices were a tinge of pink. Hoping that I would get lucky and not get sick, I stopped eating it and re-cooked the rest of it in the oven.
Unfortunately, within 24 hours I got deathly ill, and let me tell you, this is one nasty bacterial infection! Let's just say that the best way to understand how it feels is to imagine the worst stomach "flu" (I know there is no such thing, that it's usually a norovirus that causes that type of illness) that you've EVER had your entire life, then multiply that horrible feeling times 20. I wouldn't wish this illness on my own worst enemy!
Would You Let Your Boyfriend Do Your Makeup? These Girls Did! (Videos) (Stylelist)
Apr 21st 2011 10:56AM Wow, and I thought I was the only one who had been indentured by his significant other to do this stuff. My now-ex-wife (divorced over her drug abuse, not this, lol) casually walked into the house one day with a permanent waving kit in one hand and a hair highlighting kit in the other. I asked her, "Oh, what are you going to do?" And she replied, "YOUR'RE going to do my hair." I was terrified! It was a spiral perm, which took eons to wrap.....then a few days later, she made me do the highlighting. It all turned out really good, actually.....she later told me that she had always known I was "good with colors"; so began my beauty school training, by her (She had actually gone through beauty school and had her license from years earlier) and all of her friends were asking who did her hair, they loved it, etc. It was so perfect one New Year's Eve that several people thought it was a wig and actually pulled on it! I eventually learned how to lightly tease the hair to add some volume, then hold with hair spray, etc. It was sort of fun, I guess, but I quickly tired of it; it's hell on your feet! As far as makeup, well.....no, I never did hers, but having had really bad acne in high school and no money to see a doctor, I got very good at covering and hiding pimples with my mother's Clinique Pore Minimizer foundation and then I'd use a bit of blush so that my face wasn't washed out-looking and had some color to it. It worked, and no one seemed to notice, and trust me, had anyone noticed, the teasing would have been horrific. My dad was an artist, a painter of portraits, so I suppose that's where my knack comes from, but I never really thought about doing this as a career. Maybe I should..... .
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- Leila Brillson
I just got bangs (present tense)
- Tim Stevens
On the plane to LA for my 13th E3. Will have to photoshop Jason on all my photos this week.
- Leila Brillson
Let's get to 1k followers. What do you like best? Ambiguous laments about my personal life, snide cultural commentary, or, you know, fashun?
- Amar Toor
Manu Ginobli looks like Roberto Benigni.
