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"Octomom" Nadya Suleman could find herself and her brood evicted:

It's been fairly quiet at the La Habra home of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman.

But this week, the TV trucks and reporters have returned because of concerns that Suleman and her 14 children might be evicted.

Amer Haddadin said the Suleman family has fallen behind in their house payments.

He said Suleman's father purchased the home under a deal in which Haddadin would carry the $450,000 loan for a year until the family could gather enough money to provide a substantial down payment.

A year later, he says, Suleman's father has not provided the money.

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Our "justice" system? What in the hell is the matter with this FEMALE judge to order polygraphs of rape victims after the perpetrators have already been found guilty?

A Juvenile Court judge has ordered at least four teenage girls who were victims of sexual assault to submit to polygraph tests, baffling prosecutors and upsetting the victims.

Cuyahoga Juvenile Court Judge Alison Floyd ordered victims in separate cases to be examined after she had found their attackers delinquent, the Juvenile Court equivalent of guilty.

Floyd also ordered the teenage boys who were accused of rape and other sex crimes in those cases to undergo polygraph examinations as part of an assessment done before the teens would be sentenced.

None of the teen victims has followed the judge's order.

Despite the Public Outcry,

or perhaps because of it, Nadya Suleman got her wish to have a reality television program based on her record-breaking multiple birth.

Misc

New WCSD superintendent Heath Morrison will need all the help he can get, but I suspect he's like all the rest of these clowns who run our schools.

He will stay a couple of years then move on to a bigger district with more money and perks.
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The infamous "Octomom" will get her wish for a reality TV show by exploiting her kids.
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Alberto Contador won this year's Tour de France. Lance Armstrong finished third.

Miscellaneous News

Nadya Suleman was indeed right when she decided to have a slew of kids in order to exploit them for money. She is slated to have her own reality television show.
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At least one anti-abortion fanatic has proven he cares about life when he shot Dr. George Tiller of Kansas dead in front of his church today.

Tiller was committed to his patients despite the threats on his life:

Since first performing abortions after the monumental U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, Dr. Tiller had been threatened, shot, his Women's Health Care Services clinic bombed.

Despite the assaults against him by people who believed what he did was murder, he continued to make available what he thought was right, friends say: a woman's right to choose.

"He was far too committed to what he did to let all of those situations -- and there were many and they were constant -- stop him because he had a commitment to his patients," said Peggy Bowman, who served as his spokeswoman in the 1990s.

Bowman said one only had to read the hundreds of thank-you letters lining the walls of his clinic, Women's Health Care Services, to know how he helped people facing decisions that others never face.

"Dr. Tiller always used to say that women are under the most stress at two times in their lives: when they are pregnant and don't want to be and when they want to be and can't," Bowman said.

He was 68 years old.
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Octupletgate

Snooping around Nadya Suleman's medical files cost some 15 people their jobs at Kaiser Permanente Hospital.

No scoops for the National Enquirer this time.

Octupletgate

Although her infamous stretch mark photographs would make such employment impossible now, Nadya Suleman told the National Enquirer she once worked as an exotic dancer.

Once an exhibitionist always an exhibitionist.

Miscellaneous News

The LGBT community is all up in arms over Michigan's Blue Cross Blue Shield declining to pay anymore for "sex reassignment surgery."

Well, no insurance company should be paying for it anyway since it is elective surgery.

I have long stated on this blog my objections to this kind of mutilation and believe any doctor who performs it is acting unethically.

Call me a reactionary, but tough shit.
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It's "cry me a river" time now that an executive who resigned AIG published a letter outlining his cruel fate.

Whatever DeSantis's role at AIG, there is a crucial difference between the work of the plumber and that of the finance executive—besides the enormous disparity in pay. The plumber performs a socially useful labor. The financiers have played a socially destructive role, as the collapse of AIG and the larger economic crisis have made clear. Their entire raison d'etre is to enrich themselves and their cronies.

The difference is plumbing is an honest profession while being a robber baron is not.

I like this response.
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Unfortunately for Lawrence B. Salander, there is no government bailout for him.
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I hope the planetarium doesn't close.
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Nadya Suleman doesn't care one bit about her kids, according to a nurse.
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The former DNC chair has a petition on health care reform for people to sign. The idea of dual health care systems is virtually identical to what John Edwards proposed in his last presidential campaign.
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Weird News

Nadya Suleman continues to get all of the media attention she has been craving now that two of her eight babies have arrived home:

Video posted on Radaronline.com, where Suleman has been publishing a video diary, showed the SUV pulling into the garage from the inside, and screams can be heard for the photographers to get out. Laughter was audible from inside the vehicle after the garage door closed.

Suleman said on the video that she called police when she was driven into the garage.

"This was beyond anything I expected, they were completely swarming the car," she said of the paparazzi. "I was really, really worried about the safety of everybody."

Two caretakers in scrubs could be seen helping Suleman take the babies into the house after she showed them off to the camera, and Suleman's older children were shown kneeling and fawning over their baby brothers.

The other babies will be released in the coming days. Remember, this is the first time in medical history where all eight octuplets have survived.

Miscellaneous and Weird News

I am sure it was a mere accident Muzzammil Hassan mistook his beloved wife, Aasiya, for a block of cheese.

It's NOT an honor killing, by the way. Making an excuse for a brutal murder is a crock of shit.
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The Smackdown of the Year can be viewed right here.
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California AG Jerry Brown has his priorities straight.
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Nadya Suleman says she expects two of her eight babies to be home as early as Monday.
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Octupletgate

Nadya Suleman claims SHE is paying for the house her father reportedly is paying for:

In the video posted on RadarOnline.com, Nadya Suleman disputed earlier remarks by the house's listing agent, who said her father was buying the home.

Prudential Realty listing agent Mike Patel confirmed Wednesday that the home's title was made in the name of Ed Doud, who is Suleman's father. Patel also said the house was being bought, not leased.

In the video, Suleman said she made the initial payment on the house and that she was leasing with an option to buy. Her parents, she said, "had nothing to do with it."

No matter, it's still too small a house for her and her fourteen kids.

Octupletgate

Dad is going to bail his daughter out after all; however, the house isn't that big:

The mother of recently born octuplets may be moving to a new home and getting help to raise her brood.

Nadya Suleman's father, Ed Doud, is purchasing a $564,900 house in the city of La Habra in a deal is expected to close Friday, said Prudential Realty listing agent Mike Patel.

In a related development, television talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw said Monday that Suleman will accept a volunteer group's offer of nursing care for her children.

It Was Inevitable

after the scandal surrounding the Suleman octuplets that there would be proposals to regulate IVF. I don't care much about the right-to-life people being involved in this particular matter, but I don't care about that. It's about time some limits were put on the procedure.

This isn't about "choice" but about the right of children to be brought up in the best possible circumstances and about preventing extreme multiple births (which often result in birth defects) which can result from implantation of too many embryos.

In the old days, women who couldn't have children had to adopt, but now there is this entitlement mentality which has perverted the notion of "choice." There is NO right to IVF or other artificial means of having children.

Octupletgate

Problems may develop for Nadya Suleman, and she expressed her concerns to Dr. Phil:

McGraw said the 33-year-old unemployed mother called him Tuesday, distraught that Kaiser Permanente officials told her they were concerned about the babies living at her home in suburban Los Angeles.

"What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her," McGraw told the Los Angeles Times.

Suleman has taped two episodes of McGraw's "Dr. Phil" show. The first was scheduled to air Wednesday.

Assuming, of course, Suleman is telling the truth, and we all know how honest she is.

Meanwhile, she has an offer to do porn for a million and a year's worth of health insurance. She must have horrific stretch marks from her most recent pregnancy, however, judging from those well-publicized pregnancy photos.

Octupletgate

Nadya Suleman's father doesn't have very many good things to say about his irresponsible daughter. At the same time he believes his daughter and especially his grandchildren need help. He was on Oprah Winfrey's program.

Octupletgate

It looks like Nadya Suleman and the 14 kids could be out on the street thanks to a foreclosure on her mother's house.

At least I hope somebody takes the kids in.
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Octupletgate

Nadya Suleman now has an agent but no publicist. The public relations group decided to get out of the controversy because of death threats.

There are all kinds of sick people in the world. One can vehemently disagree with Suleman's choice without going to such idiotic extremes.

Octupletgate [Updated]

If there is any good to come out of the Suleman case, it is that fertility clinics are under increased scrutiny over their practices.

But unlike some other countries, the United States has no laws to enforce those guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a surveillance system that collects data on fertility clinics, but reporting is voluntary and there are no government sanctions for not reporting.

As a result, experts say many doctors are still implanting too many embryos to increase the chance of pregnancy. Only 11 percent of in vitro procedures in the United States involve single embryos, according to 2006 data from the C.D.C.

But the 2008 guidelines say that in many cases, it is healthier to implant only one embryo, even if it means the process has to be repeated, because of the risk of multiple births. In the case of Ms. Suleman, the California Medical Board said it was investigating her fertility doctor, Michael M. Kamrava, to determine whether accepted standards of medical practice had been violated. In an interview with NBC News, Ms. Suleman, 33, said that Dr. Kamrava had implanted six embryos, and that two of them had divided into twins, resulting in eight babies.

This really isn't about "choice" or the dubious rights of people to have children. This is about the health of any babies being born and about their overall well-being.


Updated: By the way, the TMZ picture of Suleman when she was pregnant with the octuplets wasn't photoshopped.

It's a wonder her belly didn't drag on the ground.

Another update: You know the saying "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? Well, Angelina Jolie is NOT at all flattered by her imitator. She says Suleman has her "totally creeped out."

More Octupletgate

Nadya Suleman is finding out the downside for going public with her irresponsibility and now is reporting she is getting death threats.

If true, that is NEVER acceptable. The big concern, of course, should be about those 14 children.

Octupletgate

If you are interested in leaving a donation for the Suleman family, there is this link.

There probably shouldn't be a place where people can leave comments, though.

Meanwhile, it looks like the taxpayers will be on the hook over this case.

The article mentions Nadya owes $50,000 in student loans. My, her priorities are certainly screwed on right.

Lowell Kepke, a spokesman for the San Francisco office of the Social Security Administration, said that a single parent with no income qualifies for up to $793 a month for each child with a physical or mental condition that results in "marked or severe functional limitations." That money is used for support and maintenance of the family, and Suleman would not be required to specifically account for how it is spent.

If Suleman's disabled children received the maximum payment, she would get nearly $2,900 a month in state and federal assistance, including the food stamps.

Suleman's octuplets qualify for Medi-Cal, California's healthcare program for the poor. Three sources told The Times that Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower had requested reimbursement for care of the eight premature infants.

About Nadya's disability:

Her workers' compensation file, obtained by The Times, indicates that a doctor hired by the state to evaluate her believes she is now eligible for permanent disability. The state stopped making temporary disability payments Aug. 28. But the records show that she would receive payment for permanent disability. State officials said no determination has been made yet about the amount or duration of her payments.

This "serial mom," if she really wanted children, could have adopted instead of going through an expensive, risky procedure.:

The impulse that has made fertility medicine such a large and lucrative specialty in American medicine is about something other than children; it's about the narcissistic assumption that one is "entitled" to "the experience" of childbearing and, more to the point, the notion that, somehow, if your particular strands of DNA don't live on into another generation, the species will be poorer for it.

That sense of entitlement and its enabling delusion are about a lot of things -- but none of them really involve children.

Is that ever true. Nobody is "entitled" to have children, and if somebody does, he or she has the duty to make sure those children are brought up in the best possible circumstances.


A transcript of her interview with Dateline is here for anybody interested, and readers can watch the entire broadcast here.

This is the first part:

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According to Nadya's father, she falsified the name of the babies' father on their birth certificates.

Octupletgate

The fertility clinic where Nadya Suleman reportedly received her IVF treatments has a low pregnancy rate, believe it or not.

This is going to make the taxpayers happy:

Suleman receives at least $490 a month in food stamps, and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal benefits. Moreover, Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center has asked California's health plan for the poor to cover the enormous cost of medical care for the eight premature infants in its care, according to multiple sources familiar with the case.

The disclosures came as the identity of the doctor who provided Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother, with the in vitro fertilizations became public Monday. In an interview on NBC, she identified the clinic as West Coast IVF Clinic, which is run by Dr. Michael M. Kamrava.

Despite his clinic's very low pregnancy rate, Kamrava appears to have found a kindred spirit in Suleman:

This is not the first time he has faced controversy. At least two of his former employees have sued him, including Shirin Afshar, an office administrator who alleged that Kamrava engaged in systematic insurance and tax fraud. She also said he routinely asked her to participate in medical procedures even though she was not licensed to do so.

The suit said Kamrava required patients to pay in cash, which was given to Kamrava's wife, who "never entered the payment into the computer and never deposited the payment in the bank" so that Kamrava could avoid paying income tax on the money. The clinic kept two sets of books, one for insurance payments and one for cash payments, the lawsuit alleged.

Afshar also charged that Kamrava's office systematically defrauded insurance companies by double billing for procedures and by billing companies for unnecessary medication that Kamrava kept and then resold to other patients. The suit appeared to have settled in 1999, shortly before it went to trial.

Suleman says she will probably pay for the care of her infants with student loans.


Suleman's nanny service sticks up for her, probably the only people in the country, besides some wrongheaded "feminists," who support her irresponsible actions.