So - I revisit this

So, I've had a daughter and she is one years old now. ONE. Anyone who has raised a human being before knows that "one" year, or better said "Year One" is an epic.

These things grow like weeds people. They evolve faster than anything I have ever seen in my life. One day you are staring at something from the blue lagoon (just born babies aren't the same as the picture on the brochure) and then all of the sudden you have a chubby cheeked baby crawling over and into everything.

The journey is frought with terror, sleeplessness, and worry. We never want to hurt their development, but how would you know? There is no score. There is no buzzer. There is no handbook. Hell, some of the "advice" you get is downright rediculous when applied to your baby...read that "YOUR" baby. The lack of a handbook or even a warning label makes for some stressful days. The first time they choke - yeah it happens - you freak out. It isn't because you don't know what to do...because you know you read a book about it. It is because you are watching "YOUR" child struggle. The panic caused by seeing your child in danger is akin to having a brain-ectomy. You freeze.

I think I am straying away here...there is a topic at hand and I think I should stick to it...where the hell was I...oh yes.

Babies in their first year are a challenge. The brochure shows happy babies and pretty babies at that. Babies don't always come out looking like that. Nor do they smile, at first. My daughter was just a lump of flesh that cried, pooped, and squirmed. Sure she was cute. Sure she was A-DOOR-ABLE. That didn't help the fact that she was just a liability at that age. Defenseless and loud were her only qualities outside of cute.

My daughter hated the holy grail of parenting - the car ride. It was supposed to be this AMAZING thing. Just put a baby in a car and drive around...this will give you a sleepy baby. Easy enough for you and your wonderbread kid. My baby hated the car seat, hated the car, and hated me for putting her in the car. Nothing like a few hours of driving to clear your thoughts...with a screaming child in a car seat.

Whatever you bring at me - my daughter hates it. You say your kid loves X brand of yoghurt. Poppycock - My daughter throws it at you. You say your kid can't get enough playing with X toy...hahaha...I waste money on hopes and dreams.

The point is - The first year consists of growing a human being that cannot talk, cannot move on its own, and cannot feed itself. It cannot tell you what hurts or how badly. It cannot show you where. It cannot even tell you why it is crying at all. So for the first year you are helpless. Alone to navigate the embatlements of parent kind. Each new step like a round in minesweeper. All making the first year THE most difficult.

There just isn't enough time in the day to explain it enough. Year ONE is like 7 gray hairs.

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Wow...are we going to see an epidemic...

Now we have CHIROPRACTORS SUING! Over negative reviews on a website. I think this is wading a little close to impingement of constitutional rights. Anyone on the internet, or in person should be able to speak their mind based on proof and fact. For instance, if a customer had a poor experience they should be able to explain that in any way they feel.

It isn't slander if it is TRUE people. We aren't saying that the chiropractor or that model are screwing puppies in their off time. It is just biased reviews based on their own personal feelings or experiences.

Expect to see more of these useless lawsuits gumming up the legal system...just wait until inmate ##### gets a hold of this idea. He'll have motions all over the place about how some news agency caused him defamation of character or slander during his legal proceedings that landed him in fuck-me-in-the-ass penitentiary.

This is going to get out of hand quickly if someone doesn't put these people in check and fast!

You would think that there are bigger fish to fry...

A model is suing Google because somebody called her names....are you fucking kidding me? Really? Is this news? Is this even reality?

I have to collect myself for a moment because this person must fall into a catagory of people who've never been humiliated or embarrassed in their lives. This is the Michael Jackson syndrome where a child is given everything and anything, without challenge. Living a bubble life that they are the center of and never facing the realities of being the ugly duckling, or the bullied step-child.

So, now that they have been served their serving of shit on a platter they lash out in the only means they know...lawsuits. Gentle reader (which is probably only my wife...so...) cover your eyes...I am about to give you the Marine Corps version of my thoughts:

Shut the fuck up and realize that you are a grown fucking person. I don't give a fuzzy apples ass what someone said to you in an online blog, and you shouldn't either. You spineless, classless, useless thing that can't wipe your own ass, but will seek the blood of peasants for saying anything cross against you. Have you no fucking shame? Don't you realize that this will only cause more blood to spill in your forsaken name. You've not helped yourself win anything more than a fucking target on your back and you should enjoy what is about to beset you. Is this where the world is going too? is this really what is happening?

I've am ashamed at humanity for this. I blame everyone for it. We do this to ourselves. Our fat, disobedient, rambunctious, unchecked children grow up to be this. Stand in a walmart anytime any day of the week and you will see it and know it. This feeling of entitlement is growing out of hand. This stupid twit is going to sue until she knows the name of the person that said mean things to/about her. Why? Because she can. What ever happened to "sticks and stones"?

For the love of christ, the money she is going to spend on finding this poor bastard could have fed several starving families for weeks. What is even better, is that her clients feel this is going to damage their products image...let me clue everyone in on something: NO ONE KNEW ABOUT THIS UNTIL YOU STARTED SUING PEOPLE. Now...we all know because it is very interesting. If it wasn't interesting, we wouldn't care...but now we do. See how this works? Had you just shut your mouth and dealt with it quietly no one would have ever known or cared about it.

The UAW just doesn't seem to understand...

Wow...so, in my last post the UAW was pointing fingers at the US Government for not giving the auto industry a bailout package. Now, they are biting the hand that feeds them. These guys are ridiculous and it is just amazing that they are unwilling to do what it takes to keep these companies in business. Or better yet, allow this industry to become COMPETITIVE again.

They wonder why the American opinion of auto-workers and their representative unions is so low. Well...here is the case and point. You got what you demand like a child wanting a new toy and now that you have it...it isn't the right color/size/shape/model/design/plan you wanted. BOO-HOO and GROW UP.

Some unions have a function, but I believe that we have outgrown their usefulness in some markets. We aren't living in the middle-ages or the industrial-age anymore. We've moved on to the technological-age and beyond. In this world we have technology that could replace hundreds of workers with low cost robotics. This would free up a lot of man power for other industries and lower the cost of production.

Maybe these UAW pin-heads should look at it like this...while it isn't in our best interest to let the auto industry FAIL, you all shouldn't feel an ounce of ENTITLEMENT. You should be EMBARRASSED that you are in this position and groveling for forgiveness that you damned these companies to failure with all of your contract shenanigans. KUDOS to you morons. Get off your crosses...someone else needs the wood to stay warm this winter....

UAW speaks...and it's nothing worth listening too

So the UAW president has "lashed out" against the lawmakers for scuttling the bailout. This guy is a piece of work. In the article he is quoted as saying that lawmakers are trying to "pierce the heart of organized labor." POPPYCOCK I say and for good reason. If he wanted to help his union members he would have come to the table and tried to work out some concessions. In the end of the day, it is the responsibility of both the company and the union employees to ensure the financial well being of the host company. Which to this point has not happened (at least that we are aware of) and instead they have been praying for the government to bail them out. Who the hell do they think they are?! That is MY money they are playing with! They don't understand what this bailout could mean to them. There is a very high likelyhood that they will lose some control and some leverage should the bailout get passed. 

They blame lawmakers for what is nearly entirely or entirely their own fault. I might have said this before, but I will say it again about an article I read for a class saying that $7000 of every new F-150 that was sold went to pensions. Let that sink in a bit - the number one selling full size pickup truck in the united states - has a pension cost HIGHER than that of all the steel used to BUILD IT.

So how do you recover from that? You either go bankrupt and really put the unions balls in a vice, which is why they are lashing out now you know...because pencil-dick UAW president has been so confident that they wouldn't have to worry.  Well, now he is worrying and disappointed in his lobbiests.

The BIG THREE had some nerve approaching congress for a bail-out to begin with...UAW has some balls for lashing out when it failed. I think they all need to get together and work out some concessions. All FOUR of them are responsible for what is happening...the bubble has burst. Time for THEM to sort this mess out.