Uterus Didelphys Birth

Sarah and Shane Reinfelder are the proud new parents of twin baby girls. Having twins doesn't usually get you in the news, but it does when you have a birth defect called Uterus Didelphys. 21-year-old Sarah Reinfelder has Uterus Didelphys, and has two seperate wombs. Two babies, two wombs, and one mother. She just gave birth via caesarean section, and has named the girls Kaylin and Valerie. I would imagine Sarah Reinfelder is a bit tired of her womb(s) being discussed all over the national news, but many people were unaware that Uterus Didelphys even existed. Good luck to the Reinfelder family and congratulations!

Uterus Didelphys

Pollyanna Disconnect Invented For Nadya Suleman

Dr.Phil may have been at a loss for words to describe Nadya Suleman, when he coined the psychiatric term "Pollyanna Disconnect" to describe Nadya Suleman. Dr. Phil said, "I see somebody that has such a Pollyanna disconnect with real-world realities, and what she’s getting ready to face, it’s like she’s on a Disney ride." Could it be that Pollyanna Disconnect will become the popular new malfunction in the psychiatric world?

Interviewer: OK, so you had six kids. You were living with your parents, with no job and collecting welfare. What did you decide to do next?

Interviewee: I had a $50,000 in-vitro procedure to have 8 more.

Interviewer: Aaah. So you must have had some master plan right? Something your not telling the folks at home?

Interviewee: No.

Pollyanna Disconnect sufferer? Nadya Suleman, mother of Octuplets and possibly one of the first diagnosed cases of Pollyanna Disconnect in TV psychotherapy.

Pollyanna Disconnect

Samim Anghaie NASA

It's been alleged that Samim Anghaie, a University of Florida Professor from Iran, may have defrauded the United States government out of a large sum of cash. Samim Anghaie works for a company called NETECH in Gainesville, FL. along with his wife, Sousan Anghaie. According to news reports, this couple applied for contracts with NASA to do some type of Uranium research. The two years that they were receiving the funds from NASA, they may have spent most of the money on personal luxury items. The FBI raided the property today, and it appears they have been gathering quite a bit of evidence against Samim Anghaie. If Samim and Sousan Anghaie are charged in federal court, which is plausible, they will be facing some extremely serious charges.

Samim Anghaie FBI Raid

fafsa.gov or fafsa.ed.gov?

The FAFSA can easily be filled out online at fafsa.gov, according to an article printed by the Providence Business News on February 9, 2009. Yet, that seems to be a misprint, as fafsa.gov doesn't appear to be a working website. Just for clarification, I believe the correct website is fafsa.ed.gov, rather than fafsa.gov. For those of you that are curious about what a FAFSA even is, that stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. You can check out fafsa.gov, oops I meant fafsa.ed.gov and see if you qualify to get educational financing assistance. So, if your looking on fafsa.gov, just try fafsa.ed.gov instead.

fafsa.gov

Doctor Fish Pedicures

Doctor fish pedicures were recently banned by the Florida Board of Cosmetology. Although this procedure is common in China, it has come under much scrutiny in the United States, causing several states to ban doctor fish pedicures. It's funny this practice is getting banned in so many states, when so many of us never knew doctor fish pedicures even existed. If you live in Florida, Washington, Texas, Massachusetts and New Hampshire you are out of luck, as it has already been banned. Doctor fish pedicures are performed by immersing your feet in an aquarium full of hungry fish, and allowing them to feed on decaying skin cells. According to the Board of Cosmetology, doctor fish pedicures are unsanitary, because there is no way to properly sanitize the fish aquarium between uses.

Fish Pedicure

Cave Home On Ebay

Curt & Deborah Sleeper purchased a cave sitting on 2.8 acres for 160,000 in 2003. They would like to stay in their cave, but the Balloon payment is due on May 1 2009, so they don't know if they'll be able to raise the funds. The cave home is up for sell on Ebay, with a starting bid of $300,000. They spent four years investing everything they had to renovate this cave, into the luxury cave home it is today.

The Ebay auction for the cave home will run until March 11, with pre-approved bidders or buyers only. The Ebay pictures flaunt an 80 by 80 foot party room, a 400 square foot kitchen, and geothermal and passive solar energy source. The cave home has three spacious bedrooms as well. In the back chamber of the cave home is a stage where Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Ike and Tina Turner, the MC5 and many other bands have performed. The Ebay listing for the cave home is at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330306913609

Cave Home in Festus, Missouri

NY Post Chimpanzee Cartoon

The NY post cartoon depicting a political parody of Obama, is receiving a lot of interest. In the cartoon it shows a picture of Travis the attacking chimpanzee, just after it was gunned down by police. In the caption it reads, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." The NY Post claims that no racism was intended, and I tend to accept that, especially since the media constantly compared President Bush as a chimp as well. What frightens me about the whole situation, are the comments to some of the news articles regarding this. America is all about the constant right to free speech, and not just when you happen to agree with it.

Some of these comments regarding the NY Post, and in support of Obama, reflect a fascism that I hope never takes hold in America. Here's one...

I hear about the article on a radio show and I could not believe my ears. In this date and age, it is very sad to see that ignorance still prevails. Let me tell you that the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and every single Law Enforcement Agency should be knocking the doors down of the cartoonist. Not only that he should be put in jail for threatening the President of the United States of America. Last time i looked at the law, threatening the President of the United States was against the law. Also the owner and editor of the newspaper should also be held responsible for the simple fact that they approved it and let it happened. It really saddens me to still see how ignorant people can be. This newspaper will never again enter my home or the home of my relatives and friends. Everyone that was involved with creating or publishing the cartoon should be fired and prosecuted.

I support the NY Post, and I hope we never see a day when journalists are in prison, for exercising their freedom of speech.

NY Post Obama Chimp Cartoon

Racist Test

Project Implicity by Harvard University has a series of tests on their website, that has been nicknamed "The Racist Test". It offers different tests designed to measure discrimination against gender, weight, age, skin tone, sexuality, weapons, religion, politics, disability, arabs-muslims, race, and asian-Americans.

Racism is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. The racist test indicates most Americans prefer young over old, white skin over black, heterosexuals over homosexuals,and thin over fat.

While many might loudly disagree, personally, I believe that most people are racists. In fact, the data from the Harvard racist test actually supports that notion. It's just that we are all taught that the most important thing is to be politically correct. After a few years in the working world, you've been through numerous cultural sensitivity training classes. You've learned that there is nothing worse than being labelled a racist.

Could it just be natural, to have a preferance for your own culture? I'm not condoning racism as far as violence is concerned, and I don't believe that's acceptable by any means. Yet, is it wrong to feel a sense of comfort in your own race, that you may not feel elsewhere?

There were many people that voted in Obama simply because he was black. That would certainly qualifies as racism. Not to say, there were not others who looked at all of his traits, and voted because they believed he was the best man for the job. Yet, many admitted they voted for him simply because of the color of his skin.

Would you feel more comfortable getting in a airplane packed with arabs, or white people? Just asking...

Do you think you might be racist? Take the racist test:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html

Atascadero Escondido

Atascadero Escondido a seemingly obscure name, has received an obscene amount of Google searches today. Being the clueless, umm I mean conscientious reporter of breaking news, I decided to take a closer look. What exactly is Atascadero Escondido, and why do the masses yearn for more information?

Atascadero was a relatively unknown city in California, until a few days ago, when they made national news due to a bizarre auto accident. A drunk driver drove right into a sleeping womans bedroom in Atascadero, California on Thursday, February the
12th. This caused major property damage, but fortunately, no one was seriously injured. Escondido is another city in California, but there is also a road called Escondido in Atascadero, California. Could they be searching Atascadero Escondido to try to find out more about this horrifying accident?

While this remains a mystery, that would be a possibility. Of course, it could also be a hoax, created by a mad scientist webmaster. They could have Google searchers strategically located all over the world, searching "Atascadero Escondido" in an attempt to make this keyword talked about on all the blogs that monitor hot trends. If you know what it's about please comment here, until then, the phrase of the day is Atascadero Escondido.

Here's a video on a rare snowstorm in Atascadero, California:

Octuplets Website Scam?

Even though unemployed Nadya Suleman is getting $1900 a month to help support her disabled kids from the government, $500 a month in food stamps from the government, and is having the State of California pay her nearly million dollar hospital bills, she has stated outright she is not on welfare. If that's not welfare, I'm not sure what is. Now she has the octuplets website in which she can request even more money from hard working taxpayers. Yet, she has an estimated $50,000 to blow on fertility specialist, when she is divorced, with six kids to take care of already?

On the octuplets website at thenadyasulemanfamily.com, it's a simple design with the option of giving a donation or making a comment. I feel for single parents out there struggling to provide for their family. Nadya Suleman, I don't have any empathy for, as I believe she is simply working the system. If someone is poor and relying on taxpayers to provide for them, you do not go to get artificial insemination so that you can have 14 kids. Too much. Go away Nadya Suleman, and take your octuplets website with you.

Video about the octuplets website/Nadya Suleman:

Paula Abdul Jewelry

Paula Abdul has her own line of jewelry through the Home Shopping Network. Paula Abdul jewelry ranges in price from about $30, up to several hundred dollars. Many of these pieces of cosmetic jewelry probably would not be in much demand, other than Paula Abdul has her name on them. Yet, celebrities just have a way of selling things, that ordinarily you may never purchase. From household items, perfume, to political ideas, many people will buy simply due to celebrity endorsement. I only have a few pieces of jewelry, it's all real, and I'm not much into cosmetic jewelry. Therefore, my review of the Paula Abdul jewelry collection may be somewhat biased. But tell me please, would you really rush out to buy this if it weren't in the Paula Abdul jewelry collection? Above: HSN Photo Paula Abdul FYG Bold Mosaic Cut Out Earrings.

These earrings remind me of something I saw on the clearance rack at Walmart several years ago, for the 99 cent sale, and rolling back prices and all that good stuff. Would these be significant if they weren't Paula Abdul Jewelry? Don't get me wrong. I admire Paula Abdul on American Idol, because she is the nice one. Paula Abdul has also been designing this jewelry for American Idol contestants since 2002. It's nice that she's creative, and has other talents. But do we really need Paula Abdul jewelry, handbags, accessories, and such? I guess the market will determine that.

News - Laugh and the world laughs with you

We've all heard the old cliché-Laugh and the world laughs with you, mourn and mourn alone. According to a scientific study, happiness is contagious literally. If you surround yourself with happy people, have a profound and lasting effect on your own happiness.

According to an article by Maria Cheng of the Associated Press, a research paper published in a British medical journal concluded that happiness is contagious and that people spend in their joy, even the total number of foreigners.

The study was carried out by American researchers in a group of 4,700 subjects in Framingham, Mass. The study also found that the transfer of happiness can last up to one year.

The study indicated that happy people tend to be at the center of social networks and had many friends who were also happy. Have friends or close relatives of a person more likely to be happy and spread that happiness to the outside by three degrees, not only friends but also friends of friends.

One area of research that address was not the advent of social networks on the Internet. While it is believed that the social networks on the Internet may have the same effect, there is no evidence of this, because not exist when the 2003 survey. While it seems that social networking can help in the network can also be directed to contact (person to person) may be a necessary ingredient for this contagion of happiness to work.

It is also interesting that the effect was stronger with the friends of the same sex and that the effect is even stronger than having a happy couple.

In other research, Andrew Steptoe, professor of psychology at University College London is pleased that it also brings other benefits, including a protective effect on the immune system to produce fewer stress hormones. So not only you feel good to be happy, but you will actually be healthier.

There are other reasons why it may be wise to choose your social networks (friends) carefully. In an earlier study by the Harvard Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler of the University of California (the authors of this study) also found that obesity and smoking spread socially.

One of the interesting aspects of the study also adds to the old cliché that: mourn and mourn alone. The study also showed that grumpy people and much less negative effect on social networks more positive than the happiness of people. So while you may want to surround yourself with happy, you do not have to drop your grumpy friends. In fact, perhaps their joy is contagious to them.

An interesting side note in the study is that the sudden influx of money has almost no effect on happiness as happy to have friends. In a way, which is also supported by another of the old clichés of money does not buy happiness.