Tell a lie often enough.

[kyburg]

People still making a hefty profit - doesn't hurt the subject matter just keeps morphing into more whack per pound than anything else around.

This is an amazing piece of DUH.

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.

Anyone think to ask the HOSPITAL? No? Or how about the Medi-Cal people in Sacramento? No? Gee, is it possible this stuff could not possibly be information the Times had access to? No? And if they did, and published it - they could be sued? No? (In all honesty, why not if there's funds to do it - MediCal is known to be the worst, slowest payer on the list, including collections. You don't ask, you don't get. Maybe they're having to spend more on ARMED GUARDS for the NICU, the whole hospital.)

I'll call them and see what they tell me. Only thing I'm going to ask the hospital is if the Times actually called them.

On the Internet, bloggers rained insults on Suleman, calling her an "idiot," criticizing her decision to have more children when she couldn't afford the ones she had, and suggesting she be sterilized.

eyelid and I will be laughing our asses off in the corner. UH SHE'S STERILE IVF HELLO.

"From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system," host Bryan Suits said on the "Kennedy and Suits" show on KFI-AM. "You're damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out."

Bet these bright pennies never attended a single orientation to consider adopting out of the foster care system, let alone tried it...or talked anyone who's tried it.

BTW, the state doesn't step in. The county does. Dumbass. Not the same thing. Talk to someone who does the budgets and you'd find that out right quick.

I might also bring this up, since it might be pertinent.

This is the neighborhood and culture that produced Karen Carpenter. Her folks lived right up the street.

Delightul place, neh?

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[rin-o.livejournal.com]

reads like it was made at the last second as filler. which it no doubt was.

why is this crap still in the news? they can call me when SIDS kicks in or something. i don't want to hear "people are angry on THE INTRNET!" like it's news.

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Have state and county agencies located the biological father yet? Surely all of these bright people realize it takes two to bring these sorts of things about.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*crickets*

[rin-o.livejournal.com]

he claimed he was tricked and didn't know she was using his donated sperm to make babies. since this is an entirely flawless defense, they've seen fit to leave him alone, not deserving of negative attention as he clearly is.

really.

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the same geniuses that couldn't figure out she was in a fertility clinic because she was sterile...hmmm..."Yay America." Talk radio brings such joy into my life.

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the "but officer she told me my sperm could cure cancer" defense. Highly effective in states without any required sex ed courses.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

There are also a lot of other charitable funds which *require* you to apply for Medi-Cal, even if it's a dead cert that you won't qualify - they have to show that you tried the state first. My old health care works this way.

And what, the hospital is just supposed to eat the costs? Are people mad at the hospital for not kicking her out now?

...whatever. I'm pretty sure it's not good for me to argue with the stupid on the Internet anyway.