Though it has been forever and a day since anybody in the blogosphere has read a word from my befuddled and now pregnancy hormone enraged brain, I am alive and do (on occasion) get the chance and have the energy to pay attention to what is going on in the world beyond my growing belly. One story that has for the most part enraged me comes from World Net Daily about an Arizona high school and their prom night activities.

Apparently four of the five geniuses (I use that term extremely lightly, by the way) on the Brisbee High School board have voted to add condoms to the students’ prom night goodie bag. Along with a picture frame, candles, candy, and balloons, two condoms will also be there. Yes, you read correctly. Condoms. And not just ONE condom, but TWO….PER BAG. *Makes a face* Let’s just hand them some booze at the door too! I mean, heck, why not put a coupon in there for a free abortion. Or maybe a gift certificate to Babies ‘R’ Us for the couple to go buy a car seat for when they find out the female counterpart is pregnant because all FOUR condoms DID NOT WORK!!

C’mon people!! This is ridiculous! I mean, I’m pregnant and all that fun stuff…but I’m married! I’m also not in high school. And speaking of my being in high school (when I was, that is) they had breathalyzers at my prom! If you read the entire World Net Daily article, you will find that a Florida elementary school will be teaching their 6th graders how to correctly use condoms because they have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates. Well let’s just show them how to “wrap it”…that will make it all better. Geez…. Because it would be so hard to teach abstinence. *sighs* I don’t know what to think anymore. And honestly, it scares the living daylights out of me. I mean, Gribbit and I will be raising a child in a time where it is more correct to have sex with whomever whenever and wherever you want rather than waiting for somebody meaningful. I understand some kids don’t get that whole idea and are so jaded because of parents that they don’t believe in that whole “waiting for the one you love” stuff. Believe me, I remember rolling my eyes when somebody would tell me that’s what they were going to do for themselves when I was in high school; however, there is something to be said for at least waiting until you’re mature enough to deal with a decision you’ve made like that.

In all brutal honesty, I was never given the opportunity to make that decision for myself. Somebody took that from me. I am jealous of people who have the ability to say “No. I’m making a better choice for myself.” What makes me angry are the ones who throw it away. What makes me absolutely livid are the adults who make decisions for children who aren’t their own. Adults who feel they know what’s best for other parents’ kids. Adults who won’t be standing over those students that night to make sure they use the condoms in those goodie bags. Adults who won’t have a thing to do in helping that girl cope with a baby she’s not ready for if just one of those four condoms doesn’t work. Adults who won’t be there when the father of that possible baby isn’t there to be a father. What kind of “adults” are these??

God be with Gribbit and myself as we try to teach our children better than these other kinds of “adults.”

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The Senate made a huge deal the other day over their symbolic vote to ban waterboarding. What they weren’t telling you is how effective it is.

Townhall.com columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote an article that came out today that adequately shows to me how effective it is.

From Townhall:

Less than five minutes.

That’s the total amount of time the United States has waterboarded terrorist detainees. How many detainees? Three.

That is not 5 minutes each mind you. That is a total of 5 minutes for all three terrorists.

Less than five minutes.

Who were these detainees?

One was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “the principle architect of the 9/11 attacks” according to the 9/11 Report, and the head of al-Qaeda’s “military committee.” Linked to numerous terror plots, he is believed to have financed the first World Trade Center bombing, helped set up the courier system that resulted in the infamous Bali bombing, and cut off Danny Pearl’s head.

A second was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the head of al-Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf. He allegedly played a role in the 2000 millennium terror plots and was the mastermind behind the USS Cole attack that killed 17 Americans.

The third was Abu Zubaydah, said to be Osama bin Laden’s top man after Ayman al Zawahri and al-Qaeda’s chief logistics operative. It is believed that Zubaydah essentially ran al-Qaeda’s terror camps and recruitment operations. After he was waterboarded, Zubaydah reportedly offered intelligence officers a treasure trove of critical information. He was waterboarded just six months after the 9/11 attacks and while the anthrax scare was still ongoing.

Unlike what the MSM and the bleeding heart libtards would want you to believe, these were not innocent bystanders who happened to wander into the combat zone. These were hard-core terrorists who only have one goal in life… To kill you in the name of Allah.

Waterboarding is a simple process. You strap the subject down to a board or bench so that he is perfectly horizonal or on a slight grade with his head at the lower end. You place a wet towel over the subjects face and then proceed to pour water over the towel taking great care to not pour the water directly onto the subject’s face. At no time is the subject in danger of harm. But within seconds they will volunteer their mother’s sex lives.

Three subjects, less than 5 minutes and terrorist attacks were prevented. And the Senate wants to outlaw this?

Well sort of. Today is Mrs. Gribbit’s 21st birthday!!!!!!

Normally, I would say it was time to take her out and get her totally pie-eyed for her birthday. However, since she is with child, we’ll have to postpone that until after the baby is here and it is safe for her to indulge.

Happy Birthday Mrs. G!

It seems that Mr and Mrs Gribbit are expecting a little Gribbit. Nothing has been confirmed by an OBGYN yet, however, 3 home test all came out positive. We found out Thursday but delayed announcing in order to inform family members.

We are estimating that Mrs. Gribbit is about 4-5 weeks along but should have a more accurate estimate once she sees a Doctor.

According to a story I read at World Net Daily, a woman is filing a lawsuit against a Florida Ruby Tuesday restaurant for allegedly telling her to breastfeed her child in a woman’s restroom or outside. According to Florida law, mothers are permitted unconditionally to breastfeed anywhere, public or private, covered or uncovered. The problem with this lawsuit is that the woman isn’t suing based on the fact that the franchise supposedly wouldn’t let her breastfeed in the restaurant, it’s the fact that the incident caused severe emotional distress.

The woman, Dee Dee Olsen, wants a judge to force the company to comply with the law and claims Ruby Tuesday negligently and intentionally caused emotional distress, leading her to face continued mental and physical anxiety.

Now that you have that side of it, let’s venture into my thoughts about the subject. I’m a woman. My husband and I want children. I work at a daycare where I work specifically in the infant room. Needless to say, I deal with children (babies especially) and because I want children of my own and want to start them out the right way, I will be breastfeeding my children the first several months of their lives. Here’s the catch: I’m the kind of woman that doesn’t want any other human being other than my husband or child ogling my breasts. That means if and when I must breastfeed my child outside of my home, it will either be from a bottle that I pumped my breast milk into OR I will go into a restroom or out to my vehicle to actually breastfeed my child. Oh my goodness!! What a concept. Going somewhere so not every person on God’s creation can watch you pop a boob out to feed your child. I don’t care if you have it covered up or not. Twenty bucks says this woman just had her boob floating around while she fed her kid and that’s why a manager at the restaurant allegedly said something to the woman. I’m sorry lady, but even with as many people who watch porn and chicks who run around with their cleavage hanging out, we are an entirely too puritanistic society to have some random woman breastfeeding her kid in public. You just CANNOT do that! I don’t care what Florida law says, people don’t want to see that. I also don’t care if you have it covered up, because any person with a brain and the ability to use deductive reasoning will know what you’re doing. Not to mention, I highly doubt any woman has herself covered up as she’s actively popping her breast out of her bra/shirt. It’s just wrong on so many levels. Mind you, I’m not talking about the act of breastfeeding itself. I’m talking about doing it out in public where everyone can see it. Edward Lasker invented the breast pump for a reason. It can help for the like maybe two feedings your child may need while you’re out and about. And if you’re out longer than that…well, that’s your own problem. Not to mention, you should be able to get your child on enough of a schedule or know your child’s needs well enough to be able to plan around his/her feedings to where you know when you need to go home in order to actually breastfeed your child.

I would have to say my biggest problem with this woman is that her lawsuit isn’t just to have a judge enforce the law, it’s so she can get a bunch of money because that’s how most people are in this world. Yet again we have another trivial [read: BULLSHIT] lawsuit taking up time in our Federal court. I mean, c’mon, the woman is claiming to have “continued emotional and physical anxiety” about the situation. Gag me with a spoon. Lady, get over yourself. Oh, and another tidbit of information that makes this a stupid lawsuit, this happened clear back in November of 2003. Can we say statute of limitations is running out and somebody is broke? If she wasn’t in it for the money and was only about enforcing the law, I wouldn’t be as upset about the whole issue. Although I am against breastfeeding in public, if the law says it’s ok there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m all about following the law. The problem here is this woman is only out for the money. There is a huge difference.

*Note: Upon reading all of the Florida law about this subject matter, I find it to not be for the best interests of the child and/or mother, but for the best interests of the government agency which provides funding to below-poverty line mothers. I will leave that, however, for a future post.*

The post you’re about to read might somewhat be a case of the pot calling the kettle black; however, I’m very compelled to write about the following subject because I find myself greatly angered about it.

A blogger, who shall remain nameless (and only because I’m trying VERY hard to be good), I only know of because of my significant other Gribbit will occasionally write a post Gribbit catches wind of and will then share it with me to show this person’s idiocy. This has happened again and it was all I could do to not leave a wicked comment of my own on this person’s site. You see, my grudge with this person is that he trolls other people’s blogs (like Gribbit’s) and instead of writing his own post about the subject matter in general possibly being wrong or something, he just rips on whatever the author has to say and calls him/her “stupid.” Evidently the blogger I’m complaining about is the ignorant one if the only adjective he can come up with is “stupid.”

At any rate, the whole point of this particular post of mine is that this person can’t be bothered to do any research in an attempt to disprove what others have to say, he just likes to try and toot his own horn (all his hot air, you know) by simply calling people “stupid.” Wow…. I wish I had that much to NOT do in my day that I can waste my time on such things.
Bottomline: Get a life, dude. Learn to write posts with meaning.

Have no fear! Mrs. Gribbit is here! Yes, after forever and fifty years I am back and will be attempting to keep up with my blogging. Please be patient with me as I attempt to juggle this, my job, and having a life. I will be doing my best to better keep up with posting regularly. Hopefully as the 2008 election grows nearer I will have lots to write about. This shall be the first.

For the most part (thus far) I’ve been sitting back just taking mental notes on what all has been going on as far as the potential presidential candidates go. Now that I somewhat have my thoughts collected, I’ll make my first set of statements regarding these just of-so-fabulous people trying to get us to decide he or she is who should be the leader of the free world for the next 4 to 8 years. I’ll start off with the Democratic Candidates.

Barack Obama: Aside from the fact that Oprah Winfrey endorses him and I don’t like her because I honestly feel she’s racist (yes, it’s possible), I don’t feel he has enough experience to be our President. It’d be like me deciding to open and run my own daycare since I’ve worked at one for 8 months. Way different leagues and a strange metaphor, I know; however, do you see my point? There’s so much I don’t know about the daycare field as far as state regulations and things like that. You can’t tell me Barack Obama is any more enlightened about the duties of being President of the United States than I am to be the owner of a daycare.

John Edwards: He didn’t get anywhere the last time, what makes him think he’ll accomplish anything this time around? I mean seriously. That and more of his libtardedness has come through this time….that or the fact that I have my head screwed on right (RIGHT…get it?? lol) is making the difference.

Hillary Clinton: Ok people…. No. Just say no! Do you all remember what her husband did when he was president? And no, I’m not talking about his sexual indiscretions. I could care less about that. I’m talking about his “accomplishments” while in office and the fact that he lied under oath. What makes anybody really think Hillary would or could do a better job?? She’s also another who really doesn’t have the experience. If you take a look at this article you’ll see an interesting take from a New York Times writer on Hillary’s experience, or lack thereof. On top of that, I honestly see Americans going for a black President before a woman. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Now for the possible Republican Candidates.

Ron Paul: He’s an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ‘Nuff said.

Mike Huckabee: At first (and I mean several months ago), I thought he might be a possibility. I got smarter. There’s no way. Evidently this guy has some delusions of grandeur or something because he seems to think he has college degrees in things he doesn’t, thinks it’s a good idea to let rapists out of prison to roam freely and (by all means) rape again, and has decided that we need to correct the fact that our ancestors one time had African American slaves by allowing illegal immigrants’ children to attend school here in America TUITION FREE!
You know what? I graduated high school with an honors diploma, started college a year early where I was double majoring in English and Psychology while minoring in Spanish (because I hate France (therefore the language) worse than Mexico or Spain). I had to take an unexpected break due to family issues, but am now struggling to get state and/or federal funding to help get back into school so I can finish getting my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology so I can then get my certification to become a Licensed Professional Clinical Councilor (LPCC) so I can work to pay to continue to go to school to get my Master’s Degree and eventually my PhD. Do I get any handouts at the blink of an eye after having worked my ass off to basically get nowhere fast?? NO!! And yet this idiot wants to let ILLEGAL immigrants’ children get into schools of any kind ahead of me. Please, explain to me how it’s fair to award the children of people who can’t sign the freaking metaphorical guest book. While you’re at it, tell me how this makes up for our ancestors having AFRICAN AMERICAN slaves. Hmm….. If you’d like to hear more about this genius, pay Ann Coulter’s post at Townhall a visit. It’s sure to rile you up and make you laugh at the same time.

Rudy Giulliani: Not to use a trite term from the last election, but can we say “flip-flopper”? Gay marriage and abortion just to name a couple. Well, I’ll give him a little credit. I guess he’s not really a “flip-flopper” per se. He’s just socially libtarded on these subjects. Here’s another genius who thinks he has all the experience in the world to be a President.

Mitt Romney: Now here’s the flip-flopper on those subjects. He also allowed illegal immigrants to take care of his lawn. Seriously…. Is it that hard to buy a John Deere riding lawnmower and do it yourself? Are you that flipping high and mighty that you have to get a bunch of people who aren’t supposed to be here a reason to keep telling their thousands of cousins to also come here illegally and take from the true American citizens?

Fred Thompson: Well, as I’m sure most of you know, my significant other Gribbit has made no effort to hide the fact that he is all for Fred Thompson. It’s written (quite literally) all over his website. This is another one I’m not totally sure on yet. He’s being a little too quiet for my liking. Maybe this is how he’ll conquer everyone. I have no clue. I just wish he’d do a little more right now in some way. Aside from that, I’ll leave him alone as well.

Well, I think I’ve covered most of the frontrunners. I didn’t talk about John McCain, but that’s because he’s kind of like Ron Paul: invisible. Look for more updates as time moves forward.

Hi Friends!

Due to circumstances beyond ANYONE’S control, the host where this site was previously located no longer exists. I’d like to thank Chris Short for his assistance in hosting my site over the past year.

Gribbit and I have been successful in gaining new hosting and Mrs. Gribbit’s Word will be up and running on the new server soon. Please be patient as we make the change. All previous posts were lost when the old host expired so we will be starting from scratch.

Again, thank you for visiting my blog and please come back soon for some new content.

Mrs. Gribbit