Sweetie Darlings!
Before your ever faithful Mad Mom takes a long longed for vacation, I leave you with some food for naught:
Oh Good Lord?
My old pal Chuchie posted this crazy article from ABC.com about how a debate about whether to teach religious-based social studies in Texas public schools has brought on a larger debate that could influence textbooks used by students in parts of the country where there is no lobbying for such religious-based material.
The chief asshole in this endeavor, Evangelical minister Peter Marshall, is president of the Massachusetts-based (tsk, tsk homies!!) Peter Marshall Ministries. He says, "Our children need to know the truth about how our country got started. Nearly all the founding fathers were Christian believers and it is their biblical world that shaped the way they thought and achieved what they did."
Sooooo...they want to infuse Christianity into TEXTBOOKS now? C'mon! Are there no Jews in Texas? Unitarians even? Where are my Southern Fried Gays? Someone tell a joke, here. Or even better, smack some sense into these idiots. What a ginormous crock of bubbling muddy shit.
How else will these crazy conservatives plot to poison the minds of the young and the restless and corner them into chastity, because that'll keep our frisky young whippersnappers from producing more liberals?
Get over it. You've lost the election.
Breastfeeding A No No At IKEA
According to Gothamist, a woman breastfeeding her baby at the Red Hook IKEA was remanded to the can:
"On Wednesday I was in Ikea Redhook in the middle of breastfeeding, fully covered, when I was told I had to stop doing "that" and go to the nearby family bathroom. The Ikea employee and security guards were extremely rude to us. I was hustled off to the bathroom and then had to wait because someone else was using it. I was humiliated, my daughter was upset from being interrupted in the middle of her feed. When eventually I gave up and headed for the car to finish feeding, the security guards who had seen the entire event insisted on checking my receipts. I'm putting together a formal complaint to IKEA. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else?"
WTF?!?!? Look, when it came to breastfeeding, I was of the shy sort. That said, I believe that as long as she's not squirting breast milk in your eye, a woman should be able to whip out her food banks and feed her baby anywhere she damn well wants. Nipples aren't just for tassles and doorknockers, you know.
Stupid Item Of The Week
This chair, made by BabySwede LLC, was recently recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after small metal pieces were found in the padded section of the Babysitter's fabric seat. Now, I'm a fan of the BabyBjorn, but this seat -- the BabyBjorn Babysitter Balance Air -- retails at a whopping $140-190 and it's main hook is that it's "a cool looking seat" for babies ages newborn to two in a breathable fabric.
You're supposed to shell out a buck fifty for this because it's "cool looking?" What two year old, or one year old for that matter, would appreciate being strapped down at an aerodynamic angle such as this for any period of time? How on earth are they supposed to stay out of trouble while mom or dad takes a shower? That's a pretty fricking penny for something that holds no entertainment value whatsoever.
All I can see is a desperate young toddler, laying on his side, busted mid-scoot in his plot to reach in and turn off the hot water.
Perhaps BabyBjorn should join forces with Baby Einstein or Sesame Street to market this bad boy because the only way a toddler's going to consent to sitting in that glorified straitjacket is in close proximity to some serious animation on a screen so big, it makes Elmo lifelike.
Don't Get So F*cking Smart
Don't fuck with a mother hen who's face has been pulled so tight, it's hard to tell her mouth from her anus.
That's it for now kids! Have a great few weeks!
xx
The Mad Mom
