Who Made This Mess?

I have had it. I am at my breaking point. The so-called “math curriculum” called Everyday Math is the suckiest piece of crap worst program I have ever seen! I am currently (started today, lol) doing research for an article I intend to send to every newspaper across the country that will print it. If your child is exposed to this torture on a daily basis and you have an opinion about it that you don’t mind me quoting you on I want to hear it!

I feel so bad for my poor daughter who gets so frustrated trying to understand her homework she is in tears and it takes 2 hours. 2 FREAKING HOURS!!!! For 1 piece of paper! I have been complaining about this program for over a year now, trying to decide what kind of action I can take, and rallying supporters. My action is to expose this trash they are teaching our children to the public. If the school districts won’t listen to us as a single unit, maybe they will listen with a little public humiliation!

I had another post all prepared for today but a more important topic came up. I read about this over at IzzyMom first. I will include the links that she did as well. The fact that some people with big mouths or big influence think that breastfeeding is obscene is obscene in itself. They think that breastfeeding mothers should not be doing this in public. I’m sorry, are they supposed to stay locked in a cage at home till they wean their child? They are mothers for crying out loud!!! We already have a kazillion things to do, all at the same time I might add, now we have to deal with morons like this?

*Clears throat* “Excuse me, would all morons please line up to apply for the job of “Mom” to see exactly what it is like. Oh yeah, we’re gonna stick a kid to your boob ever 2-4 hours for 20 minutes. You still need to finish everything on your to-do list while doing this. Good Luck.”

Apparently Facebook(read more here) and Myspace are jumping on the bandwagon calling pictures of mothers breastfeeding obscene! WTF? I have seen more obscene profile pics of people on these sites! They are pulling pictures of mothers breastfeeding off peoples profiles. And in some cases shutting down their account without notice and refusing to reinstate it. Saying that the pictures went against their “terms”.

The fact that they have deemed breastfeeding, something that is healthy for both mother and baby “obscene” is just ridiculous. But to top it off, they allow pro-anorexia groups, and don’t deem them “obscene”. Oh yeah sure, nurturing a baby in public, totally heinous. Girls and women starving themselves and puking their guts out? Let’s slap that all over the place. According to David Wescott there are currently 350 pro-anorexia groups on Facebook. Why is it that Facebook wants to support unhealthy lifestyles yet ban the healthy ones?

Mojo of a Mama has a great post on this topic. It is a must read, including the comments. These are some ladies that have their heads on straight. The fact is, that American society has sexualized womens breasts so much that people (other than mothers) cannot see them as anything other than sexual. When in fact they were meant for breastfeeding!

Pundit Mom really says it! “The message that’s being sent is clear and it’s not a good one — breasts in their natural state must not be seen in public, but breasts for entertainment, especially “enhanced” ones — AWESOME!”.

We want our daughters to grow up with good self esteem and for our sons to respect women but how can they when all around them are messages such as this? That women in their natural form are not to be respected? They need to be tweaked and silicone to be worth anything? If society has it’s way we are all going to end up on some WT talk show crying our eyes out about why our pre-teen daughters are such disrespectful hoochies. Eugh.

I’m gonna head on over to Facebook and post all these links on my page. I may even dig up some pictures just to irk them off. It may not be very progressive, but it will make me feel better!

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More Great Bloggers who Agree:
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Thank you Izzy for bringing this topic to light for many of us!!!

This day is one that will live in American History and American Hearts. It was a day of such shock and horror at what we saw on our televisions and in person. I still feel numb and yet incredibly sick at the same time when I think about it. A terrorist attack on American soil. It seemed like such an unfathomable possiblity at the time. Even with Pearl Harbor, and other such incidences in our past. They are so few and far between that we forget that the possiblity still exists.

I was still in bed, just waking up. My husband was on the computer looking at the news, he said “A plane crashed into the WTC.” I sat up and looked at him, “What do you mean a plane crashed into the WTC?” The though that it was a small jet was running through my mind. The news clip wasn’t really giving a lot of details, it had apparenlty just happened and he had logged on just in time to see the first headline.We turned on the television, by this time my daughter had crawled into bed with me. My mom was scurrying around downstairs getting breakfast ready, we yelled down for her to turn on her television. We watched the papers falling, people crying and bleeding. The firefighters, police officers and others sworn to uphold justice in our country in complete dissaray. Our unsung heroes.

We continued to watch in horror as a second plane crashed into the second tower. What did this mean? No one had any idea why this had happened. Americans banded together as never before to help one another. Complete strangers leaning on one another. Any source of comfort was welcome, even if just an encouraging smile from across the debris strewn street. The streets all over America were silent. In awe of the tragedy that had just assaulted our homeland.

Today we remember those we love as well as those we never knew. We remember the scar on the NYC skyline where the towers once stood. It still hurts to watch older movies, that show the skyline with the towers. Not one American alive that day will be the same person before they were before the first plane hit. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. We are perhaps more compassionate, more caring toward the neighbor we don’t understand, we smile more at strangers passing us on the street. We are more united, stronger Americans.

We will not stand for homeland terrorism. Or any terrorism for that matter. Everyone deserves to be free.