News Notes

So...I wanted this blog to be about our family...but there's a couple news things I feel like I need to vent about.

First, Shiloh Drott, the young man killed senselessly in Pacific this past Friday night. He was a friend of three of my brothers, and even my little step-sisters knew him. He was shot down in the middle of a gym after shooting a basket...at a youth community program...and he was shot 5-7 times! .And next to him to witness it all, an 11 year old boy. This kind of thing angers me so much. Not only was a young man killed for no reason, but he was shot down in front of children as young as 4 years old. The shooter not only took an innocent life, but he took the innocence of so many young people. Their lives will never be the same. The other day I got really choked up about this, and I never met Shiloh. Russell asked me why I was upset. Why was I upset???? Because it pains me to think that Mariah & Teaghan, who are only 9 and 12 years old, now have to learn how to cope with someone they knew being murdered. It's one thing to be an adult and deal with it...it's a whole different thing when it effects children...and that's what has me so upset. And I started thinking...kids as young as 4 witnessed this....Hallie is almost 4....how in the world would I ever begin to explain something like this....I pity the parents of those young children. What a tough job they have.

Secondly, I'm sure we've all heard of the murders of the mother and brother of singer/actress Jennifer Hudson. Today, I was browsing through a website I visit every so often and came across a photo taken from a helicopter. All I could see in the photo was an umbrella with a couple people walking under it. The caption 'Jennifer Hudson as she arrives at the medical examiner's office to identify the body of her nephew.' What is wrong with the media? I can't even begin to imagine the pain she must be going through and the paparazzi can't even leave her alone when half her family has been murdered....sometimes I think people take their freedoms too far.

Lastly, and most controversial...this Pregnant 'Man.' Am I the only one that sees a problem with that statement? He is not a man. I am curious to know how you can have female reproductive organs, lack male organs and legally get your birth certificate changed to say 'male.' She is not a man....She is a woman who has taken male hormones to appear as a man. I don't agree with the whole transgender stuff...but with that said...if someone feels like they are a man in a woman's body or a woman in man's body...so be it...it's not my life....but if you are going to change to a man...change to a man.....you can't have your cake and eat it too. I really have an issue with this whole situation. Plus, I had the news on this morning....and a commercial came on advertising an interview with 'the pregnant man'....Hallie pops around the corner...'Mom, I thought boys couldn't have babies.' Off the news went.....and I'm thinking there is no more Good Morning America in the morning. I told her she was right, boys don't have babies.