Arsenic is harmless?

Dr.Oz of Arsenic and Apple Juice~ I won’t lie, I was a little disturbed when I heard the report last month about Mott’s apple juice and it’s high amounts of arsenic. Arsenic?? Yes, I know, like everybody else who’s ever taken a science class in elementary school, that apple seeds have arsenic in them. I know this.I try to be a good crunchy mom. I guess, when it came to giving my girls apple juice, organic all natural APPLE JUICE, I was so worried about pesticides and hormones that I completely forgot about the effing arsenic inside the damn apple. You know the apple that they use to make the apple juice. Arsenic, you sneaky little bastard.

When Dr. Oz televised his findings of arsenic in apple juice, I was not fear mongered into being cautious, I was reminded once again to put cut back apple juice on the list. One more thing for that neverending list. People are all pissed and bent out of shape, making Dr OZ the villain because they don’t want to hear what he’s saying. I know we’ve all been giving our kids copious amounts of apple juice in those damn sippy cups. Let’s be real, Organic milk is expensive and it spoils a hell of a lot faster in the hot sun in those sippy cups than any arsenic ridden apple juice. We didn’t know any better. We gave our kids apple juice because we thought it was healthier than the Kool-Aid and Tang we were given as kids. NO? Was that just my house?

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Poor Dr.Oz nobody likes the Arsenic Police

Problem is that we don’t really hate Dr. oz for sharing his findings. He just happens to be the messenger bringing the bad news and well, we all know what happens to the messenger. The argument is that arsenic in small doses ( those allowed by the FDA, who by the way probably doesn’t allow their own children to drink the apple juice..I’m just sayin’) is not harmful. Dr.Oz argues that we don’t know the long term effects of this higher dose of  arsenic. I say, at what level is giving poison to your child acceptable? I think most of you would agree that the correct answer is NONE! What next , will the out of control Dr.Besser show up and tell me red-faced that arsenic is harmless? Oh yeah? Dr.Besser how much rat poisoning is safe for human consumption? Ridiculous? Exactly, my point!

Throat punch goes to anyone who tries to tell me that ANY amount of arsenic is healthy for my girls to drink. It may be harmless but it may be poisonous. Either way, I don’t want to take the gamble on arsenic when the cost is my girls’ health. I know that it seems that nowadays everything has some sort of carcinogen, poison, pesticide, hormone, antibiotic, or poison in it or maybe we just never saw the arsenic on the label because we were too busy throwing stones at the fear mongering messenger. What are your thoughts on the arsenic in apple juice dilemma? Is this study ( or just the reminder of the topic) enough to scare you straight on the arsenic and apple juice situation? Will you be thinking twice before filling your baby’s sippy cup with arsenic apple juice next time? I know I will. Or do you agree with Dr.Besser that arsenic is harmless in small doses?

Just Say no to Arsenic in your baby’s apple juice

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Amanda Nabers, shame on you!

This week, Amanda Nabers wins the prize for most obscenely negligent and deviant mother . Originally, this week’s Throat Punch Thursday was going to all the crazies boycotting DWTS because of Chaz Bono . But Amanda Nabers actions were a little too heinous to ignore. Who is this Amanda Nabers of which I speak? I’m glad you asked. Amanda Nabers is the 25 year old mother from San Antonio who left her children alone in the house while she went down the street to drink alcoholic energy drinks, pop pills and deflower the 13 year old neighbor. Oh,yeah..I said 13. I have no words. I’ve had some pretty shitty moms make a cameo appearance on Throat Punch Thursday but Amanda Nabers ranks pretty high up the shitty Mom food chain, of course she’s no Casey Anthony.

Amanda Nabers, portrait of a pedophile & crap Mommy

Amanda Nabers has children of her own, remember the 2 little kids she left at home unsupervised while she went next door to get her freak on? As a mother she should have considered that the 13 year old neighbor was someone’s child. Ok aside from the obvious, what the hell was she thinking leaving her kids home alone while she went to get her sex on? Why? Why would a grown woman leave anywhere, at anytime to go have intercourse with a 13 year old? My only logical conclusion is that she is either completely insane or a total pedophile. Surely, there is no enjoyment that can be gained from a woman sleeping with an inexperienced child.

How did this even begin? “Hi, Mrs. Nabers, I’m selling chocolate for my school fundraiser, Would you like to buy one?” Amanda Nabers, “Come in little boy,Mama needs some sugar…”  I can’t even wrap my brain around this level of sickness. I don’t know the age of her children, because it was not disclosed, but seriously, who can just turn off their Mommy senses to check out and leave the kids unsupervised to have sex? How is that even possible. I was in Chicago last year and I swear I heard my daughter call out for me in the middle of the night, from 60 miles away. Let’s be honest, when my kids are asleep, I’m not plotting elicit trysts with teen boys. I’m planning on sneaking in naps…alone, sideways in my bed. Hell, I wish I could just turn off the Mommy spidey senses for a few minutes a day. But it’s like a super power that we acquire at the moment of giving birth. I could never do what Ms.Nabers has done. Aside from the fact that I prefer my men to be completely through puberty and my children to be safely in their rooms and closely supervised by a monitor ( so I can hear when they are sidling upon us), I can’t figure out what makes a Mom’s mind jump from..”Oh, little Johnny’s such a cute kid” to ” Oooh, Johnny’s hot. I want me some of that!” Hello, Mrs. Robinson, the pedophile police are looking for you.

Ms. Nabers confessed to the sexually deviant behavior but maintains that her children were never in any real danger. Sure, tell that to the Boogie Man. Oh wait…that’s you, Ms. Nabers. Apparently, the rendezvous’ took place several times over a 6 month time period. Thankfully DCFS has entered the equation and removed the children from the house. Whew, no more pesky kids around to cause guilt over or interfere with Ms. Nabers getting her groove on. My question is where the hell were little Johnny’s parents? Did this kid not go to school? Were his parents never home? Did they not care? What the hell was going on here? A little too much free range parenting and not enough helicoptering, all the way around.

Amanda Nabers is being held on $50,000 bail but I personally think she should be between with a wet sock full of pennies and then be locked in a room full of tantruming 3 year olds for an indiscriminate amount of time until she was fully cured of her bad parenting and pedophile ways. Throat Punch to you, Amanda Nabers, you are the Biggest Loser.

Amanda Nabers, No Soup for You!

JcPenney’s; When Your daughter is Too Sexy to be Smart

JCPenney’s got the market cornered on bad choices today. It started with a bad product choice and only got worse with the ridiculous marketing.

“Who has time for homework when there’s a new Justin Bieber album out? She’ll love this tee that’s just as cute and sassy as she is.”

Wow!Really?? Vapid? Shallow? Insulting on more levels than my pretty girl head can figure out. This t-shirt basically suggests that girls who are pretty are stupid, lazy and/or manipulative or a combination of the three. Basically this t-shirt translates into “Pretty= As stupid as you want to be!”

The question is how stupid do you want to be? Are you stupid enough to buy this shirt? Or worse, by it for your little girl? Do you think pretty girls are stupid? Do you think that people who are pretty shouldn’t have to do any work? Is this the sexist message that you want to send out into the world? I’m talking to you JCPenney’s.

JCPenney’s; Too Pretty for Homework

I take great offense to this t-shirt. I know that many people think that the response to this shirt is blown out of proportion. Many say, just don’t buy the shirt. Walk away. Live and let live. But this shirt’s message is bigger than just buying a shirt. It is setting women back decades. It perpetuates the myth that in order for a woman to be beautiful she can not be equally as intelligent. It plants a seed in a little girls brain that grows into a full blown way of thinking. Can you imagine being a little girl and THIS is the message your parents send to you. It’s a not good enough message. If you are pretty, which I hope all parents tell their daughters, then it stands to reason ( from this shirt) that you are not smart and a third party is necessary to handle all of your heavy intellect lifting.

JCPenney’s , thanks for setting feminism back 100 years.

Jours Apres Lunes you get a big fat Throat Punch for creating a line of “loungerie” for children. Yes, you read that correctly. A line of sexy loungerie has been created for the 3 months to pre teen set. Yes, I did say 3 months! I don’t see the point in making seduction clothing for children who haven’t even learned where babies come from yet.

Look, I’m no prude. My girls wear bikinis. I even let them wear flavored lip balm. But under no circumstances would it ever be appropriate or necessary for my 4 and 6-year-old to EVER  wear sexy loungerie.

When I read the articles and saw the photos of ten-year-old French model Thylane Loubry Blondeau‘s provocative spread in Vogue Paris that created an international uproar, I thought what’s the big deal. It was not in good taste but I didn’t see what was so taboo about it.

But in response to the bad press ( no press is bad press I guess), Jours Apres Lunes has created a new French line of children lingerie and has now gone public! Balls, anyone?

You decide, has Jours Apres Lunes gone too far with child-sized loungerie?

Jours Apres Lunes You have overstepped the boundaries.

I  think the creepiest part is that the photos of what looks like a 2-3-year-old sitting around with big sunglasses and lipstick next to a slightly older girl. In what world is that OK? Apart, none of it is provocative but together it is, especially when it’s a print ad for children’s lingerie. Who is this even being marketed to? Pedophiles? Perverts?Molesters? The Doug Hutchison’s of the world? Owners of sex slaves? Husbands of teen brides?

Surely, mothers in their right minds are not buying lingerie or “LOUNGERIE” for their little girls? I knew things were getting out of control when I saw high heels for babies but now lingerie for children. Why is our society so hell bent on sexualizing our children?

It seems the societal lines are very clear cut on this subject either you are a prude and you say no to bikinis, lip gloss, and finger nail polish or you are a pervert and say it’s all alright, even supporting baby lingerie and co-ed sleepovers for tweens. There has to be a middle ground where those of us who are sane can reside with our children and their innocence. What’s next? Sex toys disguised as your favorite cartoon characters and marketed to the 5 to 10 set? Mini Dora dildos? Swiper, no swiping!

The print photos alone are enough to earn Jours Apres Lunes a hefty Throat Punch, but the fact that they have went out of their way to create a line of lingerie for children and then market it to what can only be assumed some of the most unsavory and unscrupulous people in existence has cinched it for them.

Jours Apres Lunes your tactics for marketing are appalling and the product itself would be much better suited for the over 16 set. Jours Apres Lunes…Je Acuse!

Jours Apres Lunes taking Objectification to new heights

Do you thnk Jours Apres Lunes is just cashing in on a trending topic or advocating for the sexualization of our young girls?

I am all for equal opportunity in every aspect of life, including a gay wedding and marriage. I wish that every single person in the entire world could be free to live their life without judgement or persecution regardless of color, race, religion or sexual preference. But, alas, that is not the world we live in. Sadly, we don’t live in a world of acceptance or understanding instead we even lack tolerance. We live in a world where the moral majority likes to look down its nose at anyone or anything that is not what they deem appropriate.

I think we need to teach our children not to be tolerant but to be accepting and loving of all people. But it shouldn’t be forced or shoved down their throats. It needs to be organic.So, when I read a post on Mommyish.com referencing an article in the  New York Daily News titled

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Online Push for Bert, Ernie to have a Gay Wedding on Sesame street

I was a bit taken aback. Apparently, there is a petition to have Sesame Street have a gay wedding take place between Ernie and Bert. This is not organic. This is shoving an idea in front of an audience who will not only not understand why suddenly Bert and Ernie are in the same bed but we, the parents, will be left to explain this concept. More than that, I don’t want my children used to push a political agenda. What’s next on Sesame street? Abortion? Teen pregnancy? STDs? I trust PBS to help me teach my kids the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors. There are few channels that I can say that I trust.Usually because they are selling my kids out to the highest advertising bid.*I’m talking to you Nickelodeon. Sesame Street has been a great learning tool for many parents but I don’t think this particular topic should be broached with this audience. It’s teaching an agenda to an audience held captive by puppets.It’s bullshit!

My Throat Punch this week goes to the 700 strong who have signed the petition to push this agenda. Not because it’s the wrong agenda but because it’s the wrong place and the wrong audience. Most of the general public is not a fan of helicopter parenting because of how it doesn’t allow children to grow and form their own experiences and opinions, so how is this acceptable? It is forcing a position on a controversial subject onto our children. What happened to free will? I thought that was, after all, the ultimate goal. Free to be you and Me. Not free to be who you want me to be! What do you think about the idea of a gay wedding on Sesame Street?

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Sesame Street’s Big Fat Gay Wedding

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Once upon a time a woman named Krista Stodden had a baby girl named Courtney Stodden. Sixteen years later, that “Mother” gave permission to her daughter to marry a creepy old man. 3X.HER.AGE!!! Courtney Stodden what are you thinking? Oh yeah, you were thinking that marrying a famous creepy old man would be a pretty savvy career move. We all know what Doug Hutchison was thinking and with what he was thinking. Let’s just say he wasn’t using the head on his shoulders. But

Krista Stodden,

Courtney’s Mother, WTF were you thinking? Who, in their right mind ( aside from all those Playboy bunnies Moms) would allow their child to shack up with a man 3x her age.It’s practically pornographic, especially considering that she is only 16. This makes her mother,Krista, pretty much a pimp in my book. She whored out her daughter on the contention of a promising career. That’s typical of a manager but not a mother.

According to this video on CNN, Krista was completely aware of the budding relationship between her daughter, Courtney, and Mr. Hutchison, as she monitored her little girls emails ( as any good Mommy should do, I suppose). She said there was nothing scandalous about it and that they simply fell in love with one another over their online conversations. It all sounded very innocent but extremely creepy. What 16 year old girl finds herself attracted to a man 3x her age? Oh yeah, one that probably has Daddy issues. Mrs.Stodden said that you can barely tell an age difference between the pair. Is her mother blind? There is absolutely a marked difference between a 16 year old girl and  a 51 year old man, as evidenced in photos.

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Oh Krista Stodden, What were you thinking?

Then I saw this next photo and I realized that it appears that Krista has had breast augmentation. Who get’s their kid a boob job before they are 18? (*I’m assuming they are augmented.Decide for yourself!) Then it came out that Coutney had told Doug that she was a virgin and “saving” herself for marriage. Isn’t that the oldest trick in the book for a fast track to marriage..aside from getting pregnant out of wedlock? It’s like her mother is one of those crazy Toddlers and Tiara’s Moms who took it to the next level. That’s right folks this is what toddlers in tiaras looks like in 14 years!

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This week’s Throat Punch goes most definitely to the crazy mother, Krista Stodden, who sold her daughter’s (ahem) virginity to the creepiest oldest dirtiest first celebrity Sugar Daddy that she could find.You,lady, make my food want to regurgitate. Where’s this kids Daddy? Doesn’t he have a say in what’s going on with his little girl? Oh yeah, I forgot, he was probably afraid to speak up to his elders…Krista Stodden and Doug Hutchison. This whole situation is so dysfunctional it makes those crazy banjo playing toothless wonders in Deliverance seem downright white collar.

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 Madam Krista Stodden, You SUCK!

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Debt Ceiling crushing the American People

The debt ceiling that is crushing the spirit of the American people is the recipient of my Throat Punch this Thursday. I am by no stretch of the imagination a financial analyst and I don’t pretend to understand every aspect of the debt that is slowly strangling our nation. I am, however, strange as it may be, a political scientist and am I embarrassed by the child like antics that are taking place in our government today. Basically, its like a school yard disagreement in which the bullies (R) have decided that they don’t like losing the game so they are holding the ball hostage. The ball is the debt ceiling. They want it their way or no way. The president is left with no way to control the ball; where it is thrown or who it might hit. So, he has to stand there, with an “oh shit, someone help me” look on his face, at the mercy of the bullies. Meanwhile, all the poor unsuspecting children (you and I) playing in the school yard ( obliviously enjoying life) are about to get the air knocked right out of us with the weight and force of that ball. The debt ceiling is going to crush us.

The problem is not only that the house is holding the ball hostage but that the government, as a whole, has been playing fast and loose with our nation’s capital.  It’s no wonder that most Americans are mortgaged to the hilt, we are following the example of our government. The problem is that once you get in this cycle of spending money that you don’t have, borrowing from others, compounding interest and taking lines of credit that you will never have the capability to pay back, you can’t recover …unless you have some rich uncle who kicks the bucket and leaves you a fortune. Bad news, the United States has no rich uncle who’s about to kick the bucket. We are a beautiful, grand nation in a financial hole. Who cares if you are one of the wealthiest nations in the world if your debt outweighs your worth by the trillions? It’s simple mathematics. Any which way you try to spin it, our past has caught up to us and it’s about to bite us in the ass.

Debt Ceiling has nation in a strangle hold

This is happening to individuals all over the country on a more personal level. What do you think all the downsizing and foreclosures have been about for the past couple of years? The horrible fact of the matter is that once people see you struggling they see you as weak. Next, people try and take advantage. You are broke so let’s just go ahead and raise your interest, cut off your credit and punish you for wanting more time to pay your bills. No! We won’t work with you until you are so upside down in debt that you are losing your job, your house, your car and we are taking the very food out of your mouth. Oh yeah, while you are down there..let’s kick you again for good measure. Now, be a good little indentured servant and stay down. Oh wait, we need to completely crush your fighting spirit so let’s go ahead and tell you that you are ugly and we never liked you in the first place. This is the position that the debt ceiling , where it’s at, is putting us. It is making us vulnerable. Sure it’s fun to hear Jon Stewart call Boehner the saddest tangerine or to see the deer in headlights look the president got when he was pleading with the American public to contact their congress but none of that is productive.

Believe me, there will be plenty lined up to come and kick us when we are down. We need to cut spending. Raising the limit will only prolong the impending doom. If an individual were completely destitute and the banks just kept continually increasing their credit line and compounding the interest would that really be helpful? Hell NO! It only makes the debt bigger, the interest higher and chances are that individual will NEVER pay off that debt completely and so the cycle continues. I hate to say it but my crazy parents were right all along, if we can’t pay cash we should probably not buy the item because obviously we can’t afford it.  Maybe we should have some old timers who survived the depression have a chat with government. They could fix the debt ceiling with their sage old school financial planning. I’m pretty sure my grandpa could have made the debt ceiling his bitch; he would have Chuck Norris style karate chopped a sunroof in the debt ceiling…just for sunlight because God knows he would have had it under control.

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 Debt ceiling..Raise the Roof or Lower Spending?

Anders Behring Breivik Once we become parents, our biggest fear instantly becomes losing a child and it becomes our life’s mission to avoid this ever happening, at all cost. Knowing this, you can understand why, for parents of the world, this past weekend was our worst nightmare realized.

Anders Behring Breivik

On Friday afternoon, the events that transpired in Oslo were the shots heard round the world. First, the bombing in Oslo’s epicenter, which can be likened to our own Oklahoma bombings, shocked us from our comfortable existence. The world stood still and sat flabbergasted as a lone gunman, Anders Behring Breivik,  irrevocably changed the lives of 168 parents creating a ripple that will be felt for generations to come. I harbor a great deal of trepidation at the idea of camp, especially if it is a sleep away camp but the very thought of sending my kid off in the world for extended amounts of time with strangers has bothered me since the days of my youth spent watching Friday the 13th. The events of the past couple of weeks in New York and now Oslo have all but convinced me that my over protecting Mommy senses may actually be closer to spot on than irrational. Breivik, a handsome (is it wrong that it scares the hell out of me that his good looks could have soothed the minds of many a mom? (Including me)), seemingly well-adjusted gentlemen in his early 30’s was actually a monster hidden behind the mask of “normal”. Not since Ted Bundy, has someone that appeared on the outside as completely likable actually been a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Usually, there is something ( even if its just a feeling) that helps us to identify the deviants and maleficent of the world.But with, Breivik that was not the case.

Anders Behring Breivik

Dressed as a police officer, Breivik approached the camp moving across the wooded lake picking off the young campers one by one. He sprayed the shore with bullets as terrified youths scattered in attempts to hide themselves from the flying bullets. 84 (14-19 year olds) known victims were killed on that summer afternoon. I imagine that the moments before they died were spent in fear and confusion. The children were already trying to digest the news of the bombings in the city and then came the sound of bullet sprays. Momentarily their minds were put at ease when they saw a Norwegian officer approaching. When their guard was down, Breivik proceeded to callously end their short lives with absolutely no regard for who they were or what they meant to those who loved them. No motive had been disclosed as of yet, but there is talk that Breivik was a right-wing extremist.Undetonated bombs were later found on the island.There will never be a motive that can justify what Breivik has done to the community of Oslo and the parents of the world. He has struck justified fear and changed the way the we move in the world. My heart goes out to the people of Oslo and fear has been struck in my own heart.I’d rather be a crazy, hovering helicopter parent than get a call that my child was gun downed while unsuspectingly enjoying nature.

Anders Behring Breivik