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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:11 PM
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"Money is just paper and superfluous." -- Octomom
This is what she just said in regards to a question as to how she intends to support her kids.

I just saw a short clip on TV, so there's no link.

Oh, boy.....I certainly hope CPS are going to be keeping an eye on her, for the sake and safety and welfare of those kids.

I think you actually need some of that "paper" to buy diapers, food, medecine...
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ORDagnabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:12 PM
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1. and we the taxpayers like always have to pay for these kids... mandatory birth control for everyone!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:23 PM
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6. You can give a horse a condom, but you can't force him to put it on.
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GA_ArmyVet Donating Member (304 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:25 PM
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7. Thats one big condom.....nt
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ORDagnabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:16 PM
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13. LOL...true..but what about snipping teenagers till they pass a parenting test?
snipping either in the form of hormones or physical implants to impede procreation
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:22 PM
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15. wow. how orwellian a prospect is that?
or is it more mengeleian...?
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ORDagnabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 12:51 AM
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16. I prefer humane... we do it to pets
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:40 PM
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20. did it ever occur to you that people aren't pets?
:shrug:
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 01:57 AM
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19. Could be Swiftian
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:54 PM
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23. Maybe we should just remove everyone's gonads
and reproduce asexually?

:crazy:
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:17 PM
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2. It's not just paper when you have several crying infants ... and no food
I'm an adult without children -- or even pets --
because although I can tell myself there just isn't
money for any dinner tonight, it's not as easy when
you have a child or animal who won't understand
that.

She's a young woman and may think she's invincible,
that she can always "muddle through somehow" but I
worry she just doesn't understand how difficult
times are going to get, and she has all those
mouths to feed.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:22 PM
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4. Yep, every year she's going to have to buy
14 pairs of shoes.

14 jackets.

14 of every freakin' thing a kids needs.

I caught another clip and she said something to the effect: "God will provide us with what we need."

So, I guess God just hates all of those families who live in poverty....:sarcasm:, of course....
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:45 PM
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10. I knew there was a religious angle to this ... Jeremiah, Micah ...
When I heard her naming off the children, I could tell
there was a religious motivation to her procreation.
She probably aspires to rival some of the Biblical
matriarchs in their productivity ... What's next?
Challenging Sarah for the title of "oldest mother"????
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:19 PM
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14. God is probably sending a CPS agent to the home at this very moment. nt
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:27 PM
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36. So, her Plan B is to target Churches for "help?"
Doesn't look like Plan A worked out too well for her, since most think she had no business seeing how many kids she could litter.
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 05:20 AM
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45. Some years she's going to need to buy 28-42 pairs of shoes...
because there are some grow stages where kids go through 2-3 pairs of shoes a Year EACH!!!


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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:19 PM
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3. Yes, it's superfluous. Unlike collagen injections.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:22 PM
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5. She mispronounced
"superfluous."

Did you see the pictures of the babies? They are adorable. I mean, what newborns aren't, but these babies - a couple of them - are already beautiful.

http://www.nypost.com/photos/galleries/news/nationalnews/pp_20090209_octuplets/photo01.htm

That woman has money for in vitro fertilization, lip jobs, a French manicure while she's still in the hospital, and nothing else. Her mother has been quoted as saying that she's leaving when her daughter comes home, her father's already gone (the parents were divorced ten years ago but continued to live together for economic reasons), and the story about the house where they live with the first six children is startling - the house is described as "filthy."

You can see it here - and check out what Nadya looked like before the facial work she's had done - a whole different look, no?

I'm betting those children will go from the hospital into foster care since their mother will be unable to show that she can provide a suitable home for them. Hell, I want to know how she plans to GET them home - in what vehicle? She can't even afford baby seats, let alone diapers and formula. No room for cribs, no money for food, and who's gonna pay the mortgage?

Watch. Child Protective Services will have no choice but to intervene, as well they should.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:27 PM
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8. Thanks for the link
I saw one photo posted here today of the house....unbelievable and gross!

I've got dial-up and need to get off the computer, but I'm going to look at that slide show tomorrow.

If this woman was out getting her face chopped up when she has that many kids and isn't working, that is disgusting.

Why do you need plastic surgery, save being horribly disfigured, when you are 33, anyway?

The babies are adorable. And frankly, I'm glad that this story is getting media attention, for the kids' sake.
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:45 PM
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11. So you can look like Angelina Jolie?
Edited on Mon Feb-09-09 07:53 PM by dgibby
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:15 PM
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12. Those lips look like they're going to explode.
I hope it doesn't happen while she's holding one of the kids.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 01:02 AM
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17. What? n/t
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:21 PM
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35. she honestly acts like she is trying to be Angelina, strange
poor kids, this woman doesn't have Angelina's income.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 02:04 AM
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41. i wonder if negative comments about her parents are about trying to be like Jolie also
how Angelina doesn't have a good or any relationship with her father.

but in this octomom's case it's different since she is LIVING in their home and they are taking care of her kids.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:52 PM
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22. That's a plastic nose too.. n/t
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:00 PM
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28. Angela looks frightening
Or maybe just pissed off.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:00 PM
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29. Double-tap
Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 05:00 PM by slackmaster
Or stutter-punch if you are over 50.
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:30 PM
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37. I know her mother looks like the wicked witch of the east.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 08:48 AM
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46. Striped stockings sticking out from under a house, with red shoes?
I believe that's all we ever saw of the wicked witch of the east...

;-)

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Inkyfuzzbottom Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:35 PM
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9. No one could possibly take this woman seriously,
she's batshit crazy. Someone needs to take all 14 kids from her NOW.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 01:11 AM
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18. She makes my skin crawl. Seriously. There's something alien about her.
She's like some cartoonish simulation of a mother -- some superficial, predatory mannequin. For some reason, I'm reminded of the movie 'Species' with Natasha Henstridge. (Yikes.)


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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:56 PM
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25. Then I pity the poor plastic surgeon who has to give her a boob job.
(Killer tentacles and all...)

:scared:
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:44 PM
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21. And she doesn't consider food stamps "welfare." When she and the
babies are discharged from the hospital, she is going to discover how difficult life is when you are alone, with little money, and you find out that you've alienated most of the country and your immediate neighbors.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:01 PM
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30. Technically they're not welfare, but that's just a nit
She's drawing large amounts of public assistance, and will surely be getting more (unless CPS takes the kids, in which case someone else will be drawing it).
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EmeraldCityGrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:55 PM
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24. let them eat paper.
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:57 PM
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26. Just wait till the judge signs the "paper" that removes your children
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 04:57 PM
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27. damn i thought she was trying to actually WIN peoples' sympathies
every interview she has, she keeps lobbing these PR hand grenades which continue to prove she isn't grounded in ANY reality in this universe...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:02 PM
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31. I can hear the CPS file being compiled now. I hope the department where she lives
Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 05:03 PM by EFerrari
is a decent one. :(
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:03 PM
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32. Why is she still wearing a half-sleeve of hospital tags and tape?
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 04:38 AM
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42. She needs identification
to go into the nursery and see her babies. It's protocol with all births.
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:09 PM
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33. forget the paper for a minute...the children also need emotional love and attention
Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 05:15 PM by carlyhippy
how in hades is she going to be able to tend to each and every child and give them the proper amount of love and attention they deserve? There are not enough hours in the day, she will be burned out in a couple of months, these are babies, lady, you better get ready to be up all night and day to give them what they deserve, say buh bye to your mommie time.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:16 PM
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38. Even her older children are babies. And I wonder how autistic
the developmentally disabled older child is? As a parent of one, I can attest to how much time they need, and how little time you feel like you are giving them.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:43 AM
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39. Yes, she doesn't have the time nor money to raise these kids and in the new portion
of the interview aired today, she said she would be going back to school in order to get student loans that would help her fund her household.

The only way to hang on to those loans is to complete a certain amount of coursework every semester.

It's sad really. These are HER kids now. But how wil she do it???
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:18 PM
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34. I should tell my landlord that.
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smalll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:46 AM
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40. Thank God she's only Octomom rather than the Treasury Secretary --
although there are some parallels - cheat on your taxes OR spit out litters on purpose for pre-meditated dependents deductions.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 04:49 AM
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43. Yet she has a site asking for donations
Folks, this is what the "reality show celebrity" society has brought us.
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 05:14 AM
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44. Wait a minute, that doesn't compute.
Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 05:15 AM by 4lbs
She says in the interview, "God will provide..." yet she has a web site for donations.


Well, which is it... Will God provide, or will the American taxpayer?

Also, if "money is just paper, and superfluous", then what the hell does she want with MORE of it?!?!?!?

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