Standard Mischief

Is there anything that can save us from Obama’s, “free”, all-you-care-to-consume-until-we-need-to-ration-it universal healthcare for everyone plan? Perhaps, because days ago, I heard of a birth of octuplets. Now it comes out that the mother wishes to became a public person.

I’m not going to bash her for being single, but when you are a self-described “professional student”, without a job, living in a house paid for by your parents, with six kids, and you chose to deliberately have additional embryos implanted which you damn well know you cannot support without sucking on the government’s teat, don’t expect me to not call you a professional leech.

Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television media whore or something, hoping to raise a few million. She wants to be famous. Let’s make it so. I hear the first wave of socialized medicine has been tucked in to the “stimulus plan” [1] which now goes to the Senate. I think I have an idea for an expert witness for the next dog-and-pony show up on Capital Hill.

[1] H.R. 1: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Jeez, is it so fscking hard to cite a bill number, people?)