Wussup Wednesday

MRoxy0628

@tinyhumantoe I don't know all the specifics of that case, but what you said about your sister's boyfriend reinforces for me that there are people who have no business being police officers pursuing that career.  On the other hand, I don't know what it's like to put my life on the line everyday, so I have to cut some of these individuals slack (not the police officer who beat up your sister's boyfriend, because that sounds like excessive, unnecessary force). 

tinyhumantoe

Whoa, that is so terrible   Ughhhhh.

We had some crackheads in a rental a few doors down that would pass out and their tiny kids would come out and run the neighborhood.  They would ask us for food   They got evicted and I wonder where they are now. 

BeebopandBuddy

Oh THT, I have so many feels about the Garner case. That video makes it so clear the police were wrong to me. What happened to your sisters boyfriend and to Garner should not happen. There are policies and procedures. Force is met with force, sure, but this dude was suspected of selling cigarettes. He used no force and he clearly told them he couldn't breathe. They had no suspicion of weapons or any other reason to put their hands on him that forcefully. I'm so heated about it.

hmp1

I have not watched the video and won't. But from what I have read regarding the officer using a practice banned by the NYPD and coroner citing the cause of death as homicide, I am shocked that it didn't get past the grand jury. 

I do have fear for cops being put in prison. That cannot be a good situation for anyone but just because they are a cop shouldn't mean they can use their job as a reason for excessive deadly force and not pay the penalty of jail time. I understand that some situations are going to end in death, but some of these cases are not even borderline if the cop was just doing his job.

Kissty

@PenelopePond that is so heartbreaking.  I don't remember seeing this story before now.  I'm not always able to get on as often as I'd like.  I hope the mother gets the help she needs.  I just don't understand how she could just leave him home alone for one thing and then not be utterly scared shitless when she found out he wasn't where she thought he was.

willy_gert

IndigoVader said:

MelsaX said:

Guys, I am freaking out right now. My anxiety is through the roof. I was messaging my close friend who is 20 weeks pregnant with her second. She was asking if I ever felt like I needed to push when I was pregnant with Miles. Then she said either she just peed herself or something else happened, and then said everything felt like it was burning. She's sitting at the hospital waiting. I told her she needs to go to the maternity ward, fuck A&E, and see the midwives up there.

Oh, man. Keep us posted. Sending positive vibes for that baby to stay put and keep growing.

This!  Hoping and praying everything is fine!

PenelopePond

Oh no, Melsa   Good thoughts for her and baby!

PenelopePond

MRoxy0628 said:

@penelopepond That's very sad. I'm glad you were there too. I hope she at least received a case manager checking in on them and/or parenting classes.  In all likelihood that's the most that would happen, at least where I live, especially if there isn't substantiated abuse.  There has been a big move towards reunification and keeping families together, which I think is great, IF they're given help to make changes. 

I'm torn between hoping he stays with his mom so it doesn't upset his life, and hoping is mom gets in trouble.  Hopefully this was a wakeup call for her and she'll step up her parenting.  I was very relieved they took it so seriously.  My sister has told me that there's a kid in her neighborhood that has been out wandering several times at 2, 3, 4 in the morning because his parents are drunk and passed out.  The cops have been called several times, but nothing has been done.

Newt69

redneckmomma25 said:

I am lacking motivation. We are going to do a quick family picture this weekend. I need to figure out clothes. I'm thinking hard one since nothing fits. A part of me just doesn't care.

I really don't like boy clothes so I find myself not looking or ordering because of price. I'm not paying for stuff I don't like and the stuff I do like is too expensive. I was so spoiled with getting so many hand me downs for G.

I also barely look for anything we need for him like furniture or new bottles, blankets, etc. I dunno. Maybe after Christmas I'll be out of this funk. It's not as if I'm not happy about a boy I guess I'm just not enjoying shopping for him as much as I did and do with g.

Give me your money and I will shop for you. I love shopping for D

tinyhumantoe

@melsax that makes it hard for me to breathe   Sending my love and all that to NZ.  Hope everything is okay!

MRoxy0628

@PenelopePond‌ that's appalling! Where does your sister in law live?

PenelopePond

MRoxy0628 said:

@PenelopePond‌ that's appalling! Where does your sister in law live?

MN

danabsd

IndigoVader said:

You guys might think this is ridiculous, but we do all of our gifts from Santa. I figure they will realize when they are older that Mom and Dad were actually Santa.

This is how my parents did it too. Possibly part of the reason I figured Santa out at a young age.

MRoxy0628

PenelopePond said:

MRoxy0628 said:

@PenelopePond‌ that's appalling! Where does your sister in law live?

MN


Oh great! Well, people aren't doing their jobs then. The next time it happens, she should report it to the county. MN has had some pretty horrifying stories come out in the news about children who've died as a result of abuse and the child protection system is under a lot of scrutiny.

redneckmomma25

MelsaX said:

Guys, I am freaking out right now. My anxiety is through the roof. I was messaging my close friend who is 20 weeks pregnant with her second. She was asking if I ever felt like I needed to push when I was pregnant with Miles. Then she said either she just peed herself or something else happened, and then said everything felt like it was burning. She's sitting at the hospital waiting. I told her she needs to go to the maternity ward, fuck A&E, and see the midwives up there.

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Stuck

I hope she is ok! How scary!

PenelopePond

MRoxy0628 said:

MRoxy0628 said:

@PenelopePond‌ that's appalling! Where does your sister in law live?

MN

Oh great! Well, people aren't doing their jobs then. The next time it happens, she should report it to the county. MN has had some pretty horrifying stories come out in the news about children who've died as a result of abuse and the child protection system is under a lot of scrutiny.

I will let her know!

27boo

We do the big (best) present is from Santa. It is not wrapped and is all set up for Christmas morning. The rest of the gifts are from us. The stocking is from Santa as well.

27boo

@MelsaX‌ I'm glad to hear baby looks good. Fingers still crossed for her.

27boo

I had my anatomy scan today. Baby looked good. We had her write the sex in an envelope and we will find out if baby is a he or a she on Saturday with our families. We took DD with us and she just kept pointing to the screen saying, "baby, baby". I haven't had any spotting since 15 weeks, so I'm finally feeling like I can relax a little. Also, my teacher friend gave me a big bag of maternity shirts. Her 2nd and last baby was born 8 wks ago. Yay!

tinyhumantoe

I just wanted to come in here and bitch before I go to bed.  **BIG SURPRISE**, me bitching, ha!

My plan with Winn today was to take the day off and really enjoy her.  Well..................apparently no such thing as a day off with my job   I feel like such a turd mom because I didn't get to play with her.  I had the tv on most of the day.  DH got home at 6, and I've had my face in the computer since then trying to get the language written for the bill we want to pass.  I feel really bad for people who do this for a living because i pretty much want to jump off a fucking bridge.  I'd rather operate a turd vaccuum that sucks the crap out of port-o-pots.

I have my doc appt in the morning, and I have no clean underwear.  Guess I'm throwing laundry in at 3am.  I hope she doesn't have to do a check on me tomorrow, the 80s is alive and well in my britches.