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I forget where I got this last week but I came across it again and thought it was so funny I wanted to post it. Truth hurts.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.

Well, the new version as reported all over the internet and TV news outlets is that there is a woman in L. A. who lives in a tiny 3 bedroom house with her parents and her 6 children. Who the father is of any or all of these 6 is not known. Her source of income is not known. However, earlier this year she filed for bankruptcy with almost a million dollars in debt listed, yet she fails to show up for the creditors meeting and the bankruptcy case is dismissed. So her track record of responsible behavior is already pretty tainted.

So what’s a woman to do? Why go to a fertility clinic and give birth to 8 more babies, of course! And when you birth 8 babies at once, they are all going to be small and susceptible to serious health problems. The hospital has assigned two full time nurses, taking 12 hour shifts, to each baby. They are expected to be in the hospital for 2 -3 months requiring constant care. At least one of the babies is not breathing on his own. Who is going to pay for all this medical care? I mean, 8 babies for 3 months – 16 nurses full time plus all the other doctors and nurses and therapists and diagnostic tests!

Folks, there is something very wrong with this whole picture.

One really big drawback in trying to get to know someone on the internet is that you are limited to emails or perhaps some instant message exchanges and you don’t really get to hear someone’s voice. To me, looking at a photo and reading some short get-to-know-you messages doesn’t really give you a good perspective on a person. But hearing their voice and talking to them in a candid or spontaneous conversation can give you a much better idea of a person’s character, background, sophistication (or lack of), their education and even their sincerity.

There’s a blog I read about once a week by a cop in Chicago. I find it interesting to read his perspective as a cop on current events and crime in the Windy City. He related a story a few days ago that I found really hard to believe and was starting to doubt some of his other posts. But then I found a related story in the Chicago Tribune, so evidently it was true.

To keep it short, a guy walks into the police substation dressed in full cop uniform and says that another district had sent him over for the day to help out as this district is shorthanded. So the cop in charge assigns him to ride in a patrol car with a female cop and sends them out on the street. He teels the female cop that he wants to drive and she tosses him the keys. They head out and end up pulling over someone. He tells her to write the ticket since he doesn’t have a ticket book with him. So she writes that ticket and they go back to the station to get a ticket book. The cop in charge asks for the guys ID to issue the ticket book and he says he left his ID out in the car, so a cop goes with him to the car. Of course, there is no ID in the car and it turns out that this imposter is a 14 year old kid. And he’s been caught doing this same thing in another Chicago district before this incident.

So this 14 year old was driving a squad car and could have been involved in a high speed chase, a shoot out, or God-knows-what. O M F G !

This year Mardi Gras will be celebrated in New Orleans every weekend in February, with the grand finale on February 24.

I found a ton of great information at the official Mardi Gras websites, www.mardigras.com and nola.com.

The first Carnival ball of the season is always the Twelfth Night Ball, held on Jan. 6. The first parade will be on Sunday, February 1, with the Krewe of Slidellians in Slidell, starting at 1:00 pm. The rest of the month will have various parades each weekend, and the final week before Fat Tuesday is the busiest.

This year Fat Tuesday will be February 24 and there are 10 parades scheduled, including:

New Orleans / Jefferson
• Zulu – Uptown, 8 a.m.
• Rex – Uptown, 10 a.m.
• Elks Orleans – after Rex
• Crescent City – after Elks
• Argus – Metairie, 10 a.m.
• Jefferson Trucks – after Argus
• Elks Jefferson – after Jefferson
• Grela – West Bank, 11 a.m.

St. Tammany
• Lions – Covington, 10 a.m.
• Covington – after Lions