Random thoughts

I am typing this post from home, where I decided to take a sick day. Gutting it out was not improving my guts any, pun only slightly intended, so here I am. I am feeling much better, so I think it was a good idea.

Mother Samoa was telling last night about her older sister who died in infancy. Apparently, from what little she has been told over the years, the baby had multiple disabilities, and it boiled down to, the doctors didn't think the baby would be worth saving. Grandma Samoa was not consulted at all, and Grandpa only as a point of information.

Now, we have gone through this in training for work, and whenever these things make our blood boil, as they often do, they always tell us, "Well, it was the ethos of the day, blah blah blah..." I know it was. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. No matter how you try to pretty it up, it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. Who the HELL do these people, doctors and such, think they ARE to make those kinds of decisions about a human life? I can tell you that it is a lie that the life of a person with a disability has no meaning for anyone. I know it is a lie because it has meaning for ME. And I know I'm not the only one. I work with and around many others for whom this is true, every day. (And we won't even start on the fact that it has meaning for the person themselves, because that should be bleeding obvious!)

Who wants them? I want them, dammit. I want my FRIENDS. And like I said, I know for a FACT that I am not the only one. So, people out there who think otherwise can bite my ass. They're still out there. But we'll get rid of them, just you watch. We're everywhere! (mwahahahahaaaaaaaaa...)

This has been your rant for the day. We now return you to your regularly scheduled humor blog.