Warning: Abortion Protester Rant To Follow.

First off, I want to clarify something. This rant has NOTHING to do with abortion itself. I don't care if you're for or against it. It doesn't matter if I am for or against it. That makes no bearing on what I am going to rant about. This rant is not directed towards anyone who is against abortion. Only those imbeciles who have 4-foot tall posters of dead babies in public places where I have to see them with my children.


I was driving back from Ethan's speech appointment today and got to the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Allegheny River Boulevard:
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This is a well-traveled road at this time of day. Usually we wait through at least one traffic light if not two. And, as you can see from the map, it's right by the Pittsburgh Zoo. A very well-traveled area.

Many times there are random churches/fire departments/etc collecting money at the light. Today I saw the people dodging traffic with their large buckets for money... and I saw something else.

A 5 foot tall picture of a dead fetus.

This picture was being held by someone who was screaming something about murdering babies, while waving this 5 ft by probably 3 or 4 ft tall sign around into the turning lane of traffic.

My first thought is how to distract my 4 year old in the back seat. I don't want him seeing images of dead babies. It's bad enough that I'm going to have nightmares, I don't want him waking up in the middle of the night screaming about dead babies.

I thought at first maybe it was just one person... (Yes, I know. They are never alone. They always come in droves.) Then I saw the rest of the group... in all I saw 5 of the 5x4 signs, 2 signs of what looked like a premature baby in an incubator that was a bit smaller (probably 3x4), and then 2 more of dead babies in trash cans.

As the guy came by my car to ask for money, I had to wind my window up tight. I was afraid that I'd either spit in his bucket or puke in it.

In hindsight I almost wish I would have done one or the other rather than just sat there trying to find something in the car to keep Ethan's eyes inside the car instead of outside.

As I drove through the intersection, I noticed one of the guys with the 4 ft tall signs. He had this big shit-eating grin on his face. Made me want to get out of the car and shake my finger at him and scold him like my grandmother would do to us when we were little and did something rude to someone else.



What I don't get is HOW these people can think that it's right to show these horrific signs to people driving down the road (or ANYONE for that matter)? What kind of God do they believe in who thinks that showing graphic signs of death to someone's child who is driving by in a car is acceptable?

It's honestly bad enough when they picket Magee Hospital. I was there once when I was in pre-term labor with Liam. I drove around the corner and saw dead babies on signs. Now that's a wonderful sight to see when you're already afraid that your baby will be born too early and die. But this isn't even a medical establishment. This is a STREET. Near the ZOO. Near a BIKE PARK. I mean, WTF!?

Don't they think of the fact that some of the people driving past would have LOST babies due to things other than abortions? Some of those people might have had children die in car accidents or die of illness or "natural causes"? Some of those people might not be able to have children at all, and seeing pictures of dead babies could be traumatizing?

I can only imagine what would have happened had Liam been in the car with me. I would then have to explain to an almost 7 year old on the Autistic Spectrum why these people were yelling at us (he would have taken it personally, so really they would be yelling at HIM). He would want to know why they are calling him a murderer. Why they think he either killed or is going to kill babies.

UGH! It pisses me off so bad. (If you couldn't tell already *lol*)


There are very few times when I will be this pissed off at something, but I'd love to see these protesters burn in whatever hell they think that the person having (or doing) the abortion burns in.

I'd like to see what their reactions would be if their children had to look at pictures of dead people as they left the zoo for the day? Would they like it if their child was coming home after an afternoon in the hospital and saw people carrying large signs of dead infants, children, or adults?

I wonder what percentage of people had their minds changed today as they were standing along the intersection of route 8 and route 130 today? How many babies did they 'save'? Or did they just make themselves look more like idiots who don't actually care about anyone at all, let alone the babies they are supposed to be protecting?

Week of coolness

Some of you have already seen my posts about some of this on my FaceBook or Twitter, but I never actually wrote about all of it, so here we go ;)

On Sunday I went with a group of Pittsburgh Mom Bloggers to a very cool salon in Aspinwall, PA. Divinity Salon (http://www.divinity-salon.com/ their FaceBook page at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Aspinwall-PA/Divinity-Salon/198723679164?ref=ts) is an absolutely beautiful salon. The staff was SO absolutely cool and everyone came out looking beyond excellent! Cooper organized all of this for us and she has wonderful before/after pics up on her site: http://beenthere.typepad.com/been_there/2010/05/hair-day.html


I've been wanting to get my second tattoo done for a while now. For those of you who don't know, when Ethan was about 6 months old or so, I had my first one done:

I love it, but wanted my next one to be more visible (to me! It's hard to see what's on your back). I spoke to my absolute favorite tattoo artist, the wonderful Bunny, and showed her my idea. She loved it and we started work on it yesterday.
Here is the initial outline:

and then we had some time to add in the first of the color:


It will be in full color when we are all done. This was about 2 hours of work. I'm absolutely thrilled with it so far and can't wait to see it done. Granted, I also can't wait to be able to sleep on my right side again at night *LOL*

Other program

Maybe I like this one better?

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ooohhh.. blog from cell phone??

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ooohhh.. blog from cell phone??

hrm. I seem to have found a program so I can blog from the cell... lets see if I like this.