Driving home after a brief stop at the Baby Booty Shop, he thought just how cute little Sarah was going to look in her new shoes. Only 1 year old and already so big.
He had agonized over which pair he should get, so many colours, so many styles. After what seemed to be an eternity, he finally chosen the pale green shoes with the red stripe down the side. Sarah would be a little darling with her red dress and new shoes.
The car turned around the corner, finally pointing toward home. He could almost see those shoes on her little feet and how happy she would be to see daddy again. As he pulled car up the driveway, he noticed the police cruiser parked in front of his house. Thinking nothing of it, he turned up the driveway, parked the car, picked up the box with the shoes and walked up to the front door of his house.
The door opened in front of him, a police officer standing behind the open door.
"Mr Smith, " the officer began, "I am sorry to say..."
The rest of the officers words were lost as he saw his wife sitting on the couch, her head buried in her hands.
She leaped up and jumped into his arms "OH FRANK," she wailed "SARAH, SHE'S...." her voice was drowned by a fresh storm of crying.
The next day, a classified add in the newspaper read
"For sale: baby shoes, never used."
This short story was inspired by the very short story Baby Shoes
written by Mr Ernest Hemingway.
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Thursday, 20 September 2012
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Oh My God, did this really happen?
Apparently it has.
Republican Governor Jan Brewer has signed into Arizona state law that Pregnancy begins 2 weeks prior to conception. Now, I can understand that a state whose politics are dictated by the Christian Church (so much for separation of church and state) could come up with this. I can understand a Republican coming up with this, more and more it appears that Republicans have a very tenuous grip on reality. What I can't understand is that it appears that a woman has signed this garbage. A woman, the very same chromosomal identity of the very people this law targets.
Yes, targets. This law has painted a big red target on every woman in the state of Arizona. The now official date of pregnancy is calculated as the first day of your last menstrual period. That equates to every woman becoming pregnant and then aborting that pregnancy about 12 times a year. Jan Brewer has turned every menstruating woman into something that should be producing a baby each and every time it has a menstrual cycle because as the holy church dictates, abortion is evil.
Well done Jan Brewer, our trip to the dark ages is one step closer to being complete
Republican Governor Jan Brewer has signed into Arizona state law that Pregnancy begins 2 weeks prior to conception. Now, I can understand that a state whose politics are dictated by the Christian Church (so much for separation of church and state) could come up with this. I can understand a Republican coming up with this, more and more it appears that Republicans have a very tenuous grip on reality. What I can't understand is that it appears that a woman has signed this garbage. A woman, the very same chromosomal identity of the very people this law targets.
Yes, targets. This law has painted a big red target on every woman in the state of Arizona. The now official date of pregnancy is calculated as the first day of your last menstrual period. That equates to every woman becoming pregnant and then aborting that pregnancy about 12 times a year. Jan Brewer has turned every menstruating woman into something that should be producing a baby each and every time it has a menstrual cycle because as the holy church dictates, abortion is evil.
Well done Jan Brewer, our trip to the dark ages is one step closer to being complete
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