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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (452962)	1/31/2009 8:15:23 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572719

sure the MSM will be calling them the axis of evil in 6 months

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (452962)	2/1/2009 12:07:20 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572719

Octuplet grandma's shame: daughter has 14 kids, no husband nydailynews.com ( It's time for one of you pro-lifers to step up and take this woman in Ten! You've got plenty of room..) The kid-crazy California single mom who already had six children gave birth to eight more babies last week because she didn't want to destroy her leftover frozen embryos or have an abortion. Mom of 14 Nadya Suleman's decision to become pregnant with octuplets through in-vitro fertilization exasperated her own mom, who is threatening to pack up and leave. "It can't go on any longer," Angela Suleman said Saturday, as an ethical debate swirled through the medical community. "She's [already] got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get married." The grandma, who lives with her 33-year-old daughter in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier, said she warned, "I'm going to be gone" before the new brood comes home from the hospital. She has about a month to get out. The octuplets - the second known set in the United States - were born nine weeks early and face weeks of hospitalization. The six boys and two girls were delivered by Caesarean section Monday and weighed between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Nadya Suleman turned to artificial means each time she become pregnant because her fallopian tubes were "plugged up," her mother said. She said her daughter used a single donor but that she did not know his name. The baby-mad woman has been obsessed with having lots of children since she was a teenager, "but luckily she couldn't," the mother said. "Instead of becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not the normal way," the grandma said. "Her whole life, she couldn't wait to be a mom," Nadya Suleman's friend, Allison Frickert, told the Los Angeles Times. "That was her No. 1 goal." But now the mom looks like she already has her hands full. Her family lives in a ramshackle house - the only one on the well-kept block - with a barren front yard. A front window is held together with electrical tape, and toys, a stroller and a tricycle are strewn around. It seems, though, that the mom of 14 finally has reached her limit. "She doesn't have any more [frozen embryos], so it's over now," Angela Suleman said. "It has to be." Doctors applauded the successful delivery, but bioethicists questioned the decision to implant so many embryos into a woman who already had six children. Professional guidelines generally restrict the number of embryos to one or two to avoid dangerous multiple pregnancies. "The cost of taking care of multiples is huge," said Dr. Vicken Sahakian, director of the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles. "It's not going to finish when the babies go home. There's a high likelihood they're going to have [long-term] medical and psychological handicaps." Sahakian predicted an "outcry in our profession" over the octuplets that could lead to regulations similar to those in Europe that limit the number of embryos that can be legally implanted. tmoore@nydailynews.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (452962)	2/1/2009 1:26:53 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572719

North Korea says two Koreas on path toward war By Jon Herskovitz Jon Herskovitz Sun Feb 1, 4:55 am ET SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea warned on Sunday that the downward spiral of relations with the South has pushed the peninsula to the brink of war, two days after it said it was scrapping all pacts with its rich capitalist neighbor. Analysts say the rhetorical volleys are aimed at changing the hardline policies of the South's president and are meant to grab the attention of new U.S. President Barack Obama. "The policy of confrontation with the DPRK (North Korea) pursued by the (South Korean) group is ... the very source of military conflicts and war between the North and the South," the North's official KCNA news agency reported a commentary in the communist party newspaper as saying. "In Korea in the state of armistice confrontation means escalated tension and it may lead to an uncontrollable and unavoidable military conflict and a war," it said. The states, technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended with a cease fire and not a peace treaty, have more than 1 million troops near their border. There are about 28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea to defend the country. The North's bureaucracy works slowly to form policy and it may still be trying to figure out its approach with the new Obama team, analysts said, making it easier for Pyongyang to direct its anger at Washington's allies, including Seoul. The North in recent months has repeatedly threatened to destroy the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak, which ended a decade of free-flowing aid to Pyongyang after taking office a year ago. Lee's government mostly ignores Pyongyang's taunts. "North Korea's escalating threats do not indicate major hostilities are imminent," said Bruce Klingner, an expert on Korean affairs at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "However, they could easily presage another round of tactical naval confrontations with South Korea in the Yellow Sea." The two Koreas fought deadly naval skirmishes in disputed Yellow Sea waters off the west coast in 1999 and 2002. North Korea has clamped down on it border with the South in recent months and has canceled cooperation deals reached during a period of detente in the past few years before Lee came to power. The deals included reunions for separated families and running trains across the heavily guarded border. The latest move follows comments by a U.S. national security official that the secretive state's leader, Kim Jong-il, appeared to have rebounded politically from his recent health scare and is making major decisions. Kim inspected a military unit and a power plant at the weekend, KCNA said, with Kim noting "the (North) Korean people are ready to flatten even a mountain and empty even a sea at one go when called for by the Party." (Additional reporting by Cheon Jong-woo in Seoul and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Editing by Paul Tait)