::: New Moon (Meyers)

Some questions:

1)  Why do all the shape-shifting native American kids have Bible names?  Rachel, Leah, Jacob, Seth, etc.  Very strange, no internal support for it.

2)  Could you beat me over the head a few more times with the Romeo and Juliet parallel?  'Cause I don't think I quite got it.

3)  Alice's fortune-telling skill is spot on every single time it needs to be and then -- surprise, surprise -- it's wrong at the perfect time to further the plot.  Color me surprised.

4)  Why is Edward so hot on the idea of getting married?  There's no internal rationale for him being so freaking conservative.   Even if he was born in 1902.  I mean, the guy eats mountain lions for pete's sake.  Then he changes his mind, then Bella changes HER mind.  Argh. Still waaaaaay too much angst from Eddie Baby.

5)  THE VOLTURI !!!  Seriously the best and scariest creatures encountered thus far and why isn't there more about them???  Freaky psychotic things.  (OK, actually they're the second scariest.  The first scariest is the human woman working for them who knows exactly what's going on and helps them anyway.  Think about that drain in the middle of the floor.  Brrrrr.)

And by the way, the Volturi are supposed to never eat the locals.  So this horde of people that come in as the Cullens are leaving are...what?  A lost tour bus?  Catered snacks?  Odd.  Though it certainly amped up the creep factor (see #5).  Dracula would have been proud of these guys.

Still waiting for the sex with the icy cold boyfriend.  Maybe Bella should practice with a popsicle.

Stupid, stupid, stupid

I must thank the Octuplet Mom for waking me up this morning by providing me with inspiration for truly vigorous rant.  What kind of a moron is this woman???  Six kids, ages 2 to 7 (so that's six kids in five years -- ok, some of them are twins, but still), three of them disabled, and all of them on WELFARE, and what does this cosmically stupid woman do?  She has eight more.  EIGHT!!

??!!?!??

I was very close to speechless and believe me that does not happen often.  So now my tax dollars are supporing this women and all FOURTEEN (!!!!!!) of her children.  I practically go speechless again just thinking about it.  (She has the nerve to say that she doesn't consider herself on welfare.  I have news for you, missy -- when you can't support your kids and you take money from the government, Ii believe that's called being on welfare.)

I seriously hope someone is bringing ethics charges against her doctor; he had no business helping this woman have more kids when she couldn't support the ones she already had.  He should be on the hook to pay for them, not Joe Taxpayer.  And who paid for her fertility treatments?  I surely hope that Medicaid didn't, because that would mean that we the taxpayer paid for the privilege of her having eight more kids so that we the taxpayer could then pay to raise them.  Wow.  Maybe she'll be individually mentioned in the bailout bill.

And her "spokesperson" has the nerve to blame people's outrage on the economy, saying that last year people would have welcomed these kids and donated lots of money.  Well now, let's think about this...six months ago she still would have had six kids, the taxpayer still would have been forking over food stamps and welfare checks for her, her three disabled kids would still need lots of attention...hmmm....

Nope.  Still monumentally wrong-headed and colossally selfish.