<p>It probably wasn’t a coincidence. Scary isn’t it?</p>
<p>I have noticed that the CC ads are becoming increasingly strange. I do wonder about the stretch mark/octomom thing. It reminds me of a recent experience at CVS (drugstore). I have a card that saves $$, and I realize that I am giving up some privacy by using it. The cash register always spews out a long string of coupons, usually relevant to products that I’ve purchased at some point. The other day I got a coupon for Polident. I was baffled for a minute, until I realized that I’d bought Efferdent to clean S2’s retainer.</p>
<p>still stretch mark ads!</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered about the decision-making process of police departments, and what obligates them to step in to keep a circus from getting out of control. I don’t think it’s their duty to provide 24-hour protection to celebrities out in public, but when a celebrity is at home, and the paparazzi are just hanging around, waiting for anything to stir, isn’t that sort of like loitering?</p>
<p>Yet I am finding it increasingly dull to hear certain people complain of media/paparazzi, when they themselves have invited public interest in their lives by allowing interviews with the media. In Chicago here, one only need to look to Blagojevich and Drew Peterson to see how they seek out the media, then complain because people won’t leave them alone. I say, if you put yourself out there, then you need to be prepared for the repercussions. But I don’t think it gives free reign for the media to camp out at your doorstep.</p>
<p>I don’t know how the people in the LA area aren’t up in arms about this kind of stuff. If I was trying to get somewhere, and couldn’t because of the masses of photographers, I’d be furious.</p>
<p>I am glad I don’t live in that neighborhood. What a nightmare.</p>
<p>Teriwtt, I myself do not frequent areas where the paparazzi hang out but I will say the whole Brittney Spears police showing infuriated me because I have to imagine that in this city there were far more pressing needs for the police that night and I don’t like paying taxes for this sort of thing.</p>
<p>You are all making me very happy I live in very rural NJ. Beleive it or not, it is NOT all parkways, turnpikes and interstates!! It’s called the Garden State for a reason:) I’m in a part that’s so far removed from all that stuff…though, oddly enough, I’m only an hour and a bit away from Jon & Kate…so, I guess this stuff can pop up no matter where you live.</p>
<p>I wonder if Jon and Kate have to deal with paparazzi?</p>
<p>I live in the LA area. We often do give up alot for movie and film production. Plus, the inevitable dignitary visits, which often tie up traffic for hours, while roads are cleared so it is safe. Like yesterday, with Obama’s visit. Friends were on their way to a swim meet in Beverly Hills, and his helicopter ride impacted their drive. We got there early enough and left late enough that our ride wasn’t a mess. But this stuff happens all the time, here. </p>
<p>Octomom is going to be a menace wherever she goes, wherever she lives. I am sorry to say. She is a publicity hound, from what I have witnessed thus far. The difference between her and Kate from the Jon and Kate tv show is huge - Kate seems like a pragmatist, a control freak who won’t venture out of the house without loads of help for her children. She seems like she gets how to manage the madness and that she is not delusional about the difficulties of parenting her brood.</p>
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<p>The ad when I read this thread said “Start College Search NOW!” Equally appropriate, don’t you think? ;)</p>
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<p>And Dh and I were wondering why 911 calls get released to the public – outside of court cases. Why is it any of the public’s business to hear these calls? I have to imagine that most 911 calls are made at some of the worst moments in a person’s life – shouldn’t there be a really compelling reason - other than to joke around on talk shows - to release them? I’ve not known too many people, if any, who were inconvenienced by the paparazzi. As for filming, etc., a lot of that happens around here – even in my quiet neighborhood. But it’s an industry that keeps a lot of people in this city employed besides actors and usually film crews are very courteous. They used to film a television series in my immediate neighborhood and, believe me, people were well compensated for it.</p>
<p>I guess two more babies were discharged from the hospital today.</p>
<p>I have a Parent’s Life Insurance ad now… well if Nadya can’t get some money any other way…</p>
<p>I see an LL Bean ad. Maybe it should be on the thread with the " mom" jeans</p>
<p>So four babies are home now?</p>
<p>"LA HABRA, Calif. - Two more of the world’s longest surviving octuplets have been discharged from a Southern California hospital.</p>
<p>Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center says it sent home two of Nadya Suleman’s babies, Maliyah and Nariyah, Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p>The two girls, each weighing about 5 pounds 2 ounces, will join their six older siblings and two infant boys who were released Tuesday night. The remaining four babies are still at the hospital and are doing well…</p>
<p>In a video posted on Saturday, Suleman apologized to the father of all 14 of her children and promised that she would never reveal his identity. </p>
<p>“I’m sorry for all this mess, and I hope he isn’t scared it’ll come out because it won’t,” Nadya Suleman said in the RadarOnline.com video. “As far as I’m concerned, I’ll never disclose who he is.” </p>
<p>Suleman said the man is a foreign-born California resident in his 30s, but did not disclose his current address. …</p>
<p>Suleman said the man was a friend who would make a good father, adding that their 7-year-old son Elijah resembled him. </p>
<p>She said he was speechless when she told him how many children she was carrying, and then he asked Suleman if the doctor knew she already had many children…"
[2</a> more octuplets released from hospital - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29818544/]2”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29818544/)</p>
<p>I predict that he’ll write a book…</p>
<p>I predict that not only will he NOT write a book, but is probably even now doing a novena in the hopes that his identity will not be released.</p>
<p>She says that she will “never” reveal his identity. That is until social services kicks in and wants repayment for the money they’ve put out. And “never” is a very long time.</p>
<p>I hope he gets hit for his share of child support. I’ll add that I feel an exception would be that if he can document that he tried all legal measures to get her not to use his donation in advance of a pregnancy. Otherwise, I’d say make him pay his share for his children.</p>
<p>"Still, the future of the babies, and how their amazing story will play out, remains very much up in the air. </p>
<p>Dr. Phil McGraw, on whose show Nadya Suleman has appeared, brokered an arrangement between the octuplet mom and volunteer group Angels in Waiting.
Suleman and Angels in Waiting hammered out an agreement during a powwow at Dr. Phil McGraw’s house March 3. Suleman agreed to move her brood of 14 to a new, 2,500-square-foot home in La Habra, Calif., and let Angels in Waiting lead the way in caring for the children.</p>
<p>“I think Nadya recognizes she’s not capable of caring for 14 children, she needs help — and she has said so,” Allred told Gregory.</p>
<p>But how long that care will last is anyone’s guess. The octuplets require 64 feedings a day, an equal number of diaper changes, and around-the-clock nursing care. The tab is estimated to run $45,000 a month — all funded through donations to Angels in Waiting.</p>
<p>When Gregory asked Allred whether “all of this is sustainable,” she made an impassioned pitch to the public to donate, no matter how they might feel about the controversial mother of the octuplets.</p>
<p>“We’re hoping that everybody will donate and help to make sure that these little babies, these little innocent ones, get the kind of supportive care that they need, because the consequences of the rest of their lives are going to be decided right now.”</p>
<p>[New</a> nursery, volunteers greet first 2 octuplets - Parenting & Family- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29752134/]New”>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29752134/)</p>
<p>Octumom Confessions! this video on CNN:</p>
<p>[Video</a> - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com](<a href=“Video News - CNN”>Video News - CNN)</p>