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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I agree. People make bad decisions (or at least decisions that are different than I would make) on a regular basis regarding things that they have the right to do.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
"IMO, Nadya is not doing anything other than trying to do what Kate is doing. Kate has just been more successful and just has more defenders. Wonder why that is ..."

Kate may have more defenders than Nadya, but I think Kate has more people opposed to her than she has defenders of her.

I don't see the situations of Nadya and Kate as similar except that they are both moms of a lot of kids.

I think that Nadya had the last 8 of her 14 children to get money from a tv show like Kate got. Kate did not have the last 6 of her kids trying to be on a tv show.

Nadya's children suffer and will continue to suffer because of her very selfish decision, at the detriment of her first 6 children, to have another pregnancy when she could not afford it and didn't have a father in their lives to help manage time and give those kids the nuturing they need.

Kate and her husband decided to have another pregnancy when they had only two children and the means to afford another child. They had no idea that pregnancy would result in 6 more kids.

I don't know if Nadya knew she would have 8 kids from her final pregnancy.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
When you already have 6 kids and yourself living off of the taxpayers and then purposely go and have 8 more to live off the taxpayers I have a real problem with that. That is the worst kind of selfish.

ETA: Oh, and didn't she also use her student loan money to pay for all of those proceedures to get pregnant? That makes her a cheat and a thief and a liar.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The latest thing they are considering should just spread JOY through their already stressed neighborhood.. PeTA wants to put up a huge sign..

PETA offers to help octuplets mom
Group wants to plant ad on her lawn and help her avoid foreclosure

by Lori Basheda, The Orange County Register..

"Don't let your dog or cat become an 'octomom,' the ad reads. "Always spay or neuter."

That's the ad PETA wants to plant on Nadya Suleman's La Habra lawn.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came up with the idea after seeing that the mother of 14, who is trying to trademark the name "Octomom," can't make her house payments.

"In light of recent reports that Nadya 'Octomom' Suleman may be facing foreclosure on her home, PETA is offering to bolster her finances by paying to place an ad on her front lawn," reads an e-mail from PETA spokeswoman Amanda Schinke.

In a letter to Suleman, PETA wrote: "When you gave birth ot octuplets to bring your total number of children to 14, you grabbed headlines and got the world talking about your controversial decision. Now will you help turn some of that attention to another important matter - the dog and cat overpopulation crisis? Unlike humans, dogs and cats cannot decide for themselves how many offspring they will have.

"Taking us up on our offer is a win-win situation: It would help you and your children to keep your home and also reduce the number of homeless dogs and cats."

The offer was made Tuesday in an e-mail sent to Suleman's attorney, Jeff Czech. He said PETA's legal team was going to get back to him with an offer and to "stay tuned."

When asked how much the group would pay Suleman, Schinke said in an e-mail that "it depends on how much space she wants to give us, but we'll work with her to figure out a number that will make it possible for her to keep her home."

(ed.. of course she lives on a side street that didn't have much traffic until she moved in and I'm betting they have laws about big signs there)

Czech did send out an unrelated e-mail Tuesday, saying that he "remains hopeful" that his client will avoid foreclosure.

"Nadya does not consider herself to be that old, and she definitely has no desire to live in a shoe," he wrote.

PETA isn't the only one trying to jump on the Octomom bandwagon. It was also reported Tuesday that an adult film company is offering to pay Suleman enough money to keep her house out of foreclosre if she stars in an adult film.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Here's a link to a shorter article that references the one I typed.

http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/24/peta-hires-the-Nadya-Suleman-pet-neutering-champion-the-octomom/

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Bizarre..

She got $5000 to put the sign on the lawn for a month PLUS a month's supply of veggie hot dogs and veggie burgers for the whole family.

Certainly not the big bucks she dreams of making.

Ahnicka
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08-08-2007

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ahnicka a private message Print Post    
So she really did the PETA sign thing? Well at least the $5,000 will pay for one month of mortgage with a little to spare. I'm surprised she went along with that, I'm not sure I expected her to.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Well, there goes my PETA membership. I don't give them my hard-earned money to give to that nutjob.

I heard she got a LOT more than $5000 for doing it too!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
That was the report in the Orange County Register, a legit paper that's been in OC for many decades and Nadya also lives in OC.

Don't forget all the faux hotdogs and burgers they can eat for a month ..

If I tried to put up such a sign here in Fountain Valley it wouldn't last overnight probably

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 5:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/03/peta-octomom-nadya-suleman-spay-neuter.html and she turned down the porn offer.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I don't believe it. Oprah is doing a show with Octamom tomorrow. She had her crew spend 24 hours with them. That made me laugh because it doesn't look like Oprah herself showed up at the house of 14 kids at all...LOL

Here's the preview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIpwRUMgLY

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I hope its not a love fest. I am disappointed that O is giving her the time of day

Connies
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03-11-2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Connies a private message Print Post    
I do not follow this thread closely, nor do I follow the octomom closely, but I have to admit I was impressed with her interview with Oprah. She seemed genuine and tring to make the best out of a bad situation.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The only problem is she was lying much of the time.. the only reason she has decided that she would never do a reality show with the kids is because no one hired her to do so.. she certainly tried hard enough to get one.

She lied about using up unused frozen embryos too.

The medical review of her doctor in California he's in trouble) has shown that she had him created new embryos when she was implanted and had the octuplets. There are still extras from her previous implantations and they could have been used instead of creating new ones.

So since she states she will never have them destroyed or consider donating them to another woman or for research, we must conclude that IF she can still use that doctor (she "joked" to the press that she hoped he would be allowed to practice in the future because she might want more children) then she may feel compelled to go for another round :-(

I find it hard to believe that she has taken the three special needs children off of benefits.. if they actually qualify for them she is depriving them, I'd say.

Connies, Suleman talks a good game.. she has some education, though she didn't go back to school as she assumed she could.. thinking that her school would just allow her to dump all the babies into their free daycare but she has vocabulary to impress.

I've never heard that she has even attempted to start paying back her huge amounts she owes in student loans, either. Her father put the down payment on the house that she is barely managing, with help, to stay, in.

And tell me it isn't exploiting them to have a large Peta sign on their front yard saying don't let your dog or cat be an octomom, spay and neuter and to refer to her children as a "litter". But that brought her $5000.

I'm disappointed but not surprised that Oprah gave her mostly a soft presentation and I'm sure quotes from what Oprah said will be made to sound like endorsements, unfortunately. This was all about damage control for Nadya (and the fulfillment of a stated dream for her to be on Oprah) and RATINGS for Oprah.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Although I don't care much for Octomom... she really creeps me out, I did find something unfair. Normally when Oprah (and other talk show hosts) have parents of multiples on their show, they give them lavish gifts, either toys for the children, or a years supply of baby food or whatever. But because this woman is a media pariah, her innocent babies got bupkis. I felt awful for the kids, since they really do need proper food and Oprah wouldn't have to pay for it out of pocket, they'd get a company to donate the food for the kids. It's not like the mother is going to sell the food on ebay! (And what the heck was she feeding them out of a can?)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Mame, don't you remember all the stuff she got from going on Dr Phil??? I think anyone else showering her with much of anything would be crazy.. and I'm sure Oprah and Phil had talked long ago..

Dr Phil got her supplies of all sorts of stuff, furniture, someone rehabbed the house and babyproofed it.. this included redoing the stairs and such. And there were the nurses that she later threw out and more. She also got money through her website. But this is a woman who used her student loans and a lawsuit payout to pay for lots of embryos (and she got the sperm for free from the ex boyfriend.

I'm guessing that people who normally shower with gifts are just hoping that CPS will keep evaluating and if the kids seriously aren't being fed (which doesn't seem to be the case) they would step in. Hopefully the teachers of the older kids are keeping a watchful eye too.

The glop from the can, I would say dog food but it looked worse.. seriouly I think it was a can of beans, maybe?

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
Slopping out that can was kind of gross, especially since she was trying to convince us that her kids ate fresh healthy food.

The way she kind of dumped the little ones food on the table kind of skeeved me out, too. Geez, I even put my dogs' food in a bowl.

The chaos was ridiculous. Four people ought to be able to get some kind of structure going. She needs Supernanny to write up a schedule. If a daycare provider had that kind of chaos, she'd be out of business.

She's overwhelmed and not coping--she needs to ask for help--the kind of help that Dr. Phil offered and she rejected.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
ITA that a daycare person has structure - Nadia does not, she does seem clueless - but I dont think Dr Phil or those nurses were really there for Nadia, or the kids - they all seemed to have "agendas" and that creeped me out!

but watching the Oprah show - that was so hard, so sad! She should be able to take food stamps or WIC for food for the kids (Oprah asked about giving some up to foster care?!)

I get that she wanted all of her frozen embroys inplanted, but omg!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Reader then double OMG because she still has MORE frozen embryos.. she was lying about using up existing ones when she had the last implantation.. those were all new ones.

This comes from the state medical board investigating her doctor.

Dr Phil didn't give her stuff but he coordinated stuff being given and once Nadya rejected the nurses he's been silent and not involved.

But the bottom line is without the house modifications, cribs and other supplies she wouldn't have been allowed to bring the babies to that house, so she certainly benefitted.

The nurses were booted because they advocated too much to get cameras away from the babies.. and at the time Nadya and her new attorney wanted those cameras so she could do her blogs.

NOW she is saying that would be bad but still she allowed Oprah's cameras in.

She got her time on Oprah.. I'm sure she had envisioned Oprah being at her house during the filming and maybe being flowed to Chicago and sitting on the stage with Oprah but that didn't happen. LOL.. Oprah rolled her eyes and said she would see it on the film.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 6:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
The girl is in a big learning curve and think she is learning.

As for dumping the watermelon, etc on the table for 14 month olds, I think that is wise. I used to just dump finger food onto my kids' highchair tray. Nothing I can see wrong with her doing it too.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
The nurses were booted for that and for Nadia feeling they were "spying" on her - her nannies from what she said on Dr Phil didnt speak English - I'm sure on some level she doesnt want people reporting to Tabloids on her either -

I think she also wanted to appear on Oprah to do damage control for her appearance on The View (that was so bizarre imho - just her laugh alone)

she seems to want to come across as intelligent - and I'm sure she had to have thought the house would be paid for.... so I was surprised at the purchase price and the amount she was behind on -

the whole thing just makes my head spin!!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Having 14 kids 8 and under makes my head spin.

Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamabatsy a private message Print Post    
Having 14 kids makes my head spin.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Head spinning here too, but no.. she talked about wanting to go on Oprah way back when she was doing her nightly blog videos .. way way before she ever went on The View. She wanted to go on Oprah.

Yes I'm sure she thought everything would be "paid for" passive voice intended..

She does have intelligence. And education. And vocabulary. But she doesn't keep a story straight for too long (and from what her mother has said this has been going on for at least 15 years).. So when she talks semi-sense.. you have to wait and see if things change.

If she really gave up WIC and foodstamps, that would be a blow to her kids. I'm kinda guessing she was taken off those things for fraud.. or she is still on those programs.

The damage control in saying she immediately went off when she was told that they were forms of welfare is interesting and refers back to when she kept saying she was not on welfare.

Hopefully she does still get whatever her kids qualify for use it for them.

I DID notice that at least for the interview she seemed to be toned WAY down, no makeup, not flashing a manicure or designer clothing.. so maybe she IS learning.

That would be a good thing.