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I’m still wearing my birthday shoes. Why not? The older you get the longer you should celebrate.

Yesterday it was U2…today Genesis and Alice in Wonderland. Again, why not? Trust me, I was alive when this Genesis song came out, but not quite aware of who Genesis and Peter Gabriel were. I thought this was really cool.

And Peter Gabriel…I saw this tour…MY FIRST CONCERT…you never forget your first. Oh man, I touched Peter Gabriel at SPAC in Saratoga Springs when he did the crowd surf (but a mere high-schooler was I, about sixteen). I saw one YouTube of the surf where he made it to about row two because nobody knew what to do with him. By the time he made it to SPAC he was travelling across the crowd. Here is a quote from a YouTube viewer on this: “I believe he was one of the first to do a crowd surf. My mom said it was great watching his body float around the arena.” Like I need to be reminded that Peter Gabriel is old and I’m old.

The crowd surf videos weren’t too impressive so here is a clip of Peter Gabriel on Italian TV doing the song Lay Your Hands on Me that made the crowd surf popular…oh, and he does Shock the Monkey too. Two for One!

What do I want for my birthday? Ummm wouldn’t it be cool if U2 had a new album and were expected to tour again…soon.

Oh, I might be able to have that? Cool. Never say never when it comes to U2 I always say.

It’s my birthday and I’m posting this beautiful happy birthday song that Bono and the Edge sang for Nelson Mandella at Friday’s Nelson Mandela at 90 concert in Hyde Park.

I was going to share All I Want Is You from U2’s Rattle and Hum with you but no YouTube does that recording justice so I found this cool music video made by partygirlvox of their Fast Cars from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb…Rock ON!

This is so sad and I thought I’d share this with you before it was too late. Victoria’s Secret model Karolina Kurkova is getting bad press in Brazil. Who knows when, but the revelation might mean her modeling career will soon be over (tongue in cheek guys).

Maybe it is just Brazil seeing this but rumor has it that Karolina Kurkova, one of the world’s biggest top models (she makes over $5 million a year), is FAT.

This video is a little old…November 2007. I saw her in a news video and honestly she doesn’t look much different than this…in fact I thought she looked great, wish I had that body. But you can be the judge…

Shame on Time and reporter Kathleen Kingsbury. Shame on principle Joseph Sullivan. Shame, shame, shame. Can anybody say remember a story Dan Rather once did?

I read this evening that Kathleen Kingsbury of Time has been caught telling two different tales of whether or not she talked to any of the pregnant teens. I’m not surprised and she should lose her job along with principle Joseph Sullivan. While we are at it, if I was the parent of any of those 17 girls I’d find it hard pressed to be as disappointed in them as I am in the school district and the media.

Are you kidding me? These are children, children that shouldn’t be having sex or getting pregnant maybe, but they are children. This story reeked of suspicion from the very start. Am I the only one who believes that something is amiss here with this story?

Remember school, can you tell me the biggest click in your school? Did it consist of 17 girls? Please. Do you know how many women try to get pregnant a year? It is actually harder than is purported. Even if what is being reported that eight or so had a pact, you’re telling me they could really all get prenant at the same time.

This is nothing other than a big coincidence. If it weren’t there would be about a handful of other girls or so that tried and were part of said pact that didn’t get pregnant. Talk to any doctor and I’ll bet you ten to one they’d agree with me. At least you’d think there’d be girls who decided not to try…and they’d be talking.

It is easy for Time’s Kathleen Kingsbury and principle Joseph Sullivan to say these things. Who’s going to believe a bunch of teenage girls that have already shamed their families enough? Who would think they would come forward?

While I believe there are teenage girls lacking maturity that think it is okay to get pregnant, there is no way I believe you can find 17 girls in one school who think it is okay to get pregnant. This is beyond belief. Remember the saying if it is too good to be true, then it probably isn’t.

And if it is true…I still stick by my shame on them, there is just a bit more shame and a bit more of them if there was a pact. The adults in this story are not out to help anybody, solve any problems, they all just get their names in the paper and denigrate the children in this story. Oops, maybe this is why this happened, I’m sure there’s more to this story than meets the eye, but we may never know and I hope that we don’t have to hear from Dr. Phil on this one.

I remember being a young middle school kid and a sixteen year old bus mate took me aside and told me how she would have to be leaving school and her life was about to change and she hoped the same thing never happened to me when I was older. I remember that. And I’ll tell you this, it was from the heart, and I really feel that there is no way there are 17 girls reveling in their predicament and shame on anybody who thinks otherwise. They are just trying to make lemonade out of lemons right now. Kudos to the couple that made an appearance on Good Morning America and explained the real pact of the matter.

So, I just wanted to say I’m tired of the blogs beating up on these girls. It serves no purpose. They are being painted as immature, selfish, witches who supposedly tricked a bunch of boys. Real nice. As usual the boys did no wrong, has anybody talked to any boys? I bet all involved are banking on them not coming forward too.

Come on, anybody having hindsight about this story? Anybody the least bit sorry for this kind of injustice? If it was your daughter? A little tough love? Or this?

Okay, after I just got through bashing Victoria’s Secret for their dangerous underwear someone is saved by a bra. Apparently it isn’t a Victoria’s Secret bra because I’m sure we would have seen a claim that they advertise that as one of their bra benefits…uplifting and lifesaving.

I love how the headlines read about this bra saving this young woman’s life, not her common sense to send a signal. Let’s give credit where credit is due, we know there is only one thing that will get a man’s attention, underwear. Victoria’s Secret doesn’t make those catalogs for women.

One story I read even makes it sound like it was a surprise that she gave up her bra and how it was a great thing she kept her shirt and coat for warmth. Either this person is a really bad journalist or just really sexist. She was in Germany though, maybe there is a problem with translation there. One would hope. It wasn’t too much of a problem for them to translate her DD bra size though in some other news stories.

I don’t know, should she have sent a sock instead?