“Just Noticing”: Observations Of A Blogger
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 22nd, 2010
“Just Noticing”….
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That some people just really shouldn’t be parents.
Though his parents previously vowed to get help, 2-year-old Aldi Suganda Rizal — the Indonesian toddler who caused a sensation in May when video footage of him smoking a cigarette turned up online — continues to indulge his nicotine habit.
CBS reporters tracked Aldi and his parents down in a tiny fishing village on the island of Sumatra. As if on cue, Aldi appeared, cigarette in hand, alongside his mother, Diana. The new footage is perhaps even more disturbing than the original clip. In several shots, the toddler — said to have started smoking at just 11 months — uses one already lit cigarette to light another.
“If he can really quit smoking, he will definitely be a very healthy boy,” Diana says. She noted her son is currently enrolled in a government-sponsored rehabilitation program, but continues to throw tantrums and even vomit when he can’t smoke. “I can’t stand seeing him hurting himself. What can we do but accept it as it is?”
Authorities have called Aldi “a victim of his environment,” as Indonesia is the only country in the Asia-Pacific region that has yet to ratify the World Health Organization’s framework on tobacco control.
Readers: Perhaps you have seen this before. It has been in my queue for awhile and today I decided to post it. I can’t “just notice” this one. This one deserves some judgement as this is truly disgusting. If this isn’t the worse form of child abuse I don’t know what is. And if ever a parent should be held for child abuse this is it.
Doug: My pleasure. By the way, speaking of our garden…do you think you could cut down that tall Bamboo in the corner? I think it would look better in our zen garden if the bamboo was “even” as you suggested. This is kind of fun communicating with you over my blog. It’s like that commercial where the couple is sitting on the couch and texting each other. :)
Peter: Hello….With all of the unemployed contractors out here and all of the work over there, I can’t imagine you won’t get an influx from the mainland. Hafa Adai.
Boys: Heed Peter’s words though: “Bring your best behavior.”
Bob: that one is too cute….puts a smile on my face with the visual. Thanks. Hope you are well.
Helena: How are you? Wow those stats are incredible – A prescription drug that kills more people than an Cocaine and heroine; illegal drugs combined.
I agree, get the drug companies to pay for it. They have to start being accountable. If they can just manufacture drugs and then throw them out there to the public without demanding any kind of mandatory training for these doctors who are going to prescribe there drugs, that is just lazy, uncaring and irresponsible. It seems the attitude the drug companies have is that once they manufacture these drugs, they market the hell out of them, make a ton of money, and then they get to wash their hands of any responsibility, should any issue come up. They can blame it on the doctor for prescribing it in the first place. Like the article said, “They’re making a killing.” Thanks for posting.
Lourdes: Happy you enjoyed it – I love it too.
Hi Ruth: How are you doing? I like this too. And the lesson learned depends on how one looks at it. Thanks. I hope you and the girls…all of your girls are doing good.
Robert: I liked your opinion of the matter. Once again “racist” rights hiding behind the title of “religious” rights. And now they have to claim “deeply” religious because no one is buying their BS, so they need to take it to the next level…a “deeper” level of BS.
I notice how the racist whites can always twist things to their advantage. Another thing that came to my mind, being a designer, is how Angle can say on the one hand that the color black is evil, yet in regards to “fashion” the “Little Black Dress” or “LBD” is just so chic and sophisticated. A woman wouldn’t be fashionable unless she had a least one “LBD” in her coset.
And the same stands for a “Black Tie” affair. Now I don’t think she’d be calling her “LBD” or her husband’s “black” tuxedo “evil” now would she? Or if one attended a funeral wearing “black”, ”black” wouldn’t be considered “evil” but a sign of “respect”…expected attire from one who is “deeply religious”. – No “evil” attached to the word “black” in these cases.
Like you, and I, and others have said, racists just love to twist things to their advantage justifying their racist attitudes, by claiming to hide behind their “deeply religious” values. And most white media doesn’t call them on it. We need more reporters like Maddow and Olbermann in the media.
Oh “just noticing” that more comments have come in, and the racists are having their say. I’ve said enough. Hope you are well Robert.
Readers: What are you “just noticing”? Blog this BABE. Enjoy your Sunday! Peace out.
6:09 PM: Sorry. Just got home from a day in the sun and “just noticed” that the comments were off. The comments were on when I posted but it must’ve happened during the saving process when Doug pointed out a typo that I later corrected.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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August 22nd, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Wow that was disturbing to watch, the poor baby is still drinking from a bottle…
Funny you would say that some people just shouldn’t be parents, Mischa, I just had that chat with done of my peeps last night. A friend said that there’s should be a battery if pyschology tests given first and then yes let’s make them get a license much the way you apply fir and get a marriage license – oh yes we could gi on and on and yet it’s biology, I know people whi would’ve made great parents but they couldn’t get a pregnancy going on and I know many who gave kids and probably shouldn’t have, they wanted mini me’s and got real people, oppsie. I just wonder WTF this father was Donny when he turned on his 18 month old son to nicotine…???
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Sorry for the typos I’ll Blame my iPhone : )