From NBC Local 15 News, Mobile AL (Reported by: Andrea Ramey)
MOBILE, Ala.) - Mobile may be able to boast the world’s tiniest baby! In August, a set of triplets was born at University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital. The tiniest in the set broke the record for the world’s smallest surviving baby at nine point one ounces (9.1 oz.!).
Doctors are calling Oliviyanna, Oriyanna, and Tayvanna three tiny miracles. Collectively at birth they weighed less than four pounds!
“I just started praying and asking God to help them through the way,” said the triplets mother, sixteen- year-old Jamesha Harbin.
The tiniest of the three, little Oliviyanna, is not just proving miracles exist, she’s breaking a record for what might be the world’s smallest surviving baby!
When Oliviyanna was born, she weighed less than a soda can. Today, she weighs three point two pounds.
Sixteen, unmarried, and the mother of not one but three special needs babies. (The needs of special babies is something that we know about here in The Pasture. Our youngest sons, fraternal twins, were tiny, and premature. The expenses and the stress was horrendous but were handled by family, faith, and hard work on the part of both the care-givers and the bread-winners. Not State-funded, (read as: “tax-payer funded”), welfare.) Upon hearing me rant about this story my 15 year old son informed me that there are at least a half a dozen girls in his 8th grade class expecting babies before the term is over. “Who knows“, he said, “this record may not stand very long.”
One more record that the City of Mobile, and the State of Alabama does not need.
Seriously now, I pray for the health and well-being of these three innocents – and for the grandparent who will have to raise them and us tax-paying Citizens who will be paying for it all.
At some point this Country HAS to wake up and do something about the run-away spending we are doing on welfare and the other ills that it brings. Friends, charity starts at home. So does responsibility. All of the assorted kinds of responsibility. You can’t tell it by looking around America today, though. Today, though, we allow our elected morons in Washington to saddle us with socialized heath care that will not just spend us into oblivion but will just encourage more of this welfare state behavior. Not just that, but they are hitching us to this wagon that will tax us today with only a promise of some sort of coverage in a few years. Nothing for anyone now. disgusting no matter how you look at it – or them!
What happened to self-reliance? Self-respect? Personal responsibility? Parental responsibility?
I can tell you now, all of the above are rare birds indeed here in Mobile, AL! Our Liberal mayor and City Council are spending money like there is no end to it. Not on police to help with the ever increasing crime problems and not on teachers in our bottom-of-the-pile school system. No, good ol’ Sam Jones & Friends are spending it on outdoor movie projectors for inner city dwellers to enjoy here in one of the rainiest cities in America – and a giant Moon Pie. (If you’ve never been to the deep South you may not even know what a damned Moon Pie is. They are popular little chocolate-covered cakes with a marshmallow filling. They go good with RC cola and are thrown from floats to the crowd during the endless Mardi Gras parades.)
No kidding, folks! Aa $25,000+, 600 pound, electronic Moon Pie to be raised some 200 feet over the Mobile River and light up Mobile’s skyline at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. That is a Liberal’s idea of fiscal responsibility for you.
Guess The Bull shouldn’t really be surprised at all the 16 year old mothers, should I?
Either this Country wakes up and demands the removal of these tax & spend idiots we have in elected offices Nationwide or we face the end of Freedom, Liberty, and the downward spiral of Humanity back into the horrors of the Dark Ages.
In 1783 Benjamin Franklin said “Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country“. Friend, I’m here to tell you that the United States of America is the last home of anything resembling true Liberty on this rock in space we call home. Seeing as how we have no spare planets to remove our selves to, we either repair our Nation – save our Freedom -or the party is over. Look around. Is this the sort of system you want your children and grandchildren growing up in? For me the answer is a resounding “NO!“.
One last question… How’s all of that “Hope & Change” working for you?
Bull, out.
