99.873% Self Sufficient

My kid is advancing at geometric rates. She can damn near take care of herself. For instance, the following photos show that if the wife and I were to keel over suddenly, GG could feed herself. My dream of a beer delivery system is close to fruition.

Hippy = Jackass!

I have long understood the correlation between organic food eating, dirty smelly hippy, natural pathetic lovin' people and jackasses, but this article highlights the phenomenon. Some extremely stupid hippy parents have been feeding their children unpasteurized or "raw" milk, and now those children have come down with e. coli infections.

This follows closely on the heels of the "organic" spinach derived e. coli outbreak that sickened 180 people nationwide. If I have said it once, I've said it a thousand times, "All food is organic! If it was inorganic, you would die!"

The article says that in Washington state, it is legal to sell unpateurized milk, but it is illegal in many other states. Big surprise. My God, this is the 21st century. Do we really want to go back to the days before Louis Pasteur figured out you could heat food, kill many of the bacteria living in that food, and hence prolong the shelf life of that food? I know, Pasteur was a Frenchman. But come on, the hippy-dippy, natural food types love the French.

I often wonder if the people pushing the organic food, "raw"milk, let's not immunize our children and raise them as strict vegans, ever feel guilty when people follow their advice and bad things happen. I used to try to persuade these morons that their germ theory and nutritional theories were unsound, but to them, it is religious dogma. I don't much care when an adult chooses to be a moron and consumes unpasteurized milk. Play Russian Roulette with your dietary consumption, but don't pour this crap down some innocent kids gullet!

The last little gem in this story concerns price. I guarantee that these Jackasses paid significantly more money to purchase this "raw" milk than they would have if they would have purchased run of the mill pasteurized Darigold.

Daddy Daughter Weekend:

Since GG’s mom was in Northern California getting her drink on last weekend, I had Genevieve all to myself. What did we do? My favorite weekend activity: going to the zoo. For Genevieve’s first zoo experience, we went to the Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah. I had never been to this particular zoo, so I was looking forward to it. The zoo is small but fun. It costs pretty much a dollar and animal. Here are some pictures of GG’s first zoo experience:

A cougar, hense the name Cougar Mountain Zoo. This little guy had a hurt paw, so he was laying around licking it.



A parrot. This zoo has a ton of birds, parrots, macaws, etc.



GG was watching these guys fight. At one point, the red one bit his buddy, the the bitee let loose a cry that made GG and I almost crap ourselves.



An Alpaca. The zoo informed us that the Alpaca is one of the smallest in the Camel Family. They had brown ones and one white one. There were a bunch of snotty nosed kids feeding the white one -- racists!



Cranes: If you look closely, the sign says; "Cranes - Stab-Peck-Kick - Keep Away" I'm not going to let some stupid zoo tell me how to raise my kid... check this out:


That's right. I don't have a sign on her stroller, but GG bites, kicks, punches, pinches, and craps all over the place. Stupid zoo.

I'll leave you with this: Steve Irwin dangled his baby in front of crocidiles, I pose my baby in front of Grizzly Bears!