Thursday, January 1, 2009
2008 Born in the Airspace Near the U.S.A.
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:38 PM
The story:
A Ugandan woman has given birth to a baby girl on board an international flight from Amsterdam to Boston after going into labour mid-flight.The six-pound (2.7kg) baby named Sasha was delivered on New Year's Eve with the help of two doctors on the eight-hour-long Northwest Airlines flight.
Mother and baby were taken to a Boston hospital on landing and are doing well.
Sasha was deemed a Canadian citizen for customs' purposes because she was born over Canada's airspace.
The rare trans-Atlantic birth was greeted with cheers and applause from passengers on board flight 59, reports said.
What is striking about the story:
The excitement began some six hours into the flight, when the Ugandan woman who was eight-months pregnant went into heavy labour.The Indian doctor's statement can read as a diagnosis of the state of the American soul. Some might have thought it was sick or even dead—Katrina, Iraq, Wall Street greed. But it is not finished, over, kaputz. It is very much alive and well in the renewed age of Obama.Flight crew located two doctors on board the plane, and the woman gave birth to Sasha at 0900 Boston time (1400 GMT) - some 90 minutes before touch down.
"Everybody was there to help," Dr Natarajan Raman, who helped deliver the child, told the Boston Globe.
"People offered baby food, people brought things, people vacated their seats...The spirit of America is alive," he added.
Telling echoes exist between the incident in the air and the substance of this movie:
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The American soul might still be clinging to life, but make no mistake, it is on life support. The age of Obama begins on January 20th and I have no doubt that Bush will not go quietly and without some last spiteful, self-serving douche-y gesture.
Thank you,
From the Phallic Symbol of the Desert.
He definitely would have helped little Sasha into the world and killed anyone who got in the way.
this post is ridiculous.
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