let’s get serious, people.

i have a hard time watching footage from 9/11.  the last time i watched everything in full was the day that it happened.  we were in drumline rehersal and my teacher recieved a call from someone, i always assumed it was from a friend in new york although it could have been someone else.  there was a lot of confusion as we immediately cut practice and headed back inside with our instruments.  we heard from our teacher that the world trade center had just been hit.  i don’t believe that any of us, or maybe only i, really understood what that meant.  there was a small empty classroom next to the band hall.  we filed in so that we could all watch the television and see what was happening.  at that point, the first plane had already hit.  the different news programs were scrambling to get every angle possible of what had happened.  various people had sent in different videos, and they were even taking phone calls from people who were on the scene.  the second plane hit while we were all there to watch.  all i could think about was how many people must have died before my very own eyes.

politics will not fulfill your christian duties,

no matter how hard you fight in the political arena for the “little guy”.

who wants to be called a “little guy” anyway?

i found this book in the loft at my house.

here is the complete back cover:

(top)

PSYCHO-
CYBERNETICS
IS THE NEW WAY
TO PUT MORE LIVING IN YOUR LIFE!

hello all of YOU PEOPLE, i love all of YOU GUYS.

cookies are baking

cream soda is getting cooler

the ac is out

yay!

edit:  and i’m with my lady (back seat blogger)

your feelings are not as important as you make them out to be

this was in no way a political statement (though it could be implied)

ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.

i have nothing good to say about politics.  it is only fun for me to think about, and not a very good experience for anyone to witness.

proceed with caution.

a woman’s right to choose:

1.  what does this mean?

2.  is the fetus part of the woman?

3.  shouldn’t the critical choice be made before the decision to have sex?

4.  is a woman’s life at stake EVERY time an abortion is considered?

5.  should partial-birth abortion be available to women who have no health problems?

6.  should taxpayer money be used to give free abortions?

7.  should parents be contacted before a minor is allowed to receive an abortion?

this is a very delicate issue.  on either side i find a bumper-sticker response to all of these questions.  the left would say “protect a woman’s right to choose”, while the right would say “abortion is murder”.  both of these responses seem to miss the mark.

there are people on the left who would say that abortion should be legal for every stage in the development of the fetus, all the way up until birth (regardless of the mother’s ability to live).  i find this very disgusting, and about evil as the holocaust.  mother’s have a very unique responsibility.  some believe that mother’s should only be responsible for what they want, but i’m more inclined to believe that mother’s have to take responsibility for what they do. why is it that a woman can ignore every choice in the process leading up to conception, and then care only about their choice when conception has already occurred?

there are people on the right who believe that human life begins at conception, and that any attempt to get rid of the fetus from the point of conception is murder.  i probably fall closer to this extreme.  it is hard for me to believe that with the modern technology we have today, we cannot deliver babies prematurely for the sake of saving the life of the mother; even if it means giving the mother a c-section and then putting the baby in an incubator.  we have come so far in the development of premature care, that the simple termination of a premature baby seems morally immature.  there are no excuses for the use of partial-birth abortions.  if a baby can be born partially, killed, put back into the womb, then born dead, i have reason to believe that the baby could easily be born naturally without risking the mother’s life.  people who fight for this type of murder only have a political axe to grind, and care nothing about women at all.  if abortion exists at all, it should only be used in the rarest and most tragic cases.

your daily “on topic” anti-obama linkage:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102197.html