abortion - at the very least Planned Parenthood should not receive taxpayer money

I've been disturbed by the concept of abortion for quite some time now and finally figured it was time to actually say something about it. So here's my spiel.

I often can understand why a woman would decide to have an abortion. I understand that a woman may feel like she's alone and doesn't want to make her life "any more difficult". I understand that she doesn't want to "have a bad life for her child".

Something I can't understand is why we have taxpayer money going to "help" planned parenthood- an organization that makes most of its money off of abortions and has abused women's freedom to choose much more than most pro-life people have. this is instead of funding crisis pregnancy centers apparently. Planned Parenthood, for example, has publicized articles that say they are against having ultrasounds before a woman has an abortion. the woman at the very least deserves to have as much relevant, truthful information as possible when she is deciding whether her child gets to live.

Oh and in case pro-choice people don't know this already (it appears that many of them don't) - pro-life people care a whole heck of a lot about the welfare of women...arguably much more than planned parenthood administrators do...or at least that's how it appears to me. I'm rather sick of the whole thing - it's pretty twisted.

HazZzMat: AP Endorses Abortion in Style Guide

HazZzMat: AP Endorses Abortion in Style Guide: "The Language Police in the MSM are always careful to craft messages that favor their leftist political leanings and their Gramscian desire t..."

This bothers me.

Blotter/Police acronyms

Here are some more obscure acronyms which appear in police blotters.

BFW: Bench Felony Warrant
DWLS: Driving while license suspended
DWLR: Driving while license revoked

And here are some Web sites that have additional acronyms lists.
http://www.accuracyproject.org/PoliceAbbreviationsandAcronyms-US.html
http://www.all-acronyms.com/tag/police

I will continue to update this list as the semester progresses.

Evolution article

if anyone wants to read the article I wrote about evolution at Concordia and Dominican, here's the direct link.
http://www.dominicanstar.com/joomla1/index.php/features/180-divided-by-eight-blocks-and-thousands-of-years-of-evolutionary-history

A class discussion post which may actually get me in trouble

I probably am being too straightforward in my analysis of the text, but....

I think it's great that we have the FTC because it seems to be pretty helpful in ensuring that consumers as well as competitive companies are treated fairly. And it's a source of revenue in certain ways with all the lawsuits it has won! Finally, something that may help fight the enormous debt our country is in! Unless it's spending more than it receives from lawsuits. hm....more on that later. Not that that's the only think we should be concerned about or the only reason to support the agency.

"As originally conceived, the FTC was not supposed to worry about the impact of advertising on consumers, only competitors" (564).

That statement surprised me because I am under the impression (which is arguably false) that the government is supposed to help the consumers. So there must be a reason that the organization did not start out with that additional purpose in mind. Right?

 Not so surprisingly, I found a relevant blog post which was also interesting.

http://www.underpenaltyofcatapult.com/?p=80

I will attempt to read more of this blogger's work in the future. If  I remember and have time.

Here is a link to the case if you are really interested (it is quite lengthy). http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9330/091002gemtronicsinitialdec.pdf

 

I was unable to find information on how much the FTC spends, which is rather unfortunate.

EAT PraY Lurve

I made a mistake today. I did not check the IMDB ratings of a movie that I wanted to see before buying the $10 ticket. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Despite the ratings on the website, the movie was actually fair. Well maybe that's what it is when it's rated 4.7 stars/ten. Lol. 

I think Richard and Katut were pretty funny and there was plenty of advice thrown into the mix. The scenes of the various countries Liz (Julia Roberts) visited were beautiful.

I definitely did get distracted during the movie, however and I agree with user roast-mary1 that there was little variety in characters' personalities.I was also unsatisfied with the ending because I wouldn't have chosen to do what Liz did.

But whatever. It was decent movie entertainment and I think I learned something (just not really sure what).

I am distressed, however, that IMDB only shows one quote from the movie in their quotes section for the film. Maybe I'll do something about that....

Bill of Rights-Two Additional Amendments not Immediately Ratified by the States

I did not know that there were two proposed amendments to the Constitution which were not ratified by the states. "In fact, in the Bill of Rights presented to the states for ratification, the amendment was listed third. Amendments 1 and 2 were defeated and did not become part of the Constitution" (39). I wondered what Amendments 1 and 2 were, so I looked it up.

 

According to the United States House of Representatives' website, the first amendment that was not ratified by the states was an amendment affecting the number of representatives in the House. The second amendment that was not ratified by the states became the 27th amendment in 1992 and is supposed to prevent representatives from raising the salaries of representatives or senators during the time which they are in office. I am not that surprised that it took so long for the amendment to be ratified!