woops

So, it has been a while, but Ali got on my case and I don't have a good excuse. I'll try to post some goods later, I can't believe I skipped the election but in my defense things have been a bit busy in my world!

I remember hearing about a case a few weeks ago about an 11-year-old girl in Romania who was raped by her uncle and got pregnant, and the government would not let her get an abortion. So I was pleased to read this article, which says the Romanian government decided to make an exception for the girl.

Unfortunately, I fear that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, many states, and/or the federal government would not be willing to make similar exceptions.

More later on recent supreme court decisions.

Jesus In Your Uterus?

Couple sees Jesus' Face In Ultrasound.

They should probably be more concerned with the horns apparently growing out of their unborn child's head. It is just as likely that she will give birth to the devil as it is that Jesus decided to stick his face in her uterus.

Coming Up On Hardly Relevant

I have to go to work to cover the shuttle launch, but here are the things I plan on discussing soon!

1. The U.S. NOT signing the cluster bomb ban. Big friggin surprise, I called this when they announced the ban earlier this week. The U.S. is notorious for holding out on stuff like this.

2. This e-mail that has been making it's internet rounds about how Muslim males between the age of 17-40 deserve to be racially profiled because they ALL do terrible things and as such, Obama is the anti-Crist (even though he isn't Muslim, this e-mail will disagree). Stay tuned for a list of awful things white males age 17-40 have done, I bet I can make a longer one!

I have no good headline, insert comment about McCain

Busy memorial day weekend with guests in town, so now I will try to do some catching up.

I'll start with this fairly controversial story. McCain Does Tricky Dance With Unpopular Bush.

Although I do not even specifically disagree with the theme of the article and the conclusions it draws (on a personal level), I think the headline, and some of the assumptions made in the article cross a line. To me this is not a news article, it is opinion, even a valid one, but one not appropriate for the CNN front page. This could have worked as an i-Report, a politics blog, or, (as I'm sure it already has been) a subject for discussion on CNN. I just don't think that McCain doing a "tricky dance" is newsworthy, or appropriate.

On the same subject, CNN ran a special report Sunday evening called The First Patient, which centered around the medical care of the president, specifically if he is ill or injured and what goes on behind closed doors etc. This special was no doubt intended to provoke subconscious consideration of a certain presidential candidates age and potential poor health.

I think we will only see more and more McCain bashing now that Obama has all but locked up the Democratic nomination. The media will soon loose the drama that is Obama vs. Hillary: Loosing the 2008 Election for the Dems One Comment At a Time. With that Springer episode out of syndication, the new target will surely be McCain.

Shocker of the day, people will try to scam you!

So we have all seen those LifeLock commercials where the CEO plasters his social security number everywhere and dares you to steal his identity, because his product is so darn fabulous. Well, I am sure you will all be very surprised by this, his identity was stolen!

The article is a bit cumbersome, but the gist is that people are upset that the product isn't foolproof, which makes me wonder who is really more stupid. Is it the company for thinking they could endlessly fool morons into paying $10 a month for something they could do themselves for free, and ultimately does not even perform as promised, or is it the morons who pay $10 a month expecting some sort of identity theft protection miracle.

I swear I am back

Ok, between my laptop being broken and the entire coast of my viewing area being on fire last week, my much ballyhooed return was delayed; but I promise to regularly blog starting now!

On a random tangent, I was watching CNN yesterday in the ATL airport and one of their anchors really pissed me off. I don't know her name, but she was borderline giddy when she announced that gas prices had reached yet another record high. Seriously? I don't expect anchors to be totally stone-faced all the time, but seriously, she seemed ecstatic over the plight of the American middle class, it rubbed me the wrong way.