I was watching Grey’s Anatomy tonight. One of the issues that came up was a woman who had six children and didn’t want anymore. She was about to have her seventh baby and she asked the doctor to tie her tubes without telling her husband. The doctor went ahead and performed the surgery.
Should it be a requirement for the husband to know before a woman has her tubes tied?
I have never been much of a protester or one to boycott. I always felt that they were generally ineffective. I am pro-life but I can’t bring myself to chain myself to a building and stopping people from getting in. Maybe I am not dedicated to my causes. Maybe I just have less passion than all the other people who are blowing stuff up and stopping things from taking place.
It has always been my thought that change is brought about by the communication of ideas. As people change their thinking, they change their action.
Two times people have tried to organize a boycott of my site. I just sat back and laughed at them. It never appeared very bright to boycott a site like mine and then link my site. It is just like those who spend so much time being critical of my site. All they are doing is sending more traffic to my site. In fact, I wanted to help one of the groups that were trying to stage a boycott of my site. I felt if I could help them, I could greatly increase the traffic to my site. They were so poorly organized and weren’t doing a very good job of promoting the whole thing that I wanted to provide advice. In fact, I think one day I might organize a boycott of my site.
When the movie “The Passion” came out, people were speaking against it. All they were doing was making the movie more popular. I believe that sometimes people help create the popularity of these movies by simply being against them.
But tomorrow I think something different is taking place. I am interested in seeing what comes out of this illegal immigration boycott. I think it is going to be a big day.
Is there a cause you feel so strongly about that you would take to the streets to support it?
Should the United States have the support of the United Nations before going to war with another country?
Who believes the 81 year old mother from the previous post was the one viewing the porn?
A story is showing up in the news about a cable company charging a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher over $1000 for porn viewed in her home via pay-per-view. She is claiming that she never viewed the porn. She also mentioned that her mother is the only other person who visits the house and she is 81 years-old. The cable company is insisting that someone in the house is responsible.
I think that is a pretty high bill. For our discussion, I want to make it less. Imagine that you received a bill for porn that was on your cable bill for $30. But you know you or no one in your house could have viewed it.
Would you pay the bill or would you fight it?
There has been a lot of talk in the halls of xanga about the new policy on flagging. I personally don’t think it is going to impact the average blogger. I think sometimes we think the worse is going to happen only to find out no such thing will take place. The idea that xanga will just start shutting down sites because of a little cursing or even a little of racy content is paranoia at the highest level. Xanga needs us to be unedited in order to continue to be xanga. I just think that everyone who currently reads this blog is not going to be impacted. All it will do is help identify illegal content quicker.
Flagging: Yes or No?
Wet T-Shirt Contest have been around since the beginning of time or at least since the beginning of t-shirts. But a lawsuit has been brought against Playboy and a few other organizations concerning one of these contest. According to the St. Petersburg Times, a young lady was entered into one of the contest when she was only 16. She entered the contest when she was on spring break in Daytona Beach. She has said at the time she didn’t realize she was being taped when she exposed herself. She also has said she never signed a consent form.
She became aware of the tape when one of her neighbors saw her in the tape. The young lady is now 21 and said “I think it makes me look like a prostitute or porn movie star, almost like I am trying to show my body to the camera, which I was not.” Promoters had asked the young lady if she was “of age.” She admits that she lied to them. She won $100 in the contest.
A social worker is reported to have told her that she should call a lawyer because she was a “sexually exploited minor.”
Was this young lady a sexually exploited minor?
All over the news today was the report of the woman who claims that three Duke University lacrosse players raped her had accused three men before. It was on every major news station and it was on every online news source today that I checked. The story is that she accused three men of rape back in 1996. Only a few of the news sources directly implied anything with the news report.
Is it significant that the woman accusing these men of rape has accused men of rape before?
A national boycott is being planned for May 1 by those who want to bring attention to the immigration issue. They are apparently hoping to get amnesty for the current illegal immigrants. They expect to bring a few cities to a standstill.
A great deal of discussion in the news has centered around whether these protest are helping or hurting the cause.
Do you think these protest are helping or hurting the effort to help illegal immigrants?
