A group in South Dakota are trying to make it legal to kill an abortion doctor who is attempting to take the life of an unborn baby.

The bill will read “Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and to a degree likely to result in the death of the unborn child, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is.”

Here is the link:  Link

If you think about it, you wouldn’t just stand back and let someone kill a baby.

Do you think it should be legal to protect an unborn baby from murder?

Recently I was talking to someone and she mentioned that she was not “book smart.”  In other words, she had read little in her life and did not think she could pick up a book and learn from it.

She mentioned she was “people smart.”  She could read people well and figure out how to respond to them appropriately.

I want to focus on your ability to pick up a book and learn from a book without the help of another person.

Are you book smart?
                           
                                                           

It appears to me that some ladies on xanga could use a little advice on how to be better women.  I read your posts and updates and have even read status updates on Facebook.

So I want to help out so that you become more pleasant and appealing women.

1.  Don’t complain about your pms.

There is no reason to complain about pms.  We know you have it so you don’t need to bring it up.  We don’t need all the whining.  You also need to cut the bad moods that come with it.

2.  Don’t complain about pregnancy. 

Several of you are pregnant right now.  All we hear is about how painful pregnancy is.  We don’t need to hear it.  I get the feeling that most of the pain is exaggerated. 

3.  Have Supper Ready.

When a man gets home from work, he is hungry.  One of he keys to a happy marriage is for a guy to come home to a meal that is ready.

4.  Clean House

Guys have to do so much at work.  They deserve to come home to a clean house.  Just take 20-30 minutes away from your Internet time and clean the house.  You have 7 and a half hours to mess around on the Internet.  Just keep everything looking nice.

5.  Spend less time on the Internet

I have noticed that 66-70% of xanga are ladies.  This is because men are busy working and getting ahead in life.  Try to find something constructive like picking up his dry cleaning.  It is also nice if he can come home to a nice tall glass of his favorite drink.

6.  Keep your Weight Down

Now I know this is a sensitive issue but we need you to keep your weight down so we stay attracted to you.  There is nothing worse that seeing a woman go fat.  So get some exercise in and stay pretty.

I was talking to someone on xanga the other day.  We were talking about how a large group of people on xanga are depressed or have some sort of mentally related illness.

I said that some people use xanga as therapy.  The person mention that xanga would not make a great place to receive therapy.  The friends are not there in front of you.  The person can disappear at any moment.

But I tend to think that just simply writing out thoughts would make for good therapy.

Is xanga a good place for therapy?

This year may be my final year on xanga.  I have enjoyed my time on here and it has been over 6 years. 

I have just been telling myself that I will leave before I hit 40 for some time.  I turn 40 in November.  I probably wouldn’t leave xanga completely.  I would probably just stop posting.  It has been a great time.

I really don’t want to be that old man on xanga.  And 40 would be turning the corner and I think it would make me too old.  We need young blood on xanga and other people to step up.  Plus by that time I expect to be pretty active with my website. 

I am not sure I will actually leave but I have given it significant thought.  Sometimes I wonder what I am accomplishing anymore.  I still love people that are here.  But I also miss some of my original friends on here.  I used to brag for years that all of my original 20 commenters were still with me.  Now not one of them are left on xanga to my knowledge.

Maybe the end of this year will be the time to turn the page.

You ever notice how it is easy to be friends with some people and difficult to be friends with others?  Some people are just warm and friendly.  They are kind.  But they also just make friends quickly.  They also tend to keep their friends.

But some people just don’t make friends easily.  They sort of push friends away.  Some of these people may stress such things as quality over quantity but even people that are close to them tend to not know them very well.

Is it easy to become your friend?

I have learned over a period of time that it is very difficult to be friends with a depressed person.

I had a friend on xanga who I was friends with for almost the entire six years I have been on xanga.  She dropped me as a friend on Facebook recently and unsubscribed to my site.  She wrote a protected post directed toward me that said something that was somewhat negative.  It said something like “Dan is a jerk.” 

Remember I am good at judging how people feel about me and I knew instantly she was upset when she wrote that. 

She did not explain to me why she dropped me as a friend and did not respond to a private message.  But I also realize that I am changing over time.  For a great deal of my life, I formed friendships with people I knew were depressed.  I would support them when they were down.  So although my closest friends were not depressed, I had several friendships with depressed people.  I saw it as sort of my role in life to help them when they were down.  I tried to pull them out of the depression.

But I have come to understand that depressed people for the most part are very difficult to make friends with.  They tend to turn away from people in their depression.  They tend to push people away.  I think for the most part that depressed people turn others away because they tend to read all of the worse about a person’s motives.  They wonder if people really like them or if they are if they are just trying to be nice.  But depressed people also tend to be emotionally narcissistic.  They tend to focus inward and they tend to forget about the needs of others. 

They are obsessed with their own thoughts and feelings.  They have defined their life by those thoughts and feelings.  It is always “me and my weight problem,” “me and my depression,” “me and my childhood abuse.”  I am not saying that those people have not experienced pain.  I am simply saying they tend to elevate their pain above the pain of others.  This makes it difficult to actually be friends with a person like that.

But this pushing others away is what leads to a deeper depression.  After pushing one person after another from their lives, they look around and see that no one is there for them.  They appear for the most part to be unaware of why their friends “abandoned” them.  I am sure most of their friends moved on and formed relationships with others who could invest equally into a relationship.

I am not taking away from the chemical imbalance that often comes with depression.  I understand that the depression is caused sometimes by the person’s inability to think rationally about their relationships.

But I also think that the key for some depressed people is to get over themselves and simply invest a little more in the people around them.

I know.  I know.  I wish it was Sarah Palin too.

A politician had to resign after he sent a topless photo of himself to a woman on craigslist.  He also flirted with her and told her he was single even though he was married.  Here is the link:  Link  Bill Clinton’s party finally find this sort of stuff offensive.

Do you think he should have to resign for sending this photo on craigslist?

A recent survey showed that 45% of young people said they were sometimes happier online than they were in their real lives.

The Internet allows them to be whatever they want and if they are unhappy, they can just shut down their site or walk away.  Here is the link:  Link

Are you sometimes happier on the Internet than you are in real life?
                           
                           

I received the following message from a lady on xanga but she asked me not to mention her name:

“o.o Hi. I was reading stuff off the net and I came across something like men feel on women’s boobs when they hug.

Like when they hug and the woman’s chest just happens to press upon the guy’s chest? And the men, just you know, appreciate them? Are women supposed to be aware of these things? Dx I never thought about that sexual hug thing and I give full hugs (not that they would feel anything off me since I’m not chesty) but do guys think of it as flirting? Dx”

Guys, do booby hugs turn you on?

Ladies, do you give booby hugs?