Surviving the Circus

You know, I love Yahoo's instant messenger. It helps me keep in touch with members of my company team, meet new prospects, and chat with friends. But lately, this week especially, I can't get much done for all the men (I guess they're men) wanting to talk, men I don't know, men who haven't even bothered to complete their profile, and men who within the first couple of lines want you to view their webcam! I even created my own line to show by my name when I'm available which says... "NO ROMANCE PLEASE!" But it doesn't work. So, now I just click ignore if there is no profile. I could use the stealth mode, but some of my new business friends need a little help now and then, and so I want to be available to them. Honestly, what is the world becoming? What happened to integrity, character, dignity, and ethics? What happened to the sacrament of sanctified intimacy? Is there no shame - no conscience - no spiritual beings within these perverted human sh...

This latest propaganda on stem cell research is just too much. Why do Americans, for the most part, believe everything they hear on TV? Facts - there are now nearly 400,000 frozen embryos available for research. Problem - many of these aren't considered to be primo because of some experimentation with mice, etc, etc. Fact - stem cells can be harvested from many sources, not just embryos. Fact - the embryo must be living in order to retrieve the stem cells which then KILLS the embryo. Picture this - your child has a fatal disease which can only be cured by harvesting the stem cells from a sibling embryo. Will you get pregnant just to harvest these cells? Will you kill one child to save another? It's that simple. It's wrong. Stem cell research is good, but it's been going on since the 1980s with no conclusive results, and no advancements made that can help anyone. We are putting the cart lightyears ahead of the horse. This is not even a topic worth debating - yet. The ...