Monthly Archives: April 2007

Supreme Court Rules the Correct Way

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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Gonzales v. Carhart to uphold the ban on partial birth abortions. In my opinion, this was the correct ruling.

A partial birth abortion is done in the mid-term months and involves partially delivering the fetus and then crushing the skull to help it come out easier.

The people who would like to continue this say it is their constitutional right to do this. What part of the constitution allows this inhumane treatment of a living thing. It is not constitutional and the Supreme Court saw it that way.

After watching my kids grow in my wife’s womb, I don’t really see a need for abortion. The ultra-sounds that I saw show me that these fetuses are living and breathing humans and their life needs to be protected. What about their constitutional right?

To me, many of these people have abortions for convenience rather than a medical need. I think that if the life of the mother is in danger, then the doctor should do what needs to be done, but that should be the only reason.

Good job Supreme Court.

You can read more in Thursday’s Washington Post: High Court Upholds Curb on Abortion

State Closes Copper Mountain Ski Area Day Care Center

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The State of Colorado has closed the closed the Pumpkin Patch Day Care Center, run by Copper Mountain Inc., where employees would drop off their kids for the day.

The reason is that they closed it because the staff in the infant room was taking nude and suggestive photos plus photos of cigarettes in the kids mouths and photos making the kids act like they were making an obscene gesture with their finger. Also, the staffers may have emailed the photos around to other people. Who knows what perverts are looking at these photos.

What were the employees thinking? These must be the stupidest people on earth to be doing this to kids that have been entrusted to them. I am a father of two and if I learned of something like this to my children I would be incredibly mad.

If it wouldn’t have been for two former staffers, then this would still be going on. Hopefully the Summit County Sheriff’s Office presses charges and they are prosecuted to the full-extent of the law.

Copper Mountain has a lot of explaining to do!

You can read more in the Rocky Mountain News: Ski resort’s day care is closed over nude photos

Blackberry Outage

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Well, thankfully the Blackberry outage occured during the evening or I would have been suffering some major withdrawls.

I admit, I am addicted. But it helps me keep atop my work email and I can be connected from anywhere.

If I didn’t have it, my work email would back-up and it would take so long to get caught up. Especially with all the spam that I get.

You can read more from the Denver Post website: BlackBerry outage restored

What gets me is that RIM has not posted anything on their website or on the Blackberry website. This is just poor public relations and customer communications. This needs to be fixed so the consumer knows what is going on.

Why do I feel the way I do about the Virgina Tech massacre

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I don’t know why I feel the way I do about the Virgina Tech massacre. For some reason I feel a connection to the campus, the students, the community, and everything else that I am watching.

I have been having this sorrowful and empty feeling ever since this happened.

In thinking about this as I was driving home from work this evening and discussing it with my wife, I think I figured out why.

The reason that I feel the way that I do is that Virgina Tech and Blacksburg, Virgina are similar where I went to school at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.

Even though Idaho is a smaller school and Moscow is a smaller town, it is a close-knit campus and community. In listening to the studens describe their friends and their relations on campus and with the community, it is really similar. It just hit really close to home for me.

I am amazed how the students, faculty, and staff are handling all this tragedy and attention. My thoughts and prayers are with them as they move forward.

And my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. I wish there was something that I could say to the families that would ease their pain and loss. But besides praying for them, there is not much more that I can do right now.

God Bless.

What is with the blowhards…

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I am wondering what is with the blowhards who are appearing on the cable networks spouting off like they could have done a better job handling the shootings today at Virginia Tech.

If you listen to the timeline, as soon as the second shooting began the police where there and tried to get to the gunman. But the gunman had chained the doors shut and it delayed them getting it, by most 2 minutes.

Also, there is no way that this campus could have been shut down at the time. There were over 16,000 students trying to get to class and moving about. There is no easy way to control that many people.

I just wish the media and blowhard pundits would shut up until all the facts are known. To me, they are more of the problem than the solution.

The media needs to be more responsible and stop looking to blame the school and the police. The person who is responsible is now dead. That is who is responsible for this.

Hillary’s Town Hall Meeting Gets Rowdy

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A heated exchange for Hilary Clinton today in a town meeting in New Hampshire as she tries for the Democrat nomination for President.

In the briefing, a woman questioned whether Hilary had read the report. Hilary responded that she had been briefed on it. This exchange went on for a couple rounds until the woman had to be escorted out.

As reported in the ABC News blog, Political Radar, Hilary responded that “‘If I had known then what I know now, I never would have voted to give this President the authority.’ Clinton also said she believed she was giving the President the authority to send U.N. inspectors to Iraq.”

To me this is a horrible quote. You either voted for it or you didn’t. You need to use the information you have at the time. Hindsight is 20/20, you can change history. I am sure that President Bush would do something different if he knows all the facts that he knows now, even though he won’t admit that.

To also say that you thought that you were giving him authority to send U.N. inspectors is not believable. If the U.N. wanted to send inspectors, they would. They wouldn’t need the permission from the President of the United States to do that.

This is one of the many reasons why I won’t be voting for Hilary in this Presidential cycle.