Here is a post that Technorati is asking me to post to verify I own this site. That's all, nothing for you to read...
I just skimmed through an article on the New York Times that is hard to read for me. It is about a new online calculator that will estimate the chances of survival of premature babies "to help doctors and parents make some of the most agonizing decisions in medicine, about how much treatment to give tiny, extremely premature infants." Now the strange thing is that I'm not really a baby person. I like them, but I'm not the kind of person who just wants to sit around holding a newborn baby for hours.
Yes, unfortunately you read right. No, Salmon is not the name of a corporation or a country, salmon is a type of fish and the government will dedicate $900 million over the next 10 years to protect them in one river in Washington. That is a big number. How did our country come to this, really? After some rough calculations based upon my last tax return, I would have to work for about 180,000 years for my tax dollars to pay for this. Or 3,600 people could work for 50 years each to pay for this.
This is just an update to let you know that I am now officially taking donations for Amy Castillo's expenses. You can donate by credit card at http://www.KCForAmy.com or http://KCForAmy.chipin.com
Today's post is a bitter story to write about. Yesterday, I found out that a family friend of my wife's family, just murdered his 3 children by drowning them in a bathtub. If you haven't heard the story, right now, there are over 600 news articles about it at Google News:
Google News Search for Mark Castillo
Control that is. They love their control out there. Today, I learn that California is trying to essentially outlaw homeschooling. Not straight outlawing, but as close as they can come without a huge public outcry. They are going to require parents who home-teach to be accredited. Way to take away another freedom California. Obviously they are painting this a something that's good for the kids, but is it really? Or is it a way to just make it more cumbersome to do?
I need some advice. I can't guarantee you that I'll follow any of it, but I'll at least give it a read. We're about to sell our house and will be getting a sizable check at closing. I kind of assumed that we would tithe on the amount that we got, but never really thought about what the proper amount is. I usually try to err on the side of caution and over-tithe if anything, but just wondered what you all think. Let me give you some example of what I'm talking about.
We just moved into our new house this year, and it has a great area to create multiple gardens of some sort. There are 4 large raised boxes built into the side of a hill in our back yard. I'm planning to start small and turn one of the boxes into a vegetable/fruit garden. I bought seeds the other day and started researching a bit. It seems like in the Kansas City area here, I will start planting some of the plants in late March and some in April.
OK, not exactly. Here's the short story. A caller is talking with Rush and says that Barack Obama reminds them of Curious George; Limbaugh politely laughs and then goes to a break. Rush receives an e-mail telling him who Curious George is and then realizes the trouble he just made for himself. Rush had never heard of or seen Curious George. After the break, he makes his case that he did not know that Curious George was a monkey. Immediately he gets a call from a woman who did not believe him and said he was a liar, etc.
I have to tell you, after reading this article, I just got angry. First of all, I hate reading articles that say "studies have shown...", but don't link to the study, or give you any statistics or anything. This is not a news report, this is an opinion piece. Where are the two sides to the story or the facts?
I like how they even tried to answer an argument that will and should be made.