You are my way

I would just like to say THANK YOU to whomever at Hulu started posting Another World episodes. A big NO THANKS to soapnet for dropping the show, an even bigger NO THANKS to NBC for cancelling AW in the first place! I have not watched NBC daytime since the last episode of AW aired!

In any case - it is wonderful to be able to catch up once again with my friends from Bay City, hear the familiar music, see the outrageous hats Felicia wore....sigh.....

Gotta run...there are more episodes to watch!

Well said!

By John-Henry Westen

GUATEMALA CITY, August 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "It is just as serious to kill a 10 year-old child or a 20 year-old adult as it is to kill a baby in his mother's womb," said Guatemalan Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno in a homily Sunday. "No one, under any circumstances, can assume the right to directly kill an innocent human being," he added.

The Cardinal's homily comes as pressure to legalize abortion increases from groups within the country, which groups are also supported by powerful international organizations. The United Nations has long sought to overthrow Guatemala's constitutional protections for unborn children.

It was due to those constitutional protections that the Guatemalan Supreme Court suspended a family planning law passed by congress in 2006, which would have legalized abortifacient drugs.

Cardinal Quezada noted that abortion is "killing of a child in his mother's womb." He added, "Everyone has the right to be born, and anything deliberately done to obstruct this right to life is a crime...there are some things we must call by their name. A crime can never be turned into a right."

Moms and daughters

Well, really just the one daughter - mine. This is Jessyca last Christmas with my grandmother. Today she left for church camp - her favorite kind of camping, in a hotel at the beach. What can I say...she is my daughter!

Last year when she left for camp I was so worried...would she make friends? Would they get to know her or steer around her because she's different? Then I went to pick her up and nearly cried when I saw all these people crowding around to hug her goodbye, and others yelling across the church parking lot that she MUST come to the youth event they have every Monday night. And, of course, she has been there every Monday night since then.

Today - a year later - I dropped her off again and I thought I would only be excited for her. She and her friends have been jumping up and down excited over camp all summer long. But no, as I drove away it was the same old sad...my baby is growing up. One day she won't even need me to write the checks that pay for camp. I don't know what I'll do! She laughs and says, "Mom, what will you do when I grow up and you have to bend down and get things off the low shelf yourself?" Very funny. Oh - if you don't know, my "little girl" is a Little Person, bona fide, true-for-real.

Oh well, last year I worried about her for a week (church camp=no electronics, no MP3 player, no cell phone) and it came out okay. This year I only have to wait until Sunday afternoon for her to return. I already can't wait to see her.

Our rights - given away by "choice"

Below is my response to one of those mass e-mails regarding politics...it stated that the Bush Administration is responsible for the erosion of our Constitutional rights. Below was my reply.

I think it is too much to say the Bush administration is responsible for the erosion of our rights. They have been eroding for years. The incoming hero will always end up the stooge for the next incoming hero. It's a merry-go-round. It will never be fixed in 4-8 years because it
took longer than that to screw up. Personally I think the rapid decline began with Roe v. Wade, when we decided that some persons were created equal and some didn't count. I believe that the devaluing of one life based on the feelings, needs, economics, etc. of another person is today what slavery was in its day. I believe fast-moving erosion came with that decision; when right and wrong became so "subjective" - and brutal murder began being hailed merely a "choice". Then began the mad washing away of the clarity between right and wrong, taxing and stealing, governing and oppressing. It's all "subjective". It's all "politically correct". Nothing is considered worse nowadays than to say anything that might offend another person or culture or choice or behavior - but HEY some persons and cultures and choices and behaviors are WRONG. Not DIFFERENT, folks - WRONG. The inability to define - the illegality of defining it now - THAT is erosion.

Defending principles was a responsibility, and our freedoms the privilege that came with upholding the responsibility. Now our freedoms are going the way of our principles - they are subjective.

So - I vote Pro Life. To clear the problem out from its root, we must get to the root and start over. Protect LIFE, then promote LIBERTY, and then PURSUE HAPPINESS.

Tam