Totally agree that she doesn't need luxuries like cocoa puffs. However, the commissary is also the source for soap and other more basic items that prisoners are required to purchase with their own funds. And we all want her buying her stuff with her own (or her family's, anyway) funds, right?
Wow, dodging controversy is "hateful?" The school MUST have a prom? Mr. Achilles, that is a pretty disrespectful speech about respecting each other, that's all I have to say.
Janiceme, I just want to encourage you to build some sort of network. It is well documented that those with a circle of friends live longer, healthier, happier lives. Perhaps there is a hobby or interest you could share with others--volunteer at the local museum, or participate at a health club, or go to bunko or something. There is a wide variety of volunteer needs in any community. Having contact with new friends might just help you find new work, too!
I recently read "Freakanomics" and the author points out a great drop in the crime rate corresponding to the time when aborted children would have come of age (15 years after abortion was legalized). So legal abortion lowers the crime rate: does that make it right? How far shall we take this? Want to gas bad parts of town?
I am confused, why are people speaking out so violently against this girl? It would have been totally legal for the baby to be killed a few hours earlier, had it not been born. Surely she knew it was fine to abort the baby...why would her feelings change radically about the "fetus" just because it was born? I think this situation is a perfectly logical extension of what kids are taught in school: babies aren't human, they are inconveniences to be disposed of.
There is a witness to your eating breakfast, but there isn't billions of years of recorded scientific observations to confirm that radiometric testing is a constant. In fact, it is known that solar activity affects the rate of carbon decay and that dates of unusual solar activity do not date as expected. There aren't records of what the sun was doing "millions of years ago," so we don't have all the factors on record to know how reliable those suppositions are.
Are you suggesting that conditions in the last few million years have been hot enough to boil salt water? Do other earth records support this?
I am not saying I know how old the earth is. Some evidence leads us to think it must have taken a lot of time to make what we see. Other evidence suggests either that geological structures formed quickly or that natural objects haven't aged as would be expected. There are still questions in science that don't fit into our current boxes. I don't think we should silence those questions just because those pointing them out don't hold our religious (or non religious)views.
I wasn't here millions of years ago to observe dinosaurs roaming. Scientists haven't been around millions of years observing anything either. All we have is the evidence that stands today, and our current theories don't account for all of it. Why are there still salt deposits in the earth after millions of years--surely they would have dissolved by now. Why is the dust on the moon so shallow, when it is acquiring new dust at a rate that would put it at a much younger age than expected? I think we would be well served to focus on the evidence and hold our theories about what they indicate loosely. The climate of the earth clearly changes--the amount that man can influence it remains to be seen. It is hard to put a planet in a lab and control all the factors that affect it.
I live on the hwy 26 detour route, Marmot rd. The traffic is currently backed up three miles from the stop light on the one lane bridge--about an hour and half. KATU knew that risking this ski trip was a bad idea yesterday and chose not to tell the public what was in their best interest, to serve the financial desires of the ski areas. Please stay home and off our little winding country road. It is ill equipped to handle the traffic of a four lane highway.
This is NOT typical religious behavior, NOR typical rural behavior, NOR typical large family etiquette. I am a rural homeschooling religious mom of a large family, with many friends that are the same. We don't beat our kids with boards or claim to be the messiah. This is weird and demented even for rednecks. That's why it makes the news.
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