Everything and Anything

Today August 31st is blog day, and I have chosen a few blogs that are new or are just interesting and don’t get many visitors.

The first one is a new blog, it is called One Penny at a time. It is a blog about a women trying to get out of debt by making money on the Internet and other places. It’s more of a personal story then the trash advertising blogs you sometimes see.

The next blog I found is called Chat n Chill. This is a more established blog, but I found it interesting. It is written by a women from Malaysia and the views she has on things are so wonderful.

The next blog I actually found a few days ago and it has so many interesting things on it that I knew I had to post about it. It’s called Off Beat Mom and it really just covers alot of different things. Theres also a monthly writing contest.

If you want to experience college all over again, check out this blog called College for Idiots. This is a personal blog about a students life in college, it also contains some advice for people who will be attending college. Personally I checked it out because of the name, and actually was surprised to find an entertaining site.

My last blog is one I found looking for some ideas for my niece’s birthday in October. This site has some great party ideas for kids and grown ups, it’s called Cool Kids Party and it really does have some interesting ideas. It also has some tips to help your kids through some of lives events, like the first day of school.

Well that is the end of my list for this years blog day. I hope you found some new interesting blogs to read.

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This week in my class we are talking about assisted suicide and if it is ethical or not. Because of my experiences I don’t’ think that anyone should be told that they can not take there lives if they are diagnosed with a terminal illness. I have seen too many people hurt by these illnesses that you can live with for years. I have seen my grandparents forget who their children and grandchildren are and they have no memory of there life. Is that how we want to put our loved ones though, what kind of life is that.

Of course I’m not saying that everyone who goes though this needs to have assisted suicide, just people who want it, either by being able to tell a doctor that if it gets to the point where they can not be an physically and mentally active human being then they would like to have assistance in dying.  I also do not think that anyone else should have a say in it as you never know about some family members, they may want the person to die because of money or property.

Of course this is all my opinion, and most of it is based on my experience. One thing we have run across in this class is people who are opposed to this because of religion. I use to be that way, but things change and I don’t believe that the government should make a law based on religious beliefs as we are a country with free religion. I do respect the believes of people due to religion or experiences, I just don’t think that we should be telling people what they can and can not do to there own body and with there own life.

What do you think?

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Recently I decided that most of my friends were not really my friends. This was pointed out to me by my mother who asked me why my friends never called me or asked me to go anywhere.  The only answer I had for her was they are busy with there own lives, and thats when I realized that my friends had outgrown me.

The situation is simple, they are either married, have kids, are in relationships but not married or are married with kids. I on the other hand have never been in a relationship, don’t have kids and therefor have nothing in common with these people anymore. I was told once that you have friends who are there for a while because you need them, then when you don’t, their gone and on to the next person who needs them. I can see where that may be true, but also I think it just has to do with life changes. Everyone changes and moves on with life. Nothing stays the same and people grow apart. What do you think?

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Today my little sisters friend is getting married. Right now they are hoping that the rain will stop and that it will turn out to be a nice day.  What I find strange about this wedding is that they are doing pictures before the wedding. Now the reason I find this strange is that usually it is bad to see the bride before the wedding, but I have heard that taking pictures before the wedding is a new trend.

I do like the idea, that way your not making your guest wait for you to finish pictures, but again it is going against a tradition. Maybe our society is just starting to change and some of these traditions that you find in weddings and other major life events will start to disappear. What do you think?

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I am a firm believer that the economy in Michigan could be improved by focusing on tourism. One way they can do this is by advertising vacation rentals. There are so many reasons to have a vacation rental in Michigan. One of our big draws is hunting, we have so many good hunting areas here and vacation rentals would be such a great way to get your hunting and fishing in for the year.

Of course another place you could always go is down to Florida. I have always wanted to go there and have been looking into Disney vacation rentals as I have never been there and would like to go. Of course since I have not been there I’m going to have look into everything still and find a cheep place to stay.

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 I wanted to share with you the following paper I wrote for my ethics class. What is your opinion on the subject?

A Right to Abortion

The country is split down the middle one side is pro the other is against, what do our nations possible feature leaders think of abortion? In the article Democrats `re-thinking’ their stance on abortion (CentreDaily.com) the author Mike Dorning talks about the democratic view of abortion and why they are starting to second guess their stance.

Many Americans today are in the middle of the road, according to Dorning. The Democrats understand this, but their stance has always been pro-choice. They have always believed that a women should choose her own fate no matter what the circumstances. Now however, many democrats are starting to rethink this, realizing that many Americans are stuck in the middle. Presidential candidates are not sure what to do, as this part of the article explains;

Despite many Americans’ opposition to a late-term procedure called by opponents “partial-birth abortion,” have any of the leading candidates embraced the federal ban on the procedure. (Dorning) Instead, none of the major Democratic presidential hopefuls is wavering in his or her allegiance to the core document of the abortion rights movement, the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion. (Dorning)Many of the democratic candidates have come up with other ways to they hope to keep the conversation off of abortion but at the same time address the issue. This was in evidence during a forum last week before Planned Parenthood, a group that strongly supports abortion rights. Sen. Hillary Clinton, stressed contraception and sex education, delivering a blistering attack on the Bush administration and congressional Republicans for policies she said limited access to both.(Dorning)In this same meeting Clinton stated “They don’t just want to wage a war on choice. They want to wage a war on contraception. They are against family planning. In the 21st Century, they want to prevent women from having access to the tools they should have to determine their own reproductive futures.” (Dorning)Another front runner, Sen. Barack Obama, offered a vision of equal opportunity for women through an “updated social contract” that tied together better access to contraception and sex education with initiatives that could help two-income families, such as paid maternity leave and longer school days. (Dorning)John Edwards on the other had takes an extreme liberal view, his wife Elizabeth promoted her husband’s health-care initiative because it would include abortion coverage for all American women. She described her husband as “pro-choice - not pro-choice reluctantly, not pro-choice usually, he is simply pro-choice.”(Dorning) This shows that when it comes to Democratic candidates they are all in support of abortion, but on varying levels.This article I believe shows just how much it is going to take to finally figure out a solution to the legality of abortion. It seems that both sides are fixed on what they believe in and neither wants to budge. Then you have the middle ground which is most of America, they believe in a choice, but only under certain circumstances, unfortunately they can not agree on what those are. (Wall)The author of this article tried to keep it to one point of view, he really did not discuss the pro life side or the republican side as that was not the point of the article. The author does reference a few things that were said about republicans by the democrats which shows that in our government there are still many different views on the subject, not just between Democrats and Republicans, but within the parties themselves.

Clinton’s moderate view on the lack of education for women on birth control and options for pregnancy is a great example of why abortions may be so popular. If women were given this information at a young age, they may know that there are other ways to keep from having to make a decision on abortion, such as contraception, abstinence and general family planning. Her ideas would make it seem that she has more of a liberal view, being she believes that a unborn is a person at viability and that abortion is morally acceptable up to viability and immoral after viability. (Wall)

Obama also makes a great point and takes a more moderate stance as well. He figures allowing women to be paid for maternity leave and having the children stay longer in school would make it easier for women to want to keep there children as it wouldn’t hurt their lives as much. He would have the same beliefs as Clinton.

According to the author, Dorning. John Edwards is in complete agreement with liberals and agrees that women should choose. Since he does want to provide coverage for abortions to women, he agrees that the unborn are not people yet, that they have no rights, and that it is always morally acceptable. (Wall)

Using the quotes and information the author used, it would seem this would really helps the reader to see all sides of the story, the author does cover some of each side and give you some great information. The reader may well use there reasoned judgment to decide how they feel not only about abortion, but about the candidates as well.

The problem with these assumptions is that we do not know all of the facts from this article. Information such as why these candidates have these views is left out of this report. The reader could start the critical thinking process and try to take a position, but they will not be able to finish this process without outside information. Unfortunately many Americans don’t have the time to do research on the subject and will probably decide what they believe or do not believe from this article as it is. The author did a good job in making points for the right to abortion, but failed to supply us with the details needed to make a informed choice on the matter.

References

Dorning M. (2007). Democrats `re-thinking’ their stance on abortion. Retrieved August 18, 2007 from http://www.centredaily.com/living/story/183360.html

Wall, T. (2003). Thinking critically about moral problems. United States: Thomson

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So my wonderful monitor died on me today. So I went and got a new one and it seems to be working much better. I think I upgraded my computer so much that it fried the monitor. Of course others have told me it’s because it’s 3 years old, but my parents have a 6 year old computer and theres is fine. My luck. At least it’s not the video card I just bought last November.

I’m wondering though if it’s not a problem with the new monitors, flat screens are nice as they don’t take up much room, but maybe they haven’t gotten all of the kinks out of them yet?  Either way, I like the new one, it’s a wide screen though, which I don’t mind, but at the same time it takes some getting use to.

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