Archive for 'Current Events'
"Chance of recovery is zero"
Posted on March 24, 2005, under Current Events.
Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, made the following comment regarding Terri Schiavo:
“If you’re in a state like this for three months or more, you’re chance of recovery is zero,” Albin says.
I would be honored to be the first to introduce Mr. Albin to Sarah Scantlin:
For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to the world around her - the victim of a drunken driver who struck her down as she walked to her car.Now, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again and has begun to regain her memory, sending her father “from despair to joy.”
Mr. Albin can be relieved that his medical understanding can now progress forward, and he will now be able to help the lives of many more people.
‘Don’t let me starve’
Posted on March 19, 2005, under Current Events.
Some say dying of starvation is “painless”, and a “very easy way to die.” Kate Adamson was a stroke victim that had her feeding tube removed for 8 days, and disagrees.
During 70 days of intensive care, doctors fed Mrs. Adamson through a tube. Then her digestive system failed, forcing them to remove the tube until her body could again eliminate waste. For the next eight days, she learned what it feels like to starve.Unable to communicate, she remembers the terror of being “on the inside screaming out, ‘Feed me something! I don’t want to die! . . . I’m alive! I’m a person in here! Do not let me starve!’ The hunger pains were unbearable,” she said. “I thought I was going insane.”
The coming crackdown on blogging
Posted on March 3, 2005, under Current Events.
C|Net has an interview with Bradley Smith, one of the six commissioners for the Federal Election Commission, on “The coming crackdown on blogging“.
What he has to say is kind of scary to me. Here’s where in the read it started to hit what this actually meant:
Senators McCain and Feingold have argued that we have to regulate the Internet, that we have to regulate e-mail.
I’m starting to be pretty confused on this whole ‘campaign reform’, especially when some senators want to monitor e-mails and links on personal sites for the pure sake of expressing support for a candidate.
So if you’re using text that the campaign sends you, and you’re reproducing it on your blog or forwarding it to a mailing list, you could be in trouble?
Yes. In fact, the regulations are very specific that reproducing a campaign’s material is a reproduction for purpose of triggering the law. That’ll count as an expenditure that counts against campaign finance law.This is an incredible thicket. If someone else doesn’t take action, for instance in Congress, we’re running a real possibility of serious Internet regulation. It’s going to be bizarre.
What happened to the belief an individual can express their support for the candidate they like (uh, ie Free Speech)? I don’t get how this ‘reform’ is a good thing..
High Court Mulls Ten Commandments Displays
Posted on March 2, 2005, under Current Events.
From the article: “High Court Mulls Ten Commandments Displays“
The court, which in 1980 ruled that religious displays did not belong in public schools, will now decide if displays on government property also violate the First Amendment.
Talk about irony. If they rule that religious displays or text ‘violate’ the First Amendment, there are a whole lot of prominant buildings in Washington D.C. that are going to have to be changed, and a few important documents might need to be re-examined.
“Countless monuments, medallions, plaques, sculptures, seals, frescoes, and friezes ? including, of course, the Supreme Court’s own courtroom frieze ? commemorate the Decalogue. Nothing in the Constitution requires these historic artifacts to be chiseled away or erased,” writes Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in his court filing.
Would the government be allowed to display the Declaration of Independence? Or would it violate the First Amendment as well?
Between Two Worlds has a couple posts going on judicial tyranny. You might also be curious how to Stop Judicial Tyranny.
If I jump, is it your fault?
Posted on March 1, 2005, under Current Events.
I just read this story: “Teens Leaping For Thrills In ‘Garage Jumping’ Trend“
I’ve seen videos of this type of stuff. It looks cool when you land it (ie, think action movie), but not so cool when you don’t. I’m not advocating it, don’t do it, it’s stupid.
However:
D’Assaro is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
C’mon.. I understand safety precautions, but how do you take into account that at some point in the future some teenager wants to jump off your 8 story building for fun? You can’t foresee every idiotic thing that someone is gonna do.
I can see sueing for a fence for safety.. sure, fine. I just hope they don’t sue for medical or ‘punative’ damages so the kid learns some personal responsibility, and lives the rest of his second-chance, blessed life with a little bit more of a level head.
Korn’s ex-guitarist, "Head", gives testimony of Jesus Christ
Posted on March 1, 2005, under Current Events.
Making the news recently was that Brian “Head” Welch had resigned his membership with the band Korn, and was dedicating his life to Jesus Christ:
“I think if kids want to go and listen to Korn, then good. But there’s happiness too, after the anger. There’s happiness..”
I used to listen to Korn when I was younger, and he’s spot on. That was during an angry time when I didn’t see much good in or around me, but there is more. There is happiness and goodness in life.
Brian Welch has his own web site, and put up a couple mp3’s that give his take on what happened in his life.
(props to plattjas)
Super-HIV man had ‘relations’ binge with 100
Posted on February 25, 2005, under Current Events.
I’m changing the title somewhat to deal with filters:
Super-HIV man had ‘relations’ binge with 100
That’s really sad and scary at the same time.
Drink water from your own well - share your love only with your wife.
Proverbs 5:15
There’s something to be said for that..
Pioneering surgery saves baby born 3 months early
Posted on February 21, 2005, under Current Events.
This is an amazing story:
CNN.com - Pioneering surgery saves baby born 3 months early - Feb 17, 2005
The pediatric surgeon who performed open-heart surgery on a one-week-old baby with a heart the size of a grape said Thursday it was “a wonderful feeling” to be able to save his life.
The size of a *grape*.
In diameter, the arteries were the size of the tip of a pencil, Reddy said, and the aorta was 3 millimeters, or about one-eighth of an inch, long. His chest was the length of the doctor’s finger.
Give that Doctor a raise.. and a ‘thanks’ for not giving up hope for the baby like some other doctors had apparently done.
(H/T: JivinJehoshaphat)
Like the Anheuser Busch Superbowl ad? Here’s a real story..
Posted on February 18, 2005, under Current Events.
(Here’s the ad in case you missed it)
Browsing YoungPundit, I came across this article:
Applause in the Airport? Beyond the Beer Commercial …
“We get into JFK, we step out of the breezeway into the main terminal, and directly in front of us was an elderly gentleman carrying a bag. And he immediately stopped, set his bag down, and the first thing we all thought was, ‘Oh, Lord, here we go already.’ He just stopped and looked at us for a second, and then tears came to his eyes and he saluted us.”
It’s worth the read. Remember those who are putting their lives on the line - give them your support..
Burglar caught on webcam
Posted on February 17, 2005, under Current Events.
This guy had his place broken into a couple years ago, so he made his own setup that tracks for motion and FTP’s the photos of the activity to a server that he could access.
He got robbed again, and this time got pictures even though the guy stole his computer since they had been uploaded to a server. The guy was caught, and the pictures are pretty funny - especially the 2nd one.