YUCK!!! -- Some treatments go too far

HoustonChronicle.com - British doctors can now prescribe maggots

Adoption Update

Things are moving quite rapidly in the adoption process. Erin had her individual interview this week and I am scheduled for Monday. Jennifer, the social worker, called today to confirm my appointment. She also asked us to work on our "Dear Birthparent" letter and portfolio because they have a meeting with an expanding mother of a bi-racial baby on Monday night who may decide to place through Agape. Right now, Jennifer only has one portfolio of adoptive parents who are willing to take a bi-racial baby. Since Erin and I do not believe that there are different "races" of humans, we have opted to accept any child no matter what his "ethic" heritage is. We don't have any more details other than what I just mentioned and we can not get our hopes up...so many circumstances could occur. For instance, the mother may choose another adoption agency, may choose another family, may choose to keep her child, or may choose a less favorable route. We do not know how far along the mother is or if the father is in the picture. All that said, we still worked with fervor on our portfolio tonight. We still have a lot of work to do on it and just a short time to do in, so we will be busy Saturday and Sunday scrambling to get something done. We will post it here when it is finished for review. Keep us in your prayers.

Democratic Dictionary

In the Wisconsin Debate Kerry was asked about his vote authorizing the President to pursue a forceful removal of the Hussein regime from Iraq. Part of Kerry's answer was:

"There was a right way to do this and there was a wrong way to do it. And the president chose the wrong way because he turned his back on his own pledge to build a legitimate international coalition, to exhaust the remedies of the United Nations in the inspections and to go to war as a matter of last resort." (emphasis added)

I was wondering how the Democrats were going to respond to Bush's State of the Union Speech where he had this outstanding paragraph:

"Some critics have said our duties in Iraq must be internationalized. This particular criticism is hard to explain to our partners in Britain, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, the Netherlands -- (applause) -- Norway, El Salvador, and the 17 other countries that have committed troops to Iraq. (Applause.) As we debate at home, we must never ignore the vital contributions of our international partners, or dismiss their sacrifices."

It seems that they are going to dismiss the efforts of our partners by referring to them as an illegitimate coalition. This makes one ponder, "What is a 'legitimate' coalition to Kerry?" Obviously, he only thinks that the actions the UN approves of are legitimate. He would put our ability to defend ourselves in the hands of Kofi Annan and an organization where "free" countries can be paid off, the voice of a dictator is equal to the voice of freedom, and our enemies have a vote. This does not make sense. Only a Democrat could come up with a way to "spin" the largest coalition of countries to ever agree on an international war action as being an illegitimate coalition.

Volleyball Game

Well, we lost our match last night. However, we were playing the reigning champs. This team has won the playoffs every year for the past three years that Erin and I have been playing, so we knew what we were up against going in. The good news is we lost 25-21 both games. This is means we were only 4 serves behind them, meaning we have a decent team, especially since we have never practiced together and this is only our 2cd match to play this season.

Current record:
1-1

Opinion Journal: Best of the Web's "Bye-Kus"

In October, the Opinion Journal reported a Japanese member of parliament who decided to no longer run for his seat gave a concession speech that consisted of just a Haiku. Since then, the editors have been having fun by writing their own little "byeku" everytime a Democratic hopeful bows out. Check out this the very, very funny byeku for Howard Dean.

The bad thing is, that the Deanie Babies have no sense of humor...so will probably sue the Opinion Journal for libel.