Born In South Dakota

I wrote this part before the November 7th, 2006 election:
I was born in South Dakota. I lived there until it was time to go to college in 1988 which is when I came to Minnesota which is where I have lived ever since. As a former South Dakota resident and someone that still has significant family there, I have something to say about all these laws.

The situation regarding a woman’s right to choose in South Dakota was fairly abysmal before the recent law. No resident doctors performed abortions in the state, doctors from Minnesota had to fly in.

Now, there is a law. According to State Senator Bill Napoli, “A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.”

Wait. Did I wake up somewhere else? I thought I lived in America. I thought we had this thing called freedom. I thought we had a separation of church and state. This is about a small minority of very dedicated (one might call them zealots) individuals that want to be involved in every woman’s life. In intimate, painful, personal, and frightening decisions. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want these people making rules for me.

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I am writing this part today, November 14th, 2006

One week after the election. It turns out I still do live in a democracy. WOOHOO. And the best part is that the people of South Dakota actually got to vote on that law. And guess what…..

They overturned that law.

Now the situation is still abysmal. You can’t get this done anywhere except Sioux Falls. All the people interviewed that were in support of keeping the law pointed this out in their sour grapes mode.

But the people have spoken.

Don’t Be Greedy

Two examples of greed that pretty much messed up the people being greedy. If you have so much, my question to you is, why do you need so much more? Here are some examples of why it seems to be a bad idea:

Friendster was greedy. They could’ve sold to Google for 30 million. Apparently that wasn’t enough. Hmmmmm, wonder how much they ended up with? Probably not 30 mil.

And the leader of our fair health insurance giant, William McGuire, got a little greedy too. Turns out that multi-million dollar salary wasn’t enough. He had to get into the nitty gritty and back date options to pump it up just a little more. Consequences look to be a bit more dire for him. They are deciding as I write if he gets to keep his job. That might not be the worst of it either when all is said and done.

Why do people have to be so GREEDY? It’s nice to see consequences for this greed action come to fruition once in awhile.

The Global Warming ‘Agenda’

Al Gore has an agenda. He wants his children to be able to exist on planet earth and actually have grandchildren. Go ahead and call it alarmist, but your grandchildren are affected too. Not all the conservative rich people will be able to ride that space ship to the next planet and by the way if you’re a poor conservative, forget about it, you aren’t going.

Yeah, how dare he.

fREE content Sends Strong Message

We don’t have cable. We don’t have DirectTV. We get to give all that money to Apple. YAY. We went to the store tonight and an amazing show call ’30 Days’ was available there, for free. I personally would have paid for this show, but it was free!!!!

OK.

The show is Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me Fame. The concept is that someone lives ‘a mile in another’s shoes’ for 30 days. This episode was about a Minuteman who went to live with a family of 7 illeagal immigrants in a one room apt. in LA.

Wow.

Watching this put the story together. This is inhumane. Keep them out. Send them home. Do the people saying that have any idea where they are sending these people? This is human suffering for no good reason. To me, that’s not worth it.