Every week I collect many stories that I want to blog about. Some times they are BIG issues, and sometimes they are just big issues in my world. This week there were several things that seemed deserving of a little blog time.
- Geraldine Ferraro was is right when she said, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” If this were NOT true, Americans would be voting for a Presidential Candidate rather than for "hope" and "change."
- Researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released study results that found at least one in FOUR teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease. It's quite disturbing to think that 25% of the female population has contracted a sexually transmitted disease before they can legally vote.
- I am thrilled to see "Liberal Fascism," by Jonah Goldberg,"I Am America (And So Can You!)," by Stephen Colbert, "The Age of American Unreason," by Susan Jacoby and "An Inconvenient Book,"by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe on the New York Times Best Seller List. It gives me some faith in the people of this country.
- Why was it O.K. to bring Mitt Romney's religious affiliation into the presidential race, but a sign of racism in America to bring Barack Obama's religious affiliation into the presidential race?
- Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a challenge to the Washington D.C. handgun ban, 32 years after it went into effect. The case is likely to produce the most important firearms ruling in generations and could undermine other gun control laws nationwide if the court takes an expansive view of the right to bear arms. It's about time.
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My mouth has repeatedly gotten me into trouble- during conversations I thought were private... I can only imagine how hard it must be to phrase something so perfectly, no one would ever take offense!
Buff, I think it's silly that we are expected to phrase things perfectly!
I agree
I guy once told me- "If you try to make everyone happy, the result is, no one will be happy." I think you know my thoughts on ever shutting up and going with the flow!
that std thing can't be right can it? I heard that too but thats unbelievable to me.
Of course those books are bestsellers, who that could read and understand would ever be a socialist? ooops liberal?
"at least one in FOUR teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease."
This is the most disturbing news I've heard all day.
I loathe Goldberg. He has issues with using unsusbtantiated hyperbole, and not crediting people from whose ideas he "borrows".
IMO, Beck is a simplistic moron...Colbert, well, he rocks. Cheers!!
We could probably argue all day over Ferraro's remarks, but lets not. It's almost impossible to know what she believes in her heart when it comes to race anyway.
But .... what I find really galling about Ferraro's statement is that SHE was selected to be the V.P. candidate based strictly on the fact that she was a woman.
What were her qualifications to be VP? The three measly terms she spent in the congress representing one of the most heavily democratic districts in the country? I don't think so. She never authored any legislation and didn't sit on any major committees. Hell, she didn't even have state-wide appeal in the state. She ran for Senate two years before she ran for congress and got creamed.
Everything she's done since then, the books, the paid speeches and whatever else, has been based on the fact that she was the VP candidate back in '84. And it's because she was a woman. There were other women and minorities more qualified than her at the time too. Difference was she was married to an extremely wealthy family and could contribute a lot of money to the campaign.
Okay, I'll stop there.
The 25% of teenage girls having an STD is very disturbing. And surprising. I thought the "abstinence only" policies made everything perfect and stopped all sexual activity among teenagers? ;-)
I've argued far too much over the Ferraro/Obama fiasco....so will let that dog lie for now.
The teen STD rate bothers me, but you know a lot of parents rely on the schools now to teach as it is required in health class. I feel it is always a parents place to teach their children about sexuality and what it means - the benefits and the responsibilities that go along with it.
I will be curious to see the result of the handgun issue.
DB, you must run in the same circles that I do!
Buff, clearly I haven't given in to the pressures to conform either!
SS, unfortunately the STD statistic *is* right, although the study was fairly small, I still find it unacceptable, especially with a 13 year old step daughter at home!
Corky, the study went on to say that HPV was the most common STD (maybe why there is a huge push for the vaccine?).
Matt, I'm going to buy you your very own copy of "An Inconvenient Book" just to see how irritated you can get!
Jay, your point is quite valid and one I didn't even consider. On the flip side of this, maybe that is *why* she made the comment? Relating it to the fascination that took place with a female VP possibility?
I may be generally "conservative," but I'd NEVER support an abstinence only policy - anyone want to bury their head in the sand??
P, I cannot imagine expecting the government (i.e. public school) to fully educate my child on sex in a one-week long unit on human sexuality. We've talked about sex, safe sex, and responsible sex in our house since the kids were ... maybe 9?
Dana, I heard Obama is now O'bama. At least for St. Patty's Day. hee hee.
Yeah, the teen STD situation sounds quite unbelievable... yet, I believe it is near the truth just as well. Scary though.
They sure go about business quickly over there in D.C. huh? ;)
i read this post and you have great points and thoughts that everyone of us are thinking about... but then I read the last post about marriage consuling and OMGOSH, i almost fell out of my chair because that is what I am going through right now! SO TRUE!
TMC, that was a good one!
R.E.H., I think the STD situation "proves" that we don't handle the sex education thing here in the U.S. very well. The focus seems to be on preventing pregnancy when, unfortunately, that isn't any longer the worst thing that can happen to you!
Jahooni, can we share our misery?? I just always thought marriage counseling = making a marriage better, but now I realize it might = ending a marriage amicably.
You write very well.
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