Saturday, January 17, 2009

This blog is not going to win a popularity contest

I never intended it to be read by anyone. Maybe family or even close friends. No, its for my personal consumption. Two things. This will serve as a reminder of issues that are important to me and my beliefs as well as a landmark for events that will refresh my memory when the time comes where some of the neurons in my brain would not function anymore. And, to enable those that come after me to know a little about me. In generations past, information was handed down orally and through traditions kept by the elders and practiced in the hope of being passed on to the young... here's hoping that if someday a descendant would somehow ask his or her parent about me, then they can also come to these pages to learn about an ancestor. In my case, i've always been interested about my ancestry but unfortunately, I can only go back up to my grandfather on my father's side of the family. One reason was that mt grandfather traveled to a faraway land and built a family there but somehow did not take it upon himself to teach us about his other relatives.

The premise here is that storage cost of data will become so infinitesimal such that written information will be forever stored in a place somewhere.

Friday, January 09, 2009

U.S. Congress FOCA Bill

From what i've read and understood about the FOCA (Freedon of Choice Act) Bill, one of its features was for a minor to be able to get an abortion without her parent's consent. The main focus of this bill was to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law and nullify virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion. I'm not an expert on the issue but common sense would tell me that there seems to be disconnect on this bill having the feature i've mentioned on parental consent. Links to the 2007 version of the US House and Senate bills can be found here and here respectively.

I've had two kids finish high school and my youngest is presently a high school senior. I do not recall any of them joined a field trip without me signing a parent's consent form. In the form, it would always indicate that if I do not sign it, my kid will have to stay in school and would be given some other school related activity if I do not consent to them joining their classmates in the field trip. I do not know if any among us would consider a field trip more important than an abortion. Am I missing something here?

Let us pray to end all the madness in this world.