Good early morning people.
Why am I posting so late/early you didn’t ask? Well I just got home from a nice evening with a girl I’m kind of seeing. We went out to dinner and then one thing led to another and…….who am I fooling? I actually have been really sick and my roommate has been super busy working from home so this is about the only time I can get on the computer. There was no dinner and there is no girl. Well not for me anyway. I feel bad for lying to you people again. I kind of like to get your hopes up by making it seem that I’m actually a lot more interesting than I really am and not squandering my life away watching reruns of the A-Team and eating cereal for dinner. For shame me. For shame.
I really don’t want to start off by being political but I have to because I am just that kind of guy. Besides, it’s been awhile since I’ve pissed anyone off. In September of 2005 an eleven year old Massachusetts girl was kicked and beaten with a baseball bat into a coma by her stepfather. The girl, Halle Poutre, has been on life support ever since. The Massachusetts supreme court recently ruled that the child could be removed from life support as she is in a permanent vegetative state. The stepfather has been charged with the beating and her adoptive mother, who was also the child’s aunt, was also charged with the beating but was later found dead, alongside her grandmother, of an apparent murder suicide less then two weeks after charges were brought forth.
The child is currently in the custody of the state’s social services, who asked the state supreme court that the child now be removed from life support due to her vegetative state. The stepfather, in an apparent attempt to be kept from facing murder charges, is now claiming, as the child’s only living guardian, that the child be kept on life support.
Here is what I would like to know. Why is there no national uproar over this as there was with Terry Schiavo? Could it be because this is happening in a state where no one related to the president is in power? Could it be that perhaps because there is nothing political to gain from keeping this girl on life support, her situation is expendable to the religious right? The religious right obviously doesn’t care about killing soldiers or people in other countries so what’s one more kid? Perhaps, which I doubt, the quality of life for someone who is in a permanent vegetative state is non existent and people are finally realizing that. I implore the supreme court of Massachusetts to remove this child from life support. Life support is exactly that, a means of supporting life, but when one can no longer function in any way, shape or form, life support becomes little more than a death delayer. It is important for us as a species to stop the so called fight for life. Ironically, the people who are most religious and God fearing are the ones who want to keep what God has planned from happening. That girl died in September but we are keeping her alive for no reason whatsoever.
I don’t want to come across as cold or insensitive but we put animals down when they are hurt beyond help so why not extend that same compassion to humans? Please understand I don’t want the comments section inundated with some sort of pro-life rant claiming that I’m suggesting we just go on some medically sanctioned killing spree. I’m not suggesting that at all and if you believe I am condoning that then anything I’ve said is probably too much for you to wrap your mind around.
Let’s move on.
Gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain recently won best picture at the Golden Globes. This has prompted, again, the discussion of homosexuality in our nation. I’ll just say this and leave it alone for now. I saw a woman holding the classic ‘God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve’ sign on TV today. If God created everything then technically God created Steve too. It just so happens maybe Steve finds Adam attractive. Get over it.
I feel bad because earlier tonight, while I was asleep, my friend Scott, who has been in Iraq called, and I didn’t hear the phone. He is on his way home and was in Spain. I guess he’ll be home pretty soon. That is the best news I’ve gotten all day.
Speaking of news, is there anything worth talking about other than a miner waking up or an air strike MAYBE killing someone? Give me something tangible news people. Something worth watching the news for. Perhaps illegal wiretaps or corruption within the government would be a good way to go. No? We care about miners and terrorists we might have killed but really aren’t sure of? Oh. Ok. Thanks.
I wish there was more and it seems like there is but it’s late and I’m tired. Hopefully this post will spark some sort of debate among the readers. That would be good.
RIGHT NOW
SONG - Daddy Rich in the land of 1210 by 3rd Bass off of the album Derelicts of Dialect. This is one of my favorite hip-hop albums and it’s also underrated. Just thought you’d like to know.
MOVIE - Scarface. Just cuz.
Holla.
- Joel