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Yahoos on Yahoo

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ya·hoo (yäh, y-)

n. pl. ya·hoos

A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.

[From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.]

I’ve had several conversations with random Yahoo users over IM. I don’t seek them out. They seek me out. There seem to be a lot of rather friendly and chatty folks using that service. I don’t blow them off because one of the people I’ve spoken to turned her life around – away from promiscuity and drug use – and I think I had a part in making that happen. Just a few minutes ago, I had a much less pleasant encounter.

A woman propositioned me for cybersex, something that hasn’t happened since my days on IRC (when I was still an undergraduate). I tried to change the subject, rather than just ignore her. I hoped that maybe I could witness the gospel to her. She just continued with the filth. Perhaps she was really just a bot designed to lure people into buying porn at some website. Anyhow, I had to ignore her/it. I really hope this doesn’t happen again.

Oil For Food Means Investigation for Money

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I’m glad some effort
is being made to keep the U.N. accountable.

Congress May Block UN Budget Over Oil-for-Food Probe

More than 100 members of Congress will try to block some United States funding of the United Nations unless U.S. officials are allowed to begin an open and complete investigation into a U.N. humanitarian program in pre-war Iraq — sooner rather than later.

Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) noted Monday that it has been more than a year since the public first learned of fraud and abuse allegations directed at the U.N.’s oil-for-food program in Iraq. Flake and his colleagues are unhappy with the U.N.’s apparent lack of progress in its investigation of those charges. Now they are actively promoting existing legislation that would punish what they see as willful inaction.

Rhythm Nation

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Dawn Eden, of the Dawn Patrol describes herself as "a nondenominational, small-'e' evangelical Protestant" who takes essentially "a sola scriptura approach to moral issues". She believes "that the Bible is the inerrant word of God". Why do I mention these things. I want to grab the attention of evangelical and fundamentalist readers.

Dawn has written an interesting piece about Christians and contraception. There's a lot of disagreement among Christians about the appropriateness of contraception, or lack thereof. I'd like my Protestant readers to read another Protestant's support of Catholic reproductive teachings and comment.

Misconceptions

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Pro-life, I thought, meant being pro all life. Not just the unborn. No matter what. Neither of the candidates are that. However, a democrat is more likely to fund a system to help out teenagers and college students to make other options besides abortion attractive. Honestly, isn’t that the way you want to go? Not force women to not do something, but make it something that’s less desirable than any other option? Last time I checked, there were a lot of abortions before it was legal.

There are several misconceptions embedded in these statements and others in this post. The author seems unaware of how forceful and deceptive Planned Parenthood can be. They don’t see abortion as even slightly wrong, so they don’t hesitate to council women to abort as the first and best option. They’re not above coercion, either.

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