Quote of the Month

Wow...

From Bill St. Clair's blog:

"When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock. When you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz."
-- Doug Newman

Wow, is that ever spot on...

Praise the Lord!

Thanks for the prayers

Our daughter's biliruben (sp?) levels have come down, so we can take her off the bili blanket for tonight. Have to go for another test tomorrow AM, just to make sure. We ecstatic that she's getting better, and praying for another good report tomorrow.

EDIT: Biliruben levels came down again without the blanket.

God is good!

MORE PRAYER: Some friends of ours have a slightly older baby (~1 month old?) that has some digestive problems. If I understand correctly, where her stomach meets her intestine is swollen, restricting the movement of food through the digestive tract. Might require surgery.

Good point.

Double standards galore!

From Wolfesblog, Silver notes some disparaties:

PATRICIA DUNN AND SOME UNSAVORY MEN OBTAINED A FEW DOZEN PHONE CALL RECORDS. Whether or not "pretexting" is illegal isn't very clear, although it is certainly unethical. As a result, Ms. Dunn and others have been charged with crimes, forced to appear before Congress, and are the subject of investigations by the FBI, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

GEORGE BUSH AND SOME UNSAVORY MEN OBTAINED BILLIONS OF PHONE CALL RECORDS. The fact that this is illegal is very clear, as Congress passed the FISA law in 1978 because a previous criminal in the White House had done the same thing, on a very much smaller scale. A Federal judge ruled the program unconstitutional, but her superiors just ruled that the spying can continue. No one has been charged with crimes, no one has been forced to appear in hearings or testify under oath, and the FBI admits that it seeks the phone records of reporters.

Read the original post for links...

Hitch 50

50 states in 50 days

From Hitch50.com:

Our names are Scotty and Fiddy and we're hitchhiking to all 50 state capitals in 50 consecutive days or less. If you want to offer a ride, give us a shout at 310-494-8058 or hitch50@gmail.com. Our current location is on the above map. If the dot is moving, that means we're on the move. If the dot isn't moving, then this is probably what's going on right now.

It looks like they have some sort of GPS-enabled phone, and that will help them track their location on the map.

Sounds like an idea I should have had--about seven years ago--before I was attached to a certain female.

Request...

...for prayer

My daughter has jaundice. We're waiting for test results to see the severity--whether she has to be hospitalized for light treatment or not.

We could use some prayers, if anyone sees this. Thanks.

EDIT: Don't have to go to the hospital! Health care supplier brought out a 4" wide plastic strip that hooks up via a 1-1/4" hose to a small machine. When turned on, the strip has several zig-zag rows of bright blue light (I'm tired; that's all the better I can do). The strip is wrapped around the little angel's torso, and turned on. The light (bright, neon blue) is a certain bandwidth that breaks down whatever it is that causes jaundice, and allows it to be expelled via her urine.

I have no idea how she's sleeping with that wrapped around her, but she is...for now.

Back to the hospital tomorrow for more tests, to see if the light treatment helped.

10 Life Tips

From BaneRants™:

10. SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES………. THEY ARE NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING, BUT….. THEY STILL BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN YOU PUSH THEM DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS.

(Overuse of caps in the original...)

It's a girl!

I got's me a daughter! 7lbs, 10oz, 19.5". Cute as a button (of course).

Brought her home yesterday; funny how it changes you. I'm sitting here with a baby monitor--if she sneezes funny, I'm in her room checking to see if she's being attacked by a walrus or something. No potential tragedy is too far-fetched that I don't want to protect her from it somehow.

I can't believe I'm blogging about a baby.

Oh, and we passed on the Hep B vaccination. Too many risks assocaiated w/ the vaccine, for my taste, and she's not exactly "at risk" for the disease yet. We'll wait until she starts sharing needles with random gutter-dwelling hobos, then we'll think about it...