C.R. Mooney

Birth Control for Kids?, a story that Time.com ran in October is starting to make headlines again, and it blows my mind. It appears that middle schools in Portland Maine will be allowing the nurses office to prescribe birth control to students as young as 11; without parental consent.

Where do I start?

How is it that states continue to remove the right of parents to know what is going on in their children’s lives? Especially when it comes to their heath and putting medication in their bodies? As a father of four (and number five due in September), I find this ludicrous. By doing this the school is telling the kids, “Hey, we know most of your parents wouldn’t approve of this behavior, and since you little rug rats can’t control yourselves, we can give you the pill without mom and dad knowing it. Oh, and your doctor doesn’t have to know either.” Nothing like creating a separation of parent and child.

Parents, what happened to talking with your kids about the choices that will be coming up in their lives? Kids, what happened to the days of talking to your parents about tough decisions? The blame here is on the moms and dads. By allowing decisions like this to be made, where the school and state have more say over what happens in you kid’s life and when you are allowed to know about it, we are giving up our role as a parent. We are telling the government they know better than we do how to raise our children. We are teaching our kids that if they have a problem, mom and dad are the last people that they can talk to, and the school can be trusted more than us.

And since when does anyone but a doctor have the power to write a prescription? How does the nurse know the medical history of each student? Do they always know what other prescriptions the student might be taking? Even dietary pills that you can buy over the counter recommend that consult a physician before taking them, yet this school will allow a student to get a prescription drug with the consent or knowledge of the parent or doctor. C-R-A-Z-Y!

11 years old. Wait, 11 years young. They can give the pill to girls as young as 11. Isn’t this encouraging sex? I did a quick Google search, and it didn’t take long to find that the legal age of consent in Maine is 16. In simpler terms, it is against the law for individuals under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity. Still the school system is allowed to prescribe birth control pills (only one reason to take those without telling mom and dad) to girls ages 11-15, in effect encouraging them to break the law. Not only are they telling kids they can disregard their parents opinions of morality, they can disregard the law as well. As long as little Johnny and Suzy are happy right?

How do we change this? It starts at home with mom and dad. Pray for your kids. Make time to spend with them. Whether talking, playing, teaching, or just watching TV together, do your part to let them know that you are there for them no matter what. But there will be boundaries; there will be rules they have to live by. And make sure you know what is going on at school regarding your rights as a parent. And if there’s something you don’t like, stand up to it.

Voice your opinion. Get involved.

- chris mooney

I just left a comment on Why Organic? ‘s blog. The post calls out Romney for some stuff he said said in Michigan. The post mentioned various things that Presidential candidates could be doing with all that money they raise other than paying for advertising.

I’ve often thought about what would happen if one of the candidates took on this new campaign strategy: spend the money changing lives instead of just talking about change. With the millions of dollars they invest into their cross-country trips and ridiculous commercials, they could go to these states and put the money into children’s clinics instead of just talking about children without health care. In place of tax cut rhetoric, put some real money into a few families pockets that are in need. Give money to local food banks and shelters to help those who need it most. Build a youth center to get kids off of the streets or a library instead of telling them you won’t leave them behind.

If any of the candidates tried anything remotely close to this, the candidate would get all of the FREE press and media coverage anyone could ask for. That candidate might be worthy of the office of President of the United States.

peace,

- mooney

An article run by the Washington Times called, “Scientists Doubt Climate Change” brings attention to the claims made by Al Gore that man-made global warming is a major threat to our planet. In fact some of the members of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang that were co-winners of the Nobel Peace prize disagree with Gore on the extent of the effects of global warming.

An excerpt of the article reads,

“In the Senate report, environmental scientist David W. Schnare of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said he was skeptical because ‘conclusions about the cause of the apparent warming stand on the shoulders of incredibly uncertain data and models. … As a policy matter, one has to be less willing to take extreme actions when data are highly uncertain.’

The hundreds of others in the report — climatologists, oceanographers, geologists, glaciologists, physicists and paleoclimatologists — voice varying degrees of criticism of the popular global-warming theory. Their testimony challenges the idea that the climate-change debate is “settled” and runs counter to the claim that the number of skeptical scientists is dwindling.”

I encourage you to do some research on the topic before accepting what is being force-fed to us by the popular media.

Since the UN Climate Conference in Indonesia, I am surprised to see that there hasn’t been an uproar for the US taxpayer. The tax would bring in $10-$40 billion a year; a majority of which would be paid by th U.S.

Say we pay half of this, for an estimated $20 billion. Now, the government makes no money except through our taxes, so what would our responsibility be? Granted most of this would likely come from corporate taxes, and not income tax, but we all know when corporations pay more tax, prices go up and we pay in the end anyway. With an estimated 300 million Americans now, it works out to about $67 per person. I am married and the father of four, which means my “liability” for this global carbon tax would be about $400 a year.

How can our government even be considering such a thing?

Al Gore stood at this conference saying that the U.S. is primarily responsible for human caused global warming. Others at the conference called for a global redistribution of wealth to help smaller countries deal with the affect of global warming! Can you say one world government/economy?

Personally, I will be writing my representatives to express my displeasure. We can’t allow a bunch of socialists to dictate what our country can and will do.

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin.
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone,
to the best definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better,
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe that there’s something in horoscopes,
UFO’s and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher although we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same –
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then it’s compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan.

We belive in Masters and Johnson.
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors
and the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
and the flowering of individual thought.
There is a postscript to this poem called Chance.

Chance
If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.