He’s trying to learn to walk. He stands when he wants to and has taken 2 steps towards Connie. He’s growing up all boy. Here’s a video where you can hear Jackson growl.
Connie graduated from Vanderbilt medical school and is now Connie Fauntleroy, MD. I finished my studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with my MA in missiology. I guess Jackson should be finished with pre-k soon! j/k. We are close to closing on a home for us to move into. If things go well, we’ll be in a week before Connie is on call her first night in the NICU to start her pediatric residency. My work is going well. Here is another video of Jackson practicing the concept of golf and the fundamentals of basketball.
Sad times that McFerrin fell through for us. Actually, it didn’t fall through yet, but that’s why we got out when we could. The inspection revealed some rather unsavory discoveries. We are continuing our search. There is a showing today near the office and hopefully another one back near 5 points on the east side. I drove by that home yesterday and everything looks great. Brick, yard, garage, deck, driveway in back, smooth roof…we’ll see. I’ll let you know.
This is from a recent CNN article on the White House decision to reverse the health care conscience clause. Interestingly enough, the website url lists the article as conscience.rollback. Atleast in that part they are being honest with themselves. Let’s take a look at two points.
“We recognize and understand that some providers have objections to providing abortions, according to an official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The official declined to be identified because the policy change had not been announced. “We want to ensure that current law protects them.
“But we do not want to impose new limitations on services that would allow providers to refuse to provide to women and their families services like family planning and contraception that would actually help prevent the need for an abortion in the first place.”…
Ok, so the argument is this: we don’t want to allow health care providers to restrict family planning because that could lead to the “need” for abortions. First, there is an assumption that abortions are needed in some cases. Second, there is an assumption that these needed abortions could have been prevented with proper family planning. Even if you could go with the first assumption and allude to cases of rape, you would be hard pressed to accept the second assumption that would say proper family planning could have prevented the pregnancy caused by such horrible circumstance.
Moving on… Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema, board chair of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, praised Obama “for placing good health care above ideological demands.”
Good health care above ideological demands?! What does that even mean? Wasn’t there something this week about a Death With Dignity Act? Is that healthCARE or ideological demands? Here is where this bunny trail leads, and where the nation is headed so long as we dance this jig and drink this snake oil- private healthcare taxed so high that most people are forced into government healthcare, then the government helping you plan your family with providers counseling you into waiting or aborting pregnancy, and then when you are older and unable to be productive to society, good healthcare would say, “don’t spend national money on him, spend it on the 500,000 new babies we produced this year”. You think I’m crazy…just saying…might want to stop, look, and listen. It was God who brought us into this world and it is He who will take us out.
If you saw, read, or heard about Obama’s townhall meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, then you know that the new thing to do is wait for Obama to come to your town, grab a mic, and ask him for whatever you think you need or even want. It’s like Christmas, except it’s all through the year, it’s Obama and not Santa, and you don’t have to write a list, just speak the words. With that, this site seems like it was set up by the Obama administration to help alleviate all the requests they get in their meetings. Check it out Digital Charity.. Sure, I’ll donate to your cause. Really?! Whatever.
TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 28, 2009) – Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm (WMRA) that captures the user’s brain waves and converts them into robotic movements. The revolutionary device can help people with disabilities better perform their activities of daily living.
State-of-the-art add-ons to wheelchair-arm technology such as a 3-D joy-stick, keypad and touch screen are making big differences, but the newest and perhaps the most revolutionary device is the addition of a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), the technology that captures the users thoughts and turns them into wheelchair robotic arm movements.
The BCI system – developed, used and modified by USF psychology professor Emanuel Donchin and colleagues – captures P-300 brain wave responses and converts them to actions. Donchin and colleagues harnessed the P-300 brain signal to allow the user to “type” on a virtual keyboard by thinking with the P-300 response serving as the virtual “finger” for patients who cannot move, such as those with locked-in syndrome or those with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). Researchers in the USF Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, in collaboration with the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, modified the BCI further to fit a specific WMRA requirement. Read more…
This is from a recent CNN article on the White House decision to reverse the health care conscience clause. Interestingly enough, the website url lists the article as 
This came out a few days ago. 
