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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

We Will Miss You Pepaw!!!!!!

Dallas L. Kelley Sr.

KELLEY, DALLAS L. SR., 76, of Louisville, died Monday, April, 21, 2008 at his residence. He was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He was a retired plant technician for Borden Chemical Company and a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, the former Shirley A. Weber; five sons, David (Sharon), Paul (Jackie), Mark (Tracey), Dallas Jr. (Sherry) and Patrick Kelley; four daughters, Karen Tomes (Randy), Linda McLemore, Angela Lewis (Jeff) and Gina Fischer (Mike); one sister, Elizabeth Kelley; 24 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. The funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 24, 2008, which would have been his 54th wedding anniversary, at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 1925 Lewiston Dr., with burial in St. Michael Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday at Bosse Funeral Home, Barret and Ellison avenues.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Student from Yale uses self-induced abortions for a senior project

This is just wrong in so many ways!! It makes me sick!




Yale Art Student Claims She Used Blood Samples, Video of Self-Induced Abortions for Senior Project
Thursday, April 17, 2008
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans

A Yale student who claims she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" and then took drugs to induce miscarriages for her senior art project says she will showcase the stomach-turning display next week — complete with her own blood samples and videos from the terminated possible pregnancies.

The story of art major Aliza Shvarts' upcoming exhibit, which the Yale Daily News broke Thursday, has sparked widespread disgust and outrage. "It’s clearly depraved. I think the poor woman has got some major mental problems," said National Right to Life Committee President Wanda Franz. "She’s a serial killer. This is just a horrible thought."

Critics on campus have said the display sounds like a shock-and-awe look at the highly sensitive issue of abortion and called it a sick stunt to get attention. The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America also condemned the exhibit. "This 'project' is offensive and insensitive to the women who have suffered the heartbreak of miscarriage," said NARAL's communication director Ted Miller in a statement. But Shvarts said the goal of the project is to encourage debate and discussion about the connection between art and the human body.

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts, whose age was withheld, told Yale's newspaper. "Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."

The senior's campus phone has been disconnected, and she did not respond to e-mailed requests for an interview. Yale University also didn't return calls seeking comment. Shvarts told the school paper that her sperm donors, whom she declined to identify, were not paid for their participation but added that she did require them to be screened for STDs. The drugs she took to induce contractions and miscarriages were legal and herbal in nature, according to Shvarts — who didn't specify what they were. The art major insisted she wasn't concerned about the effects of her research on her own body. But ob-gyn Dr. Manuel Alvarez, FOXNews.com's health managing editor, said the young woman should have been worried because what she was doing was extremely unsafe. "It’s quite dangerous," Alvarez said. "She was playing Russian roulette with her life, if she indeed did this to these unborn children for the sake of art. I don’t even have the words to express the disbelief that I have." Alvarez said herbal remedies to trigger uterine contractions have long been used in countries where abortions are illegal — including certain raspberry teas and strong cinnamon teas — but they are far from consistently effective, and they tend to be risky.

"They interfere with pregnancy and are either toxic to the fetus or cause contractions," he explained. "The reason they are effective is that they create side effects, but none of them are 100 percent prescriptive to be abortive."

Shvarts wouldn't say how many times she was artificially inseminated and actually got pregnant for the project — which she described to the Yale paper as a huge cube hanging from the ceiling and swathed in plastic sheeting smeared with her blood from the reported miscarriages. The existence and number of pregnancies Shvarts may have had weren't independently confirmed.
Videos taken of what the college student says were self-induced abortions in her bathtub will be projected both on the cube's sides and on the gallery walls.

The exhibit will be on public display from April 22 to May 1 at Yale's Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall. Shvarts will be honored at a reception April 25.

Franz likened Shvarts' process of artificial insemination and induced miscarriages to the human experimentation that took place during the Holocaust. She said the Yale senior's work highlights a stark truth about American society's approach to abortion.

"She really has hit on a reality that what she has done is legal," Franz said. "Anything she chooses to do here can’t be stopped in terms of legality. And there are people fighting for her right to do this."

Alvarez believes such an endeavor in the name of art is offensive, harmful and insensitive, especially to women who face difficult choices about pregnancy or who aren't able to conceive.
"Anybody who trivializes a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy is really not contributing anything positive to these matters," he said. "I don’t see anything artistic about this. ... It’s completely unethical and immoral. What have we accomplished? Absolutely nothing."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351608,00.html

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What Kind Of Thinker are You?




Your Thinking is Concrete and Random



You are naturally inquisitive and curious.

You're excited by new ideas, and you are a true independent thinker.



You are interested in what is possible. You like the process of discovery.

You are often experimenting, challenging old ideas, and inventing new concepts.



Rules, restrictions, and limit don't really work for you.

You have to do things your own way, and you can't be bothered to explain yourself.

What Nut Are You???




You Are a Cashew



You are laid back, friendly, and easy going.

Compared to most people, you have a very mild temperament.

You blend in well. You're often the last person to get noticed.

But whenever you're gone, people seem to notice right away!

Does this fit me?????




I am writing a book!!

Ok....yes it is true. I am trying to write a book and really don't know where the idea came from. It just popped in my head one day and then I had a dream about the same thing.....so I started to jot down some different things and made a character outline. I really don't know if I am crazy or what but I decided that I at least had to TRY!!!!!!!

I don't want to give away the topic just yet until I have some more written but I will tell you that is fantasy fiction. It will involve mythical creatures and will have romance in it. That is all I am giving away right now.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Michael Johns is Gone :(


He was one of my favorites!!! I can not believe that Jason Castro is still on. What is it with him people???? Kristy Lee Cook is growing on me too and of course I still love David Archuletta. I still think it is going to be David Archuletta and Brooke White in the final. What do you all think???

Friday, April 11, 2008

Opry Mills



Flying Kites with Mikaela and Cameron





Tuesday, April 1, 2008

New Pics of My Nephew Tyler!!!!