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  1. TexasSky

    Premarital Sex

    With the media attention on a certain politician's family, a lot of conversation has come up about pre-marital sex. I understand, easily, a mother loving a teen who got pregnant (or got someone pregnant) out of wedlock. I understand supporting having a baby instead of aborting. I don't...
  2. TexasSky

    Suicidal Member? Please pray!

    A young woman using the handle Saki posted in Women's Discussion about feeling depressed, and it getting worse and worse, asking how people cheer themselves up. A few minutes later she started a thread asking if suicide is a sin or if people who kill themselves can still go to heaven. PLEASE...
  3. TexasSky

    First wife? First husband?

    Am I the only one that has noticed that while there are loads of forums and discussion groups nation wide to let second spouses vent about issues with their mate's first spouse, there are (as far as I can see) none that let the first spouse vent about their children's step parents? Or their ex's...
  4. TexasSky

    First Wife? First Husband?

    How many of you single parents are the "first" husband or "first" wife? I'm curious because I see, time after time after time, on line especially, support of the "second spouses" and the "step-parents", but I don't see much in the way of support for the "original" spouse.
  5. TexasSky

    Last Lecture Professor Dies at 47

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/25/obit.pausch.ap/index.html PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47...
  6. TexasSky

    First Gitmo Video released - Canadian Teen

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/07/15/seg.arena.gitmo.tape.cnn We tortured a teenager from Canada and we're proud of that? May God have mercy on this country.
  7. TexasSky

    Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High

    ((I'm too stunned to even comment.)) http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html?cnn=yes But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into...
  8. TexasSky

    Report: Exams reveal abuse, torture of detainees

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/18/gitmo.detainees/index.html "The detainees were never charged with crimes." "We found clear physical and psychological evidence of torture and abuse, often causing lasting suffering," said Dr. Allen Keller, a medical evaluator for the study. "In a 121-page...
  9. TexasSky

    7 People Arrested After Cheers Erupt at SC Graduations

    And the award for most stupid reason to arrest anyone goes to the South Carolina police department. They also receive the biggest waste of taxpayer money award. http://www.kcbd.com/global/story.asp?s=8459124ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say seven people attending high school...
  10. TexasSky

    Texas governor's mansion fire may be case of arson

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/08/texas.gov.mansion/index.htmlTexas governor's mansion fire may be case of arson This breaks my heart.
  11. TexasSky

    Mother's love worth $117,000 per year, study says

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/05/09/mom.salary.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year. At-home...
  12. TexasSky

    Starvation Claiming Ehtiopia's tiniest

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/21/ethiopia.hunger.ap/index.html SHANTO, Ethiopia (AP) -- This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh. Bizunesh is 3 and weighs less than 10 pounds. "There is nothing ... I beg for milk," her mother says. The rangy 3-year-old weighs less...
  13. TexasSky

    Famine fears for seven million Ethiopian children

    This breaks my heart. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/20/ethiopia.children/index.html?iref=mpstoryview "UNICEF estimates that 6 million Ethiopian children under the age of 5 are at risk and that more than 120,000 have only about a month to live." And we're throwing food into the...
  14. TexasSky

    Sen. Edward Kennedy has malignant tumor

    It is on www.cnn.com 's main page. I am not a fan of the Senator's, but it would be a lie to say he has not done some good things during his years of service. Please pray for his family.
  15. TexasSky

    Amber Alert: Baby Kidnapped from Local Hospital

    It is from a Los Angeles station. They say the baby was allegedly kidnapped from Children's Hospital of Orange County. http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-choc-amberalert,0,2368418.story The alert posted at 5:55 AM PDT on May 15, 2008
  16. TexasSky

    Home Alone - The Documentary

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/14/lost.in.airport.ap/index.html How do you FORGET your child at an airport?!?!
  17. TexasSky

    Child-killing virus hits Beijing, China

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/14/china.virus/index.html My heart just bleeds for all of these families in China who are limited to one child per family, and now are losing so many precious children to quakes and disease.
  18. TexasSky

    12,000 Bodies at Quake Site

    Jiangyou, China (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/china.quake/index.html "but the soliders said 3,000 people of the town's population of 12,000 survived the quake" "A senior official with the Sichuan provincial government said Tuesday afternoon the death toll was still...
  19. TexasSky

    6.8 Earthquake shakes Tokyo

    It looks like there is little damage, but the end of the article says earthquakes of that size only occurr once every 200 to 300 years. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/japan.quake.ap/index.html
  20. TexasSky

    Religious tolerance vs Christ, in regards to "Christians"

    Where exactly is the "invisible" line between what a Christian should and should not tolerate in the name of "not being contraversial" vs "being so nice about it you might as well deny Christ?" In another thread someone made the remark that they are a Christian, BUT... they wish they were...