A protest has broken out at Ralph's Thriftway, a local drugstore, over the Plan B contraceptive pill. Kevin Stormans, one of the store co-owners, said the decision was one based on morals. It is unclear wether or not the morning-after pill aborts a pregnancy, an issue that Ralph's opposses.

Activists have launched a three day picket protest outside the business and plan to boycott Ralph's for the entire month of July. Just a month? The right to maintain your own reproductive freedom is only worth not shopping at Ralph's for a month? As a privately owned business, Ralp's has the right to sell or not sell whatever it chooses. Picketing and yelling at incoming shoppers isn't going to change the moral beliefs of the owners anyway. Save your energy for the unprotected sex and carefree liasions you are so desparately trying to protect.

So what's the reasonable approach? Write a letter to the owners expressing your regret over their decision to not sell this pill, inform them that you will no longer be a customer and that you plan on asking others you know not to shop there, and then stop shopping there.

*Chaseblogger supports a woman's right to choose, a business owners right to sell or not sell what they choose, and an American citizen's right to write about it.

Let me see if I can summarize all the hype surrounding the View recently.

-Star Jones Reynolds lost A LOT of weight REALLY fast and attributes it to good ol' fashioned diet and excercise.

-Rosie O'Donnel makes disparriaging comments on camera about Jones Reynolds regarding a possible secret gastric-bypass surgery.

-Jones Reynolds "divas" it up and tries to get the majority of her wedding expenses covered by the vendors, designers, etc so long as she drops a plug for them on air.

-ABC execs put the kaibosh on her product placements and Jones Reynolds is stuck with the bill.

-Barbara Walters announces that Jones Reynolds' nemesis, O'Donnell will be replacing Meredith Viera in the fall.

-Jones Reynolds is informed behind the scenes that her contract will not be renewed. She decides to give her notice to quit during a taping of the show.

-Jones Reynolds speaks against the show and express her grievances.

-Walters publicly reprimands Jones Reynolds behind her back.

-Jones Reynolds calls Walters a hypocrite.

Ladies, enough! I have a solution. A final word to give the winner bragging rights, a place on the View, and the all round mutual respect of viewers. A hot dog eating contest. Whoever can eat the most hot dogs in 15 minutes will be declared the least bitchiest person on the View. No, Joy Behar is not welcome to compete.

Is global warming going to kill us? I don't think it is. I'm not a scientist or an expert but I can pretend to be one online. One of the highly publicized issues in regards to global warming is the melting of the polar ice caps.

We've heard the horror stories about volatile weather systems and flooding and we're plenty scared. Well I may not know much about how the weather works but I think I have a pretty good grasp on how water freezes and how ice melts. We're to believe that as the polar caps melt the ocean levels rise and if we don't stop it, Earth will be completely flooded! I'm here to say, "Not so!"

Experiment time. Take an empty glass. Fill it with ice. Now fill the glass with water right up to the rim. Set the glass on a level surface until the ice melts. What's happens to the water level? Did it spill over as the ice melted? No! It stayed right at the rim becuase the water level was already displaced by the ice.

I agree that we need to take care of our environment. I understand that the flooding of the Earth isn't the only problem we're facing. But I believe that a line has to be drawn at trying to scare the crap out of people with science that may not be completely on the up-and-up.

June 20, 2006

As father of three boys there are a lot of things I don't know about raising girls. Most of what I do know stems only from what I've been exposed to through tv, books, people around me. I hope to have a daughter someday and to prepare, I have made a little compilation of what I have learned so far about raising girls.

The first key difference I've noticed is that girls are supposed to be given free unsupervised access to the internet. Unlike with boys, parents of girls do not need to be invasive on their privacy. No need to monitor which websites they are viewing, or what information they willingly dispence.

I will teach my boys not to meet alone with people they don't really know and especially not to get into their cars. I was amazed again to find out that this isn't the case with girls. Girls can freely meet with whomever they want to at any time and the parents of those girls must be sure to act like they have no idea what's going on.

I suppose it times like these that I'm thankful to have so many resources available to me for learning as a parent. Someday, when I have a daughter, I may have made some uncorrectable mistakes. Mistakes that would have undoubtedly branded me as Bad Parent.

Every writer/columnist ought to have a rival. I think Rivalry is good for America. It spurns innovation. I found recently that my rival is here on Myspace.com. His name is Kirk and he doesn't think the BLT is a sandwich.

Wiktionary.com defines sandwhich as this:

sandwich (plural sandwiches)
1. a snack formed of various ingredients between two slices of bread.
2 any combination formed by layering material of one type between two layers of material of another type.

Kirk believes that bacon is a "topping", rather than a "main indgrediant," and as such should not be classified as a sandwich when placed between two slices of bread. He poses the question, "who's ever heard of a bacon sandwhich?" Who indeed?

In the 1929 Florence A. Cowles book, "Seven Hundred Sandwiches," she gives a recipe for a bacon sandwich. The ingrediants? Two slices of bread, mayo, bacon, lettuce and tomato. The book also mentions a "Bacon Salad Sandwich" and a "Baconian Sandwich."

What's next? Is Kirk going to tell us that he has a funny feeling Wyoming doesn't really exist?

June 16, 2006

Britney Spears appeared on national television last night to plead her case with Matt Lauer. Spears argues that she is a more than decent mother, wife, and should be left alone or treated more fairly by the press and paprazzi. I couldn't agree more. I believe the media is being completely irrational in their portrayal of the multi-platinum mega hit pop bubblegum. . .you get the idea.

Babies and car seats. I have children, so I know first hand how difficult it can be to properly secure your baby into a car seat. Here's the basics:

Keep in mind that all of this must be done while the baby is laughing, crying, spitting up, fidgeting, going to the bathroom, or all of the above at once. Difficult? Yes. Absolutely necessary? You bet.

The overwhelming majority of us do not know what it is to live with the continual presence of the paparazzi. I can't even begin to imagine how insanely frustrating it would be to try to put a baby in a car seat while being surrounded by these Night of the Living Dead-esque zombie-like picture takers. However I can imagine what it would be like while submerged in a shark cage

and that looks pretty stressfully.

Simply stated, I think that Britney Spears got her baby away from that group and situation in best way she could given the extremely stressfull circumstances. Honestly, that's all any decent parent can do.

Britney Spears has tossed out her red string along with the ancient teachings of Kabblah, the mystic offshoot of Judaism. Reportedly, Spears was tired of how often she was pressed to spend money and give financially to the trendy temple. In place of the Kabbalah, the baptist raised pop star has found a Christian Life Coach. The problem? Life Coaches are an enormous waste of time and money.

Tony Hust, a christian life coach from thechristianlifecoach.com, offers his 'mentorship' for $650 a month. For the unfamiliar, hiring a life coach is like having your own personal Tony Robins.



Most life coaches are experts (or at least extensively trained) in NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

NLP is considered by most to be a fake science, or pseudoscientific therapy. It is used by cult groups to

"apply ritual, authority control, dissociation, reduced rationalization, and social pressure to obtain compliance from the cult's victim or to induce dependence on the cult," according to Wikipedia.com.

Husted's coaching also offers a seemingly contradictive "Christian Worldview." In which he references some "statements of faith." Among these he sites James 1:5,

"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him."

Notice the verse does not read, "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should pay a christian life coach $650." The site also references Proverbs 13:20,

"He who walks with wise counsel will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm."

I offfer my own piece of wisdom to Mrs. Spears-Federline; if it's Christian teachings you seek, you need not look any further than the bible. And those can be picked up for free at protestant christian church near you.

After a two month stay at an African luxury resort, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Co. are packing up and heading home.

“We are very proud that our daughter was born here, and we leave with fond memories and definitely hungry to return,” Pitt, 42, said.

Hungry to return? Isn't that a bad choice of word to use when leaving Africa? Wouldn't it be the same to leave Hiroshima, Japan and say, "Wow, thanks for the great experience. We really had a blast. This place is totally bomb?" Yikes, I know.

Phone tapping is okay, if you're into the whole privacy violation and forcing phone companies to give up their records thing. If you really want to find dirt on people you could look to the one place where everyone gives up privacy willingly for free - Myspace. At least, that's what the pentagon is planning.

In an effort to help "connect the dots," the NSA is planning to scourge social networking websites like Friendster and Myspace. Websites such as these are virtual wells of provided information that have great potential to add to our nation's security. For instance, we can discover from extensive Myspace surveys which certain terrorist suspects have ever been on a date, what type of kisser they are, and which alcholic drink best represents them.

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Supposedly, Tom and Katie have been ironing out their nuptuals, both pre and post. While the attorneys hammer out the details, Tom can move forward with his plan to completely dominate - I mean - marry Katie Holmes. I have to add that all the excitment is almost whelming.

The rumored prenup will give Katie three million dollars for each year she remains married to Tom with California's community property law taking over after 11 years. Nothing shows true love more than offering the mother of your illegitimate daughter a proposal for marriage based on large annual monetary incentives.

Katie's parents, who have been "reportedly" oppossed to the relationship have now taken the role of the supporting family members sitting on the sideline of Howie Mandel's hit abc games show. According to someone's source, Mom and Dad feel that marrying Tom is good strategy and can help finance her possible future separation (from her currently non existant marriage) and child custody battle.

This leaves us all with one un-answered question from Katie Holmes. Katie. . . Deal? Or no deal?

"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and
poor, both free and
slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
so that no one can buy or
sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name
of the beast or the number of
his name. This calls for wisdom: let anyone
with the understanding calculate the
number of the beast, for it is the
number of a person. Its number is six hundred
and sixty-six." - Book of
Revelations 13:16-18

Is June 6, 2006 (6/6/06) connected to what is widely accepted as the biblicaly bad number? Let's take a look at the most prominent occurence of this number in the scripture posted above.

According to the verse, the number 666 will be a mark on the right hand or forehead - so that anyone who does not have the mark will be unable to buy or sell anything. Hhhm, nothing about a date there. Let's look into that verse a little further.

". . .the mark (is) the number of the beast or the number of his name." (emphasis mine) This scary number is some sort of numerical representation of a name according to a prophecy. 666 does not hold any signifgance over calandar dates, purchase totals at a cash register, or any other random occurance.

Today may be 6/6/06 but to me, it's just Tuesday.

Chris, what the heck are thinking? Here you are teatering on the brink of obscurity, you lost the country's most watched famous making machine, and you turn the best offer you ever been given.
I'll grant you the fact that most of the teeny boppers will be turning out for the A.I. tour this summer in hopes of catching beads of sweat off your smooth stylish head, but after that, where will you go? Are you holding out for one big shot? News flash; it was called Season 5 of American Idol, and it's come and gone. You have a wife and kids, don't be picky. . .

It was recently reported that a couple in Miami, Florida has been arrested after being caught trying to hire a hitman. The victims; their own daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. The motive; to stop them from testifying against their son in his upcoming rape trial.

These actions are horrific and make my stomache turn and after reading this news clip, one thing came to mind. I would like to take this opportunity to go record. In case I haven't already, I would like to thank my OWN grandparents for every sweater and/or article of clothing they've given to me for Christmas and/or my birhday. These fabric drawn gems are the most important gifts I have ever received and they will be cherished for as long as I live. Also, I would like to thank you for not attempting to hire anyone to kill me.