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Bob Barker Won't Like This

At the end of every The Prices Right show, Bob Barker always reminds the audience to spay and neuter your pet. Well, if Peptech gets their product approved, there will no longer be a need for neutering your dog. Peptech, based out of Australia, has a product that will render the male canine unable to produce sperm and reduce aggressive behaviors by curtailing testosterone production. The product contains deslorelin, sometimes called Suprelorin, which is the active drug. It is an implant and Peptech claims it is completely reversable if you decide you want to breed your dog at a later time.

You can read more here.

Some questions:

-Do you consider this a viable alternative to neutering?
-Do you see any downside to using this product which comes at a price of around $50-$70 dollars for 6 months?
-What are your thoughts about chemically altering a pet, a human, for convenience sake?

Playing In The Clouds: Every Boy's Dream

Kent Couch fulfilled his childhood dream last week when he was able to fly through a cloud... while sitting in a lawn chair suspended by a plethora of helium balloons and weighted down by water jugs. He flew around 193 miles in about 9 hours and he was even able to fly through a cloud he said.

This is not Couch's first flight-by-lawn chair, he attempted another flight which lasted for 6 hours but resulted in an emergency parachute landing.

Couch follows in the footsteps of Lawn Chair pilot Larry Walters and hopes to yet again attempt flight by lawn chair and avoid the FAA fine that Walters incurred.

You can see a picture and read more here.

Woman Sues For $ To Raise Un-Aborted Baby

Jennifer Raper is sueing for the cost of raising a child due to the child not being aborted. She stated that she went to Planned Parenthood seeking an abortion as she was currently unable to care for the child. The abortion procedure went as planned but unbeknownst to Jennifer, the abortion performed by Dr. Allison Bryant of Planned Parenthood, was not effective as she was still pregnant. Several months later, Dr. Benjamin Eleonu did a checkup and failed to detect the pregnancy. When admitted to the hospital for pelvic pain a few months later she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

You can read more here.

Some questions:
-What are your thoughts on abortion?
-If this was you, would you sue for a monetary reward that would provide the funds to raise your child?
-What are your thoughts on Planned Parenthood?
-Do you think that either of these two doctors should be punished for not being diligent in their duties?

Gun Toting, Cherry Shooting, Toilet Wearing Pastor

I am curious as to what your thoughts are on this guy. He appears to have his own interactive, call-driven tv talk show.

Some questions:
-Do you think this man is representative of Christianity?
-Do you think that this man appeals to some that other Christians don't or won't?
-In a time of seeker-sensitive churches and the watering down of the gospel, is this just another manifestation of ill-informed "Christianity"?
-Why the props?

Son Follows In The Steps Of Polygynist Father

Like father like son. William Green, who is 19 years of age and son of Tom Green who is an imprisoned polygynist (polygamist) has been convicted of having sex with a minor: a 13 year old who he met on MySpace. There is not much to this story if it ended there, but his father was convicted of the same crime (having sex with a minor who was 13). The only differences here is that Tom Green was married to the 13 year old and William met his 13 year old partner on MySpace. Tom Green professed to be a Mormon Fundamentalist.

You can read more here.
If you want to read about news from a pro-polygamy slant see here.

Some questions:

-Do you see polygyny as being wrong? If so why and if not why?
-Do you think there are age boundaries that should be put on "love"?
-Do you think that polygyny is on the verge of being re-established as legal? (see polygyny as being wrong link above)
-If you are Mormon, what would you say to this father and son?

Butts Held High At Place of Worship

I was listening to Sirius radio yesterday on my track back to the Kansas City Airport and was listening to Fox News. There was a morning show playing and the topic was concerning a Church in the Time Square area of New York City having a billboard hanging on its building displaying bare butts with smiley faces painted on them. The church did not want the billboard to be displayed, but the argument for the display is, "this is Time Square and the Billboard capital of the world". Pastor Neil Rhodes looks to put up a fight.

Now, as I was listening to the Fox News people give commentary on this, one of the ladies stated something along these lines (I could not find a transcript of the show), "If it brings in more people to church, what is wrong with that?"

You can read about the situation here.

Some questions:
-What is wrong with that?
-If this billboard draws a crowd and brings some in to hear the gospel, is that wrong?
-Does the end justify the means?
-If this was your church, would you have a problem with it?