A new segment of the show

For occasional breaks to my regular doldrums, I thought I'd do lists of my Top things (ranging from Top 20 to Top 5, and from all-time to at the moment). They'll be of anything, really. Music...movies...and then weirder things like my favourite five second moments of my life.
I'm going to start with TV shows.

TOP SIX TV SHOWS
1. Top Gear
2. Mythbusters
3. Sherlock
4. Friends
5. The Simpsons
6. Family Guy

A controversial topic...

Abortion.
I'm pro-life. Just so you know. This means that I'm about the preservation of life. So in extreme cases (such as the mother will die unless the baby is aborted) abortion may be necessary. Doesn't make it right though.
I'm gonna attempt to refute some of the most common arguments for abortion, or pro-choice. Let's start with what I think is the most common one:

IT"S MY BODY.

Yeah, there's a problem with that. It isn't.
This argument is a particularly selfish and ignorant one. The life form living inside you is not you. When a woman is pregnant, is she considered to have four arms and four legs? No. Two brains? No. Two hearts? No. So if the baby were apart of the mother, then she should be considered to have twice as much of everything. But she isn't.
Secondly, each part of one's body has the same genetic code. If the baby were a part of the mother, it should have the same genetic code. But surprise, surprise, it doesn't. Same for the blood type. In most cases, the type of the child and the mother of different. A body cannot function with more than one blood type, therefore, if the baby was a part of the mother, it would have the same type. But it doesn't, ergo, the baby isn't you.
Here's an obvious one - in half of all pregnancies, the sex of the child is male. The mother is female. I'm pretty sure you can't be both at once.
If you want to boil it down, the baby is a parasite. It is not your body. At no point in pregnancy is the developing embryo or fetus simply a part of the mother's body.
The baby might be in your body, but that doesn't mean it is your body. And it certainly doesn't give you the right to kill it.




I CAN'T TAKE CARE OF IT AND GIVE IT THE LIFE IT DESERVES.

Put it up for adoption. Better for it to have a life than to murder it.


YOU'RE NOT KILLING IT BECAUSE IT ISN'T ALIVE.

The most ignorant of them all, and the easiest to refute.
Simply put, it is alive. Quote from abort73.com:

Every new life begins at conception. This is an irrefutable fact of biology. It is true for animals and true for humans. When considered alongside the law of biogenesis – that every species reproduces after its own kind – we can draw only one conclusion in regard to abortion. No matter what the circumstances of conception, no matter how far along in the pregnancy, abortion always ends the life of an individual human being. Every honest abortion advocate concedes this simple fact.

Faye Wattleton, the longest reigning president of the largest abortion provider in the world – Planned Parenthood – argued as far back as 1997 that everyone already knows that abortion kills. She proclaims the following in an interview with Ms. Magazine:


"I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus."

Next.


THIS BABY WAS THE RESULT OF A RAPE OR SEXUAL ABUSE.

Better let abort73.com answer this:

You can't get very far in any discussion about abortion without considering the question of rape. Whereas the vast majority of pregnancies are the result of consensual sex, rape-based pregnancies present a unique dilemma. If a woman didn't choose to engage in sex in the first place, should she have to carry to term a child that was the result of her forced union? The question should become much clearer if we add in some hypothetical details. Let's say the woman does carry her child to term and decides to raise her son herself. After five years, however, she decides that the little boy's presence in her life is too much of a burden. He looks too much like his biological father. Should that mother have the right to kill her five year-old son who was born to her as a result of sexual assault?


Obviously not. No matter what the circumstances are regarding the little boy's conception, he is a human being with a right to life that cannot be taken away from him. But what about before the child is born, does this change anything? No, it doesn't. Abortion is an act of violence that kills a living human being. The circumstances surrounding the conception do not change this simple reality. Rape and abortion share this in common. They are both acts of violent assault against an innocent victim. Aborting a child conceived through rape simply extends this pattern of violence and victimhood. It does not "unrape" the woman, but it will almost certainly increase her regret and misery. Whereas rape is an act of violence for which she bears no responsibility, abortion is an act of violence for which she would be morally culpable.

This was regarding rape, but the whole set of "What if...?'s" can be found here: http://www.abort73.com/abortion/common_objections/


That's the major arguments I can think of at the moment. Here's what it boils down to:
No matter what the circumstances, no human has the right to take the life of another human.

Would it bother us more if they used guns?

I realise that nearly all of my blog posts up until this point have been the eptiomy of N00Bish-ness, so from now on I shall post interesting things. With nothing to do with monkeys. Gosh, I was immature in grade 9. (Tim, I know you're gonna say it. Don't.)
Grade 10 FTW.

Untitled.

Isn't it nice to know

That the lining is silver

Isn't it nice to know

That we're golden

She's almost brighter than the sun

Seems to me to be unfair

When you consider everyone

Who pales when they compare

When they compare

We should get jerseys

Cause we make a good team

But yours would look better than mine

Cause you're out of my league

And I know that it's so cliche to tell you that everyday
I spend with you is the new best day of my life

And now I'm sunny with a High of 75
Since You took my heavy heart

And made it light
And its funny how you find
You enjoy your life
When you're happy to be alive

Always knew I'd find someone
I never dreamt it'd be like this
You've surpassed
All that I've hoped for (and ever wished)
And I'm tryin' so hard
With all my heart and mind
To make your life
As good as you've made mine 

*sighs*
This is going real well.

It's been a while, hasn't it? Ooh, probably about...6 months and 9 days. Or 27 weeks. Or 192 days. Or 4608 hours. Or 276,480 minutes. Or 16,588,800 seconds. Or....maybe I'll stop.

Anyways, A LOT has happened in that time, and unfortunately I don't have a very good memory so I won't be able to tell you most of what happened in those 192 days, aside from about a month ago. Or maybe more. We'll see how we go. And it won't be in order. Sorry about that.

Here's a bombshell to start you off...I started reading Twilight. *audience gasps*. Yes, shocking, isn't it? I had a thought...about ducks. But that's not relevant.
So anyway, I thought, "Maybe I've been a bit hard on Twilight. Maybe it's not so bad. Hell, I've only read one chapter. And my cat always said, 'Never judge a book by its fangirls.' "
And now I am 3/4 of the way though, or thereabouts. And...it doesn't suck as much as I thought it would. It's actually okay. Aside from Bella's TOTAL OBSESSION with Edward. And the fact that he's a vampire. So it's ok. But it's not great.


I'm working at Macca's now. I applied two weeks ago (about), got called in for an interview two days later, then got hired three days after that, and now on Friday I have my orientation.
LET'S HEAR IT FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE!

I have three (or is it four?) assignment due this term, also known as the final one for the year, and indeed, YEAR 9 ITSELF. I probably should do them, but I don't want to. Simple, really.

Holidays were good. I don't think I saw a movie in those holidays, but I went to Tim's house and I went to Hayden's par-tay, also at his house. Holidays are good.

I should talk about the movies I saw. Yeah...I think I'll do that now.
First up, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That was way back in May. Saw that with Hayden. It was good, with some wicked action scenes, but not the best. 15/20.
Next, Star Trek. I had obviously heard of it, and kinda known the basic premise, but never really known who were the characters and such. Kinda cool, nice CGI effects, confusing plot though. And I saw it with my dad, so he tried to cover my eyes when the half-naked alien and lead male were making out. That messed it up a bit. :P. Also 15/20.
Then, about a month later, possibly the biggest eye-candy fest of the year, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The first one was/is one of my top action flicks ever, so I was expecting a lot from the sequel. But it was kinda a mixed bag. The plot? Well...it sucked. Like, really badly sucked. And so it seems that Michael Bay was trying to make up for the abysmal plot by throwing in gratuitous destruction, explosion after explosion, and HOT girl after HOT girl, and....it worked. One of the best films of the year. Reason? Three words: Transforming. Alien Robots. It doesn't get any better than that. 18/20.
Next month, the next installment of the Harry Potter series, the Half-Blood Prince. Loved the book, so the film had something to live up to. Better acting than most of the series, better directing, better everything (over the last couple ones, I mean). The third one is still king though. 16/20.
END OF MOVIE REVIEWS

In business at the mo. Designing the new $1000 note and $5 coin. Wow. I'm learning sooooo much from this experience.

Anyway...what else?

I can't make up my mind. Conflicting emotions, confusing emotions, all the same thing. I hate love. No, wait...I don't hate it...I hate the problems that come with it. :S


Hmmm....

Can't think of anything else. Just the usual. Will post again if any thing interesting comes up. :)

Boring. Yes. It. Is.

Wow, I havent posted in......about 10 days, and I think it's time that I gave my readers something to.....well, read.

So. I saw Monsters vs Aliens on Monday. The cinemas were packed. I guess it was because a) it was Easter Monday and b) it was pouring rain. Anyway, I give it 7.5/10. It was good, but not as good the golden masterpieces of Pixar.

Easter was good. Not much else to say, really.

I go back to school in five days. Yee ha, whoopie, wootness. (sarcasm alert)

I went rock climbing last week. Turns out I'm actually pretty good at it.

I'm going to Timezone tomorrow with Tim and Hayden. My one follower knows who him/they are, so I won't explain who they are.

So, not very much news. Oh, well. And I'm bored. Thought you'd oughta know :)