Jordan's Blog

Fox-4 reported on a story about Kansas City teens sexting: sending nude pictures of themselves to boyfriends via their cell phones. Parents should be alert. The way Missouri laws are written these teens could be charged with promoting child pornography. Under Missouri law the mere possession of child pornography is a crime. The boyfriend who merely receives it and keeps it stored on his cell phone is technically in possession of child pornography and could also be charged. If he shares it with someone else and/or sends it out to someone, he too is promoting and distributing child pornography. Parents might want to familiarize themselves and their teens with Missouri Revised Statutes 573.023, 573.025, 573.035 and 573.037.

I know. There are parents who will read this and say that will never happen to my child, or that no prosecutor is going to prosecute kids for just horsing around. Don’t be too sure. Some prosecutor may want to make a name for himself or herself and decide to do a test case. Even if he or she is not successful, the patents of the kids involved are going end up spending some big bucks on attorney fees defending their teen.

But also of concern, possibly more so than the possibility of prosecution, is what happens to these photographs once they get out into cyberspace where they can live forever. With the various programs available to manipulate photographs, that simple nude photo can become something entirely different once it finds its way into the hands of some imaginative person. A few years down the road when your son or daughter is trying to launch a career their foolish photographic misadventure might just pop back up. How many stories have you read about or seen on the news where some political figure, prominent person or celebrity suddenly finds that an embarrassing photograph taken years earlier is being made public?

This is something that every parent should really think about and discuss with their children.

The local media covered the Muslim protest on the Plaza (1-1-09) protesting the current conflict/war between Israelis and Hamas occurring along the Gaza-Strip. The protesters (approximately 150) were (according to the report) organized by the Muslim American Society to bring attention to the conflict/war and the alleged disproportionate death toll to Palestinian civilians. Protesters chanted: “Stop the killing, stop the crime, long live Palestine.” From media interviews of a couple of protesters it appears they want the US to intercede and force Israel to stop the aerial bombing. I found this interesting seeing as how similar groups have protested in the past outraged by US involvement in Palestinian affairs when the US has supported Israel. It seems they only want Israel to stop the bombing while Hamas continues its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

From a political blog titled: Rosco Was Right…Sort Of, by Nemokc, I understand the conflict and how it has been going on for decades and how the Palestinians feel. But Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization that positions itself among the Palestinian civilian population, using them basically as shields to dissuade retaliatory attacks for the rockets it lobs into Israel daily. I really don’t know how these Muslims can expect US support for Hamas. As I recall it has been radical Muslims who have attacked US targets here and around the world killing Americans. I don’t ever recall hearing of an Israeli suicide bomber or of Israelis flying planes into US buildings.

This protest on the Plaza, and elsewhere, serves no purpose other than to try to draw the US people into the conflict, and an attempt to stir up emotions in the US and foster hatred toward Israel and Jews in general as if we didn’t have enough hatred already. If these people want to protest, then let them go back to their own country where their voices have a much better chance of being heard and of bring about a cease fire, if that is truly their intent.

I find it personally offensive that this Muslim group would have the blatant audacity to ask support from the US for Hamas and other Muslim terrorist groups who have openedly called for the death of Americans, and when Hamas receives military training, weapons and financial support from Iran who has sent weapons and insurgents into Iraq to kill American soldiers. Both Hamas and Iran’s leadership have called for Israel to be wiped off the map. How is anyone expected to rationally negotiate with such irrational people?

VP elect Biden said that President elect Obama would be tested by a crisis in the first 6-months of his presidency. What Biden didn’t say was that the crisis would be generated by his own party. It will be interesting to see how the democrats handle the appointment of Ronald Burris by Gov. Ron Blagojevich to Obama’s vacant senate seat. Especially since the democrats told Blagojevich (facing impeachment & federal charges)  that they would not recognize anyone he appointed. In his acceptance speech Burris couldn't help but play the race card.

If this is a sneak preview of the how the democrats are going to run the country, the Bush administration may come off looking good by comparison.

I'm glad the Fox-4 weather team got it wrong and we didn't get the ice in the immediate  metro they predicted. You might  find some comfort in the fact that the other local (so called meteorologist) also got it wrong. Perhaps if you guys would stop hyping the weather, quit tring to make it a major news event, and stop being such drama queens, then maybe you wouldn’t find it quite so embarrassing when you make a miscalculation.