Michael P. O'Connor

Today I was looking in the Caliban book store on Craig St. I was looking though the religion section and I find the book “Martin Luther’s Basic Theological writings” for only $12. What a sweet deal.

I wish to pose a question. This question came from a response to this post titled “A simple ethics question” The person posed this statement

"shouldn't this be more strongly equated with organ donation 
from a dead adult without their concent (but obviously from their 
family) in order to save the lives of living people who are suffering 
from possibly curable diseases?"

To this statement I have this to say

to the taking of organs against the wishes of the person that 
has passed away. I would say that if highly unethical, and this day 
n age if you have a drivers license they will ask you when you get it 
or when you renew it if you want to be a donor (well at lest in PA) so
 unless the person has indicated they wanted to be a donor, then the
 organs should be left. (side note, I know being an organ donor is a 
very good thing, in fact my church bode encourages it, see
http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=2118 , but I 
am very uncomfortable with the thought of it and I have declined 
that, I know I am being a bit selfish, but I can not get over the 
uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my gut when I think about it, I 
have tried to over come it but can not, so I would hope that people 
would honor my wishes of not taking my organs after I leave this 
world for the heavenly realm) Even if the family is willing to give 
the organs unless the person in life has said yes, to take them would 
be a hoard unethical act.

This was on a different subject but the subject of Organ Donation I think deserves its own post, here is that post. I would love to see what my readers think. So here is the question should a person be an organ donation, what would you say to some one that is uncomfortable with the thought of being a donor?

One of the episodes of South Park I got from the apple store is “Cartoon Wars Part 2” I can not believe that Comedy Central even blacked the image of mohammed on the for sell versions. They must really believe that the moslems are a major danger to them.
I still say it is very telling on a religion when a station is willing to broadcast all kinds of insulting stuff to all other religions: be it Christian, mormons, jahova witness, scientology. But to even show an image of the god of the moslems scares them to much (yes I know officially mohammed is not the god of the moslems, but they way they treat allah and mohammed, you can blaspheme allah, but you can not even say one thing against mohammed, that says a lot about which one is their god)

I just got the new iTunes from the software from the software update, I think some of the new additions look nice, I like the feature where it will get the artwork for the mp3’s I have that were not purchased via the iTunes music store. I have ripped many CD’s to my iTunes collection and now it will have the art work for them.

I had to take my old iPod 2Gb Nano down to the apple store because the buttons where not working. If you tried to use the click wheel it would not respond. If I pressed any of the other buttons they would not respond. The only thing that would work is if I pressed the Select and Menu buttons I could reboot it, but other then that the Select and Menu buttons would not work if pressed separately. Also if I put the hold button on then take it off the iPod would reboot.
I got the Nano back in March, so I took it back to see if they could fix it, I had tried to restore the thing before. So the tech down there looked at it tried a few things, then verified the date I got the iPod, then replaced it. It was a strange way for the iPod to fail. Oh well I got a new one so I can continue to listen to my podcasts at work.