Michael P. O'Connor

My Life

Just got back from skiing

Categories: Friends, Play

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Published on: January 21, 2006

Well I just got back from the skiing trip with my friend from church. I will admit I was a bit nervous about it before the trip, but I believe things should be tried at lest once. I was nervous because two years before I tried snow boarding, and ended up damaging my knee and let me tell you a cortisone shot is no fun at all. But skiing is much more easer the snowboarding (I will never go snowboarding again, once was enough for me). I only fell once, and that was when my friend (who got me the cheap lift ticket and rentals) was teaching me how to ski. I made 4 runs down the slops today. My legs do feel like jello right now, but it was fun. I am now ready to go and pass out for the night. I would like to go skiing again, I did really enjoy it. We went up to 7-springs and they had a layer of artificial snow down.

Policy on negative comments

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Blog Stuff

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Published on: January 21, 2006

I just want to put the following statement up. I do not tolerate negative attacks on the comments sections. This statement comes because today, I saw on my comments sections a post that was an personal attack on someone that commented on my blog. And for the record the person that made the negative comment was attacking some one that put a liberal comment up, so the attack (sadly) was a conservative, but I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you are on, I do not want to see negative personal attacks in the comments, they will not be approved.
The person that was attacked is a friend of mine, so I have given him the option if he wants I can forward the text of the attack on him to him, but I am not going to let it stay on the blog.
It is true that I don’t agree with what my friend posted and I would like to see some one debunk what he said, but personal attacks are not allowed.

Bin Laden offers a “truce”

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: News

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Published on: January 19, 2006

Aljazeera is broadcasting some more propaganda from Bin Laden. He is claiming that the US is losing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is “offering” a “truce”. I doubt it; from what I have seen in the pass Bin Laden’s goal was to destroy the US and the culture because of its decadence. Now he made a turn around? It is more like he is afraid, he is losing big time, and he is trying to find a way out. Bush has said that “the US does not negotiate with terrorists”. It is quite possible that we are close to getting him and he is afraid.
Now would I like to see an end to this war, yes who would not love to see the war end, but we should not bow down to the terrorists, they must stop their terrorist ways. This is proof that we are winning the war on terror.
Plus the audio from him includes the normal threat, just like the one he made that if we elected Bush again (where was that attack from them we did reelect Bush, he failed to attack on that) or maybe he could not attack, could it just be that Bush is really protecting the US from terrorists?) I believe this is just another empty threat like the last threat about the election.

This up comming weekend

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Friends, News, Politics

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Published on: January 18, 2006

Well I was hoping to go to DC on Friday afternoon after work. But those plans fell though. I will still be going down, but I will be picked up early Monday morning (I am going down for the annual March for Life), and comming back late Monday night. I promise I will take my camra so I can get pictures, and I will upload them when I get back. I have already let work know that I am taking a “personal day”. So my weekend has opened up so I will be going skiing with some friends on Saterday. I tried to snowboard 2 years ago, but my knee did not like that, I kept falling over and hitting my knee against the ice. I hope skiing is not as painfull, as when I tried to go snowboarding.

How long till the ACLU defends this jerk

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: News

Comments: 10 Comments

Published on: January 17, 2006

A news station in Florida is running a story about how a many who threatened to punch a Taxi Driver and used some racist slurs has been sentenced to attend a “black” church of 6 Sunday. First what is a “black” church? A church is a church as long as it preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ, yes there are some differences between the denominations teach (and I think the LCMS church is closer to the correct theology, but Christ said any one that believes in him and is baptized so all Christians will make it to heaven). But I am sure that in the next few days the ACLU (the Anti-Christian Lawyers Union) will be filing suet over this because it is a violation of their perceived “freedom from religion”. (remember it is “Freedom of Religion”)
I kind of think it is a good sentence, because the man will be faced with what sin is (what he did was sinful) but he will also see that there is true forgiveness, I would hope that he goes to the church for more then 6 weeks, aka converts to Christianity. If he was to convert and start to live a Christian life he will know to hate a person is wrong, and he (one would hope) make efforts not to hate people in the future.