You may have already watched this, you may not have but you should watch it anyway.  





I’m an incredible cynic.  I am just scared that this Kony thing is going to become fad something you support for a week or two and then forget, like the Haitian earthquake or the Arab spring.  People are still going to continue dying.  This battle cannot be given up until Kony is arrested and tried at the Hague.  I know it’s the cool compassionate thing to do.  But remember human life, remember to be compassionate no matter what.  Always remember to love.

Guess who's writing another essay on Communism and Russia?

If you guessed me then you win...
The prize is Nothing.

Also remember that time I mixed Presidents Choice pudding and Cool Whip and it tasted like soap?

Hockey Fights and Lost Lives

I don't want to sound heartless, because I'm not, I've just observed things.  Whenever talk about banning fighting in hockey comes up Rick Rypien, Wade Belak, and Derek Boogaard are always mentioned, because they were enforcers.  These men did not die because of head trauma. Yes, Boogaard died because of his addictions to painkillers, because of trauma, but the actual trauma was not his killer.  Belak and Rypien committed suicide. Because they had issues far greater than the sport of hockey.
All of these men were fighters and hitters and did all of those things that they want removed from the game.  But these things were not their killers.  So I don't think it's fair to them, to mention them in your crusade to end fighting in the game.
I am not trying to down play the fact that they died, not at all.  I'm trying to show the people that mention them when fighting comes up how wrong they are.
I feel for these men every single day.  For their families and their friends.  For the NHL that is left with gaps where these men should be.

In my Poli Sci class we were talking about Alienation this week.  We of course discussed the feminist side of alienation.  One point I thought was particularly interesting, alienated from motherhood.  The basic idea is that women no longer have control on how they mother.  Of course freedom of their body was discussed in the context of abortion and birth control. But also the fact that women are controlled in the amount of children they can have.   There are so many pressures, you can't over too many children because the world is already overpopulated, why bring more polluters, consumers etc. into this world.  Poor women shouldn't have children because they cannot support them.  Why would you give up your career to have children?  So on and so on.
I just thought it was interesting that our society has come to that.  Where in one breath well tell girls that it's okay to kill a child and in the next say that they're wrong for wanting to have children.

Do you know what?
Russia still has a Communist party.  You would think of all the countries in the world they would be the least likely, and the found out for 60 years that it didn't work for them.
Can't say they're not optimistic.

Life is Sacred

I often see signs or hear people say, "I believe in preserving life" this is almost always in the context of abortion.  I believe this too but in every aspect of life.  I am very clearly antiabortion.  It often seems that some people get so wrapped up in apposing abortion that they forget about human life in general.  There are genocides, and hidden wars happening all over this planet but nothing is being done to stop them.  Why will you fight for the life of a child but not the life of a woman or a man in another country? Both of them are equally as human, both as equally alive.
I used to be like this, when I learned about the genocide in Darfur Sudan all I could think of is, we can save these peoples lives but we can't save them from hell.  It's the same for abortion, if you save a child from abortion there is no guarantee that they will be raised as a Christian.  But you are still saving human life.  A sacred God created life.  It does not matter if the person is an unborn child or a 77 year old, they're still a human.
All human life is equal, sometimes people forget that.