The Proletariat Congress

There are few nations in the world that can claim that they have democratic integrity and those who do are often no better than the sham democracies that exist in the rest of the world.  Democratic integrity recognises the will of the people even if the laws aren’t perfect.  Laws are made by those voted into power and those in power often make laws as norms dictate even if it means someone will eventually protest it.

There comes a time when those in power must realise that they are accountable to their people and that means that if something isn’t right that they should return to the people for approval.  To ask the people how they’re doing.

A recall vote.  Or as people in the real world like to call this: performance review

A voluntary recall vote is a sign of democratic integrity because it means those in power realise that they may not be fit for the job.  There is one government that this surely applies to.  The socialist government of Bolivia and its president Evo Morales.

I’m only including a screen capture because the title is just so stunning to read.  Politicians are not normally associated with honesty and integrity.

Before the era of electricity, the night was lit by candles and by the dim stars that shone in the sky above, and if we were lucky, the moon would be out to illuminate the night for us.

Those of us in the 21st century who live in large cities often don’t get the luxury of seeing this, for the light pollution of our sprawling urban centres outshines the stars and moon above.

At night, while I sit in front of my computer, which is in front of a window, over looking the balcony from the 8th floor of my humble crap shack, I see not the stars and moon but the lights radiating from the buildings as I gaze north. The only flicker of light that I see in the sky is that of an air plane either arriving or departing from Pearson International.

We are dependent upon the conveniences and luxuries of the 21st century to make our lives easier.

Perhaps it is time to think of more than ourselves…

Even a small sacrifice makes the larger ones easier because we learn that it is possible and that nothing bad will come of a little down time in a hectic world.

I don’t know about you, but at 8pm est on March 29th, 2008 I will be turning off my lights, and powering down my computer, and enjoying the darkness.

Earth Hour

That-a man, he kisses real nice-a!  She said, after locking lips with her foreign lover.

Or at least that’s how it is according to a survey done through the social website WAYN.com, ranking men from various countries as lovers based on feedback from female respondents from 50 different countries. It seems that the Italians are really the true lovers in the end, and it’s the Germans who lack grace.

The Germans rank the lowest, labelled as being “selfish” in bed, closely rivalled by the Swedes who are much too quick, and the third last place Dutch who were too rough. Americans were considered to be “too dominant”, the Welsh “soppy” (excessively sentimental; mawkish)…

And who would be considered too loud? While most would think Americans, it’s actually the Scots who are considered to be too loud, with the Greeks as “too smelly” (it’s olive oil baby!) and Russians as “too hairy” and the English “too chubby”. Though it’s probably not as bad as being “too sweaty” as the Turks were…

But in light of this, who did rank well? The Italians placed first, followed by the French. But we all knew that. This is general knowledge. The others who ranked well? Not who’d you might expect…

Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Spain, Denmark, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada all ranked well after the Italian and French.

This begs the question… how is it possible for male lovers to suddenly turn sour south of the border?  One minute you’re in Windsor then next in Detroit… Is this the same invisible line when it comes to weather?

There are men who dispute this of course.  After all, who wants to lose out when there’s much at stake?  And it’s not just men in the bed at this point.  If it was, she must’ve gotten bored watching him…   And besides, how can someone be ranked as a lover without a test drive?

Of course, there is one crucial part missing… is the woman a cold fish in bed to begin with.

World’s ‘wurst’ lovers?

When faced with life or death, most people unless they know that death is inevitable will choose life because they know that they have families that love them and wish them good health. To lose a family member hurts and those who are faced with this know it and display the will to live and to once again laugh and share in the merriment of life with their friends and family.

One British woman, Lorraine Allard, decided that she would rather not. Instead, she refused to accept medical treatment for a disease that decades of research and sacrifice have long since learned how to fight and nearly cure. The woman foolishly chose to not accept chemotherapy, and carried to term an unborn foetus at the cost of her life.

Either way, there was still going to be a ‘death’.

If she had accepted the treatment the doctors felt she needed, the cancer wouldn’t have advanced into the stage where it would be incurable. But, she didn’t listen to the doctors when told that she would have to abort the barely development foetus in order to be able to receive the life saving treatment that would have made the difference for the children she already had and depended on her.

Accept a medical abortion in order to allow her to fight back at the bowel cancer that had spread to her liver or bring another child into an over populated world? These were the choices.

She didn’t accept the treatment and carried the foetus as long as she could before an early labour was induced, allowing her to deliver the foetus naturally at 26 weeks, giving the child a mere 50% chance at survival.

Some forums on the internet have people praising her for a ’sacrifice’ and speak a though she were brave for her choice. As though she was truly a model human. The media (such as FOX, Daily Mail) have used positive words to describe her actions. They have chosen words that convey a noble action when the action was anything but brave.

It was foolish. Simply put, it was foolish. She left behind a husband who now has to bring up four children alone. At the time when her doctors suggested that she abort the foetus for medical reasons, she had three daughters, two of whom are old enough to remember this, to know that their mother would rather die than fight back against cancer and live to see them grow up.

Her son, the one born at the cost of her life could very well have issues over this if he cannot accept or handle the fact that he “killed mom”.

The daughters who remember could very well grow up to resent their brother, who they will associate with the death of their mother.

People are free to make their own choices, and if those choices are foolish, the rest of us are free to mock those people for such choices.  This woman made such a choice and people shouldn’t be praising her for dying and leaving the man who loves her without the mother of his children to face the world.