Yes yes, i'm late again, but anyway just quick updates for those who don't know, I'm engaged to Cass and have been for the past 2 months. Gosh time sure does pass by really quickly... I'm already 25 this year and my brother is 23.. GOSH!!! but anyway, I proposed aboard a boat called Courageous on the 14th of Nov 08. I guess you could call it quite a coincidence since alot of people would have said that it would have required a lot of courage to do such a thing in front of all the other guests.

Now, i read the newpaper this morning and found something so stupid that i absolutely had to blog about it. This Turkish cafe owned by a Muslim man in Invercargill refused service to a lady from Israel. Yes there is alot of fighting in Gaza right now and no one likes a war, coz the only things that come out of it are bodybags, but how is refusing service to a tourist from Israel going to stop the war? I just found it so stupid that i absolutely HAD to blog about it. The lady has rightly taken the matter and placed it in the hands of the Human Rights commission here in NZ. Apparently there are quite a number of cafes in Invercargill who are taking on this stand as well and people are supporting them. Hopefully the Commission does something about this breach of Human Rights, what if he has other "opinions" about other people groups like the disabled or people who are Christians.
Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10552111

Another thing that I've noticed as well is how much the media has been portraying Israel as the "Bad Guys" in this current conflict. I even watched a protest going down Queen Street chanting "Israel, USA, How many children have you killed today?" but I wonder how many people have actually even taken the time to consider that it isn't Israel that's doing this but the Hamas group that's putting their civillians in situations where they are using them as a human shield and daring the Israeli forces to attack. See this is what I think, the media has been only portraying one side of the story and AFRAID, yes I said it, afraid to show what the Hamas group has truly been doing because of the fear that they might have suicidal bombers on their hands instead of an army to deal with. A suicidal bomber can destroy and cause fear within a country more than a legal army because the world powers can step in and stop them politically.

Something else that I don't understand is how people can look at 8 year olds and lust after a child... Apparently the most senior cleric in Saudi Arabia has said that girls by the age of 10 should be able to marry because if not, it would be an injustice to women and unfair for them. If an 8 year old gets sexually abused by a 50 year old man in Saudi Arabia, I guess that's good for the child... Does this mean that Saudi Arabian girls are maturing so much faster than the rest of the world and gets so horny by the age of 10, that if they can't marry they'll go whore themselves out? Also, he said in a lecture that if a person agrees to women marrying after the age of 25, they are following a "bad path", somehow paedophilia isn't a "bad" path to this cleric. Sometimes it seems that tradition has gotten the better of these people and they have ceased to progress any further from the time that these traditions were created.
Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10552102

A child is a child, no matter what your tradition says, maybe if I were to stick to tradition, I should go find myself young underaged children, around the age of 10, from Saudi Arabia and make them do hard labour since they were traditionally viewed as "small adults" in the Western world during the mid 20th century, Since they are viewed thus, I guess it won't be too difficult to go a step further and convince them to do porn as well since they are adults and can make up their own mind as to what is good for them and what isn't. UNFORTUNATELY, it is against the law globally to have children do hard labour anymore and it's a prosecutable action to have paedophilic porn. So why is it acceptable, and even promoted by this cleric, for children below the age of 18 to be married off to old, horny, paedophilic men in the Middle East is beyond me.

Hence the stupidity of Man continue to amaze me... I reckon there's a reason why I don't read the newspaper anymore... just too much for me to handle.