Week in review

So, I've recently gone vegetarian!
It hasn't been too hard so far. The most difficult part is going to someone Else's house. Saturday, I went to watch the super anti-climatic Notre Dame and Michigan house. This dude laid the food out. I mean he had everything you could think of as far as food is concerned. ALL of it had meat in it. SMH

At home of course I can control what I take in but when I go someplace else it's a lot more difficult. So what are the changes I've noticed? Nothing too large actually. I feel better, I sweat cleaner (if that makes sense), I'm a lot more aware. Other than that i'm not sure If I've been doing this long enough to see real results.

So I got the chance to watch "The new normal" with my wife last week. It was a scene in the show that made me super uncomfortable. Two of the characters are gay and they are having a baby by way of a surrogate. So they are in a baby store looking at clothes and they decide to kiss. A guy comes up to them and asks them to stop saying " I don't want to have to explain to my daughter why two guys are kissing" The man from the couple retorts " You don't want to explain to your daughter love? We're excited we are having a baby" the man responds "that's disgusting and your going to make that baby super confused".

The reason I brought this up is because I have no idea who's side I would be on. On the one hand I hate bullies. The other had I don't want to explain that to my daughter either at age 6. What to do?

Using your platform

One day about a year ago, I was on my way to work and listening to a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church talk about how God disliked or hated Steve Jobs. She went on her soap box explaining that this amazing man did not use his "Stage" to get people to come to God.

Margie Phelps, daughter of the small church’s founder and the lawyer who represented the church during their First Amendment case at the Supreme Court, (which Westboro won,) was among the Phelps family members to use Apple products to Tweet about the death of the Apple co-founder.

“Westboro will picket his funeral.He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin,” Margie tweeted Wednesday night on her iPhone

 

 

 

 

 

As wrong as protesting a funeral can be, it caused me to ask myself some hard questions almost a year later. The platform that I currently have, How am I using it? All of us want to achieve more than what we have already achieved but the question is what are we doing with our current location. People hate on Tim Tebow all the time but the guy is an example of what we could all be doing whether we are spiritual or not. Portraying to the world that we have deep morals and values is important for current and future generations to see. Sam Bradford, Tebow, Tony Dungy, and Kevin Durant exemplify their respective beliefs on the national and international stage. We currently live in a society that waits for people to fail at their beliefs instead of promoting people who don't. Everyone can't and won't have this type of platform but it is easier to do when you use the platform your already given. What are you doing with your platform? Should you do anything with it?

 

 



 

Our Future Provided by hypocrites

People ask me all the time whether I'm a conservative or a democrat. My response? It doesn't matter, not right now at least. I don't pick candidates based on the party I'm affiliated with. Our economy is horrible, our education system is terrible, and we are listening to the stance of our futures leaders when it comes to Abortion? Abortion stances deserve 24/7 news coverage?
One thing I realized when I was watching the convention was that we hear so much about being leaders in the world for education but, Do our leaders put their children in the system in which they want us to believe?
We put our children in public schools and they put theirs in private. We hope for change but they have already found the solution. They go around the problem by putting their children in the schools that are so expensive it can pay teachers the same salary a college professor makes. This issue is neither democrat nor republican.

In the news last week, I heard about a law currently up for vote in Congress. Our politicians plan to take Physical Education out of the schools. They do not believe it has as much value as an extra hour in Math or Science. So, our politicians take P.E. out of public schools but it is heavily promoted within the private schools. While the bulk of our children live in neighborhoods that are not safe enough to play outside the others see no benifit in physical activity because video games are more fun. This seems to me like another way to widen the gap between the poor and the rich. Our children learn to be workers and their children learn to be innovators. Our children learn that physical activity and a healthy lifestyle is not as important as learning to WORK in fields such as physics or statistics. This in turn helps our children learn to be physical and financially dependent on the government. I know that this is a stretch but please find me one politician that has sent their children to public schools.