Help save an Endangered Species: Mankind!

Without sounding like another self-righteous prick who talks more about the problem rather than offer a practical solution, i want to state briefly my opinions on a few things that i have been observing for quite some time now. Some mole-hills of problems evolved into mountains because of mankind's ineptness and inability to deal with them. These problems are a great menace to our society and are largely responsible for it's moral decay but most of all, these issues are youth issues.

What is wrong with young people today? I am just a young man of 21 and i cannot help but feel like i was born in an unfortunate period in the historical time line of man's increasing destructive capabilities since, ever since the destruction of the wheel. Since then mankind has been wreaking havoc upon the very life force that was created to sustain it and the future, the hope of the race, are dumb to it.

There are so many problems facing human beings today such as Global Warming, worldwide breakdown in economics, Natural Disasters, Disease, Wars, loss of family values and the blatant demolition of the family structure, the foundation of our society. People are confused, dying, in pain and suffering and we are just blind to it. All around us the very existence of man is being threatened and what are we doing about it? we the future?

We are so caught up in ourselves and covered in the filth of our pitiful existences that we can't see pass the next pizza, the next movie, the next party, the next kiss. We remain oblivious to the pressures of the world that will one day affect us and are totally and find ourselves content to live in a dilapidated, scum filled society and feel no responsibility.

As a matter of fact, we play a great part in contributing to the devastation and are remain apathetic and when a young women takes her clothes off and binds her moth with black masking tape to make a political statement that many of us should be making without having to be prompted to do so, we mock and criticize her for taking that bold stance. Is it that we don't recognize what is taking place or Is it that we do recognize but feel powerless to do anything to change it? Maybe we don't see the point in changing it? As long as we are enjoying ourselves and 'the problems of the world are not ours' we feel safe.

But i have news for you! The problems of the world are everybody's. We all have a part to play in this world. It is time that young people take a stand and say no to the artistes who continue to sing songs glorifying a life of crime and violence, it is time that young people speak out against the unfairness and flagrant disregard for human life in waging a war against a country, not against the country's armed forces, but against civilians. It is time that young people call for measures to be put in place to educate and protect their peers against teenage pregnancy, early initiation into sexual intercourse and the use of illegal substances. It is time for each and everyone of us to take a stand and do something.

What am I doing you might ask? I'm writing this blog.

It may not be much now, but it is drop in bucket and i can only hope that someone will stumble across it and that it will prick them, or give them that nudge in the right direction, that may start a chain reaction of great and positive change around the globe, starting with our young people. Read more!

World Cup Hopes

And so my hopes and dreams of another Jamaican World Cup appearance may have very well have been crushed (except some great miracle happens and the Reggae Boyz win all their remaining matches and all the teams settle from ties) under the weight of a 2-0 defeat at the 'feet' of Honduras. And following hot on the heels of their World Cup Qualifying loss, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has reportedly fired the Brazilian coach, Rene Simoes, who was toted to repeat the same feat he performed in 1998 when under his tutelage, the Reggae Boyz made history in becoming the first ever English-speaking Caribbean country to Qualify for the FIFA World Cup.

Now it seems that Jamaicans will not get the opportunity to see their Country perform on the biggest soccer stage known to man. No more reggae music being played at soccer matches and dancing tigers awkwardly performing half-stunts. No more running around in the streets everytime the 'Boyz' score against a major opponent. The ominous sight of Jamaican's showing up at soccer matches with 'Jesus Saves' written across their chest, a trend made popular by now former Technical Director, Rene Simoes, will now forgotten.

And what have Jamaicans to do? What must fans and hopefuls now while the greatest game ever played is taking place all around the world and their team is not a part of it? What must the 'band-wagonists' when we see another team move forward and know within ourselves that our team could have done even better? What are we to say when players from around the world are awarded contracts based on the performance in the FIFA World Cup and our talented young players are sitting at home playing in a league sponsored by a cigarette company?

I'll tell you what i'll do! I'll choose another team because somehow I am going to enjoy South Africa 2010. And when if that team is eliminated, i simply choose another team. Call me a 'wagonist' if you will, and maybe rightly so. But if my country cannot make it in the world cup in 2010, then the onus will be on some other country to make my dreams and the dreams of my country's football heroes come true.

It is an unfortunate end to brilliant start of the world cup campaign but we cannot forget the valiant efforts of the young men who went and gave their all in a battle so revered that men have lost their lives over it(hmmmmmmmm). We must remember Rudolph Austin, Ricardo Gardener, Ricardo Fuller, Wolry Wolfe, Tyrone Marshall and the many others who fought to make Jamaica proud and succeeded. So it was not their victory at the end of the 90 minutes that gave us the greatest satisfaction but it was their efforts that we have truly triumphed as a nation.

I say, go Reggae Boyz, you have made me and many other Jamaican's proud. And to some other unsuspecting country (Cameroon, Nigeria, Cote de Voire, Italy), the pressure is on my friend!!!!!!!! Read more!

The great irony that is politics

Has anyone failed to see the folly and scant disregard for the American people that Presidential hopeful John McCain has displayed in his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate? I am by no means an American but living in this country, it would be foolish of me, not to pay attention to the most important decisions that will in turn affect my life (at least i hope i still have it when all this is done). Maybe i'm just another uniformed blogger whose comments are nothing more than an extension of the bad publicity that has been in the media since the start of the election season.

I am a twenty-one year old college student who by some persons standards, know nothing about the 'real world' but i think i know enough to know when something stinks. Mr. McCain's selection of a woman he hardly knows and whose only noteworthy characteristic is that she is pro-life. It has become increasingly apparent that a stance on Roe v Wade trumps experience anytime to the republican party.

This is the same woman who has displayed little interest in international politics and little concern for any thing outside of her constituency in Alaska. The same woman that has held a US passport for little more than a year, and the only reason she has one is so that she could visit "Alaskan troops" in Iraq. Maybe it's just me but i think that this woman would be best suited to stay in Wasilla.

Mr. McCain has tried for some time, since the start of his campaign really, to distance himself from the negative image that people have of republicans because of George Bush, but is unfortunately making the same mistakes that Bush made when he "appointed so many incompetents because they were sound on Roe v Wade." (Economist.com) Smart move John.

So while the republicans criticize a man who has opted for experience, merit and pure strength of character in his selection of Joe Biden, and choose a gun-toting pro-life soon to be grandmother (what's the literary device in there?), the American people are watching and are paying close attention. I guess all that's left to say will come form the President Obama's office in the form of a big 'Thank you' letter addressed to John McCain.

But what do i know? I'm just a 21 year old college student from Jamaica. Read more!

Me on politics; What do i know anyways?

So i found out that blogging is a kool way to say what you want to say, whatever it is you want to say and you never have to face the consequences of your actions because in truth, no one should have to face any repercussions for stating their opinions; that with freee speech and all made into our human privilege!

That said, i think i may now take the time out to state my expert and well-informed stance on the current American Presidential Race.............wait for it............ I THINK JOHN McCAIN IS AN ASS!!! Either that or he foresaw something that i and i'm sure, more than half the american population failed to see in his selection of a running mate.

I'm sure that Sarah is a very nice person and probably has some strong traits and characteristics that would make her fit for the VP position should, God forbid, John McCain win the presidential race! But i see thru it and the world see's through it that this is nothing more than a cheap shot at Barrack Obama for his Wise Decision to reject Hilary Clinton as his running mate.

Apparently McCain feels that by his selection he is being sympathetic toward a distressed gender who have never really gotten the chance to show what they can do given the right opportunity and maybe in so doing he would secure the voters and delegates that were sympathetic towards Hilary Clinton. Hello!!! Does the name Condoleezza Rice ring a bell? Or would it be more correct if i called her Mrs. Bush? Or maybe Monica Lewinsky would be a more familiar name to us all! I don't mean to sound the chauvinist but we have seen what women can do given the chance.

And maybe Johnny failed to see the wisdom in Barrack's decision but America lauds him for not playing the hypocrite and choose the person who has been his rival since the start of the elections and who has been the epitome of what a dirty politician is!

Thumbs up to Barrack and McCain, I hope you're not relying on cheap shots like those to win the Presidential race because if you are, my friend it will be a long ride back home when the President is announced. Maybe you could join one of those tours that they have at the White House or suddenly come down with Prostate Cancer and make it your dying wish to Sit in the President's Chair.

I wish you all the best and i hope that America votes with their head and not with their hearts cause you'll feel it later all over! Read more!