New project

So ignore that last post, that was crazy talk. No one is actually reading this, but I have a new project for the National Novel Writing Month. It's on my other blog: integrityvalourfaith.blogspot.com check it out. Then I might continue with the post here.

What Canadians need most

I apologize for taking so long to update, but life is busy. I promise that for October I will update at least every week.

But now, I have to get this out, get this off my chest: Canada needs to participate more in the great debate. Canadians need to hear all sides of the story, to know the good and the bad. What is the great debate? It's the discussion everyone is involved in when they discuss, debate, argue, and talk about what the good-life is, about how to live best, how to govern and be governed. It includes philosophy, politics, morality and economy.

Well, these days we have competing ideas and theories about our economy, about political policy, and about how to live you personal life according to your personal morality, and there's a lot of misinformation out there. Like how a planned economy can smooth out the economic roller coaster, and to a degree it does, but only by making everyone equally poor. Or that free enterprise is a system only for greedy materialistic type folk, and the poor will be left in the dust; that's only sometimes true, but I call that capitalism.

The point is that Canadians need a national forum, a televised forum, where experts from all sides and all spectrum's and all walks of life debate and discuss the key issues facing Canada, and include normal Canadians, people like you and me who aren't experts, but know what sounds good and are primarily concerned with protecting their families and way of life. If we don't get this forum, then the government will go on making policies that will harm our families and create a socialist nation with limited freedoms, dependent on the state, and no real family relationships.

Spread the word. Join the debate.

The Jewish Chronicle - Frankel House send governor bill to divest Pa funds from Iran Sudan

The Jewish Chronicle - Frankel House send governor bill to divest Pa funds from Iran Sudan

Follow this link, it's heartening news. I don't have much more to say about it, except that it makes me so mad that people don't do everything they can to prevent this. Yes, some of that anger is turned on myself.

I wish I was more elegant and could say all that I feel on this subject, especially right now, at a moments notice. Everyone should read the book An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina, or you might recognize him this way: it's the autobiography of the man that the movie Hotel Rwanda is all about. It's an intimate look at what genocide is, and how humanity is failing one another in letting this continue.

This is not an elegant speech or a call to specific action, at least not yet, but it is a start. It's a cry for awareness, it's an attempt to let people know that we have to do something, because everything is not OK. Come on people, this should be at the top if the international to do list.

By way of introduction

I am a Canadian, but I am also an American. At least legally. I have lived on both sides of the border long enough to be qualified to comment on life in both countries. At the same time, I feel like paraphrasing Aristotle and declare that I am neither Canadian, or American, but a citizen of the World. Maybe I'm all three; thats for the reader to decide.

Here, I intend to poke and prod at the social conscious, to awaken people to a sense of greatness and service, to inspire action and help direct that action to the areas that need it most. I am one part activist, one part social entrepreneur, one part statesman in training, and 100% willing to do what it takes to make a change for the better is this world. Stick around, you might just see something worth reading. And in reading you might just learn something.