Thursday, November 28, 2013

Gobble, gobble, gobble!


To all my American readers have a happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a day filled with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and family. Thanksgiving is my favorite holidays and I hope you guys have a good one!

Monday, November 18, 2013

Marco Rubio, Hope Gone Sour


At his election in 2010 Marco Rubio looked like hope for the Republican Party. A well-spoken, Latino man, beloved by the Tea Party and supported by the Republican establishment. Whispers of a second Barack Obama were heard and even the future Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, campaigned for him. The Republicans needed a high profile Latino and the well-spoken Rubio certainly was it.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Martine Aubry, Prime Minister.


Well, it seems that the shoe has dropped for Jean Marc Ayerault, after one of the MPs of the PS called for a change of the head of government on public television, the path to his dismissal began. After a fruitless meeting between Ayeraut and the PS MPs, to try and end the current intra-party rift, shocking news were revealed.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The sad saga of Francois Hollande


The president of the French Republic is certainly a person to pity and feel for. He took over a country that was in a bad economy, a crisis exasperated by the fact that the entire European continent is doing wrong. His promised change and reform have yet to materialize.

Philippines


Typhoon Haiyan has wrecked and caused a lot of damage in the Philippines. 11 million people were affected by the typhoon, 660,00 people are homeless and thousands are dead. The country is struggling with crisis on all sides. They have displaced people, destruction, a rising death toll and a public health emergency, words words cannot express how terrible of a situation the country is in or the suffering on the ground. People are hungry, people need shelter and they also need medication. Pray for them an please make sure to donate for the various charities that are helping on the ground. It is in times like this that we should all come together as citizen of the world and help one another.

Here are organizations you can donate to:

Philippine Red Cross
International Medical Corps
UNICEF

Monday, November 11, 2013

Veterans Day!


Today we celebrate the people who served in the United States Armed forces and honor their service. The members of United States Armed Forces fought and are still fighting to preserve our safety and the freedoms that we enjoy. They are heroes and the work that they do is remarkable! Keep them in your prayers today and may we as a nation take better care of them!

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Legalized


Illinois is now the 15th State in the Nation to have passed marriage equality laws. The lawmakers have passed the law and the governor has pledged to sign it. Illinoid joins a growing list of States that achieved marriage equality this year like: Minnesota, Rhode Island and Delaware and New Jersey. States that are sure to join this momentum are: Hawaii, which has the measure already passed by the State Senate, and Nevada, with a pending lawsuit in the State's Supreme Court.

It is stunning to see the reversal that has happened in the past few years. It was not to long ago that States all around were implementing same sex marriage bans in their constitutions, as matter of fact 30 states passed those laws, but it seems that the momentum has ended, the direction this country is heading in is definitely more positive towards gay marriage, as many of the teenagers who couldn't vote are growing up and polls continue to show their overwhelming support for marriage equality. So the support is likely to continue increasing.

I would also like to add that since the supreme court stroke DOMA down, marriage equality is the defacto law of the land. The federal government will recognize marriages that were conducted in marriage equality states and provide benefits even if the couple in question resides in another state. There is also the fact that federal law supersedes state laws. The rest is really all semantics, this country is firmly in the path for full marriage equality in all the land and it will not go back.