From the dark side of the Moon,
Seeing the angle of doom,
Rectifying all that is out of tune,
Symbolizing all that is buried under dune.

From the bleeding skin of Mars,
I stand to see the stars,
Perfected in the blank sky as a street full of cars,
Flickering in the almost motionless world of the universe’s Czar.

Standing within the spot of Jupiter,
Being dragged around by winds like a drifter,
There is no end to the twister,
Jupiter is the tempter and the victor.

Spinning from the rings of Saturn,
I gaze at their pattern,
Squinting my eyes at the light of a faraway lantern,
Gaining the remembrance of a sound in nocturne.

Although I never passed Mercury,
It seems as it is like the sun’s child as it is so clingy,
As the night falls Mercury disappears like luxury,
And appears again in the day with temperatures full of fury.

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus,
Both combined create a race that is yet continuous,
Under Venus’ barrier is volcanic activity that is genus,
Louder than the construction of experienced machinists.

The bluest sea in the solar system is owned by Neptune,
Discovered through mathematical tune,
Similar to Jupiter it contains a monsoon,
With considerable mass comparable to a balloon.

Many jokes pass around about Uranus,
Mythology holds him as the father of Cronus,
Tilted on its side like a vertical minus,
It creates winds as devastating as dendroctonus.

It is only on Earth,
Where I was born through human birth,
I travel through the galaxy to unearth,
Secrets to science that are priceless in worth.

This far away I miss the Sun,
In the galaxy its power has every other star outdone,
Scorching heat causes everything to run,
As the night falls the Sun’s effects are undone.

Edging slowly towards Pluto,
In the cold and distant space beyond Neptune’s chateau,
My ashes lie in wait purely gung-ho,
2015 will be the date I say ‘Hello’.

Tiger what happened? You went from a simple car crash to media frenzy and the front page of CNN.com in less then 24 hours, well if you don’t know the story by now let me wrap it up for you with these simple bullet points.

• Tiger crashes car (minor crash, wasn’t traveling over 30)
• Praised wife for getting him out of car (smashed windows supposedly to “Save Him”)
• Car was hardly damaged, the drivers side was fine  (no signs of him not being able to get out)
• Less then 48 hours later, an affair story leaks out
• Turns this whole situation into a mess
• Tiger swiftly gives apology and says affair has gone on for 2 1/2 years

I don’t know who to feel more bad for Tiger for having this affair story come out at a very bad time, or his wife who has been cheated on for two and a half years. Not only has Tiger lost some of that perfect athlete reputation, he has also been ridiculed in the way of several YouTube videos and a few new advertisements. I personally don’t really care about Tiger’s affair I’m just more worried of how his image is somewhat damaged after a car crash and a tabloid publishing a true story for once. Sure I feel bad for Tiger’s wife, but reports have circulated that she’s confronted the person Tiger had an affair with. So Im sure this was already known a little before this incident, so I don’t feel like she’s been in the dark the whole time.

Now let’s just hope this doesn’t turn out to be the Alex Rodriguez  if you remember right that Alex unlike Tiger was actually seen with prostitutes first in Toronto in 2007. Then about a year later they separated, and a mere seven months later and A-Rod who was at the aimed to be the clean home run leader in the Major League Baseball had been caught. He admitted to anabolic steroid use or basically cheating in baseball, now I’m just saying it seems a little similar to Tiger’s story except without the exception of a car crash. You just got to pray that a similar story doesn’t happen to Tiger. I know it may not be the most convincing argument but I got a hunch it could go that way.

It is sad but true, Movember has come to an end. Laurier Brantford’s Movember team has successfully raised more than $500 towards the cause.

Let us not mourn the end of Movember, but welcome the entrance of December!

As I promised last time, I will post my Movember pictures. Before AND after!

And that is Movember, ladies and gentlemen. I can’t wait for Movember 2010, be ready for it!

min⋅a⋅ret

–noun a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.

(from Dictionary.com)

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On the 29th of November, Switzerland voted to ban the new construction of minarets. The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has put forth this proposal, claiming that minarets are a symbol of “Islamisation.”

57% of the votes and 22 out of 26 provinces voted in favour of the ban. The government has opposed the ban in the preset that it would harm Switzerland’s image, especially in the Muslim world.

Martin Baltisser, the SVP’s general secretary said, “This was a vote against minarets as symbols of Islamic power.”  This vote is believed to stop the threat of radical fundamentalism.

Islam is the second biggest religion in Switzerland after Christianity, with 400, 000 Muslim citizens and there are only four minarets in the whole country. Proposals to build more minarets are almost always refused.

Supporters believe that the minaret is a symbol of Islamic power and hope to stop the growth of Sharia Law which may try to supplement Swiss democracy.

Many believe that this campaign has been incited by hatred. Amnesty International has said that the vote violated freedom of religion.

Elham Manea, co-founder of the Forum for a Progressive Islam said this about what the vote represents towards Muslims, “It’s a message that you are not welcome here as true citizens of this society.”

‘Despicable’

I find this vote to be absolutely absurd and definitely incited by hatred towards Islam and its followers. Minarets a symbol of Islamic power? That’s the most the hilarious thing I’ve heard since a man said that America won the Vietnam war.

As a Muslim, I can clearly say that minarets are not a symbol of Islamic power. And building more does not mean that there is “Islamisation” going on. Are the Swiss really that idiotic?

Clearly, this vote is nothing but hatred against Muslims, saying that they do not belong anywhere in Europe. This violates freedom of religion!

Churches can have all sorts of stained glass and towers, but mosques cannot have even the smallest minaret? If this is not hatred towards Islam then what is it?

Europe is fearing something that does not exist, Islam is not trying to take over. Muslims are just trying to practice their religion as is decreed by the Qur’an. Yes, there is radical fundamentalism going on, but it is by the smallest amount of radicals that shouldn’t be feared.

If minarets are banned first, then Hijabs will be banned, soon the sale and purchase of Qur’ans will be banned, and then what next? Muslims will be banned from travelling to Europe altogether?

If creating such laws and banning freedoms continues like this, then obviously radical fundamentalism will be on the rise. There is no doubt that more extremism will continue.

Switzerland and Europe had created an extreme of its own, and radical Muslims are using their own form of extremism to combat the first. It’s like fighting fire with fire.

I only hope that this ban is appealed before “Islamophobia” is dramatically rises ever more.

Now I’m sure we’ve all been hearing about the new president of the European Union. It’s the biggest news that has hit tabloids around the world. Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy was chosen as the president of the EU. Rompuy officially beings his new post on December 1.

He has landed a powerful job, one that some could argue reflects the power and jurisdiction of the American president. Yet, what is the real difference between the two most powerful leaders in the world? There are a few main differences, and I’ve found that an article on the BBC’s News website describes it best.

Check out the following link, and see who is more powerful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8363297.stm

The wife of 68 year old David Roberts posed as a young girl in a chat room to catch her husband approaching girls. Through her suspicions, 61 year old Cheryl Roberts was able to catch her husband and had called the police. Police seized Roberts’ computer and found various cases of illegal child porn images.

As Roberts’ was talking to the “so-called” 14 year old girl, he had no idea that the girl was actually his wife chatting with him from a different computer in the house.

David Roberts has been charged with a three year community order and has been prohibited having access to persons 18 years and younger.

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Chris Hansen, look out. You’re not the only one who can catch a predator.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8357454.stm

Welcome to the month of Movember! The one greatest month in the year succeeding October and preceding December! Now you might be asking: “Don’t you mean November?”

Ha, ha, ha! Not at all, silly! It’s Movember! The month where men all around the world cultivate their pride and glory under their nose.

Movember is an annual event that spans the complete month of November, when men and even women, grow their mustaches in support prostate cancer.

On the first of November everyone starts clean shaven and grows their mustache from then on until the end of November.

The whole point is to create awareness of prostate cancer and raise funds in order to put in research to this cancer that attacks men everywhere. Movember started in Australia in 1999, and now it has spanned internationally.

I myself am participating in this event! It has been a little over a week and I already look a lot like my dad (and a Mexican – no offense =P). I will be documenting my wonder lip-tickler growth and posting the final result at the end – so please look forward to that!

If you would like to support the cause and donate towards it, please help me and my team out by donating at the following link:

http://ca.movember.com/mospace/433054/

Misleading title is meant to be a little misleading but I assure you this has to do with several athletes. It started off with the Calgary Flames jumping the line so them and their families could get the H1N1 vaccine early. Now they shouldn’t even be getting considering the H1N1 shot was for priority groups only, but the likes of Jarome Iginla, and Dion Phanuef have become priority. Those priorities to the H1N1 shot include pregnant women, children between the age of 6 months and 5 years, people under the age of 65 with chronic conditions and those living in remote communities. Now I thought that this would be the only time we heard of a sports team jumping the line so to speak.

But, today it was reported both the Toronto Raptors, and the Toronto Maple Leafs had athletes receive the shot now this is just plain outrageous considering the suspected death of a two month old baby by H1N1. The Maple Leafs should feel even more disgraced to the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario especially with their mediocre start to the NHL season. Seriously these athletes are making more then a million a year for most of them, and I think any one of the athletes who went early should be fined. Maybe $10,000 dollars or some amount that seems feasible because their are tons of people who get seriously ill and could die. They didn’t deserve their shots early its as simple as that.

Sort of a late response to this excellent news but I thought I’d cover it anyway. I’m very happy to see that the president of the US of A has boycotted one of the many poisons that inflicts America everyday. I’m talking about Fox News. From pundits like Glenn Beck to Bill O’rielly, Fox News is a mess of uncharted propaganda meant to send everything to Hell.

I am absolutely appalled over the fact that it took the president to say something against Fox News about its credibility before the media and everyday citizens took upon that fact. It just goes to show how the media cannot function independently.

A specific angle of the media has come back to haunt Obama’s boycott, that is now criticizing his words. These mostly speak about how Fox News can do just about whatever it wants, and that Obama boycotting them is wrong; something that apparently goes “against free speech.” I find this quite ridiculous because, I swear free speech means that you can say just about anything about well, anything.

I agree with Obama’s choice, and I am happy to see that someone at the top is taking action against the despicable people behind Fox News. Perhaps now people will come to realize what sort of BS Fox News is spouting to them everyday, and hopefully people don’t swallow it all up as factual debate.

The sooner Fox News is realized as a decrepit comedy channel like Onion News, the sooner the world might come to peace.

I have realized since the beginning of summer that it is hard to live a life of insane amounts of, well no sleep. You could say it was as an idiot mistake to make to assume that 30 minutes to an hour of sleep to last me 40 hours would be a bad idea. But I still went through with it, because the facts are I just didn’t sleep and half the time I couldn’t. It all started in September when my bed broke, I was sleeping on the couch and eventually just took my mattress and stuck it straight on the floor of my basement bedroom. Note to self, it was even colder only a 50cm difference between the bed and the floor it was terrible I found myself wrapped in blankets and sheets even though it was warm throughout the house. It didn’t take long before not sleeping effected the way I acted in school a lot of people assumed I was dead half the time.

It didn’t take long before I fell asleep in class, the feeling of waking up at the end of class not knowing what the homework had been and having people saying that only a couple of people noticed I had fallen asleep. Listening to music from the likes of Lou Reed to Breaking Benjamin to Mos Def I just had a hard time running my everyday life, I’d doze off out of nowhere. Felt like I woke up in a different place but in fact I was the same place I was when I fall asleep it was like the protagonist in Fight Club. I could say it a million times that I wasn’t tired but my body was simply shutting down half the time and I would try ignore the feeling that seemed to always kick in. At almost exactly eleven a.m. I would feel a feeling of tiredness to move my legs to move anything and even on school days this was very annoying.

Then it happened a moment of realization, last week on Thursday when my school had an early release day (meaning we get out 4 hours earlier) I had totally blanked out after having a shower, I woke up like five o’clock in the afternoon my eyes heavier then how my legs had felt. I looked at the clock and literally yelled the word “Fuck” Three times, I had missed not one but two tests and it was a moment that the insomnia had gotten me, it had made me stay up and it had made me fall asleep in the morning. My dad had thought I was dead nearly, alarm ringing all day my phone going off as well with about 20ish text messages missed. It was terrible and that was the day I decided I should change for the better of things, to put an end to the insomnia once and for all.

But the other fucked up thing was when I tried to go to sleep, by reading countless articles on WikiHow almost like self help articles I had conquered it averaging about 8 hours of sleep on the weekdays and 12 on the weekends (which is way too much) But I’m glad that I can finally carry out a conversation without nodding off, I still look dead in the morning. But Im secretly a zombie, so it’s all good.