Jerusalem VS Peace

Would you give up the thing that mattered most to you to do the right thing? Israel is faced with this decision now with the new peace talks with the Palestinians. Olmert is willing to throw in pieces of Jerusalem to the Palestinians in order to make this peace talk a reality. Not the old city of coarse, he's talking about areas that are already primarily Muslim and very few Jewish lives would be effected by this. I understand why some people believe the Palestinians are beyond talking, but if it works I can't see how those people can put together a fair argument.

The bigger question which everyone must ask is what is really more important: Jerusalem or Peace? I mean Jerusalem is important to everyone, but does its importance outway the posibility of peace? Could Jerusalems ultimate purpose be to sacrifice itself in order to give all citizens a chance to come together? Is Jerusalem worth all the countless innocent deaths that its very exsistence has caused?

Obama: Please...Please...Please

You can have Edwards if you want someone so calm that he could tell you the world was about to blow up and you'd be in a good mood. Clinton is such a good speaker that she knows exactly what to say without even saying anything. This leaves the best Democratic candidate since Bill Clinton who seems to be a strong leader and is doing it be a democratic leader instead of a politician with prejudice. Someone who understood the effects of the Iraq war while Edwards and Clinton voted to start a war that bankrupted the country. America needs Barak Obama to re-establish the reasons America was established. America needs Obama to stop spreading Islam-phobia and start working to make peace with enemies of free nations.

America...please please please pick Barak Obama

Canadian Senate as Useful as a Broken Zipper

Today leader of the NDP, Jack Layton spoke out against the Canadian senate saying that he believed it should be abolished. This accusation of a high standing branch of Canadian Parliament calls the real effectiveness of having a senate intact. The American Senate helps to create a harmonious balance of powers which keeps the American government in check. Canada's senate has never been much more than a waist of tax payers money and there is a big push in Ottawa to have it abolished.

The larger issue in question is if Canada should be looking to strengthen its own balance of powers like the American Senate does. After all the only security to keep a government in check is having a minority government, and then only half of Canadian issue's are addressed. Ultimately I theorize that the Canadian senate will not last long, but the issue of balance of powers goes untouched in this country, which should be looked at more democratically.