It was on the CNN ticker on Wednesday that the actor, Sean Penn, has won a special award for his performance in a movie about a homosexual man named, Milk. According to the story, Mr. Milk was a flamboyant homosexual man who gained public office in a famous city in California. Mr. Milk was tragically murdered while in office.
Many in America, who know the power of the homosexual lobby, have already conceded that the movie about Mr. Milk will win many awards. The gays and their sympathizers smell bonanza. Yap, the homosexuals, and those legions who have gone soft on their bad behavior (those who believe that that “lifestyle” deserves respect, should be called “respectable”), have very high hopes that the story of Mr. Milk will make deep inroads, make the rest of us go soft and open the closet door.
Not so fast. I have read a review of the movie by one of America’s leading critics, and…there is a screaming flaw in the plot. So, this is to tell you, rest easy, no sweat; they ain’t going no way with this latest attempt to seduce young people.
The local television operators will be all over Milk when it reaches cable. But I doubt I will watch that movie. They’ll push it, insert graphic scenes, and that will make me upset. I don’t watch movies that glorify violence for youth either. Movies that package traps for young people are not good.
We can’t have too big a quarrel with moviemakers about their art, but movies that could impact malleable minds in a way contrary to the society’s design should be severely restricted. Milk will come with obvious scenes depicting homosexuality, so it should get an “X” rating. Movies that glorify violence should also get an “X” rating.
There is a serious flaw in the message in the story about Milk. The homosexuals and their sympathizers think they have scored, but the goal will be on them. If you can’t wait, if you want all the low down on this movie now, go Google and see what’s their latest game. We’ll get to the rest of the story when it splashes down in our country.
UDP frayd fu empowered SenateUDP frayd fu
I don’t have a UDP 2008 manifesto in my possession and I don’t have access to internet at my home (only at internet café), so I can’t look it up on their web site right now…but I can put my head on the block that the “empowered Senate” was a vital part of the UDP pledge to Belize.
Now the UDP could argue that this one here who is complaining did not vote for them (I voted VIP)…but this was their pledge to the nation…that if they won they would introduce the empowered Senate. Well, we hear about the UDP drilling for oil on the reef, and introducing windfall tax, and paving Albert Street. But this simplest of tasks, one they are committed to do, has them in contortions.
Years ago the PUP promised in one of their manifestos filled with “love” for us, that they would allow for citizens to access information about public business…something called the Freedom of Information Act, I think. At the midnight hour, just before they dissolved the House (5 years after us giving them power to do what they promised), the FIA was passed. See, our sincere political leaders fulfilled their election promise! The UDP is about to play us the same rotten way.
Check it, the UDP is quite likely also in favor of that chaotic idea called the elected Senate…when they are not in government. The elected Senate is a politicians’ bonus baby. The more seats up for grabs, and the more elections, the greater the chances for them to hold on to some sweets. See how the old PUP jumped on the elected Senate when the writing on the wall said they were going to be booted from the House.
The empowered Senate is much better for Belize than the elected Senate. The UDP is afraid of it!
The blue coat wolves in the Senate have no interest, and the red coat tigers in the Senate, it is their turn to play games. We have to depend on two of the three serious wise men who have the nation’s ear, Senators Henry Gordon and Godwin Hulse, to speak out on the matter. They had other ideas about the Senate…but nobody ever voted for their plan. Gentlemen, you are sitting in a bogus House. The people voted for an empowered Senate. The NGO’s have their senator-in-waiting. The people voted.
There are borders, even in heaven
I don’t know wherefrom Mr. Uh Luna got the idea that all was so hunky-dory in Mayaland (Amandala #2304). Yes, the tribes worked shoulder to shoulder for the benefit of all, and whatever we had we shared among ourselves and to those of other communities…BUT, who said there were no selfish border lines, just as how there are no borders for the wind, birds, animals…? Wow!
In his 101 Questions and Answers About The Ancient Maya of Belize, Dr. Jaime Awe blows that myth away. In Point 17 on page 8, Dr. Awe states that “several sites had fortifications around them” and “Painted murals at the Mexican sites of Bonampak, Chichen Itza, Tulum and others in the Yucatan also depict vivid scenes of the Maya in battle,” and “In Belize, several carved monuments record regular battles between Caracol and its western neighbors such as Tikal, Naranjo, Ucanal and Bital.”
There are always borders; there are always borders. If you don’t have a fence around your yard, you have a door to “border” out others from entering your home. The birds of the air defend their nests with their lives; the animals in the forests fight tooth and nail to keep their lairs free of outsiders; and in the sea small fishes hide among the rocks on the reef to save themselves from bigger fishes. Everything under the sun that walks, swims, or flies is territorial.
The Mayas had borders. Maybe they were not in the same places we find them now (The old North American Indian in the book Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee said: Everything changes, only the earth remains), but they had defined “territory” which they protected from other tribes.
In a world where there are no borders, there are no wars…no fights…no quarrels. Desafortunadamente no existe tal lugar, Nirvana, aún no en los cielos. The big war in heaven, when God dispatched Lucifer to hell, was fought because Mr. Diablo overreached his borders, pushed himself into God’s space.