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Empirically speaking, the
United States is bound to 'fall from power.' Not necessarily to third world status, but from of the position as 'The World Power.' As the Greeks, the Romans, Alexander, and the Pharaohs lost their status by letting the power get to their heads, so shall we (historically speaking only). We, US citizens, like to claim that we are smarter and that because we elect our leaders, and are not under a tyranny that is bound to be overthrown at some point, we will always be a world power. True, to a certain extent. But even democracies have fallen- who’s to say it will not happen to us? Especially if our nation continues to be so divided?  Read More »

Everyone seemed to enjoy my last post about the official rules of ProgressiveU IE specifically what will happen if you try in any way to cheat or change the direction of the contest (which in my book is CHEATING). So I decided after requests to post another outlining what is acceptable to post on, and what is generally not, as outlined in the website FAQ so that A) everyone reads it and B) non one else has to look for it as hard as I did. LOL! So onward we go! What are acceptable topics to post about on Progressive U . . .  Read More »

Because there have been so many disputes regarding the legitimacy of posts and their content, I did some research on the official rules of the contest. Here is what I came up with; actual evidence that those bloggers who try to circumvent the rules of the contest will be disqualified and can actually be prosectued by Progressive U. Click to read more if you are interested in what the official rules say.  Read More »

If Americans were asked to list the top three most terrifying issues facing the United States today, most people would undoubtedly chose terrorism, oil, and the fear of other nations becoming nuclear powers. However there are other issues that are just as important that are bipassed and should not be. What about world hunger, poverty, and over population. Did you know that every three seconds a child under five dies of diesase of malnutrition (link)? While adoption agencies in the United States have come a long way in terms of sanitation and trying to provide children with safe stable families, other countries have not. Perhaps it is the fact that the United States in not plagued by these problems that Americans do not realize the extent of the problem. When was the last time you actually stopped to watch a 'save the starving children of Africa' infomercial. I know they are annoying, but think about my earlier statistic. That is an awful lot of children dying when those more fortunate could be doing something to prevent the destruction of those children's lives.  Read More »

Okay, we all post on here how we are tired of those people who over blog and how we need to find a way to stop it. Most of us dedicated (but not overly, lol) bloggers had come to the concession that no one reads their frivolous entries anyway and there is no way they ( the over bloggers) are going to win the contest because of the lack of reads, so we all need to calm down. BUT I am caling for help from all of you versus complaining as we have done in the past. Overblogging does become an issue when people are posting over 30 times a day. Yes, certain users are doing that. Most of us may have only posted 30 times in the last 2 months. SO it DOES MATTER! In the past reads were the most effective way to get points; but that is no longer true. Because the site has had so much traffic, posting is the only real way to get points, which encourages overblogging. But what can we do, short of calling out names and directly attacking said overbloggers? Start a boycott.  Read More »

Being from Kansas, I feel the need to comment on sex ed. in Kansas schools. This is less about the debate intrinsically related to Kansas and more about why abstinence based teaching could work if taught correctly.

I think abstinence until marriage needs to be highly stressed, I really do. I also think that if we had more people shoving it down our throats, then more kids would stay abstinent until marrigage. Its not the idea of teaching a 'zero tolerence' of sex before marriage policy that is the problem, its the time in our lives that it is taught. After middle school we do not have a sex ed class, and high school is when we really need to be learning about sex. In middle school I never listened in health because the idea of sex was weird and adult and uninteresting. I was not an odd child, I was popular and a cheerleader, but even my physically active friends were not having vaginal sex; they were discovering oral sex and fascinated with it instead. In fact those children who did have vaginal sex, even in eighth grade were shunned by their peers because EVERYONE knew that vaginal sex was not meant for children. I will say though that the risks of oral sex should be highly stressed in middle school as it is true that middle school is when children begin experimenting with it.  Read More »

Recently I posted about the vulgarity in the movie 'Team America' and pointed out that the widespread popularity of the movie proves that the level of morality in America has decreased exponentially and that I fear for society as a whole if this is the path we are headed on. Mostly, I got comments stating that the problem was my sense of humor, not society and that morality in society is doing 'just fine.' That raises the question, does everyone on here agree with the statements made by fellow bloggers? I need to lighten up? Does no one else care about the decline of morality in our society?  Read More »

Historically, the ‘church’ has been a place of asylum, meaning that those who feared their lives for some reason or another could find haven in the churches. Those seeking asylum could be harmed until they left the church, which they would have to at some point. It was not priests or nuns’ jobs to render aid to those seeking asylum in the church; only to let them into the church and allow them to stay as long as they needed. The idea of churches as asylums was respected even by the dirtiest of scoundrels. But can churches still be considered asylums today? Is the church still the respected establishment it once was? Apparently not according to Forbes report of “Update 7: Jury Convicts Priest of Nun's 1980 Murder.”   Read More »