Mari2007's blog

Do people take free speech too far? Yes. Would I want to censor some people? Yes. Should we censor free speech? No, because once you start censoring people, the lines of what can be sensored and what can't start to blend. So as the old saying goes, I don't always agree with what your saying, but I'll fight like hell for your right to say it. And so will the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech rights Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.”  Read More »

Or a Alzheimer's Awareness Day. Or a Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Or a Poverty Awareness Week. Or even an Arbor Day.

These are important issues that should be talked about throughout the year. Yes, most intellectual people talk about them throughout the year. But when major networks show a commercial about AIDS one day a year and think that they have done their job, then we have a problem.  Read More »

Okay, we all know who the richest human being is (in case you don't its Bill Gates). But do you know who is the richest character. No probably not. But Forbes has taken a break from its other lists, like Vodka Cocktails we love and the most Expensive diseases, to inform us of what we really want to know: Who the richest fictional character this year. So here it is and tell me your favorites or the characters that should have made the list.  Read More »

New Hampshire announced plans Wednesday to become the first state to offer the new cervical-cancer vaccine free to all girls. Beginning in January, the vaccine against the human papilloma virus, or HPV, will be provided to girls ages 11 through 18 as part of a state program that offers various immunizations to children at no cost.

The program is paid for by the federal government and insurance companies.  Read More »

Africa is a nation that unfortunatly has to deal with a lot of problems, problems that we couldn't even begin to address in the United States. But instead of helping Africa, we choose to ignore it. Some people even say that we shouldn't do anything about it and jst focus on our nation. Our government seems to also be ignoring the problems in Africa, choosing to go to places that offer them something better. But I would like to remind everybody of thing we wouldn't have if it weren't for Africa  Read More »

I think we can all agree that Africa is a continant that has to deal with a lot of problems. Africa is the world's poorest inhabited continent. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report in 2003, the bottom 25 ranked nations were all African nations. This poverty has widespread effects, including lower life expentancy, violence, and instability, factors intertwined with the continent's poverty. On top of that, they have to deal with genocide and areas that still have slavery. Many diseases effect the continent, including AIDS and most of the countrys deal with their people being undernourishment.  Read More »

Before I started bloging on this website, I had never been called ignorant in my life. In fact, teachers and adults had marvaled at my knowledge of most subjects.

But when I said we should ban smoking, I was ignorant. When I said there should be an age limit for driving, ignorant. And when I said I think people just need to shutup about the war in Iraq, guess what? I was IGNORANT!!!!

But here is a little tip for you; just because a person doesn't agree with you on an issue doesn't mean that they are ignorant. No, that just means that they don't agree with you on an issue. They could be just as informed as you, just as intellegent, have read the same books, seen the same stories and heard the same people. Just because they came up with a different opinion does not make them ignorant.  Read More »

While I was looking at the films coming out soon, I found a film called Bobby. I heard of the film before, one commercials and various shows. But while I read the reviews for the movie, a came across one of the reviews  by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Time. In the review, he said "Bobby does a solid job of telling one generation what the world was like in the summer of 1968, and reminding another generation of a time when they believed a politician could change the world." I don't know why but for some reason that made me think.  Read More »