Thou Does Protest

This year has been the year of protesting. The Arab spring in the Middle East and Northeast Africa and now the protest on Wall Street. It makes me wonder what I should be doing and how can I help in the protesting of the world. Maybe I can join in the Wall Street protest or maybe I can start a protest against something else. Being a Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, and Joan Baez lover, protesting is deeply rooted in my soul. I look back to the 60s and maybe they weren't the most moral people, but they weren't afraid to stand up for their beliefs. I want to model their bravery. I want to stand up for what is right.

I want to stand up against the big businesses running our country. I want to stand up for the illegal immigrants who are treated like they are some horrible criminals. I want to stand up for the people who have no voice in this world. I want to be a Bob Dylan or a Martin Luther King Jr. I want to stand with the people who are standing against whatever negative thing that may be suppressing others. Here is my protest, "It's Time to Stand Up and Do What is Right" harmonica C range. I just have to work out the kinks. Am I the next Bob Dylan? AMEN to that!!!!

Penn State: What I Think, or Don't Think

I will once again steer from my usual format of my blog. This week I want to address the Penn State sex scandal. Most people have been giving their opinions on the Penn State sex scandal and what should and should not happen. However, I don't care to put in my two cents. All I care about are the victims. Who cares about the president of the school, the athletic director, or the coaches? Those men are old and had their careers already. They already had full lives full of many good memories, I'm sure. But the same cannot be said for the victims of this horrible tragedy.

The victims of this whole Penn State ordeal will always be affect by what Jerry Sandusky did. As a Christian Catholic I cannot just call him a monster like some many do. I want no man to die in sin, nor do I want any man to burn in Hell. I hope he repents for what he done, and asking forgiveness, true forgiveness,  is a personal thing. It does not matter how many times he apologizes, unless he truly feels sorry for what he has done, there will be no salvation for him. 

Everyone involved in this Penn State scandal do not need any more hate thrown towards them. We should instead pray for them all. We should especially pray for the victims, whom have to live with what happened to them for the rest of their lives. Let us also pray for the men who covered up this horrible scandal, and Jerry Sandusky, no not because they deserve it, but because it is the right thing to do. We do not need to worry about judging this situation, that must be left up to the courts and most importantly, GOD. So, lets forget about pointing fingers and blaming, and let's start instead praying and trying to heal the hearts of those who were taking advantage of, because they sure could use our support and LOVE.

My Who's Who List

After getting a revelation from the woman I dressed up as for Halloween, Dian Fossey, reviewing the list of Forbes list of the World's most powerful people of 2011, and partly due to my want to copy the Beatles' awesome collage of influences on their great album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I wanted to take a more serious and personal tone in my blog and make a collage of some of the most influential people in my life.

Here is the list of people who have made me who I am today, or my Vanity List, in no particular order:
Dian Fossey, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, St. Augustine, Dorothy Day, Steven Irwin, Woody Allen, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Mary Mother of God, Peter Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, John F. Kennedy, St. Theresa of Lisieux, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc, St. Thomas Aquinas, BETH CHRISTIAN, Truman Capote, St. Francis of Assisi, Richard Nixon, St. Catherine of Siena, Moses, Abraham, Janis Joplin, Herman Melville, Pope John Paul II, Stephen Hawking, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, St. Agnes, Thomas Jefferson, Pope Gregory the Great, St. Dominic Savio, H.G. Wells, Gene Wilder, St. Peter, Albert Einstein, St. Paul, Harriet Tubman, Marilyn Monroe, FDR,  Stephen Hawking, Neil Young, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Mel Brooks, Noah, Elijah the Prophet, Aretha Franklin, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, Barbra Streisand, Tom Hanks, Mick Foley, Will Ferrell, Chris Matthews, John McCain, Mary Magdalene, Robert F. Kennedy, St. Don Bosco, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andy Warhol, Henry David Thoreau, my mother, JESUS CHRIST. AMEN