Friday, October 19, 2007

Seriously....how misguided can people be?

Life in Foreign can get QUITE incredible at times, when I try to think about what might have happened at home given the same circumstances. I mean, the things people try to do here for the sake of being forward-thinking. Imagine some place in San Francisco providing a facility, with clean syringes, and staffed with nurses, for drug addicts to go shoot up! All under the premise of supervision preventing deaths from overdoses! You know? If anything "goes wrong" there's nurses on hand. It's also meant to provide a clean environment to prevent spreading disease by needle-sharing.

Check out this article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/16/BA78SQEG7.DTL


Umm... forgive me if I'm thinking too much ahead here but aren't drugs of that sort illegal? And isn't anyone thinking of using this funding (cuz this stuff certainly can't be free) for additional rehab/detox centers? Maybe I just can't wrap my little mind around this one... or maybe I shoulda waited to write this one, cool off and think. Maybe there are benefits. Maybe they do prevent OD's. Maybe they do get addicts to come in to detox after a while. Maybe, well no, I CAN see how it actually would prevent passing on diseases through dirty needles. But still, this is really the only avenue our great minds could have found to combat this problem?

C'mon now...

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

is there nothing better to spend money on?!?

Ok so its been two months since my last post and its been REALLY busy and at the same time alot of time wasting around here without the structure of school in my life any more. So I dont suppose this was the post I expected to mark my return to blogging but this is what happens when you end up wathcing history channel late at night:

Does anyone realise how much money is being spent on MARS EXPLORATION?!?!?! BILLIONS AND BILLIONS and may I say BILLIONS of dollars!! Now I don't mean to be cliche but there are still in fact starving people on THIS planet that maybe deserve some attention.

"well you know, there may be some water on there that may support life"
"in the future when we get there, we plan to make it more like earth by warming it up with greenhouse gases"
Yep thats what the man said: "we're doing it here right now!" go warm up Mars with carbon emmissions.


All the while I'm thinking all this money being spent on a fantasy, a theory, for the sake of curiosity! Following in the wake of Galileo, trying to touch the thing in the other end of the telescope. yeah sure its one of THE unique traits of human beings to be curious, but seriously! how we prioritise sometimes............