Preliminary website for wedding
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve been engaged for almost 2 months already! The time really does go by fast. Pretty soon I’ll be getting married! But until then I’ll be working on the wedding plans with Darlene. One of my jobs is to get a website up where people can learn about Darlene and I and get some information about the wedding. I have a preliminary start on the website at Jon and Darlene’s Wedding Site Have a look and let me know what you think? The fun has only begun.
Wetland Field Trip!!!!
This term I am taking Geography 405 – Wetlands, and our major assignment is a group project where we have to evaluate whether a wetland should be deemed ‘provincially significant’ or not. Yesterday our group went out to our wetland to do some field study at our Cedar swamp just north of St. Agatha. I have posted some pictures of our wetland on the left. Hope you enjoy the pictures of our cedar swamp, including ferns, sedges, wildflowers and much more. One of the excitements of our wetland was when we scared a few grouse/partridge out of some cover. Happy wetland travels!
Here’s some wetland links
Ducks Unlimited USA
Ducks Unlimited CAN
‘The worst humanitarian crisis in the world’
No it is not Iraq, not Palestine, not Afghanistan, not even Colombia. Sudan has been touted by the United Nations as “the worst humanintarian crisis in the world”. What is this crisis that’s largely been missing from our media? Read about the ethnic cleansing in Sudan at CBC news .
Saddam Hussein and Crimes against Humanity
Last week I read about Saddam’s first day in a Baghdad court. He is being charged with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity including , killing religious figures in 1974, gassing of Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing the Kurdish Barzani clan in 1983, killing members of political parties, the 1986-88 “Anfal” campaign of displacing Kurds, suppressing the 1991 uprisings by Kurds and Shiites, and invading Kuwait in 1990. The U.S. alleges Saddam’s regime killed more than 300,000 Iraqis. It is quite obvious that this man has convinced many people to commit horrible acts against innocent victims over the last few decades. But what should be done with such a man? Many would cite Old Testament law about an eye for an eye, but I believe Jesus taught us another way. But what is Jesus’ way? Did not Jesus believe in justice for the oppressed and freedom for the captives? How do we live out Jesus’ way while still proposing a way of justice that does not support these horrible acts? These same questions came to us after the second world war and the Nurenburg trials. What morals are acceptable for humanity? What about the approximately 12, 000 (Iraq body count website)Iraqis that the United States has killed? In a world of justice should someone not also be accountable for this tragic loss of life?
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