Bloggers with Integrity Awards

When I Created this Award on Little Aussie Cynic I never expected to grow as fast as it has.

It is my little way of saying thank you to bloggers all over the world for maintaining integrity in their chosen paths. The categories I gave the awards through show truly what these fantastic folks are about just Genuine caring people, with a lot to give to the world.

Ann from a Nice Place in The Sun has given the award to me through this little blog for my Social Conscience. And I will say this is a great honour as that is what this blog is all about.

So to you Ann I would like to say thankyou and pass it on to the following:

For Creativity:

Mom's Out There

For Social Conscience:

Armageddon Theory

For Keeping It Real:

Attitude the Ultimate Power

The Spirit Of Giving:

Comedy Plus

Staying true to their Beliefs:

Planet Earth Peace Party

All of these are worthy recipients of this award.

Congratulations

Where Next?

Where are we going

In the past few weeks we have had range of issues surrounding the Middle East....

Turkey threatening to invade Iraq, America issueing Sanctions against Iran, and god knows what is going in Afghanistan, we have had two Australian killed there in two weeks...

So what will be the next big task to bring about peace in the area and is possible....

Did You watch the Great Debate?

On Sunday night here in Oz land we had the standard political Debate between the Federal Government Liberal (inpower) and the Federal Opposition Labor (not in Power)...
Every election time we sit and watch and here the same old spin from either party and usually the opposition has won the debate and lost the election, this time was shaping up to be the same.....

But it wasn't!

This time round yes the opposition won the debate.... but I must say I was impressed with the whole process....

The Prime Minister normally looks very nervous for about 15 minutes and then settles in nicely the look at me I am the chosen one, and the leader of the Opposition looks Cocky and sure of himself. But this time round Mr John Howard never really appeared to settle into the debate and each time he tried to move round a question he was pulled up and either forced to answer or a point made of him not answering.....

To this end Kevin Rudd was a clear winner, not intimidated or scared off in anyway....

However during the broadcast of this event, it did run for 90 minutes, three Television stations had the rights to it.....

ABC the one I watched,
Channel 9, and
Sky....

Mr John Howard had impossed stricted rules for the debate and one of his condition was no worm.... the worm is used to gauge public opinion on each of the topics and comments raised by either leader....
Channel 9 has the worm, it is their baby and is almost an Australian Icon and therefore refused not to use it.....
During the Broadcast Channel had their debate feed cut not once but twice and in the end had to resort to using sky's feed......

So much for free speech in Australia.....

This goes far beyond the rights of the media this is censorship in all its forms.....

What do you think

Do you really care?

I was a little shocked the other day by a friend in response to announced of the upcoming Federal Election (November 24 In case you missed it).

What stuck me as odd?

wasn't the, 'oh well lets get on with it,' or the 'oh great election advertisements,' or even 'finally!'.... It was woopy doo!, who cares, big deal.

I take my voting right very seriously ( in case you couldn't guess) and to me it is my resposibility to make sure I vote for the person and party who I think will do best job for the country and us.

So I asked my friend, 'aren't you even interested in what they will say or what they are planning to do?' and he said "No! I have always voted for"****" and I will this time round...."

This prompted the question "why!" and I was told "I can't be bothered thinking about it, the environment will be taken care of and I like my job it pays me the big dollars and so long I have the money coming in that is all I am worried about..."

'What about the Pulp Mill, health, the hospitals, schools and everything else that needs fixing?'

To this the response was even more shallow than I thought possible: 'the pulp mill, will bring jobs, health well if you want it you can pay for it, education my kids are in private school and do well and I don't care about anyting else, because it will be fixed or I will pay for it privately...if people want those other things such as health care they can get a job and pay for it"

This coming from a fellow who is on $60,000 a year and still holds a health care from the government.

What a horrible attitude to have, but it is becoming more and more ingrain in society and in the young, those lucky enough to have a good job that pays well versus those who don't, the gap is almost the size of canyon.

Oh my God! is this what we have become a bunch of selfish, shallow, thoughtless people who have no time for those who need help,
or do we give a dam about what we will leave our kids in the future.....
I hope it is the latter... because the former is tragidy waiting to happen unless we are already there...

Tell Me Do you Really Care?