The times they are a changing.....

It's not looking good for Syria. Not only is it tense in Syria with the opposition being more heavily armed then before, with sectarian undertones, but this peace plan has not been adhered to. Not really. The army seems to go there the UN isn't kinda thing.  Then there was those elections yesterday. How can they say these were democratic elections?

So although I will keep hoping for Bashar Al-Assad and his regime to fall, I'm not sure how long that will take and if it will take the whole region into war, or if it will stay inside Syria. Hard to tell, but it looks grim. It doesn't help that even the activists outside Syria don't see eye to eye on certain issues and it creates tensions even in Montreal.

Then there's the student strike in Montreal in it's 13th week.  The students aren't backing down. It sucks however that they want to ban people from protesting anonymously.   As a friend pointed out, she always has a bandana with her and she will put it over her face if she sees police using pepper spray.  Now it will be illegal?  I'm noticing our rights being eroded just a little bit at a time, this way no one really pays attention.  Soon it will be completely illegal to protest just you watch?

North Carolina has banned gay marriages, but you can marry your first cousin, just not your double cousin..... and it's weirder.   I had a good giggle. I don't ever intend to live in North Carolina.

Too Casual for the Catholic Church

Not that I disagree with this article but who is the Catholic church kidding? They want to tell people how to run their lives and they can't even control what priests do?

On my last blog about the Catholic church, a friend, who's Greek Orthodox pointed out that it doesn't make sense that Catholic Priests cannot marry, unlike in her form of Christianity.   I'm am in total agreement with this and couldn't have said it better.  

I'm sure if priests could marry there would have been a lot less pedophiles joining the church and married men with children do not take too kindly to others who abuse children, I'm sure the rampant paedophilia wouldn't have been so spread and kept hidden for so long.

To get back to the article, I'm from a generation who's felt casual was the way to go. I work for a company with no dress code, and love it because it gives me the option of how I chose my wardrobe.  However I do agree that it sucks that there is no where to dress up anymore. Most occasions now people can and will go casual.