Middle Eatern Adolescents Paving the Way for Global Education?

Two teenage girls, not even old enough to legally drive are a major force for female education in the Middle East and possibly the world.

With a combined age of under 31-years old, Shazia Ramzan and her friend Malala Yousafzai survived an execution attempt from a Taliban gunman last October.

Ramzan is back in school and ignored earlier threats from the same Taliban terrorists who shot her and Yousafzai nearly a year ago according to the July, 1 article by Gordon Brown; "The story of Malala's friend: Brightening girls' lives with education." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/opinion/shazia-gordon-brown/index.html?

The two Pakistan girls are continuing their education in the U.K. Yousafzai, after being shot in the head and Ramzan who was shot in the neck and arm are on a mission to not only graduate college but to ensure other Pakistan girls get a full education. According to Gordon's article 40 Pakistan girls will get an education because of Yousafzai. Her goal is to get 40,000,000 girls an education.

These two amazingly brave girls have stood up to the Taliban simply because they want an education which was the sole reason they were shot in the first place. The Pakistani government has agreed for the first time to legislate compulsory free education and provided stipends for 3,000,000 children since the horrid acts where committed against Yousafzai and Ramzan.

Pakistan schools that continue to education females are under constant threats of bombing and sadistic killing of innocent teachers, staff and children. In March, 41-year-old teacher Shahnaz Nazli who'd been teaching for 24-years was shot to death in front of her son while she was on her way to teach at an all-girls school in Pakistan. For much more details you can read Gordon's article; "Teacher's murder sparks calls for school protection for Pakistan's girls." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/asia/pakistan-teacher-death-petition/index.html

Brown is a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. He was formerly the U.K.'s prime minister. Brown's goal is to have worldwide education by 2015. He claims this is very possible if all the rich governments and even the poor countries in the world channel money into this.

Currently there are 61,000,000 children shut out of primary school, 34,000,000 adolescent girls not attending school and 10,000,000 girls forced into marriage, many of them very young teenagers.

If knowledge is indeed power than the men who hold high places must be the ones who fund Browns plans for global education. I highly recommend the following two web sites;

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn#/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn and http://educationenvoy.org/

Rape and Murder Are the Main Ingredients in the Thriller Novel "After Shock."

The thriller novel "After Shock" by Andrew Vachss exposes a rape ring in high school and the gives reason for killing.

The dark arts of deceit and manipulation are fostered in the club Ko Khai, an exclusive club for guys with no morals and who are incapable of feeling no remorse.  "After Shock," released in June is a bit long, but its originality and intense subject matter keeps the reader interested.

Mary Lou McCoy, known as Mighty Mary because of her strong pitching arm shoots the most popular guy in the school to death, Cameron Taft. McCoy, an 18-year-old with a bright future, a full scholarship to a prominent college due to her pitching prowess on the softball field is suddenly in jail facing life in prison or the death sentence.

There is no mystery from the start as to whether or not McCoy shot Taft to death. Even the reasoning is revealed relatively early in the book. McCoy was never raped, but Taft, the ring leader of the rape club Ko Khai was dating McCoy's 13-year-old sister Danielle.

Danielle is extremely smart but highly delusional in her choice to date Taft. Mary Lou even beats her little before she killed Taft. I laughed when people said it was mean of Mary Lou to beat up her little sister, but it was noted Lou did not use her strong pitching arm when she hit her little sister.

Bradley Swift, Mary Lou's lawyer never argues that she didn't kill Taft in cold blood with a .22 pistol, yet still makes a compelling case for her to be set free. It is discovered the guys of Ko Khai including Taft raped 39 girls, many of them under 14-years-old.

Anyone who reads this novel and doesn’t yearn for Mary Lou’s freedom has no conscience. Legally she is a murder, but can Swift justify morality with actual law?  

The characters could have had more flare in their personalities and the story dragged a bit, but overall it's a three star read.

Author Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. He has written more than two dozen books. 

Freedom of Speech, Really?

Words are the demise for teenager Justin Carter who’s been in jail for months and also beaten in jail.

Granted, Carter's words were wicked and tasteless, but none the less, just words. If the wrong authorities don't like what you say on Facebook, as was the case for Carter, you could end up in federal prison for several years.

Carter has been in jail since February 21, accused of making terrorist threats. He's looking at eight years in jail if found guilty. While joking around with a friend on Facebook, Carter wrote the following to a friend. ...I'm sick. Shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them." This was followed by lol.

These words from Carter who has no criminal history have landed him in a Texas prison and a $500,000 bail. His court date is July 16.  

Doug Gross's article on CNN, "Jailed Teen Finally Getting Day in Court" on the web site;

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/tech/social-media/facebook-teen-jail/index.html?hpt=us_t4 illustrates the loss of free speech in America.

Since Carter has been in prison, he's been beaten to the point of having concussions and black eyes according to the article by Gross. The wrong or so called wrong combination of words splatted innocuously on Facebook have sent an innocent young man to prison.  Meanwhile in Santa Rosa, a double murder, Mathew Beck roams free, never severing any jail time, just a decade a so in a Looney bin, and now he's free with certain stipulations.

Carter serving time in federal prison is as wise as making Jerry Sandusky a Scout Leader in the Boy Scouts of America. What more injustices lie ahead for mere words?

Legaliizing Gay Marriage in California, a Positive Future Step

Inching our way out of ancient times and slowly putting superstition on the back burner is one tiny step in the right direction with California's abandonment of Proposition 8.

California has become the 13th state to get out of the dark ages and finally legalize gay marriage. The fact that Proposition 8 was even introduced in 2008 was ludicrous. Of course big money talks. Frank Schubert, strategist for Proposition 8, helped the organization Protect Marriage raise more than $5 million in donations to fight for Proposition 8.

Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church personally donated $1 million to Protect Marriage and aid in the passing of Proposition 8 according to the article "Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage" by Jesse McKinley and Kirk Johnson, Nov. 14, 2008 on the web page http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

Personally, if I could afford to shell out $1 million and expect nothing in return, it would be to something useful such as a children’s hospital or an educational system, but certainly not to fight for a primitive belief.

Gay marriage has been legal for more than 220 years if you go by the first amendment in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion; exact wording in the first amendment written on Dec. 15, 1791. I'm fed up with the lame argument that God says it's (being gay) wrong, the Bible says so. That doltish dispute was actually a good argument about 2500-years ago for approximately ten minutes.

A very large percentage of people who oppose gay marriage are the religious, using the Bible for their convenience. If the U.S. follows God’s word (one nation under God; in God we trust), then rape is OK. Deuteronomy 22:28-29; If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay 50 pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. No mention of the woman having a say if she wants to marry her rapist or not!

As a whole, the world, especially the U.S. is living in the ancient past. To this day, 37 states are way behind the times. Why has the Constitution been written if it's not going to be used? Oh yea, money, lots of it going to lobbyist who govern everything with the almighty dollar. There are also the people who refuse to grow up and embrace diversity while clinging to prehistoric words and beliefs, thus dividing the world into a chaotic cocktail mixed by the business demons of the world.    

Dualiity of Emotions

                                                          Extreme Negativity

 

                                    Single by circumstance, not by choice. An undesirable

Entity whose façade of happiness has clasped. Debt

and despair is all there is.

Why exist? The end cannot be too soon.

Love and romance? Not a chance with my current

finance. I want to wake to no more lies, no more

corruption, no more greed. See everyone without

common needs.

Dreams dissipate into the abyss of apathy.  No

tears, no laughter. Just an empty soul waiting to fill

a six foot whole. Sweet mistress of death, get me

 

off this planet.

 

                   

                          Confidence

 

Tappin’ my feet, struttin’ my feats. Lots of lady’s

to meet. Get up off your seat. Fucking dance,

take a chance.    

Three Dead Poems...

    Beer

Laughing eyes and beer highs accentuated her
bare thighs. Wish I’d had an attractive lie…


                    Government

Liquid lunacy fills the goblet of greed and wets

the lips of the unethical which bleeds across the

world. Harbingers of havoc, apprentices of apathy,

creators of chaos, and distributors of destruction.

Soul destroyers and mindless material builders.

Thrust into there lies and bred to consume.

 

                            Julie

 

Standing amidst the chaos of pelting rain, crashing

waves and ocean winds. All I could see was her face.

Mesmerized by her smile, fixated by her laugh, drawn

to her every word. Her heart felt wisdom saturates my

mind with love and laughter. Indeed she is the true definition

of the word lady. Lady; Classy, smart, sensuous, soulful,

sweet, and sincere.

                                                                                                                 Mark (Izzy) Schurr

My bio with an introduction by Heeiz Shure

Forward by Heeiz Shure:

By the age of three, Mark Schurr had written more than two dozen novels. By the time he was 12-years-old several of his books were adapted into screen plays including “Jaws,” “The Graduate,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”

 

Schurr’s fascination for the written word spawning into books, songs, poetry and movies is just one aspect of his sagacious genius. Schurr can literally do anything he desires except talk to pretty women, play a musical instrument or sing. 

 

Schurr wrote the music and lyrics to more than 50 Beatle songs by the time he was four including the songs “Something,” Because,” “A Day in the Life,” “Revolution” and “Help.”

 

Unfortunately for Schurr, he knew absolutely nothing about copy rights at such a young age. The business predators of the world consumed all the credit and raked in all the money.

 

Schurr is indeed a blessing to the world and perhaps the universe. Legend has it that the human race still exists solely because of Schurr.  

 

When he leaves Earth permanently with no spawns the planet will indeed be lesser place.

If I live to be a 1000-years-old, I’ll never meet anyone as unique and perplexing as Mark Schurr. I’m extremely lucky to have known and talked to him.

 

Heeiz Shure;

Ghost writer for Stephen King, Anne Rice, John Grisham and countless other authors and journalists.

 

Me, by Mark (Izzy) Schurr

 

A ninth grade classmate, Tom Boriolo wrote the following in my year book; ‘Mark, I’ve heard the word unique before, but you’re a true definition of the word.’

 

My existence is somber except when I have to transform into star vapors and sashay across the infinite universe to stop meteors as large as mountains that are directed toward Earth by the sadistic Baleful Ben.

 

Ben won’t be happy until everyone in the universe is dead, and then I think he’ll kill himself if he manages to destroy all life. Ben resides on the dark side of the galaxy in the farthest reaches of cold space. He can’t kill me because I’m much too fast and sly for him and vice versa.

 

Because of Ben I am perpetually alone. Ben has nearly killed the few girlfriends I’ve had; it’s his way to get to me.  Presently, Ben and I are the only cosmic beings I know exist.  

 

The small amount of lady friends who were gracious enough to dabble in romantic endeavors with me soon needed a more successful, communicative and better lover.  I’m the type of person who would thrive alone on an island abundant with warmth, food, water, shelter, the internet and books.

 

The eight plus years working as a preschool teacher illustrated to me what a horrible parent I’d be. Children don’t listen to a word I say, hence I couldn’t teach, or parent.

The few relationships I’ve had with women have shown me what a lousy husband I’d be.

 

When I’m not hurling across outer space in my cosmic form, I really enjoy working with young children once a week at the YMCA in Santa Rosa as a volunteer.  I also enjoy writing poetry, photography, doing journalism for my blog site, driving Irene (my Saturn Vue), while blaring music, riding my bike and laughing with friends and family.

 

“Too weird to live, too unique to die,” a line from the movie “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” is a simple way to describe myself.