Orphanage Vs Gay Adoption

The thought was triggered by a tv show on HBO - Same Sex America.
Topic was legalized same sex marriages; some of the couples portrayed had adopted children - these kids ranged from infant to teenager and seemed pretty 'normal' from whatever little I saw about them.

Personally, I thought it was great that they adopted- but the company I was watching the show with disagreed. It got me thinking -- what is the average stance on that? What do you guys think and why?

I just wanna get a feel of what our generation thinks on the subject.

Would you marry for LOVE or MONEY?

Which is more important to you? To live a life without ever wanting for anything or to be with someone you love?

Physical Attraction

How does that come into play within the confines of an Arranged Marriage ?

Everyone says how important it is to have a degree of attraction to the person you want to marry but how can one be physically attracted or even develop any kind of attraction perforce within such a short span of time !

How will it change your life?

Let say:

...that this world will never have electricity as a source of energy again.

What do you do? How will be affect your life?

Are you one of the few people in world whose life will not be affected by such a phenomenon at all?

Sensitive Nature

How you should deal with people of sensitive nature because they can so easily get hurt by little things/jokes ? and sometimes you don't even know/realize that they got hurt because of you when they keep their feelings to themselves.

How many of you are sensitive to other people's words and feelings. How many of you pick up on everything, and feel very deeply if criticized?

Don’t we need to look into ourselves and change our way of life?

We very often keep blaming, our relatives, our neighbours, our District, Provincial and Federal governments for our woes, to some extent may be rightly, but at times, willfully or ignorantly disregard the fact that it may be because of our own modes and behaviour, tradition and culture and callous way of life. Is it not a fact that when it comes to demanding, we are not willing to accept anything less than what the citizens in civilized societies are enjoying, but would pay no heed to the duties and responsibilities that a civilized society citizens voluntarily discharge? It is rightly said that first deserve and then demand. Let us not forget that good governance that we all keep yearning would only come through, if the different tiers of the government as well as the people at large discharge their duties and responsibilities to the society honestly.

Aerial firing in celebrations, may it be on the eve of wedding, the birth of a son, the sighting of the moon falling different festivals, New Year festivity and hailing the Independence Day etc. is one of such tribal tradition that we have not been able to give up even after our nation grew up recently celebrating 62 Independence Day of Pakistan, when it was observed that despite high security alert, miscreants were able to resort to aerial firing unhindered from August 13 night onwards, which left at least 30 people injured, including women and children.

Despite the huge presence of police and Rangers in the city, no arrests were made. Miscreants also openly violated the ban on pillion riding while carrying flags of various political parties, and blocked many arteries of the city. Their “celebration” caused traffic jams at various points, causing immense miseries to other citizens - particularly to aerial firing victims, who had to be rushed to hospitals in critical condition.

Sadly, it was not only the illiterates, but even the educated persons also were seen indulging in all these unruly activities, making this precept of the wise men wrong that education is the panacea for all social evils, as for us even this seems to be an utter failure because it has thus far made no difference here.

Unfolding Events

'Unfolding events' serves as pointer to the ongoing mayhem across the Pak-Afghan borders where a senseless and endless conflict is fueled by vague and vicious propaganda of WoT. Today, the world seems to deliberately ignore the fact that those directing the conflict from Western capitals are not the ones whose societies are bearing the greatest losses. That price is paid by ordinary Afghans and Pakistanis. An unwilling Pakistan was shanghaied into the catastrophic WoT - an expedition the Allied Forces surrendered realistically, but held on to it stubbornly to avoid loss of face. The hit-or-miss missiles fired by Drones caused tremendous deaths of innocent men, women and children along with the desecration of mosques and materials of reverence. This inflamed the wrath of those intrepid tribal who took up arms against their own armed forces that colluded with enemies to betray and belittle them. The rubble and the wreckages that abound the cities and villages in and around Swat and Malakand is a living testimony of the reckless and ruthless acts of frenzied foreign policy and atrocious administration. The intense shelling, strafing and bombing killed people, destroyed properties that included mosques and madressahs. It reminded the grisly and grotesque Lal Masjid operation where the prohibited white phosphorous was used to flush out the so-called militants. Burnt out tanks and armored carriers tell a sorry tale of the military juggernaut paying huge price for its punctured pride. For record sake, US UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles- popularly called 'Predator Drones') have killed upwards of 800 civilians with only 14 militants of value killed in 40 plus sorties.

The US govt., over the past seven years adopted an unprecedented program in American history of cruelly calculated, dehumanizing abuse and physical torture to extract information from its unfortunate victims of GITMO. The infamous and dreaded prison that specializes in inhuman experimentations that epitomizes the Bush legacy of illegal and immoral abuses that pale into insignificance the predatory practices of primitive Mongols and Tartars that created minarets of human skulls. Every civilized nation live by their commitment to their Constitution that enshrines their resolve to live in peace and in harmony and to progress and prosper to mark their distinction and distinguished place among the comity of world nations. A constitution broadly defines and divest powers to three principal pillars of the State: the Assemblies of popularly elected public reps with power to legislate; the Executive branch of selected administrators to execute and to the Judiciary comprising the Bench and the Bar to adjudicate. Meticulous care is taken to safeguard and resist the blandishments and incursions of one branch to the other. Accordingly, Supreme Court jealously guards its separation-of-powers jurisprudence which is always animated by concerns of encroachment and aggrandizement - incidences that replete the judicial history of Pakistan. The Tamizuddin Khan case in the past, and Tikka Iqbal case of recent times are the judgments classified as having presidential effect. These cases are just a small window into what is a fairly extensive judicial record. Justice Munir in the past and Justice Dogar of the recent past shall go down in the judicial history to have prostituted their positions to ignominiously perturb the delicate balance of powers between the three pillars on army's behest and bullying pressures.

Peoples' support and their combined strength stymied the illusive plans and prejudices of a corrupt administration into submission to re-instate the deposed Panel of SC Judges, who they thought would enhance courts ability to faithfully apply the law and avert the cunning and the cowardice of those CJs who intuitively - and furtively - put their impermissible thumb on the scales of justice. The many 'Suo Motto' cases undertaken by the present CJ had endeared him to the great majority of the people, who participated in droves to weather the storm unleashed by the administration, in their struggle to revive the judiciary to pre-Nov 03, 07 configurations. The peoples' trust in CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry stemmed from the concept that there must be 'objective stance' to the law if the law is to have any meaning beyond the idiosyncratic 'perspectives' of those who wear the judicial robe. A scorpion would always sting. It is his instinct. The plague of provincialism is manifest in the poisonous railing of those who default the enlightened Punjab for the reversal of a touted judgment against the Sharifs.

My Dairy

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