This whole "Erin Andrews" thing got me thinking.

If anyone hasn't heard what happened to miss Andrews, someone essentially peeped on her privacy and filmed her while she didn't know about it. The resulting video was posted online on the internet.

I'm a 34 year old man at the writing of this blog article. When I heard this story one thing came to mind.

How would I feel if miss Andrews was my daughter?

Can you guess what the answer is??

Let's just say I would be VERY upset. And that might be putting it lightly.

Essentially someone has stolen a part of miss Andrews dignity. I can only imagine how this would make someone feel. Sure, some people might even react in different ways but for someone who wants their privacy and finds this a gross intrusion upon their very person how hurtful could this be and what could it be compared to.

Really, I think it would be easier for her or for most people to have their jewlery stolen... or a car... You know, some of these crimes (yes, this is a crime against miss Andrews) can scar people long term. Could miss Andrews develop paranoid tendencies? Severely paranoid?

I mean one can only imagine.

What kind of society do we live in when someone can intrude and steal a person's dignity and now have other people enjoy and be pleasured by it?

Sounds sick doesn't it?

That's because it is.

The point of writing this isn't to point the finger, blame people or say we should all be angels... .because I doubt we can. But in order to become "better" people or "better" collectively... then these problems must be seriously looked at and acknowledged both individually and collectively.

It's important and good to think and reflect on things sometimes.

I only wish the best to miss Andrews through all of this.

 This is an interesting article..

The oilsands create a ton of jobs and the economy in Alberta has been blessed (I'll use those words I guess) to have this natural ressource within their borders.. (I hear that Saskatchewan is next..)

But there are always many aspects of huge industrial projects and usually a "loser" in huge industrial projects is the environment. Actually, I would use the word "our" instead of "the" in front of the word environment if we believe certain things... like the world is round and the waters of the ocean aren't somehow divided and are independant of one another... or maybe the atmosphere's air is neatly divided by country or town and each is independant of the other..... point is.... the eco-system is just that.... a system where wildlife, marshes, insects, plants...etc...... all work together to pollinate, renew, refresh... (use whatever word you like) nature.

One system with many, many, many complicated sub-systems..... all working together.... and we can say we know some workings of this system but I doubt we could honestly claim to "know" all of the workings and consequences of altering it (messing with it)..

This is one article where the good and the bad obviously clash.

Financial gain for the many workers (huge riches for the few of course).... and the kind of thing we really don't want to focus on in media and conversations and thoughts (I would say generally anyway).... the killing of elements of our most important system which sustains our lives. Nature.

This article speaks of Birds directly, but I challenge any of you reading this to think further about other effects the huge tailing ponds (oily water) and the obvious killing of these huge number of birds.

Check out this CBC article

I think it's really important to take note of events that effect us (humanity), especially events that occur as a result of other humans...

This is really sad..

People rushing into the store to save a buck... basically a herd of shoppers trample over some people... killing one of the guys who was working at the door after he was knocked over.

As I read that, I can picture a few people who work at our local WalMart... and I would never ever ever wish that upon those friendly smilling people who meet me at the door everytime I go.

Time to step back and think about these kind of behaviours.... is saving a buck really important enough to participate in a stampede as if it was some kind of extreme shopping sport?

Times are tougher for alot of people. But I would  say that my fellow human being is more important then saving a dollar or 3 or 40.

What kind of people (humans) are we?

And I ask this because I believe that we (humanity, community..etc) are only as strong as our weakest link.

Yahoo article here.