Trident, Sex and a whole lot of nothing..

Dear reader,

      Hello again, I guess I should write on this more - but I have always hated blogger's that blog everyday. I like to leave it until I actually have something I'd like to tell or discuss with you, until something actually happens in my life or around me before I start talking about it. So I hope you understand my very irregular posts.

      In other news, you're looking at the President of his universities LGBT (Which is the group of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people). It may not seem big, but I'm in charge of over 200 people at my university and in control of what they do for extra curricular activities and entertaining new freshers. I was very happy to have overwhelming 96% of the vote. I guess having nice eyes and a large opinion actually counts for something in the world. Maybe next I shall be Prime minister? No? ... Okay =( But, whole reason I have mentioned this would be the huge mess I had to do by calling, emailing and down right stalking charities to get sponsorship for our organisation. Without it, we don't have an operating budget and the LGBT people are our university suffer. Finally today I got an email by a nice man who works for GMFA, a gay male based charity that specialises in free funding and other things for students. Did make me scream with joy that I was elected to do a job that no one could be arsed to do, and accomplished it.

      But, I do want to say that my friend, who in my last post was having obvious problems, seems to be feeling allot better about herself. Rose did not really like how her world was going and I suppose what her life was turning into, future looked bleak and her body image was in her eyes short, fat and not attractive. I've spent the past week by her side, making her smile and giving her some new memories to treasure, I just hope this is enough to keep her afloat for a few months until she is in proper help. I have to admit, I did cry for the first time over it at the weekend. Now I know that may seem weird to you, dear reader, but to me it is a big deal. I do not cry, never really have, never really will. But, when something hits me, I cry big time... On Saturday the 11th there was more tears coming out of my eyes then water tipping over Angel Falls. All the stress of the summer, Rose, the fact that the guy I liked most of the summer Cory stood me up, all came out in a big mush, while I was at a friends house... Then I vomited =) Haha! Oh the joy! I guess it helped getting it all out, but not for next time, I shouldn't have a lot of wine before hand..

      While on the tube yesterday, I did see a story that interested me greatly! There was an article about the renewal of the Trident weapons system, and it's implications. Now, I am a proud Liberal Democrat, and during the election we campaigned on removing the system all together. But now under the new coalition government, we have seemed to have backed down. I am very passionate about this, I think renewing this system is a waste of money we cannot afford to spend right now. The newspaper stated that it is an estimated £21.8bn to renew our system, which would include new warheads, new missiles and 4 new Vanguard II class submarines. 

      However, I believe that this is a waste of money for a fleet of 4 submarines that will never be used for more then patrols. Fair enough, I understand the need for a deterrent. I understand that bad guys that don't like our little nation have big guns too, so therefore we need big guns so they don't fire their guns. But I believe you should use the money to make better guns, not the same big guns we did before. Why not spend the money on building 2 of the most technological battleships on the planet? Or 30 state of the art stealth bombers? Or, my personal favourite, bio weaponry. Now, Bio weapons are very controversial subject, as people don't like their implications. However they are not much different from Nuclear Weapons, there is only one difference; Nuclear wipes out the wealth of a nation and the population, while bio weapon's destroy the population and leave the wealth of the country in fact. That, is a real deterrent. Nuclear is outdated, other nations know we will never use them. New age calls for a new weapon in my eyes, a new threat. So if we have to renew our deterrent, make it something worth while.

     But I am more interested in what you think about this, reader? Do you think we should renew, not renew, or replace with a better weapon? My mother is very passionate on getting rid of everything, and even halving the size of the army to pay for better education and better health care. Great plan but would that work?

     Anyhow, I believe that counts as my weekly ramble. I shall sign off with that I have a blind date tomorrow, as my friend felt sad about me being stood up, so set me up on a blind date with their friend. Oh fun, lets see how this goes..

     With love, always

Kenai

x