The stars a pretty, no? I personally prefer the moon. It's far prettier, in my opinion. The stars are pretty, tiny suns with tiny solar systems, all of them part of giant galaxies that are slowly but surely moving through the universe towards each other, soon to collide and all the tiny suns with their tiny solar systems will be destroyed in effect creating a new super galaxy with even more tiny suns with tiny solar systems. But then there's the moon. A beautiful silvery hunk of rock and dust orbiting not a sun, but a planet. Our planet. Ours and ours alone. It will still be there when we're gone, and it will disappear in time, whether when this planet explodes, or before then if another hunk of rock and dust and ice and fire hits it and shatters it into a million fragments to rain down upon this planet.

My sister recently got a job with a company called Public Outreach. This company works with many different charities like UNICEF, SPCA and other things like that. Because of this, I've been hearing a lot about UNICEF, and what they actually do for the children of pretty much every country in the world, aside from two. Somalia and the United States of America. That's over 190 countries that UNICEF is trying to help, trying to bring them up to industrialized standards. Granted there are still some problems on our own soil, but that happens.

 

Now, a lot of people believe that, as with most charities, the majority of the money goes to the CEO and the other higher ups, not to what the charity money is supposed to go to. Now, with UNICEF, the majority of the money actually goes to the children. 80% of all fundraised funds goes to the children. 5% to the administration, and 15% to the people who actually do the fundraising. Considering the amount that is usually fundraised, that's pretty good.

 

UNICEF has many different programs for the children, such as "School in a box" which can educate up to 80 children at once. It contains things like paper, pencils, spray on chalkboards, books, and other things like that. It also helps with creating gender equality, provides child protection, educates on AIDS/HIV and the prevention of such, and emergencies, such as the earthquake in Haiti. UNICEF provides medical treatment, vacinations, food, and education for children who wouldn't normally have that.

 

Did you know that there are people in the world making child sized AK47's for the five year old child soldiers? UNICEF helps with them as well. They liberated thousands of children, but, because in many countries, it is believed that children are expendable, there are probably still millions more. All of those children have been beaten, tortured, and completely brainwashed. They now think that killing people is a game. They are forced to kill their own family to desensitize them. Those children are branded with a mixture of gun powder and cocaine, effectively getting them addicted to cocaine, and putting them through excruciating pain.

 

I understand that a lot of people will disagree with what I've said, but, I say that those people are still living under a rock, and need to wake up and smell the damned coffee that they've conveniently got brewing in their kitchens. We need to realize that we are so fortunate to live in this country.

 

Oh, another thing. If we educate these children and get them in trades that they can do in their own country, they won't migrate to ours.

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."

The riddle itself had no answer originally. Then Lewis Carrol came up with this:

"Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!"

I think that this is a highly acceptable answer, and far better than actually figuring it out. I quite like how 'nevar' is 'raven' spelled backwards.

Some other answers:

"A dead man sits at one, the other sits on a dead man."

"Poe wrote on both."

"They both have quills."

"The notes their noted for aren't noted for being musical notes."

"One is a rest for pens, the other is a pest for wrens."

"There is a 'b' in both, and an 'n' in neither."

"Both are inked with blackness."

Riddles most certainly are fascinating.

Tell me,

Alive without breath
As cold as death
Never thirsty
Ever drinking
All in mail
Never clinking

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