The Wiesel, The Music and the V- Day

1) Elie Wiesel a holocaust survivor is outraged with Mitt Romney and The Morman Church. They have been performing posthumous baptisms on jews, they were supposed to have legally agreed to stop in 1995. I personally agree strongly with Elie, Mitt Romney should address the preposterous things that the church he is aligned with is doing. You cannot baptize a jewish person after they are dead, it just isn't right to use their name without consent so your name can be "pure". This article was bias however rightfully so. In my personal opinion there is no other side. Mormans cannot baptize dead jews, they have a right to their religion even after death. Who are they to decide who is a Mormon. I cannot believe the idea even fathoms the Mormon to baptize someone after they have passed away. That person has no choice in the matter therefor i think the entire procedure is void a post-humous baptization is just preposterous.

2) In my personal opinion sure M.I.A sold out. You can still sell out today. Artists that I love like Keith Urban do not write all of their songs. Sometimes they co-write sometimes they don't even have any part of it at all besides the actual performing of that song. As much as I dislike Bon Iver and like the Foo Fighters they both stayed true to their music. In a room full of frauds and pop-stars they managed to win grammys. The Foo Fighters won a total of six grammys for their completely original songs. That is not selling out. Bands like the Foo Fighters are likely never to sell out. "musicians" like M.I.A are always prone to sell out. So no I don't think it's impossible to sell out these days in fact I think it is very easy. Even if you don't sell out you can be one of the many button pushing musicians who manages to win grammys off their non-original beat driven songs. The article I read was not bias it represented both sides but i strongly choose to side with the one. Music is only music if it comes from the heart not from the wallets of big-time record producers.

3) Marriage and Love= more money you lose. This article was very bias in it's point of view but for good reason. Love costs, and it ain't cheap. It stated that the average American wedding costs about 27,000 dollars. every year on valentines day they are expected to gross 17 billion dollars on chocolates, flowers and heart shaped goods. Less and less men get married every year because every year marriage becomes more expensive and less men are good for it. Old traditions are lost, the idea of just love is all it should take is gone in the modern American culture. It only requires a little bit of love if any and a whole lot of cash. Only the richest of men can be successful in marriage. In my personal opinion one reason more and more men may choose not to get married is the high divorce rate in the states. With 50% of all marriages failing why would a man want to get married without a pre-nup. He loses half if not more of his money unless his lawyer is a superstar. Unfortunately in today's America love is money.