SURGE it Back

This week I wanted to do a blog over this old discontinued soda called SURGE. I remember this soda when I was a kid and just recently found out that there has been a petition online since 2002. The reason I thought about this soda ten years after it was discontinued is because Coca Cola just recently in December of 2011 discontinued a soda called Vault.

            Apparently a lot of people who like SURGE thought Vault was the closest thing to SURGE since 2002. Unfortunately they also got rid of Vault. Which I personally did not think tasted the same. On the website savesurge.org you can sign the petition and they also have recipes for what some people think SURGE tasted like some of them are surprisingly good. Some people put anything from lemon juice to other sodas in their drinks.

            Another pretty cool thing about trying to bring back SURGE is that it won’t even take you but five seconds to type your name and why. Unfortunately it may not seem like it would make a difference because it has been dead for ten years. Like I said before since Vault got discontinued in 2011 the whole Surge petition got picked back up again. Vault was like coca cola’s way of saying oops we messed up. You can go to savesurge.org and or facebook.com to sign this petition. Since January of 2012 on Facebook alone people have gotten over 40,000 signatures online.

To See or Not To See

For the week nine blog I chose to do it over a political cartoon on page 380. The cartoon is focusing on gay marriages. The argument is that forty years ago we were complaining about inter- racial marriages. Now we are complaining about gay marriage. In the cartoon it shows in one panel label 1960 a large white man holding a picket sign label No inter- racial marriage. The man in the 1960 box is saying “We’re just protecting’ the sanctity of marriage.” Then in the other cartoon panel label 2000 it shows another large white man that looks almost identical to the man in the 1960 cartoon panel. He is in the exact same spot as the man in the 1960 panel, but instead of saying we are protecting the sanctity of marriage it just shows the man pointing at the man in the 1960 cartoon panel  just stating “…What he said.”

            I enjoyed reading this cartoon because the way I viewed it was what the cartoonist did not focus on. Not that I am against gay marriage or anything. Though it may be similar to the situation that is shown in the 1960 panel about no interracial marriage I feel the cartoonist should have focused on the main problem of why the government has a problem with gay marriage is because all states must recognize contracts no matter where they are from. Unfortunately some of states won’t recognize gay marriage. The reason that causes a problem is because they may not recognize one contract they could start saying they do not recognize other contracts like rent or business contracts.

Traditions

I wanted to do this week’s blog over the importance of tradition and how we are slowly drifting away from a lot of or traditional roots. I feel that over time yes you should be able to change different traditions, but none the less you need to keep some sort of tradition going.

                Part of the reason I feel so strong about tradition is because of my family. It is wrather complicated and annoying so I will not get into detail about it. My family is split into three separate branches. We all share different outlooks but keep traditions. Although they may not be the same traditions or just little ones. We still have them.

                For one of the traditions that my part of the family dose is we hold a family reunion every year and our family sport is old school kickball. Just a small little thing that my family has kept for about one hundred years. I feel that as the people start to grow older they lose this traditional outlook. This is sad. For me it gives you a sense of pride and a family bond.

                I would like to say this does not even have to relate to family traditions this could relate to anything culture, religious, even personal traditions. I would like to believe that if a person really wanted to they could even create their own traditions to pass on to family or friends. I feel like it is a lost bond between people in today’s world.