Canada

What makes us great (if at all)?


We're not the most polite people as I have seen my share of the most discourteous, boorish, tactless, thoughtless, self-entitled jerkwads to walk somewhat upright just as I have seen some of the most generous, thoughtful and friendly people on the planet.


We often discourage exceptionalism because post-modern liberalism makes us ashamed of success yet we sometimes achieve it.


Any New World country is demographically multicultural but politically the idea that all cultures have equal value is insane and not practical, especially considering those who foster such ideas are the last dilettantes to actually put them into practice.


Our natural beauty, I think, is some of the most breath-taking but beauty is where you find it.


No one came here because our healthcare is allegedly universal or because they like the idea of being in a ghetto with the same people they left their former countries to avoid. They came here because they could.


We're not American but we're not French or Malaysian, either, so that's a stupid point. Actually, it's just as well we're not American considering who is currently running that republic into the ground.


We're a dominion that stretches from sea to sea. We have a history that is more interesting than what have been led to believe. We have resources that are the envy of the world. We're a self-reproaching yet often capable people.


And tomorrow, we mark one hundred and forty-five years as a nation.



Happy Dominion of Canada Day.



"His dominion shall be also from sea to sea.”

And Now...

Some things to feel good about:

Delroy Simmonds, a 30-year-old unemployed father of two, was on his way to a job interview on Monday when a gust of wind blew a baby stroller onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn. A crying baby was inside.

Without hesitation, Simmonds jumped onto the tracks to save bleeding nine-month-old David Zamara just before the train arrived.

"I jumped down and I snatched the baby up," Simmonds told NY Daily News. "The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks. I really wasn't thinking."



His heroic deed caused him to miss his interview.

On Wednesday, Simmonds was reunited with the baby he saved — right after accepting a new full-time job offer with a janitorial company.

"That's the little man that got me a job today," Delroy Simmonds said during a reunion with little Zamara and his mother, Maria, at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center where the child was treated for minor injuries.

"It feels amazing. Just seeing him alive."

My God, this changes everything:







The March of the Ducks:

 A Chinese farmer caused chaos on the roads when he ducked out to feed his flock of 5,000.

Hong brought streets in the eastern city of Taizhou to a standstill when, accompanied by a colleague, he took his animals to a pond.

Armed with nothing but a cane, he guided his feathered friends three quarters of a mile as part of an annual tradition in Zhejiang province.

Puppy stampede!

The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (Pt. 9)

Sadly, it never ends.


China is an octopus:

The United States gave China a six-month reprieve from Iran financial sanctions on Thursday, avoiding a diplomatic spat with a country whose support it needs to try to quell violence in Syria and rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

With Thursday's decision to grant exceptions to China, which buys up to a fifth of Iran's oil exports, and Singapore, which buys Iranian fuel oil, the Obama administration has now spared all 20 of Iran's major oil buyers from its unilateral sanctions.

The sanctions themselves are designed to pressure Iran to curb its nuclear program, which the West believes aims to develop nuclear weapons but which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes such as generating electricity and medical isotopes.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said both China and Singapore earned the reprieve by cutting imports of Iranian crude and argued the reductions by all 20 countries showed that Iran was paying a high price for its nuclear program.

"Their cumulative actions are a clear demonstration to Iran's government that Iran's continued violation of its international nuclear obligations carries an enormous economic cost," Clinton said in a release.

Earlier this month the administration granted exceptions to India and six other economies. Japan and 10 European Union countries got exceptions in March.

The sanctions seek to pressure Iran by choking off its oil revenues, the life blood of the Iranian economy.

How does this reprieve put a stranglehold on that mad theocratic state?



The US Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot force you to buy healthcare you may not want or need but it can be a tax. In short, get stuffed, American taxpayer:

In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn’t comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding. . . . Yes, to answer a common question, the whole ACA is constitutional, so the provision requiring insurers to cover young adults until they are 26 survives as well.

There can be any number of reasons for not having health insurance, ranging from being under a relative's plan, changing plans, being dissatisfied with existing insurance or simply being indifferent. How this will be paid for with prices and unemployment going up is anyone's guess.



This may be a boon to the Romney campaign:

According to Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law led to a windfall for Mitt Romney. Ms. Saul told The Politicker supporters donated at least $100,000 in the 50 minutes between the immediate aftermath of the ruling, which was issued at approximately 10:10 a.m.

The usual idiots. Don't these self-loathing people ever get tired of being rancid?



Now, now, Stephen Harper doesn't hate you personally (but I can see why he would).



I'm sure South Korea doesn't care (at least not that much):

Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi warned South Korea on Thursday that Tehran would reconsider ties with Seoul if the country stopped importing oil from Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

South Korea said on Monday it would halt imports of Iranian crude from July 1 due to a European Union ban on insuring tankers carrying Iranian oil, becoming the first major Asian consumer of Iranian crude to announce suspension of imports.

"If South Korea completely halts imports of Iranian oil, there will be a reconsideration in ties with this country," Qasemi said according to IRNA, without elaborating.

There are a couple of bright spots in the day:

Pope Benedict put the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, seen as the world's first televangelist because of his popular programs in the 1950s-1960s in the United States, on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday.

And:

Attorney General Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress on Thursday as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives sanctioned the nation's top law enforcement official for withholding some documents related to a failed gun-running probe.

The mostly partisan vote of 255-67 marked the first time a sitting attorney general and presidential Cabinet member was cited for contempt by the full House. No Senate vote is necessary in this House contempt citation.

Many Democrats refused to cast votes, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi led dozens of her colleagues in a walkout from the House floor in protest.

The fight over the Obama administration documents revolves around "Operation Fast and Furious," a federal law enforcement program intended to track weapons sold in Arizona that were suspected of being transported to Mexico for use by violent drug cartels.

In the end, 17 Democrats voted to support the contempt charge, while two Republicans opposed it and 108 Democrats refused to cast votes.

(With plenty of thanks)

 

The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (Pt. 8)

(WARNING: due to the immense amount of douchebaggery reported in this post, viewer discretion is advised.)

From the top-down:

NPR's Scott Horsley amped up a campaign rally for President Obama to biblical proportions on Tuesday's Morning Edition, as he singled out an Obama supporter who clearly was in awe of the incumbent Democrat, to the point of practically deifying him.
      
Horsley set the scene, pointing out how "the rain had stopped, and a little sunshine was peeking through the clouds," and how the supporter attributed this change in the weather to the President: "See what his voice does? It clears up the weather, too. It clears up the economy, creates jobs, helps education, and straightens out the weather." [audio clip available here]

This deification is so rampant that one would think the ACLU would step in and stop it faster than you can say “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

And:

President Obama’s spokesman urged House Republicans on Wednesday to cancel a planned vote to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress, saying most Americans don’t care about the separation-of-powers struggle.

“We hope Republicans change their minds as to what the right course of action is,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney, adding that lawmakers should be focused instead on boosting the economy. “I cannot imagine this will sit well with most Americans.”

Yes, why would Americans care about their attorney-general covering up a failed gun-running plan which resulted in the death of Brian Terry, a border patrol agent, and culminating in one of the most transparent presidential rescues in recent history, and in an election year, no less?

That economy red herring was priceless, by the way.

North of the border…

Watch this:

The extreme douchiness starts at about the forty-five second mark with the assault at the fifty-four second mark.

Now, if pink-haired chick were truly a peaceful, well-meaning union employee with a functioning brain stem, she wouldn’t have attempted to vandalise private property and smack people. Idiocy, extremism, self-entitlement- call it whatever you want. The upshot of it is that she is a douche and union-backed douche at that.

The time for union reform (or abolition) is now. Union dues are for worker-related causes, not for pink-haired douches to vandalise vehicles of people with whom they disagree or to use that money for political causes that are polarising.

Here is an example of how ugly the left chooses to be. Let’s make this clear- this man deliberately said what he did not because his statement was true but because he could do it and felt he could get away with it:

I was shocked to read the tweet, which was sent out on Sunday, was widely redistributed, and has now been seen by more than 10,000 people. It looks like a statement from Woodworth. It shows his official photo and name, next to these deeply offensive words: “Rape is God’s Will. Abortion is not. It’s in The Bible.”

These words are in quotes, as if Woodworth actually said them. But of course he didn’t. “Some of my opponents have absolutely no shame,” he said. “It’s a bald-faced lie.” …

I reached the person who sent out the original tweet, Russell Barth. He’s a medical-marijuana advocate from Nepean, just outside Ottawa. On his website, he says he is a writer, artist and caregiver to his wife. 

Here’s a paragraph from his website that tells you far more than you probably want to know about him: “Using cannabis medically since 2002, he has managed to overcome his sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, erectile dysfunction, and various addictions to pharmaceuticals, alcohol, video games, and junk food.”

Like a lot of people who fiercely attack others on the internet, Barth crumpled up like a used tissue when confronted on the phone.

“That’s just satire,” he said, speaking faster than anyone I have ever met. “I’m paraphrasing. I can take it down. It’s called satire. He hasn’t contacted me … I apologize for putting it up but I want him to know that it’s just satire … I will issue an apology on my blog. 

“It’s part of the perils of being in public life,” he said, as he tried to figure out how to take down the image of Woodworth he had put up. “You end up being on the internet and it’s a rough place.”

At no time did MP Stephen Woodworth say anything Barth alleged him to have said. He did not state, imply or in any way, shape or form give such a statement. Look it up if you don’t believe me. The only people who bring up rape are people like Mr. Barth and various pundits who believe that Mr. Woodworth’s proposal to discuss when human life begins automatically means the recriminalisation of abortion and the deliberate failure to protect raped women (and how that came about is itself insight into the liberal mind and all its extremist wonder). Again, look this up if you don’t believe me. Mr. Barth’s statement doesn’t even resemble satire. It’s libel.  His mealy-mouthed apology (if one wishes to use that word at all it must be in the loosest sense) is offered only after Mr. Woodworth has been maligned by people whose figments of their fevered imagination quickly become the staple of the debate. The apology amounts to nothing and Mr. Barth damn well knows it. The damage is done.

I think a lawsuit is in order.

Even the South Koreans aren’t immune to douchebaggery.

Lim Su-Kyung  (read of Im Su-Gyeong’s exploits in Bradley K. Martin’s Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader) became the darling of North Korean circles in 1989 when she visited Pyeongyang and was even granted an audience with dictator Kim Il-Sung (South Korea’s Hanoi Jane?). She is now a representative of the leftist Democratic United Party. When asked by a human rights activist to pose for a picture, she first agreed but then became… well… rabid:

According to Baek [...] Lim made the comments to him on the 1st at a restaurant in Seoul, saying, “Defectors who have no roots should just shut their mouths and live quietly in the Republic of Korea. Defectors with no idea should not talk back to a Republic of Korea National Assembly lawmaker.”

[....]

In the process, Lim also heavily criticized Saenuri Party lawmaker Ha Tae Kyung, who used to be a pro-North activist himself, saying, “You work with that Ha Tae Kyung right, on that North Korean human rights stuff? Ha Tae Kyung that turncoat I’m going to kill him with my own bare hands.” 

What? Criticism is not allowed? People should keep quiet? Human right activists critical of North Korea should be killed with her own hands? I’m not shocked and nor should anyone else be. Show me a leftist who doesn’t favour a dictator, blow a fuse or who has such moral and logical dissonance that not even science can explain it and I’ll show you the tooth fairy.

I think this incident shows us that no matter what country you come from, if you’re a leftist, you’re foaming at the mouth and a raving lunatic.

Am I right or am I right?

(With thanks to everyone)

Mid-Week Post

The middle of the week never looked so good.

Well, gee, South Korea, what were you waiting for?

South Korea became the first major Asian consumer of Iranian crude to announce a halt to imports after the government said they would be suspended from July 1 due to a European Union ban on insuring tankers carrying Iranian oil.

Union capos and the leftist brain-trusts who vouch for them:

A small group of protestors with flags representing the Canadian Auto Workers union were present, including London-Fanshawe Member of Parliament Irene Mathyssen. The protesters’ attempt to disrupt the event included forming a human blockade across the entry way of the event parking lot and surrounding one of the Caravan’s trucks to prevent it from moving. One pro-abortion protester even began to vandalize the truck with a coat-hanger (ironically) in an attempt to remove the graphic images of aborted children from the side of the vehicle.

After the incident between the mob and the truck, police were called to the scene by CCBR Executive Director Stephanie Gray. Gray acknowledged that this was a first during their tour, but noted that CAW has been an active opponent of the New Abortion Caravan since its launch in May. No arrests were made.

Beyond the physical disruptions, the protestors were also harassing people attempting to get into the event. Some chanted “If you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one” to attendees. The megaphone-equipped group leader was more personal in her attacks, at one point waying “No one would have sex with you anyway, so it doesn’t matter” to a 20-year old woman wearing a pro-life button.

**

The members of unions are pro choice.

And that chant was right -- if you don't want an abortion, don't have one.

Yes, about that:

A pro-abortion rally organized by members of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 444 as part of a protest against the “New Abortion Caravan” didn’t go as smoothly as planned, after a crowd of pro-life union members showed up at the event in a counter protest.

CAW rally organizers said the pro-abortion demonstration was also staged to protest Conservative MP Steve Woodworth’s motion in the House of Commons calling for Parliament to establish a special committee to consider when human life begins.

The pro-abortion rally took place Monday evening in front of the Windsor Regional Hospital. The Windsor Star reported that about 100 pro-abortion union members were faced across the street with about half that number of pro-life union members, who not only stood to defend the lives of the unborn, but to protest their union’s decision to wade into the abortion debate.

And:

The issue of abortion has divided membership at CAW Local 444.

As part of a national initiative, the CAW held pro-choice rallies in Windsor and London on Monday night.

Several hundred people showed up to the rally on Tecumseh Road near the Met Campus of Windsor Regional Hospital.

Many more CAW members demonstrated across the street — either because they don't believe in abortion or because they don't feel the union should be taking sides in the debate.

About CAW:

The CAW is not only dedicated to fighting for workers rights at the bargaining table, it's equally committed to taking on economic, political and social issues that affect its members and their families in the broader community.

So, they are branching out into non-work-related areas? Does that include misogynist comments toward a twenty year old pro-life woman (union broads can be so catty)?

Allocation of funds:

As of November 9, 1988, in accordance with Article 17, Section 6, local unions shall set aside ten cents (.10) of each monthÍs dues payment into a Political Education Fund; ten cents (.10) of each dues payment is to be set aside into the Education Fund; two cents (.02) of each dues payment is to be set aside for recreation and leisure time use, and one cent (.01) of each dues payment shall be set aside for the Retired Workers Fund.

However:

Since 1993 I have defended my Local’s binding referendum that was supposed to effectively prohibit the Local from supporting partisan politics.  In 1993, CAW Local 222, then the largest private sector Local in Canada, voted 82% to stop supporting the NDP financially or in any other way.  Even after this overwhelming vote the Local disregarded the will of the Membership and continued to support the NDP financially and by other means both at the Provincial and Federal levels.

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Ken Lewenza of the Canadian Auto Workers union said the leaders of the province’s three main student federations each gave “inspiring” presentations during the late-April gathering in the Quebec town of Montebello.

He said around 150 delegates present immediately began reaching into their pockets and gave a total of $3,000 — an amount matched by the union. In the end, the student groups each received $2,000.

Mr. Lewenza said the assistance is about supporting future generations and indicated he would ask members across the country for more help, if the Quebec branch of his union requests it.

“I’m not at all hesitant to call on CAW locals throughout Canada to join in on bonds of solidarity and provide whatever support is necessary — whether it’s financial, whether it’s moral,” Mr. Lewenza said in a recent interview.

So, brain-trusty, how about if we don’t want to join a leftist union that takes workers’ hard-earned cash and uses it to support non-worker-related and rather questionable causes (with its dollops of woman-hatred), we shouldn’t have to?

(Merci pour la hostess avec la mostess)

Do you remember how passionately pro-Bill 13 supporters denied the bill was a means to indoctrinate and separate students along artificial lines and insisted it was about stopping bullies?

Well…

In the final Bill 13 debate at Queens Park, New Democrat MPP, Cheri DiNovo addressed MPPs with a lengthy speech on Bill 13 in which she candidly described her “hope” that in the future, “the school system sees two mothers or two fathers as just as normal a family group, as a male and female.”  So, she’s clear, she hopes Bill 13 helps normalize homosexual family structures in the minds of children.

This admission is not far off from the one we got from Liberal Education Minister Laurel Broten recently during a scrum on Bill 13. A Toronto Sun journalist asked Broten why she has her children in Catholic school if she disagrees so much with Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Minister Broten replied: “This is about having schools where our students, if they draw a picture of their family and it has two moms in it or it has two dads, that they know that other pupils in that classroom understand and know that’s just as loving a family as theirs.” You notice she didn’t mention anything about bullying whatsoever? She’s talking about normalizing homosexual family structures in very early grades. She’s talking about indoctrination. Social engineering.

Dalton McGuinty himself, in a speech delivered last summer to the Toronto Gay Pride parade, told the participants that his government’s objective in imposing GSAs is to “change attitudes” about homosexuality. He described how that process “should begin in the home and extend deep into our communities, including our schools.”

What do the gay activists say about Bill 13? Well, Queer Ontario, a gay-activist organization, admits to having written the amendments to Bill 13. Who is Queer Ontario you ask? Well, they’re a group working with the McGuinty government, whose mission statement on their website includes getting Ontario to celebrate not only homosexuality, but also bondage, sadism, masochism and polyamorous relationships. That’s polygamy.  Does it encourage you to know this organization helped McGuinty write the bill? Heck, according to the Catholic school trustees there’s no gay agenda here at all, and in fact, GSAs are suitable for Catholic schools!

Don’t look so shocked.

I guess there are white jihadists:

Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of one of the 7/7 bombers, is believed to have been behind an attack in Kenya that killed three people as they watched England during Euro 2012, according to reports.

Let this moment of brief vindication/confusion settle in, white leftist basket-weavers.

Quite rich for a man who has done nothing BUT campaign since arriving in office:

The fact that Obama has the nerve to make this claim while hitting seven fundraisers in only 48 hours that brings the total number for this year alone to 100, out-pacing George W. Bush by an almost 3-to-1 ratio is nothing less than stunning.

The Romney campaign raises more than we do, and the math isn’t hard to understand: Through the primaries, we raised almost three-quarters of our money from donors giving less than $1,000, while Mitt Romney’s campaign raised more than three-quarters of its money from individuals giving $1,000 or more.

The man is disgusting.

I’d like to point out that a teacher cannot mark what a student has not handed in and that allowing the student to be lazy will not be rewarding forever. Bad idea:

The Edmonton Public School Board will review its controversial no-zero grading policy, which caused an uproar across the country after high school teacher Lynden Dorval was suspended for defying it.

Trustees voted unanimously to revisit the policy at a board meeting Tuesday after hearing from Dorval, who spoke out against it in a brief presentation.

"This no-zero policy does not work," Dorval said. "You only have to look at the stats of the number of the high schools that have been doing this thing for a number of years and you look at their diploma results. They're terrible."

Dorval, who was recently threatened with termination by his principal at Ross Sheppard High School, said he objects to being told how to evaluate his students by "somebody who doesn't know my subject, doesn't know my students."

"The decision to make evaluations should be in the hands of teachers," Dorval told trustees. "We do take our job very seriously, consider ourselves professional, and I think it should be our right."

The board also heard from other speakers including Dorval's former colleague at Ross Sheppard, retired social studies teacher Doug Senuik.

He told trustees the no-zero directive pushes students through "by any means necessary."

The practice is not based on research, but rather the work of "overzealous principals" who want to increase their students' completion rates, Senuik said.

The practice raises marks, but lowers achievement, he said.

And now,  cats that live in fridges. Enjoy.

For a Monday

Quickly now.


This is troubling:

Rescue workers in the northern Ontario town of Elliot Lake on Monday called off their search for survivors at a two-story shopping mall whose rooftop parking lot partially collapsed two days ago, after authorities deemed the site too dangerous.

One person is confirmed dead and another is believed to have died in the collapse at the Algo Centre Mall, which occurred on Saturday afternoon when the mall is typically crowded. Twenty-two people were injured.
City spokeswoman Kate Matuszewski said the operation was now considered to be a recovery rather than a rescue effort.

When asked if that meant authorities had given up hope of finding anyone alive inside the damaged portion of the mall, she said: "Basically, yes." Matuszewski declined to say why authorities came to that conclusion.

"Due to the building being unsafe, crews were pulled from the building," Matuszewski said in a telephone interview.

Mayor Rick Hamilton, however, later said authorities were still hopeful of resuming the rescue operation, saying he was pushing provincial authorities to get assistance in stabilizing the site. He said he would work with Emergency Measures Ontario to involve the armed forces if necessary.

"We are making every effort to make sure we can expedite this process as quickly as possible," Hamilton told Canadian Broadcasting Corp television.

"It was not an easy decision" for the emergency teams to leave the site, he said. "I spoke with them personally and they were absolutely mortified having to leave that scene."

The collapse sent at least one parked vehicle as well as concrete and metal raining into the mall below, leaving a hole in the roof.

Police said 30 people were unaccounted for, a list that had grown from nine. But there was no way of knowing how many of those were in the mall at the time of collapse, the CBC quoted police as saying.

This won't end well:

Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president whose powers have already been curbed by the army, began work on a coalition on Monday after touring his new palace, once home of Hosni Mubarak who banned his movement for three decades.

Declared winner on Sunday a week after a tumultuous run-off vote that pitted him against a former air force chief, the Islamist faces the challenge of meeting sky-high expectations in a nation tired of turmoil while the economy is on the ropes.

Make joining a union voluntary and demand public financial accounts:

The CAW has chosen a side in the abortion debate.

The union is making it clear, it is pro-choice.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, national union president Ken Lewenza outlined the union's stance.

Lewenza wrote the letter in response to Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion to examine whether the Criminal Code definition of "human being" should be expanded to include fetuses.

"Less than a year into a majority government, we see the debate being cracked open by a member of the Conservative caucus," Lewenza wrote. "Nothing has been as offensive as the suggestion that government may infringe on women’s rights over their own bodies and freedom of choice."

Monday, the CAW will hold pro-choice rallies in Windsor and London, Ont. 

CAW local 444 in Windsor will hold its rally at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Tecumseh Road East and Turner Road, near the Met Campus of Windsor Regional Hospital parking lot.

The rallies will be staged to counter demonstrations by the anti-abortion group Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, which will bring its "new abortion caravan" to London on Monday evening.

The caravans feature graphic photos, poster and large box-body trucks covered in similar photos.

Similar CAW events are planned and have taken place throughout the month of June in cities all across Canada.

Sending jobs to China AND supporting genocide. You guys deserve to be abolished.



Watch the ownage:







When an affluent would-be leftist writer attempts to hand a respected scholar his @$$, there will be comeuppance.


What a stupid girl.



Yes, they ARE grooming children:

 The Guide is entitled Both/and..  This section makes it plain that students are to be encouraged to become cross dressers. As you read the entire document you will realize that this is not a curriculum guide but rather a radical political agenda. My hope is that Lee Hicks is immediately transferred to Valley Park Middle School where he and his GSA can compete for space with the Mosqueteria.

"If we as educators continue to focus children as “girls and boys” ... it doesn’t actually matter how progressive our ideas are... because our practice and the language with which we impart it will remain entrenched in the belief that there are only two genders." (page 18, entitled "early learner - kindergarten program")

From Page 22 of the TDSB's Cross Dressing Guide For Elementary School Students.
4. Once the demonstration self-portrait of myself is done, I ask the class members to all take a minute, close their eyes, and think carefully about the outfit that they either have or wish they had to best describe their true self… We will save the sharing of these ideas for the next day, just before watching the both/and video and commencing the self-portrait creating.
5. Directly after the idea of “what do you most want to draw yourself wearing” has been suggested into the students’ brains, I read them 10 000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert. This book is about a kid named Bailey who happens to be born in a body that people read as “boy”. She dreams of all of the dresses that she would wear if she could make what she saw in her head…. and if her family would realize that actually –she is a girl on the inside.

This can be sorted out if you schedule Islamist Pride events at the same time.



(lots of thanks)



And now,  dachshund puppy vs. crab. Enjoy.

A Post, For It Is Friday

A few things before the week-end.


Did school children wear pink t-shirts for nothing?

A high-profile anti-bullying activist in New Brunswick is being criticized for the way he challenges institutions and organizations.

A school superintendent says Rob Frenette was not realistic in demanding District 14 respond within hours to a complaint about bullying at a Woodstock school.

And NB Power says it has not been able to substantiate Frenette’s allegations of 400 to 500 bullying complaints at the Crown corporation.

Frenette is standing by his actions in both cases. He would not agree to an interview but sent CBC a prepared statement responding to the criticisms.

"Do you think that t-shirt says I'm an insecure little hypocrite on a power trip?"

Anti-bullying activists are often big bullies themselves.


Parents worried about bullying, sign your kids up for tae kwon do classes.



Do you mean to tell me that the government is useless in combatting poverty?

Despite the 'sky is falling' doom and gloom scenarios painted by the Occupy crowd,  it seems Canada's poverty numbers are actually declining.

According to Statistics Canada's "Income of Canadians - 2010" publication released Monday, the percentage of Canadians who earned less than the "low-income cut-off" actually fell from 9.5 per cent in 2009 to 9.0 per cent. ...

But before Canadians start lauding their provincial and federal governments for 'lowering' the poverty rates, they might want to check-out this speech by Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institute to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee earlier this month.

"I want to emphasize the importance of individual initiative in reducing poverty and promoting economic success.

Young people can virtually assure that they and their families will avoid poverty if they follow three elementary rules for success—complete at least a high school education, work full time, and wait until age 21 and get married before having a baby.

Occupy your brains with that.



In impolite company, he would be called a "denier":

Environment Minister Peter Kent says Canada must stop the spread of disinformation on the environment by ecologists with an ideological agenda.

It's the latest example of strained relations between Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government and the environmental movement.

Kent, who is attending a United Nations conference in Brazil on the environment, says ideology has tinged criticism of the federal government's efforts.

While he says he appreciates the narrow focus of the environmental groups, the federal government has to look at the bigger picture and consider the impact on the economy.

There's nothing like an honest opinion to bring out the petulant fat girls in denial:

Adam Carolla isn't interested in making any public apologies for saying men are, in general, funnier than women during an interview with The New York Post.

Both male and female comedians quickly took to Twitter to refute Carolla's charge, some dubbing him a misogynist in the process. But Carolla told The Daily Caller the notion that he's a misogynist is "fucking insane."

If writing a fake memoir is considered honourable, I would like to say that I invented car chases and I am Batman.


Cherokee Batman.




An interesting article from One point Five Metres of Rage:

Many of these “nuns” no longer believe in the Real Presence or even the divinity of Christ.

They certainly don’t recognize the authority of the Vatican.

So why don’t they leave?

Because they’re old. The average age of an American woman religious is 70.

These women have no savings or other assets. Obviously they don’t have children who could care for them.

They have Ph.Ds in rarefied subjects with no real world applications, even assuming any company would hire them at their age.

If they stop being nuns, they give up everything.

Remember when nuns were servants of Christ, angels of mercy and devoted to the Church?



When shock value and crappy placards are all you have, you flaunt it. That's why.



John Kerry did the same thing. The famous distractions help avoid dealing with the issues (RE: ruining America) and the campaigning makes celebrities feel important. Win-win.



Let's see how classy they are in Tehran.



Flashback: hostages in Iran are released just twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan's inaugural address.



"There is no fun in Islam." You're damn right.



(with thanks to one and many)



You don't say:

Think you're making the right choice by reaching for the low-fat dressing at the salad bar? Think again.

If you want to get the most vitamins and nutrients out of your plate of greens, you need to top them with monounsaturated fat-rich dressing, new research out of Perdue University in the U.S. claims.


If you want to utilize more from your fruits and vegetables, you have to pair them correctly with fat-based dressings," says Mario Ferruzzi, the study's lead author and  associate professor of food science, in a press release. "If you have a salad with a fat-free dressing, there is a reduction in calories, but you lose some of the benefits of the vegetables."

In the study, published online in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, participants ate salads paired with saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat-based dressings. The subjects' blood was then tested for absorption of fat-soluble carotenoids, which are associated with reduced risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, macular degeneration and other chronic and degenerative diseases.

The researchers found that monounsaturated fat-rich dressings required the least amount of fat to get the most carotenoid absorption, while saturated fat and polyunsaturated fat dressings required higher amounts of fat to get the same benefit.

If Easter Island was a mystery to you before, it isn't now:

Researchers have unveiled a new theory that may redefine the historical understanding of how natives on Easter Island transported the iconic moai statues.

Writing in July's issue of National Geographic magazine, California State University at Long Beach archeologist Carl Lipo and Hawaii anthropologist Terry Hunt postulate that Polynesian natives used a system of ropes and manpower to walk the statues across the island.

"A lot of what people think they know about the island turns out to be not true," Lipo says.

Using the ropes, islanders would stand on each side of the statues, swaying them back and forth to create the walking effect.

Popular theory has held that the islanders created sled-like devices out of the island's trees to cart the statues. That theory also claims that deforestation from the island's inhabitants as part of the statue transporting process was directly tied to the population's eventual downfall.

Instead, Lipo and Hunt say the island's population was actually sustainable and instead fell victim to disease when European explorers first visited the island. In fact, Lipo said the cooperative effort involved in his transportation theory might have led to a more harmonious existence amongst Easter Island's inhabitants.

Conscience

What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him? - Saint Thomas More

Today is the feast day of Saint Thomas More, a man of principle and who died for his principles. He is the patron saint of lawyers.

US Attorney-General Eric Holder (also a lawyer) has been saved by President Barack Obama (something of a lawyer) when granted executive privilege in what has been dubbed the Fast and Furious case.

Discuss.

An Open Letter to the Parents of the Rotten Kids Who Taunted An Elderly Lady

Dear Parents of Some of the Most Spiteful, Horrid, Insolent Little Brats I’ve Ever Had the Misfortune of Seeing,

What is bloody wrong with you? Is this how you raise your children? Or did you leave them to their own devices and let them evolve into the pieces of human excrement who took great pleasure in reducing a little old lady to tears?

Boy, do you have a lot to be proud of!

There is something utterly wicked and sinister about schoolkids who not only think about treating an elder (or any human being, really) with such hatred and cruelty but actually do it. 

I guess a sense of empathy is not something you instilled in your little darlings, is it?

When the rest of the thinking, feeling human race watches the video of your little demons, do honestly think they are nodding with approval as your fugly brats taunt, touch and threaten a grandmother? Trust me- no one is. In fact, people have felt so disgusted at what they witnessed that, moved with pity (because they’re people with hearts and brains), they raised money for her to go on a holiday. That just re-affirms my faith in humanity after your filthy little beggars robbed me of it.

And the cherry on top of this ice cream is that Karen Klein (the name of your kids’ bus monitor and the victim of some of the most vile abuse ever dished out on a human being) doesn’t want to press charges. Holy crap! I would have dipped your brats in boiling fat.

But that’s just me.

If you had any modicum of humanity, you would feel ashamed that your offspring did what they did. 

I hope you will act accordingly when that moment of realisation comes. Remember- it’s not about you! It’s about what your kids did and your failure to prevent it.

Sincerely,

Me

… and, well, the good people out there, too