Sunday, October 30, 2005
Happy Halloween
Support stay-at-home
I agree with this letter writer - fact is, however, there is a growing % of women who don’t want to stay at home and raise the children. Women today seem to be conditioned that they need to draw a paycheck to have a worthwhile career.
Perhaps instead of investing in daycare, the federal government could raise the Child Tax Credit to a meaningful level, providing the means for parents to step out of the workforce if they so choose.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Old and immature
Mark produces a zinger, deconstructing some of the Ottawa propaganda about our “young” country. Apparently it’s more about subverting our famous history, the one that got our country to where it is today.
Obliterating this country’s long, storied history is the Liberals’ way of ensuring that Canadians never really grow up
He spoke the truth
Wente says that Neil French is mostly right - women can’t have it all. That’s just reality.
He’s the notorious adman who shared his views about why so few women make it to the top. The trouble is motherhood. In his view, taking time off to spend with your sick kid is incompatible with the kind of 24-hour commitment you need to be a top creative director like him. “Everyone who doesn’t commit themselves fully to the job is crap at it,” he told the audience, which included several outraged moms/creative directors.
Dump the streetcar
Once more, Toronto is rising up against the streetcar. They make no sense, as this letter writer says.
However, no one has asked the fundamental question. Why does Toronto stubbornly stick with antiquated streetcars at all? There are reasons why virtually all other North American cities have stopped using streetcars.
It’s still up in the air whether the whole St. Clair project will ever go ahead.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Stand up and get respect
Sometimes it pays to stand up to the US - ie. get some balls. It seems to have got Hatch’s attention.
Alberta’s ability to make oilsands production economically viable is a “great success story,” said Mr. Hatch, who at one point joked that “we in this country don’t want to be on Canada’s shit list, ever.”
Have to give credit to Martin, for once.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Eat dinner together
Every now and then, you read about common sense, and wonder why the masses continue to ignore it.
Family dinner hour, once an institution in Canadian homes, is becoming a quaint relic among time-starved parents and kids. At least a half-dozen recent reports from top universities, research firms and think-tanks all paint a picture of families in crisis at the dinner table.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
No wonder they’re doped
Wente notes that the drop-out rate for high school kids is soaring, especially for boys.
Everything about the institution smothers their natural instincts. At an age when they crave initiation into manhood and the company of men, they’re trapped in a world that’s dominated overwhelmingly by women. At a time when they’re experiencing their growing physicality, they’re trapped indoors six hours a day and expected to sit still.
The feminization of our men and society in general is starting to take its toll.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Stay afraid
Ever wonder why you feel on edge these days? This author says it’s only fear that will get you sick.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Reasonable speeds
Why can’t we do this here?
State Police have stepped up efforts to make sure speeds on major roads and expressways are reasonable. The result: In the last few months, two sections of metro Detroit freeways have had speed limits raised:
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Peak oil myth
Not everyone believes we’re running out of oil.
Peak oil is just another weapon the globalists have in their arsenal to move towards a new world order where the elite get richer and everyone else falls into line.
Here’s why they need to keep the price up:
But here’s the catch: By simply opening up its spigots for a few years, Saudi Arabia could, in short order, force a complete write-off of the huge capital investments in Athabasca and Orinoco. Investing billions in tar-sand refineries is risky not because getting oil out of Alberta is especially difficult or expensive, but because getting oil out of Arabia is so easy and cheap.
Meat info
If you’re like me, you like meat - and this is good info.
10 Things Your Butcher Won’t Tell You
via J-Walk
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Lawyers making kids fat
It’s no wonder, with lawsuits governing how playgrounds are made, that our kids are getting fat.
“I realize we want to keep kids from cracking their heads open,” said Levin, whose daughter is a Gator Run Elementary fifth grader in Weston. “But there has to be a place where they can get out and run.”
Saturday, October 8, 2005
Zero tolerance
Steyn writes that Islam has no interest in co-existing, and the sooner the west figures it out, the better off we’ll all be.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Getting swept away
Fred says that the US is slowly being swept out to sea - and the feds aren’t doing anything to help.
I’m thinking about turning into a Marxist. Ol’ Karl used to talk about these irresistible currents of history that just swept you along and you couldn’t do anything about’em, like the current that swept communism mostly out of existence. (He may have had some other currents in mind.) I’m looking at what’s happening in the US. It’s gotta be an irresistible current. It couldn’t be on purpose.
Anyone else agree Fred is one of the best columnists on the net? If you do, hit his tip jar.
Deep sleep
I’m sure he died painlessly.
Leo Sternbach, the inventor of a revolutionary new class of tranquilizers that included Valium, considered the first blockbuster drug, has died at his Chapel Hill, N.C., home. He was 97.
Put a sock in it
Blatchford has no time (click on google title) for the blubbering citycrat admitting her affair.
Mary, mother of God, hear my prayer: Make Pam Coburn shut up.
Don’t these idiots have any shame? Sure, people have affairs, but dragging your kids out to a press conference to parade your stupidity in front of the world borders on child abuse. What was she looking for, the child-sympathy factor?
Both should be fired: she for promoting someone clearly not entitled to the job, and he for being a cheating, lying deceptive bum who can’t maintain his marriage vows. Clearly we don’t need two cheaters playing with taxpayer dollars.
Monday, October 3, 2005
More stating the obvious
In case you didn’t think staying at home to raise your child is the most important decision you can make, they’ve now made it official in the UK.
One of the longest and most detailed studies of UK childcare has concluded that young children who are looked after by their mothers do significantly better in developmental tests than those cared for in nurseries, by childminders or relatives.
Sadly, it seems, as more women decide the workplace is more fulfilling than homelife, a growing consensus is certain that someone else can do a better job than they can.
Can I sell it, Daddy?
Yet another story of government interference ruining what should be a straightforward business.
Prepared for a run
I’ve used a lot of different toilets in my travels, but never one with this many rolls.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Pond scum
The death penalty would be too good for the “parents” of poor little Jeffrey Baldwin. Blatchford, brilliant as always, explains:
By the numbers, he was not-quite six years old; he weighed 21 pounds; he was 37 inches tall. He was starved, he was covered in his own feces, he had pneumonia in his lungs, and he was in the throes, or soon to be in the throes, of the septic shock that would kill him.