Monday, February 27, 2006

Great day for contracts

Finally, with barely a whimper, the McSquinty Liberal’s pathetic attempt to bully a company, who signed a contract in good faith, has ended.

Today the Ontario Court of Appeal denied the province leave to appeal the divisional court ruling regarding plate denial for outstanding 407 ETR debts.

Wonder how many millions this wild goose chase cost.

Peerflix

Here is an interesting service that I just joined.  Let’s see how well it works.

Keep what you receive. You own them.
You own what you receive.  That means you can keep them as long as you like or trade them again.  There will never be any late fees.

Too bad it doesn’t seem to work for VHS tapes.  I have hundreds.

via JWalk, who else?

Sunday, February 26, 2006

AAADD

Do you have it?

Do you suffer from AAADD?

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. -
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

History is repeating II

More commentary from my list of great writers that history is repeating itself.

Even after the experience of the Great War, and the Depression, people on the eve of the Hitler war could not appreciate what was coming.

Will the world realize it after it’s too late?

Live Free Or Else!

I’ve always liked the state motto of New Hampshire.  Here’s an entry on what’s up with it today.

Liberals hate “Live Free Or Die.” They hated it in the late 60s and early 70s, when I lived in New Hampshire, and they hate it still. The only difference is that liberals have grown more powerful in the state as southern New Hampshire increasingly consists of Boston bedroom communities.

History is repeating

Steyn warns that history repeats itself, and it’s doing so right now.  Problem is, no-one wants to notice.

This month, there was another murder. Ilan Halimi, also 23, also Jewish, was found by a railway track outside Paris with burns and knife wounds all over his body. He died en route to the hospital, having been held prisoner, hooded and naked, and brutally tortured for almost three weeks by a gang that had demanded half a million dollars from his family. Can you take a wild guess at the particular identity of the gang? During the ransom phone calls, his uncle reported that they were made to listen to Ilan’s screams as he was being burned while his torturers read out verses from the Quran.

Update: Debbie Schlussel has an entry on the subject.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Moms should stay home

You don’t see this in today’s media.

I do know, however, that a woman’s place is in the home.

There, it’s been said. The unthinkable has been uttered. I can only wonder what the various highly intelligent women who edit my column are saying as they read this, but that’s hardly the point. A woman’s place is in the home.

I’ll water that down a bit and say that one parent should stay home, although I have to agree, a mother has more natural instincts to raise children than a man.

Update: A passionate sahm (stay-at-home-mom) gives her two cents.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Long live Britain

Steyn writes on the enduring legacy of the British Empire.

In other words, there is simply nothing comparable in scale or endurance to the Britannic inheritance.

AIDS truth

Some info on AIDS that you won’t see in the mainstream media.

Far more die every year of breast and prostate cancer, for example, than die of AIDS, though these diseases are given about a tenth of the money for research that is given for AIDS.

It’s time for those suffering from prostate problems to rise up and demand their share of sympathy money.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

On Bird Flu and other nasty exports

Mark turns another book review into a powerhouse column on the downside of globalization.

Indeed, when you look at it that way, the biggest globalization success story of recent years is not McDonald’s or Nike, but Islamism:

Women’s issues

My favorite discovery of 2006 so far is Steyn at Macleans, doing what he does best as book reviewer.

Here’s a book review in his amazing, unmistakeable style.

What patriarchal dragons are left for feminists to slay? Well, according to Rachel Smolkin in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Women make up only 1.3 per cent of plumbers, pipe fitters and steamfitters . .

Amazing bridge

One of my favorite parts of my trip to FLA was this bridge.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is the world’s longest cable-stayed concrete bridge, with a length of 29,040 feet (exactly 5.5 miles or approximately 8.85 km).

Quite a site—and all for only $1 toll.

Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?

I like Dr. Laura, although I know that life doesn’t really work in absolutes.  Her mantra on a parent should raise their own kid, while apparently out of vogue with today’s parents, is well worth listening to over and over again in a anti-stay-at-home parent world.

I wonder if this letter ever got a response from her.

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can.

She’s not on in Toronto any more, and apparently she’s on XM (I have Sirius.)

Four kid family

Good to see W. Gairdner has a blog.  He’s got an entry on what he sees as a future government’s answer to the population decline.

The Four-child family will come roaring back; feminism of the radical, anti-family kind will become extremely unpopular, and anyone preaching it or teaching it will become a social pariah; the practice of homosexuality, the gay lifestyle, and gay “marriage” will once again be seen as unnatural, unpatriotic, against the good of society and driven underground, if not recriminalized; huge tax relief and tax credit and school subsidy packages and mortgage relief will be created to encourage large families, and so on. Bet on it.

I wouldn’t bet on it, especially if we have a female prime minister.  Of course, I wouldn’t bet on that either.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Tap your past

Drawing upon seniors for sage advice is an age old idea - so doing it at the city government level shouldn’t be any different.

The good old days often weren’t, and good old politicians often were clay from the feet up. Yet I remember how surprised I was when I met Tony O to discover he wasn’t just a headline chaser but had a lively, quotable and informed view on every urban issue.

At least somebody does

Personally, I stopped watching Larry a long time ago.

OSAMA bin Laden watches Larry King.

It may seem a rather trite observation considering the numbing frothiness of King’s CNN talk show compared with the gravity of all that surrounds the world’s most hunted terrorist.

Who signed this?

It’s hard to believe anyone would sign this.

This country, as you know, is filled with the deranged. And then there’s Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa man who is facing charges that he tried to kidnap his own wife (not to mention a separate child pornography rap).

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Mirabel Airport to become amusement park

Why does this latest idea for Mirabel sound like a dumb idea?

Montreal’s large Mirabel Airport, recently closed to all passenger traffic, is to be turned into a giant amusement park on the themes of water and space,

Returning it to the farmers makes more sense.

As long as Quebec can’t make up its mind, Montreal will never be the city it may have been when Mirabel was created.

Monday, February 20, 2006

I75 to heaven

I thought I75’s traffic was bad today - I can just imagine the future with millions of Catholics coming to town.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Missing the point again

Mark writes that another week goes by with the media missing the point.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Imagine a choice

Wouldn’t it be great having a la carte programming on cable tv.

Rock bottom

You have to wonder what it will take for the West to save Rhodesia.  Obviously not dead babies.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Laziness meets industry

More proof that the marketplace is efficient: Lazy students paying off a crooked gym teacher.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Decline of society

Fred laments the decline of society.

Monday, February 13, 2006

Married men joke

The wife comes home early & finds her husband in their master
bedroom making love to a beautiful, sexy young lady!
“You unfaithful, disrespectful pig!  What are you doing? How dare
you do this to me the faithful wife, the mother of your children!  I’m
leaving this house, I want a divorce!” The husband, replies “Wait, Wait
a minute!
Before you leave, at least listen to what happened”
“Hummmmm, I don’t know, well it’ll be the last thing I will hear
from you.  But make it fast, you unfaithful pig you”
The husband begins to tell his story .  .  .  “While driving home
this young lady asks for a ride.  I saw her so defenseless that I went
ahead and allowed her in my car. I noticed that she was very thin, not
well dressed! and very dirty. She mentioned that she had not eaten for 3 days.
With great compassion and hurt, I brought her home and warmed up the
enchiladas that I made for you last night that you wouldn’t eat because
you’re afraid you’ll gain weight; the poor thing, practically devours
them.  Since she was very dirty I asked her to take a shower.
While she was showering, I noticed her clothes were dirty and full
of holes so I threw her clothes away.  Since she needed clothes, I gave
her the pair of jeans that you have had for a few years, that you can
no longer wear because they are too tight on you, I also gave her the
blouse that I gave you on our anniversary and you don’t wear because I
don’t have good taste.
I gave her the pullover that my sister gave you for Christmas that
you will not wear just to bother my sister and I also gave her the
boots that you bought at the expensive boutique that you never wore
again after you saw your co -worker wearing the same pair.”
The husband continues his story .  .  .  .  . “The young woman was
very grateful to me and I walked her to the door.  When we got to the
door she turned around and with tears coming out of her eyes, she asks
me:
“Sir, do you have anything else that your wife does not use”