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Archives for August 2008

Kick Ass Bloggers

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Kick Ass Blogger Mattt put me down for this award. Thanks Mattt! {{luv}}

Here’s the Rulez;

Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to MammaDawg
Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

Of course with these awards you can’t link to everyone you feel deserves it and some have already been listed so in no particular order and no disrespect to those not listed;

  1. Hope & Onions: though currently unable to write to her blog, even as an archive it is valuable.
  2. The Apophatic Attic: Go. Read. You’ll thank me.
  3. Pogge: A level of writing and discourse I can only aspire to.
  4. In The House and Senate: 900 ft of goodness.
  5. Blind Man With A Pistol: Just be careful where you stand. 😉


So keep reading and keep writing and remember

“He’s doing politics, we’re doing health care”

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Quote from Robert Ouellet.
“Robert Ouellet a radiologist in Montreal, said safe injection sites are an important point of entry for addicts into the health care system. He said the goal is harm reduction — by lowering the risk of disease transmission through dirty needles — as well as by providing education about drug addiction”.
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Health Minister Tony Clement does what ReformaCons do best, try to win by smearing your opponent. Of course when the case you are making has no real basis in fact, smear tactics are what’s left.
This time it is doctors who support Insite who are getting slammed.

“Is it ethical for health-care professionals to support the administration of drugs that are of unknown substance, or purity or potency — drugs that cannot otherwise be legally prescribed?”
In any other medical setting, supervised overdoses would be considered “highly unprofessional,”

So are we meant to nod our heads in agreement that many Canadian doctors are both unethical and unprofessional? This is though the same government who wants politicians not doctors to decide what can/should/will be done with women’s reproductive concerns. Little wonder then that they have no hesitancy in purporting to know more about how to treat addicts than health care professionals.

Clement goes on to talk about continued efforts at addiction treatment, however, treatment has many facets such as dealing with underlying issues of addiction and life changes. Many addicts are poor and/or homeless and often have some sort of background of abuse or mental health issues. This are issues that need to be addressed long before what are often shame based treatments are considered.

In any case the lock ’em all up crowd of which the Cons are part, see prison as the treatment for addiction. War on Drugs™ and all that. The major source of concern is more likely that places such as Insite humanize rather than demonize those with addiction.

Canada’s New Government™ is old, stale and mouldy and needs to be thrown out like last months bread.

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Karol Karolak comes to tea

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……..and defecates on rug.

KK stopped by to tell me that McVety isn’t letting Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin off the hook. In fact he posted an article from The Globe in it’s entirety. Can you say copyright violation KK? Come on I bet you can if you try.

It then stopped by Birth Pangs to leave this comment

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Witches and bitches come to the rescue of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin

===Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.===

Please follow these links to see for yourself how very true this old proverb is.

http://www.wiccanweb.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=20836

http://www.acreativerevolution.ca/node/1230

http://unrepentantoldhippie.blogspot.com/

http://bouquetsofgray.blogspot.com/2008/08/astroturfing-for-christ-or-make-that-38.html

http://www.breadnroses.ca/birthpangs/2008/08/chief-justice-v-lying-liars/

McLachlin & Morgentaler

and I’m proud to be associated with the others on the list.

BTW anyone got any air freshener?

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Give Gamers a Break

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Not the tool of the Devil!
Not the tool of the Devil!

Gamers and the games they play have been blamed for everything from violent crime to the injustices surrounding Coltan mining.

But in reality thugs, bullies and killers were with us long before video games, TV, movies or comic books and Coltan has many more uses than just games systems.

Tantalum is used primarily for the production of capacitors, particularly for applications requiring a small compact format and high reliability, ranging widely from hearing aids and pacemakers, to airbags, GPS, ignition systems and anti-lock braking systems in automobiles, through to laptop computers, mobile phones, video game consoles, video cameras and digital cameras.[6] The upsurge in electronic products over the past decade resulted in a peak in late 2000 with inflated high demand and price increases for the mineral which lasted a few months. In 2005 the price was still down at early 2000 levels.[7]

Wiki

Though often referred to as a socially inept 12 year old or a ne’er do well who lives in his parents basement, gamers come from all walks of life and both sexes. The highest demographic being those in their 30’s and 40’s.

A recent study of 5-7 graders found that playing (non-violent) games increased their cognitive and perceptual skills. Another study on surgeons found that those who gamed made 37% fewer mistakes and were 27% faster. If you’re having surgery you might want to ask your doctor to invest in an Xbox!

Games such as World of Warcrack Warcraft encouraged community and scientific reasoning
*researchers Constance Steinkuehler, PhD, and Sean Duncan, MA, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison

So don’t fear the gamers, well ok maybe this one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnyUtdcboc[/youtube]

Judge Not! Lest ye be shown to be an idiot!

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Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Claiming to represent one million plus nutbars Canadians, a group of no-lifers brought a complaint against Justice Beverley McLachlin.

Faced with an official complaint she be removed from office for revealing “bias” and a “political agenda,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin yesterday defended – and clarified – her role as head of a committee that recommended Dr. Henry Morgentaler receive the Order of Canada.

McLachlin said she doesn’t normally take part in the committee’s voting process – except to break a tie – and, “contrary to what has been reported,” doesn’t drive the closed-door debates over which nominees should be accorded the honour.

“Some idea was put out by – I don’t know who, some rumour or some source – that somehow the chair leads the discussion,” she told reporters at a news conference after a speech to the Canadian Bar Association’s governing council. “That’s just not the case.”

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When will these people stop with their lies, obfuscations and slander? Well probably never. It is their modus operandi.

With no facts at hand and no basis in reality, they make up their own ‘facts’ and create their own ‘reality’ which they then try to foist on others.

This fundamentalist fetus fetishist freak out is getting old. Equally so their smearing spit speckled epistles and schmaltzy characterizations of every fertilized egg as perfectly white, pink cheeked, pudgy, progeny.

Your right to practice (and some of you could use the practice) religion ends at my right not to.

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