April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

Debra

Thank you Conservative Party of Canada

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Those of us with children know that there are times when they come across bullies. And we often tell them that bullies are people who having such a terrible life, or being inept at things or feeling badly about themselves seek to hurt others in order to make themselves feel good. Never has such an example been made of this theory than has been made with the Conservative attack ads.

It started with the attack on Dion being shown during the afternoon on a children’s programming network. I blogged about how upset my son was about this. He still talks about it and wonders why such an ad would appear among the anti-bullying ads the station often runs.

Having seen the seemingly constantly running attack ads on Ignateiff his opinion of Conservatives has dropped even lower.

So I would like to thank the Conservative Party for not only showing what sad sad people bullies are but also ensuring that my children will never in their lifetimes ever vote Conservative and in fact are eager to do what they can even at this age to defeat them!

Charges dropped against Kopp

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I was surprised to read in yesterdays spectator that charges against the radical anti-abortion extremist James Charles Kopp had been dropped. I wondered at the time if it had to do with the fact that he is currently serving a life sentence in the States. Today’s article would seem to indicate that that is the case.

The announcement said Kopp remains a “person of interest” and the “investigations remain open.” That technically leaves the door open to future work on the cases, although Kopp — the only person ever identified as a suspect — is locked away for good, and U.S. officials say he will never be released.

Task force spokesperson Sergeant John Burchill with Winnipeg police said that with the announcement, the task force no longer exists other than in name, but would receive any new information.

He said the main reason for the timing of dropping the charges is that all of Kopp’s appeals in the U.S. have been exhausted.

Dr. Hugh Short had his elbow blown apart by Kopp in 1995 because he chose to help women with a fully legal and necessary medical procedure.

He never practised medicine again, and never said a word about it publicly for nearly 14 years. But yesterday Short spoke to The Spectator, his voice clear and crisp on the phone.

“I’m doing all right,” he said.

While it is unfortunate that Kopp will not have these crimes officially added to his record, it would only be seen as further cause for celeb to his fellow extremists and serve no purpose sentence wise as he is already serving actual life.

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Can You Dig it Baby?

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A New Zealand couple were shocked to learn their 3 year old had bought an £8000 backhoe while they slept.

Sarah Quinlan told the BBC that she had been looking for toys online, and using an automatic log-in to an auction site.

But a shock was in store when she got up the next day.

“When I found an email from a guy who said ‘can you deposit the money?’ I thought – hang on – this isn’t quite what I expected,” she said.

The toddler had only first used the computer the week before. Good thing she wasn’t looking for stuffed animals who knows what she might have ended up with! 😉

No Backyard? No Problem!

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balcony1I just cannot do without my garden backyard or no backyard. This years garden is off to a good start with a couple of pots of tomatoes a couple of pots of cucumbers and various pots of flowers.
I still have a window box I want to plant with herbs and I need a few more flowers to round things out.

The bird feeder is getting busier and busier though sadly I have yet to see a chickadee and certainly don’t see the variety of birds I did in Lindsay. Gone are my waxwings, juncos, nuthatchs, woodpeckers and numerous other varieties. No doubt they are near but they eschew the balcony.balcony2Back to the garden I’m hoping to add more veggies and have plans to plant a couple of pots with grass seed and bulbs in hopes of having a little spring garden next year. High hopes maybe but nothing ventured nothing gained. Morning glories are also on the agenda. I can remember as a little girl walking around the various garden areas with my mom early in the morning the beautiful blues of the morning glory in the late summer, the colourful baubles of the sweet pea, tall stately snap dragons I loved them all! I am at my most content with my hands covered in soil, the smell of earth and life in my nostrils and a symphony of birdsong as accompaniment

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse

Kenya Sex Ban Leads to Lawsuit

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blue_ballsA Kenyan man is suing the organizers of a sex ban claiming, “”I have been suffering mental anguish, stress, backaches, lack of concentration”

I wonder if this marks a first for ‘blue balls’ litigation?

Notes from Away

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Well ok I haven’t really been away just so immersed in web design it feels like I’ve been away.

Catching up it seems Harper is still hell bent on being an accessory to war crimes and in giving Canada a reputation as the only country who welcomes the torture of it’s own.

Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that the discredited Guantanamo military tribunal process under George Bush “constituted a clear violation of fundamental human rights.” Indeed, that’s what the United States Supreme Court found.

U.S. President Barack Obama wants Guantanamo shut down.

And last week Mr. Justice James O’Reilly of Federal Court issued a strong and welcome ruling ordering Ottawa to seek Khadr’s return.

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Harper’s stonewall response has been to shrug off the order and ponder an appeal.

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Harper having previously and continuing to side with war criminals should be grounds for his immediate dismissal as PM.

Locally and ironically commencing during Earth Week, the Tim Horton’s on the corner was torn down to be rebuilt as a drive through. Because if there is one this area needs more of it is cars and the pollution of idling cars. No longer having any indoor seating the new design will not cater to pedestrians in any way thereby making the sidewalks and corners even more treacherous.

The collapse of capitalism is creating some interesting fallout as workers are being asked to scale back wages and benefits while CEOs continue to rake it in, taxpayers money is being given to corporations while taxpayers are being told there is no money to save their pensions or allow them to collect the money they paid into IE or strengthen existing social programs let alone create new ones. Apparently as long as socialism comes from the bottom up it isn’t so bad after all.

Add to this the fact that Ontario women are being fired for becoming pregnant.

What’s especially stunning, they say, is how brazen some bosses are, almost 50 years after Ontario enacted the Human Rights Code to prevent such discrimination.

“We actually have an e-mail from one employer saying, `Sorry, but with your little bundle, I don’t think we’ll be able to (re)hire you. We want a permanent solution,'” says Consuelo Rubio, manager of client services for Ontario’s Human Rights Legal Support Centre, an independent agency funded by the province to provide free legal services to people experiencing discrimination.

The firings are in all sectors: “It’s happening to women in senior positions and women in minimum-wage jobs,” says Katherine Laird, executive director of the centre, who says she hasn’t seen this level of discrimination through two previous recessions and 30 years in the human rights field.

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Hey here’s a great opportunity for the anti choice gang. They can have an adopt a pregnant fired worker campaign and make up the money these women are losing. Michael Coern is still an idiot. Coren supports the troops by denigrating the work of our female soldiers, at least the young attractive ones, presumably the rest are on their own.

Does it ever occur to Coren that in most places in the world women are just as involved in the wars as the soldiers male or female, but they have the added disadvantage of having no weaponry?

Coren says “So Canada sacrifices another victim on the altar of equality.” His piece shows that he and the Sun are willing to sacrifice decency and journalistic integrity on the alter of sensationalism and sexist insensibility.

The viral nature of the Susan Boyle video brought to the fore the nasty realization that many have incorporated the attitude that starvation diets, boob jobs and make equal talent. So an average looking woman has an outstanding talent and the world is taken aback. What a sad commentary on the world.