April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

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Putting it on the line

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MonetlineAurora Mayor Phyllis Morris is campaigning to have clothes lines designated “as a good, a service or a technology,” this would enable home owners and tenants to bypass developer and landlord restrictions.

Think about it, clothes lines are the original solar powered home appliance. They help to conserve energy, and are another way to fight global warming.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment says that a standard clothes dryer consumes 900 kWh of energy per year, creating up to 840 kg of air pollution and greenhouse gases.


Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan was not available to comment, but a spokesman said Aurora is the only municipality to have issued a formal complaint.

Lets rectify that! Write your council, your mayor, your MPP and the Minister of the Environment.

And if you don’t live in Ontario don’t let that stop you!! Be the first to start the campaign in your area.

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Mayor of Aurora


Right to Dry Campaign

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Occupation: bullshitter

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According to Stanley Bing and his book 100 Bullshit Jobs … and How to Get Them, blogging is a bullshit job.

Blogger

According to the book: “Skills required: ability to upload thoughts, vapours, resentments, insights, lack of insights, rumours, stuff you’ve heard, stuff you haven’t heard. Must possess the impression that one’s quotidian brain activity is of interest to others. Helps to be funny but when that is impossible, being hateful often suffices.”

According to J. Kelly Nestruck, a Canadian journalist living in London who blogs at fence.blogspot.com and for the Guardian arts blog (blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts): “The monetary earnings of my personal blog have not been great, which is why it could technically be called a bullshit job. But the personal rewards, oh, they’re innumerable: new friends who I only know by pseudonym, the thoughtful and entertaining debates with commenters over exactly how big an idiot I am, the huge number of hits my Google search now results in…. The downside? Well, there was the girlfriend who left me because she said I loved the Internet more than her. On the whole, though, I wouldn’t give up the past four-plus years of blogging for anything. Because I’m addicted. I’m seeing someone about that.”

G&M

huh, some of my best friends are pseudonyms.

Texas wanna be bomber indicted

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Paul Ross Evans, 27, was indicted Tuesday for attempting to use an explosive incendiary bomb on the Austin’s Women’s Health Clinic.
Evans faces one count each of attempting to use weapons of mass destruction, malicious attempt to damage a building, and possession of a destructive device by a convicted felon. He’s also facing two other counts related to the incident.

Interesting take on the story at LifeNews.com [and by interesting I mean OH PLEASE!! What do you think you’re over the top rhetoric is going to come to?]

The charges against Evans include malicious attempt to damage a building and property by means of explosive and fire, possession of a destructive device by a convicted felon and two counts of use and carrying of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence.

Abortion advocates attempted to turn the isolated incident involving someone unaffiliated with the pro-life movement into a political statement.

“We live in fear of anti-choice extremism,” local Planned Parenthood CEO Ken Lambrecht told News 8 in response to the incident. “We perform routine quarterly drills for bomb threats. We had one this very week, and our clinic is constantly aware of a potential threat.”

But Texas Alliance for Life director Joe Pojman said that pro-life advocates are peaceful people and that any political movement has individual vigilantes that act on their own wrongheaded ideas.

“We get painted with the same brush as someone who is a criminal. We only condone peaceful legal activities,” he said.

Test Post

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Just upgraded to wordpress 2.2. This is just a test to see if I broke anything. :mrgreen:

Got Bullets?

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So you’re a grandpa of a 10 month old. What do you buy the little tyke? A nice stuffy for his room, a baseball glove for catching practise when he’s older, a savings bond for college. Great ideas all but not as special as a 12-gauge Beretta shotgun.

What 10 month old wouldn’t appreciate that? I’m sure Stewie would. stewie
Little Bubba ( did not make it up ) might not be able to pop off a couple of rounds yet but I’m guessing he has a future in firearms.

Dad even sent in for a firearm owner’s identification card, and the police issued it;

Bubba Ludwig can’t walk, talk or open the refrigerator door – but he does have his very own Illinois gun permit.

The 10-month-old, whose given name is Howard David Ludwig, was issued a firearm owner’s identification card after his father, Howard Ludwig, paid the US$5 fee and filled out the application, not expecting to actually receive one.

The card lists the baby’s height (2 feet, 3 inches), weight (20 pounds) and has a scribble where the signature should be.

With some exceptions, the cards are required of any Illinois residents purchasing or possessing firearms or ammunition within the state. There are no age restrictions on the cards, an official said.

CBC

You might want to give this kids stroller a wide berth.