April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

Debra

A Feminist’s Pledge:

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I saw this fantastic article today. I think this is a pledge we can all support.

I will on reprint part of it go to the link to read it’s entirety.

  • We will not make laws that affect your medical care and rights to govern your own body. We will cover your prescriptions in health insurance and treat you with respect when you come to the pharmacy to fill your prescriptions. We will not turn you away or humiliate you.
  • We will include you in medical research to see if our biological differences result in different health outcomes, just like researchers found that males and females suffer differently in heart attacks.
  • We won’t consider you freakish for being single or childless. Your choices will be respected. We can’t all be married with 2.2 children, a house and a dog.
  • We will ask that you take more responsibility for reproductive choices. You will ask if our health insurance plans cover the pill, and be willing to get a vasectomy — so much easier and cheaper than a tubal ligation. You will also be willing to accompany us on an abortion, if needed. Just going to a family planning clinic can be dangerous.
  • We will not blame you for causing divorce, gaining profits from divorce, marrying for money, being a bad single parent, or smoking around children or pregnant women. We must find the roots of problems and work on potential solutions together.
  • We will not have scientists, educators or philosophers find reasons for your supposed inferiority. We will not abuse our public role to insult you like Socrates, Freud, John Belushi, Bobby Riggs, Lawrence Summers, et al have done. We will seek answers, not justifications.
  • We won’t spend a fortune on marketing that targets you and then turn around and call you materialistic. We won’t blame you for being consumers because you take on the majority of shopping responsibilities. And we won’t use insulting, derogatory ads that, in fact, target you as the buyer.
  • We will represent you and give you a voice in all forms of media — newspapers, radio and TV. We will include you in history and represent you fairly in textbooks and other written material. We won’t deny or belittle your contributions.

  • We will name our streets, parks, and town squares after both men and women. We will erect statues and monuments that represent both sexes fairly.

  • We will hire you in elected offices because we value your contribution and seek to represent all the diverse views of society, not because “we’re ready.”

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Globe & Mail the Fox News of Canada?

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The Globe seems to be hanging farther to the right as the weeks go on.

Perfect example this morning with two stories of two leaders written in two very distinctive ways.

Tories surge on Harper’s leadership

Canadians in overwhelming numbers say Stephen Harper is the most decisive federal leader with the clearest vision of where he wants to lead the country, according to a poll that suggests the Conservatives may now have the winning conditions needed for a spring election.

Leader tested by splits in caucus on issue

Political analyst Robin Sears, a chief of staff to former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae, said Mr. Dion has yet to make clear what his leadership style will be.

“There seems to be a pattern of staking out a hard position and then being forced to backtrack from it,” he said, listing Mr. Dion’s comments on Canada’s Afghanistan mission and his dual Canadian-French citizenship as examples. “Whether you’re a new leader or old, that ain’t a good idea.”

Interesting so in one camp they have managed to make hardline, stick to your guns leadership look inspiring and in the other insipid.

Makes you wonder if Bourque was underhanded or just honest.

You want it when?

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Unfamiliar it seems with reality, Canada’s New Government™ has once again proven their incompetence.

Under questioning by NDP MP Irene Mathyssen, Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development finally admitted yesterday that none of the 70 million dollars earmarked for soup kitchens and shelters will be spent until or after April 1st.

Naturally in Canada in winter shelter is not a priority concern. People can do without food.

Harpers’ government has placed quite an emphasis on April 1st.

We can only hope that on that day we will learn this government has been nothing more than the practical joke it appears to be .

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Plug-in promotion

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Many of us on wordpress owe much to the people who donate their skills and time to create the awesome plug-ins that give us so much flexibility with our blogs.

Today I’d like to thank Ajay for his work on the SPA plug in.

It is what enables the Snap Preview Anywhere which allows you to preview a site before clicking on the link.

Snap introduced a new version on Friday and by today Ajay had already upgraded the plug-in.

So thanks to those who provide their time and talents to provide us with the tools that enrich our blogging experience.