I like reading common sense: Discovery has a story on how kids in two parent families are – surprise – more stable!
Children of single-parent families are more than twice as likely to suffer depression, kill themselves, drink to excess or get hooked on drugs than counterparts from two-parent households, a major study says.
You have em, you raise em! Especially you fathers!
Suit dismissed that blamed McDonald’s obesity, other health woes
What a concept….individuals are responsible for themselves. I don’t know who’s more irresponsible or reprehensible here: the lawyers or their clients in this case.
Saying the law is not intended to protect people from their own excesses, a federal judge threw out a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that blamed McDonald’s food for obesity, diabetes and other health problems in children.
Weather for Toronto – uh, it’s -18 at 13:06.
When does global warming kick in? More daily proof that the whole gw thing is a scam. I don’t think we’ll see 0C, or -5C, for quite some time…it’s been almost a week already.
From Blaster’s Blog – Why we need to whack Iraq now.
There is only one reason that the United States should be going to war – because it is in the national security interests of the United States. The Bush administration has published, as required, a National Security Strategy. The introduction of the NSS contains this description of the greatest threat to our national security:
Zimbabwe descends slowly into hell…
My bad day in Zimbabwe, like so many bad days in Zimbabwe, began with a wait. This used to be a relatively normal country where people exchanged goods and services in relatively normal ways. Then President Robert Mugabe began trying to exert absolute power over the economy, and things got surreal.
More bad news for the Cdn government and their plans to decriminalize the weed. An Aussie study supports the case that marijuana leads to harder drugs.
People who start using cannabis by their mid teens are more than twice as likely as others to experiment with different drugs and to become dependent on drugs or alcohol, a major Australian study has found.
The research, which fuels growing concern about cannabis-related harm, is the latest to consider the contentious question of whether cannabis is a “gateway” to hard drug use.
Slinger writes on how Toronto should bring back the expressway to help solve its traffic problems. I couldn’t agree more!
It’s the old-fashioned, tried-and-true expressway. There aren’t enough of them. There are hardly any, when you get right down to it.
They went out of fashion because self-righteous, radical zealots believed the world was already big enough and didn’t want it to get any bigger. Not in their backyard, or in their front yard, or elevated over their houses.
Karly Kurls is back on the front page of the Sun today:
The lesbian woman jilted by Karla Homolka when Homolka began sexual frolicking with a male convict at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines maximum-security prison says Homolka is still a “sick” and “dangerous” woman.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Lynda Veronneau, 41, said while Homolka has at times voiced remorse for her role in the sex slayings of two schoolgirls and her sister, she is nonetheless “manipulative” and greedy—and still has a healthy appetite for kinky sex.
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“She is the biggest manipulator that I ever met,” Veronneau laments, while admitting she is “mad” at Homolka.
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“If she is going to get out of jail she will kill somebody else. She is going with bad boys … she is not doing well.”
Don’t forget our Homolka Deal Protest.
An interesting website, lest you forget about the impending disaster coming to a pocketbook near you…
A long time ago kings and rulers might be advised by magicians, astrologers, and other charlatans. These mystics would prey on leaders–and through them, on entire societies–by using the false superstitious beliefs of all involved. These people mostly went away with the advent of science.
But they’re back–this time using the name of science. A vocal minority of the scientific community, with the help of unqualified outsiders, has persuaded many politicians to pursue plans that would be economically devastating. The story this time is global warming.
Winnipeg Sun columnist: Charles Adler on Premier Pisstank.
But while I am highly aware of how dumb it is to behave stupidly when you live in a goldfish bowl, I believe you have to be dumber than a post to believe this writer is asking for much. What is wrong with requiring that the CEO of a Canadian province not get into an SUV, a weapon of destruction, after consuming the equivalent of at least 10 ounces of gin. I know he said he only had three martinis. But then he admitted what he blew. It was twice the legal limit. Drunks lie. But machines are generally pretty honest.
I am pro-Campbell policies all the way. I know most of those who want him to go are the recipients of the BC Government’s largesse of the past. As usual with the baby boom generation, their lack of “>moral outrage is deafening.
He must go, however, as he now an admitted and soon to be convicted criminal. It’s that simple.
When is the music industry going to stop blaming the internet for its lousy prices and artists RIAA: ISPs should pay for music swapping – and start blaming itself?
A top music industry representative said Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites.
The music industry is in a tailspin with global sales of CDs expected to fall six percent in 2003, its fourth consecutive annual decline. A major culprit, industry watchers say, is online piracy.
When is the music industry going to wake up and embrace the new technology? As people download and swap and become comfortable with “stealing”, it will be harder and harder as years go by to make them stop and chang to whatever modem the RIAA comes up with to charge.
A whole generation of customers is being lost due to the RIAA’s failure to embrace the new technology of MP3 players.
Further to my lovely wife Beth’s 9-11 post, Loudmouth has posted a great link to the events surrounding 9-11:The Complete 9/11 Timeline
9-11 was a turning point in history… unfortunately as time goes by, people seem to forget about how catastrophic a day it was. It takes time to formulate a proper response – the shaking up of Iraq and perhaps surrounding states could be that response.
It has come to the point where I can’t let my children watch television commercials anymore. Commercials, for Chrissake! Whatever happened to the days when they were aimed at the general public in hopes of selling their product? Now it seems that they’re only aimed at extremely horny people.
For example, there is a new Slim Fast commercial out. Yes, Slim Fast. The diet supplement. The commercial opens with a nude couple in bed, apparently making love and the voice over is the woman wondering if this, in conjunction with her daily intake of Slim Fast, will burn enough calories. ???????
Not to mention the new commercial for Club House seasonings which is a take off of the pottery scene in “Ghost”. A woman is making pasta for dinner and is adding the Club House seasoning. Her husband comes up behind her, practically glues himself to her, grabs her hands to help her “add in the spice” and starts to make moaning noises. Over pasta!!!
Looks like Danone yogurt took a page from Club House’s commercial. It’s a pity that they think they need sex to sell yogurt. My 4 year old daughter loves yogurt, but there’s no way I can let her see these commercials!
I won’t even bother detailing all the shampoo and gum commercials as I’m sure you get the general idea (although that gum commercial – is it for Dentyne? – where the girl and guy have to jump into the pool to “get wet” before making out is a bit far fetched, not to mention the one for – is it a microwaveable dinner? – where the couple gets into the food a la “9 1/2 Weeks”). I thought that commercials were geared to sell to everyone (obviously not diet aids, but certainly gum!). Apparently I was wrong. It’s a sad thing when I have to have the remote control in my hand, ready to quickly turn the channel should one of these commercials come on. It will be even sadder when those parental control options that can block out certain channels that youngsters shouldn’t be seeing will soon apply to commercials! What is this world coming to?
I find myself annoyed by the people who are whining about President Bush going forward with a potential war. There is a reason for it, you know. Remember September 11, 2001? These are not people you can walk up to, sit down to have a coffee with and explain that they are “bad” and shouldn’t do such things. These are people who will blow your head off as soon as look at you. Apparently this has been forgotten in the year and a half that has passed.
It’s too bad I can’t force all the major television networks to play the incredibly powerful “>“9/11″ movie by Jules & Gedeon Naudet every three months. Watching that ought to remind everyone what’s really at stake here. I’m sure that there are people who would whine that the movie only focuses on New York, but hey, that’s where the brothers happened to be! It doesn’t lessen the impact of what happened to the Pentagon and Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. It will, however, make you relive that horrific Tuesday and remind you why this is such a necessary thing.
A good article on the miscarriage of democracy, with reference to the commutation of 167 death row inmates’ sentences.
And those cheering, finally, must have been aware—uneasily, one trusts—that Ryan abused his power of commutation not to save innocent men but to repeal a law passed by the Illinois legislature and supported by the voters of Illinois that he and his political allies are unable to repeal by democratic debate and electoral struggle. We might call that a miscarriage of democracy.
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