Let’s hope the ocean keeps this program from infiltrating our school system.
A GOVERNMENT-backed course is encouraging pupils under 16 to experiment with oral sex, as part of a drive to cut rates of teenage pregnancy.
Family campaigners believe that the course, called A Pause, is having the reverse effect by exciting the sexual interest of children.
Sadly, it’s probably just a matter of time.
A while ago I was contacted about an Alternate Transport Plan for Toronto. It fascinated me as I have saying the same thing for a few years on my Traffic Website. It seemed like quite a coincidence, as I was looking all over the web for a picture of the old masterplan of expressways that was killed by the hippy generation.
So instead of a lone voice in the wilderness, I am with great company. The above website has all the old expressways on it, with their own plan supplemented with transit routes.
The biggest route they are pushing is the so called “missing link”, which is the old Scarborough Expressway with a twist. Anyone living in Durham region or even Scarborough knows that the DVP is the worst expressway in Canada, and handles both east and north traffic.
Check out their website!
A girl, 17, dies after baseball bat assault.
A 17-year-old Scarborough girl has died from her injuries after she was attacked and struck in the head with a baseball bat.
Police have two youths in custody but would not say whether charges have been laid.
Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Muscat confirmed this morning that the girl died. No other details were available.
You can be sure that the perp will have an easy ride if he’s not tried as an adult. This of course is the whole point of fixing the YOA, or its evil replacement. When you’re 17, you’re not a kid – you’re an adult—period!
The Zimbabwe Independent reports that Mugabe is living the high life – thanks to J. Chirac of France.
bq. Mugabe, his wife Grace and members of the presidential entourage were given a lavish reception and accommodated at one of the most expensive hotels in Paris while Zimbabweans starved.
Why is anyone listening to France on any world issue? Boycott France!
In case you needed some more convincing in the War against Iraq: The Truth Laid Bear: Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: Pro-War Roundup
Fascinating stuff.
GREEN EYED MONSTER is a neat blog with various stuff like this.
bq. A mother took her daughter to the doctor and asked him to give her an examination to determine the cause of her daughters swollen abdomen. It only took the doctor about 2 seconds to say “Your daughter is pregnant.” The mother turned red with fury and she argued with the doctor that her daughter was a good girl and would never compromise her reputation by having sex with a boy. The doctor faced the window and silently watched the horizon. The mother became enraged and screamed, “Quit looking out the window! Aren’t you paying attention to me?” “Yes, of course I am paying attention ma’am. It’s just that the last time this happened, a star appeared in the East, and three wise men came. And I was hoping that they would show up again.”
The only thing the US is losing, as I said before, is the propaganda war. They are not doing a great job convincing the world of the need for a preemptive strike to dethrone Saddam. [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060505419/canadaprotestpag]
Saddam: King of Terror[/url], should change your mind.
“Writing a biography of Saddam Hussein is like trying to assemble the prosecution case against a notorious criminal gangster. Most of the key witnesses have either been murdered, or are too afraid to talk,” notes Coughlin…
In yet another bizarre twist to all things related to Homolka, it turns out the Quebec government is subsidizing the French publisher that distributes the controversial 
new Karla book[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773732942/canadaprotestpag]
(Americans click here)[/url] in English Canada. So we have one government promoting a book that is being investigated as being illegal in Ontario.
“I think it is a very important story,” the publisher said. “It is about the workings of the judicial system and the tradeoffs that are made. It analyses the criminal mind very rigorously—this woman is going to be free in a few years and that is a big enough reason alone to understand more about her.”
As much as I feel for the families of the victims, it is much more important that in a free society that we do not ban books and their messages.
This letter pretty much sums up what I think of environmentalists – sometimes I think we should launch a war on terror against them.
From the great letter writers of the National Post:
When Malthus, more than 150 years ago, claimed that the world’s population would soon overrun its ability to feed itself, it was farm mechanization, new crop development, and better protection of the food supply with chemicals and new methods of preservation that showed that he was wrong. Surprisingly, we have some extremists trying to make these population predictions come true, by reining in present-day food progress. In parts of Africa, politicians will not allow people to eat GM food we gave them, that we have been eating for years, because Greenpeace scathingly calls it Frankenfood, and implies that it is harmful. Better to force these millions to starve to death and make a point, than to allow them to eat it and thrive?
Dr. John Snow, in London in the 1850s, suggested that sewage-laden drinking water caused the regular and devastating outbreaks of cholera in London. When the water supply was changed, the disease was much reduced, to everyone’s benefit. Now we have some environmentalists who object to keeping the modern water supply free of pathogens through chlorination. Thousands died recently in Peru in a resurgence of cholera, when the politicians were temporarily influenced by Greenpeace’s misguided and ignorant attempts to ban chlorine.
We got where we are today despite the best efforts of many environmental extremists to stall us, especially over the last 40 years. Such activists do not feed nations; do not provide needed energy to society; do not provide health care or health services to anyone; but they excel at obstruction, emotional misinformation; and factual distortion. If they ever achieve their socially destructive goals we would all very soon find ourselves living in birds nests and rabbit holes, as President Reagan pointed out.
It is knowledge, openness to new ideas, wealth and technology that defeat the ignorance, superstition, fear-mongering, deception and dishonesty of environmental extremists, every time. Eventually.
Environmental issues are rarely if ever identified or even solved by environmentalists. Most do not even know that the biggest human and environmental problems are ignorance and poverty, just as always, or they would be out labouring in the Third World instead of pulling childishly pathetic stunts for the cameras while hiding behind masks. They strive to block the technology that can, and does solve most real problems, while they drain us of the wealth to continue such progress. And therein lies the even bigger tragedy. Only wealthy and advanced societies can afford to support the environmental movement or can afford to address valid social issues. Extremists sidetrack us with what they emotionally try to persuade us to believe are more important issues, and try to drain away our resources from other social programs.
John K. Sutherland, Fredericton
As if the last story didn’t tell you, here’s the actual latest from the African tyrant front.
Of late, most newspaper readers have been too engrossed in news from Iraq and North Korea to follow events in Zimbabwe. So, here’s an update: Everything there is still terrible.
Update: France will let Mugabe in. Should we expect any differently from this now rogue G8 nation?
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described France’s invitation to Mugabe as “a tragedy” which “amounts to a recognition and support of Mugabe’s gruesome record at home”.
The United States said the invitation was “regrettable”.
While the world doesn’t want us to deal with the Iraq tyrant (or so the media in their weekend coverage would lead you to believe), we have another tyrant destroying a once vibrant colony.
Here’s a letter from one of the country’s sufferers.
However, we all cry for our beloved country. Another day dawns in our once happy, productive Zimbabwe, now totally devastated in every way by its leaders. I am one of the many who toss and turn throughout the troubled night, dreading tomorrow. There is not one basic commodity in my kitchen- no bread, no sugar, no oil, no mealie meal for my workers, no money in the bank and my fuel tank is hovering around empty. Every day is the same trauma, but like other Zimbabweans I must queue to survive. It is 4 a.m.–the same routine every day. I am fortunate to be within walking distance of the shops. I trudge down there to join the pensioners’ queue for a loaf of bread–most pensioners are in their 70s, 80s, or even 90s, some are balancing on walking sticks–all are trying very hard to “keep smiling”.
The difference between Iraq and Zimbabwe isn’t much, except in Iraq their secret police are much more likely to take you away and shoot you. In Zimbabwe they are ruthless, just not as organized. The former Rhodesia leaves its dirty work to its disorganized thugs, implying no consequences for their practically legally sanctioned violence.
The anti war crowd say they are worried about the people of Iraq. Where were they and where are they now when the few dissenters left in Iraq are being tortured and taken away? What about the starving children in hospitals that show up on Western TV? Why is Saddam living in a palace and they go wanting for $20 worth of medicine? It’s called propaganda, my friends, and the only war the US is losing now is the propaganda war.
I suppose I can’t get away from mentioning the anti-war protests over the weekend. Diablogger has some pictures from his area.
I trudged on over to the anti-war rally in Tallahassee on Saturday looking for
intellectual stimulation, fair-minded discourse, and moral illumination. So of course, I brought a book to read.
Suffice it to say that these rent-a-crowds don’t know a thing about history, Hitler, war, or how to run a world.
That said, they do have the right to be out there and make fools of themselves.
I had to lift this photo from The World’s Most Confused Jew
ABC’s 20/20 did a piece the other night on Uday, Saddam’s evil son. This loose cannon has all kinds of power, including access to much of the weapons that Saddam says Iraq does not have.
Then there’s this: From Rush’s Stack of Stuff: Uday Hussein Admits Smoking Gun.
My friends, during Open Line Friday a caller made the excellent point that, if Saddam Hussein’s son Uday is now threatening a poison gas retaliation if we attack, is that not the smoking gun we’ve been looking for? By making this threat, he’s essentially admitting they have the weapons they say they don’t have.
Margaret Wente writes on how Saddam is Lucy and the West is Charlie Brown.
My bet is, we’ll go for a few dozen more feel-good UN resolutions while Saddam hides his anthrax in Lebanon. We’re quite happy to be Charlie Brown. Saddam is Lucy with the football. She pulls away that football every time. And then she tells him she won’t do it again. And he gives her one last chance. And she does it again. He never understands that she always will. It’s her nature.
Dear member of the U.S. military:
Thank you for defending our freedom.
Signed,
Go ahead, add your name. Do something good for the country.
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