Our friends, the Saudis

An excellent TV interview of William Sampson, the Canadian abandonned by his own inept and appeasing government.

“The worst that I endured … was being hung upside down and beaten across the backside, the feet, the scrotum. The pain from that is just incredible,…

How this could not affect our relationship with the House of Saud in a monumental way is simply incomprehensible.

Absolutely frightening stuff.

Permissive Parenting

Hey! CNN actually had an interview (albeit for a total of 3 minutes) with the author of The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children ($US orders).  It turns out that this generation of day care kids is more emotionally disturbed than any other generation, because, gasp, parents aren’t spending enough time with their kids!  Specifically, mothers aren’t raising their babies anymore – the local child kennel is!  Boy was Ms. Zahn turning red when she asked what working mothers can do to overcome the problem….hmmm, maybe stay home with them instead of working away from them 24 hours a day, Paula?

Drug companies and psychiatrists are doing a booming business medicating the disturbed results, who happen to be mostly older adolescents.

Meanwhile, in nanny-state Canada, the Ontario Liberals are planning on paying and registering child kennels, to further put the working Ms. at ease as she toils far away from her baby.

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Survivalist tot

The contestants on Survivor have nothing on this kid.

A two-year-old left alone for nearly three weeks while her mother was behind bars survived by eating mustard, ketchup, rice and raw pasta, police said.

Attempted murder, rather than child abuse, is a more appropriate charge for this moronic mother.  Sterilization should be the punishment.

Let’s hope this kid doesn’t have to associate with either parent in the future.

Minimum wage explained

While the NDP cries raise the minimum wage, simpletons say “yea” while people that create wealth and jobs can only cry.  Here’s the business side of the story, that the Star left out of its article.

Write an article about Ontario’s minimum wage earners and call them “wage slaves.” Discuss one side of the issue in detail and give only three small paragraphs to the other side.

Doesn’t sound like fair and responsible journalism to me.

Your article was embarrassing because of its obvious bias toward workers and employees.

The new math

Picked up this little gem about where our education system is heading … which is mainly into the crapper.  It’s no wonder parents are looking for alternative schools that at least teach a few of the basics.

Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?