Monthly Archives: September 2005

Watch out in FLA

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I’m not sure if this law is good or bad…bad if you believe this group:

The Shoot First Law is an invitation to reckless use of guns in the streets of our cities and towns. Without the law, people carrying firearms in public places could use those guns against perceived threats only as a last resort. The new law eliminates a citizen’s duty to avoid the threat, and allows the use of deadly force before other options. Below is some legal context to the new Shoot First statute. It is not a comprehensive analysis of all laws on this subject, or all the situations that may arise under the law.

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Sliding down the slope

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There’s no reason that this won’t happen here.

In the U.S., some opponents of same-sex marriage – including, notably, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. – have argued acceptance of same-sex marriage will create a slippery slope, leading to the sanctioning of other types of relationships, including polygamy.

Got away with it?

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Robert Latimer must be wondering what he did differently to get a jail sentence, when Carmichael seemingly got off.

A Toronto father who admitted to drugging and suffocating his epileptic 11-year-old son has been found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder.

Drugging our kids

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I can’t believe the number of parents I’ve talked to over the past little while whose little boys are all drugged up. Most teachers and parents are pleased with the results that they can control their kids, but are they prepared for all the side effects?

ADHD is thought to afflict around 3% to 7% of school-age children and is believed to be a genetic condition which affects those parts of the brain that control attention, impulses and concentration.

On being poor

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Fred has no time for the so called poor people of America.

Repeatedly I hear that the misbehavior in New Orleans sprang from the exigencies of poverty. I would offer a countering view. Permit me to start with the family of Violeta, mi pareja in Mexico. I know them well. Listen, and judge.

He’d laugh if he saw our poor in Canada.

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Honk if you hate humps

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Downing says the humps are about to invade his neighborhood, and he doesn’t like it.

Did you know that some drivers retaliate by beeping their horn at every hump? That some drivers claim it’s easier to take humps at a higher speed? Did you realize humps affect the disabled and those in wheelchairs more than the rest of us? Did you know City Hall has never done a study into how much of our safety is compromised by these humps?

Tired of busy women

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You know society is about to come to an end when we don’t have time to propagate the species.

An article in the Daily Telegraph reports on women who are too busy for sex who opt for in vitro fertilization (IVF) to start pregnancies.

Wealthy career women in their 30s and early 40s, some of whom have given up regular sex altogether, are turning to “medicalised conception” – despite being fertile and long before they have exhausted the possibility of a natural conception.

Fateful step back

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Looks like South Africa is going down the broken Zimbabwean road.

Well, I can not say this bad story came as a total surprise, given the near-total lack of respect for property rights and the rule of law in Africa:

South Africa says it will for the first time force a white farmer to sell his land under a redistribution plan.

Africa is going the wrong way if it wants to join the first world anytime soon.

Hurray for Dads

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Debbye has a link plentiful post on the importance of fatherhood to familes and to society.

I read two posts yesterday that really stuck with me. They both concern parenting, or more properly, the lack of full parenting, and raise some disturbing issues.

Our feminist driven court and political system needs to take note.

Flat earth society

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Ride the GO train, save Texas – so says our minister of cities.

He even argues that riding the subway instead of vehicles that run on fossil fuels — thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions — could help take the sting out of a hurricane.

“When we encourage people to take public transit, we’re also addressing these issues of more intense hurricanes,” Godfrey said. “We’ve got to connect all those dots for people.”

The scarier thing is that the majority of Canadians actually believe him.  How sad – and dangerous.

The lid came off

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Fred says the lid came off on the black underclass of America, and it wasn’t (as always) pretty.

I was traveling in China when pictures of the looters in New Orleans began to appear on CNN. They were black of course. Looting and raping and burning are what blacks do when the lid loosens. Yes, I could phrase this more cautiously: These things are what some blacks, etc. or, more cutely, not all blacks are looters, but all looters….blah blah.

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What about hunting?

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We’ve been so good to our wildlife that they’re killing us.

“One in every 18 motor vehicle crashes involves a wild animal. This

represents an 86 per cent increase over the past decade…To reduce collisions the ministry has also taken several other steps, including installing fencing along major highways, better lighting, and posting warning signs where wildlife is known to roam.

Doesn’t have anything to do with the lack of hunting allowed, I suppose?