Monthly Archives: October 2005
Support stay-at-home
I agree with this letter writer – fact is, however, there is a growing % of women who don’t want to stay at home and raise the children. Women today seem to be conditioned that they need to draw a paycheck to have a worthwhile career.
Perhaps instead of investing in daycare, the federal government could raise the Child Tax Credit to a meaningful level, providing the means for parents to step out of the workforce if they so choose.
Old and immature
Mark produces a zinger, deconstructing some of the Ottawa propaganda about our “young” country. Apparently it’s more about subverting our famous history, the one that got our country to where it is today.
Obliterating this country’s long, storied history is the Liberals’ way of ensuring that Canadians never really grow up
He spoke the truth
Wente says that Neil French is mostly right – women can’t have it all. That’s just reality.
He’s the notorious adman who shared his views about why so few women make it to the top. The trouble is motherhood. In his view, taking time off to spend with your sick kid is incompatible with the kind of 24-hour commitment you need to be a top creative director like him. “Everyone who doesn’t commit themselves fully to the job is crap at it,” he told the audience, which included several outraged moms/creative directors.
Dump the streetcar
Once more, Toronto is rising up against the streetcar. They make no sense, as this letter writer says.
However, no one has asked the fundamental question. Why does Toronto stubbornly stick with antiquated streetcars at all? There are reasons why virtually all other North American cities have stopped using streetcars.
It’s still up in the air whether the whole St. Clair project will ever go ahead.
Stand up and get respect
Sometimes it pays to stand up to the US – ie. get some balls. It seems to have got Hatch’s attention.
Alberta’s ability to make oilsands production economically viable is a “great success story,” said Mr. Hatch, who at one point joked that “we in this country don’t want to be on Canada’s shit list, ever.”
Have to give credit to Martin, for once.
Eat dinner together
Every now and then, you read about common sense, and wonder why the masses continue to ignore it.
Family dinner hour, once an institution in Canadian homes, is becoming a quaint relic among time-starved parents and kids. At least a half-dozen recent reports from top universities, research firms and think-tanks all paint a picture of families in crisis at the dinner table.
No wonder they’re doped
Wente notes that the drop-out rate for high school kids is soaring, especially for boys.
Everything about the institution smothers their natural instincts. At an age when they crave initiation into manhood and the company of men, they’re trapped in a world that’s dominated overwhelmingly by women. At a time when they’re experiencing their growing physicality, they’re trapped indoors six hours a day and expected to sit still.
The feminization of our men and society in general is starting to take its toll.
Stay afraid
Ever wonder why you feel on edge these days? This author says it’s only fear that will get you sick.
Reasonable speeds
Why can’t we do this here?
State Police have stepped up efforts to make sure speeds on major roads and expressways are reasonable. The result: In the last few months, two sections of metro Detroit freeways have had speed limits raised:
Peak oil myth
Not everyone believes we’re running out of oil.
Peak oil is just another weapon the globalists have in their arsenal to move towards a new world order where the elite get richer and everyone else falls into line.
Here’s why they need to keep the price up:
But here’s the catch: By simply opening up its spigots for a few years, Saudi Arabia could, in short order, force a complete write-off of the huge capital investments in Athabasca and Orinoco. Investing billions in tar-sand refineries is risky not because getting oil out of Alberta is especially difficult or expensive, but because getting oil out of Arabia is so easy and cheap.
Meat info
If you’re like me, you like meat – and this is good info.
10 Things Your Butcher Won’t Tell You
via J-Walk
Lawyers making kids fat
It’s no wonder, with lawsuits governing how playgrounds are made, that our kids are getting fat.
“I realize we want to keep kids from cracking their heads open,” said Levin, whose daughter is a Gator Run Elementary fifth grader in Weston. “But there has to be a place where they can get out and run.”
Zero tolerance
Steyn writes that Islam has no interest in co-existing, and the sooner the west figures it out, the better off we’ll all be.
Getting swept away
Fred says that the US is slowly being swept out to sea – and the feds aren’t doing anything to help.
I’m thinking about turning into a Marxist. Ol’ Karl used to talk about these irresistible currents of history that just swept you along and you couldn’t do anything about’em, like the current that swept communism mostly out of existence. (He may have had some other currents in mind.) I’m looking at what’s happening in the US. It’s gotta be an irresistible current. It couldn’t be on purpose.
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