9 Telltale Signs You're Probably an Asshole...

Some of it is quite entertaining.

http://www.themishmash.com/2007/11/8-telltale-sign.html

Cheerios,

John

What good is a strong economy when nearly 21% of children in our province live in poverty?

While browsing through the daily news stories on the CBC website, I stumbled across a recent study indicating child poverty had remained unchanged in the two decades since the House of Commons vowed to end child poverty in 1989. Quite shocking to say the least. The CBC article went on to say that Children advocacy groups are lobbying the Harper government to hold off the 1% GST tax cut and instead use that money to tackle the issue of child poverty. In recent years, as our country and many of our provinces began to do better economically, surpluses resulted in talks of tax cuts and the sort, but I think that the money is better spent not on tax cuts, but on eliminating child poverty. In British Columbia, an astounding 20.9% of children in poverty, that's more than 1 in 5, even though the province has one of Canada's faster growing economies. This is cliched, but as a proper society, we shouldn't let poverty cripple the futures of 20.9% of children. That is wrong and just plain disgusting. I'm sure most of you are willing to give up the tax cuts so families living in poverty can receive more support from Provincial and Federal governments. I know I am. We could also donate more and volunteer in programs that help Children in need.

Original Links
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/26/child-poverty.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/26/bc-childpoverty.html
http://www.firstcallbc.org/documents/childpoverty07.pdf

Saturday night at work, blogging while my samples are spinning in the centrifuge..

Let's start off with some warmer news...


This guy sure isn't ashamed of being a Global Warmer!

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Fox News... aka Republican Propaganda hour makes Naomi Wolfe their newest victim. Basically she's invited onto the show to talk about her book The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and yet John Kasich, guest host for the infamous Bill O'Reilly doesn't give her a chance to explain any of his questions but just ends up bashing her on the program.



Well... I suppose they could steep lower, I've seen clips of them dissing the children of 9/11 victims b/c some of them didn't agree with the war in Iraq.

Too good for Sicko...

Apparently, while filming Sicko, Michael Moore also visited Norway, but he decided to leave the footage from the best country to live in the World out of the movie because he thought his core audience and critics wouldn't be able to comprehend what they were seeing on screen. Good thing it's on the DVD. I never knew all this about Norway until now. Hopefully it's not all propaganda, some light reading shall solve that.

Watch and decide for yourself.




Imagine if the rest of the world could be like this too... man that'd be awesome.