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Brigitte adds: Brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it. To say nothing of what it does to the ear… But that’s par for the course today. Happy Green Beer Day!
“Women should thank men for everything they have“? Really.
Just as I am wary of women who won’t work with men, who believe all men are part of an evil patriarchy and those who believe they are better than men and deserve special treatment…I am equally wary of men like this writer.
What I’m going for in male-female relationships is not a pendulum that swings from crazy to crazy, but something slightly more even. If a woman wrote this about men, I’d tell her to untie her knickers. I think I’d give the same advice to this gentleman.
U of C students charged with trespassing on their own campus go to court this morning. Today at 8:30am, Calgary lawyer Stephen Jenuth will be entering a “not guilty” plea on behalf of the six members of Campus Pro-Life (CPL) who have been charged with trespass….
Students plan to set up the display on campus again next week, March 25 and 26, continuing with their established practise of engaging their fellow peers in debate each semester.
| Judge’s wife serves up justice |
And not only that, she’s getting a whole new set of designer pans!
Chef Emeril Lagasse says he felt so bad when he heard a woman lost one of his trademark pans while warding off home intruders that he’s replacing the item.
Lagasse is sending 70-year-old Ellen Basinski a whole new set of his signature cookware.
[h/t Blazing Cat Fur]
I’m trying to think of something more unpopular to say than “I’m waiting til marriage to have sex” but nothing springs to mind. It’s better when kids say it, as these brave young souls did in this article:
Cool and sassy, the Generation No-Sex is a splinter group of youngsters who reckon sex and marriage go hand in hand. In the last four years, 25,000 young Brits have joined a growing abstinence movement for reasons not just related to religion.
One girl in the article says “Some people may think that’s outdated, but I don’t care.” Nor should she.
In any event, is it really so outdated? “Old fashioned” is the new hip. As I pointed out earlier, other things are getting pretty old, too, namely this idea that you can and/or should traipse from relationship to relationship, without ever truly committing to anything at all, allowing cynicism and heartache to grow, while getting STIs, and possibly pregnant with someone who is not unconditionally committed to you. That’s “outdated” too.
(h/t ConservativeHome)
Some news are so horrifying one can hardly believe one’s eyes. Like in this instance:
Lesbians living in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will ‘cure’ them of their sexual orientation, a report has revealed.
Women are reporting a rising tide of brutal homophobic attacks and murders and the widespread use of ‘corrective’ rape as a form of punishment.
The report, commissioned by international NGO ActionAid, called for South Africa’s criminal justice system to recognise the rapes as hate crimes as police are reportedly failing to take action over the spiralling violence.
Horrific crimes against lesbians in South Africa are reportedly going unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system
The extent of the brutality became clear when Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa’s national female football squad, became one of the victims last April.
Simelane, one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian and an equality rights campaigner, was gang-raped and beaten before being stabbed to death 25 times in the face, chest and legs.
Eudy Simelane died after being gang-raped, beaten and stabbed 25 times
Triangle, a gay rights organisation, said it deals with up to 10 new cases of ‘corrective rape’ every week.
Okay. First, rape is not a “hate” crime. It’s a crime, period. Doesn’t matter why you rape. It matters that you rape. Second, what the heck kind of “culture” puts up with idiots “explaining” that rape will “cure” homosexuality? (“Oh yeah, so far you weren’t interested in men and that’s because you hadn’t been raped… let us show you how nice men can be.”) This is by no means the first disturbingly outrageous thing coming out of that country. Yet authorities there are, at best, sluggish to respond. I don’t have a solution. The only thing I can think of at the moment is adding my voice to those demanding an end to the brutal mistreatment of South African women so that is what I am doing. If you have a better suggestion, please send it in.
This beautiful little girl’s parents are suing:
A Quebec couple is launching a lawsuit against Montreal Children’s Hospital after their severely-ill newborn daughter was put back on life support without their consent….They said they agreed to withdraw respiratory support and later, at the suggestion of doctors, to withdraw the artificial feeding.
Point one: babies don’t feed themselves. “Withdrawing artificial feeding” amounts to starving a baby to death.
Now, 15 months later, Laurendeau has been forced to quit her job to take care of Phebe full time. Phebe is neither deaf nor blind. But she cannot hold up her head, sit up, or babble as another baby her age would, and she is fed through a hole in her stomach. She does smile at her parents, though, a recent breakthrough they are thrilled with, CTV’s Genevieve Beauchemin reported.
Let’s sum this case up. These parents are suing because their baby is not dead. That thrill from her smile? Apparently, only if the price is right.
David Frum is starting to annoy me:
The news that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have canceled their engagement doesn’t come as very much of a surprise. The arrangement looked from the start like an election-season pretense. With the election decently behind us, the pretense can be dropped.
Now Bristol and her baby can recede into private life for the next 3 years or so. But as she goes, Republicans and conservatives need to think seriously about the lesson she has taught us – or more precisely, about the illusion she has punctured.
Many conservatives carry in their heads a mental image of American society that’s a generation out of date. They imagine the existence of a huge class of socially conservative downscale voters, ready to vote Republican because of abortion and gay marriage.
The story of Bristol Palin should help puncture this illusion.
“Socially conservative downscale voters”? Who, exactly, does he think he is? Someone who puts on his socks two feet at a time?
I would venture to guess that young Ms. Palin is not the first, nor the only, American teenager (white, educated, rich or otherwise) who finds herself pregnant without meaning to. I’m almost certain it’s happened before. Possibly even in nice liberated upscale neighbourhoods. And that in many of those cases, the young mother decides (or “decides,” under pressure from her parents, boyfriend, teachers or all of them combined) to “erase” the mistake.
Are we to consider these young women more “upscale” than Bristol Palin, who chose to keep her baby in extremely difficult – and public – circumstances? Ms. Palin has an awful lot of moral courage. Calling her ugly names says more about you, Mr. Frum, than it does about her. And no, I don’t mean that in a good way.
[h/t Paul Tuns]
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Andrea adds: What is interesting to me is that absent the word “downscale” this would be a valid question about whether those voters interested in abortion or marriage exist, or not. (Though for Pete’s sake, Mr. Frum, we already know you think they do not.) Or, one could refute the notion that unplanned pregnancy didn’t exist in those happy Leave it to Beaver days… it did, of course, but was dealt with differently with a quick wedding, and generally occurred under different circumstances too, ie not with someone you hooked up with once and didn’t actually know. “Unplanned” pregnancy has been happening for a while. The “upscale” response to these problems is this: Above all, do not wed! You might be saddled in a lifelong relationship that is not right. This allows young people to go from sexual relationship to sexual relationship, experiencing heartbreak after heartbreak such that by the time they reach 30 they are cynical and truly unable to form a lifelong relationship of any meaning at all. It’s really so much more civilized. (Turn up nose here.)
The bottom line is that people like myself are not going to stop until, at the very least, unborn children have more value than a Canadian kidney,” he said.
Dr. Sneddon went on about kidneys, too, as he argued the pro-choice side of things. (see the comments section)
[He] relied heavily on an analogy of a mother whose son needs her kidney to survive, and that she has the right to deny her son her kidney as her rights to her body part trumps his.
Now back to embryonic stem cell research. Contrary to what Bill Clinton thinks, the embryo is a fertilized egg, and the the earliest form of human life. How do their rights get trumped in the name of scientific research? Even if there had been any sort of success story regarding embryonic stem cell research — and I’ve been looking, believe me — how would one person’s, say, cerebral palsy treatment justify destroying an embryo to harvest its stem cells?
Clinton really kills me when he suggests that using those embryos which would otherwise stay on ice indefinitely for medical research is a pro-life position. Running scientific experiments on human beings is what Hitler did! Should we then say that it was more noble that these humans — the Jews — be used for the advancement of science rather than be sent straight to the gas chamber? That is, in fact, how the doctors in Auschwitz justified experimenting on human beings.
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It was really a way of exploiting a human resource which they deemed to be already lost. They thought. “Well, they’ll be dead tomorrow, so let’s use them today.” (2:32 into the film)
Oh dear. If this were George Bush… But when Bill Clinton makes a mistake like this, most of us just move along. Including the interviewer who, if I’m not mistaken, plays a doctor on TV. [Yes, I’m trying to be cute – it’s been a long day. I know who he is.]
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[h/t Hot Air]
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Andrea adds: The interviewer addresses Clinton saying this: “as someone who has studied the issue, do you think…” Someone who has studied the issue? Study again, my friend, because this is…alarming. I actually think the interviewer looks a little disquieted: Do I stop him? Correct him? Do we pull out a chart and explain the basics? Change the topic entirely? (Anyone see the game last night?) Very funny.
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Tanya says: Let’s not get Clinton to write up all the legal mumbo-jumbo regarding this issue. “Embryos that has no chance of ever being fertilized”… why, that would be all embryos, wouldn’t it?