This dude has been voted “sexiest man alive”.
I protest!!! Where’s Gerard?
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Véronique most sensibly agrees: Gerard, by a mile! The other guy looks weak. I mean, just putting the pictures side-by-side says it all. Dude looks like he still lives with his mother.
Ah, the youth of today. So open-minded. So tolerant.
The student association at Carleton University has decided that any club that is opposed to abortion has no place on campus and would have its funding as a student club cut off.
On Monday, Carleton Lifeline, an anti-abortion group, was told by CUSA, the Carleton University Student Association, that it was in violation of CUSA’s anti-discrimination policy.
The letter noted that Carleton Lifeline believes in the “equal rights of the unborn and firmly believes that abortion is a moral and legal wrong,” wrote Khaldoon Buhnaq of CUSA.
Therefore, because of CUSA’s commitment to choice, Carleton Lifeline can no longer promote activities on campus or even lobby in any way that would go against a pro-choice position.
“It is ironic that they support choice and do not see that they not having an abortion is a choice,” said Ruth Lobo, president of Carleton Lifeline.
I’ll say!
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Véronique adds: Can you hear me whack my head against my desk? What are kids learning these days? Because as someone who recently had to hire some junior staff, I can tell you that they don’t learn how to write or how to work. Apparently they don’t learn how to think either.
There may be more to this story than what I can read here, but still. What on earth is going on? How do people get from disagreeing with your pro-life position to threatening violence for expressing it?
Lifesite news report that Mariska Orbán de Haas, a Dutch Catholic pro-life journalist, has‘received hundreds of death threats and more than ten threats of torture. Her ‘crime’ against Dutch sensibilities was to write an open letter to pro-abortion parliamentarian Representative Jeannine Hennis-Plasschaert.
Lifesite news report:
‘The letter, published on October 27, sparked outrage in the largely liberal, pro-abortion Netherlands. Orbán soon offered a public apology, but that has not prevented her from receiving an avalanche of angry responses. French journalist Jeanne Smits reports that the letter has generated 350,000 tweets on Twitter, and various sites have created distorted pictures of her face, portraying her as a devil.’
Mariska Orbán had written an open letter to Hennis-Plasschaert because she had called a letter from Bishop Everard de Jong ‘disgusting’ for asking ‘representatives to stop the killing of the unborn in the face of impending budget restrictions, pointing out that defunding “bloody abortion clinics” would save money and help preserve future generations who could care for the elderly.’ Along with the letter the Bishop had also sent a plastic model of a fetal humanbeing.
Orbán wrote to the representive publicly, pointing out that both she and Hennis-Plasschaert have experienced the suffering of miscarriages, and that the fetal model she received from Bishop De Jong would resemble their lost children at the time of their deaths.
“In that light,” asked Orbán, “is it not ‘disgusting’ that our society permits us to abort more than thirty thousand babies in the Netherlands every year?” She noted that children who die by abortion are “exactly the same as the mysterious little lives that we expectantly carried within us.”
It will take a heck of a lot more than that to restore my lack of faith in the UN, but I’m still pleased about this:
UNITED NATIONS — Iran failed Wednesday to secure a seat on the board running the new UN super agency for women in the face of a fierce diplomatic onslaught against its rights record.
Gotta start somewhere…
This story starts with hubby sending me a link to this:
A Muslim religious channel in Britain is being censored after allowing presenters on air to condone marital rape and violence toward women, and for calling women who wear perfume in mosques “prostitutes.”
The U.K. Daily Mail reports that in one program, the host told viewers that it was “not strange” and “not such a big problem” for a man to force his wife to have sex.
The U.K.’s T.V. watchdog, Ofcom, ruled the Islam Channel breached the broadcasting code in five different programs between May 2008 and October 2009.
At first, I must admit, I was rather confused. Weren’t we just told marital rape was impossible under Islam? I must have misunderstood.
And then I went googling around for fun, to see who was picking up the story (yes, looking for outraged feminists – no, didn’t find none… so far), and below is a screen capture of what I found. Look at the list of headlines (and news sources), and see if you can correctly identify each outlet’s bias. It’s a fun game!
Please forgive the totally-unrelated-to-prowomanprolifesque-content. This is just too funny not to share. Especially for those of us (hi, Andrea!) who enjoy sending text messages on our way cool iPhone.
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Andrea adds: I recently attended a hymn sing at St. Barmaids (Barnabas). Funny.
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Deborah says: Ah, another one to add to my Google Reader. My husband was taking (or trying to take) a nap on the sofa next to me and I kept waking him up laughing. I wish I had an iPhone as an excuse for my occasionally strange typos . . .
Admittedly, St. Barmaids sounds like it could be a really fun church. 🙂
Why shouldn’t beauty queens be able to defend themselves?
Swimsuit? Check. Evening gown? Check. Gun — huh?
At first glance, the Miss Liberty America pageant looks like any other scholarship pageant going out there. However, its odd requirements — like needing to be CPR-certified, proficient with firearms and able to converse about historic American documents — make it sound more like a program for young Sarah Palins-in-training or Mama Grizzlies-to-be.
And that’s something its founder, Alicia Hayes-Roberts, is perfectly OK with. “It is absolutely a beauty pageant,” she told TODAYshow.com, “filled with elite, feminine patriots.”
You go, girls!
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Deborah adds: Good find! Now that’s a pageant I could win if it wasn’t for the swimsuit competition (maybe I could make up for it by shooting really well . . . in a swimsuit)! Call me a redneck, but getting to pick any handgun or rifle and getting lifetime membership to the NRA would be the greatest ever. 🙂
Oh, look! Another stupid comment!
MONTREAL – With her rent-free $2.5-million mansion, two nannies, a chef and a chauffeur, Lola seems an unlikely champion of downtrodden single mothers.
But the 35-year-old woman Wednesday won what is being hailed as a major legal victory for common-law spouses, who under Quebec’s Civil Code have enjoyed no right to alimony in the event of a break-up.
The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled unconstitutional a clause of the Civil Code that blocked common-law spouses from seeking alimony after the end of a relationship. The three-judge panel found that the provision discriminates against common-law spouses, perpetuating a prejudice that such relationships are “less durable and serious” than those sanctioned by marriage.
Of course! They’re just the same now that we allow exes to sue for alimony. Case closed.
You know, I don’t really care what method they use. Executing women for “adultery” is wrong, wrong, wrong.
An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday, a human rights group said.
“The authorities in Tehran have given the go-ahead to Tabriz prison for the execution of Iran stoning case Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani,” the International Committee against Stoning, a German-based campaign group, said on its website.
“It has been reported that she is to be executed this Wednesday, 3 November.”
Officials in Iran were not available to confirm or deny the report.
Ashtiani’s stoning sentence was suspended after prominent political and religious figures called it “medieval,” “barbaric” and “brutal.” Brazil, a close ally of Iran’s, offered to give the 43-year-old mother of two asylum.
A government spokesman said in September Ashtiani’s adultery conviction was under review but the charge of being complicit in the murder of her husband was still pending.
Here’s the secret to postponing motherhood successfully. Have part of your ovary removed and frozen in your teen years, so that you can have fresh (so to speak) eggs when you’re old. It’s so simple!
Dr Sherman Silber told the American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting in Denver a woman could freeze her ovary at 19 to use when she was 40.
Dr Silber, who says the procedure would work better than egg freezing, did the first full ovary transplant in 2007.
But UK experts warned ovary freezing had not been sufficiently tested.
No sh*it, Sherlock. (Pardon my French.) Think there might be some slight problem with this “solution” to what isn’t a problem? Having trouble conceiving in your 40s in not abnormal, people. Get a grip!
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