You
need a licence to drive a car but any couple past puberty can
conceive a child through premature ejaculation in the back seat of
that car. No training is necessary for raising a child. The death by
starvation of a child in Alberta causes an online media storm amid
recriminations as to why the authorities did nothing. Take the social
workers who man child care agencies. The average agent is poorly paid
and has 40 to 50 clients spread over a 200-mile radius and is
supposed to visit each at least once a month. If she exceeds her car
allowance she'll probably be reprimanded. Obviously doctors and
teachers let this one slide. The same parents would have reacted with
righteous indignation had someone suggested they were abusing their
child. Children's Aid meanwhile are branded child snatchers and need
find foster parents for seized children and we've read plenty about
that experience and loads of horror stories.
Eight
winters spent touring the US and I still fail to understand
American's fascination with guns. "People kill people, not
guns." But if you have an assault rifle that will spew a
thousand rounds a minute you can kill a lot more. Orlando will now
forever be known for something more than theme parks and the Magic.
There's an outpouring of emotion over the more than one hundred
victims of this atrocity but NRA advocates will still say take this
weapon out of my dead hands before I'll give it up. Am I the only one
to see a double standard. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Hockey
is in the news. With all the expansion teams these days the regular
season means little as most teams make the playoffs which today
stretch almost to Summer. The Penguins and a middle-aged Mario
Lemieux celebrate their victory while honouring the memory of Mr.
Hockey from Floral Saskatchewan who is elbowing his way into heaven.
Wal-Mart
and VISA are having a spat over credit card fees. When elephants
fight mice get hurt--in this case the customers. In related news
Canadian Banks unsatisfied with Trillion-Dollar profits and overpaid
executives are raising consumer fees yet again.
Read
a microwave guide and they'll pretend it will cook anything. Ever
produced a water geyser in a cup, watched butter erupt, or exploded
an egg? BBQ Season is in full swing and a similar phenomenon applies.
Seems you can grill anything: Corn, peppers, mushrooms, ice cream,
bananas, peaches?
My
favourite browser has finally undergone a major update. While it no
longer crashes every time I attempt to clear the cache the context
menus have changed and it's behaving differently in many ways.
Ughhhhhhh!
Kobo,
Chapter's/Indigo's E-book venue, seems to have borrowed their
marketing strategy from the likes of K-mart and the Bay. Variations
on 3 for the price of 2, Buy 2 get 1 free. Buy two over-priced items
and try to find a lesser priced item you don't need to get for free.
Alas Canada's book seller has become the purveyor of smelly candles
and useless household items. Meanwhile independent booksellers hang
on by their toenails in a struggle stacked against them.
The
wind has finally eased granting us a calm day. The sky is almost
cloudless and it's cooler. The bird feeding season having ended with
the exhausting of my supplies I got out to take a scrub brush to my
balcony. Birdies have a strange way of showing their thanks. The next
rain will rinse my work, that way I won't be responsible for the
drips below. I should get out for stroll this afternoon.
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