When stereotypes live up to their well... stereotypes!

*credit CNN US news* February 26, 2010

Ok then. Lets look at the "South." Dogs, cows, bison and a guy shooting his wife. All we're missing is some beer and a truck! Seriously, go to CNN.com but click US instead of home page and look at the stories. It's like this every day! Click the link and go to the bison story... it's a good one! "It's unclear why the animal was being transported or where to."

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22684679/detail.html

February fretting...

Killer whales: well lets see, 6 - 9 meters, 3 - 9 tons with a life span of up to 50 years. Highly social and intelligent. Take one from an ocean, stick it in a tank, make it do tricks and surprise... http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/25/florida.seaworld.death/index.html?hpt=T2

Trucking along:
This morning I'm behind a transport truck, Deluxe Freight out of Burlington Ontario and this guy couldn't stay in one lane if his life depended on it. (The irony of our lives depending on it is not wasted on me!) He was everywhere, all over the road! I stayed well back, until it was safe to pass him. (About 10 blocks!) When I was beside him I realize the problem. Apparently it's not that easy to dig through your lunch pail, find and peel a banana whilst driving a transport! Ha... go figure!


Olympic women's hockey:
Simple, give Canada automatic gold, USA automatic silver and let the rest of the world play for bronze. It's embarrassing! It's not sportsman like and certainly not the spirit of the games.

Olympic men's hockey:
Could someone explain to me how professional, paid NHL stars qualify in "amateur games?" It's really just all star hockey split into countries.



Olympic Medals:
Yay Canada. Up to 7 gold with a total of 15. Double Yay for the females who've done most of the work!

Bo tribe is extinct.

This is so sad. Every day we lose a part of ourselves. Part of the world that has made us what we are. I look around and see what we are left with and shudder. The best of us is gone, the lunatic fringe prospers and seriously, we are in so much trouble.

We focus on the negative, we focus on obtaining useless things, we spend time, energy and money on attempting to harm and what should we be doing? We should be focusing on how to make things so much better than they are. Life, is to be lived. Life is to be shared, life to to continue giving, to reproduce and to bring to this earth happiness, love and community.

This woman is the end of her kind. The end of a distinct and important part of who we are. We should be paying attention.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=598082

Thank goodness CBS' big eye is watching over what we watch!

*copyright CBS*


Gay dating site, Super Bowl ad - NO
Anti Abortion, Super Bowl ad - YES

So... lets look at their program line up. Victoria's Secret Fashion show, half, correct that, three quarters naked women prancing along the runway.

Two and a Half Men, degrading to women, sexist, tawdry and infantile.

CSI, Criminal Minds, (both of which I love and watch,) full of death and violence;

Undercover Boss, next week... at Hooters.

Can't wait to see the ad... 15 year old cheerleader, 16 year old football player get married and live happily ever after... sigh...(Gotta make it football relevant no?)

I am NOT advocating abortion. I am pro choice and in today's world, with all the birth control measures available I see little excuse for "oopses." Abortion is not birth control. I too, am pro choice when it comes to someone's personal life.

So, lets go to Haiti, grab 33 kids and cross an international border...

Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images, Telegraph UK













*UPDATE*

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/04/haiti.arrests/index.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7127824/Mistrust-in-the-eyes-of-rescued-Haitian-orphans.html


http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews/20100201/haiti_r

Gee, what a great idea eh? Seriously, can anyone truly be that stupid? "Misguided" is a ridiculous word for what these "missionaries" tried to do. Besides stupid it is autocratic, presumptuous, arrogant and typical "big brother with a big stick/bible" behaviour. The level of arrogance displayed by these people is criminal!

There are lessons to be learned, most have learned them by reviewing the history of the past hundreds of years of Imperialistic attitudes and behaviours! I say, throw them in jail, make them read the history of the country of Haiti, USA, Canada, England, France... every large and largely European settled country on the face of this earth and see what was done in the name of "God, betterment, civilization and helpfulness!"

"God is the one who called us to come here and we just really believed that this was his purpose," said Carla Thompson, another member of the group, which called itself the New Life Children's Refuge.


"One (9-year-old) girl was crying, and saying, 'I am not an orphan. I still have my parents.' And she thought she was going on a summer camp or a boarding school or something like that," said George Willeit, a spokesman for the SOS Children's Village.

The children were taken to an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children's Villages, where spokesman George Willeit said they arrived "very hungry, very thirsty." A 2- to 3-month-old baby was dehydrated and had to be hospitalized, he said. Workers were searching for their families or close relatives.


"There are many who come here with religious ideas that belong more in the time of the inquisition," said Max Beauvoir, head of Haiti's Voodoo Priest's Association, which represents thousands of priests and priestesses. "These types of people believe they need to save our souls and our bodies from ourselves. We need compassion, not proselytizing now, and we need aid - not just aid going to people of the Christian faith."

"The majority of these children have families. Some of the older ones said their parents are alive, and some gave an address and phone numbers," said Vargas, a Costa Rican who is in charge of SOS Children's operations in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Life and living

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton~

*by the lonely, isolated, twisted and desolate lives they lead*