Month: June 2009

Animal House Of Commons – Will We Be Voting This Summer?

Mulder

The simple answer to this question is no.

Despite all the saber rattling the bottom line is that:

a) The Bloc Quebecois doesn’t want to lose seats to the Liberals and right now that’s what would happen.

b) The NDP doesn’t have the money to fight an election and they would definitely lose seats.

c) The Liberals don’t have the money and wouldn’t dare call an election before infrastructure money gets spent.

So this weekend Michael Ignatieff is going to relax, have a cognac while he intellectually debates with hawks like Warren Kinsella and in the end, the conversation will go something like the one between Greg Marmalard and Dean Wormer in the movie Animal House.

Liberal Hawk: But the Tories are already on probation.

Michael Ignatieff: They are? Well, as of this moment, they’re on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!

Sometimes You Have To Scratch Your Head

Mulder

Received in my email. Probably because I provide components to the makers of Blackberry and because I am pretty Conservative.

Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen .

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Blackberry User Snaps Photo Of Michelle Obama at Soup KitchenClick Image To Enlarge

Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter $0.00 dollars

Having Michelle Obama serve your soup $0.00 dollars

A homeless person who is receiving government funded meals while taking a picture of the first lady using his Black Berry cell phone $$$$ Priceless

York University Professor Likens "Sexting" To "Spin The Bottle"

Mulder

York University Professor Peter Cummings has likened “Sexting” to “Spin The Bottle”.

For those who are unaware, “sexting” is a play on the word “texting” and refers to someone taking nude photos of themselves and sending via cell phone to others.

Peter Cumming, an associate professor at York University in Toronto, presented a paper on children’s sexuality at the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences defending the practice as a modern variation on “playing doctor or spin-the-bottle.”

This is, quite simply, a travesty. It takes a big step forward in the degradation of our youth when someone in the education field indicates that it is a modern right of passage the way “spin the bottle” was years ago.

I do agree with the professor that youth should not be prosecuted for this. I would go so far as to say the same “of similar age” defense should apply to this. But the fact remains that indicating that “sexting” is as acceptable as a kissing game is not even close to hitting the mark.

The ramifications of “spin the bottle” is perhaps a cold sore or perhaps even mononucleosis, both of which are not the end of the world. But when someone has their nude photos potentially spread all over the internet the outcome is potentially far worse.

That this person is an educator, and someone we entrust our children to, makes it that much worse.