100 volunteers using night vision
search for missing dog.

Is it wrong of me to read that article, and then think of this:

Missing persons under the age of 18 accounted for 614,925 cases. Black children made up of 211,921 (34%) compared with just 25,333 (4%) of whites (including Hispanics). Pretty shocking when you know that the 34% wasn’t being reflected in last year national media. So where’s the news on these missing children? More importantly, why didn’t someone blink an eye about the fact that these missing black children were not accurately represented in the media? Shouldn’t that be call for concern?

...and wonder how many volunteers went out to search for those children.
I feel my stomach churning.

A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.

Surprising?
I don't think so.
Climate change, and global warming response is big, big business.


Taking advantage of people's fears has been successful business practice for centuries.

thanks Anna

The message may be well-intentioned and honorable, but it’s made null if its delivery misses its mark. Madonna cannot expect to have her convictions taken seriously if she enters into a socio-political issue as an outsider who has barged her way in with little to no firsthand knowledge of what she speaks and who has no intention of following up on her message.

Apparently, Madonna lectured Romanian fans on discrimination against Roma people in that country.

LOL..testy, testy...

Throwdown in South Korean Parliament



I'm waiting for this to happen at City Council.

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Today's LOL


Obama To Hold Job Performance Review With Every American Worker

in keeping with last week's Superhero Obama which also made me laugh:

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I'd like to see things from his point of view but I can't get my head that far up my ass.
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What a pussy.

Toronto NDP MP Olivia Chow and Brian Iler, a representative from a citizen's group, publicly asked Auditor General Sheila Fraser to investigate the federal agency, which owns and operates the island airport and regulates air and marine traffic in Toronto harbours.


Not my favourite couple of politicians for various reasons, but Chow's hate on for the Port Authority and Porter Airlines is kind of humourous to me.

All this finger wagging about misuse of money...I couldn't help but take a walk down Toronto's memory lane...

Layton and Chow were also the subject of some dispute when a June 14, 1990 article by Tom Kerr accused them of unfairly living in a housing co-operative subsidized by the Government of Canada, despite their high income. Layton and Chow had both lived in the Hazelburn Co-op since 1985, and lived together in an $800 per month three-bedroom apartment after their marriage in 1988. By 1990, their combined annual income was $120,000, and in March of that year they began voluntarily paying an additional $325 per month to offset their share of the co-op's Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation subsidy, the only members of the co-op to do so.

Just to put that in perspective for you:
I'd like to point out that in 1990, we (the mister and me) were making approximately $65,000 a year combined income, and paying $975 a month for a one bedroom apartment at Balliol and Mt Pleasant.
So, if the wiki article is true, and we look and compare...they only "voluntarily" started paying "market value" after they were caught, and called on.

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via Mizi[social]

Posted this before, but it's still good...

In Toronto Sunday night, demonstrators included young women and children. Images show some protesters grabbing police bicycles and throwing them at officers. Three people were arrested and charged.

I'm interested in seeing how the government handles this.

I sympathize with the cause, being from a place that suffers genocide (...while the world has forgotten the minority in Kosovo...family members haven't).

I am behind their cause...I'm not behind their protest tactics.

However, if this community gets the government's ear, I'll lead the rally of Serbs to block the 401 at Dufferin (you know how we love Yorkdale), and I encourage all communities whose families are suffering elsewhere to choose a transfer.

OTTAWA — Embattled Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla has stepped down from her post as the Liberal Party's youth and multiculturalism critic over allegations she mistreated foreign caregivers and paid them under the table.

What an utter disappointment.
Ruby...say it ain't so...

Apparently, women faint all the time during Obama's speeches.

I'm not sure what Robert Deluce did to Mayor Miller (except make him look like the jackass that he is..) but, a lot of people have a real hate on for him, and Porter Airlines.

All this crying about Toronto not being a "world class" city, and then all these Councillors bitching about what a bad idea it is to make it easier to get in and out of Toronto for business with a downtown airport...ok, they're not bitching about that, they're bitching about government money helping Porter out.

Yeah, well...I'd have to say that Mayor Miller was the one who really helped Porter out by backpedaling on a deal, and costing us taxpayers an "unspecified amount" to settle the lawsuit Deluce brought against the City.

He asked $505,000,000...let's all do the math on that, since Deluce did settle..it couldn't have been that much less than what he asked. Especially since it's "unspecified" to the public.

Imagine a new terminal where business people don't have to travel 35km by cab to Malton to take a flight in or out of Toronto...and then perhaps travel back over that turf by plane to get to New York or any other city on the Eastern seaboard...oh, and those 400 new jobs that the new terminal might bring.

OMG...somebody stop this horrible man from making it easier to do business in Toronto!

The Land of No Smiles - Photo Essay on North Korea

COLLECTIVIST COMMUTE: When van Houtryve approached North Koreans, they walked off or averted their eyes. He never once photographed a smile. Even children ran away from him. “They’d turn and notice me and immediately bolt off—as if a wolf had come up to them.” Pyongyang’s somber trams are old East German models, giving the city a Soviet feel two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Click on Image to view the whole essay.

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Obama takes one for the team.

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The schadenfreude on Hilary's face in the background is priceless.

(found at Guanabee)

10th Anniversary of the Bombing of Serbia.

BELGRADE (AFP) – Air-raid sirens wailed Tuesday as Serbia marked the 10th anniversary of NATO's bombing campaign against Serbia.

Solemn ceremonies were held at Belgrade monuments to children and journalists killed in the NATO sorties as the sirens were sounded across the ex-Yugoslav republic for 60 seconds from midday

oh, yes...and fuck off Holbrooke...