Canadian Leaders Speak on the Election

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Observation

I've met a lot of women recently who seem really proud of the fact that they don't know how to cook.

I find this interesting since there's never been as many cooking shows available to watch...I mean, there's a whole channel dedicated to it.
Cooking really only requires the ability to read and comprehend what you've read, and then follow the directions.

It's not rocket science.

Maybe it's because so many women don't want to be perceived as "house-wifey", or they want to appear too career oriented for that sort of thing.

When I was single...I rarely ever cooked, but I never saw it as something that I couldn't do.
I just didn't do it because it seemed a waste of time to do it for one person...especially a person who was perfectly happy with a sandwich.

Most of the women I've run across recently who proudly state that they can't cook are married, and some with children.
Now, perhaps their husbands do most of the cooking...or most of the food their families consume is processed, or frozen and shoved in a microwave or oven.

It would certainly explain why so many children can't recognize fresh vegetables.

It's always been puzzling to me why someone wouldn't cook fresh food, since it's pretty quick and easy...as you can see on The Food Network.

It's just something that I've noticed recently, and I find it ironic...what with all the programs on TV, and all the talk about organic food and the like.

...as a side note, The Mister and me know a West Indian family in which, miraculously, astoundingly, astonishingly...not one woman in that family can cook.

We always cringe when we're invited over for dinner, and I always marvel at the amount of inedible food that is served. Dishwater Callaloo, dry macaroni pie, little sandwiches with unidentifiable pink and green goo...really...I also sigh, because I look forward to dinner at someone else's house because that means I catch a break. Not so when we go there.
We're always starving when we leave....

It's just wrong...

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence.

*Schnort*

The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters

I saw Bryan Caplan interviewed this morning on Canada AM.

He says that if you aren't schooled on the issues and policies of the candidates, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

He likens it to doing surgery without training, or flying a plane without lessons.

...and while he makes excellent points about ignorance at the polls ruining the economy by putting the wrong people in office...he's so fucking superior, and arrogant that it pisses me off that I agree with him.

I hate that.

BTW, I notice that Jack's come out guns a-blazing.
It's kind of sad... it's like Willy Wonka is heading the NDP.

R.I.P. Paul Newman

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If Ersi Arvizu was dark haired, I'd be looking at my favourite stepmother Nada's doppelgänger.

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It's about time.


Now, if only we could give tickets out for being self-righteous.

...on second thought....

Anyone who had a heart...



Warwick/Bacharach...the songs of my early childhood

"Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied."

It's shocking when people say these sorts of things out loud.

But, in my business...I've seen plenty of people who have no business having children.
I would be lying to you if I told you that it didn't cross my mind while dealing with that mother who has never spoken to me without dilated pupils, or that mentally ill mother who is dragging her child through life with her, or that mother who puts your number on call privacy because she doesn't want to come and pick up her sick child, or the mother who calls and threatens you because she suspects you called Children's Aid because her child hasn't been bathed, or changed her clothes in two weeks, and has big bruises on her back, or the mother who...you get the picture.

...and while it doesn't have anything to do with being poor, none of the women mentioned above was working their way through school, or gainfully employed.

I'm not saying he's right.
I'm just saying it's crossed my mind when I see women who have no business being parents having multiple children.

That's right.
I said it.

While it's not popular with a lot of people who have a romanticized image or belief in human nature...Judges have been doing it.

Modern Day Pirates



Part 2

Facebook Drunks

Apparently, your drunken Facebook pics might be seen by a perspective employer...and it may have an impact on your job prospects.

Imagine that?

"The best teacher in life is natural consequences," says former teacher and parenting coach Derek Randel. "We get those from the decisions we make."

If kids never have to face the repercussions of losing money or getting a bad grade, they can't learn what's at stake, says Mr. Randel, based in Chicago and co-author of Parent Smart from the Heart.

Duh.

When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over. A 360 degree tour

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NORRISTOWN, Pa.–The mother of a bullied boy who planned an attack on a suburban Philadelphia high school has agreed to admit she helped build his cache of weapons.

Riding sidesaddle with pestilence to the Apocalypse...

Freestyle Rap Battle Translated

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(Thanks Dilly)

It's Monday.
Back to work...

Dead Man Eating.

SOUTH DAKOTA LAST MEAL
ELIJAH PAGE
July 11, 2007

...It was South Dakota's first execution in 60 years...

Last Meal: Page had a final meal request of steak with A-1 sauce, jalapeno poppers with cream sauce, onion rings, and a salad with cherry tomatoes, ham chunks, shredded cheese, bacon bits, and blue cheese and ranch dressing. He wanted lemon iced tea and coffee to drink and ice cream for dessert.

The skinny: Page, 25, was executed for the torturing and killing a 19-year-old man following a robbery.

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