Assisted suicide bill passes California Assembly and Belgian legislators seek to legalize euthanasia for the unconscious and children. California: AB 2747 would authorize total sedation without nutrition and hydration for depressed and confused patients, whether or not their natural death was imminent. The bill would also allow family members to order the death of a …
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Kids!
An adorable story from this morning’s National Post: SURREY, B.C. -Andrew Binns, five-year-old, took charge after his mom Shawna tumbled face-first down a flight of stairs, knocking herself unconscious. Andrew first called his father and then 911. That done, he prepared a bottle for his 23-month-old brother Ethan, to calm him down while they waited …
Holy cow
According to this news story, kids aged 10 to 16 spend something like 6 hours A DAY in front of a screen. That’s almost a full-time job… yikes. And 90 per cent of children in this country aren’t getting enough exercise. I guess planting the little nippers in front of the tube is easier than …
I’m keeping mine
Because there are protest ideas that just aren’t worth it: MONTREAL – Canadian women are being asked to send their panties to the Burma embassy in Ottawa to protest the actions of the country’s military regime. The call for the underwear is part of the Panties for Peace! campaign, launched by rights activists in Montreal. …
Gosh, what did you expect?
Two stories jumped at me this morning. One about Julie Couillard (Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriend, of past biker-gang and inappropriate décolletés fame) and how she feels “destroyed” and “abandoned” and how ”her name has been dragged through the mud” and the other about Miley Cyrus and how “hurting” she is after her monumental bedsheet-picture-on-the-cover-of-Vanity-Fair gaffe. …
Sex change for 12-year-old girl
And we thought this was bad… A court in Australia authorized a taxpayer-funded sex swap for a 12-year-old girl, despite her father’s objections (the mother is sad but supportive). The child’s lawyer told the court she considered the girl capable of making an informed decision. The girl is one of the youngest patients in Australia …
Well. Now at least we know.
A chilling piece in today’s Toronto Star. GTA’s secret world of polygamy: Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it’s not common, but it’s happening,” said [Aly] Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre. Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo …
Alice Walker’s daughter writes
What was it like growing up with a world-famous feminist mother? Not fun: My mother’s feminist principles coloured every aspect of my life. As a little girl, I wasn’t even allowed to play with dolls or stuffed toys in case they brought out a maternal instinct. It was drummed into me that being a mother, …
With friends like these…
I don’t get it: The vice-chairman of the British All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group (APPPLG), told the House of Commons yesterday that she is pro-abortion, but wishes women would choose life. [cross-posted to PWPL]
Trying to lift the mood…
I know the news out of the UK isn’t uplifting today. That human-animal hybrid thing is certainly bad – though in many ways, not surprising. So I thought I’d go looking for fun stories to act, you know, as counterbalance. I’m afraid I was only midly successful… The Merry Wives Cafe, located in Hilldale, Utah, …