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 Posted 5/14/2008 12:00:00 AM
Step right up and see the world's worst country. That's right. This is your chance to view the country which has committed them most crimes against humanity. The country which has persecuted every minority imaginable and steamrolled over human rights as no other.Now, you might think I'm talking about a place like China, where Falun Gong members are executed so that their organs can be harvested, or Saudi Arabia, where it's against the law to own a Bible, or Cuba where journalists are jailed if they dare to oppose government policy. Not so, the worst trampler of human rights is...wait for it...Canada!. That's right, our home and native land.You see, we're in the process of paying out large sums of money to those who were placed in residential schools by way of helping people get their lives back on track. It won't work but that's beside the point. We've also apologized for the brutal Chinese head tax, which required Chinese immigrants to pay a fee to enter Canada. That's about as cruel as it gets you'd think. But there's more. During the First World War we interned those of Ukrainian decent. For that we've now shelled out ten million dollars...
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Posted 5/6/2008 12:00:00 AM
Some random thoughts on a couple of pop culture items...Miley Cyrus, otherwise known as Hanna MOntana, the 15 year old singing star and daughter of Billy Ray, recently did a photos hoot which showed her holding a sheet over her front while her back was bare for the camera. It's actually quite a nice shot by famed photographer Annie Liebovitz. Cyrus wound up apologizing all over the place for the photo because she felt it wasn't innocent enough. Actually it was quite innocent. It was a shot of a young girl who is likely discovering her sexuality. Most of the time when we see her onthe red carpet she's dolled up like a thirty year old woman, complete with gowns, oodles of makeup, fancy hairdo and earrings. The works. It's a lot less innocent than the Liebovitz photo shoot and if she's going to apologize for anything it should be that she's setting an example for teen-aged girls that it's OK to try to look 20 years older than you are. Saw a commercial for an ice cream treat where a a pre pubescent girl giving a boy of the same age the eye and getting a free ice cream treat. She...
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Posted 4/22/2008 12:00:00 AM
Fashion if it kills, right ladies? Well, that was once the mock battle cry of compulsive shoppers who would squeeze their size seven foot into a six and a half shoe because it was just too cute and it was on sale. There have been times when women would compact themselves into corsettes like a tourist sitting on an over packed suitcase for the flight home. Constricting underwear, ill fitting dresses and shoes that create chronic back problems have all been part of the fashion industry at one time or another. Many are present to this day. The author Oscar Wilde once claimed fashion was something so dreadful it needed to be changed every six months. Take a look back at some of the magazines of past decades and you'll be forced to agree. Look now at the models on the runways on television shows and you'll be forced to arrive at the same inescapable conclusion.But the greatest problem these days isn't so much the hideous excuses for clothing the designers tell women they must have, or even the anorexic models who are held up as examples of womanhood, although both are abominations. It's that women believe the designers and...
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