Sometimes even I am at a loss for words

I read an article by Bill Whittle that Kate at Small Dead Animals had linked, and it has left me speechless. I pray that one day I may be even remotely as eloquent as this man. It is also my fervant prayer that by home educating my children I may save them from some of the ridiculous ideas of the left side of the spectrum. I never want to shelter them from being able to present a logical and articulate defense of their beliefs (their beliefs, not mine). I just hope that they will be protected from the all consuming entertainment culture that has ensnared me and my generation. To my utter dismayI am probably failing, due to my lack of modelling and my addiction to television. No, seriously, it is a disease.

Every so often, I am dismayed at my inability to quash the desire to sneak peeks at the Enquirer, or even People magazine covers. Logically, I know that these people are for the most part self-serving narcissists, yet there is something that makes me desire to read articles in TV Guide and others of its ilk. I cannot explain it. When I am thinking clearly and objectively, I loathe the movie making machine and the lies that they perpetuate. I despise the evil they spout in small, insidious ways. The way they influence our thinking so subtly, and then pat themselves on the back with moronic awards shows. There are few industries that are more self-lauding than those in Hollywood. How many awards shows do you need to give yourself in order to make you feel good? The only other industry with even close to that number of awards is the music industry. It causes one to wonder how low your self-esteem must be to give and receive awards to yourself from yourself, which is essentially what the Oscars, SAG Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Grammys and Junos are. These are just awards given by the movie and music industries to the movie and music industries saying, "Look how great we are!! Love us!" Do they seriously even mean anything in the real world?

As Bill Whittle points out, there are many valid, worthy unsung heroes, or even just "sung" heroes, if that makes sense, of whom we know little if anything at all. I hope that through home educating my children, they will recognize and laud true and lasting heroism, the likes of which our modern society spurns and forego the popular sports, movie and music false heroes. Lift high the names and memories of those who are willing to give their lives for that which is good and right. Real truth, not this subjective garbage the public school crowd is being taught, but real logical, knowable truth. The kind that Frank Peretti espouses in his writings.

Mr. Whittle's article has caused me to pause and think long and hard about whom and what I esteem and who and what I want my children to esteem. Thank you, Mr. Whittle, this mental web-clearing been long overdue.

Proportionate Response

Israel takes so many civilian casualties at the hands of Muslim terrorists everyday, yet you rarely see their dead children, unlike Palestinian and Hezbollah children. In reality, I am against the killing of children in every form. I repeat every form. It's interesting that the majority of those hollering the loudest about Israel bombing children, are also pro abortion. It is sad that there are children dying in Lebanon. However, it is also a lot of these people who will strap bombs to their own children to get them into paradise. I find it interesting that they are so upset now. Do they believe that being killed by Israel will get them fewer virgins? I am really trying to understand something. Is it only sad when you aren't the one choosing the death of your child?
Here is one of my favourites from the Col.Dr., who was commenting on another blog, "You're the kind who just sit and watch the children die, without a clue, not giving a s*** until it's something of yours that's taken away." He then turns around and states, "Suicide bombers in NYC? In Omaha? In smalltown America? I can't f***ing wait, and when the sh**house burns down, while I won't be pouring gas on anyone, I won't be p***ing on a lot of burning c***suckers who thought they could stay uninvolved while the Bush-Olmert Zionist conspiracy killed the world."
Hmmm. Interesting how he thinks he sees hypocrisy in everything Bush does, and anyone who likes Stephen Harper, but cannot see the hypocrisy of thinking that if there were a bombing in Omaha, their children might be killed, but he won't be urinating on them to save them. Nice. As Kate said, does CSIS know about this guy?
"F*** you, Prime Minister Harper, I wish you an evil death in front of your children.
F*** you, MacKay, I wish you the public exposure of your personal pecadilloes for maximum embarrassment of your homophobic Fuhrer, just before his evil death in front of his children."

At least he seems to think they know about him. For all our sakes, I hope they do.

Biased? Us? No way!

Well, the MSM never ceases to amaze me. Saturday I heard on our local news derisive coverage that Stephen Harper was lowering the GST and had announced it from a dollar store (incorrect, by the way -- it was a Giant Tiger). They were snidely saying that he reportedly, "didn't buy anything" and was perhaps "waiting for the tax break" that would come tomorrow. That was bad enough. Today's headlines are so skewed, it would be funny, if it weren't so sickening.

The London Free Press has under banner "Breaking News" Bus riders indifferent to transit tax break. Uh, if they're indifferent, how is this life changing, breaking news? It wouldn't be so bad if this were the only incident from the July first changes.

Then, over at The Globe and Mail, they have the headline, "GST cut arrives with a whimper, not a bang" This was such a hated tax the Liberals campaigned on getting rid of it. Now that Harper's actually doing something about it, they seem to want to hang him in effigy. The CBC states that, " It is estimated it will cost the government $3.5 billion in 2006-07 and $5.17 billion in 2007-08." Note the wording here. It will cost the government, not it will save the taxpayers. No one wants to admit that there has been a real, honest to goodness, see it everyday tax cut here. It just kills them.

What are the chances we'll see this online poll from the Globe and Mail as headline news?

They're not prejudiced, just ask them.

They're coming to take me away, ha ha

Heeeee'sss baaaaaack

The craziest crackpot on the web, the Col Dr. has a new blog. How this nutjob ever got away from CSIS, I'm not sure. But he's back and crazier than ever.

This is just a tempting tidbit of the insane ramblings of an Ontarian:
"So, instead of telling exactly why Harper must be killed slowly in front of his c*** and kids, to save the nation which writhes unwillingly under his American paymasters' pithy oppression, I wrote about the goddess I discovered yesterday, and used the Language to write about her"

HUH?!?!

O Canada

True patriot love?

I cannot believe that we live in a day and age where people find it funny to use a monument to fallen war heroes as a urinal.

The Ottawa Citizen reports:

"A retired major snapped digital pictures of several people relieving themselves on the monument around 11 p.m. on Saturday, as thousands poured into the streets following the fireworks.

Most cheered and laughed when they were photographed using the memorial as a toilet on the nation's birthday."

There was a day when a retired major could have rounded up a few others and kicked the crap out of scumbags like these. I kow they're drunk, blah blah blah, but come on who are we kidding? They were peeing in public. Not behind a tree. Not behind a building, but in plain sight of anyone, including any small children who may have been walking by.

Our civilization is crumbling before our very eyes.

Let's get ready to rumble

They say they're ready, so, if they really want to voice their " strong opposition to Stephen Harper's pillaging of Canada's values"why not defeat the government now, and let the Liberals return to their great rule of Canada? If so certain, why not go for it?

It's good to see that despite being beaten in the last election, the Liberal party of Canada still thinks that bashing George W. Bush constitutes an election platform. One of my wishes has come true. Now, if they elect Bob Rae or (oh please, please let it be) Buzz Hargrove as leader of the party, my second wish will come true, thereby guaranteeing the granting of the third!

The Liberal party's spontaneous combustion is almost a reality!! Marshmallows, anyone? The Liberals themselves are wieners, so we're ready for the bonfire to celebrate the birth of our nation!! HAPPY CANADA DAY, EH!!!
PS. I know, I know Buzz isn't running, but a girl can dream, can't she?

Is Daulton Mc Guinty responsible for Ontario's lower birth rate? Maybe he is...

On the A Channel London news this morning, Bob Smith reported that your friend and mine, Daulton McGuinty has reported that he has delivered on his promise to lower the number of students in kindergarten to grade three. This report just made me shake my head. Unbelievable as this may be, it seems that Daulton McGuinty really can get more ridiculous. Unfathomable, I know, yet true! Of course, in reality it is not necessarily his fault that he is taking credit for this, but really A Channel’s fault for poor reporting. What does a reporter do now other than just read the news? Who does any investigating? It seems the government just provide these statements and the news just reads them off without ever looking into any of the issues. Maybe if someone calls them with more facts, they would report those, but what happened to actual investigative journalism? Is it dead in Canada?

Here is the problem. Birth rates have been declining since hitting a peak in 1990. Ontario birth rates hit an all time low in 2002, the kids who will be starting JK in September. It took me maybe 15 minutes to find this information on the web. The laziness of reporters astounds me. The other statistic that took me slightly longer to find, given that I am on dial up and had lunch to make for two hungry girls who just got home, is that on private school. Private school enrollments are rising each year, and then there are those, who, like me, home educate. There are no hard numbers on this in Ontario, as you only need to report to the province if you have a complaint against you, or if , as in my case, you need to access the Community Care Access Centre for speech therapy, as they will not allow access to a speech therapist at the school itself. (see my second blog rant)

Daulton is misleading, but the news makes it look like he’s really stating unbiased truth. They must be stopped.

Protesting a protest

Our local newspaper is so ridiculous and skewed to the left, it is insane. That’s why I found it so incredible that I actually agreed with a stand that they took recently. There was a group of parents who took their 12 year old kids and allowed them to protest the price of gas outside a locally owned gas station. This was a privately owned gas station, not any kind of a chain, just some guy who decided to try his hand at running a gas station. These kids were asked by a nearby merchant to cut it out, and the parents were outraged. A motorcyclist whose interest was taken, had an accident and was taken to hospital. The merchant who had been asking the kids to go came out and blamed the kids for causing the wreck. Now, I’m not saying it was her place to point fingers, but you can see her point. Well, I can, at any rate. Many people have written to the paper to say that they are proud that these children have decided that they can affect change in their world.

I say, what in the world do 12 year old kids care about the price of gas?!?! I think this was the parents’ protest and these kids, who have been listening to their parents whine and moan in front of them, took matters into their own hands and did something instead of just complaining like their parents had.

I am not denying these kids have the right to protest. Protest all you like. I am also not saying that motorcycle accident was the fault of some kids. The biker chose to divert his attention. What I am saying is that these parents are some of the stupidest people I have heard of in a long time. Who lets their 12 year olds do whatever comes into their pre-pubescent heads? Once again, I say, the kids have no reason to protest gas prices. Protest school times or lack of funding, or something of import to a 12 year old. Is it not the parents’ responsibility to see their children interested in something and direct it into areas that are more appropriate? Who are these people and what kind of dope do they smoke?

If my children were that upset about gas prices, I’d look at how I was communicating around them. I would also encourage them to call their MP or MPP or write a letter, but I would not subject them to public ridicule and danger and then be angry with people being outraged that children were protesting an adult problem.

According to letters they have written to the editor of our paper, they are right to encourage their children in this endeavour because people honked in support. They do not see their own responsibility in their “daughter’s tears” and only see culpability in the store owner and those who have expressed outrage. I can only shake my head in disbelief of the relative stupidity of those around me.

Remind me why ...

Remind me again why it is I pay taxes, please. I am begging you. Please help me remember. As a home schooler, I pay school taxes as well as taxes on my curriculum, this doesn't include the almost 50% we pay in taxes on my husband's wages. I also pay for my curriculum without being able to claim it on my taxes or anything. I'm not really complaining about that, but what I am complaining about is that although my taxes are taken quite willingly by the government, it seems that any time I need services, I have to go to great lengths. Recently, my daughter has been in need of speech therapy, but because she is now 5, we don't get it because she doesn't go to school. Because she has a stutter, we should be able to get some help through OHIP, but we have all sorts of hoops through which to jump.

I am just so sick of it. After the fighting over her health and that of my other daughter, not to mention my own, I am tired of arguing with the government and doctors and other officials.

Now I see that on behalf of the Ontario government David Peterson negotiated a deal to transfer ownership of 267 acres of land to the Natives to get them to take down barricades in Caledonia. What is going on in this province??? See more atCaledonia Wake Up Call. Am I the only one who feels like vomitting? Why do we put up with this? Did we, or did we not pay these people to use that land? I can't decide if I should be outraged or start my own barricade. We could do a lot with 267 acres of land. Do they realize the precedent they have set here? Short term solutions that will have far reaching consequences. The Liberals are so brilliant I stand in awe. I have to go call my MPP and scream for a while. Have a great day!

To Blog or Not to Blog

My husband has been bothering me to start a blog for almost a year now. I don't think I really have the time, or much to say that is interesting, but, because he loves me, he does.

I am a SAHM to two beautiful girls who I also home school. They have just finished kindergarten and will be starting grade 1 in the fall, or sooner if they don't stop arguing every five minutes.

Today we are going to the Children's Museum with friends we haven't seen in two years. I'm not sure who's more excited, the girls or me!
Pretty boring first post, but hey, no one's paying me to do this, so you get what you get! I will spice it up later, I promise. Off to the museum!