Welcome – Before We Begin …
This should be posted in every school
Bill Gates Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
If you agree, pass it on.
If you can read this -Thank a teacher!
If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!
Liberal horizons
June 13, 2011
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1008130–liberal-horizons
Alfred Apps
The old way: Liberal delegates at the party’s 2006 leadership convention in Montreal.
J.P. MOCZULSKI/REUTERS
My first idea is about our democracy generally, because I not only believe Canadian democracy is in much worse shape than the Liberal party but that in improving and extending our democracy, the Liberal party will benefit hugely.
Liberals should commit to the idea of creating a registered voters’ list as part of a broader package of wholesale democratic reform that will enhance democratic participation among Canadians profoundly. Read more…
No-brainer: Conservatives reject proposed change for picking party leader
OTTAWA— Conservative Party members, flush from their majority election win, overwhelmingly voted down a proposed change in how the party leader is picked, leaving small ridings with the same clout as big ones.
The debate, which at times resembled a proxy battle between the old leadership factions of Peter MacKay from the PC side, and the Reform/Alliance side of the party which saw Stephen Harper elected, was heated. Read more…
Democracy in the digital age
Movement Began With Outrage and a Facebook Page That Gave It an Outlet
By JENNIFER PRESTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html
If there is a face to the revolt that has sprouted in Egypt, it may be the face of Khaled Said.
Mr. Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian businessman, was pulled from an Internet cafe in Alexandria last June by two plainclothes police officers, who witnesses say then beat him to death in the lobby of a residential building. Human rights advocates said he was killed because he had evidence of police corruption. Read more…
Democracy groups take aim at Canada’s electoral system
Joanna Smith
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/890489
OTTAWA—Democracy groups who have long complained about the way Canada unfairly favours the major political parties now hope that reviving a court challenge will force — or shame — governments into overhauling the electoral system.
“Our voting system creates a large risk of the most anti-democratic of all outcomes, which is a majority government that got the minority of public votes,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May. May was granted the right to intervene in a case before the Quebec Court of Appeal that argues the current electoral system in that province violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The voting system used to elect representatives at all levels of government nationwide is known as “first past the post,” which means that whoever receives the highest number of votes in a particular riding wins the seat and all other ballots cast for other candidates are essentially discounted. Read more…
Our right to tune out Dr. Laura
National Post · Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/right+tune+Laura/3416131/story.html
Laura Schlessinger — known to millions of listeners simply as Dr. Laura — will end her 30-year-old syndicated radio talk show at the end of the year because of widespread criticism of her use of the n-word with a black caller last week. She claims the criticism has been so vociferous that she needs time to work on regaining her free speech rights. Read more…
A new hope in North Korea?
Lee Jae-Won, Reuters
Anti-North Korea activists at a protest near the U.S. embassy in Seoul on May 26.
Carl Gershman, Special to the National Post · Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/hope+North+Korea/3416133/story.html
A milestone in the struggle for human rights in North Korea will take place this weekend in Toronto, when the 10th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees meets for the first time in Canada, a country with a proud history of leadership in the field of human rights. Read more…
Liberty lovers meet their match
Tyler Anderson, National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/Liberty+lovers+meet+their+match/3416082/story.html
A sign sits on the dock of the Jaworski family’s Orono, Ont., home yesterday. The Jaworskis, who have hosted a libertarian summit for the past decade, were charged last month with using their land for reasons unapproved by the government.
Kevin Libin, National Post · Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Peter Jaworski wasn’t born in the cradle of freedom, but his mother says she hid illegal, anti-Soviet pamphlets in his baby carriage, covertly passing them out to fellow dissidents on the streets of Wroclaw, Poland. When local police sent an order to his father to report to them for unspecified reasons, the family used a permit to travel to Germany and fled, eventually settling in Orono, Ont.
Since coming to Canada, Peter has celebrated freedom with more enthusiasm than most. He helped found the Institute for Liberal Studies, a libertarian advocacy group; he’s writing his PhD thesis about concepts of ownership rights; and every summer for the past 10 years he’s hosted the two-day Liberty Summer Seminar on his parents’ acreage. There, a few dozen libertarians — past attendees have included Conservative Cabinet minister Jason Kenney and Ontario Cabinet minister Randy Hillier — camp out on the idyllic grounds, hear a handful of pro-liberty speakers, tap their feet along with some freedom-minded musical acts, and enjoy Mother Jaworski’s cooking. Read more…
Expanding the debate on party financing
Alice Funke
Special to The Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 8:02AM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 8:27AM EDT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/expanding-the-debate-on-party-financing/article1670270/
Alice Funke
Many observers of Canadian political parties have relied on just two of the four sources of income, as Jeffrey Simpson did Wednesday when comparing a party’s revenue from central fundraising and from the public per-vote subsidy that has been paid since 2004.
However, using a dataset that includes all four revenue sources – riding association and candidate fundraising, as well as party fundraising and the public subsidy – paints a somewhat different picture, particularly in the case of the Bloc Québécois. Read more…
Keep your drapes open, no cash, talk to neighbours
Quiet? Use cash? You could be a terror threat, British ad warns
London — The Associated Press Published on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 5:45AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 7:22AM EDT
Britain’s advertising watchdog on Wednesday banned an anti-terrorism commercial that asked people to watch out for suspicious behavior by their neighbors, including keeping curtains closed and paying for things in cash.
The Advertising Standards Authority said the radio ad could cause “serious offense” to law-abiding citizens.
The ad was part of a campaign for a police anti-terrorist hotline. It described a man who “likes to keep himself to himself,” doesn’t have a bank card and keeps his curtains closed, before advising that “this may mean nothing, but together it could all add up to you having suspicions.”
The watchdog said innocent listeners who identified with the behavior described could be offended by the implication that it was suspicious.
“We also considered that some listeners might be offended by the suggestion that they report members of their community for acting in the way described,” it said, ruling that the ad should not run again.
The Association of Chief Police Officers, which sponsored the commercial, apologized to the “small number” of listeners who had been offended.
The Metropolitan Police force defended the campaign of which the ad formed a part, saying that “the behavior listed in the advert was based on trends identified by police and had been included in evidence given at recent terrorism trials.”
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