tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12621137632773820132024-03-13T20:40:30.273-03:00Stand Your GroundTherefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to <b>stand your ground</b>, and you have done everything to stand. (Ephesians 6:13)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1777125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-72207251936401103882014-12-31T15:54:00.004-04:002014-12-31T15:54:43.696-04:00Welcome Income SplittingYes, it will only be available to families with children. And, apart from the restriction on the income one could attribute to the spouse, there will be another restriction on how much one could save from income splitting - no more than $2000. Still, it's better than nothing: <blockquote>Income splitting would help almost half of Canadian families with children under 18. If it were adopted federally and provincially, typical middle-class families getting by on a single income would see substantive tax relief. For example:<br />
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A graphic designer in British Columbia with a salary of $49,920 would save 27% on taxes (down from $5,027 to $3,658)<br />
An electrician in Ontario earning $56,150 would save 35% on taxes<br />
A registered nurse in New Brunswick earning $72,800 would save 28% on taxes<br />
Income splitting has been depicted as a tax break for specially chosen Canadians. However, currently certain Canadian families are unjustly disadvantaged by our tax code. Income splitting would eliminate this injustice, treating all families equally.<br />
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The disadvantage is clear since two families with matching incomes are taxed differently based on how their incomes are earned. Families that sacrifice workforce pay in order to address caretaking needs are penalized through higher taxes.<br />
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This long-standing injustice in our tax code is both unfair and unacceptable to Canadians. Recent polling confirms that Canadians, regardless of political preference, support income splitting. Opponents of the policy are a vocal minority.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.imfcanada.org/press-room/myths-about-income-splitting-disservice-canadian-families">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>The opposition parties keep blasting the Conservatives for what they claim is a "tax break for the rich"; the Liberals (primarily - Ralph Goodale and Justin Trudeay) claimed that a family would have to make as much as $160,000 to fully benefit from income splitting. Let's see if it's really so. Let's calculate together how much does one have to make to take full advantage of the $2000 tax break.<br />
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Our first tax bracket is 15%. The next one is 22%. By attributing part of his income to a spouse, one would save 7 cents on the dollar. How much income does one have to attribute to hit the $2000 ceiling? 2000/0.07=$28,571.42. Combined with the $43,953 threshold where the 22% rate kicks in, that amounts to mere $72,525. That's nowhere near $160,000 (not even half that much). And only hardcore lefties could argue that a family making $72,500 is somehow "rich". <br />
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Income splitting is there to provide middle income families with much needed tax relief. Hopefully, as the time comes for the next Federal election, all these families make the right chose and don't trade the long-awaited tax break for a legalized marijuana.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-8437920886813022772014-12-24T17:44:00.000-04:002014-12-24T17:44:00.278-04:00Merry Christmas<iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Jx5rSZzMIoo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
Here's something nice for Christmas Eve. Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-31213043610358241242014-12-23T17:05:00.000-04:002014-12-23T17:05:00.075-04:00Danielle Smith's Defection - Another "We Told You So" Moment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3gdKL8eY-aBooekDod1Lpe2yv83J6b-mkuhAn0SpgZUGKsJtcIAYktlqxxDjQRGuSqpTNhgTKRlinGOE6iyXYo_k9NSlOdTLa3RtF1zotRFjTlNn-6q0Y6TY0yOEXftGDaQhrnXacZE/s1600-h/Wildrose+Alliance+Finds+Right+Equation.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3gdKL8eY-aBooekDod1Lpe2yv83J6b-mkuhAn0SpgZUGKsJtcIAYktlqxxDjQRGuSqpTNhgTKRlinGOE6iyXYo_k9NSlOdTLa3RtF1zotRFjTlNn-6q0Y6TY0yOEXftGDaQhrnXacZE/s320/Wildrose+Alliance+Finds+Right+Equation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387355104526765298" /></a> Danielle Smith <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1514994642121325&id=100008324112275">blames the Social Conservatives for helping to push her to the PCs</A>. I guess she was expecting the party's Social Conservative wing to just leave and slam the door behind them - after all she had done to marginalize them (among with the climate skeptics and the free speechers) in this couple of years between her election loss and her defection to the governing PCs. <br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1514994642121325&id=100008324112275"><b>A gentle reminder: low-tax progressives aren't actually conservatives</b></a>. <br />
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Again - <a href="http://forlifeandfamily.blogspot.ca/2009/09/right-equation-for-wildrose-alliance.html">we told you so</a>. The "right equation" collage reposted here, was originally published more than 5 years ago on Free Dominion. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-67635548031906571942014-12-21T16:50:00.000-04:002014-12-21T16:50:39.477-04:00Brian Gallant & Unrestricted Abortion Funding - We Told You So<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGveQ61Ox0ovX2d3Vo2SSd-NQQawTRCa3OaXkk-bC8vTej9GXafLAHmO6h5eUQqk4gOEZ7ynKPeafa69oKvWC0jbs4fIITqSkwD2ijTMvRKW6vsnQH7U7cIZAcJcnTrBtVg6oHZlrQPo/s1600/BrianGallant-WeToldYouSo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGveQ61Ox0ovX2d3Vo2SSd-NQQawTRCa3OaXkk-bC8vTej9GXafLAHmO6h5eUQqk4gOEZ7ynKPeafa69oKvWC0jbs4fIITqSkwD2ijTMvRKW6vsnQH7U7cIZAcJcnTrBtVg6oHZlrQPo/s640/BrianGallant-WeToldYouSo.jpg" width=458 height=331 /></a></div><blockquote>New Brunswick Right to Life says the legal basis being advanced for the provincial government’s new abortion policy is nothing but pro-choice propaganda.<br />
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Commenting on the rationale some MLAs used yesterday in the Legislature, executive director Peter Ryan said, “We heard the statement ‘a woman’s right to choose is the law’ ad nauseam,” he said. “That statement is pure propaganda. The Supreme Court has created no such right. To hang your hat on such hogwash is shameful. The assertion made would be laughable except its consequence will prove fatal for many children in this province,” he said.<br />
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Ryan said yesterday will go down as a dark day in New Brunswick history. He referred to the Legislative Assembly’s refusal to debate a historic change in provincial abortion policy. His association maintains the practical effect of the planned changes is tax-funded abortion on demand, “something not required by law, and contrary to good medicine, the will of New Brunwickers, and the tenets of morality.”<br />
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“Members had a window today to consider the plight of thousands of preborn children and vulnerable women whose lives will be put at risk by the pending removal of abortion restrictions January 1,” said executive director Peter Ryan. “Most chose to slam that window shut. To use a biblical term, they hardened their hearts. Innocent children will die as a result.”<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/groups/206071416160674/permalink/577363325698146/">More >>></A></DIV></blockquote>Special thanks to the People's Alliance voters. It's their vote splitting that delivered all 4 tossup ridings to the Liberals. David Alward and the PCs weren't good enough for them - they got Brian Gallant and his radicalized Liberals. And so are all of us here in New Brunswick.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-63118866072271063542014-07-31T22:17:00.002-03:002014-07-31T22:19:57.267-03:00Provinces Can Fill Legal Vacuum Surrounding AbortionsIf the Federal government refuses to touch the subject, <a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Schouten+Provinces+fill+legal+vacuum+surrounding+abortions/9848203/story.html">the provinces can step in</a>: <blockquote>The Constitution Act (1867) lays out the division of powers between federal and provincial governments.<br />
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Section 92 (16) confers on provincial legislatures the power to make laws in relation to “all matters of merely local or private nature in the province.” Similarly, paragraph 7 of that same section authorizes provinces to make laws in relation to “the establishment, maintenance, and management of hospitals, charities, etc.” This specifically authorizes the provinces to establish and regulate hospitals, and to regulate hospital-based health care services.<br />
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There is a lot of room for provincial legislatures to step up. For example, there are no laws stipulating that women seeking an abortion need to be properly informed on the physical and psychological risks accompanying abortion. Similarly, no health jurisdiction in our country has parental consent for abortion legislation.<br />
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A few weeks ago, my 16-year-old daughter was asked to come in for a night shift at the retail outlet she works at. In order for her to do that, my wife and I had to give our written consent. We didn’t have a problem with this — it provided a measure of respect for and deference to our parental responsibilities. In contrast, if our daughter found herself in an unplanned pregnancy, she could quite easily be pressured to think abortion was the only solution for her and to abort her pre-born child without our knowledge. <br />
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Note the stark contrast in how we treat our daughters when it comes to tattooing and employment standards compared to the current legal vacuum regarding abortion — a decision for which there is also permanent ramifications. <div ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Schouten+Provinces+fill+legal+vacuum+surrounding+abortions/9848203/story.html">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>And that's just the tip of the iceberg. We know that <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.ca/2009/06/but-theyve-already-made-up-their-minds.html">standard informed consent rules, which apply to plastic surgeons, don't apply to abortion providers</a>. And it was just a few years ago when Quebec government initiative to apply basic health and safety standards to abortion facilities, <a href="http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2009/08/good-news-montreal-clinic-to-stop-doing.html">was met with fierce resistance from the abortion industry</a>. <br />
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Yes, they argued that they shouldn't be required to have a sterile operating room to do abortions, they claimed that these requirements were excessive and that, if enforced, they could drive abortion facilities out of business. Quebec did back down from these requirements back in 2009. But a government that's truly concerned about human life can do just that - drive these butchers out of business. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-29490962649712565702014-07-01T15:06:00.001-03:002014-07-01T15:06:01.760-03:00Happy Canada Day<iframe width="480" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hYOaLI4rgLk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
It's Canada Day, a great occasion to be proud of our nation.<br />
<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcp2GhjcWbOGqFgYPSgC0J_Bj_0IDYlK1SgrbioHbT7uUMID90YvLXgkftkSMRIfV-7I-CB3w1Y5hslxPhjDEAb3I7hnx2LPG7TonKJ4vowpcoXJJPdshAmwbYRzEseVvsNkMNpbNtNA/s1600/CanadaFlags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcp2GhjcWbOGqFgYPSgC0J_Bj_0IDYlK1SgrbioHbT7uUMID90YvLXgkftkSMRIfV-7I-CB3w1Y5hslxPhjDEAb3I7hnx2LPG7TonKJ4vowpcoXJJPdshAmwbYRzEseVvsNkMNpbNtNA/s200/CanadaFlags.jpg" /></a></div>Many of us are too polite or quiet to say it.<br />
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Some would be immediately apologetic for an expression of swelling national pride, which would be in keeping with a recent study that shows we're amongst the most apologetic on the planet.<br />
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But we'll say it anyway. Canada is the best country in the world.<br />
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Period.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/07/20140701-074939.html">More >>></A></DIV></blockquote>Also, check out <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/entertainment/archives/2014/07/20140701-124131.html">20 homegrown celebrities who make us proud to be Canadian</a>. Have a happy Canada Day and make sure you don't miss the fireworks :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-5689470915560369222014-06-03T19:27:00.000-03:002014-06-03T19:27:25.365-03:00Pope Francis: Don't Substitute Pets For KidsAn amazing message from the Pope: <blockquote>VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis on Monday (June 2) warned married couples against substituting cats and dogs for children — a move that he said leads to the “bitterness of loneliness” in old age.<br />
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“You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside, you can be carefree,” the pope said.<br />
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“It might be better — more comfortable — to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog. Is this true or not? Have you seen it?<br />
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“Then, in the end this marriage comes to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness.“<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/pope-francis-married-couples-children_n_5434282.html">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>Well said! It's about time someone finally spoke up against the culture of selfishness that praises childlessness and <A HREF="http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2014/05/25-rude-things-moms-have-heard-upon.html">ridicules parenthood</A>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-60634133977675211702014-05-19T22:32:00.000-03:002014-05-19T22:32:00.435-03:00New Brunswick March For Life - Videos (Part 1)Opening prayer by Pastor Perry Edwards (Sovereign Grace Baptist Church), followed by Peter Ryan's speech:<br />
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Marie Claire Muzzerall-Gautreau shares her experience of being a teenage single mother. She is introduced by Beth Crouchman, president of the NB Right to Life. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ghoG5njGFpM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><BR>
The theme of this year's March for Life was - Women and Children First. Peter Ryan elaborates on that in his speech:
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Some music by Evangeline Inman:
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A few words from the Archbishop Valéry Vienneau: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/VqoCVX5vJTw?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><BR>
There were plenty of MLAs present; some say - as many as 23 of them - which is too, a record number. Here are 2 speeches: By Bill Fraser, a Liberal MLA for Miramichi-Bay du Vin and by Jody Carr, a PC MLA for Oromocto. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/VdIIvUhWwN0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>P.S. Please excuse the blurry and shaky picture. When the MLAs began to speak, camera men from the mainstream media rushed to the scene, so we had quite a hard time not to bump into one another. <BR><BR>
Finally, here are the speeches by Marion Fogan from the Catholic Women's League and Armand LeBlanc from the Knights of Columbus: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/chsV4rPGKT8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-8363512751387608282014-04-27T18:25:00.001-03:002014-04-27T18:25:03.722-03:00Pro-Aborts Have Targeted New Brunswick For Take-Down.From an e-mail release:<blockquote>Dear friends and key contacts in New Brunswick and beyond,<br />
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It was not a good day for New Brunswick today.<br />
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First, the likely true head of the “take New Brunswick down” campaign revealed herself. The Telegraph-Journal here published an opinion piece entitled “On abortion, New Brunswick must change” by one Vicky Saporta. She is identified as “the president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation of Canada.” Coincidentally, she is president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation of the U.S.<br />
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Shortly after the April 10 news report that the Morgentaler Clinic here would close, I circulated a memo to the media here, expressing my strong suspicion that not only was the “closing” news a ploy, but that a propaganda campaign against NB policy was being orchestrated from Washington DC – headquarters of the NAF. My suspicions are now greatly strengthened.<br />
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We are dealing above all with Ms. Saporta and the money /power of the North American abortion industry. They have targeted New Brunswick for take-down. It is highly likely that Ms. Saporta is running the show.<br />
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And quite a show it is!! There is a tremendous barrage of pro-abortion propaganda in the media here the last two weeks. And politicians have been getting in line to dance to the tune. Today (another reason it’s a bad day), the Liberal Party of New Brunswick – the same party that under Premiers Frank McKenna and Shawn Graham strongly opposed Morgentaler – approved at its policy convention a resolution in favor of “better abortion access.” We all know that’s only code language for killing babies on demand. Current Liberal leader Brian Gallant seems to be falling all over himself currying favor with the pro-abortion crowd. There is a real danger he will be Premier of New Brunswick by September. What happens to NB’s policy on abortion then? <br />
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For me it is reminiscent of the media hoopla in Ireland following the death of that young pregnant woman from India. The media reported that as death from an abortion denied, and a huge media campaign ensued. The campaign was based on a lie- she did not die from an abortion denied. But hysteria was whipped up, rallies were held, and politicians caved, with the result Ireland changed its law in favor of abortion, establishing a legal precedent that will tend relentlessly toward abortion on demand.<br />
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Is the Morgentaler establishment here really going to close? In all likelihood, that too is a lie, calculated (very cleverly) to arouse hysteria and send shock waves leading to everything people like Vicky Saporta really want – full abortion on demand, fully funded, in both hospitals and private clinics. That’s the game. That’s the dice they’ve rolled in announcing the clinic closing.<br />
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At this point the tide of “public opinion” is running strongly in their favor. They are winning. I say “public opinion” meaning not what New Brunswickers really think – which no doubt has not changed that dramatically in a couple weeks: most people oppose abortion on demand, and funding the Morg. Clinic. I mean perceived public opinion, that mood that is in the air as shaped largely by the chattering classes of the media and academia.<br />
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Now we can all pooh-pooh that kind of opinion as being a big fat pile of the devil’s manure. But surely we’ve been paying attention to the history of abortion the last few decades. We should know the power of evil and deception is not to be sneezed at. It can take a country down, institutionally – as it has Canada. It can take a province down – as it has almost everywhere. It can take New Brunswick down. And if we go down, it will right away be on PEI’s doorstep.<br />
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I hope you know me enough to know: I am not throwing in the white flag! I am just soberly saying where things stand. We are up against quite a tidal wave, and It’s not diminishing.<br />
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In the last two weeks we’ve seen the university community at both St. Thomas U. (petition in favor of clinic funding) and University of New Brunswick (op-ed from many UNB professors) chime in for abortion. We’ve had editorials in three daily papers for abortion. The Fredericton Daily Gleaner has been heavily slanted in news coverage. We’ve had the Acadian daily publish numerous pro-abortion commentaries, and not a thing pro-life. CBC has been relentlessly one-sided, including in its Maritime-wide coverage. The Telegraph-Journal has been somewhat balanced, but published a horrible op-ed by Heather Mallick (similar to Ms. Saporta’s). We’ve had the leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green Party come out for abortion. NDP members federally have gotten involved. A pro-abortion rally was held at the Legislature last week. Today rallies were held in Ottawa and Montreal (while they seemed not amount to much in numbers, that did not stop CBC Newsworld from reporting “Canadians rally for abortion rights”). We fully expect Ms. Saporta has other tricks up her sleeve.<br />
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We are not silent or inactive by any means. We have had some commentary published, including my own. Various letters to the editor have been good (but nowhere near as many as we need). We have mobilized our own petition. We have gotten hundreds of email sent in to the government. Our supporters have been praying hard. A letter of support from 100+ Canadians was sent to our government. We are planning our biggest ever March for Life soon. We are hearing from numerous pro-lifers here we’ve never heard from before. And so on. Nevertheless, it’s quite the battle.<br />
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The government is largely silent. They are nervous. They do not like all the pressure. They need much, much support and prayer in order to hold firm. We don’t like to think of them caving. But we should not assume it cannot happen.<br />
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I ask for continuing prayer for Premier David Alward. And just as I called for prayer about the pro-abortion rally at the Legislature – which was less successful than anticipated – I am calling for prayer (spiritual battle) concerning Ms. Saporta. She and her cohort are out to get New Brunswick. May they fail. May the abortuary indeed close. May our province hold firm for life. May the blood of innocents be spared. May God’s purposes be realized.<br />
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Thanks to everyone for everything you do for life and for the care I know you have for our precarious situation here now.<br />
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Yours for life,<br />
Peter Ryan</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-58182805088713235222014-03-29T20:39:00.003-03:002014-03-29T20:44:24.813-03:00Turning Lights On - Celebrating Human AchievementAs always on the last Saturday of March - a few videos by Ezra Levant, explaining why so called "earth hour" is not just stupid - it's evil: <div ALIGN=CENTER><object id="flashObj" width="480" height="270" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=3404778828001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sunnewsnetwork.ca%2Fvideo%2Fcelebrating-human-achievement%2F3404778828001&playerID=867119956001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAybGjzqk~,6NfTc6c241F8RVDY60fjAj_JENn4BuUd&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" 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allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></DIV>As for all the eco-freaks that choose to turn off the lights for the sake of "mother gaia", as well as all those who blindly follow the trend just because friends and neighbors tell them to, hopefully they don't forget to turn off their thermostats.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-89867453336346364692014-02-14T21:09:00.001-04:002014-02-14T21:09:20.357-04:00A Catholic Response To "23 Things To Do..."Here's <a href="http://www.catholicmatch.com/institute/2014/01/a-response-to-23-things-to-do-instead-of-getting-engaged/">a brilliant response</a> to the ill-famous essay known as "23 things to do instead of getting engaged". While the author of the latter believes that there may be things that are "more fun" than family and marriage (and showers the audience with ideas to mess their lives), Joy Kubik presents a Catholic alternative to those perverted advices: <blockquote>1. <i>Get a passport.</i> Married people aren’t exempted from getting passports. My sister-in-law, engaged before she was 23, took a road trip across the US and then went to Europe the following summer with her husband.<br />
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2. <i>Find your thing.</i> I haven’t lost anything I didn’t intend to lose. I have a collection of paintings, embroidery, stories, and pictures of cakes that I’ve made AFTER I was married.<br />
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3. <i>Make out with a stranger.</i> After marriage, the only person in the world you will want to kiss is your spouse. Can kissing my husband be my new “thing”?<br />
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7. <i>Get a tattoo, it’s more permanent than marriage.</i> Make a vow to God, it’s more permanent than a tattoo.<br />
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8. <i>Explore a new religion.</i> Visit the Holy Land. Far too many of us operate on bad interpretations of the Catholic Church’s teachings and are sorely misguided. The major news outlets make a huge profit on these errors, so they’re invested in spinning the truth.<br />
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9. <i>Start a small business.</i> I’m one of many self-employed young mothers, and I have been for the last five years. The flexibility is great for family life.<br />
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11. <i>Date two people at once.</i> I’ve never been so bored that I felt the need to create drama, like dating two people at once. We don’t even own cable; there’s never a dull moment in a household of small children. <br />
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15. <i>Disappoint your parents.</i> As a parent now, I can reassure you, you’ve already accomplished this by age 5.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.catholicmatch.com/institute/2014/01/a-response-to-23-things-to-do-instead-of-getting-engaged/">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>Well said, Joy. Happy Valentines Day everyone!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-63569391534092197602014-02-11T16:37:00.000-04:002014-02-11T16:37:20.651-04:00From A Child To A King: Stop Euthanasia<iframe width="480" height="300" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ESQljzA3GB8?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Right to life - it's so simple that even kids get it. For grown-ups, however, politics trumps common sense. That's why Québec's euthanasia Bill 52 is going to a final vote this week.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-50987300732888437722014-01-31T23:31:00.000-04:002014-01-31T23:33:24.016-04:00"The woman they took away had a sheet over her face"Pro-aborts often substitute the word "abortion" with "health", claiming that what they stand for is not mere abortion, but "reproductive health" or even "women's health". Here's what these euphemisms really mean: <blockquote>The reason I am writing you today is, that for the second time in a few months, I witnessed an ambulance and a paramedic car come with the emergency lights on to attend to someone from the abortuary. The first time I saw this months ago, I had a camera that had a video camera on it, and when I took it out to take a video of the emergency vehicles I was subjected to a barrage of cursing and abusive yelling by the people who work there as well as the security guard. The woman they took away had a sheet over her face and I do not know if that was to cover her identity or because it was cold or if she had died.<div ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.socon.ca/a-sheet-over-her-face/">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>Considering that abortion facilities are typically not bound by the uniform health standards (and <a href="http://forlifeandfamily.blogspot.com/2009/08/quebec-government-sides-with-abortion.html">fiercely resist any attempt to apply these standards to them</a> when such attempts are even made,) these scenes are nothing extraordinary.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-42924540356382417702014-01-23T19:58:00.000-04:002014-01-23T19:58:43.933-04:00"It's A Wonderful Life" - Capitalism EditionCheck out <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2013/12/103504-wonderful-life-capitalism-edition/">this video by Emily Hulsey</a>:<br />
<iframe width="480" height="300" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bwH3Xr6uyG0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> How many anti-capitalism activists have ever wondered what life would be without capitalism? How many of them have ever bothered to ask an immigrant from a post-Soviet country what their life was like? <br />
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In the Soviet Union, a reel-to-reel tape recorder (like the one in the video) cost around 300 roubles (about 1.5 average monthly wages). Compare that to the price of a typical cassette player in the US. For those who are too young to remember, I can tell you that in mid-80s a portable cassette player (not a pocket-size "Walkman", but smaller than today's netbook) cost $32. How many monthly wages was that? (Sarcasm.) <blockquote><a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2013/12/103504-wonderful-life-capitalism-edition/">Of course, I’m not sure scaring people with terrifying imagery is the best way to win an argument, but this does have a good point at its heart: We have freedom and capitalism to thank for many of the things we enjoy today.</a></blockquote>What Emily said.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-89632394674745936802013-12-24T15:11:00.000-04:002013-12-24T15:17:31.856-04:00Thinking About Charity This Christmas?Here is an opportunity to help. Consider donating - not to some faceless NGO or a third world dictatorship, but to real people, here in Canada, that are in need for help, because provincial healthcare doesn't cover their medical treatment: <blockquote>TORONTO -- After almost three weeks, 11 physiotherapy sessions and $8,000 spent, little Luc LeBlanc is now able to sit up and look his mother in the eye.<br />
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There at the private clinic, Luc is receiving what is considered an alternative form of treatment: intense and specialized physiotherapy that involves toning muscle to help him sit up, stand and move his limbs on his own -- treatment Monaghan says Nova Scotia won't cover because it is unproven and outside a regulated medical environment.<br />
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Monaghan, a single mom of three currently on social assistance, said she needed to find a way to raise money to have her son treated at the clinic after running into dead ends in Nova Scotia. She created a Luc LeBlanc Facebook page and went to the local media with her son's story.<div align="RIGHT"><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/12/20131218-075919.html">More >>></a></div></blockquote>And here's the story of Madi Vanstone, who needs our help to survive, because the province won't pay for the life-saving medicament: <blockquote>...Madi, 12, suffers from a rare form of cystic fibrosis. She desperately needs a life-saving drug, Kalydeco, to keep her breathing.<br />
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The drug costs $348,000 a year — and it’s not covered by OHIP.<br />
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Her dad Glen has benefits at work that pay for 50% of her drug bill. The drug manufacturer picks up 30% — but that leaves the family paying $5,770 a month to keep Madi alive.<br />
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With the drug, the prognosis for Madi is good. Within 30 days, diagnostic tests for CF were negative. Her lung function increased from 78% of expected value to 111% of expected value.<br />
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Without the drug, she’ll need a lung transplant in her mid-teens. That will only give her another five years.<div ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/12/20131212-164836.html">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>The government is not willing to help. The very same governments that generously extend public healthcare to special interest groups, suddenly adopt <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2013/12/11/what-was-charles-dickens-really-doing-when-he-wrote-a-christmas-carol/">Scrooge's "they better die and decrease the surplus population" approach</a> when it comes to ordinary Canadians. So it's up to us to help. <br />
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To donate to Madi, go to <a href="http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/madi-s-miracle-meds/61506">www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/madi-s-miracle-meds/61506</a>.<br />
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Donations to help Luc can be made directly to the Revivo clinic or by contacting Monaghan through her Facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/FightingmonsterswithloveandPrayersBabyLuc">FightingmonsterswithloveandPrayersBabyLuc</a>.<br />
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Consider chipping in (even if it's something symbolic like $5 or $10). And have a merry Christmas :)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-61610649424394175202013-12-03T17:45:00.000-04:002013-12-03T17:45:07.987-04:00So Much For "My Body My Choice"Here's how the "progressive" "pro-choice" crowd acts when the issue at stake is other than placing restrictions on abortions: <blockquote>After five weeks the ward, she said she was forcibly sedated. When she woke up, she was told her child had been delivered by caesarian section.<br />
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She said nobody told her this was going to happen.<br />
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Now the woman, whom Fleming said is back on meds and has made a full recovery, wants her child back.<br />
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But a judge ruled the now 15-month-old girl should be put up for adoption in case the mother suffers a relapse.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2013/12/20131201-093435.html">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>So much for "my body, my choice" when a woman chooses to carry her pregnancy to term, to be a loving mother for her baby...<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-57208558003125338542013-11-30T18:35:00.000-04:002013-11-30T18:35:31.443-04:00Whose Body Is It Again?Here's a picture (that's worth a thousand words) and a few more words for the pro-aborts who just refuse to accept the obvious: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_N9OPl8QhFmmZfPdwT4zRtQlvqQeBha2n5iqsxPRyoh6E0ZT2u1dksd31y6XDI7p8VEAddhbOqnjLwm-eUCr5pqI_xbTDbrJvuWAqPkjn3y4lEUg9PALdPN44LUh4qK0kDSww_UXnuI/s1600/facebook_745767290.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_N9OPl8QhFmmZfPdwT4zRtQlvqQeBha2n5iqsxPRyoh6E0ZT2u1dksd31y6XDI7p8VEAddhbOqnjLwm-eUCr5pqI_xbTDbrJvuWAqPkjn3y4lEUg9PALdPN44LUh4qK0kDSww_UXnuI/s400/facebook_745767290.jpg" width="386" /></a><br />
H/t <A HREF="http://www.socon.ca/woman-grows-a-second-head-and-extra-set-of-arms-and-legs/">SoCon or Bust</A></div>Need I say more? <br />
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And here's a nice picture from Russia that makes it plain and simple: abortion kills a baby. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R0q0WrvIz7e95J0KENc-K6O-aeX97H9NP81EFAPbAN4EHmPcyY4C3PCkwW1YrvdVDRECX7Ic6JDRUpKPF6C9c1_I4cZ5B-GVBst4_ZJZdY5cp3NgRVW_f9F4VejtCzya6S2OgoXJYKA/s1600/my_mom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R0q0WrvIz7e95J0KENc-K6O-aeX97H9NP81EFAPbAN4EHmPcyY4C3PCkwW1YrvdVDRECX7Ic6JDRUpKPF6C9c1_I4cZ5B-GVBst4_ZJZdY5cp3NgRVW_f9F4VejtCzya6S2OgoXJYKA/s1600/my_mom.jpg" /></a></div>It's a billboard from one of Russia's cities. I'd love to see a billboard like that here in Canada. <br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-77419601340263448582013-11-11T12:36:00.003-04:002013-11-11T12:37:29.827-04:00Remember. They Gave All For Our Freedom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TS-lUiOsfOC4CWqXxrai_40-lDtDQTKglAqPeJ0Vi16tUapooj-zzQcvTJGu4GqcHzl_Dz58c5jljHp8TqrROidP3lcgRIKA_waEDt1MQQTs0jmhfhShRfxuW67k7vfwKw7u67MyXkg7/s400/flanders%5B12%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TS-lUiOsfOC4CWqXxrai_40-lDtDQTKglAqPeJ0Vi16tUapooj-zzQcvTJGu4GqcHzl_Dz58c5jljHp8TqrROidP3lcgRIKA_waEDt1MQQTs0jmhfhShRfxuW67k7vfwKw7u67MyXkg7/s400/flanders%5B12%5D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Image h/t <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/">Blazing Cat Fur</a><blockquote>As a society, we're at risk of forgetting our history. In 1945 there were over a million Canadian Second World War veterans. Today there are only around 90,000.<br />
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We must keep their stories alive and those of all veterans. We must remember the men and women who gave their lives for our freedoms.<br />
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Nov. 11 doesn't do all of this. But it does give us pause, if only for a moment, to remember that this matters.<br />
<div align="RIGHT"><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/11/20131111-081223.html">More >>></a></div></blockquote>Remember those who gave all for our freedom. Let's remember them, not just this remembrance day, but year round. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-12040779768470624412013-09-11T17:11:00.000-03:002013-09-11T17:11:07.583-03:00We Will RememberLet's pause and remember the innocent victims. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4sJ98B5fRGzpvqBHtoMPx1FvFlTtsi_VEtchfdJoBWsulbxp0XBYE0HRRZ9LYFy-tLaEZuV8Lqd4t4RUUk2tljkpfdLZr-andR3u44KuoDFwudoifs9ZOTf-TVbMPsauVNLjQHoJo2M/s1600/Sep.11-12-years-later.png" /></a></div><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/more-than-a-memorial-day/">More Than a Memorial Day</a>:<br />
<blockquote>September 11 is more than a memorial day for the thousands who perished, including a friend of this writer, a passenger on American Airlines flight 77, the Pentagon plane. Potential victims might also observe what has not happened on September 11 in the following 12 years.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/more-than-a-memorial-day/">More >>></a><br />
h/t <A HREF="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/">Blazing Cat Fur</A></DIV></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-72449382607817252622013-09-06T16:43:00.000-03:002013-09-06T16:43:00.364-03:00Multiculturalism - A House DividedCheck out this video report by <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/IPhoneConservative?feature=watch">iPhone Conservative</A>. Among other things, <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/IPhoneConservative?feature=watch">iPhone Conservative</A> takes time to explain how the policy of multiculturalism blends together with cultural relativism and political correctness. <div ALIGN=CENTER><object width="440" height="330"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/BTwqRkwNaas?hl=en_US&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/BTwqRkwNaas?hl=en_US&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="440" height="330" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></DIV>P.S. If you don't like graphic evidence, you better fast forward from 12:20 to 13:00. <br />
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And here's <a href="http://www.sappho.dk/i-want-my-country-back.htm">a great article about multiculturalism in Sweden and its consequences</a>: <blockquote>When I grew up our prime minister was Tage Erlander, a Social Democrat. In 1965 he said in parliament, after violent race riots in America:<br />
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"We Swedes live in a so infinitely happier situation. The population in our country is homogeneous, not just according to race but also in many other aspects."<br />
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Now I live in a nation that is not homogenous in any respect. Olof Palme that came after him decided that homogeneous was a bad thing and opened up our borders for people from all over the world. And from right to left the politicians told us that there was no such thing as a Swedish culture, no Swedish traditions worth mentioning and that we Swedes should be grateful that so many people with REAL culture and REAL traditions came to us.<br />
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In 1990 the authorities counted to 3 exclusion areas in Sweden, suburbs where mostly immigrants live, where very few have a job to go to, almost all of them live by welfare and the children don’t pass their exams. In 2002 they counted to 128 exclusion areas. In 2006 we had 156 and then they stopped counting. In some cities, like Malmo where I live, a third of all inhabitants live in an exclusion area.<br />
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In the New Sweden we need armed police officers at our hospitals because rivalling families fight each other in the hospital rooms. They gun each other down in open streets and they rob and beat old people up. The crime rate grows by the minute, but the Swedish politicians and journalists tell us that is has absolutely nothing to do with immigration. The fact that our prisons are full of foreign people is just a coincidence or is explained by socio-economic factors.<br />
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The situation in Sweden is far worse than in Denmark. In Sweden NOBODY talks about immigration problems, the death of the multiculti project or the islamisation/arabisation of Europe. If you do, you will immediately be called a racist, an Islamophobe or a Nazi. That is what I have been called since I founded the Free Press Society in Sweden.<div ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.sappho.dk/i-want-my-country-back.htm">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>This is multiculturalism in practice, the grim reality of multiculturalism that the "progressives" (those self-hating anti-West intellectuals) never want us to discuss.<br />
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<div align center;"><a href="http://caricatura.ru/2013/05/29/url/parad/kolgarev/21721/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img width=460 height=320 border="0" src="http://caricatura.ru/parad/kolgarev/pic/21721.gif" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-8733929534489758482013-09-02T11:40:00.000-03:002013-09-02T11:46:05.335-03:00Family & Home Schooling - Best Learning EnvironmentOnce again the study shows that <a HREF="http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/opinion/oped/america-s-best-educated-kids-don-t-go-to-school/article_055292cd-f4d1-58e8-8cf1-fdd8bf7377fe.html">America's best educated kids don't go to school</A>:<blockquote>Brian Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute, compared home schoolers and public school students on the results of three standardized tests — the California Achievement Test, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test — for the 2007-2008 academic year. With public school students at the 50th percentile, home schoolers were at the 89th percentile in reading, the 86th percentile in science, the 84th percentile in language, math, and social studies.<br />
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Socio-economic factors may have a lot to do with why home schoolers do so much better. Virtually all have a mother and a father who are living together. Nearly two thirds of fathers and 62 percent of mothers have a bachelor’s degree or higher.<br />
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The explosive growth in home schooling has been fueled by dissatisfaction with public schools.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1146623_569227106457172_326213962_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width=200, height=200 src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1146623_569227106457172_326213962_n.jpg" /></a></div>We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors knew what high school seniors should know about American history, says the National Assessment of Education Progress. Half of 18 to 24 year olds in a National Geographic Society survey couldn’t locate New York state on a map.<div ALIGN=RIGHT><a HREF="http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/opinion/oped/america-s-best-educated-kids-don-t-go-to-school/article_055292cd-f4d1-58e8-8cf1-fdd8bf7377fe.html">More >>></A></DIV></blockquote>But then those kids probably know everything about <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/26/sex-advice-on-tdsb-website-angers-christian-advocate">using vegetables for masturbation</a> or why three men in a bed (to say nothing of the dog) make a perfectly normal family, whose rights trample those of average Christian parents. Public schools make sure that all those kids who can't even find New York state on a map (let alone Syria or Iraq) <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/07/20130720-071051.html">finish school with the "right" views and opinions</a> - and are ready to pledge their allegiance to the radical leftist causes, <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/06/20130613-091420.html">first and foremost - to the unions</a>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-22314248151774589452013-08-28T20:04:00.000-03:002013-08-28T20:07:53.183-03:00This Is Not About Upholding Quebec ValuesA brief comment on this Sun News article: <blockquote>There is hardly a soul in all of Canada who finds the Sikh turban, the Jewish yarmulke or the crucifix violate either Canadian or Quebec values. Yet, like Premier Pauline Marois, we are all part of the charade pretending this debate is about the Sikh turban.<br />
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If Marois indeed believes in upholding Quebec values, she would have said there is no room in Quebec for the use of religious symbols that promote fascist and supremacist political ideologies. However, we live in the age of Chamberlain, not Churchill.<div ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/08/20130828-073314.html">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote>Here's the thing. The proposed "Charter of Quebec Values" has nothing to do with upholding Quebec values, it's about redefining them. As the "charter's" unofficial name implies - it's about secularism. The objective is not to ban offensive religious symbols, let alone symbols that promote fascist and supremacist political ideologies. The PQ is hijacking the hot-button issue for their own political advantage, looking forward to enshrine militant secular humanism as Quebec's new official religion and to stamp out what's left of Quebec's Christian heritage under the pretense of neutrality, multiculturalism and non-sectarianism.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-42531706437648989192013-08-26T15:50:00.000-03:002013-08-26T15:50:21.672-03:00What Joyce Arthur Wants To HideThe question is obviously rhetorical. <blockquote>Joyce Arthur of the Abortion <i>Rights</i> Coalition of Canada must be very, very annoyed—media outlets have been calling her quite frequently of late to ask her opinion on our new projects, especially our “Face the Children” Project, which involves the mass distribution of postcards featuring abortion-supporting politicians next to abortion victims. In response to our postcard distribution in St. Catharines', she posted on Facebook that, “Families and children in St. Catharines' are being cruelly harassed in their homes by the extremist group Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.” I could point out that our postcards depict the reality of what she is dedicated to championing—the corpses of pre-born children “cruelly harassed” out of existence in the womb. But it is our pictures, apparently, that Joyce takes issue with.<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><a href="http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2013/07/03/what-joyce-arthur-wants-hide">More >>></a></DIV></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/images/suction-and-curettage.preview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/images/suction-and-curettage.preview.jpg" /></a></div>A picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if the words, spoken by the pro-abortion crowd, are deceptive and the picture shows the truth. These pictures upset the pro-aborts - well, that's obvious, they'll always be upset about any criticism of abortion. And it's easy to understand why ordinary people too are troubled with graphic pictures. But that's one of the reasons these images are there. <a href="http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/training/classroom/graphic/children">Instead of being concerned about children being allowed to see these pictures, people better be concerned about children being allowed to become these pictures.</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262113763277382013.post-58694849415104885622013-07-21T19:28:00.000-03:002013-07-21T19:34:08.387-03:00Plague? Nuclear War? Asteroid? No, Socialists. Welcome to post-apocalyptic Detroit. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/detroit-decline_n_813696.html#218521" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/15629/slide_15629_218566_huge.jpg?1374445041081" width=216 height=157/></a></div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/detroit-decline_n_813696.html#218521">Check out these photos.</a> If you happen to have some sound-tracks from the Titanic on your PC, turn them on. The photos of abandoned staircases and the piano in an abandoned banquet hall, look just like the photos from the wreck of the Titanic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0