Is flying safe.

Travel blog.

Where this book business lived in 1967. Now it is in a home.

Can you imagine these geeks wearing these and watching a Video while they drive? Talk about nuts; and what about trying to cross a street or attend a class.

People are already spaced out when listening to their cellphone as they cross street rather than watch the traffic. Sad.

Toronto based charity which aids, singles, families and seniors to live happy lives even if they own little. All cities and town have centres like this. Support them.

Remember however, the cardinal rule of giving clothing, food or other supplies. 1] Phone to make sure the group needs it. 2] If you wouldn't eat, or wear it: please don't give it to the poor.

I went on one of these in my own neighbourhood and was annoyed and ready to punch the docent. He allowed a politico and a businessman to push their views at the expense of the talk. I do not care who built something new and ugly, when we are supposed to be hearing about the history of the neighbourhood,

Huge bits of that history were ignored or only partially accurate. Sad.

This photo is from thewhizzer.'s site. Read the Stalin speech; it helps you understand his views on making the world communist and his views on Churchill after WWII.

Ugly. I like 1920's cubic furniture and stuff to make a place homie. Only bathrooms need to be this clean.

I found this article via thewhizzer.

As with any article like this- it blames the British - [justly in many cases]: it is equally true of all empires. To maintain an empire, kingdom or any kind of cohesive political group which bases its existence on expansion - those in power will use spies and terror tactics.

I wish they'd break the numbers down even further. Most clerical staff make less than 50,000 pounds a year and if you put a category for them, you'd find the income disparity even more alarming. This is because 50,000 pounds a year for a family of 4 does not allow anyone to live the high life.

And had you stuck in the store clerks wage of less than 30,000 pounds, you'd see that most of these people are barely hanging onto their homes; jobs and their kids rarely make it to university.

I am not English, but my salary in UK pounds is about 33,000 a year. My employer wants me to accept a 1.7%f salary increase or a total of less than 5% over 5 years as his salary jumps 2 to 3% every year. And he gets bonuses. And a company car.

Top pay packets need to be capped and taxes payed on all sources of income for those making over 200,000 pounds a year.

I found this through thewhizzers site.

One can wear a Gay-Straight alliance 't-shirt'; a we hate religion "t-shirt"; a Burka or or a Sikh turban to school, but wear a Christian 't-shirt"; and you are a bigot[?] and a race hater[?]. Either all should have the right to wear their religious or social value symbols or none should have that right.

Condos near the Beach. Most of these ridiculous building of glass and concrete destroy neighbourhoods rather than enhancing them. Many if not most are built with no consideration of the architectural styles of the surrounding building and stick out like sore thumbs.

Worse, if the entertainment area of Toronto or the Lakefront communities of these things are any indication of the desires of the tenants: they move into an area for the vibe and then demand that the noise and dirt and crowding brought by that vibe be curtailed if not stopped.

Can you imagine these folks being happy with the festivals and music at Kew Beach for long? And, if you think the Beach has to many dogs now; just wait till the 20 to 30 year olds move in with their one plus dogs and no kids.

I hate these so called cute animal/cheezburger pages. They should be banned; or you should be able to opt out of receiving them permanently. Ugh. Yuck.

Books for boy's extolling the glories of serving in English armies and being part of the British Empire. Rollicking good stories; tho dated by their blind faith in the might and kindness of the British Empire.

Priceless, stolen from indigna's site.

love this. teachers can spoil a book and drain all the pleasure from reading it.

The picture is not mine but the words below are.

A gate opens two ways
to the future
or
to the past
it gives new hope
or
lets us dwell on past follies
follow it forth into the sun
look not to cold airless memories
step forth boldly
tomorrow waits
fresh and new

Fun.

I found this at 'StarWalker's' blog. Who profits from the continued occupation of Gaza. It is very sad that the US government still continues to support Israel even after they have broken their word and have begun making more settlements on disputed land.

By the Rivers of Babylon I sand Down and Wept...

One day, I expect to hear that both these groups have blown each other to bits.

Such unrestrained hate on both sides makes peace highly unlikely.

Sojourner Truth

1797-1883

Aint I a Woman?

Aint I a woman?
A found poem from Sojourner Truth's most famous speech, adapted into poetic form by Erlene Stetson click here to see the full text of the speech, in non-poem format.


That man over there say
a woman needs to be helped into carriages
and lifted over ditches
and to have the best place everywhere.
Nobody ever helped me into carriages
or over mud puddles
or gives me a best place. . .

And ain't I a woman?
Look at me
Look at my arm!
I have plowed and planted
and gathered into barns
and no man could head me. . .
And ain't I a woman?
I could work as much
and eat as much as a man--
when I could get to it--
and bear the lash as well
and ain't I a woman?
I have born 13 children
and seen most all sold into slavery
and when I cried out a mother's grief
none but Jesus heard me. . .
and ain't I a woman?
that little man in black there say
a woman can't have as much rights as a man
cause Christ wasn't a woman
Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman!
Man had nothing to do with him!
If the first woman God ever made
was strong enough to turn the world
upside down, all alone
together women ought to be able to turn it
rightside up again.


Sojourner Truth photo











Truth Links


19CWWW Truth page
A Biography of Truth, from Stamp on Black History collection.
The Truth Memorial statue page
From a Women's Studies collection

(The following is quoted from an editor's note in the anthology where this poem is found)
"There is no exact copy of this speech given at the Women's rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1852. The speech is adapted to the poetic format by Erelene Stetson from the copy found in Sojurner, God's Faithful Pilgrim by Arthur Huff Fauset, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938)."
The poem and note, along with other great women's poems, can be found in Ain't I a Woman: A Book of Women's Poetry from Around The World, Illona Linthwaite, Editor. New York: Wing Books, 1993, page 129.

Page created July 14, 1998


This is from a page which hasn't been updated since 2003

Heartwarming picture. Yes. But.

I live in Parkdale - High Park; and fewer and fewer dog owners seem to feel that it is necessary to teach their dog or dog's good manners. Of course the problem starts with them. A dog cannot learn what it's owner does not understand. Howling; whining; jumping; nipping; being off it's lead while walking along a street and peeing everywhere is not in your pet's best interest, nor in your neighbours. If you can't control a pet; you should not get a license to own one.

I would like to see non breed specific laws which require all dog owners to take an extensive courses on how to care for and discipline their animal. The first course they need is a prebuying course which they must pass before they get the right to own a pet. Once a person has a certificate stating that they can own a pet; then and only then can a breeder or shop sell them one. The next step is like a provisional license: they and their pet must take and pass a petcare and safe animals course; failure means that the animal is removed from their household and they do not get a certificate to buy another for five years and they must take the prebuying course over: this course would need a 90% pass before they got a second chance to own an animal.

I have been jumped, slobbered on and crowded off the sidewalk into traffic by aggressive animals. I do not care how big or tiny your animal is; if it even once nips a human or runs loose; it needs to be taken from it's owner. A person with a dog who does not have a dog owner or pet walker certificate from the city should have the dog or dogs removed from their care. This means that anyone in a pet owning household; including the children and teens; needs to take both pet safety courses if they want to walk or take their pet off their property.

I love this site for it's pictures of uniforms. It is a sales site and you can pay a lot to dress yourself as a model of a modern major general.

Oddly enough; you can sometimes find authentic, but ragged versions of these uniforms for a little less if travelling to England and trolling through the various car boot and trunk sales.

A re-enactors paradise.

I have nothing to do with these folks. I just like their stuff.

A Catholic site with an encyclopedia and news links. Visit.

Fascinating to look at; but, ugly. Can you imagine this thing haunting a beautiful forest? Eyes and beholders.

Education is increasingly being watered down and prettified [by this I mean that anything controversial or nasty or against the overall world view of the elite: is being eliminated or changed to suit their beliefs. All male religious are being called Mr. instead of Pere or Father or Friar: by using Mr.; you pretend that they did not explore or act for religious reasons thus changing the nature of their work and lives. The same is being done with female religious explorers and educators].

One classy lady.

The 'Inn of the 6th Happiness' movie was made about this woman who worked in China. As with many movies, '6th Happiness' was highly fanciful. Read books on her life and marvel over her work and love for the people and land of China.

The idea that an employer can get free labour is unjust. It allows them to get rid of their workers and then get them back through enforced employment by the government at no cost. We used to call this slavery.

Think of your local government firing or drastically reducing the wages of their employees until they go on welfare and then forcing them back into the jobs they where working at before for a small welfare cheque.

The worst thing is that they have conned many in the middle class into believing that it is ok to do this; and that they won't end up on workfare as their jobs can't be outsourced. This delusion is part of the reason that the government can get away with doing this.

All retail and many labouring jobs are at risk. In time; all but highly skilled technical jobs will be underpaid and then filled with unwilling jobfare workers, We may get to the old idea of people playing at working: because a person who makes nothing from his/her job; is unlikely to do it well.

Read the article. Please.

Pay workers enough so that they can buy what other Americans make. This should be basic; no matter what country you are in.

Read the article.