Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Winnipeg Free Press, Feb.4th – I’m left wondering why it seems three trained daycare staff members can’t count to 11.
Toronto Sun, Feb.1st – I’m left wondering why it seems a Harvard trained professor can’t count to -56B.
atric, apology accepted. The rest of the comment was bang on.
Still, look on the bright side.
With all the little buggers securely hustled off to daycare, we’ll be free to rush over to the Liberty Village Restaurant for sex in the washrooms.
Here’s a thought, though slightly off topic.
With the polls edging to a statistical tie, do you suppose Iggy’s ego will get the better of him again come the resumption of Parliament and he will huff and puff and say will bring it down?
Or would he try to take power by other means?
One week of the liberal sovereignist democrat coalition or LSD for short, would put the liberals in the dust bin of history.
“The huge federal deficit must not stand in the way of a national child-care program, Michael Ignatieff said Monday”
Huh? Well last week Iffy was all over the Tories for deficit spending (which they did under intimidation from the opposition troika).
Just what IS your position Iffy? You make it hard for us to define from your constant flip flopping and dithering. Anyone’d think you learned your technique from Mr Dithers Martin. – bill@3:01pm
Liberals attack Conservatives, Conservatives attack Liberals. That’s politics. It’s adversarial. I get that. But what drives me crazy is when MSM doesn’t even the playing field in its reporting, in spite of BOTH SIDES making their points. To MSM, the opposite of a headline such as “Harper Under Fire” is “Ignatieff Fires Back”. They “honestly” feel their doing their jobs by reporting this way. It’s not the opposite. It’s not reporting that both sides are attacking each other. It’s a complete joke is what it is. And it‘s clearly choosing sides by always attempting to keep Liberals on offence and Conservatives on defence. And saying it’s because Conservatives are currently in gov’t is a red herring because when Harper was opposition leader, he got the same treatment he’s getting now as PM. It’s like a weather vane twisting in the wind, with the MSM’s accusatory finger always pointed at him, no matter which side of the house he’s on.
It wasn’t enough for Harper simply to attack the Liberals on Adscam. No, for MSM, he had to articulate why he was the alternative and to do so with substantive policy proposals, ones which were always in the end dissected and ripped by reporters with caveats of “critics say“, anonymous or otherwise, punctuating their reports and bolstered with Liberal GOV’T attacks on him that he had a scary “hidden agenda” and trying to keep him on the defensive on that issue. But not for Iggy. No. He can attack the gov’t on the deficit while pledging billions for daycare with no explanation on exactly how he’s going to pay for it and for MSM that’s good enough to keep their “Conservatives Under Fire” theme going on a daily basis.
There needs to be an alternative, a FOX News Canada of sorts. Something to balance off the garbage currently on the air.
BTW, just saw Rex’s piece on The National. Rex says Williams’ decision to go state side is none of our business and even invokes Trudeau’s “the nation has no business in the bedroom’s of the nation” reference to do so… as if had Harper been the one to have gone stateside for surgery the CBC wouldn’t be calling him a hypocrite, running clips and quotes of him attacking Martin for using private clinics. Yeah… right!
I had my beautiful baby girl (now 20) as a single parent. She was my responsibility and I paid for home care through a local woman – could never afford state run care and by the time my name came up on the list, my daughter was already in school, just needing after care. Thankfully, my parents helped with the cost, but in the end she was my responsibility, I decided I wanted a child. Do not believe in state run daycare at all.
Johanne, I’d call you a lady for that view.
Understand this….I am not emotional (generally) but despite getting brutalized mentally (according to some)……That business of that little boy getting locked out….is beyond outrageous.
Just reading about it made me mad enough to bite a porcupine (generally anti-social). GRRRR
I didn’t get beatup, cutup, shotup….generally $%^&-up for this. GRRR
The dogs are all hiding……
SERENITY NOW!!!!
These LIBRANOs are beyond reproach/redemption. Daycare is meant to assist two income families…..not much of a priority when both parents are unemployed/underemployed.
That poor little b**ger….3 year-olds are like dogs—-everything is forever—-2 minutes—20 minutes—it’s all the same—trauma-city! GRRRR
SERENITY NOW!!!
As I said yesterday, commenting in a post concerning Mr. Ignatieff’s recent pronouncements, “Things are looking up.”
To my great surprise I got a call from Ekos polling this afternoon. An automated telephone poll.
One of the questions concerned the timing of the next federal election. I chose “as soon as possible.”
Hey, the Americans are doing it! So, let’s loot the joint.
KevinB…
Sorry.. I should have been more clear. I think you are exactly right that the father is studying there and fears repurcusions against himself and not the child… but what the heck does *that* mean?? Is he really fearing that his reporting of this clear case of negligence would be used by the university to descriminate against him? Is this really where our universities have devolved to? If this was a guy ratting out the mob, ok I get it.. this is a day care at a University! “Nice degree ya got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it”…
So let me get this straight.According to the Igster,I can have a kid by the girl next door,and then turn him/her over to his state-run childcare,and not worry about them? Never mind my taxes will go up to over 60%,just so some commie can raise my kid? I don’t think so.
We need a hell of a lot more mothers like Johanne.And fathers.My bet? Her daughter will produce a hell of a lot more to help this country then any state run child care kid will.
Welfare begetting welfare,which is what the liberals want,only leads to the downfall of your country.We call ourselves a first world country,when in reality,we are a third,and fast becoming a fourth.When you turn your most valuable assests,your children,over to the state,then you have lost it all.I just can’t figure out the morality,or lack thereof,of those who would have children,and then not bear the responsibility of raising them.Are they just looking for “trophy kids?Hey.You had a kid.Me too!Aren’t we proud?
caught a bit of a program on CBC radio the other day with this professor (who else, eh) advocating a living allowance as it is unfair that those not working in the labour market are not being paid their worth as stay at home moms etc. He didn’t mention once where this allowance was going to come from but he was generous with all the usual progressive adjective.
Now a caller gets on the line and whines about how she is so poor being a single mother and homeschooling her boy. So, she doesn’t let her child attend publicly funded school but complains that she couldn’t work because she was at home schooling the little snowflake. And now the kicker, snowflake is now 18 but they are still poor and figure they should be entitled to an “allowance”. I believe the appropriate biblical adage would be “The Lord helps those who help themselves” or something to that effect.
So who is expected to pay for all this daycare and living allowances for these progressive leftoids?
Curious George
I apologise to u for my sarcasm.
But were u seriously implying u gave up volunteer work because of one person’s bad judgement?
Posted by: Agent Smith at February 4, 2010 7:57 PM ”
that was the final episode that convinced me to not even *offer* to volunteer at a church. another one involved a United Church in Burlington around 1997 which needed among other things, exhaust fans in the bathrooms (phewf . . . ) they wouldn’t even put the offer on the agenda for discussion.
by 2006 I had offered to do volunteer jobs at a local religious organization more than 10 times (I counted) and got turned down flat without explanation. despite the fact they were advertising on a xian radio station.
Ive read 4 different versions of the buybull 5 times cover to cover and another 8 times N.T. I know what the message is. I am retired, I have the time to put full attention on the task assigned. I have extensive computer experience and office experience plus about $5,000 in renovation tools. including some of my own design. and 35 years doing that.
but apparently my offer responding to the call for VOLUNTEERS wasn’t worth consideration. so you see the decision not to do any of it is moot. it is perhaps more accurate to emphasis the part I don’t even *offer* my assistance anymore.
to hell with them. literally.
Carol wrote:
“Heck, Kate, we have a Harvard trained lawyer down here in the US who can’t count to 1.5 trillion!”
Sorry Carol, but they’re still blaming that on George W…..well at least they’re trying to….
This is one of my rant issues.
My family has sacrificed allot monetarily to have a parent at home. There have been many many times when we’ve been short for the bills, maxed out our credit and simply went without. When the Liberals first suggested National Daycare in the 90’s I saw the sham for what it really is. It is a plan to force my wife, and others like her out of the home into the work place by increasing our taxes to pay for other kids to go to daycare. I take great umbrage to this considering that we are already punished by the tax code for being married with one income in the first place.
Today there is a little breathing room financially for us as I’ve finished my education and have a great job. My kids are also much older now, and they cost more $$ so we still haven’t reached our goal of a sunny vacation for the family(13+ years).
Given the choice again, I would make sure that my kids had a parent at home with more vehemence now than ever before. My kids, my wife and I have benefited greatly from our monetary sacrifice. I view this type of policy as an anti-woman policy with the goal of taking the choice away from women to raise their children properly.
That’s right, I said raise your child properly!
I will not accept the argument that both parents have to work to make ends meet as my wife and I have shown otherwise. There were times when I’ve had 3 jobs including waiting tables and working a till; or, going to school fulltime, working two jobs and having 15+ hours of homework a week.
I rode my bike to work and school for years because we sold our car, and sometimes even walked for 90 minutes both ways in the winter when the bike wouldn’t work and I didn’t have bus fare. So please don’t feed me you line of isht that you can’t afford to stay at home, and you need mine or some young couples money so you can have two incomes to pay your iphone bill!
Stephen: from what I can see, Iggy and the Liberals are not only trying to convince NDP supporters to join the Liberal fold, but are also specifically going after the female vote, based on the following perception of women:
1. Women are financial idiots, i.e. we are unable to understand what a deficit is;
2. Women, because they have softer hearts (and softer heads) than men, will invariably support left-leaning, socialist causes (Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher are not considered to be real women by the lefties).
Jeff P:
Sorry, the original sentence was so confusing that’s what I thought you were referring to.
But, to your other point, in the tight knit world of academia, especially within one department, all the dad needs is one pissed-off prof, who had to spend the time to find alternate day care facilities, to ruin his career. All that prof has to do is call the dad’s thesis “mediocre” or “unoriginal”, and it’s goodbye masters or PhD, hello enormous student loan payments, and “Would you like fries with that?”.
curious_george
What you are seeing is politics on a small scale, with really small people in charge.
This unfortunately is the rule rather than the exception.
These petty martinets assume that they are smarter than others, and subtley view you as a threat to THEIR turf….hence they marginalize you.
The UN is the same thing writ large.
thank you for that I/P sasquatch.
remember I’m the one with asperger’s. I have ZERO interpersonal skills. nada. any more that a transport truck (symbolic of my lengthy store of facts skill set and historical trivia) is suitable as a limo for oh, say, The B.O. symbolic of the limited but highly visible function for pomp and ceremony.
come to think of it, it may not be an applicable analogy considering the bovine byproduct coming of of the white house, they’re gonna need a big carrier to be rid of it come 2012.
Daycare sucks period. Why not just pay Mom to stay at home.