tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195046102011-11-29T03:02:00.277-08:00Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-41146512915999781592011-03-10T14:21:00.000-08:002011-03-10T14:21:43.913-08:00

Do not support the March of Dimes.  Tear up their solicitations. This organization, with the stated mission of helping babies have healthy lives from birth, has pimped women and their children to big pharmaceutical companies. The issue is that generic progesterone is a drug that can prevent preterm labor and a pharmacist can easily compound the drug for $10 to $20. However, it is now illegal to

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I am not related to any of the deceased in the Anacortes oil refinery tragedy but Washington is my home state. Five people have died thus far and two are injured. The company Tesero has been fined for serious safety violations prior to the blast. Radio Free Canada extends its sorrowful thoughts to the survivors and the family of those deceased.

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The Focus On The Family sponsored Tim Tebow advertisement during the Super Bowl is a slap in the face to the word "pro-life." The advertisement features Tebow's mother touting her son as a "miracle baby". The Religious Right has committed, in running this advertisement, a horrible obscenity. Buying a Super Bowl advertisement costs from $2.5 and $2.8 million. Focus On The Family says that the

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The NFL has decided to air a "pro-life" and possibly false advertisement from the homophobic and misogynist Focus On The Family. The sponsor of the half-time show is a tire company, Bridgestone, that violates the human rights of rubber collectors with horrible working and living conditions as well as miserable pay. Additionally, Super Bowl 2010 may bring a greater rate of sex trafficking,

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Sarah Palin is tapped as a speaker for the The Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America in Las Vegas from April 6-8. So what is wrong with this scenario? Ms. Palin, as a Pentecostal and evangelical Christian, cannot use alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.These are specifically prohibited in the Pentecostal denomination. She is a willful sinner against her own church, Christian beliefs, and God  by speaking

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-5874996668555814492010-01-12T02:27:00.000-08:002010-01-12T02:37:57.925-08:00

The following news is a Goddess-send for liberals. Ex-gov of Alaska and evangelical freak show Iquitirod winner Sarah Palin is going to be a commentator on Fox. The former also-ran beauty queen and multiple universities dropout has signed a multi-year contract with Fox News to provide commentary and analysis as well as television specials. Let's see how long that lasts. I do not know why she

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The Huffington Post today had an article about glamorous CEO wifes.  Certainly, many of these women have careers of their own and probably rock their worlds but they are all a little too tarted up to be taken seriously except for eye-candy. I prefer my power woman role models to look ordinary, as if  a person could approach them and have a friendly chat about the children or swap recipes over

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The Religious Right has again slit their own throats on an issue.During the debates on health care reform, the evangelical community protested the inclusion in a proposed law, HR 3200, of paid Medicare for end-of-life counseling. You may read the details here by scrolling down to pages 425-430 but the summary is doctors would be paid for helping patients make the patient's choices about

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The European Union has banned seal products that are exported from Canada. The ban covers all products such as meat, fur, and omega3 fatty acids made with seal oil. The ban does not extend to seals culled for native Inuit use.This was a humane and noble choice for the EU to legislate a ban on seal products. It is unnecessary for seals to be hunted and destroyed for food and fur when many other

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Steve Jobs has returned to work after a liver transplant five and half months ago. He will be working at the office a few days a week and telecommuting the remainder.This is a sigh of relief not only for the economy but also for the tech community, us geeky nerd types, who think of Mr. Jobs as one of the tribe. We at Radio Free Canada wish Mr. Jobs continued health and many more years of

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Happy Birthday to the actor who is Inspector Japp on the Hercule Poirot series. Mr. Jackson was born on June 18, 1948 in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.I am tickled that he was born on the same day (different year) as me.I am a fan of the Poirot series and I think that Philip Jackson acts as Japp perfectly.I hope that he has many more years of acting.Technorati Tags: hercule poirot, philip

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that James Bolam has received a Member of The British Empire knighthood for his acting career.The seventy-year-old actor, who is Jack Halford on New Tricks, has the knighthood as part of Her Majesty's Birthday Honours List.The knighthood is well-deserved for a man who is a spokesperson for Cats Protection, a cat and kitten rescue service in Britain. Mr. Bolam has also, with his lovely wife Susan

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The Christian media is feeling the economic pinch. Several evangelical magazines have folded including Today's Christian Woman and Campus Life.Welcome to the funeral. I do not feel sorry in the least that the conservative religious media has the same financial worries as us atheists, Pagans, feminists, gays, and liberals in the downturn. This should be a rude and long-time coming awakening for

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I would gladly, as a vegetarian, like to see People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals go up in flames. The organization, which created such iron-deprived idiocy as comparing butchering animals for food with the Holocaust, has now capitalized on the Dr. George Tiller murder with the witless slogans of "Pro-Choice? Go Vegetarian." and "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian." Original, it ain't.I honestly

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-59078940876236956472009-05-31T20:03:00.001-07:002009-05-31T20:55:19.608-07:00

The pro-life movement should be banned. The murder of Dr. George Tiller is a wake-up call that this is a group of fanatical and ignorant religious terrorists that has no place in a rational society.Let's think this one through. I know such an exercise is difficult for those of you who are now celebrating, in your usual illiterate and misspelled fashion, on various Web forums that another abortion

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Chairman of the National Republican Committee Michael Steele needs to keep up with the times. He has cited Christine Todd Whitman as a pro-choice Republican to emphasize that the GOP has a big tent.Well...it seems that the tent was not large enough. The enclosure must have been the polyester/cotton mix favoured by the church ladies to cover their tax write-off girth. The fabric is so easy to

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-45883161741200877082009-05-05T00:22:00.000-07:002009-05-05T01:44:52.850-07:00

by the name of Clarence Thomas.Obama, with the resignation of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, has the opportunity to appoint a judge to the highest court in the land.There are only two words that will fit the position: Anita Hill.Yeah, girlfriend, that would make Injustice Thomas turn a cold shade of grey underneath his honourable robes. The appointment of Ms. Hill, a woman that Thomas

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Microsoft is introducing a new social networking service in May called Vine.MS created the service to keep families in touch with one another in case of emergencies. Vine would use alerts and news source feeds to keep people informed during a crisis situation. Information from NOAA and other agencies would be available on the site through a dashboard that connects friends and families. However,

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The British Columbia Teacher's Federation wants the government to abandon the Foundation Skills Assessment tests for students in fourth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. The tests measure basic skills like maths and reading. The teachers' union is afraid that the tests are harming education by allowing parents to know which schools fare poorly.I think the term necessary at this

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Today is a day to recognize the importance of math and science to the American economy around the theme of Pi or the Greek symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter that is rounded to 3.14.Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered a resolution in the House to honour the day. The resolution passed 391-10. It is interesting to note that

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In South Africa, men gang-rape and murder women for being lesbians. Last year, a group of men raped and stabbed to death footballer Eudy Simelane, an open lesbian. The men rape lesbians in the false belief that the forced sex will correct the women's orientation.First, no one should be coerced into any manner of life that they were not born to follow. Being gay is a genetic predisposition, not

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This is more fun than wishing a Bonne Fête ! to Alan Rickman. The actor certainly is the handsome one but he can't boot my laptop hard drive like my main Linux squeeze,Ubuntu. Sure, there have been the unsatisfactory flings with Microsoft software but I've said "Hasta La Vista" to everything Windows after too many relationship crashes and blue screens. I have had no regrets. The Linux distro,

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-56641237461754317522009-03-11T01:29:00.000-07:002009-03-11T16:40:06.466-07:00

..when you are the last three Blue Ducks in England.Happy Blue Duck couple Ben and Jerry have formed a romantic bond in Arundel Wetland Centre in West Sussex. The male loving birds have ignored the advances of a female duck named Cherry who has preened, coaxed, and tried to show the lavender duo how to nest as straights without success. Cherry, despite rejection from both males, has settled

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Please sign the petition against Chris Brown to get him kicked off the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice awards.Love shouldn't hurt.Thanks.AnneTechnorati Tags: chris brown

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This tickles my anti-censorship heart. The student paper at my old alma mater has gone on strike rather than cede control to a publisher's oversight. The staff, for the first time in the 109-year-old Daily Emerald's history, has shut down the paper to protest being reined in by publisher Steven Smith who finally resigned.True, the newspaper does need fiscal direction but this was at the cost

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-66425469827859134852009-02-28T13:27:00.000-08:002009-02-28T19:14:14.076-08:00

The House in Congress would like to ban bloggers and other freelance journalists from protection to not reveal confidential news sources. The specific language is in HR 985 IH, The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009, is"COVERED PERSON- The term `covered person' means a person who regularly gathers, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes news or

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-72209960931162861852009-02-21T00:00:00.000-08:002009-03-10T02:06:22.382-07:00

I am writing this greeting as a matter of perforce to the anniversary of Mr. Rickman's birth but I am less enchanted with the handsome one's career. Bottle Shock was a mistake and died a well deserved, boozy death. I can't remember it making it past the first week in the theatres. I show my biases. I don't drink alcohol and I consider each land jolt that moves California to the bottom of the

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-69995892960164869742009-02-07T00:22:00.001-08:002009-02-07T01:25:56.004-08:00

Vladimir Putin has denied getting funky with the ABBA tribute band Bjourn Again at one of his parties. Spokespeople for Prime Minister Putin have refused that the judo black belt holder was grooving to 'Super Trouper' and raising his hands at 'Mamma Mia' during the £20,000 ($29395.82) gig.Aw....fess up, Vlad. Your dacha has a disco ball and you wear bling down to the navel of your white spandex

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I have fondness for pets like any rational person but then I am a rational person. I am not the couple, Nina and Edgar Otto of Florida, who paid $155,000 to clone their Lab dog who died of cancer.Let's look at this logically. The cute fuzzy puppy, that cost more than most yearly incomes, has the same genetic structure as its predecessor. This will be an expensive heartache because the dog

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-43876211974369971212009-01-23T02:18:00.000-08:002009-01-23T03:04:59.615-08:00

This is the LinkedIn profile screenshot of a man who killed his wife and then committed suicide two weeks ago. The man, 33-year-old Jason Montes, was a writer for a game company. His 25-year-old wife, Serena, was a pastry chef. Jason Montes had declared bankruptcy and the couple had planned to divorce. The weapon was a military service pistol stolen from Mr.Montes' parents.Times are tough.

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I have created a send-off for George Bush as he leaves office today. The song is by Canadian Kim Stockwood. Enjoy.JERK Technorati Tags: george bush,digitus impudicus

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'Tis the silly season for evangelicals and their foghorn Bill O'Reilly to complain that atheists are trying to do away with Christmas and create a secular holiday. Well, wah... The fundamentalists have the luxury of this conflict without any casualties. No one is hurt if there is an atheist sign for the winter solstice at the Washington State Capitol except for the spoiled crybabies on the

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-91913561995572857082008-11-13T21:12:00.001-08:002008-11-13T21:28:29.636-08:00

The election is a few weeks over and with the choice of President-elect Barack Obama, Governor Sarah Palin has an uncertain future. Radio Free Canada suggests that since she does not like being a community organizer and that her taste in clothes is questionable despite spending $150,000 on garments during the campaign, that she consider show business as a Frankenfurter impersonator. LET'S DO THE

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Say a prayer tonight not for an Obama win tomorrow but for the senator's maternal grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham who died Monday of cancer. Say a prayer that her spirit is now free of a dreaded disease that wracked her body with pain. Say a prayer for a woman that helped raise her daughter's family. Say a prayer for all those unnoticed people like Madelyn Payne Dunham who worked hard day

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-58121395259525052642008-10-31T00:37:00.000-07:002008-11-13T21:25:27.646-08:00

This is a great video that features Young Girls of America who question Sarah Palin's commitment to her own gender. Check it out. Technorati Tags: sarah palin

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An adult's responsibility is to protect their children not put them in harm's way. The father who gave his eight-year-old son an Uzi for target practice now knows that sad fact.Technorati Tags:guns

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A big hurray for the tech-savvy monarch who visited Google's Britain division on Thursday. We love you, Ma'am. A toast to a woman who sent her first e-mail in 1976 and who launched her own RoyalChannel on YouTube.Technorati Tags:Queen Elizabeth II

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The corpse candle, in Welsh mythology, is an apparition that manifests when someone is fated to die. The illumination is also known as ignis fatuus (foolish fire) or the will-o-the-wisp that leads unwary travelers to a boggy death. Wall Street traders, in the aftermath of the government bailout , are following an ignus fatuus to their destruction. There is no substantial basis for rallies on

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but you may not be the first person of African-American descent to be President. Thomas Jefferson may have been the first. Or the third President of the United States may have been Jewish.The story behind the assertion that Sen. Obama may not be, in technical terms,America's first Black president concerns the rare chromosome type that Thomas Jefferson carried. The K2 chromosome, renamed "T" is

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may they go with Beau Biden,the eldest son of vice-presidential hopeful Joe Biden,when he deploys to Iraq with the NationalGuard.The younger Biden is Delaware's Attorney General.RadioFreeCanada gives him and his family sincere wishes for his safe return home.Technorati Tags: beau biden

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Recently,a flier has been circulated in predominantly African-American neighbourhoods of Philadelphia to warn that people with as little as a parking ticket will be arrested if they show up to vote. This notice is a fake intended to intimidate citizens and deprive them of their voting rights. One can assume that GOP operatives are behind this deception because Democrats, regardless of how people

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-9222184740162902482008-09-28T01:01:00.000-07:002008-10-12T01:55:43.137-07:00

The American government's $700 billion bailout of Wall Street is a fraud because there is no money to buy the debt associated with the rescue. The United States government has a debt, with the bailout, of more than $11 trillion. As I have stated before, the government is buying debt with debt like the credit default swaps that created the crisis in the first place.Some definitions are in

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Radio Free Canada mourns the death of actor Paul Newman at eighty-three from cancer. He was a great star not only as an actor but in the lives of very ill children with his The Hole in The Wall Gang foundation. His presence will be more missed as a human being than on the silver screen.Technorati Tag: paul newman

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Where have I been? I haven't give a presidential endorsement yet. Well, let's see.... I could come out for the McCain and Palin ticket but I would be condoning a candidate who had ties to criminal lobbying or who hired a religious wingnut for a VP pick. I could pick Obama who is a straight (but not narrow) arrow and his VP pick who has tons of foreign policy experience.Hmm...I guess I will go

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The current troubles on Wall Street might seem arcane and esoteric but the story is very simple. Pull up a chair and let me tell you.I attempted last night to explain the current financial crisis to my youngest child during supper. I was talking with my husband about the situation in our dinnertime wrap up of the day's events.She was becoming bored with the adult recitation. I decided to

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Dear Goddess, I am not having a flight of fancy or rubbing on the datura (used in medieval flying ointments) about the next news item. There have been reports that a witch hunter from Africa blessed Sarah Palin before her ascent to the governorship. The news accounts state that Pastor Muthee of Kenya blessed Mayor Palin so that she would become the chief executive of Alaska. This same minister

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Radio Free Canada is over the moon and somewhere out of the galaxy about the pictures of George Takai's and Brad Altman's wedding. Takai, who was the character Sulu in the television series Star Trek, married his long-time partner on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Los Angeles. Best wishes to Takai and his husband! Live long and prosper!

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Keith Olbermann on Sarah Palin's witch-hunting pastor.WARNING: THIS VIDEO SHOULD NOT BE SHOWN TO CHILDREN OR THOSE WITH TRAUMA ISSUES. Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave from Bruce Wilson on Vimeo.Gov. Sarah Palin is part of a dangerous religious cult that believes demons are trying to control the world. Specifically, the presence of demons and territorial spirits, witches, and

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Save the date. October 2 , 2008 is the vice presidential debate from St. Louis Missouri.In the right corner is Gov. Sarah Palin, a one time second rate beauty queen with an out of wedlock knocked-up daughter. In the left corner is Sen. Joe Biden with years of political and foreign issues experience. Place your bets now. I think Palin won't last two rounds before Biden cleans her clock and

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-8925690445089001202008-09-14T01:39:00.001-07:002008-09-14T02:08:08.033-07:00

Friday was the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit. The circuit was jointly discovered by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. If it were not for this small bit of technology, you would not be able to read this or any other blog. So, hooray and happy birthday to the integrated circuit!Technorati Tags:integrated circuit, jack kilby, robert noyce

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This is not an attack on anyone in Palin's family. Goddess knows she has enough trouble there to keep her up to her knickers in diapers and Jamie Lynn Spears' burp cloths. No, this is about the women who support Sarah Palin.I have been on forums with Palin supporters and read letters to the editor from such women. The general impression that I have when I read their opinions is that pro-Palin

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-15241937587906278312008-09-09T20:45:00.000-07:002008-09-09T20:53:27.437-07:00

This is a satire of an actual news event.Technorati Tags: sarah palin

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The Republican Party has decided that Sarah Palin will not be able to meet with the press until the party operatives "...think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it."Well, obviously, her daughter is comfortable doing it but that shouldn't stop the mother from talking with the press. However, Sarah Palin will not withstand scrutiny "until the point in time when she'll be treated with

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Sarah Palin's rude comment of "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer,except that you have actual responsibilities." was a slap in the face of every woman who has used her precious and not too ample time to organize and volunteer to better her community.Women these days do not have a lot of time. We have jobs or are looking for jobs in an economy that a Republican

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Governor Sarah Palin is the wrong person for the job of United States VP. Note that I didn't say "woman" in the previous sentence. Palin, whatsoever, John McCain may think is not a fill for a gender gap. Ms. Palin is incompetent for the office of Vice-President regardless of her chromosomal attributes because of the many scandals that already plague her nomination. Thus far, she has been

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So... The misnamed Reverend Jackson wants to cut Obama's, er, jewels off for talking about male responsibility in the African-American community. Hits a little close to your walnuts, doesn't it Rev.?The Rev. Jesse Jackson,according to his Wiki profile and news sources, had an affair that produced a young daughter. He pays child support but the whole purpose of Obama giving a speech on

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A federal jury gave Joseph Edward Duncan III a death penalty sentence for his murder of a Coeur d'Alene family. Duncan killed three members of the Groene family with a hammer. He had stalked the family from North Dakota to Idaho in order to kidnap the family's younger children to sexually abuse them. He kidnapped 9-year-old Dylan and 8-year-old Shasta Groene after the murder of their family. He

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-33824202937732615762008-08-25T11:27:00.000-07:002008-08-25T11:52:17.010-07:00

It seems like a million dollars can't keep BNL from the headlines.Canadian rocker and BNL frontman Ed Robertson survived a plane crash in Ontario.The musician's Cessna 206 crashed into some trees as he was trying to take off from Baptiste Lake near Bancroft Ontario.Robertson and his passengers walked away from the crash with minor scratches.Guys, life is telling you to take a break. First there

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-69034546196281256212008-08-22T13:40:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:54:12.350-07:00

.... and relieved. I got the results of the mammogram and I'm okay. However, I feel foolish. I did not realize that a woman with my,um, small assets can also have hard to read mammograms. The breast tissue of a woman with minimal chest area can be, well, compact and difficult to read in a standard mammogram. The second x-ray was a spot compression or cone view of the left breast where the tech

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I am an ovo-vegetarian but a PETA campaign that uses the stabbing murder of Tim McLean to promote their vegan agenda is disgusting. A shrimp dinner is almost tempting as a way to give the finger to an organization that has compared meat eating to the Holocaust and promotes itself on the brutal slaying of an innocent man.I, unlike the PETA eejits, am a sensible vegetarian. I think that limiting

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-22590599093187980792008-08-15T02:14:00.001-07:002008-08-28T10:54:31.283-07:00

I received this letter in the mail. It is a form letter that the British Columbia Cancer Agency sends out after a dubious mammogram. I scanned it and removed personal specifics such as address and care provider from the letter. I am posting it because it has more detailed information on mammograms and breast cancer.NOTE: Please click on the jpeg to see the letter's text.I hope that this will

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Whatever confronts me in my personal life, there cannot be the same devastation that is in Arkansas. A gunman shot and killed state Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney on Wednesday.Police shot and killed murderer Timothy Dale Johnson after a high-speed chase. Earlier, Johnson had painted obscene graffiti on the Target store where he worked.Officers later found a Post-It note with the

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-24188631801704394562008-08-11T23:28:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:54:47.405-07:00

...MAMMOGRAM. This time it is a diagnostic test because the tech found a shadow on the film which is "abnormal, of low suspicion."No, the preceding quote does not represent my state of mind unless you're a John Bircher conservative or Fundie Christian who stumbles across my blog. Crazy liberals. I'm fine (really!) but was at first a little panicked when I initially talked to the person who called

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-57798541969433738422008-08-10T02:06:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:55:31.314-07:00

....MAMMOGRAMI get the results in about a week.Yes, it was kind of like pressed flowers but the tech, bless her, was as careful as could be when she had to squish my baby feeders in two x-ray plates. Fortunately, as I have written elsewhere, my greatest assets are between my ears and not my shoulders or I would be in hurt city and lugging an ice pack out of the clinic. Take that you wanna be porn

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-82991238572618287372008-08-09T18:36:00.000-07:002008-08-10T02:05:48.337-07:00

John Edwards, with the revelation about an affair with Rielle Hunter, should not speak at the Democratic National Convention.He lied about not having the affair to the media. He hurt his wife who was later diagnosed with breast cancer. John Edwards is not fit for any public office. Mr. Edwards should take the honourable route and recuse himself from participation in the Democratic Party. He is a

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A gunman killed two people on Sunday in a Knoxville Tennessee Unitarian church. He wounded several others.Jim D. Adkisson hid a .12 gauge shotgun in a guitar case and pulled it out to shoot during a rehearsal of the musical Annie. The killer cited, in a four-page letter, his hatred of liberals. He wrote that liberals were destroying the country and had prevented him from obtaining employment.In

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-37120088539760841282008-07-22T01:44:00.000-07:002009-06-30T00:23:48.300-07:00

is there a succession plan at Apple Inc.? In a recent eWeek article there was some concern about Mr. Jobs' health, specifically that he was looking awfully thin and pale at his last appearance. There was also mention that there was no second in command.As a conscientious CEO, it is necessary for Mr. Jobs to have a clear hierarchy to succeed him should he again fall ill with cancer. According to

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-9953467455597738252008-07-17T20:03:00.000-07:002008-07-18T01:30:19.866-07:00

being gay is natural. Homosexual and bisexual behaviour characterizes not only mammals other than humans but also birds and insects. In a recent article in the Scientific American, bisexuality ranges from beetles to bonobos.However, try to inform this to the eejits that make up the dissenters to the Anglican Church's policy of ordaining a gay American bishop and female bishops. Several African,

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-62029297393257559392008-07-16T20:02:00.000-07:002008-07-16T20:28:31.948-07:00

I'd buy you a brain. Bare Naked Ladies front man Steven Page has been arrested for drugs in New York city, specifically cocaine and marijuana possession.This is very stupid. BNL has been committed to several charities including those for the environment and for AIDS causes. Steven Page's arrest embarrasses the band which is a Canadian icon and an environmental ambassadorship.Shame. Canada, and

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Walt Disney World in Florida has shot down a proposal to have their employees bring handguns in their car. The National Rifle Association in Florida has passed a law in that state allowing people to take guns and secure them in their cars. The Magic Kingdom has fired a security guard, Edwin Sotomayor, for bringing a gun to work and leaving it in his car to protest the zero tolerance policy that

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-71923862553585247492008-07-10T00:52:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:55:54.668-07:00

....MAMMOGRAM...."Molly IvinsI am. My maternal grandmother died of breast cancer when my mother was age six. My mother had breast cancer but survived. Breast cancer worldwide, each year, claims 548,000 lives. Women aged 40 to 79 are encouraged to have a mammogram every two years.There are all sorts of excuses to avoid the exam with the main complaint that having one's knockers pressed between

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The building remains intact. I arrived to the townhouse this evening heavily sedated with a grande Calm tea from Starbucks and my blood sugar somewhere around my toes. I was a little woozy. Shouldn't have had the caffeine rush of Ceylon and China tea blend with a twist of Madagascar vanilla at breakfast. Phantasms of architectural ruin haunted me during the day with thoughts of the wall

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-17970873451106490952008-07-09T02:01:00.000-07:002008-07-09T03:17:29.153-07:00

This is a slab of concrete that fell from a wall at my rented townhouse. This was a privacy partitionthat dropped off the wall a few feet from where we live. There is one close to us that hasn't fallen yet and we can't use our front door to go in or out for fear of dislodging the nearby slab which weighs about 1000 pounds. The owners were warned a year ago that this was a problem but did

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A memorial has been set up for four Mounties that were slain in the line of duty.The memorial in Mayerthorpe, Alberta for constables Brock Myrol, Peter Schiemann, Anthony Gordon and Leo Johnston has generated controversy from some family members that did not approve of the statues.I respect the families that feel grief at the memorial. The government should have listened to all those concerned in

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-13359151319457809872008-07-04T00:10:00.000-07:002008-07-04T00:53:13.979-07:00

Google did not have a logo for Canada Day this year despite it being British Columbia's 150th birthday and Quebec's 400th (girlfriends. you don't look a day over sixty, just like her Maj the Queen).Google, instead of creating an apology, had some whinging PR shill explain that it rotates logos.How difficult would it be to make a logo? The graphic that you see on your screen took me about 25

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-74941760006850629702008-05-22T02:35:00.001-07:002008-07-30T00:33:35.974-07:00

Taking time out of my still manic schedule of homeschooling, kids' birthday parties, gardening, Girl Guiding, kid's ear infections, classes in sustainable agriculture et cetera, looking for freelance work, and novel writing.At least I don't have to deal with the Yorkshire brat. I saw the tartette briefly this weekend and it was all I could do to not grab an onion bulb from the fridge (we didn't

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-46663300407050473102008-04-13T01:28:00.000-07:002008-04-13T01:43:47.122-07:00

Ellen Craswell, arch-conservative Washington State former legislator and failed gubernatorial candidate:(1932-2008).Don't bang your butt on the way into the pearly gates.Technorati Tags:ellen craswell

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Dith PranSeptember 27,1942 - March 30,2008This obituary was written at the request ofa journalist friend. I am thankful to the person in question for pointing outthe story. Dith Pran was a photojournalist whosurvived the cruel regime of Pol Pot. The movie The Killing Fields was about his experience. He was a brave soulamong horrible circumstances. Dith Pran died of pancreatic cancer at the age

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-83772150598021858062008-03-28T23:55:00.000-07:002008-07-04T13:51:40.396-07:00

Secretary of State Condi Rice has said that slavery existed in America because of a moral birth defect.Nonsense.Slavery existed (and still exists) because people are greedy for power and money. The Bush administration knows about this particular ethical failing. There is no end, with over 4,000 soldiers dead in Iraq and thousands more Iraqis slaughtered, to the disaster created in Iraq in the

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-38826475823109317332008-03-23T11:20:00.000-07:002008-04-13T02:07:07.471-07:00

"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do not go gentle into that good night."--- Dylan ThomasMy daughter and I watched a video about Terry Pratchett and his diagnosis of Alzheimer's.The dialogue is as follows:Eldest daughter: "Why couldn't this have happened to George Bush?"Me: "You mean it hasn't?"Eldest daughter: "Nice..."High

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-74050293939310271972008-03-21T16:53:00.000-07:002008-03-21T17:07:47.979-07:00

Scientists have found strange and wonderful creatures in the Antarctic's Ross Sea. Some of the creatures include two foot starfish and large sea spiders. The finds are part of a year-long study to catalogue and protect the biological diversity of the Antarctic.Technorati Tags:ross sea

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Okay, so I am homeschooling my youngest. Long story about her being bullied that will take a while to explain. Suffice to write that some Brit girls vie for fishwife status in their tender elementary school years. I call the monster Alisoun for the Chaucer character although she comes from Yorkshire,not Bath. Almost needless to report, but germane to the situation,the school my daughter attended

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-51521650093307376972008-02-20T01:47:00.000-08:002008-02-20T02:20:57.921-08:00

The Greater Victoria Public Library Board (GVPLB) has decided to lock-out the librarians from their workplace. This is an escalation of a pay dispute ongoing for five months.Librarians cannot make a living wage in Victoria due to the high cost of housing, food and other goods. They provide a valuable service to the people of this city. Victoria (or should it be Victorian?) librarians create a

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-4657902138946341632008-02-06T01:49:00.000-08:002008-02-06T02:12:09.704-08:00

My preferences for president are Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. Fight it out among yourselves.Technorati Tags:barack obama,hilary clinton

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Actress Geraldine McEwan is retiring from her role as Miss Marple. After three glorious years as the knitting sleuth, McEwan has decided to hand the role over to another yet unnamed actress.We hardly knew ye, ma'am. We will regret not seeing your sparky eyes and mischievous smile. Cheers for the memories.Technorati Tags:geraldine mcewan,miss marple

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-71507074200861084382008-02-04T01:01:00.000-08:002008-02-04T01:33:38.221-08:00

Microsoft has made a bid for search engine company Yahoo! to the tune of $44.6 billion. While that is pocket change for Bill Gates, why? Yahoo is just a portal. It doesn't have the applications that Google has such as spreadsheets, documents, notebooks, e-mail, and --- by the way --- a search engine. The Yahoo! MyWeb can't compete with Reader in terms of cross-functionality with other Google

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The Virginia Legislature recently voted against S.B 109, legistlation that would have closed a loophole that allowed private sales without background checks at unregulated gun shows. The defeat came after the National Rifle Association and the Virginia Citizens' Defence League lobbied to torpedo the bill.The defeat of the bill occurs after family members of students killed in the Virginia Tech

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-90095063966838657702008-01-29T01:30:00.000-08:002008-03-18T10:57:55.633-07:00

I'm away from blogging until early February.I have a paying gig writing web reviews. More on that when I return.

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There is ballot proposition in Colorado and five other states that would define a fertilized egg as a human being with the full rights of a human being. Well, chickies, why not sue Starbucks for selling a abortificant because caffeine in coffee can cause miscarriage? That's the thought. Let's go on a pro-life rampage and burn down every coffee or tea shop in America to protect the unborn

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-35925108364876794312008-01-23T09:50:00.000-08:002008-02-12T09:47:09.987-08:00

April 4, 1979 to January 22, 2008Drugs are stupid.Painkillers: oxycodone and hydrocodone.Antihistamine: doxylamineSleeping Medication: temazepamAnti-anxiety Drugs: diazepam and alprazolamScrew the pharmaceutical companies.Technorati Tags:heath ledger

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-60606368559429755292008-01-11T01:26:00.000-08:002008-01-11T01:52:52.991-08:00

Sir Edmund Hillary is dead at the age of 88. The first man to climb Mount Everest, he called himself a "no-hoper at university". After his famous climb to the top, he raised and donated millions of dollars for the Sherpas to build clinics, schools, hospitals, roads, and bridges. A staunch conservationist, he badgered climbers into keeping Mount Everest clean from trash.From nothing, a man who

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-52538302131221522202007-12-25T23:20:00.000-08:002008-01-11T01:50:31.752-08:00

Queen Elizabeth II has become a member of the YouTube generation. She gave her 2007 Christmas address on YouTube and has her own section on the site. It was a very precise do good onto others lecture with grand music and royal posh all around.Give 'em 'ell Ma'am! Happy Holidays!Technorati Tags:Queen Elizabeth II

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-38383538316832997132007-12-14T13:39:00.000-08:002007-12-14T13:47:08.963-08:00

Please support the writers' strike in Hollywood. One way that you can support the writers' strike is to boycott any scab activity that takes place online. Recently, I found this ad. The spelling errors are not mine:"Freelance TV Writers - (US-CA-Hollywood - 90078)Min Education: BachelorsJob Type: ContractEveryone knows it is a rough time here in Hollywood with the strike and with the holidays

Anne Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476072588987335586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504610.post-61806715189653161262007-12-06T09:50:00.000-08:002007-12-06T12:07:47.202-08:00

Would someone please whack presidential candidate Mitt Romney over the head with a large history book? Mr. Romney claims that freedom needs religion to be successful and that religion needs freedom.Uh, hello? Hasn't Romney heard about the term auto-da-fé? Being a Jew in Inquisition Spain was dangerous. There was no freedom in being, for example, a Protestant in Queen Mary's Catholic England nor

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Authorities in Sudan released British private school teacher Gillian Gibbons from jail.Gillian Gibbons was arrested for naming a class teddy bear 'Muhammad'. A staff member at the school complained to authorities about the alleged idolatry. Sudanese officials pardoned Ms. Gibbons and she was deported.My question is where were the staff member's priorities? Naming a teddy bear 'Muhammad' is not

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Rabid members of Islam in the Sudan have called for the execution of a British teacher because she named the class mascot Muhammad.British private school teacher Gillian Gibbons was arrested and jailed for 15 days because her students named the class teddy bear 'Muhammad' and wrote diary entries about their mascot when they took the bear home overnight.Now, I have known teachers who have done

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Hi, just a program note: I had a webring application on the site that was redirecting my blog. I have since removed the application and the site works as it should.--Anne

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RCMP is still looking for evidence in the murder of Constable Christopher Worden who was shot at Hay River in October.His alleged killer, Emrah Bulatci 23, is due in court on December 13.Nice of the RCMP to give the death so much attention after the fact. According to news reports, neither Worden or Constable Douglas Scott had backup which should be standard procedure for all RCMP regardless of

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Constable Douglas Scott, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, of Brockville, Ontario was buried on Tuesday. I can feel nothing but a sad tiredness when I watched his eulogy. Constable Scott's killer,Pingwaktuk Kolola, was an intoxicated driver that the Scott had pulled over for impaired driving. The shooter brandished a gun but Constable Scott could not shoot back. The killer held a baby as a human

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Once again, the stupidity of readily available firearms is proved. An 18-year-old man in Finland has shot and killed five boys, two girls, and an adult woman before police subdued him. The killer is now in critical condition in the hospital.Before the massacre, the killer had posted a video on YouTube entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007"Now, logically, all posts on YouTube that show

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