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I just love these animates, this one is a little shallow compared to the others but still worth watching.
Canada, at times, seems to have so much potential when it comes to protecting Canadian citizens from wrongful neglect and abuse, witness bill C-389:
“Bill C-389 would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to protect the rights of transgender or transsexual citizens. It would prohibit discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” or “gender expression” in the workplace or elsewhere, and would amend the Criminal Code so that crimes committed against people because they are transgender or transsexual would be treated as hate crime.”
What a forward looking piece of legislation, treating more people like human beings. How outrageous. Something though has to done to derail this crazy human rights train before it really takes off. Thankfully, we have the Canadian Senate for that.
“Since Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not support the transgendered rights legislation, it may well face similar purgatory when it arrives in the Senate.
The Conservatives, who have a majority in the upper house, have adopted the tactic of using the Senate to block private members’ bills passed by the House of Commons that don’t accord with the government’s agenda.”
Ah, can you feel the all the reflection going on? All the deep thoughts and decidedly non-partisan sombre musings?
Me either. It is nice to see the unelected branch of our government quashing human rights legislation as the status-quo most definitely needs to be maintained.
Why not?
EW YORK, N.Y. – If lingerie is too intimate and dinner out is too expensive, the Bronx Zoo suggests another Valentine’s Day gift: a Madagascar hissing cockroach.
Roaches are a girls best friend?
Spokesman John Calvelli says, “Nothing says forever like a cockroach.”
The Wildlife Conservation Society runs the New York City zoo and is raising funds by offering the public the chance to name the huge roaches. In return for each name, it’s asking for a $10 donation.
Calvelli says about 1,700 cockroach names were bought in the first two days of the promotion. Recipients get a certificate.
The zoo says naming a roach will honour a sweetheart’s resourcefulness and resiliency. As the zoo puts it: “Flowers wilt. Chocolates melt. Roaches are forever.”
Welcome readers to our next semi-regular feature here at DWR. The last Sunday Featurette was called the Sunday Creationist Smackdown and was geared toward providing a basis for succinctly arguing down the creationist god-babble one encounters on the Internet. The focus of this feature will be different.
The authors of this blog are in agreement that all religions are primarily an authoritarian, misogynistic,dehumanizing , regressive (really too many adjectives to list, but you get the idea) feature of societies. In a better world, religion and magical belief would be marginalized and placed in the dustbin of history to be used as a learning opportunity on how not to structure human society.
The Internet has allowed for a great deal of critical examination and refutation of religious dogma. The more rational inquiry there is into the rotten edifice of religion, the sooner it can be brought down and brought to heel allowing humanity to further progress into the 21st century without the delusional impediments religion brings to the table.
This video is the story of one woman’s trek into hell, sponsored by Allah and Islam. Her offence, being a woman for one, and secondly having the audacity not to wear a veil in public. Apologists say that Islam is a religion of peace, to which I say, where is this woman’s peace? Where is her dignity? Islam, like christianity is misogynistic, totalitarian and filled with xenophobia and hate. When it spills into the light we can see exactly how ugly “keeping the faith” is…
Let the first DWR Religious Disservice begin now!
Trigger warning for violence and rape.
Mother Jones has an article and photo essay about the women self-immolating in Afghanistan reaffirming the utter lack of misogyny (funny how that correlates with religious belief) present in religiously deluded societies.
Well okay, maybe a little.
Oh, and stay out of the way of other peoples' shots.
It has been a long time since I’ve played racquetball. We stopped playing last year late November as regular bouts of sickness began hitting my racquetball partner and I. However, this last Friday we convened, along with my future brother-in-law to be to play a little cutthroat at the University courts.
The game results were not pretty for me as it seemed my goto play was hitting the ball out of the court with amazing speed and accuracy. For the uninitiated in racquetball, the general rule is the lower you hit the ball on the wall, the better. I also managed to forget about my knee pad until I left a few patches of my epidermis on the court floor. *sigh*
On the upside, it was fun while we were playing and I had a wonderful time. The next morning, as I write this blog post my body is telling me a distinctly different story. I know first time back is always hell, but I don’t seem to remember it being this bad. Waaaa!
I have to keep the focus on this exercise thing being good for me, and things will be fine. (sounds good, no?)
A relaxing Friday Fugue.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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