http://www.insidethecbc.com/facebookprolife

A funny thing happened on the way to experimenting with citizen participation via the Internet…

The CBC recently set up a Facebook group called The Great Canadian Wish List. The idea was that you could create a wish (like “solve world hunger” etc.) or add your name to existing wishes. The top wishes would be broadcast on CBC on Canada Day.

It’s not that it’s not working, just that instead of generic feel-good wishes, the Facebook group’s top wishes are dominated by political causes usually associated with Christian conservative or right-wing groups.

Among the top wishes (as “voted” by people joining the groups) are:

Abolish abortion in Canada
For a spiritual revival in our nation
Restore the traditional definition of marriage
Clearly, some groups actively campaignied for votes, rather than letting the site grow organically. (I’m not saying this is bad, just interesting.) This page even walks people step-by-step through how to add themselves to the pro-life/anti-abortion (pick your wording) group. Some interesting comments at this blog.

CBC reporter Mike Wise was one of the architects of the Facebook idea. In an interview with InsideCBC.com, Wise said he thought the experiment was a success specifically because of the way people used the site. He said he plans to interview the people behind the top wishes, no matter what the topics end up being. “This was an experiment to see how social networks could work to bring out story ideas, and it’s done that.”

“Would people be saying there was a ‘takeover’ if David Suzuki had gone out and asked people to do this? We purposely set out to see what would happen with an unmoderated group,” he said. “Personally, I think this has been a huge success.”

In a related note, this blog’s Seven Wonders of the CBC contest appears to be the target of a takeover attempt as well by fans of CBC Radio 3.

"Who called me just a piece of flesh!!"

Feminist Follies

"The one-world government scenario is dialectically based upon economics, environment, and equity – known as the Three E’s. These Three E’s involve global control of the common man’s labor and money, “sustainable” nature, and forcing all commoners into financial sameness. These same intentions are also documented in the U.N. Agenda 21 game plan for our “sustainable” environmental future.
The feminist movement was crafted by the one-world political initiative and invented to create and sustain global depopulation goals. That is and remains the primary mission of the feminist movement.
Women’s “rights” are disallowed definition by culture, religion, personal opinion, or any other social definition minus the feminist movement. In today’s world, we have no choices as women, whatsoever, but to agree to the think tank morality written and coded by this global movement. The feminist movement is no different than the global environmental movement, the global healthcare movement, the global education movement, or the global economy movement. All are social re-engineering tactics used to forward the take over of all world governments, economies, and cultures, and to force all commoners into the custom-made livelihoods and service of corporate-based governors. According to this government, we have no choices but to accept them all."
The above quote is part of an editorial by Nancy Levant at newswithviews.com
What's your opinion?

Home Schooling is the only protection.

With a slick marketing campaign, special interest groups, the media and our own provincial government have convinced many people that an all-inclusive sex education program will make our kids ‘street wise’ so they can avoid social problems and avoid unwanted pregnancies. They tell us that any sexual variation is OK as long as you use contraceptive chemicals or devices but the facts don’t back up their misinformation.
In 1976 the provincial government introduced a sex education program into our schools which encouraged students to refrain from sexual activity and to keep it within the bounds of marriage. Between 1976 and 1987 teen pregnancy fell significantly. Keep in mind this program was designed to discourage pre-marital sexual activity rather than equip adolescents for ‘safe-sex’.
In 1986 the province provided large funds to the Health Dept. to change the sex-ed. program to a condom/contraception- based program in our schools and for the next 20 years teen pregnancy, promiscuity and sexually-based diseases increased dramatically.
In 1997 the Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council, www.hamiltonfamilyaction took action and convinced their County government to stop financing the Health Dept.’s safe-sex program. Within 2 years teen pregnancy dropped over 22% and in-clinic visits declined 57%, proving that the less adolescents are exposed to condom-based/ value free sexual indoctrination from Public Health/Planned Parenthood Clinics, the lower the teen pregnancy rates. On top of that they saved their county hundreds of thousands of tax dollars. Even Public Health admits that the greater the availability of birth control, the greater the adolescent sexual activity.
Under much criticism, the Ugandan government chose to use abstinence-based sex ed. programs for their people and is the only part of Africa that has reduced incidence of AIDS.
The truth is, the less our youth are exposed to the Public Health ‘safe sex’ ideology, the safer they are and like it or not, the best method of birth control for adolescents, continues to be their parents.
Parents have a right and an obligation to teach their children, in their own way, in their own time, without being upstaged by domineering social engineers hiding under the guise of educational professionals.
Under our present political will, the only alternative parents have is to start home-schooling which has increased to 80,000 children in Canada and still growing.

Political science is bad for the environment.

When do we tell the government they can’t legislate fictional science to feed their need to regulate our lives while they profit from our private vices like smoking, drinking and gambling?
The Journal of the Cancer Inst. Reports that second hand smoke has a risk factor of only 1.2 and that anything below 2 is considered small, yet the risk factor for breast cancer after abortion is 1.5 and it gets no media attention and certainly no government intrusion.
And what about bicycle helmets? According to Western Standard researcher, John Luik, bike helmets may cause more injuries because users have a false sense of security and may take more risks. G.B. Rodgers looked at 8 million cases over 15 years and found “no evidence that hard shell helmets have reduced the head injury and fatality rates.” Indeed, “the bicycle-related fatality rate is positively and significantly correlated with increased helmet use.” Transport Canada statistics show the same amount of deaths before and after compulsory helmet laws. In New York state head injuries went up after increased helmet use.
The current left-wing lie is global warming. Government and media radicals are flying against real scientific facts to sell a gullible public their secular version of Armageddon. In spite of mountains of information to the contrary, green brains look forward to creating big, unionized government agencies to control our environment (people). Call me a nit-picker but paying other countries, who aren’t even on the green wagon, billions of our overtaxed dollars, is as close to insanity as you can get but then, this has never been about rational thinking.
This is about a liberal/NDP party that has gotten so shallow and morally bankrupt that they don’t have an issue that they can hang their collective hats on. The global warming lie is about all they could come up with to sell to people in polluted, voter rich cities, which doesn’t focus on their poor leadership, boondoggles and radical social agendas. God help us all in rural Canada if they get their way. The sad part is the national media is still helping them.

Are we civil yet?

Sometimes you wonder where the 'civil' went in our civil society. I was traveling through
the web recently and came across 'partial birth abortions'. These are abortions that are done in the late-term of pregnancy on mostly healthy mothers and babies.
The abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps and pulls the baby into the birth canal,
then using his hands, he delivers the body, leaving the head inside. He or she then forces
scissors into the base of the skull and opens the scissors to enlarge the hole. A suction
catheter is inserted into this hole and the baby's brains are sucked out. After immence, imminent pain,
the skull collapses, the baby dies and the parts are sometimes sold.
This is probably what M.P. Cheryl Gallant was talking about when she compared abortion
to the decapitation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq for which the media attacked her.
For some of the earlier stage abortions the abortionist cuts the baby into pieces, while in the
mother. The nurses then assemble the arms, legs and body parts in order, to make sure the entire baby has been removed.
We have no abortion laws in Canada, even up to the time of delivery. Even if you're a cold blooded atheist you must question why our tax dollars are used to pay for over 100,000 women and men's choice to have sex without responsibility. Less than 1% are because of rape and incest.
You have to wonder what kind of a 'civil' society we have that would allow human butchers
to torture and mutilate generation after generation of innocents without the media raising their
voice in protest.
They say we're only here on earth for a short 70 summers. Thank God.

The new challenge- Are my kids safer at home?

If nothing else, 2006 was the beginning of awareness, that parents, could no longer ‘sit on the fence’ with social issues in Ontario. As much as the provincial government and the media tried to make all social issues grey matter, the homosexual aggressiveness forced many parents to stand up and pay attention to issues like abortion, same sex marriage, secular evolution and their effect on our school children.
In Ontario we are especially burdened with a gay/abortion secular government and an ‘opposition’ PC party who shares the same platform. In addition we have a gay activist deputy premier who said he wants to remove any religion in schools, an openly lesbian education minister, a gay friendly attorney general and a teachers union using homosexuals to further their cause against organized religion in the school system. It should be noted that less than 1% of the 52,754 full-time and 16,137 part-time elementary teachers in the Ont. Teachers Federation reported having a disability, was gay or lesbian or Aboriginal. Where’s the voice from the other 99%?
In July/06, the BC Parents and Teachers for Life Assoc. asked 3 simple questions;

1. Is parental consent required, except in case of emergency, for health care for minors?
2. Specifically, are minors subjected to abortions without any requirement for parental consent?
3. To what extent are students subjected to pro-homosexuality propaganda in the schools, and if they are subjected to such propaganda, is this with the permission or connivance of the government?
In August/06 the Renfrew County Family Action Council sent the questions to the public school administration and subsequently to our local MPP. Neither has given a definitive answer but we can be damn sure they all know their salary and benefits to the penny.
We really don’t know the education system until we test it. We do know that these 3 matters leave our education system open to health risks, large litigation settlements and abuse by people who clearly have no mandate from the parents.
The Ontario public and separate school system is corrupt in structure where boards kow-tow to Toronto for funding, teachers bow to greedy unions and a handful of secular beaurocrats, with a personal agenda, know how to milk the whole system. As long as they could keep interest and information away from the public, they were safe. That time has passed. Parents must take back our education system.

Red and Blue Issue

Maybe what we need is a country that has two cards. Let's call them red and blue.

Red card supporters would believe in and pay for:
- Abortion
- Any marriage, incest, AIDS and bestiality.
- Their part of the country ruled by judges.
- No military.
- No religion except evolution.
- CBC & CRTC
- More taxes for more social programs.
- Social engineering in their schools.
- Bigger government.
- Bigger unions.
- Payoffs in government.
- Government sponsored daycare.
- Government supported prostitution, sex clubs and drug
distribution centres.
- Bilingualism
- No firearms except for government agencies.
- Government only health care.

Blue card supporters would believe in and pay for:
-The opposite of the above.

We would simply vote for the persons who believed and supported the red or blue and taxes would would be charged accordingly. Sure, there's lots of little details that could be critised but we could put an end to parties that sit on the fence and head in a positive growth direction.It would give the two culturals real freedom to choose the agenda they want to pay for. As it is now, we all pay for an agenda most people don't want or need.
Anyone have other ideas or improvements?

Judy Rebick's decision to leave the Green Party because of fellow feminist, Elizabeth Mays comments about abortion shouldn't be misunderstood as a moral move. You have to have them to act on them.
To date, we haven't seen anything from Mzz. Rebick, Mzz. Green Party or Mzz. May that could be mistaken for any of the virtues except maybe for zeal. Mzz. Mays temporary reprieve for the unborn will be soon be withdrawn and the three stooges will be one big happy family again proving once again that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Rural Rage with Country Sage

The Corporate Season

Somewhere between the angelic television commercials offering us the miraculous opportunity to purchase the Christmas Spirit, plus tax, the TV networks try to squeeze in the odd, semi-intelligent moment of programming. If anyone out there has ever found that moment, please, let us all know.
Maybe all the department stores send couriers up to Heaven each Christmas, via air miles, with a list of the people who spent the most money, hoping to secure themselves a piece of the rock just in case there’s any truth to this Jesus thing that keeps getting in their way to profit-nirvana. Don’t laugh; judging by the sales records and the empty parking lots at the churches, many people must believe it. Mind you, churches that have swallowed the fem/gay agenda are doing a pretty good job of driving out their faithful on their own.
The other slimy part of all this is that the big box stores and the TV networks want to exclude Christmas and make it ‘Holiday Season’ exclusively, but they also want us to keep the ‘feel-good’ feeling about Christmas so we’ll continue to spend with our emotions instead of our head. Of course it would help them immensely when they march into our provincial legislator’s office and demand to be open on Dec. 25th since ‘Holiday Season’ will not be a religious event anymore. Watch for it and don’t expect any help from our legislators. They sold their souls years ago.
Frankly, it wouldn’t make any difference to many people’s spending habits if they changed the name to ‘Save Days’ or ‘Pay Days’. Somewhere, some day in the future, some woman will scratch her beard while pondering the question, “Didn’t it have a different name before?” You go girl!
The good news is, as the Grinch found out, ‘They can take away the tinsel, the tassels, the trinkets and the toys’ but, for those who teach their children, they will never, ever, take away the Spirit who is with us every day, including Christmas.
Merry Christmas!

Abort The Idea

We changed our name from Canadian Alliance to please the PC members.
We paid off the $5 million debt for the PC party before they went bankrupt.
We changed the democratic election process from the one person/ one vote system to please the PC members.
We dropped the whole question of abortion for the election.
Now the Conservative party wants to force candidates to not even answer questionnaires about abortion.
Since when does the minority speak for the majority of Conservatives? Isn't this more of a liberal/NDP idea?
Fellow bloggers. Let your MP know what you think of this idea.

The fem/gay way.
"Marriage has existed for the benefit of men. It is a legally sanctioned method of control over women. We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important to encourage women to leave their husbands and not live individually with men. All history must be rewritten in terms of the oppression of women. We must go back to the ancient female religions like witchcraft."- The Declaration of Feminism ( Nov., 1971).
By 1975, feminist organizations in North America were frustrated with their slow progress, so they arranged a meeting with 5,000 lesbians and gays in the U.S. and came to an agreement. Lesbians and gays would use all their considerable resources to help the feminist cause and afterwards feminist organizations would help lesbians and gays to achieve their goals.
With the help of Hollywood, liberal media, sympathetic politicians and Pierre Trudeau's Bill of Rights the voice for feminist 'equality' spread quickly. By the 1990's the 'equality' of women's rights had been established. It was now the gay activists turn for emancipation.
Recycling the same mantra of the feminist cause, out of the closet gays and lesbians demanded tolerance, equality and human rights, with the Bill of Rights, feminist activists, Hollywood, most journalists, TV networks and a host of politicians to back them up.
Behind the scenes, corporations have been supporting both causes. Bell and it's networks support agencies that attack life and family issues. The Ford Motor Co. supports gay programs and an anti-Catholic organization. Proctor & Gamble backs a homosexual agenda and the list is endless. The more instability in society, the larger the profit. Stable, thinking, moral societies spend moderately and live modestly.
In spite of all the help, gay organizers still had to overcome society’s morality and religious institutions. The corporate media, using gay friendly programs, pornography and shows that stimulate stupidity are doing their greedy best to reduce people’s integrity to their lowest level. At the same time they attack religious institutions by relentlessly persuading the public, because of the infrequent priests and ministers who fell well short of their calling that all religious institutions are not to be trusted, ignoring the millions of faithful who gave to society all their lives, over hundreds of years.
Same- sex marriage isn't about 'equality' anymore than feminism was. It's about getting into our school system and changing the curriculum to suite their selfish agenda.
If nothing else, these handful of extreme activists have made Christians, Jews, Muslims, Islamic and religious institutions have a good hard look at what they really believe in and how far they will go to stand up for it. Some are already failing by their silence in the debate, thus abandoning their flock and leaving the decision up to a self-indulgent, immature government.
The question is, what are you doing about it?

Marriage

Marriage is an intimate personal union to which a man and woman consent, consummated and continually nourished by sexual intercourse, and perfected in a life-long partnership of mutual love and commitment. It is also a social institution regulated by the Word of God and by the laws and customs which a society develops to safeguard its own continuity and welfare. The Creator made man and woman, displaying His full image only as man and woman. Each is made for the other, their essential natures being complimentary and brought into oneness in marriage.
Husband and wife both share and perpetuate their happiness in having and rearing a family, thus marriage is more than an end in itself; it is the means to ends outside the married couple. Husband and wife become one in relation to the community, so that through marriage a new social unit emerges.
The exclusive sexual relation between husband and wife points to the exclusive commitment of total responsibility for each other. The sexual communion speaks of a pervading possessiveness, each partner offering a precious gift to the other which has been exclusively preserved for that one alone.
The total unity of man and woman in marriage, understood in the expression ‘one flesh’, demands monogamy along with male and female exclusiveness.
When it comes to moral or spiritual matters, the intellectual elites and the brain-dead share equal space in the parliamentary and media wards. It’s quite natural for them to change what they simply don’t understand. The weak fear what they don’t understand and what they can’t comprehend is the positive strengths like integrity, honour, faith and commitment which many marriages still cling to.
This coming fall, our federal government will once again bring the definition of marriage to the table for discussion and voting. The extreme activists and the national media will pour their biased views on to the public again so we can’t expect to have a fair or equal public hearing on the subject. The only effective tool we have is to reach the anti-marriage liberal/NDP MP’s across Canada, perhaps, through our friends and relatives.