Senator Patrick Brazeau will win

at 37 years old, he's our youngest senator

he's proudly aboriginal

he's quite good looking (of course, i'm partial to men with long dark hair)

and he's participating in a charity boxing match this saturday against Justine Trudeau

but this post is not to pre-declare him the winner of said boxing match (where he holds a good 10 pounds over his competitor)

no
patrick brazeau will win the
Oh My Lord! I am sooooo embarrassed to be canadian today
Award

that's our senator there.  in a speedo.
you know, our senator-for-life.
i just don't think canadians are ready to see the partial butt cheeks of our politicians

callimom

last month i posted about a blithering idiot (link here) whose anonymous identity was revealed in a spectacular fashion when the following post appeared on the Mothering Board:

Karenwith4 always talks a good game: she's a persuasive writer and has a talent for appearing fair and balanced while persuing her agenda.  Her background in PR is definitively an asset.

Over the years, she has maligned quite a few personalities on this anomynous board - interpreting their intentions and judging their parenting outcomes. Although she identifies herself as unitarian, her words here do not reflect the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

In threads such as 'Have you ever dumped a friend?' and 'Can we talk about social stuff and community' she tells only a portion of the truth.  She wraps her targets in character flaws, implies that they are socially isolated for good reason, calls them high maintenance with her biased anecdotal evidence, and camaflouges her own action and culpability in these events.

She is quick to call a former friend's email a rant, but neglects to mention her own long and angry email that spurred it. 

She names herself a generous organizer of events and laments the complainers who don't step up to the plate and organize their own fun stuff, but she neglects to admit this 'complainer' hosted and organized a weekly co-op for her family and 7 others for almost 2 years 

Then, here on a mothering board, she turns her judgement on their children labelling them challenging to be with, ok in small doses, and dismissing their worth and/or dignity by writing: I don't want to set up a situation whereby they are "lowering their standards" to be friends with (these) kids

And here she's at it again, in this current thread

Saying she doesn't find enough value in this boy to befriend him herself.  She labels him passive-aggressive, says he sabotages games, and reiterates: there's a reason why he's targeted at school

This board is not your private shooting gallery, Karenwith4

In fact, it's not private at all.  Perhaps K*****, N*****, S*****, and M***** will burst your lovely bubble in Canada

well, can you believe that she is STILL using her now-compromised account?  of course she deleted all those nasty threads she began (good riddance to bad rubbish) as well as her damaging posts in other people's threads (she hasn't the power to remove those threads so her comment box hangs suspiciously empty) click here for an example

oh,

and she's changed her user name to callimom

ha-ha... now they'll never catch me!

but since her profile number remains the same, all this does is lift the nasty mouth from karenwith4, and deposits it on callimom.  it's still a no-brainer to find her - just click here to find her 

obnoxious

here's a shout to all you morons using the term
 'me' as a closer to your texts / emails

we can see what you are trying to do - coming off as insecure (boo-hoo), with your lower case letters like you're not important enough (sniff) for even one capital.

actually, it's
passive aggressive -
forcing people to associate a common noun for one person, and one person alone.
you.

the ever-so-special-you that can own a word that should, by rights, belong to all of us

3 steps to public humiliation

1. a little girl draws a picture of a gun
2. her teacher shows it to principal; principal calls in the police
3. her father, arriving at the school to pick up his children, is arrested

          IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL

now, the police and the school can talk the good talk of firearms safety, concern for the child's welfare, and their duty to report the drawing...

but is arresting an innocent-before-proven-guilty father in front of his children's school community necessary to the child's welfare? 

can they seriously argue the threat of violence was so high at that time, they had to act immediately?
no.
it was to humiliate him.
plain and simple

then the strip search at the station.
and showing up at his home to tell his wife:

1. he had been arrested
2. they had to search the house
3. they had to remove his remaining children into care

and all this done without telling the woman what her husband had been charged with.

so maybe the school and police were hoping for a further humilation by causing his wife to doubt her commitment to him

the vulgar chin

yes, even in a still photo, he's leering

last week for a funny bit
Jay Leno showed security footage of a woman wearing a long skirt stealing a case of water.  She places the case on it's side, squats over it slightly (squeezing her knees?) and then the case is hidden in the skirt.

funny man then says:
"Now that's what I call a snatch & grab"

for his uncouth remark:
Jay Leno, you're this week's blithering idiot

karenwith4

an idiot feels smug and protected, complaining about women in her homeschool community AND in her church community on the 'anonymous' Mothering Board.

she starts new threads with topic headers like: what do you think of this party etiquette? (about an easily identifiable church member) and can we talk about social stuff?  (about 2 -again easily identifiable- members of her homeschool community)

these are just 2 examples i've made links to

except,

due to her own blithering, her true identity is known and therefore, the targets of her gossip are known

so, karenwith4, you are this week's
Blithering Idiot

sexual healing

turns out marvin gaye had it all wrong;
he shoulda been singing:

when i get that feeling,
i want... KA-CHING

it's recently come to light that a former teacher in guelph, Bruce Abel, assaulted his students 30 years ago.

pleading guilty in 2009 to indecent assault and sexual intercourse with a female under 14, he was sentenced to three and half years of prison

he was reported to the ontario college of teachers, and his licence to teach was revoked.

Bruce Abel: Named & Shamed

and if those 2 teen girls (ok, now they are in their mid-40s) require support systems and counselling to get past this horrible memory - then certainly they should get it
but 40 million dollars?

because yes,
that is how much the two women are suing for -

of course, Bruce Abel doesn't have that kind of cash
so they are suing the principal and the school board too - you know, the province's (ie: our) deep pockets

so give the lawyers half (cause you know they pushed for this suit), and that still leaves 10 million dollars a piece

why, that's a better payout than Cash for Life!

maybe we should stop buying lotto tickets and

sign up for tutoring sessions with seedy teachers. heck, any government employee should do.

oh, and did i mention the wife is also named in the suit?

like some sort of guilt-by-sexual-association...

how is an inkwell is responsible for what the fountain pen does?

whiner babies

did you know the provincial goverment is rebating university tuition *by 30%?
that's up to $800* per semester!  $1600* a year!

yah, you better jump for joy!

* some restrictions apply

(and these are them:)

•They attend full-time at a public college or university in Ontario.
•It’s been less than four years since they left high school.
•They are in a program they can enter directly from high school.
•Their parents’ gross income is $160,000 or less

but the good 'ol CSA at U of G will have none of this glass-half-full business.  no, it's all sour milk in there as they report that only 44% of the students will even qualify.  they'd rather have a 13% reduction across the board for all students
but i say: what about next year?  surely the eligible number will increase.  and same for the next year.

Bruce Campbell would, rightly, call the CSA a 'bunch of whiner babies'

so here's a breakdown of those complaints:

full time:
makes sense - if you go part time you can get a job and earn while you get a degree

ontario uni or college:
you wanted to pay for someone's havard degree?



enter direct from highschool:
this isn't for you future vet/med/law school students... you'll be earning plenty of money when you are done.

4 years since highschool:
let's face it, students are taking their time nowadays (and that's fine) but the rebate will be an incentive to finish up quicker
OR
maybe you're in co-op, leading to a longer grad time.  but co-op jobs mean you are earning good pay alongside great resume builders.  double plus plus

parents income:
$160,000 is pretty high... i think 'ol pops can give you a hand when he's got that much coming in