Videodrome
Senior Member
I don't think it wise to block your employer.(that includes Robbie too.)
Indeed! I wonder if he actually blocked the mayor over this.
I don't think it wise to block your employer.(that includes Robbie too.)
nope, just rob and that weenie graemeIs anyone else here blocked by Warren Kinsella?
Robert Benzie @robertbenzie
.@MonteMcNaughton says sex-ed curriculum shouldn't be designed by "child pornographers like Ben Levin, and especially not Kathleen Wynne."
Robert Benzie @robertbenzie
.@MonteMcNaughton's ostensibly family-values release does not mention he's endorsed by #RobFord or this: on.thestar.com/1wTOPXV #onpoli
Interesting, as Rob is probably his biggest endorsement.
No homophobia, heterophobia, or sexism by Monte's word... why won't they leave Robbie and his play mates alone, it's not like they are forcing sexualized propaganda down childrens' throats like some pervert with their... well, er, member of parliament.
Monte is one of the pustulent scabs that has formed on the OPC party after the last election.
He is from the Ontario Bible belt, so it isn't a surprise that he is like this.
Agreed, not a suprise but for me a disappointment that such backward thinking still exists.
Interesting, as Rob is probably his biggest endorsement.
The American public’s bias against established science doesn’t stop where the Bible leaves off, however. The same poll found that just 53 per cent of respondents were “extremely†or “very confident†that childhood vaccines are safe and effective. (Worldwide, the measles killed 120,000 people in 2012. In the United States, where a vaccine has been available since 1963, the last recorded measles death was in 2003.) When it comes to global warming, only 33 per cent expressed a high degree of confidence that it is “man made,†something the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has declared is all but certain. (The good news, such as it was in the AP poll, was that 69 per cent actually believe in DNA, and 82 per cent now agree that smoking causes cancer.) If the rise in uninformed opinion was limited to impenetrable subjects that would be one thing, but the scourge seems to be spreading. Everywhere you look these days, America is in a rush to embrace the stupid. Hell-bent on a path that’s not just irrational, but often self-destructive. Common-sense solutions to pressing problems are eschewed in favour of bumper-sticker simplicities and blind faith.
The cost of a simple appendectomy in the United States averages $33,000 and it’s not uncommon for such bills to top six figures. More than 15 per cent of the population has no health insurance whatsoever. Yet efforts to fill that gaping hole via the Affordable Health Care Act—a.k.a. Obamacare—remain distinctly unpopular. Nonsensical myths about the government’s “real†intentions have found so much traction that 30 per cent still believe that there will be official “death panels†to make decisions on end-of-life care.
Americans have long worried that their education system is leaving their children behind. With good reason: national exams consistently reveal how little the kids actually know. In the last set, administered in 2010 (more are scheduled for this spring), most fourth graders were unable to explain why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure, and only half were able to order North America, the U.S., California and Los Angeles by size. Results in civics were similarly dismal. While math and reading scores have improved over the years, economics remains the “best†subject, with 42 per cent of high school seniors deemed “proficient.â€
That inarticulate legacy didn’t end with George W. Bush and Sarah Palin. Barack Obama, the most cerebral and eloquent American leader in a generation, regularly plays the same card, droppin’ his Gs and dialling down his vocabulary to Hee Haw standards. His ability to convincingly play a hayseed was instrumental in his 2012 campaign against the patrician Mitt Romney; in one of their televised debates the President referenced “folks†17 times.
An aversion to complexity—at least when communicating with the public—can also be seen in the types of answers politicians now provide the media. The average length of a sound bite by a presidential candidate in 1968 was 42.3 seconds. Two decades later, it was 9.8 seconds. Today, it’s just a touch over seven seconds and well on its way to being supplanted by 140-character Twitter bursts.
The term “elitist†has become one of the most used, and feared, insults in American life. Even in the country’s halls of higher learning, there is now an ingrained bias that favours the accessible over the exacting.