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Doesn't this tell you everything you need to know about Maggie?
Wente was born in Evanston, Illinois into a wealthy family. She moved to Toronto in 1964, where she attended a private school, and has since become a naturalized Canadian citizen.
A former American, born with a silver spoon in her mouth. And one can smell the acrid reek of class privilege in her Globe & Mail column today.
Unions (the folks who brought us public healthcare, the eight-hour day, old age pensions and the weekend) are, unsurprisingly, a favourite whipping-boy for the corporate media. You can never go wrong taking a poke at labour. So Wente duly targets the people in the streets of Madison, Wisconsin.
It's all old, brackish wine in old bottles, of course. Her argument, in a nutshell: the workers in the streets are reactionaries, and the union-busting governor and his gang are reformers.
Here's the mendacious way she sets up what passes for an argument:
The showdown in Madison is only partly ideological. States and cities are buried in a mountain of debt. They have inherited reckless promises to public-sector workers that simply can't be kept. Wisconsin (a small and traditionally liberal state) faces a $3.6-billion deficit over the next two years.
In fact, Wisconsin was heading for a modest surplus this year of $120 million. What changed? Well, the national recession, of course—and to some extent the election of Republican Governor Scott Walker, who, eager to reward the corporate buddies who put him where he is, passed a couple of business tax breaks and a conservative health policy measure that will add $120 million to the state's deficit for the period 2011-2013.
In any case, the public sector unions had already agreed to major concessions—pay cuts and increased pension and insurance contributions. Yet Walker pressed ahead to repeal collective bargaining rights.
It was never about necessary financial rearrangements in the face of a recession. This year's shortfall, for example, could be avoided by some adroit debt restructuring, which Walker himself proposed. It was all union-busting, all the time, using the deficit spectre as an excuse.
Despite Wente's ill-founded assertion, and I for one don't think she really believes a word of it, the move has been entirely ideological, to the core. Has she not heard the infamous telephone conversation between Walker and "David Koch?" In fact, Walker has been at this sort of thing for quite a while. But Wente is too lazy to look this stuff up.
Will busting the unions cure the Wisconsin deficit? Obviously not. But pitting worker against worker is a favourite tactic of the Right—let them fight over the crumbs that fall from the master's table, and let the master intervene, from time to time, to redistribute the crumbs. So here's Wente:
[N]ow that private-sector workers have been hammered by brutal competition, technological change, layoffs and wage freezes, they think it's not unreasonable for teachers and garbage collectors to share the pain.
Misery does love company, even if it was caused in this instance, not by unions, but by a greedy financial sector and suspect lending practices, followed by bailouts and tax breaks that predominantly favoured the rich. What's always been a little unclear, however, is how making more people miserable increases the well-being of the masses.
Nevertheless, having unemployed people and the exploited working poor turn their wrath upon other workers who have managed to achieve better conditions through collective bargaining is a useful diversion. But judging from the support Wisconsin's public sector has been receiving from other workers, it isn't always guaranteed to succeed.
Here's Wente one more time (try to ignore her tiresome caricaturing):
[A] two-tier work force. One tier has lifetime job security, generous pensions and a workplace where seniority matters more than merit and almost no one is let go for poor performance. The other tier has none of this good stuff. You've got to wonder how much longer private-sector workers will be willing to keep shelling out for perks they themselves no longer get.
Three guesses which tier Wente, with her bred-in-the-bone rich-girl sensibility, wants for all Canadian workers. "Smart Canadian politicians should be taking notes," she says. What makes her think her Conservative friends aren't doing just that?


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Boh-Dniester culture
Boh-Dniester culture. A Neolithic culture that was widespread in Right-Bank Ukraine and Moldavia from the late 7th millennium to the 4th millennium BC. Its members practised farming, animal husbandry, fishing, and hunting. The culture was first discovered in 1949 by the Kyiv archeologist V. Danylenko. Over 60 small settlements have been located in Ukraine. The remains of ground and semipit dwellings, farming implements such as hoes made of bone and stone and wooden sickles, and pottery have been unearthed. The Boh-Dniester culture was a forerunner of the Trypilian culture.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]

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House Approves Religious Liberty Bill, House Bill 27903 Mar
At the end of a 37-minute floor debate, the KY House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in support of the religious liberty bill introduced by Rep. Bob Damron. This was one of the priority issues the Catholic Conference spoke about at all of our Catholics@theCapitol events. State Rep. Damron attended the event in his district.
The 85 – 7 bi-partisan vote sends the bill to the Senate for consideration in the closing days of the session. Click here to see a list of the House members and how they voted. If your State Representative voted yes, then please tell him or her thank you.
Opponents are urging constituents to call senators and oppose this bill, claiming that it is too broadly worded and is not needed. You can see how they argued against the measure in the video below.
It is needed. Congress, in response to a 1993 U. S. Supreme Court case, passed a bill signed by President Bill Clinton titled the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). In a U. S. Supreme Court ruling after that, the Court held the law only applied when the federal government attempted to infringe on the right to practice one's religion. As a result, 13 states have enacted state RFRAs to protect from state infringement on religious freedom rights.
In a case ruled on last October, Kentucky's Supreme Court lowered the standard by which the state can infringe on the right to free exercise of religion. This bill is needed to return Kentucky to a higher standard. When passed the state will have to show two things: 1. the need to infringe on this freedom is compelling; and 2. the method used is the least restrictive manner of infringement.
Please take the time early in the week of March 3, 2013 to call 1.800.372.7181 and ask your State Senator to support and vote YES for House Bill 279, the religious liberty bill Kentucky needs.
Below is a video of the floor debate where Representatives Damron, Kerr, Yonts, Wuchner and Lee all argued strongly for its passage and prevailed. Visit the Conference YouTube channel and subscribe so that you are alerted when new videos are posted.
Please call 1.800.372.7181 to urge support before it is too late. This is the last full week lawmakers will be in session.Tags: Bob Damron, HB 279, House Bill 279, House of Representatives, Kentucky, religious freedom, religious liberty
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Is Religious Liberty Truly Threatened? : Catholic Stand
(March 14th, 2013 at 10:06 am)
[…] In fact, no one has yet been able to produce a single case involving RFRA where that has happened. An attorney for one group admitted, on the record, that there would likely be no negative effect in the courts, but said a law expressly protecting religious liberty would be an "embarrassment" to Kentucky. (For other statements that are clearly anti-religion, as well as a sound defense of the bill, you can watch the House floor debate here.) […]


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My Twitter lovelies (well, the ones that aren't sex bots or trying to get me to invest in recession-proof business schemes, anyway) may have noticed that I've gone a bit loopy lately. Less of the hilariously astute social commentary and witty cynicism (work with me here please), and more of the OH MY GOD OH MY GOD LOOK WHO REPLIED TO MY TWEET fangirling over a certain Dublin-based author. (By the way, yes, we did indeed have a little back and forth on the Twitters. Proof here.) Anyway, whether you care or not, chances are that if you know me, you will have heard that "Queen of Chick Lit" Marian Keyes has a new book out – The Mystery of Mercy Close. Michael Joseph (Penguin), 508 pages, £18.99 (but lovely Waterstones, bless them, are currently doing a £10 off deal. Just as an FYI. Now go. Buy it. Hurry, because if you don't live in London, your nearest bookshop will close soon. I'm afraid you can't borrow mine because the waiting list is very, oh very long. But I digress.
Why should you read this book? Well, duh, because it's good. Because it's so good. Becauses it's one of those books that you just want to carry around with you all day (and that's where it gets tricky, I had to go to work carrying my cotton Notting Hill Shopping Bag and looking ten times the hippie I usually do, because it wouldn't fit in my handbag), and when you finish the last sentence you feel as if you've just lost a good friend. Because it contains a terrificly written, incredibly moving romantic scene that you might just miss because it's so elegantly low key (hint: picnic). Because once again, Keyes manages to break the chains of being classified as a writer of "women's fiction" (said with derisive snarl, of course) and address uncomfortable issues such as mental health with her trademark lighthearted wit, but never in a condescending or judgmental way. But then again that's just your usual, run-of-the-mill Marian magic, and we didn't expect anything less from her, whose every novel has been hailed as "her best yet".
I have read and re-read all of her novels several times, and of all her characters I have always loved the Walsh sisters the most. I see bits of myself in Claire, Margaret, Rachel and Anna, and I have a sister who is exactly like Helen (as described by her sisters. Wouldn't put it past her to end up in the funny house either). I was a bit apprehensive as to how Marian would dissolve the dilemma of having to write about a character as scary and unpredictable as Helen, because much as I loved Anybody Out There (and it might just be my favourite of the stack), I always felt she'd overdone it a bit with giving Anna a complete character transplant. But much to my relief, with the fifth one she didn't – Helen Walsh is every bit as stroppy, mouthy, direct, unpredictable and self-reliant as she ever was. Her dark secret is not very secret at all – it's right out there in the open, from the very first page. The mystery seems to be what happened to trigger it, but when we do find out, it's suddenly no longer important. "People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And sometimes you wonder whether outside interference makes any difference at all; whether an illness is like a storm; whether it simply has to run it's course and, at the end, either you will be alive or you will be dead."
And now you may tune out, because what follows might just be my English degree getting the better of me – but the way I read it, the second heroine of the story in Mercy Close is Ireland. While Helen tries to tackle her demons, Éire is fighting her battle against the crippling recession. The chapter about Helen's flat being repossessed was gut-wrenchingly sad, but the casual mentions of debilitating unemployment, poverty, loss and hopelessness are worse. I remember walking through Dublin last February, and the posters asking young people to APPLY FOR VISA HERE nearly broke my heart. I've never suffered from depression in the clinical sense, but I imagine it would be tough even for the most resilient of optimists to retain their good spirits in a climate like that. I am inclined to believe that Helen Walsh is indeed "the perfect heroine for our times", as one of the cover blurbs proudly claims, because she is trying to hold on as everything around her is disintegrating.
More than two years ago, Marian published this letter to her fans, explaining that a "major depressive episode" had left her unable to cope with everyday life, let alone write. She recently said she has come to realise that a large part of her former self is gone, and now it is about accepting the "new" Marian, and in a way, you can tell with Mystery Close. Marian's trademark zeitgeisty observational humour is as astute as it ever was, but the rip-roaring hilarities are no more. There are no more cheerily indulgent drunken girly nights about town, and the romance plot takes a determined backseat. Chick lit, it isn't.
If you love Marian, go buy this book. If you don't love her yet, go buy this book and become enlightened. There is no third option.
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The Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.) curriculum developed by the State of Texas helps teens learn about the realities of being a parent. Their site explains "Key themes in the curriculum focus on the importance of father involvement, the value of paternity establishment, the legal realities of child support, the financial and emotional challenges of single parenting, the benefits of both parents being involved in a child's life, healthy relationship skills, and relationship violence prevention."
Since this program was developed with taxpayer money, it is available for free to any teacher who goes through the 6 hour training program. However, even if your teen's school doesn't offer this program, they can still watch the videos that are part of the p.a.p.a. curriciulum. It's powerful to see teens explain the impact of having a baby on their lives.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Teens learning about becoming parents
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Day 1. Arrive in Bangalore by Air / Train transfer to Coorg - 260-280 kms. Check-in and rest for the day in Hotel.
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