Mar. 15 Toronto mayor election: I read this in the
Metro yesterday that NDP MP Olivia Chow is going to be running for mayor. Good for her.
Mar. 20 Teen sues parents: I found this on Yahoo
“Judge rules against New Jersey
teen suing parents for financial support”:
Judge Peter Bogaard denied Canning's request for her parents to reimburse her financially since her departure.
"I have been subjected to severe verbal and physical abuse by my mother and father," Canning wrote in a court document. "I am not willingly and voluntarily leaving a reasonable situation at home to make my own decisions. I had to leave to end the abuse."
"We're not Draconian and now we're getting hauled into court. She's demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn't want to live at home, and she's saying, 'I don't want to live under your rules,'" her father Sean Canning, a town administrator and retired police officer, tells the Daily Record.
Here are some comments:
RainbowConnection:
I know the Cannings must
feel humiliated as was said in this report but I hope they realize that they
have a HUGE amount of support out there from parents like myself who have had
their kids do awful things because we made them follow (reasonable) house rules.
My kid actually tried to set me up as a patsy with a CFS
"councillor" who had swallowed her lies hook, line and sinker.
At what was supposed to be a "mediation" meeting, it took me about 10 minutes to finally figure what was going on, that this wasn't a mediation chat but set-the-parent-up-as-a-rat-ba$t@rd. I got up, told the BOTH of them that I'd wait 15 minutes out in the car for my daughter to decided whether she wanted a ride home (30 miles away) or for her to decide what she wanted to do with her life but that I was NOT going to be crucified for trying to enforce reasonable rules at home. The next day I reported the "councillor" for unprofessional conduct. Unfortunately for the Cannings, their daughter managed to get a lawyer to swallow her story of mean, abusive parents and it#$%$ the media. My sympathies to THEM.
At what was supposed to be a "mediation" meeting, it took me about 10 minutes to finally figure what was going on, that this wasn't a mediation chat but set-the-parent-up-as-a-rat-ba$t@rd. I got up, told the BOTH of them that I'd wait 15 minutes out in the car for my daughter to decided whether she wanted a ride home (30 miles away) or for her to decide what she wanted to do with her life but that I was NOT going to be crucified for trying to enforce reasonable rules at home. The next day I reported the "councillor" for unprofessional conduct. Unfortunately for the Cannings, their daughter managed to get a lawyer to swallow her story of mean, abusive parents and it#$%$ the media. My sympathies to THEM.
My opinion: There are a lot supporting the
parents. I will say if she was abused,
she should have told a teacher about it.
By this article, it seems like she didn’t want to live her parents, and
wanted them to pay for her living situation.
This kind of reminds me this Tyra Banks episode of teen pregnancy. One teen girl says (paraphrase): “I didn’t
want to live with my mom and all her rules so I decided to get pregnant and
have a baby. There was a school where I
can have a baby and keep going to school.
I applied to get on welfare.”
At least Rachel Canning didn’t get pregnant.
Mar. 21 Brazil: I was reading in the Globe and
Mail article “Brazil’s radical weight-loss plan” by Adraina Barton on Mar.
17, 2014. It was about eating fruits and
vegetables, and learning how to cook easy healthy stuff. It’s not really hard to cook rice and get
fresh food.
It said: “…to economical and social reforms that pulled 20
million Brazilians out of poverty between 2003-2009. This means new freezers and microwaves to
store and reheat food, and money for fast food.”
My opinion: That’s really good that Brazil’s
economy is helping people.
Mar. 25 Adopted children: I was watched a Criminal
Minds episode called “Gabby” about a missing girl. I went on twop.com to read people’s comments
about it, and they all said it was “ripped from the headlines” as in it was in
the news.
There is an underground network of adopted children. Parents mainly adopt children from other
countries. Then when the kids have
mental disorders or it’s too hard to control and raise them, they hand off the
kid to other adults who want to be parents.
They find them on the internet, but they are not researched. There are no lawyers or social workers and
documentation about it. Twop had these
links:
Mar. 29 The Invisible War: I cut out this Globe
and Mail article called “A horrific truth that begged to be told” by
Johanna Schneller on Jul. 21, 2012. She interviews director Kirby Dick about his
documentary called The Invisible War.
“Since World War Two, an estimated 500,000 US
military personnel have suffered a sexual assault or rape. As many of them were men as women.”
“Though women now make up about 15 per cent of the US
military, a female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a
fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.”
“3000 or so assaults that were reported, about half were
investigated, and only 191 perpetrators were court-martialed.”
Schneller is a good writer, but I couldn’t find the article
to copy and paste so I had to type the above quotes. Here are more of her articles:
I went to the movie’s website and it’s good:
“The three main objectives of Invisible No More are to:- Raise awareness
- Effect political and cultural change
- Serve as a means of healing for survivors of Military Sexual Assault
Rick Ross: I wrote about this rapper before. He rapped on Rocko’s song U.O.E.N.O where he
raps about giving a woman the drug MDMA and having his way with her. Women’s groups and rape victims started
petitions and Reebok ended it’s contract with Ross in Apr. 2013 after all that
criticism. He apologized before, but
here’s another one.
In Metro’s article “Rick Ross moving on after his divorce
from Reebok” on Sept. 18, 2013:
What did you learn from your setback with Reebok?
Ross: You live and you learn. I think the most unfortunate thing about the
whole situation was just the fact that my lyrics offended some ladies, especially
dealing with the topic of rape. It was
interpreted as rape. I really wanted to
make sure that I apologize to any woman that I offended in that way. I just wanted to make that clear. When I make music and I’m talking on records,
it’s like I’m painting a picture. In my
mind, I’m seeing a film. I apologize.
Here is his more eloquent apology in my weekly email that I
wrote about him earlier:
“To the young men who listen to my music, please know that
using a substance to rob a woman of her right to make a choice is not only a
crime, it’s wrong and I do not encourage it.”
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