Only Stupid Guys Drink Coors, Apparently

I'm glad I don't drink Coors beer. They are running a commercial right now showing that guys who drink their product don't even know how to open a beer can. It takes the intelligence of a woman to do it for him. On the other hand, how intelligent is a woman who goes for a guy who is too stupid to know how to open his own beer can?

Thank you, Coors beer, for confirming my intelligence, and by extension, the superior intelligence of the women I hang out with.

I Was Considering SaskTel For Service Provider, But...

For a while now, I have been considering a change in cell phone service provider. Living in Saskatchewan, and traveling in Saskatchewan, it is important to have the kind of coverage that goes beyond our two major centres. I guess the obvious choice would be SaskTel. Then I watched their latest television commercial.

In it, the older male of the household is portrayed as a buffoon because he did not subscribe to SaskTel Internet. His wife is utterly condescending. The teenage son is disappointed because of his lack of success playing online games, but his stupid father is the one outside cleaning the driveway.

Is it SaskTel's corporate opinion that men with partners and families are essentially stupid man slaves?

Proctor and Gamble gets the prize for Disgusting Father Hating Ads, and I'm not buying Duracell anymore

It's been a while since I wrote anything, too long maybe, but the TV ads of Proctor and Gamble prompted me to write this.

They really do win the Gold (or should it be Lead?) for the hatred of fathers, and the denial of the role that fathers have in the development and support of their children as athletes. To watch and listen to the ads, only mothers support athletes of Olympic standard; men (fathers) don't count at all. To Proctor and Gamble, only mothers are important; fathers don't exist.

In a way, I can hardly blame the women and athletes for bowing and scraping to these father haters.  I should include all the emasculated fathers for going along with it too. Getting to the Olympics is expensive, so I guess they need the money. They need it so badly that it is worth it to spit publicly on their fathers, and for the fathers, to castrate themselves. I should include the male athletes in that self-castration category. I hope they realize they will be tossed on the trash heap of the worthless male once their Olympic career is over, and they morph into the deadbeats that their fathers are.

As for the Olympic Committee, don't expect them to do anything. They have no principles except those that fill their own pockets.

The world is outraged, and rightly so, about the Russian anti-gay legislation. But there is only silence when a huge corporation tells men and fathers that they don't exist, don't matter, don't support, don't care.

This post may be a little late in the game, but, the next time I need batteries, I'm not buying Duracell, nor will I buy any other product I can identify as Proctor and Gamble.

Alec Baldwin - Victim or Perpetrator?

There was certainly enough being said and written a few weeks ago about Alec Baldwin and the recorded comments he made to his daughter. Here is my two cents worth...

Should he have said what he did? No. Was it impetuous, ill-considered, imprudent? Yes. Does he regret it? Apparently so. Was it preventable? It was, it most certainly was.

Mr. Baldwin's outburst would most likely have never occurred if the courts would take access orders as seriously as they should be. What happened was the result of a mother being allowed to treat court ordered access as optional. Such behaviour is nothing more than contempt of court and psychological abuse of a former spouse, with the weapon of choice being the child. That judges are willing accomplices to such behaviour is very disturbing.

Mr. Baldwin made a stupid mistake. Ms. Bassinger, her associates, and the courts in particular, are guilty of far worse.

More Humour from Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen has another very funny commercial out. It features an insecure husband who is upset that his wife is in the arms of a half-naked man whose hair is blowing in the wind. The wife is enjoying her fantasy while consuming a "Moolatte". The last ad I remember was the hugely funny one showing a toddler kicking his father in the groin for not sharing his food. You can't get much funnier than that.

It's not that I don't find these ads humourous, although perhaps I shouldn't. What bothers me is that we were never shown a DQ commercial in which a little girl kicks her mother in the crotch for not sharing, and I have yet to see the one in which a wife's concerns are dismissed when she finds her husband enjoying a DQ product while in the arms of a half-naked swimsuit babe.

Now ads like that would be really funny.

Or would they?

Let DQ know what you think here.

If you don't like the rules, don't play!

Officials confirm Merasty win

Close results often result in recounts, regardless of where or when they occur. This should not be a surprise for anyone who plays party politics. If it is, you don't belong in the game.

If there is a challenge to the vote, let's get on with the process and get the facts. If there were irregularities, call a new election for that riding. If there weren't, then Merasty won, fair and square (or at least, according to the rules). If Merasty won by being better at playing by the rules, then good for you, Mr. Merasty! ( and everybody else go home and, do it better next time...)

This is NOT an race issue, and I really hope people on differing sides choose to keep it that way.

We all have a stake in ensuring that the electoral process has been properly followed.

Is that a Log I see in your eye, Paul?

Paul Martin accuses Stephen Harper of "muzzling" Conservative candidates, keeping Canadians from knowing their "hidden agenda".

This from a guy who is afraid of free votes in the House of Commons....

oh yeah, don't the Liberals call this " party discipline "?

Has Martin shot himself everywhere except in the head?

Fathers for Justice UK in questionable circumstances

Fathers for Justice founder Matt O'Connor has decided to suspend the operations of the group following police allegations that certain individuals associated with it were plotting the kidnapping of Prime Minister Tony Blair's son, Leo.

As with any organization that grows too rapidly Fathers for Justice had begun experiencing internal problems.

There are some who believe the police allegations might be nothing but pure fabrication designed to discredit a group seeking a change to the unjust laws of Britain's secret family courts. - Telegraph Editorial

No one has been charged.

Police have suggested they will shoot fathers who demonstrate.