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.

Gay Marriage on First, Polygamy Up to Bat

"Criminalization does not address the harms associated with valid foreign polygamous marriages and plural unions, in particular the harms to women," says the document, compiled as part of a $150,000 project launched a year ago and paid for by the Justice Department and Status of Women Canada." - Ottawa Sun

It took one year, and $150,000 taxpayer dollars for Status of Women to tell us that polygamous marriage is harmful to women, even valid poygamous ones. Uh, Ladies, why do you think we criminalized it? That result shouldn't have taken more than 15 minutes, cost more than a cup of coffee, and required half a brain.

Why is criminalization not the answer? Because a man in jail can't pay alimony, or child support. Just disallow the marriage, or make sure women understand they can leave, and make him pay. Our Chretien-Martin Liberals are not interested in marriage for any reason other than the division of property and wealth when it ends. Marry one or several of the opposite sex, or the of same, or a mix, or heck, throw in the pet goat, it's all the same to Ms. Frulla and her crowd. They are more concerned about the goat than the institution.

Maybe we could ask Status of Women Canada to tell us if they consider any form of marriage good for women? Why not just admit that the only thing about marriage that interests them is its end, and the transferral of property and wealth to women ( or the goat ) , whether by the husband's death, or the divorce?

Cost? 15 minutes, a cup of coffee, and half a brain.

Canadian Judiciary hedging its bets on who will win the election?

The Special Joint Committee Report "For The Sake Of The Children" was shelved by Ann McLellan, and ignored by Cauchon and Cotler. Now, one week before a possible change of government, a family court judge in Ontario hints that not all fathers are bad....

And he is paid how much to have finally figured this out?

Toronto Star article: Put kids first, judge tells parents

Source: Manumit

Why Aussie Man are keeping their sperm to themselves?

Based on this document from the Community Association of Community Legal Centres in Australia, it becomes clearer, perhaps, why men down under are keeping their pants on.

But let's be open-minded; based on the statistics in the report, and assuming that they aren't junk science, why is the Australian government allowing any man in that country to donate sperm or even to have children? So many violent, uncaring men.... why allow those genes into the pool at all? And based on this report, that should apply even more to aboriginal men in Australia - what savages!

"Community Association of Community Legal Centres" Wouldn't it have been easier and more accurate to call themselves "Gender Feminists Are Us Legal Centres"?

Quote from Manumit:
The document is short (8 pages) and essentially a position/policy paper arguing a feminist line seeking to protect sole mother custody and against greater paternal involvement and parenting (involving residency of the child with the father), rather than a truly informative paper about shared parenting.

A number of the paper's sources are from the 'typical suspects' favoured and trusted by Alastair Nicholson (former chief judge of the Family Court of Australia [FCA]) to produce feminist and anti-father results and reports (eg. Rhoades, Kaye).

One of the authoresses was Joanna Fletcher, a lesbian lawyer with Women's Legal Services Australia (and previously the Victorian* Women's Legal Service Centre). One of her claims to fame has been to misuse Victorian taxpayers' money to work against fair compensation for paternity fraud victim Liam Magill (by working for this ex-wife Meredith McClelland). On 8 December 2005 Fletcher released a one page statement, on behalf of the Women's Legal Services Australia, entitled "Assessing Changes to the Family Law System".

Are you a Canadian Male with healthy sperm? Want a two week holiday in Australia?

But is there a catch? You bet!

It seems there aren't enough Australian men donating sperm these days. Sounds like some fertility clinics are concerned that males aren't prepared to give it up so that childless single women and lesbian couples can have children. In 2003 they were advertising in Canadian student magazines.

Even more amusing is the fact that some people in New Zealand think that the sperm of its male citizens belongs to the country; can you imagine telling females that their unfertilized eggs are the property of their respective governments?

From the same article:
"We have such trouble recruiting our donors," said Fertility Associates medical director Mary Birdsall. "The idea of people poaching our donors ... How dare Australia?"
Maybe Australian men have been reading North American newspapers and maybe they've figured out that once you've been identified, it's only a matter of time before you will be paying child-support..