Year: 2008

Oh Canada! – Town May Force Child With Cerebral Palsy to Give Up His Pony

I’ve always figured Canada was occupied by idiots, Now I know it is true.

Video:

The Story Via CBCNEWS.CA:

A dispute has erupted in Caledon, Ont., over whether a family with a child with cerebral palsy should be allowed to keep a pony.

Three-year-old Sam Spiteri was born with a form of cerebral palsy that makes it hard for him to do ordinary tasks such as walk, hold toys, eat or speak.

The youngster has been riding his miniature pony, Emily, since he was an infant.

“Taking her away would be devastating to Sam. It is his best friend,” said his mother Antonia Spiteri.

He’s so attached to the animal that his rides usually end in tears because he doesn’t want to leave Emily.

But a neighbour’s complaint about the animal’s smell is now being handled by the Town of Caledon, whose bylaw enforcement manager has ruled the Spiteris’ half-hectare property is zoned rural-residential, meaning they cannot keep livestock.

The Spiteri family, however, argues Emily shouldn’t be classified as livestock because she was bought as a form of therapy.

“We only want the exception for Emily herself to remain on the property for therapeutic purposes,” said Antonia Spiteri.

Sam’s grandfather bought him the pony because the youngster experiences seizures, making it almost impossible to take him on long car trips to a riding facility elsewhere.

According to the Ontario Cerebral Palsy Foundation, equestrian therapy “improves balance, co-ordination, strength and muscle tone, while gently mobilizing the joints.”

Antonia Spiteri says Sam’s pediatrician suggested the riding therapy, and they have seen an improvement in his posture.

“Bouncing from riding her triggers the muscles to stiffen and contract, so that when he rides her, he gets better posture and makes it easier for those muscles to learn those types of things. And then he is better with possibly walking in the future,” she said.

“When his posture is better, it’s easier for him to perform simple tasks such as feeding himself. It also helps with speech.”

The debate over whether Emily can stay on the property will now go before a committee of adjustment.

Well, I happen to believe that this is just wrong, Period. If you agree with this. Please contact the officials in this town:

Mayor Marolyn Morrison

Town of Caledon
6311 Old Church Road, Caledon ON L7C 1J6
Office:   (905) 584-2272
Fax: (905) 584-4325
marolyn.morrison@caledon.ca

As always, Be polite and tell her that you think that taking this pony from this boy is wrong.

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These are the same traitors who refused to support us during the Vietnam War and allowed draft dodgers into their country.

I'm not sure who is more stupid

The people that think that this guy was some sort of great President…..

………or the people that think that this feckless bitch is the new face of the Republican Party.

…..or the people that seem to agree with them…. It’s freakin’ scary people. 😮

Thank God in Heaven that I am a Libertarian and a Paleo Conservative and not some brain-dead Neo-Con. 🙄

Yes, there are sane Conservatives out there. We’re not all whack jobs. 😀

FeedBurner is History….

I happen to look over at my Feedburner admin page and that idiotic thing wasn’t even reading my feeds. So, it’s history. I took the damn icon thing with that counter that supposedly counted my number of readers, although I know that the thing is inaccurate as hell.

Since I made the change in the Permalink structure, the address for feeds is now this:

http://www.politicalbyline.com/?feed=rss2

Right click on the address above address and click on copy link location, or whatever your browser says and paste it to your RSS reader, or whatever you use to read here.

It just did not make any sense to have two RSS feed locations on here. So, I scrapped Feedburner.

That is all.

-Pat

Change has come….To this Blog

I have made a change… Because of the fact that my titles of my entries at times can be a bit long. I have switched to the default permalink structure on wordpress.

Of course, this is going to cause some headaches for the search engines and the link chasers for a few days, until the bots catch up. But I wanted to shorten things up a bit.

So….. If you’ve followed a link and it’s not there, that is why. 😀

Sorry, but I really wanted to do that.

-Pat

Nice. – Spat Over Obama Sparks Beating in Florida

The Video:

Back Story via WKMG:

An attack on a Jacksonville woman began as an argument over President-elect Barack Obama, according to police.

The incident took place Friday morning when a fight over politics turned into a physical battle, Jacksonville television station WJXT reported.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Lindsy Whitfield, 46, got worked up when his friend told him she didn’t like Obama.

Police said Whitfield slammed a picture frame on the floor of the woman’s apartment, and then picked up the shattered frame, threw it and hit her in the face.

The enraged man then began beating the victim with his fists before telling her he was going to kill her, according to a police report.

The victim told police that after Whitfield stopped hitting her he grabbed her stun gun and ran out of the apartment.

Despite patrol efforts, Whitfield could not be located by police. He is wanted on charges of simple battery, petit theft and making threats.

Hmmmmm… I wonder what color he was? Hope Change! or I keel you! 😛

Gotta love those Moonbats! 😀

Neo-Con Shill William Kristol Tells Bush "Pardon Those Who Tortured and Give Them a Medal"

This is too rich….

Via the Weakly SubStandard:

One last thing: Bush should consider pardoning–and should at least be vociferously praising–everyone who served in good faith in the war on terror, but whose deeds may now be susceptible to demagogic or politically inspired prosecution by some seeking to score political points. The lawyers can work out if such general or specific preemptive pardons are possible; it may be that the best Bush can or should do is to warn publicly against any such harassment or prosecution. But the idea is this: The CIA agents who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the NSA officials who listened in on phone calls from Pakistan, should not have to worry about legal bills or public defamation. In fact, Bush might want to give some of these public servants the Medal of Freedom at the same time he bestows the honor on Generals Petraeus and Odierno. They deserve it.

You know, I am quite well known for my controversial comments on this Blog. That is what I do, I like say stuff to make the Liberal Left and the Neo-Con Right, have a knee-jerk reactions.  So, I am going to say something, that will most likely get me face time on some Neo-Conservative Blogs and possibly on a few Liberal Blogs too.

This crap above is a living example of why I sometimes believe, that we should have just kept our noses out of the situation in Germany back in the 1940’s and let Hitler have the damn lot of them. But no, we had to intervene in that situation and they proceeded to come over here and basically take our damned country over, including the Republican Party.

But, that is the price that a Nation pays for being the World’s Policeman…..and we’ll keep paying that price, until somebody, somewhere wakes up and realizes that being the Nation’s Policeman is not in our best interests.

(Thanks Alan)

Quote of the Day

A family man in America’s condition, awash in debt, spending more than he makes, would cut back consumption, find a second job and get out of debt. Or declare bankruptcy, accept the shame and humiliation, change his wastrel ways and start anew.

Is it different for a nation?

Yet we seem to believe we can borrow and spend our way out of a swamp of unpayable debt into which borrowing and spending have plunged us.

We are headed either for default on our debts and bankruptcy as a nation, or something less honorable: a quiet cheapening of the debts we have incurred by inflating and destroying the dollar, robbing our creditors of what we owe them and robbing our own people of the value of what they have earned. And so it has come to this.

What would the Founding Fathers think of us now?