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One of the joys of being a stay at home mum is being privy to the iner lives of little boys.  We have a back yard trampoline – but it is a very dangerous place.  It is simply rife with “bad guys”.  Of course, I have protectors – a four year old and a six year old boy armed with broken super soakers.  The super soakers have become “freeze guns” – they freeze bad guys in their tracks.  Well, except when the six year old’s gun shoots rattlesnakes – or maybe cobras.  But these are very special snakes, you see, because they only bite the bad guys.  This afternoon, there were bad guys right behind the porch swing where I was sitting and knitting.  It was a very good thing I had Geoffrey and Stuart to protect me!

I’m writing this post and linking to Romi’s blog because I want a chance to win one of her shawl pins.  They are bea-you-ti-ful!

It isn’t often that I agree with David Warren, but this article is a great one.  Go read it!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the parents who had their children taken away from them because of their Neo-Nazi politics (and the fact that they are teaching their views to their children). There is a link to the CBC radio story here, but the story is all over the web because the parents are in court trying to get their kids back. Now, I am not for a second endorsing NeoNaxi politics (or encouraging a child to draw a swastika on her arm, which is aparently what started the whole thing). However, something I heard in the news coverage is very disturbing. I think it was on The Current, in the story I linked to, but it could have been somewhere else. A social worker type was being interviewed, and she said (I paraphrase):

We would never take a child away from his or her parents because of their parents’ views. We would only do that if their views were harming the children

Do you see the implications of that? Who gets to define “harm”? Ten years down the road could my belief that the Bible is God’s word written and we should obey it be deemed harmful enough for my children to be taken away from me? This is an extremely disturbing development, in my mind.

My father in law was an airport firefighter. Of the men who were on his crew, only one is alive today. All the rest (including him) have died of various cancers, and it is still happening today. Please read the whole thing.

Is Today the day you die at work?

Over 1,000 Canadian workers are dying every year.

In Canada, four workers die each day.
The number of people killed at work each year in Canada has risen for the past 15 years.
This is in contrast to almost every other OECD country where the incidence of workplace fatalities is declining.
In 2007, according to the latest report from the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, 1,055 people lost their lives at work. That’s four people every work day. Dead because their workplace was not safe. Dead because they got injured. Dead because they got cancer. Dead because they were attacked.

Four people every day who never come home again. Dead because their employer failed to ensure they were safe at work. In addition to these workers killed at work, there are many others where the death goes unreported if they die of a disease unrecognized as an occupational disease.

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I know better. I am a small c conservative person, as far as my faith goes, and a left wing (gradually becoming more centrist as I get older) person as far as my politics go. I just got myself embroiled in a political discussion on an American blog. I know better, I really truly do, and I wasn’t even wearing my flame proof suit! It is very true that religion and politics don’t mix.

It seems that all are welcome doesn’t apply to people connected with ANiC. I had to pull this from a different place I blog, which is really ticking me off – so do please go and read the whole sordid tale here.

Here, as well.