The oldest profession is no better than it ever was.

In Canada buying and selling of sexual services have been legal since 1947, but most surrounding activities, such as public communication for the purpose of prostitution, brothels (aka bawdy houses) and procuring are.

When I hear “there is no rational basis for making it a serious offence to keep a bawdy house” I hear “let’s traffic in human beings and set up a set up a point of sale operation.”

Organized crime will love this; no right for the police to enter buildings, no checks and balances. Does that mean if it is a legal entity, one you can import workers? Wow, I’d like to see the end game on this one. There is a lobby here to glamorize prostitution, to give it credibility, make it a plausible way to live one’s life. A clean safe work environment when at the heart of this business is degradation, drug addiction, child molestation and any and all violations of the human soul.

Even if we give clean, safe housing for sex trader workers, the kids are still on the street. Let’s keep the status quo, plus let’s charge the Johns who have sex with those who are under age with rape of a minor, charge pimps with facilitation of rape. This is not a the victimless crime.

From the mother of one of Robert Picton’s victims. “Our daughter was forced into prostitution because of the need to feed her addiction to drugs. To think of prostitution as a ‘job’ and treat it as such is ridiculous. I am disgusted to think that anyone would think that prostitution is a job. It is not. It is violence against women”.Is the best we can do for these women is give them a safe place to sell their bodies? There is no such thing as a “clean safe place” to be abused.

I am hoping to see a challenge of this law. This may be the only time I am relieved that PM Harper is in the wheel house.

Realtors don’t know S____!

I have googled around trying to find out if the stronger “I can hardly rip it toilet paper toilet paper” is killing my country septic. It says it’s strong and soft and it is ( but I don’t need to make a wedding dress out of it or stop a train, or rappel  down a 20-storey building so really) In my quest I came across this ……

Those soft, strong, white rolls of toilet papers are made from live, standing trees. According to the Times article, 25% to 50% of the wood pulp used in toilet paper comes from tree farms in South America and the U.S. The remaining 50% to 75% of toilet paper wood pulp is cut from old growth forests including Canadian old growth timber. Some of these boreal forest trees are 200 years old, and all of them were functioning as an important carbon sink. According to the Times article, 25% to 50% of the wood pulp used in toilet paper comes from tree farms in South America and the U.S. The remaining 50% to 75% of toilet paper wood pulp is cut from old growth forests including Canadian old growth timber. Some of these boreal forest trees are 200 years old, and all of them were functioning as an important carbon sink.

Of course this is not my data Dr. Allen Heskowitz, senior scientist and waste expert at the Natural Resource Defense Council said in the New York The Times ”American obsession with soft paper has  driven the growth of brands like Cottonelle, Charmin, Capri, Cascade ( have you noticed how they all start with C) brands of toilet tissue  and it is killing our forests. Manufacture of fluffy soft toilet tissue requires the use of new wood fibers from trees. “

Greenpeace weighed in on this one with some recommendations and suggested we stop flushing our trees down the toilet. These companies are awarded starts for their use of recycled paper. Marcal, Planet, Green Forest, Nature Value, Earth Friendly, Fiesta & Fiesta Green, Natural Value, Seventh Generation. I imagine Sobeys and PC have their own brand and if they don’t I guess we should ask them why. And if you can’t remember, just look for recycled, they have less bleach, break down easily in our tanks and just all round better. Hey, every little bit counts. For more information on Greenpeace and Kimberley Clark see www.Kleercut

See realtors do know S_____.

Nova Scotia-Right to Know Week.

Premier Darrell Dexter proclaimed this week “Right to Know Week” (see Chonicle Herald J. Myrden) to raise awareness of the right to access information.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, MLA expenses are still not posted and when they will be, they will not include vendors as there are privacy issues. What?

 And of course there Mr. Epstein who is being publicly spanked for disclosing the amount for a taxpayer funded conference centre, and for all of those who want details of Nova Scotia’s green energy plan, we see “Nova Scotia limits access to documents” 
Those are examples out of only today’s newspaper. 
 
Nova Scotians are educated and are open to knowledge, and if they are treated like taxpayers and not children, they will make good decisions. The days of “father knows best” are over. See New Brunswick for recent example.

Federal Gov is committed to biodiversity

So, let’s have a look at the committment…It’s is $46,000. So, we have 17 billion for fighter planes and we have what?

Peter

Ms. Pelozi and carbon foot print.

I wonder what kind of carbon footprint a trillion dollars worth of war leaves.

MLA pensions….hauling the freight for the run-away train.

I am writing this little rant, and I usually enjoy them, but this MLA pension thing is just too greasy and greedy, and seemingly so never-ending. I am trying to see how this trough feeding got to be so endemic, but all I can see is the boys who are doing the reviews of the pension and expenses, are the same boys who are collecting them (yes, I know I am generalizing) so how can it get any better? Not one institution that I know wants to cut its benefits, or numbers, or practices. That is done through pressure and it is time we laid it on.

I just finished reading Wikipedia and Nova Scotia. It is on the backs of small business to pay for this extravagant pension. Most small business owners do not have a pension plan, they do not have Unemployment Insurance, there is no safety net, nothing, just one more day of getting enough to pay MLA’s and the government sector wages (which we cannot compete with) benefits, and pensions, that we, ourselves cannot afford. (And, no I am not someone who thinks our civil service is bad, I think the improvements we have seen in 20 years are amazing.) I just don’t know how we are going to pay for it all, especially without a lead by example in our government.  

You can pin this wrap one guy (we had rather hoped for more from all that high road talk) but the reform that is needed has to be larger than just this issue. It is time there was true overhaul of the political structure in Nova Scotia. We could start with halving the number of MLA’s, councillors and those who are elected.

I think we halve the number of MLAs, pay them more, yes, you heard it, more, but no allowances. I don’t get an allowance, I have to claim to Rev Can. I want my MLA to go to the gas pumps, pay insurance, pay for medicine, pay for Blue Cross; pay what the freight payer is paying. If if it is an allowable expense under Rev Can’s rules, then that is how it works. That is how it works for small business, the guy who is paying your wages.