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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

PIZZA. Nature's perfect food!


Well, something I have long suspected has, in fact, turned out to be true.
Pizza, long recognized as nature's perfect food, has now been proven to save lives.

Face it, regardless of what you may have heard, it is indeed, the perfect food.
All the major food groups are represented.
No animals were used in testing
and no rainforest was destroyed to produce it
(discounting the takeout box which I never eat although I have been known to lick off the excess cheese).

And now it seems that pizza can save lives; at least one so far.
Apparently, there is an elderly lady right here in my home province who has, for the last few years, ordered a pizza to be delivered from the same establishment every single night at the same time.
A few weeks ago, she did not put in her regular telephone order.
An erstwhile employee, recognizing that her usual phone order had not yet come in, contacted the authorities.
Upon investigating they found that the woman had taken a fall at home and was unable to call for help.
Thanks to pizza, she was found in time and rescued.
Thanks to pizza she is alive and well today.

I am overwhelmed by a sense of vindication.
All you diet fiends and naysayers move aside.
Like red wine, the double short espresso and dark chocolate before it
pizza has finally joined the ranks of true health foods.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Bev Oda Scandal "finally" being brought to light.


Once upon a time Canadian Conservative MP named Bev Oda signed a document saying "YES" to funding for an ecumenical charitable organization. A couple of other people signed it too.
A few months later, this document turns up saying "NO" (or, more precisely, "NOT") instead.

Changes like this are made in legal documentation all the time.
Any one who has ever negotiated a contract (New Car? New Mortgage?) knows this.
What stood out for me was that the changes were neither initialed nor dated.
I will not debate the merits of the decision.
I don't know enough about the agency in question or the reason for the change and nobody seems forthcoming.
It does warrant mentioning that the agency in question, Kairos, has been a regular recipient of this funding for charitable work that it does on the international stage.


What is obvious is that somebody changed their mind; not the end of the world.
The problem is that somebody changed their mind and did not want anybody to know about it.
That is a big deal.
There is something else I find equally unnerving.
This situation was brought to light last April (at the latest). That's almost a year ago.
So why are we just beginning to see this barrage of media attention now?

Let's see...
How many people on Parliament Hill have an agenda?
Go figger!