tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185410422024-03-07T16:11:13.703-08:00A Misanthropic DenizenI'm a straight girl in a gay man's world... with the exception of maybe one straight guy mixed in for variety.Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-84249461663756718462007-03-12T23:48:00.000-07:002007-03-13T00:02:15.046-07:00Boys Gone WildEveryone's heard about the beloved Girls Gone Wild - I know that flipping through the channels late at night I've come across some sort of info-mercial for it. Well boys and girls, have I got a treat for you, for this limited time offer (not including shipping and handling) I bring you, Boys Gone Wild: The Parliment Edition. Okay, I lied... kind of... I came across an article... feel free to readMisanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-25263310015080174012007-03-06T01:07:00.000-08:002007-03-06T01:20:49.330-08:00Educational Porn? Sweet!I came across this article while flipping through some newspaper articles, and oddly enough it was the only one that made me chuckle. It got me thinking, can porn actually be educational? Could porn be the answer? If it is I'm sure several young university students would be a lot more willing to "hit the books" or erm... movies for a few hours than flipping through a sterile looking text-book. Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-82103935573303172292007-03-01T22:36:00.000-08:002007-03-01T22:40:06.787-08:00Brothels: Serving It RightUnhappy ending for body rub parlours?By IRWIN LOY, 24 HOURSThe city of Vancouver will look at bylaw changes that in effect ban what some sex-trade advocates call the closest thing the city has to a "legal" brothel.The city's chief licence inspector is recommending changes to zoning bylaws that would streamline regulations for new businesses. But those efforts would also eliminate the term "Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-82673052979413060612007-02-28T22:53:00.000-08:002007-02-28T22:54:41.759-08:00Gas-Tax PledgeDion make gas-tax transfer pledge but doesn't commit on one-cent GST requestFebruary 27, 2007TORONTO (CP) - A federal Liberal government would make permanent the current five-year deal that transfers a portion of the gas tax to municipalities, party leader Stephane Dion said Tuesday while stopping short of agreeing to fork over one cent of the GST to cities.In an election-style speech to Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-648119699715598532007-02-23T22:47:00.000-08:002007-02-23T22:56:19.122-08:00Ah! Lesbians!So... apparently girls' schools are vortexes of lesbionic activity! Sign me up, as I learnt in elementry school "boys have cooties". Seriously, could it not be logic or coincidence that there's be at least one or two lesbians in an all-girls' school? Shockingly enough, not everyone is hetero - so lock up your daughters with boys and take away those magazines plastered from cover to cover with 'Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-61310861920258099842007-02-22T00:50:00.000-08:002007-02-22T00:57:02.877-08:00Campbell, You're Missing the Picture! Campbell's Baby Bonus Ignores British Columbians' Concerns Ineffectual Program is an Attempt to Mask $23M CutCanadian Federation of Students - BC Wednesday, February 21, 2007VICTORIA-- The BC Government's announcement of a $1,000 ‘children's education credit’ will do nothing for students who need help now, say students reacting to the BC Budget. And, with no plan to reduce tuition fees, the Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-40144754663028552492007-02-17T13:05:00.000-08:002007-02-17T13:17:06.247-08:00Saturday Morning CartoonsMisanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-88262776851729591022007-02-14T23:53:00.000-08:002007-02-14T23:55:49.404-08:00The US Allows a Gay Man In (That Wasn't In The Closet?)So, the US actually let a gay man into their country? That's wierd... usually they don't like those kind of folk. Though, the government there doesn't seem to like anyone that doesn't wake up at the crack and dawn to pray to a not-to-scale ceramic sculpture of dear ol' Bushyboy and their odd version of Condi as the virgin Mary. Could progressive ideology be afloat? COULD IT? Gay Mexican Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-6004957195225675442007-02-12T22:38:00.001-08:002007-02-10T19:44:25.616-08:00good morning ...Dalhousie!Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-14835637709590543022007-02-10T19:43:00.000-08:002007-02-09T22:44:38.577-08:00Blueprint?Federal Act is a Blueprint for Federal-Provincial Co-operationCanadian Federation of Students Monday, February 05, 2007OTTAWA--The Canadian Federation of Students welcomes proposed legislation tabled by NDP Member of Parliament Denise Savoie calling on the federal government to set out a vision for post-secondary education. Increased federal funding and a Post-Secondary Education Act are crucial Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-69017811373788260772007-02-07T22:11:00.000-08:002007-02-07T00:44:04.241-08:00National Student Day of ActionDay of Action Was... Today!My school had an absolutely AMAZING turn out for a small institution! We even had kids from the local high school come up to join us, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single car/truck that passed us on the highway blared their horn giving us the thumbs-up! The weather was great, student's yelling "Reduce Tuition", "Education is a right, we will NOT give upMisanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-48303161667054422432007-02-07T00:40:00.000-08:002007-02-07T00:44:05.299-08:00Day of Action TOMORROWNational Student Day of Action is...TOMORROW More than a 1/2 million students across Canada are walking out to show their support for lowing tuition, and making post-secondary education more accessible to students. Show your support! Join those who are walking out! Sign petitions! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-74607783727993760762007-02-05T16:42:00.000-08:002007-02-05T16:58:29.368-08:00Day of Action in 2 DaysFeb. 7th Day of Action Is in TWO DAYS!!! Day of Action is in 2 DAYS! I cannot bloody believe it! All I've heard about for the past eight MONTHS has been Feb. 7th or Day of Action! Please note, that at this precise moment I'm trying not to scream with excitement at the top of my lungs, as there's a good dozen students sitting around near me studying. Of course studying, what does a university Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-810118737776109602007-02-03T12:19:00.000-08:002007-02-03T12:23:55.187-08:00Day of Action in 4 Days!Feb. 7th Day of ActionIs In 4 Days!So, it's Saturday morning and while waiting for one of my friends to come over to hang out for the day, I thought I'd blog a little. I'm excited, she's coming in from out of town - we go to separate universities, and I can tell you right now that Day of Action will pop up in our conversation. Hell, there isn't a conversation in the past two months that didn't Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-52984698484354730212007-02-02T22:04:00.000-08:002007-02-02T22:27:40.860-08:00A Random Thought on EducationSo, since my life - like that of any other university student revolves around writing term papers and fretting over tuition (right now with emphasis on Feb. 7th Day of Action) I thought that I would search out what each party thought about post-secondary education... in my search, I stumbled upon the Conservative party website (I think I felt my eyes burning when the site loaded on my computer...Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-15352494973322113982007-02-02T20:07:00.000-08:002007-02-02T21:29:06.608-08:00Day of Action in 5 Days!Feb. 7th Day of Action Is In 5 Days!So, Day of Action is in 5 days! My student's union has planned for us to walk out to the highway with banners and placards - we've been advised to bring with us anything that will make a lot of noise. This will be fun... oh, the excitement! I still stand by my thoughts that nothing makes the winter season merrier with a good ol' loud protest! Again, THE Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170400714654596222007-02-01T23:08:00.000-08:002007-02-01T23:18:34.673-08:00Day of Action in 6 Days!Feb. 7th Day of Action Is In 6 Days!Less than a week to go until Feb 7th Day of Action! And, still I'm excited - students are slowly finding out that they have academic amnesty at my institution, thus there is heightened excitement... and the posters! There's posters every where! I think it's really cool... really makes walking down those long halls more entertaining.Taking Action Works! A Brief Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170313657114166232007-01-31T22:54:00.000-08:002007-01-31T23:07:37.130-08:00Day of Action in 7 DaysFeb. 7th Day of Action Is in 7 Days! Only one more week to go before a 1/2 million students (at least) walk out to tell the government and post-secondary institutions that we want a reduction in tuition and increased accessibility to post-secondary education. reducetuitionfees.ca After four years of deregulated increases, students forced the BC Government to re-regulate tuition fees in Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170225352481565492007-01-30T22:33:00.000-08:002007-01-30T22:35:52.483-08:00Feb 7th, The Word is SpreadingWindsor Students Deliver 3,000 Petition Signatures to Sandra Pupatello Calling for the Reduction of Tuition Fees Canadian Federation of Students Ontario Wednesday, November 29, 2006WINDSOR--Students from the University of Windsor delivered 3,000 petition signatures to the constituency office of Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade Sandra Pupatello today. The petition calls for the Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170141558336782542007-01-29T23:15:00.000-08:002007-01-29T23:19:18.353-08:00A Middle East View of Mackay's Mentor... RiceRice is ignorant of the Palestinian issueBy Adel SaftyDuring her recent visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice used Kissingerian terms to claim that the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the war in Iraq created unique geopolitical alignment that finally made peace in Palestine possible.To the consternation of the Palestinians, however, she only brought the same biasedMisanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170137206754688742007-01-29T21:57:00.000-08:002007-01-29T22:06:46.790-08:00Peter Mackay - Where's Waldo?January 25, 2007 By Jon ElmerPeter MacKay in Israel and Palestine--What the Foreign Minister did not see or discuss during his visitGAZA CITY, GAZA -- Despite the impression cast by corporate news coverage, there is never anything like "calm" here in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The casualty count for 2006 released by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reports that Israeli forces killed 660 Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170113848319249092007-01-29T15:24:00.000-08:002007-01-29T15:37:28.333-08:00Day of Action in 9 DaysFeb. 7th Day of Action Is in 9 Days!Only 9 days left before the Feb. 7th day of Action!! I'm sure that I've mentioned a million times already how excited I am about this. The amount of tuition now is rather ridiculous - and the funny thing is, tuition costs go up, yet students do not see any improvements in the quality of their post-secondary education. Where exactly is this money going? It Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1170050080643555302007-01-28T21:50:00.000-08:002007-01-30T22:30:17.480-08:00Day of Action in 8 DaysFeb. 7th Day of ActionIs in 8 DaysAll out on February 7th! Make some noise! Make it known that you and a million other students aren't happy with ridiculous prices of tuition.Record Tuition Fee HikesIn 1990, governments across Canada started increasing tuition fees at dramatic rates. Even with recent tuition fees freezes and reductions in some provinces, the average student today is paying more Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1169959499778961622007-01-27T20:26:00.000-08:002007-01-28T21:48:54.400-08:00Day of Action In 10 DaysFeb 7th. Day of Action Is In 10 Days Reduce Tuition Fees! Increase accessibility for post-secondary education! Walkout on Wednesday, February 7! Only 10 days until the national Day of Action.Federal Funding CutsFor more than two decades, the Canadian Federation of Students has called for the establishment of national standards for post-secondary education and research. The federation proposes Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18541042.post-1169949491036141352007-01-27T17:42:00.000-08:002007-01-27T19:16:08.146-08:00Day of Action in 11 DaysFeb. 7th Day of ActionIs in 11 DaysSo, Day of Action is in 11 days - I would have posted a blog yesterday, however by the time I got home at the end of the night I was too tired to do much of anything. The excitement continues to build... Today's cool information is in regards to the Millennium Scholarship. Millennium Scholarship: A Failed Experiment in Student Financial AidCanadian Federation Misanthropic-Denizenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519562105160508611noreply@blogger.com0