The Question Becomes Why Divorce?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Gay marriages in Canada are problematic to foreigners, as when they try to divorce they run into a few snags. The first is if their home country doesn’t recognize the legality of same-sex marriage, they cannot divorce there. (Which begs the question – why divorce, if you are not married?)

Canada doesn’t allow divorces here to non-residents. Which makes sense.

But, to make the most of the controversy, why not add to the gay marriage law an addendum to allow gays to divorce here. We may have hit on a tourism stimulus. After the fighting is over, gays that have been married in Canada would need to return here to untie the knot.

Think of the possibilities.

photo: Macleans

Too Fat To Fly

Kevin Smith would be proud: as someone who has had a hefty passenger beside me, I vote that they should have to pay for 2 seats.. or the portion they take from me.

Obese travelers to sue Air Canada over extra fees

OTTAWA — 2011 AFP - A judge has authorized a class action lawsuit against Air Canada on behalf of obese travelers forced to pay for an extra seat, a law firm announced Monday.

BGA Barristers & Solicitors LLP said in a statement the lawsuit aims to reclaim fees the airlines charged clinically obese passengers for a second seat before Canada’s transportation watchdog banned the practice in 2008.

A similar suit targeting its rival WestJet is also reportedly planned. So far no numbers of possible clients have been released, but according to court documents the suit could involve a multi-million dollar claim.
Following complaints, the Canadian Transportation Agency in 2008 ruled the two carriers had breached Canadian case law by charging obese and other disabled passengers accompanied by an attendant for two seats.

It cited a Federal Court of Appeal decision that found “a person who is obese may be (considered) disabled for purposes of air travel if unable to fit in an airline seat.”

The class action lawsuit covers fees paid to Air Canada between December 5, 2005 and December 5, 2008, as well as damages.

 photo credit: One From RM

Anthony Weiner Fesses Up. Finally. He Sent the Wiener Pic on Twitter. He Lied. And, He’s Staying On.

I was embarrassed, I was humiliated. I lied.

I really regret it.

But… I am not resigning.

True Democrat

Also admits there are x-rated pics of him out there. Admits that he sent more and to lots of women on Facebook… over the past 3 years.

Andrew Breitbart’s website BigGovernment.com claims that a new woman has come forward with photos, chats, and emails sent to her by the congressman that suggest the two were involved in “an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.”

More here on the View, and the media’s handling of the story.

Here’s what he sent:

So we never forget… not only lied, but the arrogance of it shows through.

And in record time..

The New Media’s Reaction Is In.

This has to be one of the best headlines about Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Couldn’t imagine what the “net” would have looked like if Bill and Monica had happened today.

Twitter real time results… changing the way we get news.

Maybe someone could tell the CBC about it.

Is Charlie Sheen? Is The Train Wreck Coming To An End?

Looks like Google is trying to tell Charlie Sheen something:

The Charlie Sheen watch rolls on..

New Reality… Real Estate Investing

We all need to adjust out expectations in the months ahead. Frugal living is in.

How to have a home with no house payments and no utility bills!

My preference is Tucson Real Estate. Winter’s here, time to get out of Vancouver.

First They Came for The Census

Canadian Government Decides Penis-Measuring Lie Detector for Children Not Such a Great Idea:
B.C.’s minister of children and family development has ordered a permanent end to a controversial sex testing program for young offenders after learning one of its government technicians was recently charged with sexual assault.

Gizmodo: Use of penile plethysmography (PPG), which measure your penis for arousal while viewing questionable content, is being ceased by the Canadian government. After being used on kids for 25 years.

PPG testing, almost too perverse to believe it was actually a government-sanctioned procedure, was employed in British Columbia as a means of interrogating child sex offenders. A sensor was strapped to a child’s penis, monitoring blood flow while the kid was subjected to images of other nude children, and audio descriptions of rape. Reread that sentence if necessary. The reasoning—if you can even call it that—behind the test was to discern whether a child offender was lying about his or her desires, though we have a feeling this treatment probably created far more sociopaths than it screened. As Boing Boing points out, and as any adolescent can tell you, erections aren’t exactly the most objectively predictable phenomenon, refuting entirely the purpose of the test.

British Columbia’s Minister of Children and Family Development has put an end to PPG after the revelation that a technician administering the test was himself a sex offender. The levels of perversion-within-perversion here are dizzying. The Canadian government will now begin an official inquiry into trauma victims among the children subjected to PPG over the past decades—an investigation we have a feeling will not be a short one.

Who’s On First?

The European financial crisis explained in clear terms on ABC Australia. Brilliant. Wonder what happens when this game ends.

Spock Finally Makes The Journey

Vulcan has invested a lot in the trying to capitalize on the relationship to Star Trek. If you’ve ever seen pictures of those that attend the conventions, it might strike you as odd. But it beats the city up north that spent a small fortune on an Easter Egg.

Vulcan received its name in 1915, from a surveyor of the Canadian Pacific Railway who named it after the Roman God of Fire.

VULCAN, Alta. — Despite a spell of unwelcoming hail, rain and snow, Mr. Spock finally arrived in the small Alberta town of Vulcan on Friday, ending what some say has been a 10-year quest to bring the half-human, half-Vulcan home.

Dressed casually in a grey sweater and black pants, a beaming Leonard Nimoy arrived without his trademark Vulcan ears to hundreds of cheering fans Friday afternoon outside the Vulcan Tourism Centre before joining a parade down the town’s main drag to help celebrate the town’s new status as the Star Trek capital of Canada.

By the time the 79-year-old actor offered his “live-long-and-prosper” handprint and unveiled a bronze bust of his most famous character, the sun was shining and the crowd had surged to an estimated 2,500 people.

“Wait until Bill Shatner hears about this,” said Nimoy. “I have been a Vulcan for 44 years. It’s about time I came home.”

Check out their visitor website here… it’s a one-of-a-kind for a city tourism site. The video below has gotten 35,000 views. Not bad for a small town in Alberta. Plus they made it on the Telegraph in the UK with a photo gallery of the event.