| Vancouver city council enacts helmet law
Beginning in 30 days, all cyclists and skaters in Vancouver will have to strap on helmets or risk receiving a $50 ticket. The city council, by a 5-1 vote Monday, decided to require both juveniles and adults to wear helmets when riding bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, scooters and unicycles on public streets, sidewalks and trails. Once the law takes effect, Vancouver will become the first city in Clark County to require helmets. Safety was the prime reason for the law. Councilwoman Jeanne Harris recounted how, more than 25 years ago, a bicyclist wearing a helmet smacked into her car and walked away. "I can’t tell you how it affected me that I could have hurt somebody," Harris said. "You can’t plan not to have an accident, and that is what’s this is about.
In our view: Common sense is the best reason to applaud helmet law
If you have wheels under you, better have a helmet over you. That’s the message from the Vancouver City Council, which on Monday passed a law requiring helmets on riders of bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, scooters and unicycles on public streets, sidewalks and trails. The helmet law is the first in Clark County but is similar to regulations in Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. We hope Clark County commissioners and other cities in the county follow suit. Both supporters and opponents of the helmet law are able to debate this topic ad infinitum, and anecdotal references often cloud their arguments, but our preference is to rely on basic common sense. It just stands to reason that riders of these wheeled implements should be required to wear helmets in public places for reasons of public safety.
Black Britain's darkest hour
In the afternoon after work, I would be cycling home and I would see a gang of skinheads waiting for me. I would have to pedal so fast to try and get away from them.' The police were not trusted to offer protection, so Gulam would carry a metal chain for defence, while Asian bus drivers would keep hockey sticks with them on their routes. The speech radicalised those who opposed Powell. Blacks, whites and Asians met in church halls and planned protests against the damage being done to their town's reputation. (The Rock Against Racism movement also owed its creation to Powell after a drunken comment from Eric Clapton during a concert in Birmingham in 1976, when the musician told an audience to vote for Powell to stop Britain becoming 'a black colony' inspired the founding of the anti-racism movement.) The speech also implied that ethnic minorities would never be truly British.
Android vs. iPhone vs. Microsoft Mobile, the Great Electric Ride ...
If you want to talk about the shot heard around the world, it was the announcement of Google's Android platform. In many ways Google is approaching the phone market in much the same way Microsoft initially addressed the computer market. This is assuming we are approaching the same inflection point with smartphone-like devices that we had with PCs in the '80s. Whats Linux with a Lineage?Verio Linux VPS delivers root access, advanced FairShare technology for better performance, and support that's actually supportive. It's all from Verio, the Virtual Private Server technology pioneer with over 500,000 customers. Test-drive Linux VPS here. .
India hopeful on nuclear deal despite adamant left
There is fresh spine in the government in taking on the communists," said political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan. "The government knows this is the last chance for the deal." But Patil's optimism was swiftly rejected by a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), which has threatened to bring down the government if the deal goes through. Communists say the pact, which will give India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and equipment, infringes on India's sovereignty and undermines its security. But they have allowed the government to continue talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the deal. "There is no change in our position," the CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury told a news conference. "Our position is what it was -- that is: do not proceed to operationalize the deal.
Sex lessons must start at age five
Let's get back to basics where parents took responsibility for the upbringing of their children in areas of sex education, morality, respectability etc. rather than living their own selfish lives. Where are the parents while their children/teenagers are getting into trouble during the early hours and some, sadly, being injured or worse? Until parents act as parents, we'll continue to have the wrong answers with well-intentioned, but godless, idiots wasting their time and our money by trying to make a world safe without the God-given answer of parent responsibility and basic Christian living. .
Suicide bomber strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
The WWI may not have been a religious war, but WWII certainly was.
1. All the Fascist Axis (Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, even France) were Catholics, and had Pope's blessing
2. The Allies were Protestants (USA, UK, Netherlands etc.)
3. Both concurred on a Final Solution in the West (even for Canada 1 Jew was too many). Israel is a living proof
4. Fascist wantedHoly Victory (Sieg Heil). Revisionsts now say that they only meant Hail Victory
5. The tone of the movie Triumph of the Will is religious
That is understandable. The soul of the Modern Democratic West is anti-Jewish. Magna Carta contains 3 clauses limiting Jewish activities.
How does the WWII differ from the present unstated Sunni-Shia carnage? What confuses the Westerners is that in Islam religion is not separate from politics, in the West it is.
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