DiManno: Tillman case patronizes women
Tillman and the 16-year-old babysitter
Patronizing women in my mind can only come from those who seek out the needless protectionism of a female who has both the strength of character and grounded maturity to handle the sexual situation that Eric Tillman forced upon a 16-year-old girl.
This young lady may not have been subjected to the highest degree of sexual assault. However, based on her age and the situation that involved both the trust and the responsibility of looking after Eric Tillman's children, his actions represented a truly traumatic situation that could as easily affected this 16-year-old girl far beyond her current state.
For Rosie DiManno to assume that this particular sexual assault was more of an innocuous type is to judge both Eric Tillman and his babysitter from a moral standpoint that Rosie could not possibly have knowledge of.
Daniel Kowbell, Mississauga
National Post
16 Jan 2010
Re: Baseball Urged To Get Tougher On Drug Cheats, Jan. 13. Crucify Mark McGwire if you like in the court of public opinion but the hypocrisy that now surrounds him is gut-wrenchingly obvious. It was Big Mac, along with the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa, who...read more...
How does TTC respond to complaints of racism?
I believe Metro columnist Ed Drass has over stepped his boundaries as a transit reporter and has opened the door to a multitude of customers who will see this column as a call to arms against front-line employees of the TTC everywhere.
Ed asks for justification in the policy process of the TTC that deals with customer complaints and yet has asked his readers to send him their stories of racial discrimination adding that official copies of complaints would be nice. It’s tantamount to inciting racism to put out an open call to the millions of TTC riders that use our transit system and read the Metro without any other viewpoint to compare on their journey’s to and from work.
Albeit Ed may have witnessed one example of racism personally his column opens the door to a bevy of salacious and unverified stories of our professional TTC drivers and collectors being denigrated by those with an axe to grind. The TTC front-line staff is now composed, and is, a mirror image of the multilingual city we have become and I can promise you that if there was anecdotal evidence of rampant racism at the TTC it would have been addressed long before now.
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Train track inspector almost gets hit twice
'It should be the insurgents being killed from above'
Re: Reporter, Soldiers Killed, Dec. 31.
As the coffins continue to return home from Afghanistan with our Canadian heroes and now the first Canadian journalist to be killed in Afghanistan, Michelle Lang, the public should ask this question. When will the Canadian Air Wing start using the CU170 Heron unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance (Weapon In Fight Against Insurgents Takes To Air, Jan. 23, 2009).
The number of Canadian soldiers killed in country continues to grow since this weaponry was first announced. When will the promises of these technological marvels save our soldiers on the ground? Our grief for our dead can also be compounded by the Harper government that early in 2008 (Canada Rejects Interim Helicopter Fix For Afghanistan, March 18) our Defence Department turned down an offer of six U.S.
Blackhawk helicopters for its operations in Kandahar.
Instead, Canada opted to wait till 2011 for the delivery of the larger Chinook helicopters. It makes me sick in realizing the importance of helicopters to our ground forces in Afghanistan and yet our men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces are being subjected to death on the ground by insurgents, when it should be the insurgents being killed from above.
Daniel Kowbell, Mississauga, Ont.
Friday, January 01, 2010
The tarnished glimmer of Hollywood 2009
The tarnished glimmer of Hollywood 2009
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JFK contemplating life as the future President - click on this picture for a better look
TTC ads and 
adulterous affairs
Re:Adultery website gets free ride
without paying TTC a cent, Dec. 12
I’ve had to explain to the public why there were a slew of ladies standing 12ft tall on the wall of my stations in their underwear at the behest of a Dove “Campaign for Beauty” advertisement in 2007. I’ve lowered my head in shame in April 2004 when the first ads for the Fcuk clothing store were displayed at Yorkdale that read “Yorkdale's first fcuk” and “Fcuk FM”.While promi
scuity gave rise to the AIDS Committee of Toronto's ad for condom awareness the ad had two men on horseback with the tag "HIV is on the rise in Toronto: Ride Safely," However rejected was a featured spot regarding Erectile dysfunction. We who hold true to the faith of divinity were also assailed by the Freethought Association of Canada that inferred that was no God so simply have a good time which I assume may include extra martial affairs ala Ashley Madison.However the problem with the Ashley Madison ad lays more with our cultural obsession with sexual innuendo and not with the service that this company offers as one allows the bastardization of the simply definition of the word affair. Although this word can be used to define adultery, it can more often than not be an innocuous description of the affairs of the heart that doesn’t necessarily mean of the physical nature. Let’s hope the hypocrisy in which TTC ads are selected comes to an end with the harlot Ashley Madison and company.
Daniel Kowbell
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Indiscretion is irrelevant
Daniel Kowbell - Ontario, Canada
Now that we are aware that Tiger Woods is human, it's time to give his reported infidelities some genuine perspective. Without doubt, Woods is an icon for the ages, including the game of golf and beyond.
The impact of Woods' life on the whole absolutely outweighs the salaciousness few details coming to the surface. The sexual indiscretions of a premier athlete have long been part of the sporting universe.
If anything, Woods cannot and should not be judged based on the issue of infidelity when the problem of monogamy has never been an inherent part of the world of sports.
At the end of the day, though, how many of us inside or outside athletics can boast of being completely faithful to our partners, in either body or soul?
(Married for five years: Tiger Woods, 33, and Elin Nordegren, 29, live in Orlando with two children, one born in June 2007 and the other last February./Matt Sullivan, Reuters.) readmore »»
Read Kennedy His Rites: Bishop's Abortion Stand
The hypocrisy of Catholicism has never been more clearly defined then by the refusal of “holy communion” to Kennedy clan member Patrick Kennedy.
The Catholic Church which has long treated the Kennedy family as puritanical representation of their church has always been more than ready to accept this one time Camelot-esque family sins as proven with the late Ted Kennedy being able to get an annulment from his first wife Joan, remarry, and die a Catholic in good standing as well as the apathy of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II pathetic attempts to overturn his own marriage in 1996 with an annulment from his wife Sheila Brewster Rauch.
The obvious difference with the situation that Patrick Kennedy finds himself in is simply religious dogma with a political spin to appease right to life advocates. The crossover of politics and religion is quite evident with Bishop Thomas Tobin’s grandstanding against Patrick Kennedy receiving Holy Communion.
Daniel Kowbell
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