Morning Brew: May 14th, 2008

There are some sick fucks out there. Remember the razorblades glued into wood blocks hidden in the sand of volleyball courts? Or the poisoned food in dog parks?

I'm sure one of them will hear about the stingrays and potentially copycat the Calgary incident.

If they're going to go ahead with the exhibit, I sure hope they have security on staff at all times until we know more about what caused the Calgary deaths.

In Montreal there was a perverted clown that used to pull his little wire in the park..
Sick pigs everywhere.

"Where do people get the idea that defacing public property is an acceptable form of protest?"

From all the thousands of other pieces of graffiti around the city.

Two stories here that make me cheer...

#1 ban water bottles!!! woo hoo!!!!

#2 Local food! WOO HOO

We need to take responsibility for the impact of how we live our lives, and specifically, how we eat. Both of these initiatives are aimed at children... if we can set their habits now, then perhaps we have a chance at reducing the sheer waste of resources linked to how we currently eat/drink.

Poisoning animals is never tolerable but neither is confining them to an unnatural habitat. We need to rethink the idea of using zoos.

Gretzky would never work with the Maple Leafs. Then again, his wife could lose a bet.

Also in the news, a big accident in the east end kills two and leaves two others in critical condition (as well as 6 others with minor injuries).

All those who died or with serious injuries? Yup. No seatbelts. The driver of the responsible car survived with only a sprained ankle (he was buckled up of course).

I still don't understand how some people are against seatbelts and/or seatbelt laws.

How can this morning brew miss that massive car accident..?
Even the old ladies in my office were mentioning it

"Even the old ladies in my office were mentioning it"

I think you answered your own question :)

Re Stingrays...

Calgary is not the first place to have such a tank. They exist at other zoos and aquariums and this water problem is not consistent with the tank. I don't know why people are acting like Toronto would have anything more in common with Calgary than Monterey or any other location.

Re Gretzky...

Why would we -want- him? He did lead Canada to gold in 2002, but failed to get a medal in 2006. And the Coyotes are abysmal. Toronto needs to stop going for brand recognition and get someone actually -good-.

Petting stingrays as they swam by in their tank at Seaworld in San Diego was a fun and memorable experience for me.

"Where do people get the idea that defacing public property is an acceptable form of protest?"

Probably from Torontoist, which runs weekly articles praising vandalism and graffiti.

So when a kid wants to have a drink with lunch, the choices now are sugar-laden juice, sugar-and-caffeine-laden soda pop or a carton of milk full of nasty growth hormones. Great.

"So when a kid wants to have a drink with lunch, the choices now are sugar-laden juice, sugar-and-caffeine-laden soda pop or a carton of milk full of nasty growth hormones."

Yeah, how dare you to take away the option of the mix of H2O with toxins that seep into the water from plastic!

Last time I heard Ontario schools had running water...

"Probably from Torontoist, which runs weekly articles praising vandalism and graffiti."

Praising not very good graffiti mind you.

"So when a kid wants to have a drink with lunch, the choices now are sugar-laden juice, sugar-and-caffeine-laden soda pop or a carton of milk full of nasty growth hormones."

Yeah, how dare you to take away the option of the mix of H2O with toxins that seep into the water from plastic!

Last time I heard Ontario schools had running water..."

My point precisely, schools have running water, and parents can chose to send what they want with lunches... I chose organic milk or organic soy milk.

i don't know how long it will take for this knowledge to become widespread, but:
"Hormones in milk are of great public concern, especially rBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), the genetically engineered form of the hormone BST (Bovine Somatotropin). However, growth hormones such as BST and rBGH are not legal for use in Canada with dairy cows and thus are not really an issue in terms of milk consumption within Canada."

"Where do people get the idea that defacing public property is an acceptable form of protest?" Well, if they had only called it 'art' there would be a bunch of folks here defending their right to deface the property, and ready to call anyone who disagreed a douchebag who wants Toronto to be boring.

I found the Star article on the stingrays humourous when they speculated that the deaths may be sabotage as there was a increase in stingray murders following the death of Steve Irwin. Were there really people out there that decide to go on a stingray killing spree because the bastards killed the Crocodile Hunter?

Save the stingrays!

Vandalist you Ho!