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Child rights advocates home condemed

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Why is it that people that dedicate their lives to helping others or rescuing animals often live in conditions that are worse than the ones that they are rescuing others from?

And that they often have their rescuee’s living with them in horrid conditions? That’s no rescue to me:

An investigation by a state agency is under way in Revere, Mass., of a residence condemned by local officials as, according to a neighbor, “worse than any Stephen King movie” because it reeked of garbage, feces and cockroaches.

It is the home of Andrea Watson, a child-rights advocate who lived there until the condemnation with her two children and two grandchildren. Watson’s colleagues told the Boston Herald that she is a tireless activist for children who put her “heart and soul” into Parents for Residential Reform.






Pot was almost legalized in Nevada

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Well the effort to legalize pot in Nevada has gone up in smoke. Nevada voters recently squashed the amendment when voting on a number of ballot issues. Question seven on the ballot called for a measure that would have allowed adults to possess up to one ounce of marijuana legally. The state would have also taxed and regulated the sale of weed.

Do any of my readers live in Nevada? How would you feel if pot had been legalized in your state?

Energy Ministers in the dark

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Energy Ministers from the European Union were recently found out how important saving energy and resolving current problems are when they ended up sitting in the dark during a meeting on Thursday. A short blackout disrupted a discussion on, of all things, energy efficiency.

The lights went out around 10 a.m. British time. After initially halting talks, the ministers opted to go on debating how the 25-nation bloc can reduce its use of electricity and fuel. “They decided to continue working in the darkness,” an EU official present at the meeting said. “Delegations expressed the wish to continue the debate.”

Power came back shortly after the debate restarted, but the meeting was interrupted for nearly 30 minutes. Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs apologized to ministers for the disruption.

“I hope that the next meetings will not be disturbed by blackouts but it definitely shows how important energy is,” he said. An EU official said several European institution buildings in Brussels were affected.

Tax payers should be angry

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Municipal waste?

The Havering town council in Romford, England, prepared a 300-page report in October, which was the result of a 12-month investigation, to find out who had heckled a speaker at a zoning meeting by making “baaa” noises. The authors said they had narrowed the list of suspects.

Can you believe a council would be created and money wasted to find a heckler? Is it so bad to be Baaaahed at a zoning meeting? I guess it is. If I was a tax payer in Romford they’d be hearing a lot more than Baaaing right now.

In September, London’s mayor Ken Livingstone defended his downtown anti-pigeon program, which consisted of empowering two hawks to scare the birds away, even though the three-year cost of the program, including a handler, was the equivalent of more than $400,000, which reduced the menace by 2,500 pigeons, or about $170 a bird.

The hawks probably got rid of a lot more than pigeons too. I think I’d be afraid to let a small dog or a cat outdoors there.

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