This venture made web news on July 5th and 6th, 2010 with such titles:

Rent A Friend, Don't Just Make A Friend
The Epoch Times
Rent a Friend Online Lonely Folks!
GlobalPost
Lonely? Why not 'Rent A Friend'…
TECH.BLORGE.com
Rent a Friend Here
allvoices
Rentafriend.com lets you...umm...rent a friend
Watch This Now
As ironic as it may sound, You can actually Rent a Friend now!
allvoices
'Rent a Friend' making waves online
The Next Reporter
Need a friend? Now you can rent a friend for $10 per hour
DigitalJournal.com

As tragic as it sounds, or as 'ironic as it may sound' people are signing up at this website. The website has collected thousands from North America who offer a 'friendship' for ten dollars an hour.
One can browse for free the profiles and photos of the potential platonic fee friends.

European unity tested over crucifixes in classroom
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON (AP) – 1 day ago
ROME — An emotional debate over crucifixes in classrooms is opening a new crack in European unity.
It all started in a small town in northern Italy, where Finnish-born Soile Lautsi was so shocked by the sight of crosses above the blackboard in her children's public school classroom that she called a lawyer to see if she could get them removed.
Her case went all the way to Europe's highest court — and her victory has set up a major confrontation between traditional Catholic and Orthodox countries and nations in the north that observe a strict separation between church and state. Italy and more than a dozen other countries are fighting the European Court of Human Rights ruling, contending the crucifix is a symbol of the continent's historic and cultural roots.
«This is a great battle for the freedom and identity of our Christian values,» said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

European Parliament members Mario Borghezio from the Italian Northern league, right, and Max Bastoni demonstrate outside the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday June 30, 2010. Seven months after the European Court of Human Rights said crucifixes in Italian public schools violate religious and education freedoms, the tribunal hears an appeal launched by 10 European countries.


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Pelicans


The pelican was a symbol which represented the Eucharist. It is said that during droughts or when there is no food, the mother pelican would usually peck her own breast and feed her flesh to her young so that it wold survive. The mother pelican will eventually die but her young will survive.

Why does nobody go to hockey games in Poland?

By Gerald Warner Religion Last updated: April 25th, 2010
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100036362/wear-a-cross-to-work-and-you-are-sacked-insult-the-pope-and-you-are-transferred-to-other-duties/

Wear a cross to work and you are sacked; insult the Pope and you are 'transferred to other duties'

Here is how it works in our diverse, politically correct, ultra-sensitive society: wear a crucifix to work and you face dismissal; grossly insult the Pope and you are “transferred to other duties”. That is what is called the Equality agenda. That is why the Foreign Office vulgarian who drew up the offensive document insulting the spiritual leader of more than one billion Catholics (nice one, Miliband!) has not been sacked, as he would have been under infinitely less provocative circumstances involving non-Christians.


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This text comments on the first paragraph title and a subtitle of a story posted on G&M website, during the fierce debate of the the sex education in Ontario.

To make it, this cartoon more adequate to the issue, it should have been two boys coming home and not a boy and a girl… :)

This cartoon was publish in National Post…

Globe and Mail: Sex curriculum is about tolerance, not mechanics

I got carried away over the title and the first paragraph that I never got to the main story...

Here is a report on logic that an article posted on Globe and Mail website uses to justify the new sex education curriculum that has been presented throughout the media to the Ontario Separate Schools.

Tolerance is thrown at the reader in the title of this pro homosexual write up. Tolerance it's what makes sex education so important in a gay promoting agenda country that is Canada.


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Last Fall, 2009, Maclean's brought to our attention the practice which entered the sex education classes in Toronto high schools. This practice was to invite sex shop owners to give workshops on pleasure sex. They come with their dildos, lubricants, porn and make their presentation. As far as I remember, the article that reported this phenomenon was not fully agreeing with the idea of that practice. This gave me hope that perhaps there are people who are not so all hypocritical about innocence, and amidst the constant sexual abuses of minors, they will be looking into teaching the children proper morals, and be less concerned with starting them as early as possible in sex ed.

On April 20, many news websites reported that Ontario's Catholic schools will have to teach a revamped sex ed curriculum. This apparently includes lessons in sex ed for Grade 1. It goes further, as to teach about masturbation in Grade 6 and oral sex at age 12. Notice that the children in Grade 6 are exactly the children who are 12 years old.

based on the articles that appeared on the following news sites:
NP
CTV
Sex Charity

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Workers errect a cross on the stage an Pilsudski square on Friday, April 16, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland, where a commemoration ceremony for all plane crash victims is going to take place on Saturday. Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in Russia is going to be buried in Krakow on Sunday.


Workers attach a giant poster depicting the photos of the killed people and Pilsudski square on Friday, April 16, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland, where a commemoration service for all victims is going to be held on Saturday. Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in Russia is going to be buried in Krakow on Sunday.


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Lech Kaczynski
Lech Kaczynski, president of Poland, died in an air crash on April 10th, aged 60

Apr 15th 2010 | From The Economist print edition



CHARMING in private, awkward in public, scrupulously honest and a bit out of touch, Lech Kaczynski exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of the political milieu from which he came. His formative years were the long bleak decades of Poland’s communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provincial Gdansk. He and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, idolised their father, a veteran of the Polish Home Army, which fought an underground war against the German occupiers, only to be persecuted by the Soviet “liberators”. Each night at bedtime, the two boys used to sing the country’s national anthem: “Poland is not yet lost, while we still live.”


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Poland's loss
A president dies, a country lives
The plane crash that killed Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, could bring good out of tragic loss

Apr 15th 2010 | From The Economist print edition



NO COUNTRY can endure the loss of dozens of its leading military, political and cultural figures without great pain. And in Poland, a place where history is punctuated by tragedy, it is all too tempting to link the plane crash that killed 96 people on April 10th, including President Lech Kaczynski (see obituary), with such other sorrows as the wartime Katyn massacre that they were flying to Smolensk to commemorate. But that linkage is both lazy and misleading.

The Katyn killings marked the deliberate decapitation of the pre-war state. The 22,000 prisoners-of-war murdered by Stalin’s secret police were not just the military leadership; they were also reservists—doctors, lawyers, teachers, officials—who formed the middle-class backbone of Poland. Stalin knew they were the biggest human obstruction to his plan, cooked up with Hitler, to wipe Poland from the map.


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