Does a friend ask for a Loan -

Last week was the end of the month and a lot on fixed income..(welfare, retired etc) find the end of the month hard. I know of an individual whom will lend $20 for that last week of the month but charges $8 and must be paid when the check arrives on the 1st.. Paid on the 2nd and no change to borrow the next month.

As a friend, I understand the problem.. Invisible is the need for the money, the truth. Yes a lot of raisons given but what is the truth. Even family members will borrow. It is good to be there to help friends and family, but does it help to lean money. Will it come to be an habit ? It is better to go buy what is needed and give the bill for later paying..??

Invisible is the circuit of friends and family whom the person has to borrow from. Where are you on that circuit. Easily to ask, easily to be slow to pay, easily to con..? Invisible is the actual truth of borrowed and lending. Does a friend ask for money, or does a friend lean money?

Invisible Knife Point - Invisible rights if kept invisible.

Thursday last, the Supreme Court of Canada, in an 8-0 judgment ruled that a Montreal school board went too far in imposing a blanket ban on the wearing of Sikh ceremonial daggers, known as a kirpan, by students.

In 2002, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruling said That Gurbaj Singh could carry the kirpan under certain conditions - for example, if he kept it sewn into a cloth envelope to be worn beneath his clothing; - Photo The Cannon.ca Oct 28, 2005) NOTE This is another story in 2005 - A Sikh man, Balpreet Singh, after another passenger had complained about his kirpan was taken off a Via Rail train as he was about to travel home to Toronto. "I consider that one of my fundamental freedoms ... [and my] freedom of religion is being infringed." This case unlike the private school board, was taken to the Ontario Human Rights Commissionin, because the Crown corporation Via Rail won't let him wear his ceremonial dagger on its trains.

"To be led off a train that's filled ... [is] absolutely humiliating," said the first-year law student at the University of Ottawa. Singh, 24, says he wears the kirpan for religious reasons. He says he is never without it, even while attending class.
"This is essentially one of the signs of the Sikh faith," he said. "It's absolutely required. I'm never apart from this, whether I'm sleeping or whatever. It's basically considered part of my body".

The Supreme Court's case of Gurbaj Singh Multani, started in 2001 when he was then aged 12, first wore his kirpan to school. After Margueriite-Bourgeoys school board officials tried to work out a compromise that would allow him to continue wearing the religious emblem., but with some conditions for the sake of safety.
This approach was overruled by the school boards governing and then they imposed a total ban.

The Supreme Court judgment is confined to school situations and does not apply to other areas, where as most airlines once allowed passengers to wear kirpans with blades no longer than 10 centimetres. Following the security crackdown that followed the 9-11, however, Transport Canada decreed a country-wide ban. Where the canadian Sikh MPs can wear his kirpans in the House of Commons and visitors can wear them in the public galleries; trial judges in some provinces have banned them from their courtrooms although it's all right to wear kirpans in the Supreme Court of Canada. National Post, Jim Brown March 2,2006