As if

Why do firms that give you a recording when you call always say, "Please stay on the line, your call is very important to us." ?  It's a total crock, as we all know.  Our calls are not important in the least to them.  Yesterday, I tried to call to make an appointment for a mammogram and after the recording, the voice said, "You are number 60 in the queue."

Sixty!!!!  Are you kidding??!!!  So, I gave up.  Who knows if I will ever bother to try again.

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Tanya Talaga, an Indigenous columnist with 'The Globe and Mail', wrote a doozy today.  Apparently, more than 6,000 native children died at residential schools from sexual abuse, starvation, beatings, murders or neglect.  She actually wrote that!  She wants you to believe that the sole aim of those running the schools was to trick parents into sending their children to these schools so they could be purposefully murdered.  

Instead of being a measured voice on the topic, Talaga is an hysteric, which shreds both her impact and credibility.  Such a shame she doesn't write more like Doug Cuthand, who takes a more factual approach.  Instead she pushes her theories that "race-based colonial policies of genocide and intergenerational trauma got us here".  

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Here's another crock:  70% of coal pollution is caused by China, India and the US -- three countries that have refused to commit to reducing coal emissions.  So, that leaves countries like little, old Canada holding the bag.  Such bullshit.  And speaking of bullshit, has everyone forgotten about the "dirty thirties", when drought temporarily ravaged North America and led to the death of millions?  The continent recovered fine, thank you very much, but I guess the Glasgow crowd has amnesia on that file.

 And has no one looked up the stats about wildfires in BC?  They tell you that this past summer's fires were dwarfed by those in the past.  Check the numbers, people, before you rant and rend your garments in hysteria.

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Saw this in an ad yesterday and actually felt sick:

It was about a woman being congratulated by CIR Real Estate for her work in saving horses.  Apparently, she was someone who "has went" above and beyond by donating her time to this cause.  I also felt a bit sick when I read Elizabeth Renzetti's column in 'The Globe and Mail' today, wherein she used the word "sneaked", instead of "snuck".

I am constantly bombarded with grammatical horrors, oh dear, oh dear......