Moral decay

Frankly, that's what is behind the ludicrous push to promote children who think they are transgendered.  Here in Alberta, Premier Smith has pushed back and put in many restrictions and age limits for children who want to be the other gender before they even reach puberty.

It's insane!

In my world, there are only two genders:  Male and female.  When you're a legal adult, you can do what you want, but not when you're a kid.  And this nonsense with pronouns.  Gawd!  It's everywhere!  English is a beautiful language, so let "he, she" be shielded from the lunacy of "they them".  

Let's let kids be kids.

Since the deranged notion of allowing transgender, post-puberty men to compete in women's sports, 900 medals have been taken away from bona fide women by men who are racing as "women".

So wrong.

And speaking of deranged, why did Kamala Harris pin her entire campaign on abortion rights?  That was nuts.  Women know how to prevent pregnancy and if they do get pregnant, through some slip or other, there are many states who permit it.  Just go there and get one.  

She lost because middle-aged and post-menopausal women did not vote on the basis of abortion.  She also lost because young Black men and Latinos turned to Trump.  That demographic would definitely not want a woman at president.  It's a cultural anathema to them.

She also lost because she could not put a coherent thought together.  Try as I did, I could not get a picture of what she stood for?  As for Trump, I understood what he was saying and knew that his positions were his, not those of consultants feeding him a script.  

I am also delighted that he has appointed the first-ever female chief of staff.  Susie Wiles is a middle-aged woman with vast experience.  Brilliant appointment for someone who is supposed to think women are inferior.  That puts the lie to that charge. 

As a Canadian, I feel safer with Trump as president.  Since our military is so lame and under-funded, we cannot defend ourselves, so we will be relying on the US to do so.

But we better get our funding up to two percent of GDP, or Trump will dump us too.

Musings

It astounds me that half of all Americans are poised to vote for Harris.  I know Trump has a few screws loose, but have her supporters not listened to her?

"Madame vice president, what is your economic policy?"

Giggling and hand wringing appears.  "You know, the American people are resilient!  They're strong, they're committed and they're resourceful!  We're going to win!"

Cheering erupts.

"Ms. Harris, what is your foreign policy?"

More giggling, grinning and hand wringing.  "I intend to do exactly what Presidents Biden and Obama did."  

"No change?  No new approach?"

"No, I am going to follow the same path."

So, why are you running, if you don't intend to change anything?  That's my question.  

"What about the southern border?  In the four years you were in charge of this file, five million more illegals came into the US.  There are now an estimated 15 million undocumented people living in this country."

"You know, the American people are resilient!  They're strong, they're committed and they're resourceful!  We're going to win!"

Never, never answers a question, so how does anyone know what she'll do as president?  She has no depth, no insights, no sense of history -- no gravitas, no nothing.  The women voting for her are doing so just because she's a woman, which is no reason at all.  Do a little research.  Pull back the curtain.  Inform yourselves.  Please.

And as to her personal life, about which there is open season on Trump's all the time, the mainstream media completely ignores the scandals surrounding her husband Doug Emhoff.  Apparently, he had an affair with the nanny during his first marriage which produced a child.  

Another ex-girlfriend claims he slapped her during an argument at the Cannes film festival in 2012, but absolutely nothing is heard about these abuses in the public thoroughfare.

No one actually knows who's running the country, so I guess it doesn't matter if she gets in because the same people pulling the strings on Biden now will simply continue to pull them on her:  Big pharma and the military-industrial complex.

That's their great fear because if Trump gets in, he'll be pulling his own.

 

Whaaaat?!

Launderer-in-chief Bharat Masrani

On page one of 'The Globe and Mail' there is a shocking article about how Bharat Masrani, president of TD Bank, had laundered more than $670 million for US criminals through a slush fund for which American Senator Elizabeth Warren wants him and other senior bank executives heavily fined and charged.

From what I've read, jailed would be a more appropriate penalty; the funds laundered came mainly from fentanyl trafficking.  

"Between January, 2014, and October, 2023, TD Bank leadership knowingly presided over a criminally deficient anti-money laundering program while growing the bank such that its risk profile increased significantly," she wrote to the US department of justice (DOJ).

To date, attorney general Merrick Garland says only two employees have been charged.  All senior executives -- including the big boss Masrani -- have escaped the criminal snare.

Ms. Warren says that prosecutors allowed TD to evade criminal charges that would have triggered a "death penalty" provision which would have given the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency the authority to revoke the lender's charter, forcing it to terminate its US operations.

Not only have bank employees escaped jail, Masrani himself has not been fired, nor has he resigned -- in spite of the fact that the whole operation spanned the time he has been president and CEO.  What he is doing is retiring, but will stay on as a "consultant" for another year, collecting a few more million for his crimes.

Last year, Masrani collected $13 million and, with stock options, will pocket another $125 million when he leaves.  Raymond Chun will take over as president, but will continue to report to Masrani.

As I said, "Whaaaaat??!!" 

Masrani, an Indian citizen from Uganda, appears to have been basically a career criminal who hid under the bank's blanket of respectability for decades.  From my personal experience, many Indians operate within a culture of criminality.  It's inbred, perhaps as a result of the need to survive in a country rife with corruption from top to bottom.  Frankly, it's official government policy and the Indian government's murderous actions on Canadian soil prove it.

Chun, who is of Asian background, is also from a culture tinged with corruption.  Again I am only speaking from my experience, but criminal election interference, for example, appears to be also official government policy and has been happening for decades.  

A couple of personal examples:  Once on a business trip to Halifax, one of the Asian housekeepers stole a silver bracelet from my room.  Upon being told by the manager that unless it was returned immediately, all housekeeping staff would be penalized.  

It appeared back in my room later that day, exactly where I had left it.

Another instance that I remember was a Chinese restaurant in Ottawa that never closed its cash register, so sales were not included for tax purposes.  This happened every time we dined there and, working for RevCan at the time, I always noticed it.  

Don't call me racist, these are culturally-accepted practice.  Of course we have corruption in Canada, but it's not officially institutionalized.  It's hidden and prosecuted when uncovered (just not if you're Justin Trudeau).    

Growing up, B's grandmother in India employed native servants who pilfered and stole with gay abandon.  In fact, she would regularly have to pad the family's budget to cover the thefts.  This was all very normal in that culture.   

But for the Canadian and US governments to do nothing is an outrage.  All Trudeau said when confronted was that the government was "very concerned". 

I guess ho-hum is all that's going to happen.