I always thought Tony Clement delusional, but he confirmed it today by calling for a state funeral for Gord Downey. OMG! I mean, I loved a lot of the guy's music and feel terrible for his family and friends obviously grieving, but an official state funeral? Let's get a grip here.
Sadly, judging by the infantile and vacuous Trudeau's public weeping and gnashing of teeth on the airwaves this morning, the Tragically Hip frontman will probably get one! From what he blubbered on about Canada's being less of a country without Gord in it, we must be a pretty weak country. I mean, Downie was a talented guy beloved by his fans, but he was not an official Canadian figure. Sorry, but it would be an insult to the likes of fellow Kingstonian Sir John A to accord Gord the same honour and have him lie in state in The Senate. OMG again.
As a matter of fact, I have a good friend who has the same brain cancer. Knowing her well, I will grieve if she dies before I, but I didn't know Downey personally, so am not grieving. And we still have his music which will live on. If they don't know me, anyone reading this will think me harsh, but I am talking about the appropriateness of a state funeral, not the man himself, who I didn't know.
Remember how the world went crazy when John Lennon said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, accusing the former of sacrilege? Well things have certainly changed because it appears Gord was way more popular than Jesus, yet no one bats an eye.
According to protocol, "Canadian state funerals are reserved for governors general, prime ministers, cabinet ministers and other official eminent Canadians. Conducted with ceremonial, military and religious elements incorporated, State Funerals are executed by the governor general to provide a dignified manner for the Canadian people to mourn." By the way, I noticed when interviewed by CTV last evening, Clement didn't again call for a "state funeral"; someone must have dragged his knuckles off the ground and rapped them. And by the way, do three sitting MPs not have better things to do than sit in Centre Block and cry about what huge fans they were for the duration of an entire interview?
Opening that can of worms means we'll have to have one for Saint Neil Young, Bruce Cockburn, Gord Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Bryan Adams, Ann Murray, Rita McNeil, Burton Cummings and every other singer who apparently "defined" Canada. But what about Guy Lombardo, a guy whose music carried Canadians through WW II? Didn't have one for him. No because back then Canadians had respect for authentic tradition and decorum.
And speaking of our vets, every Remembrance Day our hapless PM spends most of his time grinning and taking selfies, instead of honouring the fallen. Yet he cries about a rock star. He is clearly unfit to govern.
Every radio station is playing The Hip's music and call-in shows everywhere are jammed with people weeping and recalling their greatest memories of Gord -- mostly drunken parties at cottages, from what I can gather.
It's all bizarre.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Just shut up. Please
Watching CBC this morning and Natasha Fatah is so annoying. When asking a question, she delivers a long op-ed piece of her own while the columnists I really want to listen to sit and wait for her mouth to stop moving. Please! We don't care what you think -- or at least I don't.
Another blabber mouth even more irritating is that crashing bore Evan Solomon on CTV. Gawd! He is so full of himself it's breathtaking. I was delighted when CBC fired him, but CTV picked him up so we cannot rid ourselves of his mug and yap on the screen. And don't even get me started on Heather Hiscox!
The guy who does it best, in my opinion, is Don Martin on 'Power Play'. He has an excellent format and keeps his questions to the actual question itself, rather than blab for two minutes before he permits his guests to answer. He has great people on, such as Stephanie Levitz, John Ivison, John Ibbitson, JD Bellavance, Kadie O'Malley and Susan Delacourt, among others. Happily we get very informed stuff from them.
To the rest of them, remember why you're there.
Another blabber mouth even more irritating is that crashing bore Evan Solomon on CTV. Gawd! He is so full of himself it's breathtaking. I was delighted when CBC fired him, but CTV picked him up so we cannot rid ourselves of his mug and yap on the screen. And don't even get me started on Heather Hiscox!
The guy who does it best, in my opinion, is Don Martin on 'Power Play'. He has an excellent format and keeps his questions to the actual question itself, rather than blab for two minutes before he permits his guests to answer. He has great people on, such as Stephanie Levitz, John Ivison, John Ibbitson, JD Bellavance, Kadie O'Malley and Susan Delacourt, among others. Happily we get very informed stuff from them.
To the rest of them, remember why you're there.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Insanity reigns
So, now a school board in Toronto -- of course -- has banned the word "chief" in occupational titles. How completely insane and bonkers!!?? And it was the decision of a woman, unfortunately, who thought the term derogatory to natives, so has forbade its use. Why are we our own ludicrous worst enemies??
OMG! What an insult to natives to think they would find a homonym for a word they use offensive. Reminds me of when "man" was banned. B sarcastically suggested in a meeting in the PCO no less that henceforth "chairman" should be changed to "chairperson", "Germany" to "Gerpersony" and "manhole" cover to "personhole" cover. "Chairperson" was actually adopted, although I preferred "chairman" or "chair", but the others thankfully have not appeared. Yet. Stay tuned!
People have gone insane with political correctness!
And to top it off, another school board in Toronto has issued a directive that Halloween costumes must be politically correct. The official didn't say "politically correct", but that's what it amounts to when no costume can depict a visible minority, fake terrorist or any other specific group. Great! Kids will now be going out on Halloween dressed as.....themselves.
How pathetic.
And what have I been banging on about the woeful state of the Missing Women's Inquiry? How pointless it all is. Yet another commissioner has resigned amid chaos. But will Carolyn Bennett pull Marion Bullard? Not on your life. The whole thing is a pointless, useless and expensive mess -- a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
More insanity emerged when an immigration lawyer -- what else -- voiced loud objections to a questionnaire illegal immigrants sneaking into Canada are asked to fill out. Imagine! Some of the questions pertain to religion and whether the criminal entrants belong to any specific group, or would object to working for a woman. Apparently, it's all anti-Muslim. The whole thing is dumb because no one is going to admit to anything anyway, but the questionnaire has been pulled so G-d knows who's slinking across the border.
Oh Canada!
OMG! What an insult to natives to think they would find a homonym for a word they use offensive. Reminds me of when "man" was banned. B sarcastically suggested in a meeting in the PCO no less that henceforth "chairman" should be changed to "chairperson", "Germany" to "Gerpersony" and "manhole" cover to "personhole" cover. "Chairperson" was actually adopted, although I preferred "chairman" or "chair", but the others thankfully have not appeared. Yet. Stay tuned!
People have gone insane with political correctness!
And to top it off, another school board in Toronto has issued a directive that Halloween costumes must be politically correct. The official didn't say "politically correct", but that's what it amounts to when no costume can depict a visible minority, fake terrorist or any other specific group. Great! Kids will now be going out on Halloween dressed as.....themselves.
How pathetic.
And what have I been banging on about the woeful state of the Missing Women's Inquiry? How pointless it all is. Yet another commissioner has resigned amid chaos. But will Carolyn Bennett pull Marion Bullard? Not on your life. The whole thing is a pointless, useless and expensive mess -- a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
More insanity emerged when an immigration lawyer -- what else -- voiced loud objections to a questionnaire illegal immigrants sneaking into Canada are asked to fill out. Imagine! Some of the questions pertain to religion and whether the criminal entrants belong to any specific group, or would object to working for a woman. Apparently, it's all anti-Muslim. The whole thing is dumb because no one is going to admit to anything anyway, but the questionnaire has been pulled so G-d knows who's slinking across the border.
Oh Canada!
Saturday, October 7, 2017
You know what I'm going to say
I'm talking about the $750 million settlement given the natives in the "sixties scoop" boondoggle. I probably don't need to bother writing about it because you know I find it appalling.
Thirty-eight-thousand people are going to be handed between $25,000 and $50,000 each simply for having been taken away from unfit parents and raised by others who cared. If you do the math, that means that 76,000 mothers and fathers were deemed unfit to care for their own children. If you do more math, it means that extended family and kin -- let's say only three per parent -- were also deemed unfit. That's a whopping 228,000 relatives judged unfit to take these children into their culture and care!
228,000 for a population of fewer than a million back then. That's a quarter of the entire group. Absolutely outrageous. And the public weeping and wailing as they are handed their cheques is unconscionable.
But G-d help anyone who dares ask why these children had to be taken into care in the first place. G-d help them!
And what did native leaders say? "It's a start."
As an adopted child, I was also "scooped" from my culture and raised by better parents. I thank G-d every day that I was not reared by the white-trash, townie gang in Kingston from which I came. Had I not been "scooped", I would have been raised in a boarding house by people on welfare.
Every single Canadian is being held hostage by the natives whose rapacious grasp for cash never ends. Please G-d, let's not give Trudeau another disastrous term. Along with the "no pipelines" mess, Canada is being effed by this clown.
Thirty-eight-thousand people are going to be handed between $25,000 and $50,000 each simply for having been taken away from unfit parents and raised by others who cared. If you do the math, that means that 76,000 mothers and fathers were deemed unfit to care for their own children. If you do more math, it means that extended family and kin -- let's say only three per parent -- were also deemed unfit. That's a whopping 228,000 relatives judged unfit to take these children into their culture and care!
228,000 for a population of fewer than a million back then. That's a quarter of the entire group. Absolutely outrageous. And the public weeping and wailing as they are handed their cheques is unconscionable.
But G-d help anyone who dares ask why these children had to be taken into care in the first place. G-d help them!
And what did native leaders say? "It's a start."
As an adopted child, I was also "scooped" from my culture and raised by better parents. I thank G-d every day that I was not reared by the white-trash, townie gang in Kingston from which I came. Had I not been "scooped", I would have been raised in a boarding house by people on welfare.
Every single Canadian is being held hostage by the natives whose rapacious grasp for cash never ends. Please G-d, let's not give Trudeau another disastrous term. Along with the "no pipelines" mess, Canada is being effed by this clown.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Cro-magnon man
Denis Coderre. That's what he is. A throw-back and a disgrace to the federation of Canada. He is claiming victory, now that the energy east pipeline has been cancelled. He'd rather refine oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia than from another province in his own country.
Oh, I forgot, every francophone is actually a separatist and not a Canadian.
Alberta has been effed big-time. The National Energy Board is out of control and has widened its mandate to outrageous proportions. And let's not forget the enviros and natives who sabotage Canada at every turn. Non-native Canadians who attend smudging, sweet-grass and sweat lodge ceremonies are as sorely misguided as the natives themselves. Canada is still a primitive country, relying on water, oil and wood, yet natives and tree-huggers will not allow its resources to get to market.
Are they crazy?!
Yes.
Shame, shame.
Hmmmm, wonder if Denis Coderre ever uses petroleum products?? You betcha.
Oh, I forgot, every francophone is actually a separatist and not a Canadian.
Alberta has been effed big-time. The National Energy Board is out of control and has widened its mandate to outrageous proportions. And let's not forget the enviros and natives who sabotage Canada at every turn. Non-native Canadians who attend smudging, sweet-grass and sweat lodge ceremonies are as sorely misguided as the natives themselves. Canada is still a primitive country, relying on water, oil and wood, yet natives and tree-huggers will not allow its resources to get to market.
Are they crazy?!
Yes.
Shame, shame.
Hmmmm, wonder if Denis Coderre ever uses petroleum products?? You betcha.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Is it just me?
Or did anyone else notice how inappropriate the new GG, Julie Payette, looked at her installation? That hair!? She is 53 years old, yet still sports a frizz hairdo from the sixties -- grey roots and all. I don't get it?? And that male outfit? What was that all about?? She looked like the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The representative of our Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, she looks like she just hitchhiked out of Woodstock.
The other misstep was her speech. Last time I checked, Canada had two official languages: French and English. She opened with "Indian" (not sure which of the 600 tribal languages she mouthed), but it was not appropriate. The rest of the time she then spoke mostly in French.
Ah, Separatism. Alive and thriving in every francophone.
Oh dear, reminded me of a dinner I attended at Rideau Hall when Michaelle Jean's French/France husband took the stage and lambasted all of us after a few pops. In French. Let's get a grip here. Wonder what poor Elizabeth thought of her representative when Payette visited Balmoral a couple of weeks ago. Yikes!
I shudder.
The other misstep was her speech. Last time I checked, Canada had two official languages: French and English. She opened with "Indian" (not sure which of the 600 tribal languages she mouthed), but it was not appropriate. The rest of the time she then spoke mostly in French.
Ah, Separatism. Alive and thriving in every francophone.
Oh dear, reminded me of a dinner I attended at Rideau Hall when Michaelle Jean's French/France husband took the stage and lambasted all of us after a few pops. In French. Let's get a grip here. Wonder what poor Elizabeth thought of her representative when Payette visited Balmoral a couple of weeks ago. Yikes!
I shudder.
A "For Sale" sign
That's what I'd put on my front lawn if I had been flooded out in Houston because Houston is -- and always has been -- a flood plain. It's 15 vulnerable metres above sea level; Calgary is 1,049. Do the math, fifty- to 100-year flood events will now be happening every five to 10, thanks to melting sea ice and glaciers -- the case with all coastal cities in North America. Even Toronto is not immune, witness the flooded islands this past Spring.
"Houston has been wet since birth," says an article in 'Bloomberg Week'. The Brazos River prairie, just outside town, was an endless swamp paved over by Houston as it grew and grew. With nowhere to go, water now has no choice but to flood, a fact that is not going to change. According to this article, Houston (and Texas in general) has one of America's most relaxed approaches to building codes and other protections. The motto there is "build first, ask questions later".
It's all about money and stupido (see "Two Words" blog, August 19th). As for flood insurance? It's a joke, with adjustors granting peanuts to those making claims. Homebuilders' associations violently oppose increased regulation and codes so they can continue to make money with gay abandon and the city endorses it because of the tax revenues development generates.
It's a win-win for them and a lose-lose for home owners who will eventually face another major flood. Don't worry about renovating and re-building because it won't matter what colour you paint your new kitchen, everyone knows it will flood again. So unless you plan to re-make your wet bed and lie in it again, stick a "For Sale" sign on your lawn and move to higher ground. How about Austin? Lovely place.
"Houston has been wet since birth," says an article in 'Bloomberg Week'. The Brazos River prairie, just outside town, was an endless swamp paved over by Houston as it grew and grew. With nowhere to go, water now has no choice but to flood, a fact that is not going to change. According to this article, Houston (and Texas in general) has one of America's most relaxed approaches to building codes and other protections. The motto there is "build first, ask questions later".
It's all about money and stupido (see "Two Words" blog, August 19th). As for flood insurance? It's a joke, with adjustors granting peanuts to those making claims. Homebuilders' associations violently oppose increased regulation and codes so they can continue to make money with gay abandon and the city endorses it because of the tax revenues development generates.
It's a win-win for them and a lose-lose for home owners who will eventually face another major flood. Don't worry about renovating and re-building because it won't matter what colour you paint your new kitchen, everyone knows it will flood again. So unless you plan to re-make your wet bed and lie in it again, stick a "For Sale" sign on your lawn and move to higher ground. How about Austin? Lovely place.
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