Reading an obituary in 'The Globe and Mail', I learned about John Richards, founder in 2001 of the 'Apostrophe Protection Society'. Googling it, I was transfixed. It features hundreds of examples of misplaced and misused apostrophes. I have sent an email asking to join, as I am sure it will fascinate me.
Google it for a few laughs.
Heard a great description of many people I know: "Often wrong, never in doubt." I know lots of people like that. My father told me that when I was about four, I stood with him while he talked to someone he knew. After the gentleman left, apparently I turned to Daddy and said, "That man is so dumb he doesn't know he's dumb."
Don't we all know people like that? Of course we do. Trudeau and Freeland are prime examples. Now they are trying to stonewall their way out of this National Defence sexual mess. Six years ago -- six years! -- another justice conducted another investigation into sexual harassment in the military and concluded that, guess what, it existed. Duh! She made a ton of recommendations, including forming a truly independent body to look into them. What happened? Nothing.
With every Liberal a frothing "feminist", you'd think Katie Telford, et al., would have jumped right out of her chair when she learned about allegations about Vance and rushed to get to the bottom (sorry for the pun) of the mess. But no, this "feminist" just shrugged them off, closed the file and gave the guy a raise. As Candace Bergen pointed out yesterday in her scathing attack on feminist-in-chief Trudeau, the latter could hardly do anything about it because he was under his own groping cloud debacle at the time -- something he has yet to actually deny.
And to think Sajjan claims he had no authority to act is beyond ludicrous! The guy's the defence minister! What an unholy mess. Speaking of messes, here's another beyond-belief moment:
Our Enmax bill arrived yesterday for $216.05 to cover energy and utilities. For those two items, the bill was $122.09. So what was the rest for?
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Now we learn that a certain general had been having an affair for 20 years with a certain female major and had even fathered two of her children! Hitherto, I was under the impression that he had been engaged to this woman and that the affair had been consenual (See "Here's what I don't get," March 24/21).
It now turns out he had been married all along. It also turns out he denied the children, paid no support, but kept up with the affair under the nose of his lawyer wife. (There's a "hahahaha" touch for you; she'll certainly have lots of fun taking him to the legal cleaners.) We also discover from her testimony, that the major said he told her to lie and that he had the minister under control, so no worries there, wink-wink-nudge-nudge.
What do they say? Hell hat no fury like a woman scorned and this woman is vomiting her fury all over the parliamentary table, where she has been so eloquently testifying. However, the fact that she has eight children and is a single mother did round out the picture for me. In my mind, this was an insecure woman, who had a bunch of children with a bunch of men, who the general considered some kind of inconsequential tramp he could call up whenever he had a few minutes for a quickie just to relieve the tension of all that senior military intrigue and work. I mean, you know how stressful that kind of toil is.
Of course, he retired just before she popped up, thus ensuring he secured his HUGE pension. Good thing because he'll need it to hand over the lawyers he will have to pay to fight his wife. What did I just say? Hell hath no fury like.......You get the picture.
When I was young and working with MPs on the Hill, I've lost count of the numbers who would regularly hit on me. In fact, I worked for one right up until I gave birth, but the minute I was back from maternity leave, he pounced. You'd think he would have practiced a little restraint, knowing I was a new mother and all that. But no, any young, attractive female in the office was fair game and it was always open season. Let me tell you it was a delicate balancing act keeping your job, yet not pissing the boss off to the point where he fired you for not putting out. The fact that I was a good speech writer was the only thing that saved me from the trash heap. My words made even the dumbest of them sound intelligent.
So, that's my take on the whole sordid mess. As they say, there's nothing new under the sun and 'twas ever thus.
Well, since the Chauvin verdict was guilty on all counts, everyone hoping him to be found innocent will be hugely disappointed. Sadly, there will be no rioting and store-front smashing to get at all those TVs and other expensive merchandise which are obviously the remedy for every perceived slight and verdict.
Frankly, I think this is the reason Chauvin was convicted. Minneapolis didn't want a riot, so it was up to the jurors to make sure that didn't happen.
Guilty was the only way out.
If you read the many charges against Chauvin, along with the fact that only one juror would have had to have dissented on just one of them, there is no way he should have been found guilty. Sadly, even though George Floyd died, this was a political and expeditious verdict, not a legal one. This in no way condones or excuses Chauvin's use of force. It just highlights the fact that no other verdict was possible, in spite of the legal details that must not have been followed to reach it.
And the rejoicing and joy observers demonstrated when the verdict was announced were unconscionable, yet predictable.
Ah, the mess that is race in the Excited States of America, not to mention no free colour TVs.
Now Trudeau will be apologizing to Italian-Canadians for how they were treated during the war. WTF??!!! He needs to brush up on his history. Italy sided with the Germans and many Canadians and allied troops were killed there -- including B's uncle at the age of 24.
My uncle was stationed in Italy and he was under fire too. First it was the Japanese, then the natives -- multiple times -- and now it's Italians.
He has to be stopped.
Just watched a BBC program on Africa and masks were nowhere in sight. If someone were wearing a mask, it was pulled down to their necks. This will have tragic consequences.
