Too much coffee?

Is that the reason the Middle East is always in turmoil?  Maybe they should sneak a little illicit booze in now and then to calm themselves down, instead of consuming endless cups of that syrupy, caffeine-laden goop they guzzle all day.  

All hepped up on caffeine and waging another war.

After 53 years of the al-Asaad family's brutal regime in Syria, Bashar has finally been deposed and fled to Moscow.  Will it change anything?  No.  You can be sure that the usual and much-entrenched patterns of group dominance, religious dogma and rule through fear will prevail.  Afterall, the leader of the coup is a Mujahideen fighter whose sole objective is to wage jihad for Islam.  He's not a democratic leader who will encourage law and order and elections.  The notion would be laughable, if it weren't so dangerous.  

Except for Israel, there is no such thing as a democracy in any country in the region.  And the only reason Israel is a democracy is because it is an interloper, not native and not susceptible to regional and tribal rigidity. 

Frankly, the only countries that (sort of)follow rules of war are those in the British model set down centuries ago.  Elections are how governments are changed.  Wars are waged only when a country's safety is threatened.  I know that's an exaggeration, but it's generally true.  

Every country in Africa is the same:  Civil wars depose corrupt governments and are replaced by "democratic" liberation armies, that quickly themselves become corrupt dictatorships.  This necessitates another civil war and the whole thing starts all over.  Look at Cuba.  Castro was supposed to usher in democracy, but he quickly became a brutal dictator. 

Look at Nigeria.  When the British were in charge, there were two states:  the North and the South.  When the British were kicked out, 36 states sprang up along tribal lines and chaos and corruption emerged as per usual.  Look at Zimbabwe.  Robert Mugabe was a saint who quickly became one of the most brutal tyrants in history.

And so on and so forth.

But if you want to know what happened in Syria, ask Barack Obama.  Remember when he announced his famous red line?  If Syria crossed it and used chemical weapons on its people, the US avowed it would invade militarily immediately.  al-Asaad crossed it, killing thousands of people, and what did Obama do?  Backed down.  That's where it all got out-of-control.  

So a big shout-out to Barack for this unholy mess! 

   

After 20 years of lawsuits.....

 ....The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Indigenous Services Canada finally reached a whopping settlement of $48 billion -- yep, that's billions, folks -- for on-reserve child-care and welfare reform.

This transpired because the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, headed by an enthusiastic activist named Jennifer Khurana, ruled that Ottawa discriminated against on-reserve services through under-funding.  So, the remedy was $48 billion, up from the original $23 billion awarded in 2022.  But true-to-form, it's not enough.

The ever-financially-vigilant Cindy Blackstock, director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, has publicly intervened, calling for the agreement to be re-negotiated.  For more money.  Of course she did.  Then AFN chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinak decided to make a real cat fight out of it at the recent AFN conference in Calgary and piled on.  "There's no getting around the fact that this agreement was too much of a threat to the status quo of the industry built on taking First Nations children from their families."

Bingo.  That's what Blackstock does.  That's how she gets her funding.  Taking kids from their families.  "Stop the discrimination against First Nations children now and forever.  Canada should not hurt children ever again," railed Blackstock.  But Cindy, if it all stopped, you'd be out of a job.

Cindy's gang gets $3.8 million a year -- 40 percent of which goes to administration and fund-raising.  It doesn't all go to helping children, so let's get that straight. 

Ms. Blackstock with a teddy for the kids.

Discrimination?  Hurting children?  I'd say the ones hurting children must be the parents who have their kids taken away, no?  Wouldn't they be the ones to blame?  I mean, kids aren't taken from their families for no reason because it's very expensive.  But of course, no one ever mentions this inconvenient fact.  Except me.

I'm with minister Patty Hajdu, who said she was disappointed the deal was rejected because the final, 20-years-in-the-making settlement would have provided transformational change.  Now they'll just start all over.  And who benefits from the re-do?  Rhetorical.  What a colossal waste of time and money.  Will any amount ever be enough for natives on any file?  The chiefs themselves weren't even in agreement.  My question is, what's the AFN for if chiefs question everything its elected leaders negotiate on their behalf? 

And then we have the demonstrations about natives being killed while in police custody, or while violent and dangerous in the public thoroughfare.  They want a public inquiry into the whole thing.  Led by supporters of Edith Wells, whose son was killed during a fight in the lobby of a Calgary hotel, the group says the inquiry must be held "immediately".  Really?  To what end?  

The facts are already on the table.  Jon Wells was out-of-control on drugs and alcohol.  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team was called and Wells died at the scene.  We don't even know from what at this point, but apparently it's all racist and unfair.

Perhaps these women and mothers could look in the mirror to learn how their kids go so wrong.  Perhaps they might also shed a tear for the female victims of intimate partner violence killed or injured by an Indigenous male partner.  The Supreme Court ruled that trial judges must take into account the offender's "background, intergenerational trauma, systemic discrimination and the residential school system" when passing sentence.  

This has meant that appeal judges have overturned, or greatly reduced, sentences in Indigenous cases.  In one, the BC Supreme Court gave the offender just five years after he pled guilty to killing his partner.  Five years because he was Indigenous.

In another, an Indigenous man who brutally abused his Indigenous partner, who had to have her teeth extracted and jaw wired shut, was given no jail time at all.

Perhaps the mothers decrying the fates of their sons could spare a moment to consider that it is Indigenous women paying the price for a particular effort to right historical wrongs.

Frankly, if you're out-of-control in public and threatening the lives of police and others, you can expect anything to happen -- regardless of your race. 

     

$45 million

That's what the federal government, i.e., you and me, have just handed the Inuit for killing their dogs in the fifties and sixties.

I am not making this up!  $45 million!#$^%^&$!!

Back then, there were approximately 1,000 sled dogs in Eskimo communities.  That's $45,000 per dog!@^@#!!!!&%!!  The culling was designed to bring the Inuit into the modern era and improve their way of life.  Didn't work.  

Two dogs, $90,000.

All this while our northern border is under threat by both Russia and China.  That's how they will come over if either decides to invade.  

And all this while we are not meeting our NATO commitment of two percent of GDP for our military.

All this while Trudeau, our Marxist/Ken Doll prime minister, boogies his perverted self away at a Taylor Swift concert with underage girls, exchanging bracelets.

All this while Trudeau is sending every Canadian $250 cheques.  For no reason.

It is beyond sickening.  

More lawlessness

You have to pull back the curtain to find out what's really going on.  As a working journalist at Maclean Hunter in Toronto in the seventies, that was the guiding principle drummed into me when I covered any story.  Who's involved and what is his/her background?

Unchecked mob rule in Montreal

Watching the riots and lawlessness unfolding in Montreal yesterday, I applied this principle and wondered, "Who is the police chief who won't enforce the law -- you know, the law that prohibits demonstrations within 100 yards of any Jewish synagogue or community centre?  Sure enough, I got the answer:  

His name is Fady Dagher and he is a Lebanese Canadian:

The chief of police who won't enforce the law.

That's why he didn't arrest, detain and charge the violent, ransacking mob that destroyed and looted large sections of Montreal protesting the Jews and promoting the Palestinian cause.

He didn't because he is pro-Palestinian.  Plain and simple.

And where was our fearless prime minister during all this?  Why, he was at a Taylor Swift concert, carousing and dancing with his daughter!!  You could not make this up!  I have just re-connected with an old colleague, Barry McLoughlin, who is in the business of coaching and training politicians on how to deal with the media and public perception.  Would Barry have counselled the PM to fiddle while Rome burned?  Would he have advised him to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic while it sank?

Nero fiddles while Rome burns -- literally.  Your tax dollars at work.

Never.  But obviously, because Trudeau knows he is done, he will now do anything he damn well pleases because he cannot not sink any lower in the polls.  He is a man/child to the core and an embarrassment to all Canadians.

Will his "a chicken in every pot" tactic of throwing billons at the "bread and circuses" gang save him?  You know, it might just and that frightens me to the core.  He has destroyed Canada.

He has to go.

    

 

Who's minding the store?

His background is milk and chocolates.  That's who's running Canada Post.  Doug Ettinger.  You've also got seven more senior executives and....wait for it......14 vice-presidents!!!!

That's 22 people who couldn't get a contract with the union done over the last 365 days -- the length of time workers have been without a contract!  The nearest I can figure from the massive org chart is that VP Mike Shearon of Operations would be the guy charged with dealing with the union.  Great job, Mike!

CEO Doug Ettinger makes $500,000, so do the math on how much money is squandered on the rest of the bunch.  Millions and millions!   Then there's Jean-Yves Duclos, the minister responsible, who did nothing for the entire year no contract was reached.

So now, here we are.  Heading into Christmas and there's no end in sight.  I have no time for the union, which is too stupid to figure out Canada Post's operational model makes no sense.  The corporation has lost $491 million in the first six months of 2024.  $491 million!!!  And they have done nothing to stem the flow of tax dollars bleeding out of our pockets.

They're up to billions lost in the last five years.  That's unconscionable and has to change. 

Bye bye to this guy.

Frankly, I blame Joe Davidson, the rabid union guy who started it all.  Joe was notorious as the leader who once proclaimed, "To hell with the public."  In the late 1970s, as the leader of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, he was perhaps the most hated man in Canada.  I remember him well.

Davidson told his story in an autobiography, warts and all.  He recounted his experience as a worker in Scotland, toiling in foundries before his move to Canada.  He described his rise to become a union an executive, a position he never really wanted, he claimed.  As if. 

Most importantly, he offered insight into the most contentious period in Canadian postal history, 13 years that witnessed five separate work stoppages, a time of rapid technological change and great labour unrest.

Yep, Joe was a jerk who ruined the post office and then went back to Scotland to die.  Thanks a bunch!  But UPS, Purolator, DHL, FedEx and Canpar can thank him for their rise and vast fortunes!  He made the post office obsolete 50 years ago.

As for the current union, there are 330,000 employees with Mark Diamondstein heading it.  Those 22 executives need to fire themselves and someone needs to scrap the whole organization and bring in a new model fashioned after the private courier companies.

Will it ever happen?  No. 

My own memories of Canada Post are of our mailman, Henry, who was beloved by my family.  Until my Mother caught him sneaking into the house (always unlocked in those days) and nipping into the liquor.  I remember him sitting in our living room one morning, while my Mother and aunts held an intervention.  Henry was weeping, but they didn't report him and he never did it again.  That's the kind of people my family were.  Honourable.  May they all rest in peace.

And Henry too.

Street life

Re-printed from 'The Catholic League' newsletter.  It is about New York City, but could be anywhere (photos have been included by me):

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November 18, 2024
The Ford Foundation, located in New York City, is funding left-wing groups that are protesting attempts to clean up a non-white neighborhood in Queens that has been overrun by violent thugs, drug dealers, prostitutes and sex traffickers.

Homeless 

Which raises the question: Are those who run the Ford Foundation racists? They certainly appear to be. Without doubt, they have taken the side of those who are determined to punish hard-working minority men and women; they are also endangering children. Why would the members of the "ruling class" want to do that?

The community being ransacked is Jackson Heights, especially along Roosevelt Avenue, the main road.

A local writer put it this way. “For years, sex trafficking and solicitation, illegal vending, sanitation and other issues on Roosevelt—a road known for its cultural significance and diversity as well as its problems—has been top of mind for locals and selected officials.” Crime is exploding.

Hiram Monserrate, a former New York City Councilman, sums it up nicely. “There are more brothels than there are bodegas in this community. We have an active 24-hour brothel across the street from two elementary schools. Our kids are seeing this.”

An Hispanic woman, whose grandson and her teenaged kids go to school in the neighborhood, recently complained to the media that they have to walk by prostitutes soliciting outside of stores. “You literally have to shield their eyes because the open urination is just impossible. And to explain to my little grandson why there’s women here shaking and, you know, doing all that stuff.”

In response, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced “Operation Restore Roosevelt.” It is focused on quality-of-life concerns. The NYPD interim commissioner said the police “will be working to reduce retail theft and the sale of stolen goods. Additionally, removing illegal, unlicensed vendors and illegal vehicles in the surrounding area, which is important to all of you, and also eliminating prostitution.”

Over 90 percent of the people who live in Jackson Heights are non-white; it is disproportionately Hispanic. They are happy to note that finally there is an attempt to bring normalcy to their neighborhood. It was their protests that ignited officials to act. But now they are being opposed by counterdemonstrators who object to cleaning up the area!

The two major groups who want to continue trashing Jackson Heights are Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society (GLITS) and Make the Road New York. Both are funded by the Ford Foundation.

The founder and director of GLITS is Ceyenne Doroshow. “For decades,” he says, “sex workers have been surviving, demanding respect and good healthcare, and still yet we are still being criminalized. We urge investment in our communities, not more criminalization in our communities.”

In other words, the minorities who live there be damned—he wants prostitution to reign supreme, free from law enforcement. It’s all about what these sexually deranged activists want.

Doroshow is also an anti-Catholic bigot. Earlier this year, he arranged for his sick followers to show up at St. Patrick’s Cathedral during a funeral service to honor one of their ilk, Cecilia Gentili. Gentili was a man who falsely claimed to be a woman. He was an illegal alien, a drug addict, a prostitute, a trans activist and an atheist.

At the service, many of Doroshow’s fans dressed as hookers, danced in the aisles, and sang “Ave Cecilia” when “Ave Maria” was sung. They shouted, “St. Cecilia, Mother of All Whores.”

Maxima Rodas is an activist who works for Make the Road Again. She objects to Mayor Adams’ policies aimed at driving out the derelicts and criminals. “This so-called quality of life operation targets sex workers, street vendors and migrant communities who live in this neighborhood. This is a racist and anti-immigrant attack from our communities.”

Mayor Adams has said that “Roosevelt Avenue is one of the most diverse avenues in our city.” Ironically, the Ford Foundation—which is funding this bedlam—brags that “Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are core to our mission and to who we are as a foundation.” Perversely, their idea of diversity includes destroying the diversity that Adams noted.

The Ford Foundation has long been corrupt. It advertises on its website that Henry Ford II assumed the foundation’s leadership after his father and grandfather passed away. What it doesn’t say is that he quit in 1976 because it had been turned into a radical anti-capitalist, left-wing beast.

Darren Walker is the black homosexual president of the Ford Foundation. He has obviously turned on minorities in favor of greasing LGBTQ racists who want to destroy Jackson Heights. We will be contacting him, as well as all the other officials associated with the organization. The elites really do hate the masses.

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So, there you have it.  Anyone protesting is racist and anti-immigrant.  I bet Henry Ford is rolling over in his grave to think that a rabid homosexual is the head of his foundation.

The God-fearing Henry Ford

Unhappy?!

So, the latest Angus Reid poll shows that a large number of new, non-Caucasian  Canadians are unhappy with their lives Canada.

Many migrants and illegals unhappy here.

Whaaaat??!!??

Apparently, more than a third of Canadians are "not too happy", or "not happy at all" with how life is turning out for them.  That, my friends, is a direct result of Trudeau's famous utterance, "Come to Canada, Canadians will welcome you."  Thank you, you imbecile:

The smug source of the problem.

So a whole ton of illegal migrants rushed across the border -- designer luggage in tow, by the way -- and flooded into airports and through land entry points to a country where no housing was available to legal Canadians, let alone illegals.   

People born in Canada are most likely to be "pretty happy" (64 percent).  But for immigrants who have been here for 20 or fewer years, 48 percent claim to be "unhappy".  That's outrageous.  With all the free money given "you people" (to quote Grapes) one would think gratitude would play a part.  But no, they're just not happy.  Folks, there is a solution: Head back from whence you came.

Judging from old photos and descriptions of life for Irish, Scottish and English immigrants, who existed in sod houses and cave-like dwellings, I am sure they were just as unhappy.  But, unlike today's migrants, they endured, persevered and suffered much worse fates, but didn't complain.  In fact, they must have been a lot happier than had they stayed in Britain, subsisting and starving.

Christmas dinner for early settlers to Canada -- cabbage and potatoes -- a far cry from what immigrants enjoy now.

Angus Reid called this poll "Great Expectations or Bleak House?" and said it told "A Tale of Two Cities".

Very a propos, but with the iceberg that is China's looming war-chest buildup lapping at our unprepared, oblivious shores, it's time for everyone to buckle down and strap in.