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Deserters get second chance

Our wonderful government has managed to yet again insert its own head up its arse.

Their claiming that the American deserters might have a case here in the land of the beaver. The Federal courts ruled the Canada’s refugee board was mistaken in law when it denied asylum to them.

As I’ve mentioned in the past I have a long history with the Defense Department of Canada, so I think I’m qualified to comment on this. Like that would stop me anyways, but in this case it’s actually true.

These women and men all signed up to serve in what ever branch of the military they chose to, did so completely of their own free will. No one held a gun to their head, threatened or coerced them into this decision. I’m sure they benefited from the training and pay.

If our loony toon court system lets them stay here in Canada as refugees we’ll be saying more than you think. Let’s start with; it’s Ok for all deserters of the world to come here. Promote the fact that maybe Canadian soldiers should claim refugee status within our own country. Hell if it worked for Americans it should surely work for Canadians as well. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The biggest thing we would be declaring to the world would be the war against Iraq and Afghanistan are indeed illegal wars. Canada, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, only to mention a few, would all be party to killing both foreign combatants as well as our own citizens. I won’t even go into the scores of innocent civilians that have been killed by this so called illegal war.

I think you see my point, if we give these people asylum for a crime that they’re truly guilty of, we might as well pull our troops out of there right now and anywhere else we might be at this time.

Let these individuals face the music in their own countries for the crimes they are charged with and stop wasting my tax dollar in defending them. I can personally think of better things to spend it on and lawyers are not one of them.

 What they’re afraid of is prosecution not persecution.

Cheers.

Preaching Teacher

An Ohio town is split over the firing of a teacher, John Freshwater, who is accused of preaching in the classroom. This has in turn split the town into two over this.

When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that religion does not belong in a public school, isn’t that what churches are for? This so called teacher has been preaching the bible for some time in public schools contrary to his contract and state law.

The real issue is that the school board let this wacko go on for over 11 years, without dealing with the problems. This wonderful teacher has previously burned images of the cross into the arms of several students. That’s enough right there for me to stop and take this joker out back and teach him a few hard knock lessons of life, like do unto others as you’d have done to you, or something like that.

I mean seriously, a 5 year old has enough common sense not to do harm like that to someone else. The school board left this fellow, with his degree and superior intellect, in charge of our most precious commodity, our children.

The only reason half the town is up in arms is because they view the firing as a way to stifle their religion. Now what logical person could come to that conclusion knowing what we know about this guy?

Who knows how much money will be spent in defending and prosecuting this guy. Which we all know will most likely end with him being fired anyways, but what the heck let’s spend tones of cash on this. It’s not like there is anything else to do with it, like actually educating our children.

My thoughts are very clear on this, if Mr. Freshwater thinks that his methods of teaching are so grand he should go to work at a religious school. He could practice his medieval techniques on them. Apparently there’s at least half the town that would like to have him educate their sheep, er, I mean children.

Cheers.

Court upholds blood decision

In Vancouver B.C. the courts have ruled that a child’s right to life must override the parents right to determine what course of medical treatment their children will receive.

Unfortunately this is yet another case of religious rights versus individual rights. The parents, who are both Jehovah’s Witness, say that their religious rights should prevail over the right of their children’s right’s to receive medical attention, in this case a blood transfusion.

The mother gave birth to sextuplets, two unfortunately didn’t make it, and the remaining four were taken into custody because the parents would not let the doctors administer life saving blood transfusions. The parents have since then found their own expert witness that’s willing to say no medical intervention was necessary. Bull Shit!!!

 I don’t know about the rest of you, when it comes to my own children I would do everything that I could, short of killing someone, to save my little girls. Shouldn’t it be that instinctual to everyone?

I love it when people feel that their faith can cure anything, these are the same people who don’t mind imposing their belief on someone who can’t speak for themselves. I’m willing to bet if it were either one of these parents who needed the transfusion they would have found some sort of loophole in their faith or claimed divine intervention.

This next statement is for all those of you that are religious. If you choose to believe in a greater being, remember that that the text you are trying so desperately to follow was in most cases scripted approximately 2000 years ago by man himself.

Since then we have a few medical break throughs. I know this comes as a big surprise but people don’t die from mixing blood like they did 1000 years ago. Would everyone please start to thinking for themselves and stop relying on a book for your own survival.

If people insist on making bad choices like these parents, then you deserve to have your children taken away.

This is one case that I’m happy that the government is sticking its nose in. After all if it wasn’t for them, the four remaining babies would most likely be in the ground beside their siblings.

That’s my food for thought today.

Cheers.

Court overturns fathers grounding of 12-year-old

This story takes stupidity to an all new level. A father grounds his 12 year old daughter for not obeying him. He had told her to stay off the internet and she like many children disobeyed. She went online, chatted with friends and posted inappropriate pictures of herself.

The father took it to the next step; he did not allow her to go on a school trip. This is where this twisted story should end, but no, not in this world anymore.

She took her father to court. Right now you should be saying WTF I can’t afford a lawyer to protect my ass at anytime, but this little girl gets one so she can throw a tantrum.

Up to now I understand the girl’s frustrations, the father’s actions and possible even the money grubbing lawyer for accepting this case, well not really, that lawyer should be dis-barred from the practice for such stupidity. What I can’t and refuse to understand is what the hell the judge was smoking when he thought it was a good idea to override the father’s actions in this case. Does this self important twit think he has better parental skills than the parents who live with these children every day?

Butt the hell out, all you have accomplished is to spurn every parent out there as well as entice all children to sue their parents if they don’t get their way. I can just see it now, children of all ages will have a class action suit against the parents of the world because we make them eat their veggies.

This case just goes to show you that if you spare the rod you spoil the child. I don’t really believe in that old adage, but what are we teaching our kids?

This case should have been decided the moment the father grounded her, it’s a done deal little girl.

Sad to say but cases like this are just a symptom of a greater cancer, Youth Criminal Justice Act. We’ve coddled them far too long and haven’t held them accountable for any of their actions. Like all Frankenstein monsters it must kill its creator, the parents.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080618/canada/canada_child_court_offbeat

Cheers.

School crashes birthday party

I read this gem of a story the other day and couldn’t believe it. In Stockholm Sweden officials of a school confiscated an 8 year olds birthday party invitations. Now the reason these were taken, get this, it was discrimination because the boy didn’t invite two boys to his party. I mean how outrageous, who does this kid think he is in having a bloody opinion as to who comes to is party or not. Personally I think maybe he deserved a public flogging, Not!!

His father told these so called officials (we all know what these assholes really are, oops I said it anyways) that the two boys in question were not invited because one of them bullied his son and the other had not invited his son to his party.

Where were the rules when this boy was excluded from that party? Doesn’t it just seem wrong to force a child to invite someone who beats up on you to your party? As I have said in the past the damn inmates are running the asylum.  

How about the fact that maybe the parents might not be able to afford to host the entire bloody class. Does this mean that school is going to start paying for all the children they deem should go to this party? I didn’t think so either. Some one out there needs to set things straight and start using common sense again.

These are some really good lessons to teach our youth, individual opinions don’t count and we the ruling class can force you to our bidding. This is only going to foster real resentment on behalf of the children forced into these predicaments.

A true lesson could still be learned here if all the parents banded together and forced these officials to host and invite every parent to a BBQ including all drinks, after all we wouldn’t want to exclude anyone. When there pockets were a whole lot lighter they might understand the resentment they’re teaching these children. Pretty nice lesson don’t you think?

What’s next forced sleep overs, family vacations that include the entire class, reunions that are mandatory?? The insanity must stop now.

See you don’t have to go far to find the ridiculous and the sublime all in one place.

Cheers.

The Big Apology

 On June 11 2008 Canada made a formal apology to the natives of this country. All be it, too late in many peoples opinion.

I only wish this were true justice and meant an end to the problems that natives still experience in this country.

Prime Minister Harper gave a heart felt apology for the roll which Canada played in government sanctioned schools, which were designed to assimilate all native children into Canadian cultures. There’s only one problem, pointed out by many natives, which would be that the church should have been offering an apology as well.

It was in fact the church who ran the schools in which so many natives suffered sexual and physical abuse. There’s no argument that this is true, even the church admits it. So you have to ask, when is the church is going to pony up and accept their part in this tragedy? It seems Ok for tax payers to make compensation payments for abuse the church was responsible for and apparently the church gets a free pass on the issue.

The church is like any other business; they make a profit like all others, although they call themselves non profit, which we all know is a load of shit. That’s like saying MPI (Manitoba public insurance) is a non profit business as well. Well Guess what? MPI made $35 Million profit last year alone, who’s pocket is being lined by this so called non profit company? I say we make the church pay the lion’s share of all monies that go to compensate natives

Still Prime Minister Harper did his best in offering an official apology, which was a long time coming. Many natives said themselves they felt as though a weight had been lifted from their shoulders and they could start the healing process.

Now in typical fashion I let no one out of here unscathed or at least a good tongue lashing, and that includes some natives. Ya Ya, I know you insensitive bastard. Get over it; I’m still going to voice my opinion, which is my prerogative.

Some native are crying fowl over the school issue, oddly enough these tend to be the same people asking for insane amounts of cash to heal their scars. There’s only one problem, they weren’t even born yet. I mean it, not even a glimmer in Daddy’s eye. So how much sympathy can I have for someone that experienced none of the abuse?

Doesn’t there come a time to stand tall and be counted? Stop blaming society for all your problems and do something about it. Only then can you have true self respect. Just ask any native that’s living the so called good life.

Well back to the apology. I personally think it was the right thing to do. There had to come a time for Canada and natives to stop squabbling. Mind you this doesn’t let the government off the hook for all the real treaties to be honored.

The only reason I threw the word “real” into that last statement was because there are many fabricated treaties by natives that are as legitimate as my claim to planet Jupiter.

You think I’m kidding? Not too long ago there was a claim by a native band that was based solely on the fact that his great great great grandpappy said that they made a deal with the white man for some land. Time to get real man!

Well, I hope you liked this article as much as I did writing it. You just never know which way I’m going on some of these topics. Do you?

Cheers.

Women and Equality

I’m all for equality for all but not when it’s mandated by bloody stupid laws. All people should be hired for their credentials, plain and simple.

Again the Liberals in this country don’t understand that simplest of concepts. Dion the deplorable Liberal leader, hey I like the sound of that “Dion the Deplorable” we should officially name him that, wants to make a gender officer like the official language commissioner. We all know how well the official language laws work in this country. I guess if your French then you have no complaints but if your English, hell any other language you’re pretty much fucked.

They don’t understand why there are not as many women as men in politics. I would like to sit all the Liberals in this country down and have a talk about the birds and bees with these buffoons; it would go something like this. It’s a simple fact that men can’t have babies. For most of us intelligent people the conversation would end there, alas this is not the case with these geniuses. Women who choose to have babies have to take sometime off to tend to their little bundle of joy. Therefore they chose to spend less time in the workforce and more time concentrating on the more important task at hand. Making sure our next generation doesn’t turn out to be thieves and murderers.

I personally think that’s a pretty tough task for anyone. My hat’s off to all women that choose to stay at home and look after our next generation.

So the answer to the question “Why are there not as many women as men” is pretty evident. Don’t you think?

If we let these jerk offs impose more moronic laws like this one there will be no hope for us in the end.

The only way to make things right is to foster an environment that includes all with out playing favorites to anyone sect. Women will appreciate the fact that they were truly hired for their skills and not because Mr. Dion passed a law that forced an equal number of men to women ratio within the government.

What next; all pro sports will have to an equal number of women on each team?

I think you get my point.

Cheers.

Presidential Elections

Here we go with another election. Ding Ding let the fight commence.

 In one corner you have the heavy weight John McCain III, a senior United States senator with an impressive record to be sure. Oddly enough when he was younger, much younger, he was a lightweight boxer, kind of fitting for this article.

 At 71 some might make the mistake and write this guy off because of age, but with age, comes wisdom. I think savvy is a good word to describe him. He comes complete with war medals just like GI Joe, only much older. That always charms little old ladies and impresses the old salty dogs as well.

In the other corner you have Barack Obama. One would consider him the light weight in this match. Only 46, he offers what McCain can’t and that’s youthful vigor. He too is a United States senator, all be it only a junior, but none the less a senator. He has a law degree from Harvard, which might be seen as a weakness by some, especially me because I don’t trust lawyers as far as I can throw them.

Now that Obama has gone all 15 rounds with Hillary he can now claim his seat as the Democratic leader. That’s pretty good considering Hillary used her charm, along with her hubby, and managed to get the DNC (Democratic National Committee) to include the Florida and Michigan ballots. Which was a pure cheat, but smart at the time; both Hillary and Obama were told in the beginning that those States would not count, so Obama removed his name from the Michigan ballot. In the end Obama came out as the clear winner.

Interestingly enough though, when Obama was asked whether he sees himself as black or white, he says he’s black. That my friend is what we call using the race card, shrewd move although not entirely accurate. Barack Obama by his own admission has a black father and a white mother. So truth be told he’s a mix, not that it means Jack shit in my opinion. The American voter will work that conundrum out for themselves.

When all is said and done, I believe that McCain will be elected President of the United States. The American voters were not ready for a female president; they proved that with their votes once already. It’s still too early to decide if they’re ready for a black President either.

I like Barack’s demeanor but I don’t think it’s enough for him to win. The American voters are too uncomfortable with having a black or female President at this time, they will most likely vote for the old white boy. When in doubt, go with what’s worked in the past.

I hear my naysayers already. Let’s watch this to its eventual outcome and see who’s right. Anyone want to bet?

Cheers.

Peanut allergies in Canada

There is a lot of talk lately about peanut allergies and our children. The following is a quote from a website at; http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm#statistics

•  In Canada: According to Statistics Canada, there were 6 deaths due to food anaphylaxis in 1997 and 8 in 1998 in Canada (posted Oct 29th, 2000)
  • Attempts to obtain from Statistics Canada figures for subsequent years were unsuccessful because coding of deaths following WHO guidelines at this point in time cannot specify any deaths caused by anaphylaxis whether related to foods or other causes. (posted Jan 23d, 2004)

This is something to take very serious; however I believe that the schools are mismanaging the approach to children that do inadvertently bring items “That May Contain Peanuts.” When did it become policy to segregate the child that brings the offending package? Would it not make more sense to take the one child that has the allergy and educate them than punish the many? According to the website listed above “The incidence of food allergy in children is approximately 1.3% and among adults 0.3% according to Chandra (1997). ⁵”

That’s a small percentile, to have such sweeping powers as to how we deal with a child that has brought peanuts. A more common sense approach is needed, one that truly protects the children from exposure. The current setup would only foster a false sense of safety for the child and parents that have to deal with the life and death issue. There’s no way of monitoring what children keep in their pockets and what they consume when on the playground. After all they’re going to be using the same doorknobs and play structures as those who have nut allergies.

We need to educate the children about this issue and stop chastising and segregating the many children that accidentally or intentionally bring peanut products, by sending them to a separate room to eat their lunch alone. Doesn’t anyone care that this too has an effect on their self esteem or rights. It might be something as simple as the parents can’t afford anything more than a traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

It’s evident that some school boards get it, and have posted sites like this one advocating a more common sense approach as apposed to other school boards. http://www.toronto.ca/health/pdf/nm_peanut_allergies.pdf.

I read it, and guess what no where do they promote, suggest or say segregating any child for bringing peanut products.

Take care and watch what you eat, because no one else is.

Cheers.

Where does the recording/film industry get off on telling us that once you pay for a CD or DVD you can’t make a backup copy?

I have known for some time that you poor bastards in the States have been getting screwed by copyright laws. Now it looks like they want to stick their busy body noses into Canadian law as well.

To me it’s pretty clear cut as to how I handle my DVDs or CDs. I make backup copies of mine. If I choose to lend a copy to a friend at no cost, that’s my choice. In the States you can’t even think about making a backup copy without big brother looking over your shoulder and god forbid you lend it to anyone.

 Once you do that you’re an evil pirate making a profit. Hold on, didn’t I just say lend it at no cost? So if no money was made why should the originators profit from this?

Now I know all the legal jargon about the fact I might have been unjustly enriched, yada yada yada. That as we know is a bunch of hooey. The majority of us do make back up copies for that very purpose, a bloody backup. I’m also sure that there are a small percentage of evil doers that make illegal copies and sell them. I in no way condone that course of action.

There should be laws that give them adequate recourse for such illegal actions, but not at the cost of passing laws that make us all guilty right from the start. With that sort of thinking they should just start handing out the speeding tickets and lock us all up, we might just be thinking about it. Hell, this is just like the book 1984 by George Orwell.

In Canada I already pay an extra fee for blank CDs that are funneled to the recording industry. How could that be fair–Did I not pay for this item with my own hard earned cash? What happens when I buy and use these blank disks for the very purpose which they were intended, like burning all my photos from my vacations? Do I get a refund from these people who collected this money? I didn’t think so either.

We’re all being treated like thieves. What happened to a trial? At least the witches of the past were entitled to that much.  I haven’t done a bloody thing and yet I still pay for my potential theft. That statement should leave you shaking your head again.

Big brother, aka government, is being lobbied by special interest groups to make up these ridiculous laws and screw the little guy in the arse. Damn! I getting tired of this position can I please let go of my ankles?

The next question begs to be asked. What happens when they pass this fascists law, do all my legal backups become illegal? After all there is no way of knowing for sure when I made them.