Cuckoo over the Flu Nest

A movie must be made of this. The World Health Organization must be run by a committee of doctors who lack the ability to distinguish between the words "ambulance" and "ambivalence". The world needs an ambulance and they sent the latter.

Any freshly discovered disease should have triggered alarm bells. A pandemic stance should be adopted and then relaxed. They relaxed and then they appear to panic. A week ago little was known about the little virus that could.

Now more is known. Its an H1N1 virus commonly called Swine Flu. And nothing could be worse than to call it that. The appropriate name should have been something like Vera Cruz A.

Here's the reason. First off. They didn't exactly know the vectors then, and from all appearances they still don't. One would think that if it was possible for this virus could come from swine to human, it could also be possible for the virus to exist in another species. Mexico has a lot of species. According to testing, the likely origin of the virus has no virus activity in the local domestic pigs.

Wild pigs called Peccaries also exist in Mexico. When it comes to a virus no one really knows until much later when detailed study can be afforded. Eventually the viral vectors will be known but not likely in a short time. Every expert though, skirts around the issue that the virus effects only those Nahuaa seriously. Only people of Mexican Ameri-Indian heritage seem to be dying in any numbers. And that is interesting.

Another large issue with WHO is their assertion that travel bans and restrictions don't stop the virus. They are right in that way, but the goal is to slow the progress down. It buys time to build and produce a vaccine. Time also reduces plague by reducing the sheer quantity of illness and improving the virus mutations to a milder version. WHO is idiots, that's who.

However, the principle quirk of H1N1 class of virus. Simply banning sick people who show symptoms is too late. The disease has a very long primary phase where no symptoms show but has already achieved a high degree of contagiousness. In other words, when it shows, its already too late. You can wear masks but the simple patch mask shown worn by so many people don't work.

The very strange possibility for this virus is that this virus may be genetically selective. American First Nations called the Nahua seem the most susceptible. Youth seem very vulnerable. WHO stated that this may be the first genuine pandemic in forty years. It may be the first virulent form of "A" flu in forty years.

Any one who is older than 1964 carries a definite level of immunity or capability of coping with the disease because it was around the last time this type of pandemic occurred. I myself suffered considerably by several rounds of Type "A" Flu, then.

And back then, a lot of people did not know how to cope with influenza. There wasn't the social supports surrounding people back then. People still went to work ill. There wasn't a concept of sick days. People got fired for being sick and absent from work. Now most of society knows that when an individual becomes sick, stay home til you're better.

Also vaccines were cruder and not as effective back then. Many flu shots weren't the right type for the year. Modern mass communication alerts the social members into being proactive. Many more people get flu shots. This gives some protection by simply keeping the immune system active.

Despite the prevalence of junk foods today. When ill people change to the correct diet to cope. And those foods, select vegetables and fruits are available. Forty years ago, year round fresh fruits weren't always available.

Yes this round of influenza will be serious but not as bad as what the media loves to portray. If you do feel ill, put the feet up, keep and drink a large quantity of non-alcoholic beverage next to your sleeping hulk, and call in sick.

Patently obvious

Money slated for Toronto transit street cars may not come from the federal government. They are using the need for a quick plan of revitalization to make jobs. The feds promised the money,

Well that's the excuse. Throw in a couple of million bucks extra and things do go faster. Its business that the Cornservatives claim to know and understand.

The real reason for the reversal lies with Thunder Bay. Figure this out. They voted Liveral and for the Gnu Dummercrats.

Of course the Cornservatives did not come out and directly state that they wouldn't fund it. They let everyone hang. They will likely hold Thunder Bay to political ransom if they don't vote for the Cornservatives.

You know them TWNBMB. They were the ones that rescued their buddies on Bay Street who didn't know how to run banks but are employed by the corporate shareholders anyway. They the same government that spends billions smacking down poor turbined headed hill billies instead of funding rescue packages for their very own people.

So the Cornservatives figure not to fund the TTC streetcars til after the next general election which should be about 12 months from now if schedules being what they are. Toronto really doesn't need new street cars. They don't need street cars at all. Street cars congest traffic and are not efficient modes of public transit.

But the Cornservatives need a vote getter in Thumder Bay. The gun registry failed. Coopting the senile Comuzzi into the Cornservative fold did not work. But holding all of Tunder Bay to ransom might work. Worth a try.

Call me HN1 1N1, Call me collect, free delivery

Influenza sprung from the swamps of the ancient Aztec capital. Sweeping aside medical screens the virus sneaks inside future human corpses from the ponds of the temple to the far corners of Earth. Carried on the comfortable wings of Airbus and Boeing birds the tiny creatures penetrate all boundaries. Undertakers turn on the crematoria furnaces with grim faces and smiling hearts. Hail the coming contagion.

Contagion rules billions of quivering mutant primates accustomed to a cushion between their world and the real. They wait in constructions. Hiding eyes. Pleading to dying ears, “I'm not sick! I'm not sick.”

Underlining this lies the consummate insult. If contagion rises in Asia, it is called Hong Kong, Shanghai or Beijing Flu. Now, it rises in the nation of Mexico and called Swine Flu.

Towards a point in history

A war lost. Sitting with the Indian Ocean at their backs, at this moment the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam defend nothing more than a thin beach. Trapped with them are civilians. Victory for the Sri Lankan army appears certain.

If there is a proper way to end a civil war, the American Civil War seems the best demonstration. Upon surrender, mercy and clemency was shown to the losers. Part of the resistance to surrender on the part of the LTTE must be fear.

Many of the followers are Hindu, and all these familiar with the Baghavad Gita. Winning and losing matters little. Their defeat may indeed be written. They have a choice of sending out all those souls who are noncombatants if they chose. How one loses a battle, is more important than the victor's celebration.

Many of the Sri Lankan army holds the Buddhist Path. Doing the right thing solidifies that spiritual foundation. A victory is the same as a loss. The battle will be over. The war will be over. But there is history that will remember.

Anyone can start a war. This is easy to do. Ending a war, doesn't end with a treaty. It ends with blood lust being replaced by compassion and mercy. Victory comes to both sides after a long time of peace. Ending a war, is a very hard, a very long, and very worthwhile thing to do. Peace requires more courage than within battle.

Saved by the boom

Yesterday was a good day to be a roofing contractor. A storm swept through the city in the early, early evening. High winds ripped tiles off roofs, knocked out street lights, toppled trees, downed lines, and lifted those light fabric spring skirts.

People started the day anticipating a brilliant warm spring day. They got out and spent money. To finish the day with a storm is a definite plus to the local economies. People scrambled for cover. Dinners served cold making it a green day for the environment. It was a green day for the economy. Saturday gave the kind of day that is good for everything.

Told you so 1.

Memory lane here. Elections are not democracy in action. Instead they provide the mechanism for representative democracy. Its a farm run by turkeys.

One of those I told you so moments just came through. I had helped this particular person to win election in TWNBMB. The person was a capable administrator of the little empire but failed to provide a leader like vision for the community. One of the issues that I thought the council failed to understand was the fragility of northern economies.

The Ontario government was looking for sites for summer time casinos. At the time there mounted a strong opposition to the plan to put one in TWNBMB. Apparently, the presence of a gambling hall was beneath the moral level of the community. And the noses pierced the fucking stratosphere.

My point was that there wasn't a line for morality in the tax form. It would help stabilize the local economy. Diversity is the secret. Now TWNBMB was the same town that allowed a pedophile to run it for a dozen or so years. They preached morality?

I told the mayor that someday the mill and the mine might close. The presence of a casino would help diversify the retail sector. They closed their ears to the suggestion.

Anyhow. Ahem... Told you so. :))

Torrentrial Downpour

Came into the world today on the way to breakfast. Left the repast thinking there wasn't all that much to write about. Wrong oh. There are two major developments.

In the Pirate Bay case. Last week, the recording industry cheered as the executives of the Swedish website Pirate Bay faced imprisonment. Greed satiated by fair public trial. But one big screw up now faces Swedish justice. This just out into the news.

The judge, Tomas Norstram, failed to disclose before trial that he was a current member of two Swedish copyright association. And three representatives of the plaintiff companies, also happened to be members of the very same association.

Europeans have been very quick to state that the justice system of other nations was corrupt and biased. Pointy fingers waved at the United States court system.

Norstram stated that he didn't see any conflict of interest in this. Call it a hunch. I don't think the Swedish Supreme Court will see it exactly that way. A Supreme Court of any nation seeks to protect the integrity of its judicial image. Norstram could very well state that he is an unbiased neutral observer. To say that the fact of his association membership doesn't shed bias on the trial proves nothing, shows if not corrupt, the guy is a moron. It was a bonehead decision not to disclose this membership as a factual statement before trial.

At the very least, it will be a new trial.

Every day work

Only have a few moments. A portal in wireless cyberspace magically opened this morning. As a result, the time for portal use seems limited.

Can you remember times past when all the Canadian teams were dropping out of the Stunly Cup playoffs, one could really on Montreal Canadiens carrying the flag deep into the brackets. Not this time.

For the first time in mega centuries Boston Bruins busted the mighty Canadiens, sweeping them Montrealers out in four straight games. How freaking embarrasing. I believe that only leaves Vancoolver and Cowhellgary in the playoffs. There things don't look good. Vancoolver has Mutts Sundin.

And remember, here be a piece of advice. Take the town clown seriously. Unlike most. He still works everyday.

Foralaji

Types of cars say a lot about the owners. Walked by a carefully detailed BMW SUV this morning. Shiny black finish glowing impressively. White plop of bird poop on the rear panel. A moment of fiscal justice.

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Ivy looks wonderful on buildings. Green against the red brick. People new to a large city buy these buildings. Old home owners know better. The roots of the ivy feeds on brick mortar. Costs thousands to fix every two decades. Looks nice.

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Don't buy a building with painted brick. After two decades the brick crumbles. It needs to breathe.


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All these have hidden subtexts. But today I don't want to figure those out.

Scare a decade

This year is the year. Its ten years after. Ten years ago, this coming December was "00/00/00" and the great Y2K scare.

We should plan an online celebration that momentous day. At "10/00/00" at 23:59hrs UMT (Greenwich Mean...), . Everyone who has an internet connection should send a group email to all their contacts. All within the same minute.

We need a cause. This is to back the censorship of the old money thieves of the recording companies agains Pirate Bay. Its a protest. The Pirate Bay is only one sore point. Greed seems to be taking over the internet when originally it was supposed to be commercial free. We can do this.

And if asked before hand or warned by authorities. Simply say no that you aren't going to do it. Just get online at one minute before midnight UMT (1859 EST) this coming Dec 31 and send out at least one email preferably a group. The email can say anything. eg. Happy New Year

Wheee... Fun.

(18:59 hrs) EST

Rudimentary my dear Whatson

Tides can change a war or conflict. The Tamils are losing the war in Sri Lanka finally in a bloody final standoff. The "west friendly" Afghan government is about to implement a law that will out Taliban the Taliban.

Questions always arose as to the worthiness of the Afghan mission. Adrift in violence for centuries the long isolated Afghani are descending back into the Dark Ages no matter the political structure. The Afghan government selectively decided to implement a law that states a woman cannot turn down sex to her husband. Other associated loss of rights are included but this one clause points to the mentality of all male political leaders in Afghanistan. Basically after all this enlightened dying, half the population wouldn't have any human rights.

Almost 120 Canadians died to ensure that the Afghan people, not their government, possesses individual rights above the political and judicial process. Even Nazi Germany didn't go this far. If the law is passed by the Afghan legislative council, Canada shouldn't wait two years before withdrawing its troops.

He's back! The immortal mad monk.

This wasn't my idea. One very intellectual friend* looked at a picture of Ovechkin during the hockey replays. He said that "They must be related. He looks like..."

Scary. He does.

Pictures don't lie. Rasputin's back from the dead!!!


* "...Grigori Rasputin. It explains everything."

**"The name of this expert observer is Patrick R. Carstens."

Update - Misappointment

A misappointment is like a disappointment but not as serious. It is no surprise at all.

Mel Gibson the self righteous got served with divorce papers via his lawyers. Apparently, this has been two years or more in the works. Gibson received the news according to the gossip papers while in Costa Rica busing with blondie.

The first Oksana was not 25 as per her Wikipedia of yesterday but 31 years old. Then again Russians are on the metric system. Different calendars and watches are needed in that system. It was a development that P.E. Trudeau never anticipated. He was into metric screws in a big way.

Yes the first Oksana in the previous post, declared that she was now married and preggers. She did not say who the father was though. According to her she gave Mel a private piano recital.

The second Oksana yelped that she was the one that Mel had a thing for. They were serious. The only problem with serious was that according to the rumor mongers, she was not in Costa Rica for the divorce squeezings.

When one part of trash hits the sidewalk, it seems all the trash makes it out to the curb side. Mel allegedly has had about six affairs within the last two years. This includes a Costa Rican vacation for Britney who uses the last name Spears. Spears by the coincident way... a bleach blonde.

Robyn Gibson nee Moore, understands the issue. Half his fortune will be gone for all the philandering. He wasn't even quite discreet about it. Its a case from courtship to court.

Morality and the uncommon

It seems that morality shifts for the extremely devout, when inconvenienced. Mel Gibson will get an annulment from the Catholic Church. His wife of 28 years, Robyn Moore, happens to be an Anglican future ex-wife headed for divorce court.

Despite proclaiming to the world several years ago just about what a great guy he is, what a great family guy he is, and what a beacon of morality he was. He fooled around with several mistresses since he sent Christ to the cinema.

Gibson seems to favor Russians recently for his amours. According to the Canberra Times, the female companion on Gibson's recent vacation in Costa Rica went by the name of Oksana Kolesnikova. The British tabloids claimed that the dish served hot was Oksana Prochepa.

Now lets have a lineup. Both go by the name Oksana. Since Gibson obviously is a Conservative type. He will pick a blonde for a mistress. If he fools around buying jewelry for Oksana will be easier to hide if all of his paramours are Oksana. Not a bad plan.

A plan except for the paparazzi who manage to fly all over the place following people of notoriety. And a person who makes their living by having fame, cannot exactly turn it off at a convenience. The first and second pics are of Koleniskova. The next two are of Procepa. It is for your edification of course.

Now the confusion reigns while Mel hits the legal business that will deprive him of at least one half of his present assets. Lots of speculation exists on just which is the unlucky girl.

Personal choice aside the females are neither forthcoming with denials. Indeed both appear to be claiming the prize. Prochepa claims the relationship is "serious". Koleniskova does likewise by saying Oksana is such a common name in Russia. However, this was an Oksana in Costa Rica. Maybe there was two?

Both are about the same age, 25 and 24 respectively. Both are chanteuses which is fancy talk for singers. Both would interact in the glamor world accessible by the world's elite. While these photos compare a remarkably similar hair style, the Costa Rica vamp was more brown hair.

Sigh. It is too bad the guys on the bottom of the social ladder can see the reality of this situation. Gibson is an old guy. The only difference is that he is a rich, and old guy. The common man must look on in an envy tempered with a touch of approval. The gold diggers march on over the corpses of the old and stupid. In this we recall the sorry tale of Paul McCartney who must know that if he were poor he sleeps alone. Heather Mills got more out of him than he bargained. Gibson did not have a prenuptial agreement. Its all for love. The rich old guys like to screw the young things and the young things like to screw back. And this circle happily revolves into tomorrow.

Gibson appears not to have been burdened with the detail that he broke God's Covenant. He apparently missed the point of the movies that he made. He is not only an actor. Like any complex person, he does possess other unrelated talents.

Most of Gibson's wealth began with acting but the bulk of his present fortune now comes from wise real estate investments. It helps to have the down in cash.

Usually Gibson portrayed heroes. So much did he, it might have tarnished the view of himself. Had he stuck to acting instead of laying a layer of self righteous religious morality schtick, then few if any observers would be inwardly amused by the widespread public decline of his image.

It must confuse some who tie their beliefs of a person's character to an on screen portrayal by an actor. Devoted fans often attach the morality of the play's or movie's principal character to that of the offstage character of the performer. How often have we seen where actors seem to acquire those traits. Caroll O'Conner, who portrayed Archie Bunker, was beloved by Republicans despite the fact that O'Conner lined up with the left wing of the Democratic Party offscreen. He was a beacon of liberal thinking who had conservative devotees.

Mel Gibson is no William Wallace. Wallace endured privation, hardship and a tortured execution. to secure the identity of the Scottish nation to this very day some 700 years later. His was a life of deed. Gibson on the other hand appears now a self centered hypocrite who lacked the courage and selflessness to remain chaste and true to his vows. Its an interesting flow of events.

What moral possessed Gibson to lay out a lifestyle and not adhere to it? Its difficult to believe that Gibson thought he could get away with a public image of virtuosity, yet keep up a randy private life hidden from exposure. Assign that attitude to a level of extreme arrogance.

Of course, I must confess. Confession is good for the soul. You listening Mel?

Normally I couldn't give a flying floo-doo about Mel Gibson's personal life. However, it gives a damn good excuse to include the pictures of a couple of very pretty girls in this blig. Every blig needs this sort of thing every so often. It keeps interest says a confidant. Use graphics he says. I am. I am.

Save dis mutt.

Look into those eyes. This lost puppy is yet to find a proper home. Rescued from the cruel life of the stuffed puppy mill in a carnival this poor little guy remains alone although in a safe place. Everyone in that house denies knowing, or acknowledging just who the owner is.

The Toronto Humane Society rejected the appeal to have them find a place for this little guy. They are big into biologicals in a discriminating way. Send your support, email, spiritual or really appreciated is financial and I will forward it onto this poor, frail, lonely little dog.

Blag updates - New series

A new series is coming to this blog. This blog is the "only" source for an author who uses the pen name "D'Committio". One easily understands the reasons of another name when you, the reader understands the subject of this author. Its to protect. Its to use.

The focus of D'Committio concerns the prevalent influence over the Canadian political scene by a little known secret society called the "Aluminanutti". Readers are not to copy or distribute this material since widespread knowledge could lead to the demise of this courageous author.

You may have read some of this author's work in other places. You wouldn't know exactly due to the depth of security within which this person must work. She or he is an insider in the exact position to know. By spreading the plans of the Aluminanutti, this person seeks to counteract the power of this secret organization.

D'Committio told me in a secret email a few days ago... A lotto thingsa dey do issa very bad. A lotto thingsa dey do issa good. Itta depends on which way the toiletta spinsa dere buddy.

Quiet now, new career.

Must find work. Must find work that doesn't hurt my back. Must find an employer willing to take on such a worker.

A new search. I have decided on a career. I am now Canada's first and only professional Radio Mime.

Kuebler reinstated

Apparently a military justice agreed with this blag and other expert legal opinion. Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler's fierce defense of Omar Khadr earned the wrath of his commanding officer. Kuebler appealed to the justices on the hearing. And they agreed that only Khadr, the defendent, possessed the legitimate power to fire a defense attorney.

Khadr and others (with the exception of the US Department of the Navy) appear impressed with the unforgiving vigor of Kuebler's defense of Khadr. Colonel Masciola presented Kuebler as incompetent dispite the obvious fact that Kuebler frustrated the kangaroo nature of Masciola's position.

Colonel Masciola represents the Pentagon's choice to defend Khadr. Perplexingly Masciola is also the senior officer in charge of the prosecution of Khadr. He is both accuser and defender. It is a strange arrangement hatched by the Pentagon brain trust. Masciola drips with conflicting interests. His career only benefits if he manages to have Khadr hang. Kuebler on the other hand leads an able defense of Khadr.

Masciola and the Pentagon chose Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler because this man is a Republican, and a deeply religious Christian, a man of the right kind of morals. At first view, this would be the complete worst person to represent Khadr. But what has confounded his superior officers is that Kuebler also possesses a deeply seated sense of ethics. It must be a sense of ethics that most of the US Department of the Navy lacks. Kuebler believes that he must defend Khadr with enthusiastic vigor in the trueist definition of democratic justice, despite the difference in cultural views and despite the fact that Khadr is for all tenses an enemy of the United States.

Kuebler appears to be one of those rare individuals with very strong sense of morality. Khadr seems to respond positively to this honesty wishing that Kuebler continue to be his defense attorney. I know my opinion counts for little. But I am overwhelming glad this person continues.
Someday William Kuebler must run for the office of President of the United States. He is the right stuff.

The conviction of democracy

Two days ago on April 7th, 2009, an event passed which did not seem to register on the Canadian or USA news media. That day in history carries a lot of momentous events. Its just one of those days.

According to myth the internet was created on the seventh. The World Health Organization organized on that day. It is a crowded sort of day. Significantly, this day carries what will be the single most important day to be recognized. Not today, not tomorrow, but the recognition grows as time moves on.

In Peru, a three judge panel ruled that former President Alberto Fujimori, 70, was guilty as charged on human rights abuses. According to the courts of Peru, Fujimori guided the work of the Grupo Colina death squad. The result encouraged the judges to administer a 25 year sentence. Due to the age of Fujimori, this becomes a life sentence.

Fujimori becomes the first democratically elected national political leader to be so convicted of human rights abuses. The implications carry into our own political environment. The nations participating in this legal exercise, Chile and Peru are not traditionally thought of as champions of democracy.

To measure this implication in our own nation, it would be as if Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King was convicted of human rights abuses that the Canadians of Japanese ancestry suffered during the Second World War. He would also be convicted for turning away boats of German Jewish refugees fleeing the holocaust. The reason for that sentence would be because he was the leader of the Government of Canada s executive Cabinet and therefore responsible for these human rights outrages.

In the case of the USA, former President George W. Bush could be charged and convicted with human rights abuses regarding Guantanamo prisoners and the War against Iraq. These charges originating and trials conducted within the boundaries of the United States itself.

So while the latter political leaders escape justice, Fujimori did not. And this is historically significant when it comes to the perception of criminality. For once governments such as Peru and Chile have led the way into establishing the legal limits of demogratic leadership. During the history of legal action on human rights it is usually totalitarian governments that suffered such legal sanction while that of the democratic leader escaped safe in the knowledge that a plurality of his own citizens gave mandate to his or her abuse.

In that way, I believe that this date an event equivalent to Magna Carta occurred. Even democratically elected leaders can be held legally responsible for their actions against their own citizens. Its significant.

Perplexing is that the national medias in North America missed the point of the legal event between Peru and Chile. Adding to the point of the issue was that the foreign relations between Peru and Chile were very much strained due to a long standing border dispute. Indeed, at that time a full border war could have exploded. Yet the Chileans over looked the heated temperature between their nations. The Chileans requested that Peru present the legitimate evidence supporting the accusations against Fujimori. Peru did so.

Upon this the Chilean judges conducted an examination subsequently ruling that Fujimori must be extradited to face trial. As a consequence of this legal co-operation Fujimori faced justice and incarceration for crimes during his political tenure. The conviction and sentence of Fujimori must rip through the comfortable environment that all democratic elected politicians feel. A moment in time, and history happened.

I once was a old coyote but I'm OK No-ooo-oo-oo-ooow

A coyote called "Neville" by the uppity Beaches residents finally got trapped by local officials. These officials were going to euthanize the critter. Euthanize being the kind word for "exterminate without prejudice". And exterminate without prejudice means murder in the bureaucratic order of mealy mouthedness.

First, they wanted it gone because its prey species happened to be their little darling pets. To top it off the same group were very likely feeding the thing.

Taxpayers will be billed for the transfer of the critter to outside the range from which it would return. The commonly accepted range is about 150 miles or well north of Barrie. This means the cost of a truck, at least two MNR officers and veterinarians at the very least. There has to be at least a dozen more police, politicians, news liasons, secretaries and so on... who are all paid. This option is ten of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money.

Some wit actually stated that shooting the thing would be cheaper. Not so. First it would involve police sharpshooters. Then senior officers approvals. Reports would be generated. It would be cheaper yes but not the fifty cents for a bullet. Indeed, I think the price of one hunting round is about $1.30 at the moment.

Even funnier, one of the tree huggethers told the newspapers that coyotes were an endangered species. Just where do these urban wilderness freaks get their information? Coyotes are about as endangered as the human race. Once one pest becomes extinct, the other will die off too. As the Lakota legend goes coyotes and humans are related. Of course, that is just theory on their part.


The cheapest option is to offer a bounty and let poachers do their job to exterminate species.

Holier than thou.

Snow again. Yippee! And cold too. This all of course backfired.

I went for a blood test this morning. Born and growning up in TWNBMB and its horrificly subarctic climate meant that my veins and arteries run deeper than most.

Oh yes! It took some time to poke around in some dry holes but the very beautiful (inside and outside) nurse finally established a blood transfer. It took the poor woman about twenty minutes to do a two minute test.

The doctor decided I should get monthly tests for a while. Hey I am hole-ier than you.

Blood justice

No justice system in the world exists in such a hypocritical delusion as does the United States justice system. In its wisdom, the United States Department of the Navy dismissed Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler. Working for the JAG, Kuebler provided effective defence for Omar Khadr beyond the taste of the US Navy's liking.

The supervising officer for the defense is also the supervising officer for the prosecution. The "boss" complained that Khadr's defense had been mismanaged. It must have been the only committee in the world that thought so. Kuebler had made the prosecution look like idiots.

I always thought that only the defendant had the right to fire their lawyer. Kuebler even revealed to all that it was a question at all whether Khadr had fired his weapon let alone killed the Medic William Speer by throwing a grenade. It was a messy engagement. The Americans being quite brutal in their treatment of victims. Only Khadr survived on the assault. An American Sargeant had ordered a soldier to kill the stunned Khadr who had been shot in the back as he leant up against a wall facing away from attackers.

Murder in a theatre of war is like a parking ticket at West Edmonton Mall. Khadr was only 15 making him technically a child soldier. As a guerrilla he was at the lowest rung in the unit. It is totally amazing that Khadr presents such a threat to the United States that they would go through all this manipulation to convict. Its like killing a bug with a howitzer.

Whether one agrees with the politics of Khadr or not. As a Canadian born person, he deserves to be freed into Canada. Below is some email contacts.

If Khadr was tried as a Canadian it would have been for manslaughter. If guilty then, he would be released by now. The Canadian government however fails to secure Khadr's release. As a combatant ally of the United States, it is entitled to charge Khadr and conduct his trial.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson, Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs) Deepak Obhrai, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day expressing your concerns on Omar Khadr.To: Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Emerson.D@parl.gc.ca, Obhrai.D@parl.gc.ca, Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca, Day.S@parl.gc.caPlease c.c. opposition party leaders and foreign affairs critics at:c.c. DionS@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca, Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Dewar.P@parl.gc.ca, CreteP@parl.gc.caAlso, please c.c. CAIR-CAN at:

Yum YuMMM

Scanning the newspapers, the outrage of last week appeared in several newspapers. Subject sought to drum up sympathy of every animal lover anywhere. In a city like this through, the entire scope of the animal kingdom extends only to dogs and cats.

The humorously named city department responsible is of course, the City of Toronto Animal Services. The Toronto Humane Society, another humorously named organization, accused Animal Services of terminating about 25,000 dogs and unknown quantities of putty tats over the period of the last five years.

True and terrible information. Expressions of outrage must stream forth. It is an example of the callousness of city employees when it comes to those basic heart wrenchingmentals.

Indeed it is outrageous that these poor defenceless animals should be killed so needlessly. Euthanasia seems to have stepped up a notch, when it comes to the size of carnage. Any sane intelligent person would call this a wasteful slaughter.

Dogs and cats have provided humans with a tasty low fat, low cholesterol diet alternative for centuries. And the livestock is grown within the city boundaries which removes a lot of the cost of transportation. Its freely available livestock grown close to market. Such a protein provides fresh meat into the food bank system and feed needy people. Like me. Yummmy.

Beee BeeP!

Beach Coyote took several pets to eat right in the view of their screaming masters. Small dogs and cats are tasty little morsels wasted by emotion. Coyotes are such sensible creatures. They know what human slave animals are tasty, useful and nutritious.

One or a pair moved into the heart of the city. While inner city denizens usually want to see nature, they rarely wish to personally experience nature. Coyotes have common sense. If you catch something. Eat it.

And the angst. All of a sudden, all the tree huggers have popped up their heads and told the City not to kill the coyotes. Live trap and transport them was okay. They don't know much about coyotes. One of the hardest animals to trap and catch is a coyote. The critters don't like it.

Lucky, the city officials could be chasing that road runner. Then they'd be the fools.

Totally dum ad

In the Toronto Sun a couple of days ago, Koodoo inserted this full page ad. Frankly, it is one of the most racist images I've seen in quite a while. And lord knows, I am not exactly the most politically correct person. My limits of tolerance are extremely liberal.

A presumption, this is supposedly some sort of caricature. Usually caricature artists prefer to emphasize the prominent features. Caricatures are simply drawn images of an individual.

In this case this toony ad is supposed to be representative of a person of African American heritage acknowledging the worthwhile aspects of the Koodoo wireless phone network. In short, the caricature is of the artist's impression of a race. It is staggeringly cliché in every single aspect.

If in the chance that the artist him/herself is themselves of African heritage doesn't change the principle stance. It simply means that the artist doesn't have a very good self-image. Surprisingly, I haven't heard of any complaint. Images such as this are in essence a violation of the Hate laws of this country.