Apparently in the case of the Sunrise Propane explosion of 810, the Toronto Sun reports that the operators of the gas plant allowed truck to truck transfers. For any gas, this is not allowed. Note that I once worked as a gas plant operator in Edmonton.
If true the operators of Sunrise should be criminally charged for allowing and encouraging such a practice. The operator that was handling the transfer lost his life due to his inexperience. He was only a foreign student working in the summer.
The reason that truck to truck transfers are not allowed is that vehicles notoriously have bad grounding. One of the trucks may have had a higher electrical static (capacitance) charge compared with the other. The reason that all trucks must transfer to and from a tank is that the tank can be fully grounded. Trucks that operate on rubber tires can hold a charge and if tying to another truck there is a very good change of a very good spark. A spark is a good source of ignition.
Since the employee was only a summer guy, there is no way that he would have chosen this method of transfer unless he was told to do so. Does one expect the owners of Sunrise to be charged criminally? No. This is Canada.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Reassurance
This is Ontario. Step into an elevator. Look for the elevator operating certificate. Observe the lower part of framed and glassed document. There exists or should exist a round image or logo with TSSA on the center bar.
The elevator is inspected by the very same Ontario government agency that over saw the safety and operation of the exploded Sunrise Propane facility. Happy elevating.
The elevator is inspected by the very same Ontario government agency that over saw the safety and operation of the exploded Sunrise Propane facility. Happy elevating.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Darn it
The Rogers Communications Empire swallowed almost all of the Toronto broadcasting stations including Moses Znaimer's once experimental City - TV. Znaimer it should be noted left art for the dollar when he began selling out his assets to buyers years ago.
There were many good programs on CITY. CITY trained many good on air personalities. CITY shared owners and facilities with MUCH Music. Alas the world of commerce led by the grey eminence of Ted Rogers.
While CityTV created many interesting personalities, it was also visionary. It hired an eccentric but skilled weather forecaster by the name of Harold Hussein. It worked with Harold Hussein. It was the first station to actively assign a regular reporter to cover the environmental beat years before the environment saviorship became fashionable.
One of these shows featured a sock puppet by the name of "Ed the Sock". The character was a grumpy curmudgeon who could insult and comment on almost anything. The Ed and Red show could not withstand the sanitizing effect, and dumbing down of CITY TV. Ed and Red have been anyting but politically correct. This coming weekend the Roger's Empire have broken the backs of free artistry by canceling the TV show.
I'm for a resounding BOOOO!
reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_the_Sock
There were many good programs on CITY. CITY trained many good on air personalities. CITY shared owners and facilities with MUCH Music. Alas the world of commerce led by the grey eminence of Ted Rogers.
While CityTV created many interesting personalities, it was also visionary. It hired an eccentric but skilled weather forecaster by the name of Harold Hussein. It worked with Harold Hussein. It was the first station to actively assign a regular reporter to cover the environmental beat years before the environment saviorship became fashionable.
One of these shows featured a sock puppet by the name of "Ed the Sock". The character was a grumpy curmudgeon who could insult and comment on almost anything. The Ed and Red show could not withstand the sanitizing effect, and dumbing down of CITY TV. Ed and Red have been anyting but politically correct. This coming weekend the Roger's Empire have broken the backs of free artistry by canceling the TV show.
I'm for a resounding BOOOO!
reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_the_Sock
Friday, August 22, 2008
Third party profit
Squeals of burning rubber pierce the night as the usual car takes off on the light change to green. It matters little whether the car on the side next is going to race. Drivers take off from the lights all the time, roaring onto the next red light a block away.
Many people win half a dozen races every rush hour. Goodyear rubber makes a profit.
Many people win half a dozen races every rush hour. Goodyear rubber makes a profit.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Maple Laughs not so much
Justice in this world comes hard on the heels of those deserving. Mayor David Miller keeps trying to explain away his absence by saying that he was with his family to celebrate a daughter's 13th birthday. That's birth "Day" not "Birthweek" Dave. So. No one's buying it. Simply say, ya right... ha ha. Laugh it away.
Considering the fact that there is monster maladministration by the NHL hockey Maple Leafs, its not surprising that a company hosting the same moniker also scores on own goal. It is in the name Adolf.
Then on his return, he is confronted by the closure of the Maple Leafs Plant and the recall of thousands of pounds of meat. It remains an ironic muse to notice that now here is a lot of political porkers finally wondering "Where's the beef?"
Considering the fact that there is monster maladministration by the NHL hockey Maple Leafs, its not surprising that a company hosting the same moniker also scores on own goal. It is in the name Adolf.
Then on his return, he is confronted by the closure of the Maple Leafs Plant and the recall of thousands of pounds of meat. It remains an ironic muse to notice that now here is a lot of political porkers finally wondering "Where's the beef?"
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Left is always right
Education can be confusing. Even a little bit of education muddles. From this derives a sense of deception by educators.
Proof lies in the right hand, left hand description. In school, the kindergarten teachers teach that the hand on the left hand of your body is the left hand and the right side and right hand the same.
In our journey studying school in science we learn about the body and all the nuances of biology. In studies of law, we learn that the owner, the operator of machinery is responsible for the operation of a piece of equipment.
The name of that equipment belongs to the owner. For instance, this tractor is Charlie's John Deere or this is Jack's snow blower. Thats a prime lesson in the study of business law.
Students learn later in science education thousands of little trivial facts. One of these is that the right hand is controlled by the left side of the brain. The left hand controlled by the right side of the brain. The brain controls almost all of body function including the hands.
By our business law model then the correct definition is that what you thought was the right hand is actually the left hand. And the left hand should really be called the right hand since it is controlled by the right side of the brain. Then the right hand is actually the left and the left is actually the right hand.
Remember this next time you talk to your hands. Incorrect naming is probably why they are angry at you.
Proof lies in the right hand, left hand description. In school, the kindergarten teachers teach that the hand on the left hand of your body is the left hand and the right side and right hand the same.
In our journey studying school in science we learn about the body and all the nuances of biology. In studies of law, we learn that the owner, the operator of machinery is responsible for the operation of a piece of equipment.
The name of that equipment belongs to the owner. For instance, this tractor is Charlie's John Deere or this is Jack's snow blower. Thats a prime lesson in the study of business law.
Students learn later in science education thousands of little trivial facts. One of these is that the right hand is controlled by the left side of the brain. The left hand controlled by the right side of the brain. The brain controls almost all of body function including the hands.
By our business law model then the correct definition is that what you thought was the right hand is actually the left hand. And the left hand should really be called the right hand since it is controlled by the right side of the brain. Then the right hand is actually the left and the left is actually the right hand.
Remember this next time you talk to your hands. Incorrect naming is probably why they are angry at you.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Options
When it comes to politics, few Canadians participate due a large dose of anguished apathy. As long as perception holds firm the idea that despite all the problems there is good order and government, there appears little protest.
That day maybe coming to an end. Mayor Miller's and the Toronto deputy mayor's absence sparks the issue about democracy. Voters tend to vote for the person that best mirrors them. However after 810, there is sparked a political movement. Miller returned to vacation in BC.
That day maybe coming to an end. Mayor Miller's and the Toronto deputy mayor's absence sparks the issue about democracy. Voters tend to vote for the person that best mirrors them. However after 810, there is sparked a political movement. Miller returned to vacation in BC.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Arithmatic message
Mayor David Miller's performance during the last couple of days since 810, appears wanting. 810 is the day that the Sunrise propane explosion occurred. So far he has not accepted Toronto council's responsibility for anything to do with the mini-disaster.
Today the death toll rose to two. An unidentified body has been found at the disaster site. A Sunrise employee is listed as missing. One of the top field chiefs of the fire department "Bob Leeck" passed away. Initially natural causes were given as the chief's cause of death. This claim has been muted because the cause of death may not be natural.
Yet Mayor Miller claims that it is a provincial regulator that is responsible for the mishap. What a lack of leisurely responsibility. Miller blamed it on old bylaws. Yet ultimately who is the politician that is most responsible for being the guardian of the municipal citizen. If there is an emergency of any sort, its the mayor's job to assume responsibility for emergency action according to the Ontario Municipal Act.
Before any sort of law, it is the Mayor and council's job to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Otherwise the math of this equation is that the councilors of Toronto failed in their duty and are the ones that are immediately responsible. Casting blame is unseemly but a weapon of choice for this lame mayor. He is a person who shows little or no leadership needed in a mayor. One hundred homes lay waste as a result.
The mayor states that it is the old municipal bylaws that are to blame. But ask yourself which political body is most responsible to update, and maintain those bylaws. It is council. It is math. Math comes after arithmatic. And after the Math it is the aftermath. In the Toronto aftermath, no one is to blame.
Today the death toll rose to two. An unidentified body has been found at the disaster site. A Sunrise employee is listed as missing. One of the top field chiefs of the fire department "Bob Leeck" passed away. Initially natural causes were given as the chief's cause of death. This claim has been muted because the cause of death may not be natural.
Yet Mayor Miller claims that it is a provincial regulator that is responsible for the mishap. What a lack of leisurely responsibility. Miller blamed it on old bylaws. Yet ultimately who is the politician that is most responsible for being the guardian of the municipal citizen. If there is an emergency of any sort, its the mayor's job to assume responsibility for emergency action according to the Ontario Municipal Act.
Before any sort of law, it is the Mayor and council's job to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Otherwise the math of this equation is that the councilors of Toronto failed in their duty and are the ones that are immediately responsible. Casting blame is unseemly but a weapon of choice for this lame mayor. He is a person who shows little or no leadership needed in a mayor. One hundred homes lay waste as a result.
The mayor states that it is the old municipal bylaws that are to blame. But ask yourself which political body is most responsible to update, and maintain those bylaws. It is council. It is math. Math comes after arithmatic. And after the Math it is the aftermath. In the Toronto aftermath, no one is to blame.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Windy booms
Sitting by the window at the computer early Sunday morning I too heard the rolls of what I thought was distant thunder. Fortunately, Sunday isn't the best time to listen to ESPN radio. TV sucks in the early morning hours. So I had 680News the all news radio channel on.
Not that 680 is all that good either. They don't do much news normally. Most of the time its in house advertising every two minutes or so telling everyone of how they do the news. You might get a story or so in between the advertisements.
But that AM they had breaking news right on the four am newscast. There was explosions in North York by Downsview. Well it was mayhem and confusion. They had five different virgins of the same story.
It took almost to 7:00 am by the time they had the story all sort of straight, they did report the massive sudden evacuation that took place. That thunder I heard was the explosions ten miles away.
Its strange. I mean the aftermath. The post partem period is worse than the actual events. Basically all the safety devices on propane tanks worked. Everything exploded upwards. They may never know what caused the explosion. Propane fires are like that.
My educated guess is that it was some kind of spark. Thunder had been in the area and could have left a charge in the industrial framing or the actual tanker truck. One or both were not grounded correctly. A tanker driver fortunately escaped the fire. Only one person is missing and if they had been caught inside the plant, they are likely dead.
One fire fighter died indirectly due to the fire suppression activity. 18 more fire fighters went to hospital for treatment. Fighting these kinds of fire is not easy. But to the credit, of the fire departments involved, this fire was contained within the site.
Later in the day though, Julian Fantino, the publicity seeking head of the OPP, couldn't wait to get onTV and give his pointless little point. The only thing the OPP did was to close down the 401. And even that took them a couple of hours to figure it out. What a putz.
Not that 680 is all that good either. They don't do much news normally. Most of the time its in house advertising every two minutes or so telling everyone of how they do the news. You might get a story or so in between the advertisements.
But that AM they had breaking news right on the four am newscast. There was explosions in North York by Downsview. Well it was mayhem and confusion. They had five different virgins of the same story.
It took almost to 7:00 am by the time they had the story all sort of straight, they did report the massive sudden evacuation that took place. That thunder I heard was the explosions ten miles away.
Its strange. I mean the aftermath. The post partem period is worse than the actual events. Basically all the safety devices on propane tanks worked. Everything exploded upwards. They may never know what caused the explosion. Propane fires are like that.
My educated guess is that it was some kind of spark. Thunder had been in the area and could have left a charge in the industrial framing or the actual tanker truck. One or both were not grounded correctly. A tanker driver fortunately escaped the fire. Only one person is missing and if they had been caught inside the plant, they are likely dead.
One fire fighter died indirectly due to the fire suppression activity. 18 more fire fighters went to hospital for treatment. Fighting these kinds of fire is not easy. But to the credit, of the fire departments involved, this fire was contained within the site.
Later in the day though, Julian Fantino, the publicity seeking head of the OPP, couldn't wait to get onTV and give his pointless little point. The only thing the OPP did was to close down the 401. And even that took them a couple of hours to figure it out. What a putz.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
City Mismanager needed
Unreal is the word. Democracy in its basic form is being subverted by a power hungry mayor. Shirley Hoy, City Manager of Toronto, resigned over differences with the ever cliquish council and mayor.
Instead of having an open competition for the position, Toronto Mayor, David Miller, is arbitrarily selecting a candidate of his choice. No vote. No choice. No examination of the candidate credentials. So much for Democracy. So much for the city of Toronto. So begins the rule of the entitled class.
Instead of having an open competition for the position, Toronto Mayor, David Miller, is arbitrarily selecting a candidate of his choice. No vote. No choice. No examination of the candidate credentials. So much for Democracy. So much for the city of Toronto. So begins the rule of the entitled class.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Right to get fried
Look into the potato's eye,
Carefully guide the sharp nose of the peeler.
Surround the furry brown knot
With a ripping cut
Thrust and lever the little cone
Tear the seed from its fleshy host.
Congratulations champion,
This is one spud
That will never bud,
You are now a vegetable abortionist.
Carefully guide the sharp nose of the peeler.
Surround the furry brown knot
With a ripping cut
Thrust and lever the little cone
Tear the seed from its fleshy host.
Congratulations champion,
This is one spud
That will never bud,
You are now a vegetable abortionist.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Renewing
Feeling renewed, the doctor filled those prescriptions before he went on vacation. Failing that I can honestly say with some least anticipation, the bus is late on all this stuff.
I am supposed to get a full intake and discharge pipe inspection in January. It has taken a while to get to see a neurologists. There are just too many ...gists.
I am supposed to get a full intake and discharge pipe inspection in January. It has taken a while to get to see a neurologists. There are just too many ...gists.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Leaf fan molester
When seeking out sanity, don't go near a Toronto Maple Leafs supporter. They are not too well endowed with any intellectual acumen. This includes the sports casters of which there is a legion. They are all experts in the fields of athletics.
One can certainly tell. They are all working themselves up into a frenzy about a skill player named Mats Sundin. He is presently a free agent.
At first he didn't want to leave Toronto. So he signed a one year deal, at a discount rate to play hockey in Leaf land. He said he like playing in Toronto. He does have an excuse for this. He's Swedish.
So earlier in the spring time when it became apparent that the Leafs had about as much chance of making the playoffs as Albertans embracing the Kyoto treaty. There was a hullabaloo about Sundin not wanting to do it for the team, and sacrificing himself to become a rental player
Now he clearly stated that he wanted to remain in Toronto for the season. Yet the fans went nuts because they thought they could get hundreds of good players in trade. It remains a specific quandary for Sundin.
First he stated that he wanted to play in Toronto. You see this is the top of the laundry list of paradoxes. If Sundin had requested to be traded, there would be screams from the very same fans mind you. The kind citizens of Toronto get sort of ticked when a world class super star states a reluctance to come to Toronto. You know the old USA cultural concept, that everyone wants to be an American. Its the same thought process.
No wonder a lot of superstars don't want to come to Toronto. The fans are idiots. Its a no win.
The last perplexation remains Sundin's reluctance to make up his mind. He had stated that he wanted to announce his intentions July 1st. He had some fantastic offers regarding time and length of contract. He has yet to make up his mind.
This outward failure of committal doesn't go over too well with Leaf fans. First if he resigns with the Leafs, they will be mad that it looks like that he was trying to hold them over a barrel. If on the other hand he signs on with another team, again the very same fans will roast him for being an inconsiderate mercenary.
In lock step comes the Toronto sports media which acumen can be resolved with the simple point that they all forecast the Patriots to win the Super Bowl and most forecast the Penguins in the Stanley Cup. If there is a favorite these guys ride with it. The same goes for Sundin for the sports media in Toronto plays up to their audience, never guides it.
This glares in the Sundin example. They appear not to understand why Sundin is taking his time. This shows a large lack of attention. Had these "experts" read their notes from a couple of years ago, it would show that Sundin had serious hip problems after a season of hockey. He was thinking of retiring then. The only treatment for his hip problems was replacement which would have ended his professional hockey career.
Since no surgery has occurred since last we looked, one can assume that Sundin is allowing his hip to recuperate enough to play for a full season. Every year the hip problem gets worse. Sundin knows that he cannot play hockey at a professional pace unless his hip is relatively pain free. So it is no surprise that he has not committed to any hockey contract because his hip is saying no.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008
The Sweep in Regent Park
With an old twist on a new theme the Toronto Police are trying to mask another scandal by picking on the poorest of the poor. A drug sweep in Etobicoke would yield far more drugs but those people can afford lawyers, indeed many are lawyers. The poor area is Regent Park in Toronto. Not too many lawyers in that place.
Two of the eighteen people picked up in the summer's big drug raid were police officers. One of them from the infamous 51 Division.
Two of the eighteen people picked up in the summer's big drug raid were police officers. One of them from the infamous 51 Division.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Do as we say not as we do
- An amazing thing has been discovered. City of Toronto ambitiously set out on a recycling program imposing a mandatory waste management upon its citizens. It distributed tens of thousands of blue and green boxes to almost every household with buckets made in the USA, with non-recycled plastic.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Another of Life's Dangers
I couldn't resist putting this into the Blog. Its from Reuters. It shows the everyday extreme danger of being too close to clad ass.
Woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong injury
Fri Jun 20, 8:26 AM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman who says she was hurt by her thong panties when a metal clip flew off and hit her in the eye has sued Victoria's Secret, saying in a TV interview on Thursday that the injury caused her "excruciating pain."
Macrida Patterson, a 52-year-old Los Angeles traffic officer, told NBC's "Today" show that she suffered cuts to her cornea from the small piece of metal that had been used to secure a rhinestone heart onto the blue thong.
"I was putting on my underwear from Victoria's Secret and the metal popped in my eye. It happened really quickly. I was in excruciating pain. I screamed. That's what happened," Patterson told NBC.
Patterson's lawyer Jason Buccat, who also appeared on the "Today" show, said the metal staple causes "severe damage" to her cornea that required a topical steroid.
The product liability lawsuit, which was filed on June 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court and first reported on the Smoking Gun Web site, seeks unspecified damages.
A spokeswoman for Victoria's Secret, which is operated by Limited Brands Inc, could not immediately be reached for comment.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb)
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
No ideas on laundry day.
This time, this particular blog comes forth with no particular idea, plan or theme. Its because I had to do laundry today. Thus listening to Chrissie Hynde belting out "Don't get me Wrong". She is still hot in her 50's.
Unfortunately, she is Vegan. Huge turn off. It means her tits are fake. I have a theory that a woman who likes steak, eggs, and bacon usually got big tits. This goes for other singers. I mean what is the problem?
Last decade, I was a member of a chat room called the Dino Forum. It was on H&R Block's Compuserve network. There I developed the "Convergence Theory of Extinction" after researching all the popular extinction theories. I am still trying to dig it up for entry into this blog.
Several of the members were genuine bone infidel Paleontologuts. These fossil hunters were queried (by me) as to this issue. "If ancient human ancestors ate only vegetables or fruits alone without meat could modern humanity have evolved?"
None supported the Vegan ideal. When this is pointed out to Vegans they get very upset since the cornerstone of their pet theories is that human ancestors did not eat meat. I am poison personified even though theirs is the false history. Is there no forgiveness in this land.
Shit! The dryer bell just rung.
Unfortunately, she is Vegan. Huge turn off. It means her tits are fake. I have a theory that a woman who likes steak, eggs, and bacon usually got big tits. This goes for other singers. I mean what is the problem?
Last decade, I was a member of a chat room called the Dino Forum. It was on H&R Block's Compuserve network. There I developed the "Convergence Theory of Extinction" after researching all the popular extinction theories. I am still trying to dig it up for entry into this blog.
Several of the members were genuine bone infidel Paleontologuts. These fossil hunters were queried (by me) as to this issue. "If ancient human ancestors ate only vegetables or fruits alone without meat could modern humanity have evolved?"
None supported the Vegan ideal. When this is pointed out to Vegans they get very upset since the cornerstone of their pet theories is that human ancestors did not eat meat. I am poison personified even though theirs is the false history. Is there no forgiveness in this land.
Shit! The dryer bell just rung.
Monday, June 02, 2008
News from the UK. (Pronounced Uckkk!)
This was posted on the flight forum.... There was no copyright. Don't blame me for that.
The following are real extracts from actual complaint letters sent to various councils and housing associations throughout the UK. ..............
I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.
I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage, and their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.
I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.
My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand.
I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.
Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant. We are getting married in September and we would like it in the garden before we move into the house.
I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and the rest are plain filthy.
I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.
The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.
Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.
Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
Would you please send a man to repair my spout. I am an old age pensioner and need it badly.
I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up, and its now getting too much for me.
The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.
Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so please send someone round to do something about it.
I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every night.
Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.
I have had the clerk of the works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction.
This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we can't get BBC2.
My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it,
The following are real extracts from actual complaint letters sent to various councils and housing associations throughout the UK. ..............
I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.
I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage, and their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.
I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.
My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand.
I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.
Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant. We are getting married in September and we would like it in the garden before we move into the house.
I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and the rest are plain filthy.
I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.
The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.
Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.
Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
Would you please send a man to repair my spout. I am an old age pensioner and need it badly.
I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up, and its now getting too much for me.
The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.
Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so please send someone round to do something about it.
I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every night.
Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.
I have had the clerk of the works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction.
This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we can't get BBC2.
My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it,
Friday, May 30, 2008
Decline of the Canadian righteous
In the time of plenty, Canadians show a peculiar quirk. Last night, I had the extreme displeasure of witnessing the magnificent arrogant pomposity of a leading light of one of the New Democratic Party(NDP). Gerald Caplan hung his spiel on the program of a supreme media pompous ass, Steve Paikin.
Caplan flogged his book on Africa, the name of which I will not mention. Caplan waxed fondly on his magnificent contributions of caring. Paikin tossed the lob ball questions in a rehearsed sympathy. Smothered in hyperbole caring, Paikin seduced the book's regurgitating major themes about Africa. All the information contained therein is commonly known for the last 100 years. Caplan killed a lot of trees barfing up his whining data about the problems of Africa.
Yet this headlight of the party which claims to be the guardian of the vulnerable and depressed, walks draped in his own righteousness without failing to observe the abysmal failure of his own political stripe. For the last thirty five years the NDP remains kidnapped by a small clique of elite intellectuals with no grasp of the lower grades of society. Unions slowly abandon this small group of no good, do-gooders.
When formed the NDP was created by the group of gritty socialists and disinfected Liberals. They ate meat. They had fought in wars. They supported the military. They drank and drove. They hunted animals. They fished. They ate meat. They ate processed foods. They earned money working with their hands, not their mouths. They wanted universal health care. They sought safer workplaces. They believed that everyone should be housed. They wanted people to have viable and affordable access to justice. They worked to see that everyone could share in the wealth of Canada. They only bought Canadian made goods. They wanted jobs for all those who wanted to work. They wanted adequate support for those who weren't able to work. They cared about fellow Canadians without any tinge of whiny hypocrisy. They listened. How much changed the NDP now is.
Not meaning to portray the “Good Old Days”, rather to essay the divorce of political aims and the failure of NDP policy distancing its place from the common good. The Jack-off Layton portrays a righteousness arrogance that makes Stephen Harper look good. Worse, if you actually met him, you would know that and he still won the party leadership.
How-weird Hampton, of the Ontario provincial party cannot grasp the concept that he is not a good political leader. He makes McGuinty look good. How bad must one be to do that.
You see one cannot be mad at the Conservatives or Liberals. Inside the party meetings, they know that they are compromised jerks, they act like compromised jerks, and all their political acts proves that they are compromised jerks.
Today's NDP excel beyond jerk status. Caplan's great performance proved this. While he lines up for the poor of Africa, the poor of Canada are cast into deeper poverty. Two downtown food banks are closing before this summer during a period of time when fuel prices are literally driving food prices up beyond the level of affordable. He and his fellow NDP'ers wax fondly in academic arguments on Health Care. Increasingly the medical community with the assistance of the provincial government bureaucracy works to decrease and marginalize the health care that the poor have access to.
While transsexuals have gained funding for sex change operations, the Ontario provincial government and the responsible minister George Smitherman have reduced funding for families on welfare. They eliminated the Winter Clothing Allowance and a monthly grant to each child. They claim a federal tax credit will mostly cover this withdrawal of funds. Ironically the mean federal Conservatives came up with an idea to actually boost the income of the poorest families, and the provincial Liberals clawed this back.
Smitherman still brags about the withdrawal of the Special Diet funding for thousands who need it. He considers a feather in his political cap. Ask him.
And the bad news still pours in as the City Council of Toronto led by that champion of the poor, Mayor David Miller, fixes its new pay scale at least 25% higher refuse to add funds to social action. Due to his leadership, one quarter of the Regent Park residents lost their homes. Their homes were seized to provide low cost housing for middle income supporters of the NDP and the city government. They are literally destroyed a community because it housed poor people not worthy of belonging to the city of Toronto and its image.
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