Miller's Mountains day five

Day five begins a gray murky day. The piles are starting to be, to be, and to be rancid. As the pile crosses the basketball area, we know that soon it will be a full court press.

David Miller commented that it is the union's fault. The union said it was the city's fault. They sit in two adjoining rooms passing angry notes back and forth.

Exterminators circle the piles looking for vermin. The Vermin circle the park looking at the exterminators. This is going to get ugly.

Miller's Mountains a downwind spiral - 4

This the fourth day of mountain building, and the pile is beginning to adopt the characteristic odor so common in such wasteland compilations.

So far there has been no Convectional process effect on the local climate. We all wait for it though.

Millers Mountains, Day three

Some city politicians decided to help out their management staff stationed at the temporary garbage dumps caused by the work disruption. The way they helped was to obtain 4,000 bright green T-Shirts saying City of Toronto. "Customer Service".

So back handed in so many ways. First most if not all of the staff suggestedly forced to wear these shirts are supervisors, the sargeants in the work force. This is how you treat them? Then label them Customer Service?




During Saturday, the rush was so large that they literally doubled the size of the garbage pile in a single day.










This angle is about 25 yards away. At the moment, this is the oblique to the piles. In the background is the former RCMP headquarters, now the five star hotel "the Grand". So Miller and his councilors are so thoughtful to let tourists see Lake Ontario and his new mountains.









This is the standard shot that I have been using for the last couple of days. But its at its limit. I cannot go too much further back. So the rest of the shots will be oblique I suspect.

Millers Mountains day two

The Smitherman Range in Miller's Mountain Cordillera grows in the piles of political crap.

The core of the mountains are established laughingly called the spine. Shit piles faster than lava.

Now one can see the shiney pillow like structures of a hump. Millers Mountains are composed of this uniquely shaped geo-feature.

New bird species.

It isn't often that one sees the potential of a new species. Imaged here is the prototype for a tail less bird. It is a pigeon. Take a close look. The bird with the white wing tips in the foreground lacks a complete tail section. Surprisingly the bird flies very well.

The critter deals with braking by turning its wings down like the flaps on an airplane. Pigeons normally use their tails to brake and adjust speed in coming into land and hold their wings still. This one can't do that so it functions like a small aircraft.

Loss of the tail seems to be a genetic mutation not an amputation. It gives this bird, a hen, some interesting advantages from a flight perspective. It would be interesting to see if this bird does take a mate and reproduce if the genetic anomaly will take hold in its progeny.

Such a flight structure would give it another significant advantage which is to avoid the reintroduction of the Peregrine Falcons and becoming its food.

If you will look on the small of its back which in this case is the tail end of the bird you will see a white patch. This patch is another genetic adaptation to the predation of peregrines. It has been demonstrated that birds with this particular coloration feature survives predation better because the peregrine has problems hunting birds with the white spot in that location.

What this means in the course of species adaptations is that the urban pigeons do adapt rather swiftly to their environments. They have an average life span of 4 years so the generational adaptations are swift. One adaptation could be to be tailless.

However, the genetic mutation may have impaired its reproductive organs. It should not have but might. We will see in a couple of years.

Formation of Miller's Mountains - day one

Mountains are formed by three basic processes. The first is Vulcanism and the peaks appear conical. The second is Tectonic and the mountains are jagged and form rows of sawtooth ranges.

The third (pictured here) is Moronic where two political forces collide creating a really big shiny plasticky pile.

Creation of the third kind of mountains will be charted here occasionally. This is the formation of the Smitherman Range, of Miller's Mountain Cordillera.

Formation of this type of pile Mountain is the rapidest. Here is day one already. The base of the range is already appearing.

The tint of memory

No obituary sits here. Despite the importance the event has, I am afraid I view the issues tinted by severe bias. And its important that you the reader understand clearly that prejudice.

I grew up in a town:
・ where powerful citizens protected pedophiles, child and spousal abusers.
・ where the double standard was the norm.
・ where the progeny of the rich and powerful burgled the houses of the poor and never faced justice.
・ where the progeny of the poor burgled, convicted then deported them while still teenagers.
・ where children of the wealthy, the powerful, and the well connected got away with dealing and abusing street drugs while those of the poor assembled a list of criminal offences.
・ where corrupt politicians and business people avoided justice by pleading fraternity and social benefit.
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You see, those sort of things tints the view of powerful people. I am forever guilty of that bias. I can send my condolences to his family in the view of the loss of a loved one. However, as for the deceased I harbor no sadness whatsoever. Its clearly impossible.

Very recently a very popular figure died away. Masses of his fans mourn his passing list all the great things he did. Like I said I got tinted. Yet no one asked the opinion of the very few he genuinely touched. For that single reason I fail to grieve the passing of a music legend who to me was a narcissistic, drug abusing pedophile who used the immense power of his wealth and fame to escape justice.

*Note: Any comments that include this person's name will not be allowed in this blag.

Vermin in, vermin out

Pictured is the fence mendings at Moss Park in preparation to become a temporary dump site during this year's civic strike. Every four years Toronto gets struck by the outside workers and the inside workers. Not much is known about he attitudes of the upstairs workers or the basement workers but they don't have union infection.

Now this is getting ridiculous. Everyone knows that there will be a necessity to force the civic workers back to work by legislation like the last time. Labor issues and ultimate responsibility for municipalities belong to the responsibility of the province. Its a long story but unlike other states or provinces in the globe the provincial governments fought to control municipalities. Until a real crisis hits and then they run for goddammed cover.

In the province of Ontario, muncipal governments are a joke and the politicians that sit on councils are the local version of the last comics standing. They are used as scapegoats by the province and federal governments when convenient inaction by those political entities are needed. Not only that, the alleged senior levels of government dump their difficult costs onto the municipal budgets then don't provide enough funds to efficiently provide that service.

In the garbage issue this sticks out. The Toronto Council remained at odds with its civic unions. The union goes on strike the Toronto Council doesn't have to do a thing to negotiate a deal. They put up temporary dumps only.

Now for the temporary dump issues the true urbanite seems to crawl out the wood work to smash down the idea. Here's their fear. It is that these temporary dumps will attract vermin. And with that I agree.

Shocked about how easily I agree? I simply believe that it would be a travesty for pigeons, raccoons, rats, squirrels and maggots to replace the smackers, crackheads, dealers, thieves, drunks and whores that use the park.

One week

What a heel. What a heal.

Whut a Hael.

After one week.

Beauty rests work big time.

Like this is the first hot day. Sweated off the scabs.

House of Windsor provincial wise

More of an update or an appendage to the garbage post. I had to do more research before including the point in the bleg.

It should be pointed out that the civic workers in Windsor have been out for almost three months. No provincial legislation forcing them back to work. Of course they could get their wish, Toronto isn't Windsor. Toronto is also the provincial capital.

Also its Gay Pride week. And the new Molson's Indy. And Caribanana coming. I don't think the provincial government will let this go more than ten days. Unless Premier McSquinty is truly too lazy to care.

Gray Row

For those in the ROW (Rest of World) this city's problems contain little consequence in the great scheme of existence. Yet in this latest kerfuffle, there lies a lesson for all.

City employees engaged the strike method to win demands in the pending contract. The strike began midnight last night. It includes park, recreation, street maintenance, and garbage workers.

I was wrong about something. I really did think the mayor, David Miller, had a handle on this and would rescue the citizenry from rancid inconvenience. He's done this before. But I think Miller underestimated the amount of time for the rescue. Unlike the Toronto Transit Commission threatened strike about a year ago, Miller didn't have to do all that much to personally intervene and prevent strike action.

In the case of the city workers, they have a legitimate cause and horrendously incompetent managers. Those managers include the Toronto Councilors for they are management. Yet some of the councilors decided this very morning to strike in sympathy. Yes Virginia(s) everywhere this sounds great.

Such a public declaration by sympathetic councilors does sound good. Too good. And it would get the rousing approval of this author were not this knowledge tempered with the facts. About two weeks ago the Toronto City Council decided to take the summer off until mid September.

How do we all know this? Well two weeks ago it was announced that Real Madrid, the famous Spanish soccer club was to play Toronto TFC in a friendly exhibition game in the middle of this summer. In order to get the Spanish footballers to play, the Toronto club will have to cover their false grass with real sod because the fearless Spaniards will only play on real grass.

At the same time, the Toronto TFC stated that it would permanently replace the artificial turf at the publicly funded new BMO Stadium with grass. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) also owns the NBA Toronto Raptors (basketball), and the NHL Maple Leafs (hockey) franchises. They are incredibly wealthy but decided to let taxpayers share in building a stadium on taxpayer lands (Canadian National Exhibition Grounds). The stadium they built can only be used for soccer, not CFL football. Further to get the funding and land MLSE agreed that it would be a shared use stadium with other community organizations. It is such heavy use that only the artificial turf can stand the usage.

What is the point of this part of the story? Well Toronto TFC decided to approach the Toronto City Council at the first opportunity to convert BMO Stadium artificial turf to natural turf. According to MLSE/TFC the very next council meeting is in mid September or about another 12 weeks. Remember the councilors that volunteered to strike or not show up for work in sympathy?

See how so many things tangle into a mess? See how many disparate things relate in this particular city? This isn't a third world city where corruption appears up front and direct to topic, the corruption here lies intertwined in gray steel wool.

Miller continues to talk tough and is very much trying to take the middle position between the city management and the workers. Now he and the Toronto City Councilors, some who are out on strike in sympathy until mid September, voted themselves a huge ten percent wage increase about ten months ago. Outrage swept the council, as their constituents painted the atmosphere blue with very critical and obscene verbosities. How dare the citizen oppose the just reward for their efforts?

Journalists and almost every group associated with Toronto City Council activities advised them not to take such a severe pay raise in view of the impending civil worker contracts. The same City Council that is taking 14 or so weeks off, approved the negotiating stance of their city management to hold on the wages of the workers and to remove accumulated sick days making 18 sick days as the maximum each employee can hold. In short, the Toronto City Council is asking the part of the city government who actually do the work, to take pay and benefit cuts that they the councilors were unable to accept themselves.

Not only that in the most critical negotiating period the Council did not sit in committee even though the crisis existed. The convener of this emergency meetings is Mayor Miller. To date, no emergency meeting. The provincial government politicians are also on summer vacation or days off. The province is the only political body with the power to legislate a return to work legislation which means that it is up to the provincial MLA's who must come back to work to repair the labor mess that the vacationing city councilors made. The mess being that the city is trying to reduce the potential time off monies of its working employees while the ruling politicals are taking so much time off.

Like I said everything is intertwined. The Toronto City Council forced its citizens to accept a garbage bin regime of waste collection. Each residential owner dependent on city collection of waste, has to pay about $60 dollars per bin, per year. Since one bin must be garbage and another must be recyclables every owner must put out the coin for leasing two bins which were made in the USA despite the presence of so many plastics firms in the immediate area.

To date, the Toronto City Council forced its own workers into a strike position by trying to reclaim benefit monies agreed to in previous negotiations. The most impactful part of the striking workforce is those who collect the garbage. No mention is being made to the city residents to adjust for the lack of service. In other words, no reciprocal discount on garbage fees during the time of lost garbage collection services. The city cannot approve this fee adjustment until an official mention is made at the next city council meeting if any councilor bothers to bring the motion to the floor of the general committee meeting.

You know the good side to all this? In about two weeks we won't have to go to Denmark to find any stench. It is here.

Voice overed

Recently, I had to change my mind. Ohhhh yes. It doesn't take much effort on something that small.

My ponderification began with just who is the greatest entertainer? Who means the most to me? Whose acting entertained?

Without dancing around the point too much, I figure it must be Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc performed the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and most of the characters in each cartoon short feature made at Warner Brothers.

Wax the past, I point away. No this is not just the good ol' days. Warner Bros. Looney Tunes, a series of seven minute animated shorts began before World War II. And the series continued into the mid sixties. His voice defined the character. And surprisingly most of my favorite characters.

The Simpsons, and the Family Guy are quality animation series today. But they have different actors and special actors doing the different voices. Looney tunes did have other voice actors eg. Tweety's Granny (Bea Benaderet) but the majority of characters were done by one man. Seems like a cheat to me.

Mel Blanc defined the attitude and the phrase. "I tot I taw a putty tat... I did! I did! ...I did tee a putty tat!", “Hang on thar, critter.” and “Eeeh... What's up doc?”

Buzzed off

Sitting in the park, Allan Gardens, during an afternoon. Its a bright place. Doing the clover surveil cluttering white on a green grass carpet.

Something absent from the scene. I saw only one after twenty minutes. Only a single bee. A single bee in a place where a dozen years ago, they held aerial ballet.

Comparisons consortiums

Sometimes readers force the mouth that feeds it to accommodate such puerile statements. The photo is self explanatory.

The photo expresses the commentor's fervent wish for Eva Braun, who was the consort of the leader of another sort. I should point out that this is "his" taste in consortiums.

Fortunately this isn't a beauty contest. One is Deutschland. The other is France. I don't think jurist prudentialism is required. Like Quasimodo once said, "Call it a hunch."

Crisis in Buddhism

Rebirth is a principle tenet of Buddhism. As a Buddhist I must be totally conscious that in not achieving Nirvana on this life there may be a likely chance at reincarnation.

Choice is rarely the issue or the case. But if lets say I did come back I would definitely want to come back as a leader of France. Vive La France!

Quivering Liveralls

If one wonders why I call right wingers Cornservatives and the middle left wing Liveralls got their windows cleaned this week past. Canadian politics while structurally more complicated lacks in the sophistication of other nations.

This outrageous statement is brought to you by both Stephen Harper and Michael Ignattief (Geshundeit). They accommodated on various policies in order to prevent the defeat of the government by a nonconfidence vote later this week. Such a revolutionary result would plunge the country into a summer election.

The claim was to appease voters. But I suspect the buggers wanted the summer off and an election would wreck the BBQ and cottage tour by the free loading politicos. Fund raising picnics seem to the new summertime passion for Canadian political persons. This vacillating of theme sort of lets everyone know why, when referring to the left wing as Liveralls.

Bring on the clowns

Indecisiveness led me to the inconclusiveness of fact gathering. To gather simply facts denies the obvious lack of emotional attachments. Hence the ambiguity of trying to make a single assessment.

The triggering event was President Obama's single combat with a Blue Bottle fly. The target of the assessment are the self proclaimed animal lovers, such as PETA, who decried the event as cruelty to animals. The American Cornservatives were besides themselves disproportionately in view of and despite Cheney's shotgunning of a colleague after mistaking him for a bird recently.

The assessment I am trying to come to. Massive mounds of evidence exist. Despite that any assessment which is neutral cannot be easily tackled. A simple assessment led by a question. Are these clowns for real?

Yadirf sti dog Knaht

Thank God its Friday

Tank Gawd tis Fly Day

Gank Todd sis Flay Die

Fank Dodd mis Day Flies

Mank Fry wis Dode My

Dank Sod its a Faze Eye

Threatened bird species

The birds pictured appears to be the Canadian species most threatened with extinction. Its all due to the ability of Prime Minister Harper's unique special ability to speak out of both sides of his many faces.

The Cornservatives promised all out support for the Canadian Armed Services if they engaged in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, the military were told to trim their budget by a mere $43M.

Now this to a government arm which is traditionally so Cornservative to be considered extreme in its righty wingedness. recently the Snowbirds were grounded due to a faulty ejection seat system. This was the same system that replaced a previous even faultier ejection system when the last pilot was killed flying ferry to Moose Jaw in US territory.

As the fault in the safety equipment appears be corrected, the Snow Bird command finds out that due to the funding cutback. The amount is just about the same amount required to operate these Canadian ambassadors.

The Snow Birds existence should be really considered. The aircraft they fly is a decade older than the average age of pilots that fly them. It should be pointed out that while this aircraft is carefully maintained its value as a training and aerobatic aircraft should be considered.

A replacement aircraft has been required for years. The standard BAE Hawk which is already the principal NATO trainer can be had cheaply. A half billion dollars could purchase a whole new squadron of functional aircraft for aerobatic demonstration.

Both sides of the mouth kills birds.

Tsettif eht fo Lavivrus

Survival of the fittest.
Sir Vivel of the Fit Test
Sewer Vive Hell of the Tit Vest.
Sur Vive Elle of the Tet Vist.
Fur Vival to the Vet Test
Fur Offal of the Titmouse
Turnover of the set test
Twist over of the left tit