Carbon Tax?

The politicians have the media and the electorate arguing which form of carbon tax is better--the one offered by pinkish conservatives, or the one offered by tax-starved liberals.

The argument is no longer about whether taxing carbon is a legitimate issue or a phoney one.

It's phoney. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All life on the planet is carbon-based. Taxing it is like taxing the air we breathe.

Come to think of it, that's exactly what they're trying to do. First they sell us on the idea that we have polluted the air, and now they are planning to tax it.

It's a problem that was originally launched in California and has since infected idle minds in large city cores with high human concentrations.

Brown Back:

The Ontario PC Party would have been better off if derailed candidate for premier, Patrick Brown, had stayed de-railed.

Now, with five entries into the race, almost anything can happen on a plurality, and that is unlikely to result in the best choice available.

Brown's re-entry into the contest is an indication that his loyalty to the party is now less important than his loyalty to Patrick Brown.

He should have withdrawn to lick his wounds and live to fight another day instead of risking taking the party down with him.

Champion PM:

While only about a fifth of the elected liberals in Ottawa are female, our PM sucks up to the feminist militias by making a full 50% of his cabinet female and bragging about it. Apparently, that's the most important qualification as he sees it.

He sucks up to the aborigines by promising to change Canadian law to make it less risky for them to trash isolated farms and steal from the farmers.

It should be quite clear that Trudeau thinks neither the women nor the aborigines have enough smarts to navigate successfully on their own without his help.

We should hope they remember this insult while marking their ballots.

The Cityot view:

How dare the Farmers take measures to protect their families and farms from vans full of drunks disrespectful of private property?

The acquittal of a farmer who shot a drunken trespasser bent on stealing a vehicle on his property in Saskatchewan brought out a chorus of yelps from aboriginal protesters beating drums and trying to lay a guilt trip on as many politicians as possible.

Our Prime Minister jumped in with promises to adjust Canada's laws to put such actions by the aborigines outside Canadian law.

Unlike other such media ops, he missed the opportunity to more closely identify with this minority group by appearing in furs, beads and feathers.

If it happened to be a bad news day, the electronic media would have been sure to turn this into an event of epic proportions.

Doug Ford:

Doug Ford's commitment to get into the Ontario PC party's leadership race is a ray of hope for the PCs.

His less-than-enthusiastic view of the party's executive is probably shared by everyone concerned with the Ontario PCs success. They destroyed Tim Hudak's chances and were about to do the same with Patrick Brown, had a pair of vengeful me too women not beat them to it.

Little wonder that not only Ford, but many party insiders considered the executive a bunch of closet Liberals.

It will take someone like Doug Ford to have the guts to dismantle some of the Ontario Liberals' meddlesome garbage like the sex education curriculum crafted by people with sex on the brain and forced upon people with first-hand experience re: how to produce and rear children.

As a successful businessman, Ford is probably the only chance the province has of being led by someone who is not going to mindlessly pursue foolish market policies like decreeing what businesses ought to pay their employees.

That system of economics was abandoned by the Soviet Union away back in the last decade of the 20th Century.

If Ford gets the leadership, he gets my vote.

Min Wage Fallout:

Kathleen Wynn's bribe to minimum wagers is beginning to show up in our grocery costs.

A supermarket of the same chain as the one that called it quits last week is trying to cover the minimum wage costs by jacking up the cost of a loaf of bread anywhere from 200 to 350 percent.

So far, the cost of a 3L bag of milk is the same, but meats and fruits are being jacked up. We bought tomatoes at the equivalent of $1.20 each and cucumbers at about 50% more than they were only a week ago.

So far, potatoes have stayed about the same, but grapes and apples have shot upward by up to 50%.

Throughout the store pensioners are seen digging through piles of produce in the faint hope that they might find something they can afford underneath or in the back of the shelf.

This is what happens when politicians, desperate to get elected, monkey around mindlessly with market place economics. 

It should soon become clear that Kathleen Wynn has not done any minimum wagers any favors when they take out their artificially fattened paychecks and try to buy enough things to eat.

Hopefully, this is going to become clear before they go out to vote.

The Hijab:

There seems to be some confusion as to what a Hijab is. It is mostly described as anything resembling a shawl or a head cover for women. A version approved by some Islamic sects includes a complete head cover revealing only the eyeballs.

It is that version that provokes the most attention and negative commentary in civilized countries at times other than Hallowe'en.

The most common version is simply something that covers the hair. That garment is not exclusive to Islam. It is variously known as a shawl, a mantle, or, among my east European ancestors, a foostka or a babooshka when worn by elderly women, mostly to church services.

It is not difficult to see why women originally wore head scarves to cover their hair on a daily basis. Up until the 20th century, women were too busy to fuss endlessly with their hair. Their priorities were children, household, yard and garden chores.

That tradition carried over into the 20th Century among the pioneer women, but not for long. My grandmothers wore their foostkas at home and to church, but their daughters wouldn't be seen dead wearing one, even to school. They viewed it as something only old women wore. No way would "us moderns" be seen in one of those.

Never do I recall seeing my mother or any of my aunts on either side wearing one. Clearly, they'd have been embarrassed to dress like that. They were in a new land with new opportunities and they were determined to fit in.

Birth Control:

The rapid blurring of sexual identities in large city cores like Toronto and New York is just one symptom of what is happening within western societies today.

The hammering of ever more significant wedges between women and men by militant feminist groups is another firm indicator that it's not business as usual with the human species.

We might as well accept that Nature is busy trying to reduce human infestations in densely populated western societies. This is especially so where the big screen TV and the cell phone have replaced the sleeping pad as the main form of entertainment.

At that rate, it won't take long for our western societies to be replaced by the steady conveyor of refugees trying to escape the lifestyles they created for themselves in Africa, the Persian Gulf countries and Asia.