Alcohol is.
So naturally, the Liberals in Ottawa are going to make pot legal next spring while lowering the intoxication limits on alcohol from .08 down to .05.
Boy, that makes a lot of sense, eh?
Sunday, 13 August 2017
Sunday, 6 August 2017
Obamacare??
Replacing the previous administration's medical care system is not as easy as the Trumpsters first thought.
It's probably because any such system is easily targeted by opportunists.
Here's a little anecdote my mother once related re: Medicare, the birthplace of politically-administered health care.
Medicare was first enacted in Saskatchewan back in '47 when CCF premier Tommy Douglas initiated it because he saw as inhumane the idea of sick people with no cash deposit expiring on the hospital steps.
One day, about 30 years later, one of my mother's elderly neighbors invited her over for lunch. The frail little old lady said she could eat at home only to the middle of each month. That was as long as her old age pension lasted, because her unemployable middle-aged bachelor son needed the money to support his alcoholic addiction.
One day, about 30 years later, one of my mother's elderly neighbors invited her over for lunch. The frail little old lady said she could eat at home only to the middle of each month. That was as long as her old age pension lasted, because her unemployable middle-aged bachelor son needed the money to support his alcoholic addiction.
So what did she do? She pretended she was sick and got herself checked into the local hospital where they fed her, provided a bed and care for the remainder of the month until her next pension check arrived.
Apparently, the hospital administration found this acceptable because they could maintain a more desirable quota of occupied beds. The doctors, as part of the system, went along with that.
This was in a small western town where everybody knew everybody. The potential for such abuse in a metropolitan area infested with opportunists of every stripe is staggering.
Republican lawmakers have every right to see universal Health Care as a field fertile with landmines. This is very likely a problem Donald Trump never had to think about in his private life.
He's thinking about it now.
Republican lawmakers have every right to see universal Health Care as a field fertile with landmines. This is very likely a problem Donald Trump never had to think about in his private life.
He's thinking about it now.
Friday, 7 July 2017
Royal Pain:
We've been paying so much attention to the strange goings-on re: media south of the border, we've missed what our own esteemed purveyors of dire events here in Canada have been up to lately.
The picture is not inspiring. Just when Prince Charles and Camilla were invited to do the tour during Canada's 150th, some genius editor in the electronic media decides to release material on Princess Diana dating back to when William and Harry were cute little guys basking in mommy's attentions.
Isn't that a little like picking on slow -healing scabs? Actually, a lot like that.
Some sphincter in the media has it in for not only Charles and Camilla, but is insensitive to William and Harry's memories of their mother at the same time.
It's not their fault they were born into goldfish-bowl existence where they have to smile on cue, wave, attend events they can't possibly care about, while pretending that everything's their concern and just dandy.
The media release on that occasion was a stupid thing to do. It was insensitive to people who have no choice being who they are.
Whoever is responsible should be invited to look for a job that requires no critical judgement.
The picture is not inspiring. Just when Prince Charles and Camilla were invited to do the tour during Canada's 150th, some genius editor in the electronic media decides to release material on Princess Diana dating back to when William and Harry were cute little guys basking in mommy's attentions.
Isn't that a little like picking on slow -healing scabs? Actually, a lot like that.
Some sphincter in the media has it in for not only Charles and Camilla, but is insensitive to William and Harry's memories of their mother at the same time.
It's not their fault they were born into goldfish-bowl existence where they have to smile on cue, wave, attend events they can't possibly care about, while pretending that everything's their concern and just dandy.
The media release on that occasion was a stupid thing to do. It was insensitive to people who have no choice being who they are.
Whoever is responsible should be invited to look for a job that requires no critical judgement.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Hey, Stephen:
Latest disaster scenario attributed to top cosmologist Stephen Hawking is to the effect that Donald Trump's moves to take America off the environmental disaster train known as the Paris Accord will result in a complete planetary meltdown.
It's a global disaster in the making, according to the media, and will create on our planet the hell-like conditions thought to exist on Venus.
Now the environmental alarmists are using Hawking's concerns with planet Earth's health to further discredit the US president's questions re the prevailing political environmental propaganda.
It's a global disaster in the making, according to the media, and will create on our planet the hell-like conditions thought to exist on Venus.
Now the environmental alarmists are using Hawking's concerns with planet Earth's health to further discredit the US president's questions re the prevailing political environmental propaganda.
Someone should warn Prof. Hawking that talking to journalists with a leftward list in their political postures is risky. A few weeks ago they had him issue dire warnings of malicious ETs lurking out there in the cosmos, ready to pounce.
Scientific concerns and media hype are a poor mix. They can make perfectly logical concerns look silly.
Sunday, 2 July 2017
Hey, Donald:
All of us who think you have the right stuff to set America back on track are waiting for you to begin by ignoring all those grade school mentalities in the Washington and New York media and entertainment world and continue doing what needs to be done.
When it comes to mud-slinging, you can't win. That's their trade, not yours. They're better at it than you are, so ignore them and walk away.
Engaging in insults and counter-insults only validates their actions, and diminishes those of the President of the United States.
Friday, 16 June 2017
The Enemy Within:
Recent events in the US prove that the Americans really don't need to fear immature dictators like Kim Jong-Un or the belligerents in the Persian Gulf as much as the media types in their own capital.
The recent attempts to kill politicians on ball fields were easy to predict. The Washington media was suggesting it all along. This manufactured news was being copied to social media by editors bereft of rational thought.
Articles unrelated to current news events copied to social media discussed the killings of American presidents in the past and were followed up by some genius with a piece on presidents who were able to avoid being shot.
If that wasn't meant to inspire some messed up goof with a gun to take a shot at the newly-elected president, then we're misreading the intent.
It got to the point where it becomes easy to write off as seditious nonsense things written by someone from the Washington or New York media.
Nor are the cartoons any better. Most political artists are good at conveying political commentary through art. That's their job. Some excel in the art part, others in illustrating a point without type. Some are good at both. The one at the Washington Post shows neither skill.
The cartoons we've seen appear to be drawn with malice, clearly meant to insult and ridicule. No sign of brilliance nor even competence.
Keep that up long enough, and these "journalists" will load the potential for another American civil war, this time between the politically correct lefties and the part of the electorate described as "Deplorables" by Hillary Clinton.
It isn't Trump who will be viewed as the laughing stock in the outside world. It's the malicious lefty media that didn't have the smarts to quit while ahead.
The recent attempts to kill politicians on ball fields were easy to predict. The Washington media was suggesting it all along. This manufactured news was being copied to social media by editors bereft of rational thought.
Articles unrelated to current news events copied to social media discussed the killings of American presidents in the past and were followed up by some genius with a piece on presidents who were able to avoid being shot.
If that wasn't meant to inspire some messed up goof with a gun to take a shot at the newly-elected president, then we're misreading the intent.
It got to the point where it becomes easy to write off as seditious nonsense things written by someone from the Washington or New York media.
Nor are the cartoons any better. Most political artists are good at conveying political commentary through art. That's their job. Some excel in the art part, others in illustrating a point without type. Some are good at both. The one at the Washington Post shows neither skill.
The cartoons we've seen appear to be drawn with malice, clearly meant to insult and ridicule. No sign of brilliance nor even competence.
Keep that up long enough, and these "journalists" will load the potential for another American civil war, this time between the politically correct lefties and the part of the electorate described as "Deplorables" by Hillary Clinton.
It isn't Trump who will be viewed as the laughing stock in the outside world. It's the malicious lefty media that didn't have the smarts to quit while ahead.
Thursday, 8 June 2017
Trump's Tour:
Donald Trump's tour of Europe has had the desired effect. It has stirred up enough controversy among continental politicians to show that it is not going to be business as usual.
Complacent politicians in Europe and the United Nations are now obliged to stop and re-think where they have been heading over years on cruise control.
It took an outsider to jolt the smug, elite chattering classes into a new awareness. They now need to re-think an elaborate fiction. It is now time to re-examine the notion that significant human-generated environmental degradation has resulted in global warming, and can be corrected only by massive investment into green energy.
This comes in the form of costly and inefficient windmills and solar panels, and somehow ignores hydro, the greenest of all green energies.
It is becoming increasingly evident that global warming is a fictitious issue that has been nurtured by politicians like Al Gore and is designed to give them something they can bargain votes and taxes on easily and possibly offer potential for lucrative investments for political insiders and well-heeled friends.
Look at how much green electricity is costing the Ontario taxpayers. There is no better example anywhere of how this global warming propaganda can be abused by politicians.
The environmental movement as it now stands does nothing for the environment. Zero. It has probably done wonders for the investment portfolios for people like Al Gore, David Suzuki, Kathleen Wynn and Dalton McGuilty.
To Trump, the idea that decisions at the United Nations or the European huddle can result in increased costs for American taxpayers is not a very good one. And he's right. It should be looked into. Even the most narrowly-focused lefties should be able to grasp that one.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. Hopefully, it will not take too long before ordinary people begin to see the merits of what needs to be done.
There are many swamps that need to be drained before the human species is once again allowed to evolve toward a productive future. Trump has served notice that neither the United Nations nor the European political huddle has all the answers.
Let's hope it doesn't take too long for this to become obvious to everyone.
It took an outsider to jolt the smug, elite chattering classes into a new awareness. They now need to re-think an elaborate fiction. It is now time to re-examine the notion that significant human-generated environmental degradation has resulted in global warming, and can be corrected only by massive investment into green energy.
This comes in the form of costly and inefficient windmills and solar panels, and somehow ignores hydro, the greenest of all green energies.
It is becoming increasingly evident that global warming is a fictitious issue that has been nurtured by politicians like Al Gore and is designed to give them something they can bargain votes and taxes on easily and possibly offer potential for lucrative investments for political insiders and well-heeled friends.
Look at how much green electricity is costing the Ontario taxpayers. There is no better example anywhere of how this global warming propaganda can be abused by politicians.
The environmental movement as it now stands does nothing for the environment. Zero. It has probably done wonders for the investment portfolios for people like Al Gore, David Suzuki, Kathleen Wynn and Dalton McGuilty.
To Trump, the idea that decisions at the United Nations or the European huddle can result in increased costs for American taxpayers is not a very good one. And he's right. It should be looked into. Even the most narrowly-focused lefties should be able to grasp that one.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. Hopefully, it will not take too long before ordinary people begin to see the merits of what needs to be done.
There are many swamps that need to be drained before the human species is once again allowed to evolve toward a productive future. Trump has served notice that neither the United Nations nor the European political huddle has all the answers.
Let's hope it doesn't take too long for this to become obvious to everyone.
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