Buying a Home:

Ahead of the Ontario vote, the media is making a big deal out of the difficulty in buying a home. Of course, they are blaming it all on Doug Ford.

Buying anything these days isn't easy. Massive mismanagement in Canada's economy has put everyday grocery items out of reach for not just Ontarians, but for a rapidly increasing number of Canadians right across the land.

Only members of the electorate who haven't been paying attention will take Horwath's or Del Duca's word for what's happening.

And by the way...buying a home has never been easy. It always required a responsible lifestyle including the sacrifice of some luxuries... 

Freedoms Abused:

It's widely reported how our handsome young PM was highly perturbed at the reception he got at a Liberal election funding rally in BC. He backed out, accusing the protesters of ignoring the rights of the individual to protest in Canada.

Apparently, it did not occur to him that the rights to protest in BC were just as important as the rights of the trucking convoy were in Ottawa just a month earlier.

This time he did not threaten to call out the army.

Question:TV or not TV?

Settled in for an evening of marginal video entertainment wnen the picture fractured to a multicolored mush.

Tried all the channels and the arcane electronic trickery that usually brings results. Nothing.

Who to blame? Covid? Those evil White Supremacists? Or maybe Putin, that mad Russian remnant from the Soviet era? 

That's precisely the kind of thing his accomplices in the Kremlin would try to do to get the attention of those meddlesome westerners. Maybe now's a real good time for them to show off superior Russki electronic technology.

What about the internet? Jamming the video channels only would still leave us access to the social media. Frightening thought.

Dashed up the stairs and triggered the mouse on my desk. The net immediately sprang to life. 

What a relief! So now it will be unnecessary for us to re-learn how to make innocent personal chit-chat.

The idea that eventually we might have been reduced to actually having to read something was almost too frightening to think about..

Poor Putin:

 Poor Putin. He doesn't know how to back out of the mess he's allowed himself to be maneuvered into by his Kremlin associates.

It's not a small problem. There's always the thought that in order to save face, he might decide to resort to nuclear weaponry.

The thought that the health of our planet might depend on the state of health of the minds making critical decisions in the Kremlin can be pretty scary. 

Just starting that war was a pretty scary decision.

Info for Sale??

Parliament Hill  appears uncomfortable with what's being said about them on social media. It seems what's said there is viewed as highly uncomplimentary. 

Is this the first time our leaders find themselves being confronted with what the people who elected them actually think?

Were they not exposed to public sentiment through the mainstream media (free press) over the years? What's the difference?

Is it easier for people to complain about their leadership on social media than in person?

Could be the difference between mainsteam and social media is that social media is not for sale. Few people appear to be holding back for fear that they will lose favour with advertisers and politicians.

Inert Virus:

How do you kill something that isn't really alive?

We keep hearing medical researchers describe the Corona virus as a kind of an inert microbe that shows no signs of life until it infects a living organism.

That's diabolically clever on the part of Ma Nature who sees her job as one to keep all life on this planet in balance. That includes humans.

Medical researchers have, in the past, managed to come up with vaccines which worked almost flawlessly when dealing with live microbes like smallpox and Polio. Now, when confronted with a sneaky little inert virus, their vaccines get spotty results at best. All they can do is treat the symptoms, relieving mucus blockages and fevers in patients flocking to the hospitals to seek relief.

This, however, does not stop the media from exploiting this medical disaster to sell a shipload of merchandise .

The administrations, of course, go right along with this. Politicians see it as a potential disaster to their personal status if they disagree with what the public has been led to believe.

What's being promoted in the media right now, is "So who dares question SCIENCE?"

To their credit, science isn't actively promoting science fiction. They're just de-emphasizing the truth and enhancing the fiction.

The Corona virus, in the form of Covid, is not about to go away. We're just going to have to learn to live with it. 

That means adjusting our lifestyles to improve our core health, not buying armloads of everything offered by the merchandising community.

Media Chore:

Here's something new for mainstream media types to do when they've run out of ideas for exciting material to insert between their commercials.

Instead of the boring daily litany of statistics re the number of people infected with the plague virus, they could dazzle sensation-starved viewers with an accounting of who killed more people over the last 24 hours: Putin, or Covid? 

That should be a lot more exciting than comparing yesteday's boring numbers with today's; who's agreed to run a rainbow flag up the pole, or what exciting new demands are being made of the Pope.