Balance Needed:

 An item in the Canora Courier tells how Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has warned all those protesters who have mobbed the MHO's digs to lay off.

Apparently the event was in protest of an exended Covid lockdown.

Have the Premier and the MHO given up their salaries before making such decisions? That would even the score with citizens who have lost their livelihood due to the lockdown.

Some of these protesters may be looking for money to buy food. The banks are no help. No security, no loan. Only option is to deal with the paycheck mafia who offer interest rates as high as 47 percent. 

It may be time to gamble. Bet some lives in long-term care against the health and well-being of all Canadians. 

Time to make the tough decisions? 

Zeroing in:

How many of those deaths attributed to Covid in the news were seniors in long-term care? How many adults? How many children?

How many of those seniors died of causes other than the virus?  Without such info, it is easy for us to conclude that all deaths in long-term care are being attributed to the virus. 

That idea is ridiculous. Long-term care is where people go to die when the time comes. Until we get accurate accounting in the news, it is easy to suspect that we're being fed propaganda.

New Strain?

 Mainstream media is full of new strains of Covid 19 being imported from all over the planet.

Is that really the case, or is the virus simply mutating in whatever location it finds suitable for further infestation?

Either way, it leaves the vaccine suppliers an easy out in cases where it fails to work, doesn't it?

Media Chore:

 Now that the Covid-19 vaccines are in and being injected into designated early recipients, we should expect the mainstream media to follow up the action. 

There ought to be an early accounting of the relative effectiveness of the vaccines. 

Food Costs:

 Think your grocery costs are climbing out of reach? It's nothing yet. Wait until Ottawa's carbon tax kicks in.

It's being hinted on the media that the grocery costs' weekly climb is due to the pandemic. 

Not quite. Added security is not the only reason. We tend to ignore the effects of the carbon tax about to be imposed on Canadian industry.

That's the Trudeau team's devilishly clever campaign to bring global warming and climate change to a screeching halt.

So the farmers, truckers, and practically everyone who gets up to work in the morning are being taxed according to their evil carbon footprint. 

Who pays? It would appear that anticipation of the cost of increased taxation is being downloaded onto the tomatoes, lettuce, poultry, butter, sour cream and everyting else they haul to market. 

The truckers add to it the cost of their fuel, tires, service and repairs. 

People who drive cars will pay at the pump. 

People who own homes will pay more for hydro and heat. 

People who rent will find the increased cost attached to their monthly rental.

Don't believe it when they tell you the extra bucks it costs will be returned. Who's going to pay the cost of the new bureaucracy administering this sorry scheme?.

It's easy to forget about that one when the media has been rattling on about Covid 19 during every waking hour.

So we spend all our time re-inforcing our concern about the pandemic. We have no time to think about the effects of that carbon tax grab on two imaginary problems--global warming, which is fictional, and climate change, a completely natural, vital component of life and evolution.

Climate change has been going on for millions of years, but no one's raised a fuss over it before the advent of the internet and instananeous electronics.

There is no mystery. No great  threats. When the climate changes, all life on the planet simply adapts to it. 

Apparently the Liberal politicians are looking for ways to get their fiscal hooks into it. They see the carbon footprint tax as an opportunity to get their hands a little deeper into our pockets.

Seasonal Chemicals:

'Tis the season to be jolly.

And why not? There's little to feel jolly about in the midst of a most efficient culling of the human herd.

So we do what we can. In the privacy of our homes we can indulge in whatever makes us happy. Usually, it's food and drink.

So. If you're among those who like to enhance the mood with a few libations, here's some advice..

If it's food, it might include wine. That's because wine is a food. 

Beer is a food, too. It is especially useful if there are a few teenagers in the group. Not too dangerous for inexperienced drinkers. They'll probably throw up and go to sleep before becoming obnoxious and unruly.

Distilled liquor is the way to go for adults who can handle it. This includes scotch, rye, bourbon, gin, vodka, and the liqueurs. All of these have had the impurities removed through distillation. Very few headaches left to ambush inexperienced drinkers who tend to overindulge.

Take Scotch for example. Apparently barley grows well in the Highlands. The Scots convert it to malt, add yeast and make beer out of it.

But they don't drink the beer. They run it through a still to make scotch.

But, not so fast. Those canny Scots know from experience that a small fraction of that distillate that evaporates just before ethanol is poisonous. They isolate it and dump it. 

Every responsible distiller does the same thing. That is why there are fewer headaches in a bottle of profesionally distilled liquor than in either beer or wine.

Now that you're aware of this, keep it in mind when you're doing your best to cope with Covid, and have a merry Christmas, Hannukah, or whatever.

They Still Don't Get It:

Our silly politicians on Parliament Hill are about to make another tax grab to save this world from global warming and climate change.

They're going to hit our staggering economy with that stupid carbon tax.

This is happening right in the middle of our planet's powerful demonstration that it needs no help in maintaining it's own health.

Are the backroom boys who write our PM's speeches trying to make him look foolish? 

If they are, they're too late.