Band-aids, or Duck Tape?

 As usual, the media sees the transit assault solutions in Toronto as band aids and duct tape.

So far, we haven't seen nor heard anything addressing the real problems. 

Clearly, it's a social illness. It's what our society has become. Society in the city core has gone sick. Not just with Covid. And not just in Toronto.

That's government knowingly depreciating the value of our money by printing more to buy votes.

There's no mystery as to what hungry people, deprived of their ability to pay bills and honor their financial committments will do when their backs are to the wall..

They're out there doing it right now.

And hiring more transit cops is not about to make a noticeable difference. 

Testing...Testing!:

The Putin Vs Ukraine scrap is beginning to look like not just another neighborhood brawl. It is taking on the appearance of a full-scale modern weapons evaluation exercise. 

Both Eastern and Western powers are participating.

So as not to be left out, Canada's war ministry has just announced intent to test our fleet of battle tanks by sending them to Ukraine as soon as they become serviceable.

Making our four (4) designated tanks battle-ready shouldn't take too long. 

Happy Holidays;

Apparently Putin tried to declare a recess in his war against Ukraine for the Julian calendar Christmas, which both he and the Ukrainians observe on Jan 7.

Didn't work, according to reports. Gunners on both sides kept lobbing shells across the border.

Poor Putin will have to apologize to Dyed Moroz (Grandfather Frost) as he empties lumps of coal from his Christmas stocking. . 

Covid Masks:

 Concerns about whether or not we should be made to wear those medical masks again to reduce the current crop of viral infections might be a symptom of erratic logic.

Of course, in Ontario, the left-leaning public sector would like the government to once again enforce it. They blame Doug Ford for his hesitancy. 

The NDP and Liberals, who apparently don't believe in individual personal choice, are shown threatening fisticuffs in the Ontario legislature.

Has anyone thought at all that the current rash of viral infections is probably the result of extensive previous use of those masks? 

Over the past two years there was much media speculation on how those masks were preventing not only the spread of Covid, but also a whole range of minor sniffles and coughs normal to seasonal changes. 

Question: Is it possible that the temporary absence of those minor infections in our resperatory passages prevented our immune systems from keeping evolutionary pace with the minor miseries? 

Is it possible that this is what our current crop of sniffs, coughs and snorts is all about?

Longest Reign Ends:

 Queen Elizabeth's death has triggered all kinds of comments, both complimentary and otherwise everywhere from every person with an opinion.

Those included her duties toward the empire as well as criticisms of prolonging a system of government from the Dark Ages. 

Criticisms probably the most ignorant and unwarranted came from some academics in the US. These had the effect of proving that education does not make people with ignorant outlooks smart.

Elizabeth did not become head of the British Parliamentary system by choice. She was drafted. It was the result of a train of events that left her holding the bag.

George, her father, was drafted when his older brother and designated monarch abdicated, whether by personal choice or by administration's advice, we will never know. Suffice to say, he is reported to have seen nothing much wrong with what Hitler was attempting to do out on the continent.

King George expired after a short reign, leaving his eldest child the designated choice. So whether  or not she looked forward to it, Elizabeth was drafted. Now she was head of an imperial administration that assumed the chore of trying to bring into the modern world cultures that had yet to evolve actual writing, or even the wheel.

For this, she is being criticised by modern trained academics from those very cultures.

Unintended Results?

Early in the spring it was announced that the environment around Oakville was to be sprayed to kill off the deadly Gypsy Moth infestation.

So we were not surprised at the early morning overhead clatter of helicopters laying down their environmental control.

Did it work? Must have. It is now the middle of August and there are no signs of tent caterpillars in the woodlots and ravine hiking trails in Oakville. 

Of course, there are no signs of bees and butterflies in our backyard gardens, either. 

Our Bee Balm bush is now in full bloom and we're the only ones who seem to care. Unlike other years, there are no Monarch butterflies, no yellow Swallowtails, no giant black swallowtails, no red Admirals. Earlier on in the spring, there were no furry Mourning Cloaks.

More troubling, we have a 20-foot-long pumpkin vine with more than a dozen blossoms, none  with any evidence of pumpkins.

So far, to the middle of August, we have witnessed one bumble bee, no honey bees, one dragonfly and very few other insects that might do what the bees are normally assigned to do.

The decision by either City or County council to take control of what the environment is doing no doubt had unintended consequences. 

What's scary is the results the politicians who pretend they can do something about global warming or climate change will actually achieve.

We already know that the political media disinformation has resulted in pointless taxation and record inflation. We can only sit and wait for the scary unintended consequences in the years to come.

What a Scam:

 The PM is reported to be out there, kissing babies and glad-handing people, while pointing out how generous his government is with those Carbon Tax Rebates.

No doubt he's guessing that very few among his electorate will link the climbing costs of gasoline, groceries and just about everything else with the money they are receiving in those rebates.

He has every right to show such disdain for the intelligence of his electorate. They elected him.

We pay for those rebates every time we go shopping. Milk, which used to be $4.00, is now $5.50; bread climbed from $1.20 to $3.50; eggs from $1.50 a year ago to $3.50 per dozen, and up to $6 for those customers dumb enough to believe that the hens put forth a special effort at the higher cost. 

Those costs climb almost daily when farmers, manufacturers, and suppliers all scramble to cover the cost of those carbon taxes imposed by Ottawa. The truckers add their vastly increased cost of fuel.

Trudeau's team appears to have calculated that the average voter out there would be too dazzled with their rebates to connect what they have already paid in advance.