Category: Rants

Here’s some more crap that I don’t need; and neither does anyone else who lives in this city.

At least my weekend went off pretty well: I got to spend some time with my boy as we worked on a school project he’s doing on Juno Beach. Not a bad way to spend my time, I think. So, Monday notwithstanding, I was in a pretty good mood this morning as I hopped on the bus to get to work.

The LTC sardine can, with its cargo including yours truly, boogied on down Dundas just like it does every day until it got to Wellington; then it turned right, made for Queens and headed west again.

“Oh, fer [badword]’s sakes,” I thought. I had been assuming that construction season was supposed to be over, at least until Wiarton Willy tells us how much longer we can play hockey outside. So I hop out at Queens & Richmond — about 50 metres from where Ahmed Moalin–Mohamed decided to scratch his itchy trigger finger on Thanksgiving weekend — and started walking the extra two blocks that had been added on to my way to work today. On the bright side, my adjusted route took me past a Timmy’s and, let’s face it, a little Timmy’s on the way to work never hurt anyone.

No luck with that either, though. No sooner do I get to D&R then I’m stopped dead in my tracks by the cop on the far side of the yellow police tape stretching clear across Dundas Street.

“Sorry folks, but the street’s closed,” the cop said, in the most polite voice that a guy freezing his butt off and wanting to be someplace else can be expected to muster. “There’s been a shooting.”

Several of us were then informed that getting to work on time this morning was something that we could just save ourselves the trouble of worrying about; the street was closed from Richmond to Clarence and nobody was getting in. Period. Which led to the next natural question: closed for how long?

“Hopefully, we’ll be all finished here within the next three hours or so,” advised the officer, managing the difficult feat of simultaneously conveying both a courteous demeanour and the unmistakable impression that this was something that he was absolutely not willing to be screwed with about.

It turns out that about ten or so shots were squeezed off (not fifty feet from where I work) sometime in the wee hours of the morning today, likely around 02:45, by at least two shooters and once again, we’ve got a couple of gun-toting scumbags running around London:

Police arrived and arrested five people, but said early today those arrested are in custody on “unrelated matters.”

Dundas Street between Clarence and Richmond is still closed as police investigate.

I can remember, not so long ago, when things like this just plain didn’t happen in London. Now, it’s getting to be more and more like TO has been becoming for some time now. If this crap keeps up, we’ll have our own “year of the gun” soon enough…
More on this later.

And away we go. Strap yourselves in, boys and girls, because this ride is promising to be bumpier than a ride on Highway 32 at 120Kmph. Yes, the big, bad Tories are making good on yet another election promise by bringing the issue of same-sex “marriage” back to the House, this time for a free vote, and the usuals are wasting no time getting themselves worked up into a lather. Gee, what are the odds? 🙄

The Conservative government under HMPM Stephen Harper has announced that they are going to fulfill their election promise to review Bill C-38 in the Commons and submit the issue to a truly free vote.

Government sources say the Conservatives will table a motion asking MPs whether the debate on gay marriage should be re-opened, which could see debate start Wednesday and could be voted on late next week.

The HypoGrits and their social engineering henchmen would have you believe that this is all a done deal and that the Tories are whipping a dead horse because there “has already been a free vote” on the issue. But Bill C-38, you may recall, was undemocratically rammed through the House in June of last year after then-PM Martin ordered all cabinet ministers to vote in favour of the bill or else lose their jobs. Joe Comuzzi, the minister responsible for Northern Ontario, resigned his post in protest so that he could vote against the bill. The final count: 158-133.

Hardly an ideological victory, especially when one considers that the entire Liberal cabinet was voting under duress. The Grits at the time, tried to spin this issue as a question of the Charter:

The “vote is about the Charter of Rights,” said Martin. “We’re a nation of minorities and in a nation of minorities you don’t cherry-pick rights.”

There’s just one little problem with that: the Charter — which was a poorly thought-out document to begin with — says absolutely nothing about gay marriage, or homosexuality, or marriage, or sexual inclination, or anything else having to do with this issue. You will find no reference whatsoever to sexual orientation anywhere in the Charter. It just plain isn’t there. The courts, however, have decided that they can “read in” things that aren’t in the Charter and that the Charter, therefore, says whatever they say it says.

Ever since then, the Charter has been wielded as a hatchet by a motley assortment of malevolent social engineering malcontents to impose upon the rest of us changes to our very way of life that could never have been passed in the House (where all who sit are periodically held accountable to those whose lives they are fiddling with). It has also been used in some truly disturbing ways, not the least of which is the erosion of religious rights, by federally funded special interest groups, under the pretense of “equality.”

As a result of all this Machiavellian manipulation and using the Charter as a sword rather than a shield, this issue has become less and less about whether or not Adam and Steve can get hitched and more and more about just who does and does not make the laws in this country: the government (chosen by, and accountable to, the people) or the courts (elected by, and accountable to, none)? When laws are made by those who owe no obedience whatsoever to the citizenry, there is a name for that kind of system; and it’s not democracy.

What kind of country do you want to live in?

Crack a cold one, throw Flight of the Valkyries on the turntable and enjoy the spectacle of all the soaring swine. That’s right boys and girls, Rick Mercer said something with which I am in total agreement. He actually manages to take all the criticism of Harper’s stance with China and, in what I must admit is a very Canadian fashion, put it in just the right light.

No, I haven’t been drinking. Well, not that much anyway. Here, see for yourself and see what you think.

I don’t know about anyone else out there but, when I was growing up, one thing that mom, dad, grandma, grandpa and just about everyone else told me as often as needed was: “be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.” I’ve somehow managed to avoid forgetting that most of the time.

It seems, however, that this here kid either forgot it or never learned it in the first place:

Joe Mroszczyk, president of the College Republicans at Boston University, admits he set out to stir up a hornet’s nest when he came up with the idea of offering a whites-only scholarship at the school. But he got a little more buzz than he bargained for.

In deed he did. The whole world seems up in arms. Why, you ask? Ooooohhh… little Joey’s been a very naughty boy, indeed. Joey set up one of those little ethnic scholarships for students to compete for. In order to qualify, applicants need to have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher and they have to write two essays.

What’s the big deal? All kinds of ethnic scholarships exist and have existed for years now. Organizations like the United Negro College Fund , the National Hispanic Recognition Scholarship , the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund , the Asian American Scholarship Fund , and a whole bunch of others. So why the hell is everybody pinching a loaf over Joey’s little $250 that’s up for grabs?

Well, it’s simple. To qualify for the United Negro College Fund, you need to be black. Oops, make that Hyphenated-American. To qualify for the National Hispanic Recognition Scholarship , you need to be at least one quarter Hispanic. To qualify for Joey’s little jackpot, you need to be… at least 25% WHITE! 😯 That’s right: it’s the “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship.” If you don’t have a honkey on your family woodpile, don’t bother coming out. The reactions have been pretty predictable, with one exception:

Outside a university gymnasium last night, 2005 graduate Bryan Williams, 23, of Malden, condemned the scholarship as insensitive. “I understand, in order for minorities to be equal, they need to be treated equally if you are receiving a scholarship,” he said. “But we spent how many years being held back, and now we are trying to catch up. It’s a slap in the face.”

[…]

Karla Mercado, 19, a sophomore from Guam who is majoring in biomedical engineering and is on a scholarship for Asian-Pacific Islanders, had no problem with the scholarship. “I know some clubs that offer scholarships for certain racial backgrounds, so I see no problem with it,” she said.

I guess all those job postings that say “we don’t hire white men women and visible minorities are encouraged to apply” are fine and dandy but, turn that logic around and the sky will fall.

Yessiree, bigots can rest safe and sound in the good ol’ US of A… just as long as they only bash white folks. 🙄

Come to think of it, there was something else that dad always used to tell me: if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out.

A flip o’ the lid to Small Dead Animals.

I know that I’ve already flogged this horse before, but this time is a little different. It seems that the sordid story of trigger-happy Ahmed Moalin-Mohamed may have a silver lining to it, after all. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pointed to Mohamed’s little disappearing act as an example of just why we need reform to the “justice” system in this country and need it now. As the PM put it, describing how Mohamed got off scot free after shooting four people in downtown London:

“Four people,” Harper repeated for impact.

“The judge, acting under the current law, ordered him to stay home with his mother,” Harper said at a Toronto press conference. “He promptly vanished.

“That means somewhere in Canada, maybe in London, maybe in this city, a man facing multiple violent firearm charges is freely roaming the streets,” Harper said. “And it’s hardly an isolated case.”

It feels kind of odd to say this, but if this little nugget of judicial idiocy actually results in changes to the way things are done in our courts, then maybe it will be somehow worth it. According to this article, cops in TO say that 945 crimes involving guns or restricted weapons have been racked up so far this year, with 37% done by some prick already out on bail, parole, temporary absence, probation or some other hug-a-thug bullshit. Not enough for ya? Try this:

Jeremiah Valentine, 24, charged with second-degree murder in the Yonge St. Boxing Day 2005 shootout that left Toronto teen Jane Creba dead was under three gun bans following convictions at the time of the incident.

Screw the “rights of the accused.” I’d rather put up with the odd rare case (and yes, they are rare) of an innnocent man having to cool his heels until his trial comes up than put up with this bullshit any longer.

…plus ce la meme chose. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Once upon a time, I was trained in the how-to killing Russians; it’s just the way things were, back then. Russian agents, we were told, were after our industrial and military secrets; and they could be anyone, anywhere.

Then The Wall came down and we were told that, from that moment on, everything had changed. The Ruskies weren’t going to be the enemy anymore; we didn’t have to be constantly on the lookout for commie spies; we could relax now. Then, along came Dmitriy Olshevsky and Yelena Olshevskaya:, operatives with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the successor to the KGB.  They had been Russian sleeper agents, living in Canada under the pseudonyms of Ian and Laurie Lambert until they were caught and promptly gotten rid of in 1996:

After a period of hesitation, the Russian intelligence services, for example, were reinvigorated by the passage of a new bill on foreign intelligence collection, signed into law by President Yeltsin in July, 1992. Since then, there have been several examples of traditional espionage activities by Russia. In May, 1996, two Russian illegal officers living in Canada under the assumed identities of deceased Canadians were arrested as a result of a Service investigation. Dmitriy Olshevsky and Yelena Olshevskaya, living in Toronto under their developing legend of Ian and Laurie Lambert, admitted membership in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to an immigration hearing and were deported from Canada.

Then, there were the two Russian diplomats kicked out of Canada in 2002. They were military attaches at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, long suspected by many of being a front for Russian spies.

And now what do we have? This bullcrap. A “foreign national operating under the alias Paul William Hampel” has been arrested in Montreal while trying to leave the country (with what, we don’t and may never know) and (surprise, surprise) although no such details have been confirmed as of this writing, he looks to be yet another Russian spy:

OTTAWA — The federal government is moving quickly to deport an alleged spy arrested in Montreal on a rarely used national security certificate.

The man was taken into custody by the Canada Border Services Agency on Tuesday.

Court documents made public today say he is a foreign national operating under the alias Paul William Hampel.

The papers accuse him of engaging “in an act of espionage or an act of subversion” and posing “a danger to the security of Canada.”

Hardly any surprise, is it, that word of this has promptly spread far and wide across the globe in only a few hours?

The only good news in this whole mess is that the government isn’t dawdling about getting rid of the bugger. The question is: when are we going to get laws that make it harder for these bozos and other undesirables to get into, and stay in, the country in the first place?

The Grits had years to do something, but all they did was to make the problem worse. The Dippers are too petrified of doing anything that might be even remotely seen as politically incorrect, so they’re useless in this, too. The Blocheads? Don’t even bother going there.

Gee… I wonder who that leaves? 🙄