CNN said stuff today

CNN said today the same things they said yesterday, there is still a swine thing going on, but it doesn't appear to be a really bad strain. I don't think I'll watch CNN anymore

Kill the pigs

We have gone to defcon 6, one minute to 12, we've hit code red, shoot the pigs, kill the swine. Ok so now that the world, or the USA has gone completely off the wack on swine flu. It all started in Mexico, and it seems that things in Mexico are slowing down (according to CNN) the worst fear mongers in the world.

How long before Oprah has "Survivors of the swine flu" on her show, with questions, "what was it like having a sore throat, was the nauesa worse than watching Maury's show" Will there be a "Run for swine flu" with all proceeds going to Cancun.

Ok so being serious here, we have a wealth of hypochondriacs in this world that are now coming down with symptoms, I too am feeling a little run down, have a headache, a little bit of nauesa, oh wait, I had beers tonight, never mind...........I think I'm having a stroke......I was kidding about the being serious part.

Kill Porky, shoot Babe, it's the pigs, they said bacon was bad for us, we should have listened.........and now we have a pandemic, or an imminent pandemic according to the World Health Organization, 2700 people world wide "may" have symptoms.

I suppose we'll see. We've gone to agent orange, it's a category 12, CNN is about to separate the facts from the not so real facts. When it's all over the remaining few of us left with sit back and say we should have listened, now we have to deal the zombies.

Egypt has ordered the slaughter of pigs, those flu shots you lined up for months ago, no help. Fort Worth schools will close until May 11th. Good news is that flu should die off during the summer months, but may come back in the fall........just so the parinoid can have a crappy summer worring about the flu they'll catch in the fall.

What's wrong with Ottawa

Ottawa is my hometown, it is a beautiful city in the summer and fall, it is a cold city in the winter, we have a great canal, it runs through the city, it is the best skating rink in the world, it is not the creek that Winnipeg has claimed as the longest skating rink in the world . People travel to Ottawa in the winter just to skate on our canal. We have tulips, millions of tulips, if you have a flower fetish Ottawa is the place to be. Ottawa has greenspace, lots of greenspace, we have trees as well, and a festival or two, the tulip festival is one, go figure.

So what's wrong with Ottawa? The people that run it, we have a city council that has buried their combined heads up their asses. They are clueless when it comes to running a progressive city, well we don't really have a progressive city, thanks to this "always manage to get re-elected" bunch, although that doesn't say much for the people of Ottawa that keep re-electing them. I do have to say that there are a few that occationally appear to pretend to understand what is going on, and then the next day they wake up stupid again.

Studies, do we have studies, council does studies to study why the city does so many studies. They have just decided the route of our new rapid transit light rail, the down side is that it goes from point K to point L, unfortunately it doesn't go from A to K or L to Z, in effect it goes no where. The up side is that it won't ever happen, there is a new study and when they discover that they can't tunnel through the bedrock under the city without spending an extra 100 billion, they'll decide that it wasn't such a good idea, but they'll study that.

There is a new study going on, well negotiations I suppose, to decide if some well connected and intelligent developers are worthly enough to spend their own 100 milion making Ottawa a better place. You see we need a stadium upgrade, and several councillors want the present stadium levelled and a new cattle pasture erected. We do need more greenspace and flowers.

So what's wrong with Ottawa it's boring, and the city councillors want to keep it this way.

But I still love the city.

Are drivers race driven

So the more time that I spend on the roads the more I observe how stupid drivers are getting, accidents are no longer called accidents but collisons, they should be called stupidities. Everyday I witness several infractions that under the right conditions should have been a stupidity, I can't help but look at the driver and wonder

A. How did they get a licence in the first place
B. How do they manage to keep the licence.
C. In the country they come from, was a licence required
D. How do they avoid the stupidities that they cause.

My own curious nature always has me guessing who is behind the wheel, so I do my best to find out, I assume that the driver is elderly, Asian, or black (it's not a race slur, when it is fact based) Much to my being correct most of the time, but not always. The biggest concern is that people of all races take no personal responsibility when behind the wheel of a potential weapon, they drive as if the rest of the world are mind readers, "why of course I knew you were going to signal left and turn right" "no really the 100km speed limit doesn't apply to you, going 50km is ok, we all have brakes" I'm sorry, it was my fault, I forgot that you're an idiot"

Drivers are getting worse, kids are turning Honda Civics into what they think are road rockets built for racing, what they have simply done is turned a Honda Civic into a noisy Honda Civic that is still as gutless as it was before adding the garbage can muffler. In my world a muscle car has muscle, it was a car that was feared by other drivers, not because the driver was wreckless, but because the car sounded like it had muscle, it had a sound, it never sounded like nuts and bolts rattling around inside a tin can.

So the next time you observe a mysterious act of driving, take the time to see who is behind the wheel, you won't be surprised, you might even find yourself saying.........wow he was right.

Swine Flu driven by fear mongers

So once again something comes along and the WHO, governments and the media have already started the "could be as bad as 1918" I can appreciate that warnings should be issued in response to the cases and unfortunate deaths in Mexico, but to state that it "could be" is jumping the gun just a little bit, especially as we are moving out of the flu season. What should be done is limited travel to and from Mexico, put medical resourses into Mexico and get it under control.

Hospitals will be overloaded by anyone with a slight cold, any symptom that appears to be a flu symptom, sore throat, nausea, headache, you know the usual symptoms that many people suffer from regularly. The economy which is already stressed will be further stressed.

Wake up people, 4000 people per year die from the flu in Canada, and tens of thousands more around the world.

Immigration.....what's wrong.

Canada or Canadian does not have a hypen in front or behind it, you are either a Canadian or you are not. The terms:

African-Canadian
Sri-lanka-Canadian
Tamil-Canadian
American-Canadian
Someli-Canadian
Chinese-Canadian
or any other country-Canadian.............do not exhist.

Make up your mind, if you were born in Canada, you are Canadian, if you immigrated to Canada and have a Canadian Citizenship certificate that says you're now Canadian, you are simply Canadian. Canada is now the country that you have decided to belong to, it is a great country, it is not perfect, but we don't have wars, we don't hate each other, we are peaceful. We go to the aid of other countries, many are countries that you have run away from, we help, we send our troops, and they die in your country, fighting a war that you have run away from.

If for what ever reason you decide that Canada is a new place for you to bring your wars, your hates and you feel that you have to teach your next generation to hate, then feel free to leave, you are not welcome in this great country. If you have come to build a new life, a better life for your family, if you have come to contribute to this country to make it a better place, I will welcome you with open arms.

Our rules, not yours.

Reasons for a blog

I have thought about having a site to post thoughts, complaints and what ever else comes to mind. I have written letters to newspapers with thoughts on the news of the day, and inspite of having the letters published they appear to have been a waste of my time. What it does seem is that the papers choose to print the boring letters that suit their own ideals and not intelligent, or witty or "to the point" editorials.

So here is why I have decided to start my own forum of thoughts