Thanks Clive Doucet

You have made a lot of people very happy, choosing to run for mayor is like a rat trying to cross a river with Piranha, there is a slight chance he may make it to the other side, but the odds of him getting eaten alive are far greater. By choosing the cross the river Clive the citizens of Ottawa will be rid of another useless rat.

Thanks Clive you're the best.

Do you want to take a survey?

So another group has decided to weigh in on the Lansdowne Park re-development, or as it has become.........."Crisis in the Glebe" the lastest and certainly not the last traffic study has determined that the Bank street intersections will reach maximum capacity and traffic will be thown into havoc............fire and meteors will rain from the sky.........the ground will open up and consume the City............yeah though I walk through the valley of Bank street I will fear no traffic...........as I can park and walk..........Has anyone ever done a study on why there are so many studies when it comes to getting anything done............City councillor and flower child Clive "I wanna walk though more tulips" Doucet has taken some of his budget to fly in another "expert" I assume the "expert will come up with some amazing facts about how Clive is correct and that the City must stop any re-development of Lansdowne park.......we have a surplus of tulip bulbs and need more green space to plant them in our "Central Park"...........we don't need no stinking buildings and has anyone even asked the World Heritage group if adding a walking bridge across the canal or building a pond will cancel the Rideau Canals staus as the 8th wonder of the world? Like everything else.............I doubt it.

People really are idiots

I listen to the talk shows most days and find that the people that call in are idiots............they are like terminators......you can't reason with them..........they only have one job to do and that is be idiots..............In Ottawa we deal with a transit plan that has been underestimated...............the costs will likely be triple what have guessed...........we have Lansdowne Park and a project that will bring some life to the slab of ground that sits there and yet these idiots are still fighting it.......what's not to understand...Idiots.

We have a provincial government that lies directly to our faces and the idiots believe it............what's not to understand......idiots.

Clive Doucet and Lansdowne Park

Turns out Clive still doesn't like Lansdowne Park..........he continues with a huge lack of vision...........he complains about everything and yet when asked about the new designs for Lansdowne he says he likes the stadium design but hates the fact that there isn't just grass and tulips to tip-toe through.............if there was one word that could describe Clive Doucet....well there isn't just one........so I'll add a few.

Short sighted
Idiot
Clueless
Big baby
Useless
No vision
Boring
Whiner
Self centered
Self absorbed
A hamster on a wheel.........just keeps running in circles.....gets dizzy and then runs some more.

The final thing about Clive............he's leaving as a councillor...........thanks Clive for that.

Alex Cullen for Mayor

The more I listen and read about Alex "Mr transportation" Cullen the more I realize that he is without clue, he rambles on and on about trasportation concerns in Ottawa...........and now he rambles on and on about running for mayor........he rambles on and on about all the things that he should have been doing when he was a councillor..........he voted against everything and now is blaming everyone else for the problems............he should really be running as a Federal liberial or Provincial Liberial...........afterall.......all the problems there are being blamed on someone else............typical politican.....none of them take any responsibility for anything they say.

A vote for Cullen is a vote for...............well..........nothing

My ideas

I have just been listening to the City of Ottawa's Alex Cullen, for those who don't know who he is.........he is on City Council....he is running for mayor..........he is the orange cone on the road that blocks the lanes while other people work......he has wonderful ideas for transportation...........he is the councillor responsible for transportation........he wants to build trains and tunnels and has ideas..........what he doesn't have is plans or funding............What I think we should have is a mono-rail that zooms all over the City of Ottawa...........and hover cars.........yes lots of hover cars....this would help eliminate ground traffic.......... we should have a bunch of other cool things that would cost billions..........I don't have any plans or any money.......but I have ideas..............Can I be on City Council? I have other stupid ideas........all of them would require raising taxes by 50%..........getting full funding from everyone else..........but they are ideas.

Internet

So the story continues on wireless internet.........hotels shouldn't say they have internet when clearly they can't provide it. I say off with their heads....................or at the very least a knee to the groin...........i- hotel is the provider and so it would seem not a very good one.

On the Road again

Well here I am back in Montreal...........not the heart of Montreal but more the outskirts..........kinda like staying next to a strip mall..........without the strippers...........I'm in a lovely Auberge or in english Ledive...........the Royal Versailles.........and once again it seems that I am fighting for some internet connection time with half the city.........I don't really mind this place as it's very close to where I'm working this week.........the Olympic pool.........covering diving..........I always enjoy this event.........afterall more women in bathsuits.......how difficult would it be to not enjoy it.....

I think the world should be connected wireless and it should be free............after-all it hardly ever works......and sometimes not at all.............we could call it the welfarenet

No subject

So I was just thinking.......... I'm done now.

Cigarette smokers

Is there a more disgusting habit? Not all smokers pollute the ground...some take the time to throw out the butts....but they still pollute my air.........have a look at the ground.......cigarette butts all over the place..........we live in a townhouse and the new neighbours are heavy smokers..........our home now smells like an ashtray..........our basement is almost un-usable.......I suppose that they smoke in the basement to protect their two infant children............slowly killing them as well.........great parents look after their children.......the majority would do anything to protect them and yet these parents and many others who choose to smoke around their children are doing just the opposite.........the long slow poison of smoke. I have family and friends that smoke........we watched an uncle die of cancer...........my cousins watched their father die from cigarettes.....and yet they smoke...........my aunt is slowly dying in the hospital...........she smoked all her life..........she still smokes..........she has cancer and she will die.........and it is because of smoking.

Is there a more disgusting habit.

The Order of Canada

It used to mean something, had significance and the Canadians that were given the honour of being presented with one deserved it..............for years it has been tossed around to athletes and celebrities whose only contrirution to Canada is that they once livied in Canada..........it has turned into the prize in a cracker jack box...........a worthless and meaningless trinket.

A simple observation

Some people are idiots...........

The Holiday Inn part deux

Well after another attempt at connecting to the internet a call to the front desk and a new room with a somewhat better connection..........at least this time it allows me to half my job........responding to e-mails and adding another message to a blog that no one reads.........the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The ever so helpful Holiday Inn

Before I lose the swell connection again............I'm staying at the Holiday Inn on Sherbrooke street in Montrreal, not my choice of hotels but seems that my client has signed a new deal with them, I guess what they forgot to ask was......"does the internet work?" according to the helpful....yet well placed and obviously in a job that is above his education grade explained to me..."it works fine" I carefully and at this point with great patience explanied that my dial up is faster and your "fine" internet is the shits. At this point another well meaning and yet totally useless front desk boy told me that he would re-set the modem and if I had any further problems to call "handing me a piece of paper with a 1-800-fuc-koff" number. While I type this I have 2 other pages trying their best to load........not going to happen....... as Raoul the desk boy so wonderfully reset the modem to stun and fixed nothing...........just out curiosity.........as I wait for the pages that I really need to use for work snail along to load.........I find that porn loads without a problem...........I had a little laugh thinking how nothing else works but something that'll get you a boner works without fail............So I think when Holiday Inn came up with the "I'm smarter because I stayed at a Holiday Inn express" they were just wanting to watch some porn.............and as I sign off I see that my movie is ready.........Triple D tits and the midget......I can hardly wait...........

2010 Paralympics

Now that the big show is over the Paralympians have all rolled into Vancouver. I've been watching what I can find on TV, seems that CTV and TSN have decided that coverage should be disabled as well. Now that all the big guys in TV have headed out of town they bring in the Rogers and Shaw cable students to do the great camera work. The voice over on the highlight curling package sounds like the announcer wasn't even at the event, probably being done from the studios at Rogers in Toronto, read from a script, and without any emotion, they have managed to make curling even more boring. Every now and then some guys with bagpipes wander across the screen, for no apparent reason.

The alpine event for visually impared skiers was cancelled due to poor visability, that just didn't sound right. TV did show us fog for 10 minutes, spectacular.

The problem is, these athletes train just as hard and have overcome many challenges in life, they deserve the same respect, not a disabled version.

Canada owns the top step- revised

Canadian athletes are a medal away from setting a new record for most gold medals won at a winter games. Canada may not own the podium but they own the top step..........well done team.

The hockey boys came through...........Canada has now set the Olympic record for most gold medals won at any Winter Olympics............the podium? Canada

The Olympic movement

So it seems that once again the official language police have decided that there just wasn't even french being spoken during the opening ceremonies..........as it was said "we paid our 20 million to hear more french".......Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Liberial Prime Minister wannabee Iggy have jumped on board the more french train and are in support of an investigation as to why there just wasn't enough.........have the First Nations folks come out and wondered why more whatever they speak wasn't spoken.........bang a gong........tapp the drum.......whatever.........I don't think so.. as most of the ceremony was devoted to their culture..........I thought the ceremony was fine......some very cool things happened......so why can't the politicians leave well enough alone and say thanks Vancouver that was great......instead of pinching out another Olympic movement.

The Olympics

Well here we are just wrapping up day 2 in Vancouver and all the hype spewed out by CTV and TSN about our best Canadian chances for gold medals have come and gone on day 1 with a choke and a silver.... own the podium...we have been hearing......honestly I hope that during the remaining days Canadian athletes do own the podium........whether we believe in a jinx or not.... having TSN and CTV pinning all the medal hopes on these already stressed athletes is just not something that should be done...........as we hear........."coming up next Canada's first guaranteed gold medal winner"........ add more pressure......add a jinx.........and what happens........nothing............so the women's hockey will win a medal.... it won't be gold..........men's hockey is a team to beat.......and they will win a medal......it won't be gold.

Canada will listen to the experts stating that "he should be overjoyed by that 15th place finish as he wasn't expected to finish that high" That's an amazing performance by the young Canadian.....just 17 spots away from the bronze.......Canada as it has always done thrives on the mediocre....and accepts it............it's not acceptable.....it's not owning the podium...........Canada owns the gold medal of mediocre.

My bus ride

I rode the bus today and as usual was amused at the wide... very wide....variety of obese people......I like to stand on the bus that way I can have my own little bit of personal space......I had that little bit of personal space today until I was surrounded by 2 people......one who if dressed in red would have looked very much like a fire hydrant and the other who orginally had a seat until the woman with the suv stroller took over the seats that he had swarmed..........these 2 people completely surrounded me .....but in the event of an accident I would have felt very well protected...........Now I do realize that everyone has the right to ride the bus.........and I shouldn't complain......well I'm not really even complaining....not really......except that these 2 had the balance of weebles......when the bus stopped they rolled to the front.....as the bus left they squished to the back...........and me in the middle like a steak wrapped with fat.........riding the bus is fun.

Airport scanners and the random touch

So once again the United States has gone way overboard with airport security simply because they had a huge lack of internal security......spooks and spys missed informing the rest of the world that they were letting a suspected terrorist board one of their flights...........so who suffers........well once again it's the common folk that just want to fly. In Ottawa this week and 85 year old grandmother was asked to undo her pants and take her shoes off so the minimum wage security "expert" could pat her down..........after all we remember the gangs of little old ladies that roamed the streets in Monty Python stirring up trouble.........It was just a random check........seems she was the lucky passenger.......I have been the lucky "random" passenger 5 times going through security.....I have no problem with it....I have nothing to hide.....I'm honest..........and I won't cause any scene........however I believe that I am a victim of physical profiling........I'm a well dressed middle aged physically fit english speaking white male with a shaved head and goatee..........and I have been the random passenger 5 times............so does this sound like physical profiling...........I suppose I must look suspicious to the overweight ethnically challenged "security" expert.........My carry on bag is checked everytime.........again I have no problem with this as I have nothing to hide........and I have always been treated well..........and joked with the friendly "security" expert.....and who doesn't like a little pat down every now and then.

So where do we go from here.........well the country will have cool new scanners soon and only persons over the age of 18 will have to drop their virtual underware while the good folks have a peak at the cool new tatoo on your ass..........if you're under 18 you won't have to be shy about being seen virtually naked.............you get to be patted down by some stranger.....if you're good maybe they'll offer you some candy............is there something disturbing about a stranger patting down your 14 year old son or daughter........according to the "security" experts ..........nope.

H1N1 the pigs flew in 09

So the pig flu has come and gone, but we have been warned that it may come back again........well I would be surprised if we weren't being warned.......afterall Canada still has 1.5 million shots of vaccine left over.......just keep it in the fridge next to the mayo and two week old chinese food leftovers. Pig flu inspite of all the hype ranked 2nd in Canada as the biggest news story.......The predictions of global human devistation.....the end of mankind......were just a little overstated....400 people in Canada died from the piggy flu.........worldwide 14,000.........while it is always a tragedy when anyone dies before their time..........worldwide death toll for seasonal flu according to the World Health Organization is generally between 250,000-500,000...........As predicted in this blog back in May 2009, the pig flu won't be a huge problem, the problem will be created and it was.......the WHO threw out the scare and everyone bought into it.......