JAIL TIME FOR TREE CUTTERS

I suppose they thought it might be fun.

It was a tree, not unlike most others, it’s most differentiating feature being its location.  But that location was kind of important, in that where it was is what made this particular tree as famous as it was.

It was the kind of tree that people travelled to get to, not to climb it, and not to linger in its shade, although people have certainly picnicked there.  No, this tree was the subject of photography, as in people liked to take pictures of it, and pictures of themselves in front of it.

Proposals were made in front of it.  Marriages performed.  The ashes of loved ones scattered.

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BUSTED BY THE JUMBOTRON

Having a romantic affair can be nothing short of awesome.  I say this only because from the outside looking in, given the numbers of people who seem to carry on with affairs, what other conclusion is available to the rest of us?  Surely a past-time with so many merits, so many selling points, would be considered a legitimate way for one to spend their disposable time and money.

Unless you get caught.

Then I think it probably sucks big-time.

Getting caught and getting exposed is probably the worst thing that can happen, obviously, because where before you were moving heaven and earth to spend time with your latest squeeze, now you have a couple of divorce attorney’s driving the essentials of your life.  And when it all clears, you’ll probably have a lot less time with your kids if you have any, and more than likely a lot less cash to spend time with as well.

Even the dog stops talking to you.

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MEASLES IN ALBERTA

This was entirely preventable.  Entirely.

The fact that it happened anyways is nothing short of a stinging indictment on a provincial government that has allowed itself to be kowtowed by a loud, resentful, closed, and suspicious demographic within the broader population.  A demographic with out-sized influence, but also one driven by the darkness of willful ignorance, which they happen to view as enlightened biblical interpretation.

These people, when set loose upon the land, are dangerous and can cause an awful lot of harm, both personal and economic, harms that don’t just impact themselves, but also the rest of us.

They are the religious right, who appear to be gravitating uncomfortably close to a form of religious extremism whipped to a frenzy by exploitative politicians and even more so by exploitative church leadership.

And, as a Christian myself,  it hurts me to say that the vast majority of these types causing all the trouble are Christian as well.  Radical, dogmatic Christians.

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TURBANED TORPEDO

Fauja Singh is generally regarded as the world’s oldest marathon runner.

It’s pretty much a big deal if you’re recognized as being the oldest anything.  Hell, it’s good enough to be recognized for simply being old, which is kind of a big achievement in its own right.

But Fauja Singh was noted for marathon running, and at 114 years of age, I’m feeling that his hold on this title will be a relatively secure one, at least for awhile.  Mind you, he wasn’t pounding out marathons well into his twelfth decade, although he was still “running” until very recently.

He was credited with being the oldest person to run a marathon in Toronto back in 2011 when he completed the Toronto Marathon at age 100.  But Singh has no birth certificate, since he was kinda born before those sort of things made it into the public record-keeping of his native country, India.  As there was no record of his birth, there was no way to definitively peg his age, so his achievement is not recognized in some quarters as a result, including the Guinness World Book of Records.  Regardless, we know for sure he ran the marathon, and we know for sure that he’s old, in fact mighty old.  But because we can’t put a finger on exactly how old, then we’re not going to give him credit for being the oldest anything.

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TRUMP THREATENS O’DONNELL WITH HER CITIZENSHIP

When Donny’s pissed at you, it may not end well, particularly if you value your citizenship.

Remember when Elon and Donny got into it a few weeks back when Elon started to get all lip about Trump’s BBB — Big Beautiful Bill — that had just passed Congress.  Apparently, after taking a chainsaw to government operations as part of his leadership of DOGE — Department of Government Efficiencies — Musk was bent a bit out of shape by the fact that Trump’s bill actually added trillions of dollars to the national debt, something Elon felt was a bit counter-productive to his own efforts at DOGE.

He said some things.  He called The Donald some names.  He mentioned something about Jeffrey Epstein’s list, the most talked-about and speculated-about list in modern times.

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FEDS TO PUMP MONEY INTO MILITARY

The federal government has indicated that they will begin to spend billions of dollars more on national defence.  In fact, billions and billions.

If you think that’s something that should have been done all along, you’d not be incorrect.  If you’re someone who wonders about stuff like this, and further wonders where the money is going to come from, you’d not be alone.  And if you’re afraid it may come at the expense of social programs or other areas of governmental involvement, and you wonder which ones?

Join the club.  Get in line.  Here’s your t-shirt.

I suppose there’s another category of person out there, the type that feels government should get out of everybody’s face and simply allow economic Darwinism to be the prevailing thought, then good for you, but sorry, you have no place in any reasonable discussion around the military budget specifically, or the federal budget generally.  Go home and count your money, and please try to stay out of the way of the grownups.  In other words, stay out of our face.

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WHEN AN ARGUMENT COMES TO A HEAD

I suppose when it comes to politics, I can be as passionate as the next fellow.  But that said, when I encounter political thinking that doesn’t align with mine, I try not to lose my head.

Politics is dangerous business, and I say that because of the potential minefield that can pop up out of nowhere at work, at play, hell even at the family dinner table.  Politics can take fast friends, trusted colleagues, and beloved family members down a bad road as easily, even more easily, than religion.  I guess that’s why it’s recommended you don’t talk about either when you’re out in the wild with friends and associates or at home with family and extended family.

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TERRORISM WITH A WHITE FACE

They were young, male, and unforgivably stupid, which works both ways, one way against us and the other for.

The downside is that every man-jack of these idiots were acting service members of the Canadian Armed Forces, all of them infantry soldiers.  These are the boneheads who fight for our country, at least when the time comes, and as long as it doesn’t offend their ideological beliefs.  They are professional soldiers, although the use of the term professional is entirely undeserved.

The upside is the fact that every one of these losers is a card-carrying idiot-stick, and so extremely easy to discover, reveal, and as of yesterday, arrest.

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