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Perks and Perqs

2012-02-07T21:24:00.001-05:00

Oh BTW "Perks" is something coffee and blondes do. "Perqs," short for perquisites, is what one gets as "extras" for performing some function.

Women, of course, expect extras for just showing up.

Ban Bicycles

2011-12-25T13:19:00.003-05:00

Bicycles are an outdated nuisance and a danger to motorists
Ban them completely.

In the interim tax them, require licensing and insurance

Let the bike parasites pay for part of their way for once.

The Pope's Christmas message

2011-12-25T13:19:00.001-05:00

What is wrong with this picture?

The Pope, having taken a vow of poverty, wearing a costume made of gold threads, priceless jewells, surrounded by solid gold cups, candle sticks and living in the most expensive palace on the planet, tells us to not get attached to material things.

No doubt he then has his alter boys pass the collection plates.

Viagra

2011-12-22T00:41:00.000-05:00

There is only one reason old men need viagra

Old women

Niqabs and other people

2011-12-19T00:20:00.001-05:00

Once upon a time in the 60's (you remember them?) a psychology professor had a person attend his classes wearing a black bag covering from top of head to soles of feet.

The other students were curious at first. But very quickly the curiousity became overt hostility and the bag wearer was attacked.

The professor had predicted precisely that would happen. It just happened a lot faster than he thought.

(oh BTW, the attackers were all women.)

That is the same type of reaction people have to anyone wearing a mask in public.

Life is not all platitudes and mush
J K I

How much worse can it get?

2011-12-18T00:03:00.002-05:00

Television just keeps getting worse.
Garbage programs repeated over and over and over

15 to 20 minutes of commercials an hour.

Cable prices are absurd

I am close to tossing the damn thing in the trash.

Islam is where Christianity was

2011-12-16T13:20:00.003-05:00

Islam is about 1500 years old.

When Christianity was 1500 years old we used to burn heretics, torture was the noem, we had the Spanish Inquisition, all sorts of wars between Catholics and Protestants.
Witches were burned by the thousand.

It was generally all round brutality and hate.

So before you criticize Islam, look at your own past.

It isn't faith that is at fault, so much as it is power struggles between various bigots running large religion based institutions and corporations.

Women!

2011-12-16T10:19:00.001-05:00

What's under that niqab?

When I was in Cairo, I broke out laughing at the irony, when I saw fully covered women in niquabs buying thongs and frillies at outdoor markets.
Women are women everywhere….

On a Sharm El Sheik beach I saw women in niqabs sitting beside stark naked, not just topless, naked, women tourists…. no problem but what a contrast.

In Toronto, I was taught by women in burkas and no one thought anything about it. Only we called them nuns' habits.

I do not like niqabs simply because I resent, as most people do, people who hide behind any kind of mask.

I think the debate is as silly as the costumes.
JKI

Burka nonsense

2011-12-14T13:16:00.001-05:00

Re: The burka and all other religious wear, raiment, garments and similar clothing

Understand that the gods do not likely give a damn about the fashion choices of Muslim women, Hasidic Jews, Catholic nuns, priests, the pope or any other religious outfit.

Most of these outfits are just outdated medieval fashions and have nothing to do with "faith" at all.

In reality, the wearing of religious identification is just a way of asserting one's self perceived superiority over all others
who do not have the good fortune to belong to one's religious "club."

and as such, that is an insult to everyone else.
J K Inwood

What Has Happened To Us?

2011-12-13T12:48:00.001-05:00

What Has Happened To Us?

The mess in family law, in divorce, custody and access can't be just the fault of one or the other of the genders. Yes, lots of men and lots of women are inhumane, selfish, greedy and all round nasty people. But not everyone and certainly not the majority. Are you perfect? Am I?

Family law turns people into blood enemies, The divorce industry thrives on the misery of couples and children. The bigger the mess they can create, the more money they can make. Yes, that is part of the problem, but not all.

We have completely lost a moral centre. I am not talking about religion, though religion is a big a part of the problem.

No, we no longer keep our word.

We ignore the golden rule. It is too corny. We no longer tolerate the weakness and foibles of others but expect them to tolerate ours. Hard work is out. Self indulgence is in. Yes this is also part of the problem, but not all.

When we meet someone, we have sex as a prelude to getting to know their name. We move into together with a total stranger and play house, because anything is better then spending Saturday night alone.

Marriage is now nothing more then the new, preferred method of dating. That way no one has go get up in the middle of the night and go home.... And if something better comes along, dump the current paramour and move on. Hell marriage is only a piece of paper that gives us a tax deduction.

When we discover that we really don't like this stranger we married, we have kids as a distraction. If the kids cramp our style, we toss them in daycare and dope them with Ritalin so we are not inconvenienced.

Blaming each other is pointless in most cases. So often both parties are spoiled, selfish, narcissistic slobs who are not capable of mature self sacrifice, hard work and the honesty needed to make a marriage work. If one party forgets to pick up the Hagen Daz, the other party screams abuse.

All these are part of the problem.

As a society we have lost our way. We avoid all commitment, to spouses, to work, to education and most of all to ourselves. We seem to believe the world owes us a living.

How can we change these things? Simple. Start with ourselves. Practice keeping our word. Look out for number two.for once. Instead of expecting the world to change to meet our needs, maybe if we just set our own standards and lived by them we would find our corner of the world gets better.

Maybe. Maybe we improve the world, one person at a time. Starting with ourselves.

J Kirby Inwood

Declawing cats is cruel, selfish and sadistic

2011-12-10T18:16:00.000-05:00

Enlarge this image
Declawing cats banned in Israel
MICHAEL KESTERTON
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Dec. 08, 2011 5:35PM EST
11 comments

Believing in claws

“Israel, land of shredded couch corners?” asks Newser.com. “Maybe. At the end of November, the country passed a bill that bans the declawing of cats – with some seriously stiff penalties. Those convicted of the crime will face up to a year in prison and a $20,000 [U.S.] fine, reports Discover. If the idea of banning the practice shocks you, you’re probably American. About 25 per cent of cats [in the United States] are believed to be declawed, but doing so is illegal in Europe, Australia, Brazil and beyond (and, Discover notes, in a few California cities).”

Harper the Redneck

2011-04-18T09:08:00.000-04:00

Harper's Prison bills? If it ain't broke don't fix it. Our penal system is working well. Crime's down and lower than most countries.@canlaw.

Damn those greedy politicians

2011-03-26T13:16:00.001-04:00

WE DO NOT WANT ANOTHER DAMNED ELECTION!
DAMN HARPER, IGNATIEF, LAYTON AND THAT MINCING BLOCK HEAD FROM QUEBEC!!!

2011-03-23T13:50:00.001-04:00

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it."
- John Adams

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-Blaise Pascal

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and
to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful
and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken, Minority Report (1956

Another side to Ben Franklin

2011-03-22T20:36:00.001-04:00

I guess we know now what Ben did with all those pennies saved.
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“In the meantime, that hard-to-be-governed passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way, which were attended with some expense and great inconvenience, besides a continual risque to my health by a distemper which of all things I dreaded, though by great good luck I escaped it.”
Ben Franklin
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Greedy Politicians

2011-03-18T09:23:00.001-04:00

All of the opposition parties intend to condemn the pending Federal budget .
The fact that have not seen it and do not know what is in it, is of no interest to them.

This is simple greed and political opportunism at its worst. The opposition parties do not care about good government or Canada’s well being.

They just want power at any cost.

Fat slobs and pigs

2011-03-15T08:43:00.002-04:00

If you are a fat slob, there is only one reason.
You are a glutton.
You are a pig.

You are disgusting to look at.
Normal people are sick of having you spill over into our space

Obesity is the result. Gluttony is the problem

Awesome?

2011-03-11T19:07:00.001-05:00

When everything is awesome, nothing is.

Fathers Rights

2011-03-09T19:22:00.003-05:00

Women have the right and the ability to easily opt out of maternity. MAPs, abortion, adoption and even birth control. Simply put, if they get pregnant they can easily get rid of the child if they wish.

Men have no such right. (No, do not bring up abstention or condoms.) If they impregnate a woman, the man has no say whatsoever in whether or not he becomes financially burdened for life.

That is not fair or right. If a woman gets pregnant, the man should be legally entitled to accept or reject paternity regardless of whether or not he is the sire.

If he says no, that should be it. The woman can then proceed to make her own choices for which she, and she alone bears the consequences.

And all live births should be required to have automatic DNA testing. At least half of all mothers lie about who the father really is. That also has to end

Your local police are armed and dangerous

2010-12-03T13:55:00.002-05:00

While most police are well intentioned and do a good job, there are those who do not

The police chiefs would have you believe that there are only a few bad apples.

We contend that any given police department has a substantial number of violent, abusive bullies who should not be on any force.

We suspect that as many as 20% of all police officers are dangerous and should be removed.

In London Ontario, a police officer panicked late one night and fired NINETEEN shots into houses and around a residential neighbourhood while pursuing an unarmed suspect.
It was dumb luck that he did not kill half a dozen sleeping civilians.

What happened to this officer? NOTHING. The matter was buried

This is not unusual. At the G20 police nearly rioted, yet not one has been charged.

The police chiefs hide behind internal investigations and nothing changes

So beware. You stand a one in five chance of encountering a violent, abusive and incompetent police officer.

Bicycles should be banned.

2010-08-22T05:34:00.000-04:00

Bicycles should be banned. They are obsolete and a major safety hazard everywhere they are used.

Why do we take a perfectly good roads which can handle hundreds of cars an hour and ruin them with bike lanes so the roads now handles a few dozen cars an hour and a couple of arrogant selfish bike riders?

Bicycles used to have strict licensing and safety requirements. Bikes had to pay an annual licence fee just like cars. They had to display a licence plate, have front and rear lights and a bell or or other noise device.

Some areas today also require bike riders to pass a "riders" test and show competence and knowledge of the rules of the road. Wouldn't that be nice?

The fees were modest. We need to reinstate this policy now so bike riders who flaunt all laws, can be ticketed and forced to pay their share for obstructing traffic on our roads. No more tolerance for these ignorant, selfish bastards. Lock them up and take away those hideous outfits.

Judges practicing medicine without a licence

2009-12-31T12:44:00.003-05:00

It has become common for judges to order "anger management" therapy for people, mostly men, who have been accused of a crime. No trial, no conviction, just make up the rules as they go along

Judges are in reality practicing medicine without a licence. They are ordering invasive medical treatment.

What next? Lobotomies for parking tickets?