Excited Delirium

This news is incredibly disturbing.

Hundreds of priests abusing thousands of children in just one state in the US.

The entitlement.

The secrets and lies.

The bribes, political persuasion.

The cost to the public for the thousands of lives they’ve ruined.

The Catholic church has long stood behind the priests that have abused young children and this must change.

Looking to Ontario, we still endorse and fund a separate Catholic educational system.

Why?

The recent Conservative majority has taken a massive seismic step backwards in educational programs that are geared towards helping those most likely to come into harm with perverted patrons.

Why?

Religion, simply put, sucks. It has proven time and again to be the root of all evil.

Your sky wizard and your underground monster aren’t going to change life on this planet until you realize that they’re just a figment of your imagination and a control mechanism used by those who want you under their thumbs.

Quit Catholicism. Quit Islam. Quit Christianity. Quit Buddhism. Quit them all.

I’m not a Communist, but I don’t subscribe to this nonsense any more.

I’m in awe of the story, the spirituality, but the guilt implied by criminals is shameful.

Shameful.

Saudi Arabia has a deplorable history when it comes to human rights, especially in current years.

They have been relentless with their attacks on Yemen.

The Western World has turned a blind eye.

In fact, Canada (especially under Harper) gunned ahead with making sure the Saudis had the tools necessary to push forward with their genocidal tendencies towards Yemen.

Recently,

… Canada published a statement condemning the imprisonment of female Saudi activists.

Saudi Arabia responded by expelling the Canadian ambassador and recalling its envoy while freezing business ties with Ottawa, over what it dubbed “interference”.

“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia… will not accept interference in its internal affairs or imposed diktats from any country,” the foreign ministry tweeted.

“The kingdom announces that it is recalling its ambassador… to Canada for consultation.”

The ministry said that the Canadian ambassador to Riyadh had 24 hours to leave the country, and announced the “freezing of all new commercial and investment transactions” with Ottawa.

The move came after the Canadian embassy in Riyadh said it was “gravely concerned” over a new wave of arrests of human rights campaigners in the kingdom, including award-winning gender rights activist Samar Badawi.

“We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful #humanrights activists,” the embassy tweeted on Friday.

This spat – which seems to have literally flared overnight – has resulted in organizations with possible links to the royal family threatening Canada with a 9/11-style attack on Toronto.

As long as we do business with you and supply you with weapons of death and control, we have the right to suggest that you treat all of your inhabitants with a level of decency.

This seems like a perfect opportunity to back out of a terrible trade agreement that Stephen Harper and his cronies crafted with General Dynamics.

It’s time to step up and lead Canada away from terrorists.

I’m up for a debate on this, but was pretty annoyed nonetheless when I read about someone being ticketed while on a charity ride from Grand Bend to London, ON this past weekend.

Yes, it seemed pretty clear that they had rode through a stop sign.

But shouldn’t there have been an adjustment of attitude … for all parties involved?

Doing a bike ride for charity doesn’t necessarily give you carte blanche to break any rules of the road. And giving a ticket to someone who asks why isn’t really appropriate either.

It’s really a bit of a chicken/egg kind of situation in my mind. Will cyclists get more respect if they respect the rules of the road? Or will we have to stomp up and down and demand that cyclists have a right to be treated differently than car drivers?

An event of this scale should have had a little more pre-planning to ensure that there weren’t going to be big impediments to the success of the ride.

Another report / study comes up to show us consumers that we’re all idiots because we’re not separating metal from plastic on toothpaste or not eating grease-less pizza (is there such a thing?).

We MUST do a better job of recycling because it’s costing taxpayers – US – money.

This is a serious WTF moment.

We need to rebel against this kind of garbage reporting and insist that we move forward with garbage in a substantially more meaningful way:

1. Tax plastic. Let’s tax it into oblivion so that if it has to be used, it can only be done so with a high cost to the producer AND user.
2. Demand better packaging. Producers of garbage are not consumers. Producers of garbage are the companies that push it on us when we buy what we need / want.
3. Burn what’s left. I’m not a big fan of incineration, but it’s time has come and we have to burn what we can’t reduce, reuse or recycle.
4. Make landfills illegal. That’s right: shut them down. Force consumers to demand better from producers when garbage starts piling up in the streets.

Garbage is garbage. We shouldn’t accept it in any form when we buy stuff.

Stephen Harper is probably the one person that I loathe in Canadian – or any – political circles.

He is the most royal of douchebags and has always hated the supply management system we have in Canada.

Now, he strikes again as a traitor to Canada.

There is NO other word.

Who else abuses their history as a politician to wrestle his way into the face of lunatics (ie. Donald Trump) against the will and intent of his own country?

Not only is he a traitor, he’s a loser. He lost the last Canadian election to a political novice and he will go down in history as someone who has intentionally sabotaged the operations of the federal government for decades to come.

Land mines like Phoenix or the Kinder Morgan pipeline continue to explode in the face of the current government.

The only people who plan to have things like that happen are sociopaths.

Which is why he probably gets along with Trump so well.