I'm sorry, I haven't posted in a few days, okay more like 10 or 11, but I've been busy. It's work, you know, soaking up the world's follies and trying to organize them into coherent paragraphs. I didn't have one major item that annoyed me greatly, so here are a bunch of smaller ones:
1/ Remember, Mom said to wear clean underwear when you're travelling, just in case... : Okay, so there are bad people in the world, nobody argues with that. Why then, are people arguing with the installation of body scanners at airports? Duh! I was stuck in a line-up for a car wash yesterday and while I was listening to a radio talk show (Yes, I like AM radio, what of it?) I heard supposedly intelligent people calling in complaining about their right to privacy. How about my right not to get blown up by an idiot with a bomb shoved up his ass?
1/ Remember, Mom said to wear clean underwear when you're travelling, just in case... : Okay, so there are bad people in the world, nobody argues with that. Why then, are people arguing with the installation of body scanners at airports? Duh! I was stuck in a line-up for a car wash yesterday and while I was listening to a radio talk show (Yes, I like AM radio, what of it?) I heard supposedly intelligent people calling in complaining about their right to privacy. How about my right not to get blown up by an idiot with a bomb shoved up his ass?
The president of Ryerson's School of Law(and something else), a Dr. Levinn(?) came on in strong opposition of the scanners. He likened the scanners to us living in a dictatorship, with no rights, and the government subjugating us and oppressing us. He felt we were sliding down a slippery slope, and the government was taking the easy way out, installing machines to scan everybody, instead of keeping proper intelligence on "questionable" individuals, or groups of people, and just bothering them when they try to travel. He would rather we pull aside every 20-35 year-old and hand-scan them (those are the ages of most of our terrorists?), or every person of the nationality whose country we deem to be our greatest threats, rather than scanning innocent individuals. Gee, that sounds like he is promoting a prejudiced, profiling view, unfairly targeting huge sections of innocent individuals.
If we were to adopt his methods, we would be throwing ourselves whole-heartedly back in time, to when it was okay to stereotype whole races. Blacks are stupid, ignorant people, let's make them slaves. The Irish are dumb immigrants, trying to steal our jobs, nobody hire them. Women aren't capable of rational thought, don't give them the vote. All Muslims are terrorists, put them all away.
None of these are true, so we can't let logic like that prevail. It is true that there are dumb black people and Irish people, but there are certainly an equal number of other dumb people. Some women have trouble making decisions, but so do some men. Some Muslims are terrorists, but no more than any other religion. When we separate one group to "look at closer" we are more guilty of oppression than having every single person go through a scanner.
I remember simple logic that my mother taught me, when we were little kids. It's only fair if everyone gets to do it. It's only fair to bring treats to school if there's enough for everyone. It's only fair to play with a toy if everyone gets to play. It's only fair to have scanners at the airport if everyone has to be scanned.
So, suck it up, make sure you have on clean underwear, and go through the damn scanner. You'll only get in trouble, if you happen to have a bomb on you.
2/ Where in the World is Tiger Woods?: Where is he? Since I last mentioned him, he hasn't been seen, except sneaking in and out of a cosmetic dentistry office. Is it possible that yours truly drove him into hiding? If he's too embarrassed to show his face because his wife really did knock his teeth in with a golf club, then he's more of a coward than I thought. You did a bad thing, she did a totally understandable thing, be a man and accept the consequences. The world is continuing to spin without Tiger, you are just making yourself look like more of an ass.
3/ Team Canada lost at the World Juniors, We're DOOMED!!: So, Canada only won silver this year, and didn't make it 6 consecutive gold medals. Boo Hoo. Then I read online how pathetic we are as a nation, and our hockey programs are garbage, that we will not win at the Olympics. How about being proud of those young men who really gave it their all to try and bring the gold home? We are doing those guys a huge disservice.
Canada is the greatest country on earth, and I am sick of everyone not giving us our due. I don't feel we have to completely hitch our wagons to the "Hockey Star". We do far more than play hockey here. We created the telephone, the snow-mobile, and the Blackberry! We kick ass at curling. (Okay, so that's a stretch, yahoo!) So, show some pride, and be glad to be Canadian.
Incidentally, we ARE going to win gold at the Olympics.
4/ At Walmart yesterday, guess what I found on a shelf?: A brown paper cup...GRRRRRRRR!!
Does nobody have any decency out there?
5/ To whomever blinked their high beams at me on the 401...: You know who you are, driving a silver Honda Civic, between the hours of 1:30pm and 2:27pm, between Ingersoll and Woodstock. What the @#%&!?! If I am going 124kms/hr, and passing all the vehicles in the other two lanes, DO NOT come screaming out of nowhere in the middle lane, then jump in behind me, and blink for me to get over. If you hadn't been in that lane, then I would have been able to move over to let you pass. If we weren't both passing the other cars, I would have pulled over to let you pass. But, why are YOU so much more important than I, so much so that I have to slow my progress towards my destination and fall in behind slower cars to let you move on through?
Drivers licenses should only be issued to those who are not stupid. Then there would be lots of space left for the precious few of us left, out there on the roads.
If we were to adopt his methods, we would be throwing ourselves whole-heartedly back in time, to when it was okay to stereotype whole races. Blacks are stupid, ignorant people, let's make them slaves. The Irish are dumb immigrants, trying to steal our jobs, nobody hire them. Women aren't capable of rational thought, don't give them the vote. All Muslims are terrorists, put them all away.
None of these are true, so we can't let logic like that prevail. It is true that there are dumb black people and Irish people, but there are certainly an equal number of other dumb people. Some women have trouble making decisions, but so do some men. Some Muslims are terrorists, but no more than any other religion. When we separate one group to "look at closer" we are more guilty of oppression than having every single person go through a scanner.
I remember simple logic that my mother taught me, when we were little kids. It's only fair if everyone gets to do it. It's only fair to bring treats to school if there's enough for everyone. It's only fair to play with a toy if everyone gets to play. It's only fair to have scanners at the airport if everyone has to be scanned.
So, suck it up, make sure you have on clean underwear, and go through the damn scanner. You'll only get in trouble, if you happen to have a bomb on you.
2/ Where in the World is Tiger Woods?: Where is he? Since I last mentioned him, he hasn't been seen, except sneaking in and out of a cosmetic dentistry office. Is it possible that yours truly drove him into hiding? If he's too embarrassed to show his face because his wife really did knock his teeth in with a golf club, then he's more of a coward than I thought. You did a bad thing, she did a totally understandable thing, be a man and accept the consequences. The world is continuing to spin without Tiger, you are just making yourself look like more of an ass.
3/ Team Canada lost at the World Juniors, We're DOOMED!!: So, Canada only won silver this year, and didn't make it 6 consecutive gold medals. Boo Hoo. Then I read online how pathetic we are as a nation, and our hockey programs are garbage, that we will not win at the Olympics. How about being proud of those young men who really gave it their all to try and bring the gold home? We are doing those guys a huge disservice.
Canada is the greatest country on earth, and I am sick of everyone not giving us our due. I don't feel we have to completely hitch our wagons to the "Hockey Star". We do far more than play hockey here. We created the telephone, the snow-mobile, and the Blackberry! We kick ass at curling. (Okay, so that's a stretch, yahoo!) So, show some pride, and be glad to be Canadian.
Incidentally, we ARE going to win gold at the Olympics.
4/ At Walmart yesterday, guess what I found on a shelf?: A brown paper cup...GRRRRRRRR!!
Does nobody have any decency out there?
5/ To whomever blinked their high beams at me on the 401...: You know who you are, driving a silver Honda Civic, between the hours of 1:30pm and 2:27pm, between Ingersoll and Woodstock. What the @#%&!?! If I am going 124kms/hr, and passing all the vehicles in the other two lanes, DO NOT come screaming out of nowhere in the middle lane, then jump in behind me, and blink for me to get over. If you hadn't been in that lane, then I would have been able to move over to let you pass. If we weren't both passing the other cars, I would have pulled over to let you pass. But, why are YOU so much more important than I, so much so that I have to slow my progress towards my destination and fall in behind slower cars to let you move on through?
Drivers licenses should only be issued to those who are not stupid. Then there would be lots of space left for the precious few of us left, out there on the roads.
6/ This is actually a thumbs up!: The Canadian Supreme Council of Muslims issued a farwa(?), declaring that attacks of Canada and the USA are actually attacks on MUSLIMS.
Now, a positive step against jihad. Like I said, not all muslims are terrorists, in fact, there are 20 million muslims in North America, freely worshipping. 20 imams, or leaders from major mosques are standing up for those who aren't, and pointing out to the terrorists who is actually getting hurt in these senseless attacks. It's about time someone made some sense!
Now, a positive step against jihad. Like I said, not all muslims are terrorists, in fact, there are 20 million muslims in North America, freely worshipping. 20 imams, or leaders from major mosques are standing up for those who aren't, and pointing out to the terrorists who is actually getting hurt in these senseless attacks. It's about time someone made some sense!
Stay tuned for more, same bat blog...
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