Morons Galore

There is never a shortage of most anything in our society, and that includes morons. Some couple sued one of the Airlines for $12,000.00 because they ordered 7-Up but received Sprite instead. At first the court (more morons!) awarded the money to the couple, but an appeal court overturned it. Amazing, there are still some sensible people out there, even in our justice system.

Another couple sued the same Airline Company, because they were not served in French. Unbelievable! That’s how this whole problem with the language started in Manitoba. Georges Forest didn’t want to pay a parking ticket ($2.00 in 1979 I believe), because it was written in English and not in French. I knew the man. I’m not calling him a moron, because he was a nice man and helpful. My first car insurance broker and he spoke perfect English. I don’t believe it was a language issue with him; he just didn’t want to pay his ticket, but now he is hailed as Language rights activist. The morons were the people who blew it into something so huge and costly to every Canadian.

One of the more infamous cases of being a moron is that woman who sued MacDonalds for four million dollars when she spilled a cup of hot coffee over herself. There are plenty of such cases. In many instances the courts actually awarded these troublemakers and idiots money. I think they should have sued the lawyers and the judges for being such morons.

My wife says not to call them morons. They are far from being that, because they are actually quite smart. They’ve figured out a way to get money for doing nothing. Okay, so they are a bunch of extortionists, vultures, opportunists, shitdisturbers, etc. Not nice names, either. I can go with that. I know someone who would call them A-holes.

I know I’m using politically incorrect names here, but I’m not politically correct. I’ve said that before. We have to call a spade a spade. It’s an overused phrase but it fits.

Something I saw yesterday in the news. Some people are offended by certain Halloween outfits, especially the ones representing native peoples, like Indian Princess. One woman said natives don’t dress in such skimpy outfits. Perhaps they don’t, but these are fantasy costumes. One man put it quite right, “If I want to wear an Indian headdress I do it because I think it looks nice. There is no disrespect in that.”

Would people be offended if someone wears a costume looking like a bullfighter, a Ninja, an angel, a devil, a Ukrainian dancer, or a Hula girl? What makes wearing a native costume a sign of disrespect, but wearing a costume from another culture not? It seems to me there are people out there who are constantly on the search for things they can blow out of proportion just to create trouble and havoc. Like I said—Morons.

#Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 Anyone who ever read the bible, especially chapter six of the Book of Revelations, which predicts the Apocalypse, knows about the four horsemen:

Pestilence.

War.

Famine.

Death.

When you search the internet, you’ll find many predictions, mainly from fanatical religious preachers, about the  #‘End of Times’. “The End is near.” We’ve heard and read about it for decades.

With all the things going on right now in the world, one begins to wonder. Perhaps the end is finally here.

Take the horseman of ‘War’ for instance. Fighting never seems to stop anymore. There are wars going on everywhere. However, right now the greatest danger we face, is #ISIS (also known as ISIL). Over 30,000 crazy, bloodthirsty psychopaths are on the warpath. They are fighting a jihad, a holy war, bent on killing the infidels, the non-believers, in their quest to bring about an Islamic state in the Middle East. A dictatorial state run by religious fanatics. The most dangerous type of government you can have. Besides, what is holy about any war? The followers of this group are nothing but terrorists. They are using religion only as an excuse to still their hunger for power and their sick desire to kill innocent people.

The #Book of Revelations talks about Satan and his dark forces killing anyone who rejects Satan. Could it be that ISIS is this dark, evil force? It makes sense. Peaceful, good people do not kill others who are of different opinions and faiths. A god that allows his followers to murder others is an evil god. Good will triumph in the end, which is reassuring, but in the meantime millions of humans will have to suffer.

With the threat of the Ebola virus, the aids virus, and other new viruses popping up, one cannot help but think of another horseman: Pestilence.

What about the horseman ‘Famine’? With the weather patterns changing and all the disaster happening all over the globe, we may soon face food shortages. And the way humans are multiplying, especially in the third-world-countries, famine is pretty certain. Wasn’t it last year when so many people died of starvation in Africa?

The last horseman: Death. Self-explanatory. With war, pestilence, and famine comes death.

I am not particular religious. I don’t believe the bible stories about how the world (universe) was created. I don’t believe Earth was created in seven days, or, as some people believe, 6,000 years ago. I believe in the theory of evolution. Of course, I admit, I could be wrong.

As a writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction stories, I keep an open mind to anything. Who really came up with all those ‘revelations’? Perhaps they were travelers from the future who lived through all these terrible happenings and they managed to escape into the past and brought back those predictions. Perhaps everything happens in cycles. It has happened before, many times maybe, and the predictions are just racial memories from people who lived through and survived the last cycle. (Don’t laugh about those kind of speculations. Anything is possible. I knew someone who still believed the Earth was the center of the universe and the sun circled the Earth! And no, I’m not that old ☺)

Interesting theories and something to ponder. For me, anyway. However, it doesn’t matter if these predictions are merely fantasy stories written centuries ago, or by people who foresaw them in their dreams, or if they are ‘memories’, the fact is, humanity is experiencing and facing dire times.

Perhaps there are forces out there who want to make those predictions come true by causing many of these things to happen. Obviously, they can’t control the weather. Or can they? However, we can’t lie back and say, “Well, it has been written and God will come to the rescue. There is nothing to worry about. It will all turn out well in the end.”

That, of course, is like the proverbial ostrich that hides its head in the sand, pretending everything is okay. We need to wake up, take a stand and fight fire with fire. We have to fight this murderous force with everything we have. Not just bombs from the air. It is imperative to have military forces on the ground and fight these maniacs in the streets of the cities they’ve already taken over. They don’t show any mercy to anyone; raping women, murdering even children, cutting off heads and recording it, executing prisoners, threatening the whole world with death, and so forth. We cannot show them mercy, either. They must be eradicated from this Earth for good. By that I don’t mean throwing them in jail.

According to the news we hear and see on TV, there are around 80 young men in Canada right now who have returned from ISIS-training camps. Apparently, our Spy-agencies are tracking them and keeping an eye on them. Pardon me? Why did these traitors not get arrested the moment they stepped out of the airplane that brought them back to Canada?

They should have been taken into custody, their Canadian citizenship revoked, charged with conspiracy to commit a terrorist act and thrown in jail with no lawyer to bail them out. Any lawyer showing up who wants to represent them should also be thrown in jail and charged with ‘association with known terrorists’.

Harsh? Yes, but it will have to be done before they can get organized and bring the war to our doorsteps. Do innocent people have to die before we wake up and take drastic measures?

I’m the last person who wants to live in a police state, but it doesn’t have to come to that. All we need are tailor-made laws to allow such actions and make them legal. We cannot listen and give in to minority groups, especially non-Canadians, who will definitely object to such laws. Innocent Canadians won’t have to worry.

#The Ebola Plague. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

 

A new plague is threatening mankind. Most people still treat it with a nonchalant shrug. “Nothing to worry about. It’s over there in Africa, on the other side of the world.”

Well—I’m worried.

The Ebola virus is not anymore only in Africa. It is in Spain. It’s come to the USA, and, possibly, also to Canada. One man brought it with him on a plane. He neglected to tell anyone that he helped a woman, who was infected with the Ebola virus, move before he boarded the plane to the US. Even though he was infected it didn’t show up when they screened him after getting off the plane. Four days after he landed he became ill. He had all the symptoms and yet, the hospital he went to for a check-up, sent him home again. Somebody goofed up majorly.

The man is dead now. He infected one of the health care workers in spite of precautions that were taken. There is a good chance he also infected his girlfriend and others he came in contact with.

This whole incident shows how easily a deadly virus can be transferred to anywhere in the world. Nobody is safe. The authorities assure us they have it under control. They are prepared. Prepared for what? An outbreak? By then it is too late. Thousands have already died from the Ebola virus and more will die, despite the effort to prevent it from spreading. Researchers are trying to develop a drug, but even if they are successful to find one, it will need to be mass-produced. And that’s where the problem lies. Some pharmaceutical company will want to take advantage of it to make money and some will get rich. Somebody always gets rich from a disaster, from a war, and from the outbreak of a disease.

How long will it take to make the drug available to the public?

 So, let’s assume there is a serious outbreak and there is a drug available by then, how much is it going to cost the taxpayer to buy the medicine?

What worries me most is the fact that it is difficult to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, no matter what the authorities are trying to make us believe. Infected carriers cannot be detected until it is too late. They’ve already admitted that much.

One way to stop the spread is to quarantine every country where the Ebola virus has taken hold. Close the borders. Nobody is allowed to leave; nobody is allowed to enter, except doctors and health care workers who understand the risk. No planes fly to those countries and no planes are allowed to leave those countries. There can be no exception, even for humanitarian reasons. The risk is too great.

Unchecked, the Ebola virus could kill millions, wipe out whole populations. It could be the next Bubonic Plague.

Maybe it is nature’s way of controlling the numbers of humans on Earth. Here is food for thought: According to some scientists, the cradle of humanity lies in Africa, that’s where humans began their migration across this planet. Aids, an epidemic still rampant, originated in Africa. The Ebola virus comes from Africa. Perhaps the end of humanity will come from Africa. It would be only fitting.

Be afraid! Be very afraid!

Observations on a boring day

The other day I was sitting in a mall selling raffle tickets for the hunting club I’m a member of.

It’s a boring job. Not much to do but sell the odd ticket, read a book, or, in my case, write a book or whatever. This post was the ‘whatever’.

Another way to pass the time is watching the shoppers, and that can be quite entertaining, sometimes even a bit unsettling. It is pleasing when a pretty woman walks by.

I usually look at the way people dress. Some people dress nice, some not so nice. Most men wore jeans or cargo pants. Some pants fit quite nicely; others were baggy and sloppy-looking.

With the women, there was a greater variety. U saw very few skirts. Older women wore long skirts, while younger women wore them quite short. Most young women wore tight-fitting pants or jeans. The ones that puzzled me were the girls and women who wore ripped jeans or jeans with actual holes in them. There was one woman with holes so large her knees were exposed. I felt uncomfortable just looking at her. That can’t feel good having your bare kneecaps getting caught in those holes.

The ones that unsettled me were the women who were covered up from head to toe. I only saw the eyes of one woman; the rest of her was hidden behind loose clothing. I saw men with turbans and scraggly beards.

I realize we live in a so-called free country with religious freedom and freedom of choice, but I still ask myself why these people come to my country. You know—when in Rome to as the Romans do. To me that means dressing like the citizens of the county you have chosen to be your new homeland. If you don’t like that or refuse to accept new customs and laws, stay away! (I’m venting again, but this is a dear subject to me.)

Watching all these foreigners in their outlandish garb creates negative feelings and one cannot help but be prejudiced. Multiculturism, as noble as it seems to be, doesn’t work. Just like having reservations for our native people doesn’t work. We have plenty of problems with them. I hate to be a doomsday preacher, and I hope I’m proved wrong, but this whole thing cannot  and will not end well. It only creates friction and a host of problems. Integration is the only way.

Footwear is another subject. Shoes, sneakers, low boots, high boots, sandals, and even a few tongs. I saw them all. The whole day I sat there, I saw only one guy with red sneakers. I even saw a guy wearing what looked like pajama pants. His sneakers were untied, huge, and sloppy.

Surprisingly, I saw only a handful of people texting while walking. It seems people are finally smartening up...or maybe not. As I wrote this, two women walked toward me, texting; one of them almost walked into my desk.

Quite a few women were pushing baby carriages—big, cumbersome looking contraptions. Whatever happened to those simple carriages we had when our children were babies?

I mentioned boots before. Only two of the women/girls walking by wore boots with high heels. Ahh, the good old days when all the girls wore high heels. It was murder on their feet, but, hey, they looked terribly sexy.

Most people had descent haircuts, men and women alike. Only 2 guys had long, unkempt hair and long, scraggly beards. They must have gotten lost in the wrong part of town.

And what’s with that cloth hanging out of guys’ pockets? Is that for wiping your hands? Or are they possibly auto mechanics? I only saw two of those.

I think it depends on the area how people look and dress. There is a distinction between the people of different areas. Some are just more...how should I say it without sounding snobby and prejudiced...smarter? Classier? More sophisticated? Richer? Poorer? Cleaner? More educated? More ambitious? Lazier? I don’t know, but the fact is there is a class difference, no matter what some people want us to believe.

Another thing I was acutely aware of: Most people were actually slim to a little overweight. I counted only 4 obese people. We were recently in the USA, and I have to say the number of fat and obese people we saw there was alarming. I apologize to my readers from the US, but it is the sad truth. I wrote about that in one of my last blogs. Too much junk food, portions too large and the food too greasy.

It’s amazing the things one sees and learns on a boring day.