Where else can you get a government job and sexually assault others with impunity?
13,500 registered now in Canadian military class action lawsuit.
That’s what serving and protecting your country has become all about! Illicit sex on the job.
And, if you’re a ‘higher up’, you get off free, of course. Civilian law can’t touch you so far.
-Hair shampoo commercial with honey. Uh, what happens to the hair in summer when wasps and bees are active?
-a Canadian refinery plans to put a pipeline under the Great Lakes, so when it leaks–as these things always do–it can pollute the lakes with abandon.
-pandemic is on high alert in Europe and still out of control in the States. Albertans can’t wait to get on international flights and cross the border (mainly snowbirds), and they’re griping about paying a test fee before returning home and potentially bringing home US Covid?! And Trudeau is considering whether to drop the test?!
-crazy GOPer Gosar makes a video in which he stabs A.O.C. then threatens Biden with the knives. Nobody does anything. Not McConnell, the GOP head of the House, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, or Merrick Garland, the useless Attorney General. Normal behavior apparently setting a dangerous precedent and model for more American kooks and nutso GOPers.
-Travis Scott keeps performing for half an hour as he watches fans getting crushed and trampled to death in front of the stage. A father’s 9-year-old son (what’s he doing in a riot scene near the stage front listening to a vile, foul-mouthed rapper?! This is necessary, appropriate, edifying entertainment for one’s own son?!) fell off his Dad’s shoulders and was repeatedly trampled underfoot by the mob and is now near death. Where the hell is any common sense in either choice of action?
An unsafe city to:
-ride a bike
-ride a motorcycle
-cross at a pedestrian crossing
-walk a dog
-cross a railroad track
Local drivers have become blinder than ever.
My daughter’s Netherlands dwarf wabbit.
Painted photo in frame based on a photograph of the same my daughter shot of Skye in front of a blackboard of math figures.
Here, the real Skye enjoys the painted portrait version of herself.
health-care systems.
These poor, exploited, underappreciated (by the public as well as government and employers) will not be content to be paid peanuts or take rollbacks in wages (adding insult to injury as in UCP Alberta).
These workers having to work in positions (emergency) that they did not choose to work in (i.e., different from their original postings).
These workers totally abused and stressed out physically, mentally, and spiritually without a break (often working on their holidays and days off).
Employers and governments are finding it hard to recruit replacements for the workers who have left because of burn-out and being fed up.
Workers are refusing to be vaccinated and employers in homes and hospitals dare not fire or suspend workers because wards and facilities will shut down leaving patients to die in their own filth or to die unoperated on, especially with facilities filling up with ornery, unvaccinated people.
Working in health care right now is to be powerless, underpaid, ignored, and unappreciated. It is slavery and unremitting sacrifice. Who will want to line up for jobs in these manipulative systems? Who will want to train to become a nurse or doctor in these abusive systems?
The chickens have been coming home to roost for some time (homes having had long-term difficulties to find staff or to adequately staff and compensate adequately).
People have been dying needlessly and will continue to do so. Health-care systems are steadily becoming death systems and political will continues to be tragically lacking to properly staff and adequately pay health-care workers across the board.
The Process/Recurring Cycle
Stupidity: engaging in dangerous, high-risk behaviors (self-inflicted) like eating bats
Ignorance: about what Covid is, how it spreads, the reasons for masking and different levels of masking and physical distancing; no sense of facts or reality–the abysmal lack of informedness
Orneriness: a particular, exaggerated form of ignorance in which anti-vaxxers are anti-science, anti-medical and scientific experts/authorities; who could care less about anyone but themselves, and therefore extend the pandemic and its duration by spreading the virus around with zero empathy, sympathy, and feeling even for one’s own family, friends, and kids
at the legislature follows the earlier, similar rat pandemic.
1.The meaning of opaque is unclear.
2. I wasn’t going to get a brain transplant but then I changed my mind.
3. Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It’s very time consuming.
4. A man tried to assault me with milk, cream and butter. How dairy!
5. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.
6. If there was someone selling marijuana in our neighborhood, weed know about it.
7. It’s a lengthy article about ancient Japanese sword fighters but I can Sumurais it for you.
8. It’s not that the man couldn’t juggle; he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
9. So what if I don’t know the meaning of the word ‘apocalypse’? It’s not the end of the world.
10. Police were called to the daycare center. A 3-year old was resisting a rest.
11. The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.
12. Need an ark to save two of every animal? I Noah guy.
13. I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it.
14. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
15. Did you know they won’t be making yardsticks any longer?
16. I used to be allergic to soap but I’m clean now.
17. The patron saint of poverty is St. Nickeless.
18. What did the man say when the bridge fell on him? The suspension is killing me.
19. My tailor is happy to make a new pair of pants for me. Or sew it seams.
20. What is a thesaurus’s favorite dessert? Synonym buns.
21. A relief map shows where the restrooms are.
22. There was a big paddle sale at the boat store. It was quite an oar deal.
23. How do they figure out the price of hammers? Per pound.
Tylenol.
Heat from a heating pad.
Legs up/elevated over the arms of a couch.
An expandable Obusforme belt available from medical supplies stores.
Monthly massage.
Dangerous, misleading tv commercials.
Like Magic Eraser.
Smiling guy bare-handing an eraser in his kitchen on all his appliances, counter, etc.
This stuff is very toxic.
What damage will the toxic stuff do to his hands?
What if he touches his mouth or eyes?
Why isn’t he wearing protective gloves?
How many consumers will copy his dangerous behavior?
What if his kids are nearby touching the surfaces he’s cleaning?
What if they then put their fingers in their mouths or eyes?
What are the dangers in trusting what you see in commercials done without concerns to public safety with making money the company’s bottom-line?
Even if there are warnings (in small print, shown in passing captions, or spoken quickly in happy or quiet voices), do consumers really see or hear these when the visual images are all various happy wish-fulfillment scenes?)
As usual, consumers and viewers are not critical watchers or thinkers for the most part. People hear and see what they want to, plunking down buckaroos for the most dangerous or misleading products and services. Advertisers count on that and load the commercials to be wish-fulfillments that only their product can conveniently fulfill.
The trouble with people. We do it to ourselves all the time in myriad ways. We vote for Trumps. We get the latest gadgets used once and then store them on the ash heaps of forgotten, stored rubbish. We buy/buy into people, products, or services we don’t need, which are dangerous and faulty, to satisfy imagined inner needs, to sell us things we don’t really want or need. Buy, buy, buy. Sell, sell, sell. To keep the economy going. To keep companies and candidates in business and power. This entails many choices that require only acquiescence, docility, numbness, and a total lack of thinking, critical reasoning, and plain common sense.
All to annihilate our personal autonomy, and erode the wisdom of potentially good, informed, and better choices.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
–Pogo, Walt Kelly’s famous cartoon character
Corollary being: We do it to ourselves. Over and over.
Violence, ignorance, stupidity, hubris, exploitation, manipulation, greed, power-hunger, corruption, war, prejudice, discrimination, orneriness, inability to walk a mile in others’ shoes, a lack of empathy, sympathy, and intelligent imagination, resistance to informed authority, resistance to significant counter climate change action and appropriate vaccine response, lack of common sense, etc.
Yes, we are the enemy and we do it to ourselves many times in the course of a day, in many places around the world, in many different contexts.
Yes, the trouble with people, finally.
