THE MESSAGE:
Forget Denmark. Something is rotten close to home. Well Arkansas is neither close nor in any way similar. I could not resist adding former Governor Bill Clinton's State to the list of perpetrators.
If a person uses words to express hatred of others, or to deliberately offend others, or incite violence towards a religious faction or anything similarly as distasteful to the aforementioned actions, then others have cause to speak out. The problem lies in the overwhelming sensibility of some who, using their own interpretations, express disgust at any meanings that they may conjure up, intended or not.
The following includes some 'politcorr' examples.
If a person uses words to express hatred of others, or to deliberately offend others, or incite violence towards a religious faction or anything similarly as distasteful to the aforementioned actions, then others have cause to speak out. The problem lies in the overwhelming sensibility of some who, using their own interpretations, express disgust at any meanings that they may conjure up, intended or not.
The following includes some 'politcorr' examples.
THE BIG JEEZ!
IS IT POLITICALLY CORRECT TO CRITICIZE A FEMALE POLITICIAN?
Some people criticize Kathleen Wynne just because she's a woman. I have heard someone call her a witch and worse!
IS IT POLITICALLY CORRECT TO CRITICIZE A FEMALE POLITICIAN?
Some people criticize Kathleen Wynne just because she's a woman. I have heard someone call her a witch and worse!
THE BIG OH PLEEZE!
An introduction
Former pitcher and current TV analyst Pedro Martinez attempted to salute the Cleveland baseball team’s victory over the Boston Red Sox, his former team. He leaned back in his studio chair and, on live television, made a ‘whoo-whoo-whoo’ war cry of the type that went out of fashion right about when kids stopped playing cowboys and indians.
Martinez soon apologized, saying he realized that it was inappropriate, and everyone moved on.
Here is another headline:
TORONTO—A prominent indigenous activist and architect was after a court ruling that would prevent the Cleveland Indians from wearing their regular jerseys, using their team name and displaying their logo during their ALCS against the Blue Jays in Toronto.
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| SERIOUSLY??? |
The Cleveland organization has been said to be moving away from the more objectionable parts of the name, particularly the Chief Wahoo logo.
Is it a legitimate complaint by 'Animal Rights Activists' to file a grievance when the Detroit Lions play a TERRIBLE game?
THE BIG QUEEZ!
An old friend was once criticized at a birthday party for referring to some Asians as 'China men'.
The question was directed to him. "Are there many Italians in Fenelon Falls?
He answered, "No, there are actually more China men in Fenelon than Italians."
I know for a fact that he meant no disrespect; however, the presence of a female Asian (China woman) caused the statement to create a deadly silence and a few surprised stares.
THE BLURB:
HERE ARE A FEW REAL REASONS FOR QUESTIONING OR TCHING OR HEAD-SHAKING OR RAISING EYE BROWS OR GOOD OLD CURSING.
THE BIG CHEESE!
Meet the boss of Canada’s illegal marijuana trade, Don Briere. To police and the criminal courts, he’s a familiar face, a maverick dealer and convicted grower who has served multiple prison sentences for refusing to obey the country’s long-standing prohibitions on pot.Briere has fought the law and lost, most of the time. Yet, even at the age when most Canadians are entering retirement, this 65-year-old British Columbian is more involved in the underground cannabis business than ever. And he’s very open about it.
Briere is the founder of Weeds Glass and Gifts, a chain of retail outlets that sells an array of cannabis products from glass display cases: marijuana, potent concentrates, baked goods, even drinks. What started as a single shop — a so-called dispensary — in Vancouver three years ago has grown into a national franchise, with 23 stores in B.C., Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Briere owns six of the stores outright and is a joint-venture partner in the others.
His chain’s annual sales have reached $20 million, Briere says, adding that more Weeds outlets are the way.
Authorities have managed to slow him down but it seems they can’t stop him. Seven of Briere’s Toronto dispensaries were raided by police in May, but three were back in operation by mid-summer. A Weeds store in Quebec City was raided recently, but Briere vows that sales will resume.
THE BIG WHEEZE!
The Trudeau government insists that making marijuana legal and available to every adult in Canada will do more than any other measure to cut big-time criminals from the trade.
The Liberals, under Trudeau, have interestingly enough adopted many of the former Conservative government’s positions. Harper was challenged; not so with the Liberal leader.
What Trudeau presents to the provinces is the knowledge that his countenance and public support is much better than Harper's when it comes down to the wire. Current Liberal policies look a lot like former Tory policies. Could it be that Tory policies were never that bad to begin with.
The Liberals have changed their tune somewhat and moved to new realities:
THE BIG SLEEZE!
The Liberals, under Trudeau, have interestingly enough adopted many of the former Conservative government’s positions. Harper was challenged; not so with the Liberal leader.
What Trudeau presents to the provinces is the knowledge that his countenance and public support is much better than Harper's when it comes down to the wire. Current Liberal policies look a lot like former Tory policies. Could it be that Tory policies were never that bad to begin with.
The Liberals have changed their tune somewhat and moved to new realities:
- The Liberal 12% health care pledge dropped to 3% as proposed by the Tories.
- They accepted the Tory targets on Carbon emissions.
- Liberals adopted the Tory stance that the UN’s declaration on the rights of aboriginals is “unworkable” in Canada.
- 3 briefing sessions on the war against ISIS as opposed to 12 by the Tories.
- The Liberal stance on Supreme Court appointments and Syrian refugee vetting has drawn much closer to that of Harper.
THE BIG SLEEZE!
A former Arkansas judge accused of giving lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts tried to bribe witnesses and had an accomplice threaten to make one of them “disappear,” federal prosecutors said shortly after his arrest Monday.
THE BIG SNEEZE!
Ontario Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault is defending the fact that most of nearly $12 million spent on a plan to offer discounts to low-income electricity customers went to consultants and advertising.
Since the Ontario Electricity Support Program, which started last January, about 145,000 of an estimated 500,000 eligible families were approved to get between $30 and $50 a month taken off their electricity bills. At that time Thibeault announced that the Liberals had budgeted twelve million to have 145,000 families, and hopefully more, sign up for this program. Recently, he defended the program saying proudly, ...that this is money well spent.
THE BIG BREEZE!
A Toronto senior who is on trial for murder is telling jurors that a spirit told him in a dream to beat up two fellow residents at a long-term care home, killing one and injuring another.
Peter Brooks, now 76, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of 72-year-old Jocelyn Dickson and the attempted murder of 91-year-old Lourdes Missier.
Crown prosecutors have told jurors that late one night in March 2013, Brooks used his cane to attack Dickson and Missier in their beds at the Wexford Residence in Toronto’s east end. Brooks says Dickson and Missier were “annoying” and aggravated him constantly.
On the night the two women were attacked, Brooks says he had a dream in which a spirit told him to “beat the crap” out of the women.
He says he’s an “obedient old man” and did use his walking stick to beat up the women, but he says he didn’t think anything would really happen to them or himself.
THE BIG FREEZE!
Fraudsters are infamous for taking people’s money, spending it and leaving a slew of victims in their wake. Steven Morrison wasn’t prepared to be a victim.
In the spring, a handyman, Eugene Ostrovsky, visited Morrison, a subcontractor, to talk about building a backyard deck for one of his customers. Morrison said he was immediately confronted with a request for a $2,500 deposit so the carpenters could get to work.
Morrison paid $500, withholding the other $2,000 until post holes were dug the following day. He says that was the last time he saw the Vaughan handyman at his home.
After calling Ostrovsky's cellphone over and over again, Morrison claims he’d get responses like: “What are you going to do about it?” “Sue me” and “Have a nice day.”
“I might have just let it go, but he was taunting me,” the subcontractor from Burlington said. “I’m Scottish — we never let anything go.”
Police told Morrison that because work had technically been done on his backyard project, the homeowner’s complaint was a “civil matter.”
After weeks of the back and forth, Ostrovsky called Morrison, saying he’d pay back the money, because he was “costing” him “a fortune.” But the money never came.
Morrison eventually gathered five of the handyman’s alleged victims and they went to Halton police as a group. They were told to make police reports in their own jurisdictions; Toronto police then charged Eugene Ostrovsky 29, with fraud under $5,000, forgery and uttering forged documents.
THE QUESTION:
When does political correctness go too far?
THE LEMON:
Awarded to Douglas Cardinal for his ridiculous pursuit in the courts against the Cleveland 'Indians' using their logo versus the Jays.
THE QUOTE:
"My mother didst suffer while birthing me; whereupon, her spouse was fated to suffer such as me." -Tony
THE CLIP:
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