Missing the big point, while grubbing in the minutiae
Yes, Judy Sgro and her cohorts are probably misusing their ministerial powers with the Romanian stripper and the felonious Mr. Singh, among others. However the entire refugee / immigration program is the real disaster. Through a deeply myopic system of admitting bogus immigrants and refugees we have allowed an entire sub-culture to arise -- one over whom our authorities, including the police, have little control. Who, for instance, decided that so many of the most lawless people in the world, the Somalians, should be allowed into this country, holus-bolus? Their major success, to my knowledge, was to perpetrate the largest phone scam in Canadian history. This was done by a bunch of Somalian taxi drivers out of Yellowknife--of all places. Then we took in the clan of warlord Aidid, who worked the welfare system to the tune of hundreds of thousands. Remember the movie Black Hawk Down? Well, this is the guy whom the Yanks were trying to capture for looting the foreign aid. But we are compassionate people, right? So a guy who shoved women and children in front of Marine fire to kill 28 of them becomes a worthy refugee to Canada? I must have missed the sob story component to that decision. Meanwhile, the police admit that the numerous immigrant / refugee gangs in the big cities are almost impossibe to control because of cultural and language limitations. Besides which, these gangs do not hestitate to threaten their victims with death should they cooperate with authorities. That works wonders.
The list of woes that our inadequate immigration / refugee control has brought us is ever-growing. Ressam, who conned the welfare system, along with his Algerian counterfeiting gang, only wanted to blow up the LA airport. Even when they were caught in the credit card scam they escaped detention, let alone deportation. The single greatest mass murder in Canadian history was committed by an Algerian, Gamil Gharbi, a.k.a. Marc Lepine. The single greatest terrorist attack in our history was the Sikh bombing of two Air India planes. As for "charity drives" the award for the two greatest contributers to terrorism has to be split between the Tamil Tigers and the Palestinians. The list of Canada's welcomed immigration groups that are a danger or a drag on our welfare state is a long one--e.g. the biggest ATM theft was accomplished by a bunch of Romanian "refugees".
What we have here is an out-of-control IRB, employees who are either brain dead, or overly-influenced by the huge immigrant / refugee lobbyists. I really don't believe that Trudeau meant his Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be distorted in this way. If this cascade of criminality is not reversed, we are in for a very hard time ahead. Already influenced unduly by the swelling immigrant voters. our politicians can be counted on to become even more spineless in halting the excesses down the line.
By the way, how have our nefarious gypsy immigrants fared -- the ones who were so subject to "racism" in Europe?
The Happy Hooker and Multiculturalism, South African Style
I ran across these lines in Paul Theroux's travel novel, Dark Star Safari--Overland from Cairo to Capetown. Theroux was reading The Johannesburg Star, which had the following front page story, according to Theroux:
The front page was filled with a story on prostitution, one of the growth industries of a shaky economy. The story was surprisingly upbeat, the women speaking in a positive way about their jobs as hookers. "With this job I will never be made retrenched (laid-off), and there is no need for a CV or formal education. You work your own chosen hours and you can drink on the job."
As if in support of this career choice, half of the classified page was full of explicit ads for prostitutes, escorts, brothels, promises of threesomes, Greek, bondage, punishment, pleasure, gays, blacks, Malayas, Indians, Chinese, "Zulus", whites, "Europeans", and whole columns headed "Horny college girls" and "Bored housewives". I suppose it to be a mark of successful urbanization, if not civilization, that so many diverse sexual tastes were catered to. And by the way, these humid classifieds seem to express the epitome of multiculturalism."
Who controls Google's Blogger? When I publish articles on certain subjects, I notice something odd seems to happen. Today, after three attempts, Update 2 still does not show up? I have checked a fourth time and still, it does not show.
I shall try publishing once more; if nothing comes up, I shall guess at what is happening.
Later: Still nothing came up. I checked a fifth time and no update.
Much later: This shows now in a webpage; still, I wonder. Problems occur at the "oddest" times -- such as when I am posting items on China. To whose benefit?
Does Blogger owe Canada's PM a favour--not publishing anything that questions what is going on--now that Paul Martin is off to China for the platinum plate dinner--reportedly, a $20,000 a place--in Beijing -- and to promote "business partnerships"?
Of course, Paul Martin, himself, is no longer in the CSL shipping business, having sold CSL to his sons. By the way, who in his family is going to Shanghai to check progress on the keel repair on the Sheila Anne, a CSL ship? Will we get a photo op?
Update 2: China's risky scramble for oil -- "the growing demand for oil is leading to a growing global conflict"
[. . . . ] So as the 2.4 billion Chinese and Indians move to improve their living standards, they're going to want more oil - likely more than can be produced.
That perceived shortage is setting off an intensifying scramble to tie up oil reserves around the world. So far, China has been the most aggressive player. But the competition is just getting going.
The pattern is clear. China has been weighing buying Unocal, a major US oil firm. Last month in Beijing, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez promised to open that nation's oil and natural gas fields to China. Russia, in effect renationalizing the giant oil subsidiary of Yukos, may offer China a 20 percent chunk of the new firm.
[. . . . ] Oil has often influenced history. An American and British oil embargo on Japan, which was close to running out of fuel for its growing navy and empire, was one reason that island nation advanced a plan to attack Pearl Harbor to Dec. 7, 1941. That move brought the US into World War II, at a time when world oil output still was rising. A peak - when it comes - will be a major event shaping geopolitical policy and future prices. . . .
And what has Canada's PM been busy promoting? Look for more Canada-China "partnership" announcements. He is no statesman concerned for the future of Canada.
Aside from what this short-sighted leader trolling for votes is doing, what are the rest of us doing to cut down on our dependence on oil?
* How many cars do you need in your household? Time to share and to consider doing without -- even when you want something. I have been told that curbing one's wants and sharing build strong character.
* Do you turn down the thermostat in rooms not used during the day, encouraging the family to get together for or sharing activities in one area? Or does each child and adult use private space and entertainment such as TV, increasing heating and electrical bills--all increasing oil consumption in some way?
* Do you drive an SUV or any other gas guzzler? Do you encourage family and neighbourhood sharing of rides? Co-operation to save gas?
* Do you limit vehicle trips by planning, listing what you need so as to making fewer trips?
* Do you turn down your thermostat and wear wool or do you still expect to dress in winter as you did in summer in your home? Do you even try to buy wool any more? Do you knit and ask for wool, not more acrylic yarns, in the stores where you buy? Demand drives purchases. Wool is much warmer than acrylics; I don't care what advertisers say. So is mohair -- particularly if the yarns are washed before knitting.
You will probably think of a few more ideas yourself to reduce reliance upon oil.
