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Just a few things to talk about as they mostly piss me off in various ways. First let’s turn to the economy, inflation and recession. We are being inundated by “Experts” on what is going on, what is going to happen and what various governments and treasuries need to do. None and I mean none of these experts know what is going to happen. We have never seen inflation go like it has and this is due directly to the pandemic and the European War.

Inflation has topped 6.3% year over year, and while a huge number it is not the number we need to focus on.  The number that matters going forth is how inflation moves month to month. In short the Horse is out of the Barn, lets try to keep it in the Corral. While a recession is possible as it is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, we have an economy that is at full employment which is not indicative of a recession. This economic storm has never been seen before, the remedies are nothing but an effort to create an illusion that our leaders like PM Photo Op have a handle on the economy when they really don’t have a clue. Look at Covid relief, the government spent 100’s of billions that was unnecessary resulting in a massive increase in debt and because they had such poor controls on the relief programs billions was lost to fraud. So don’t believe what the markets, politicians or the media says about recession, soft landings, interest rate hikes or inflation. The fact is they do not know what is the best strategy is to deal with inflation no one does and the noise they make is just noise.

The drug problem needs to be managed a lot better than it has been. While there has been movement on the decriminalization of Drugs so addiction is seen as a health issue not a criminal offense, there still has not been movement on treatment, housing and programs for people to help them get their lives back. No one plans to become an addict and end up on the streets. The cost of providing the tools for addicts to get their lives back is significantly less than the costs of the current state of affairs. Think tanks like the Fraser Institute have crunched the numbers and fixing the problem costs less than ignoring it. What pisses me off so much is that this falls under the Feds and Provinces to clean it up yet our MP’s and MLA’s do nothing because it does not play well politically. You know what does not play well politically, people dying at a rate of 6 per day in BC.

Finally I wish to bestow on Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, my Good Grief Moron award, an acknowledgement given to people who say or do things that only a Moron would. In Jagmeet’s case it was his idea of taxing the Oil companies for their obscene profits this year and giving that tax revenue to families. Let’s screw the people that owned and held Oil and Gas investments the prior 8 years, like me. Forget the years when dividends were cut, oil went negative and the price cratered on most stocks because this one year they made profits and so they should be heavily taxed. Who gets the lion share of revenue from Oil and Gas sales to Canadians? That’s right various levels of governments, through road taxes, infrastructure taxes, GST, PST, Transit Tax and of course Carbon taxes. Now Jagmeet wants to tax away the profits that are paid out to Canadians invested in the sector because he is a Moron trying to make a sound bite about the evil oil companies.  Good grief we are all doomed with socialist Morons like this.

Frick the way politicians are whoring themselves out to special interest and lobbies, I would have thought rutting season had started early by all the Fukery that is a foot. What do I mean by Fukery?

Thanks once again to our American cousins failure to do anything, legal gun owners in Canada will now have their right to own and possess handguns eliminated. The excuse is that handguns are being used in too many shootings and murders in Canada. The government cites a report from Stats Canada that has just been released in which in 2020 there were 743 homicides in Canada with 277 involving a firearm and of those, 40% were gang related. Handguns accounted for 75% of all firearm related murders. Stats Canada said it had no data on if the guns were legal or if the owner was licensed. I am going to hazard to guess those guns the gangs use are not legal and pretty sure none of them have a permit to own firearms as I doubt any would pass the background checks.

Mark my words; there will be virtually no changes to gun legislation in the US as the narrative about Uvalde has now changed from guns being the problem to the police failing to respond. If the gunman could not have bought the guns in the first place, then no one would be having this discussion and 19 little kids and two teachers would not have died in vane like so many before them. It’s shocking how the US has become such a fearful gun toting paranoid narcissistic conspiracy minded backwater to logical thought, especially by those in government.

These are two current examples of Fukery that I see occurring with government. In the case of the Liberal government and PM Photo Op, they are trying to appeal to the anti-gun lobby in Canada and those urban elitist donors who believe they know what is best and have little regard for what legal and vetted gun owners have to say. While this policy by the government appeases their elite masters, it does not at all address the problem of illegal guns coming into the country and landing in the hands of those who have no business possessing them, like organized crime. It is nothing but an appearance of doing something by picking the low hanging fruit, not dealing with the issue of illegal guns getting into Canada.

The Fukery in the US is the immediate attempts to change the narrative from a gun control problem to being a mental health issue or a failure of police. The NRA knows how to manipulate the narrative using its Republican cucks who outright lie and gaslight the American public through conservative media like Fox News. The NRA is well practiced at implementing this strategy. So far in 2022 there have been over 233 mass shooting in the US and each time the NRA roles out their well practiced playbook. They are masters at Fukery and why gun laws have become even more lax and gun related murders have gone up almost as fast as gun manufacturer’s profits.

In both Canada and the US, policy on the handling of firearms is being dictated by minority and special interest with no regard for what the majority wants. The minority in Canada is trying to get all guns banned and in the US the minority is trying to get guns in everyone’s hands. WTF?

In both Canada and the US there is so much Fukery and not just with gun laws and regulation but on a whole host of social issues. The current state of affairs throws common sense out the window and the will of the majority is ignored in favour of minority special interest.

Quote of the week the US Second Amendment.  “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

I usually go off on one subject but I am just pissed over a whole bunch of items. They all infuriate me to no end. These things are all within human control but unfortunately those in control are more concerned about profiting from their positions than governing.

Right off the top, what is wrong with America and this ridiculous obscene and perverted love of weapons meant to wipe out their fellow man and his children. WTF is wrong with them and those curmudgeon old white cucks in the senate who whore themselves out to the gun lobby and the NRA. How does Mitt Romney a devout Mormon stand by and let this wholesale slaughter keep continuing on? Oh that’s right, the NRA has given Romney $13 million in campaign donations, does anyone think that would be something that Jesus would do?

I am sick of these freedom convoy people still going on and using the Canadian Flag as a symbol of their right of stupidity.  I am a proud Canadian ( and Kiwi ) and when I go camping I have a tradition of putting my little Canadian Flags out on the front of my RV to show this. Now I won’t as I do not want anyone thinking I am a moron who lacks critical thinking skills or common sense. The Canadian flag does not represent anarchy, so I wish these people would stop trying to use it as a symbol of that.

The backwards push against women in the US is disgusting. Once again a bunch of shriveled up old white cucks have succeeded in the long game to tilt the Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and remove a woman’s say over her reproductive system and her body. This is going to massively disadvantage the poor and could result in women being incarcerated for wanting control over their own bodies. These opponents of abortion hypocritically then support the idea the 2^nd amendment is ordained from God and Jesus would be an NRA member today. Pro-life, I don’t think so, totally nuts, oh yeah! Really,how can someone say they are Prolife and allow such open gun laws to exist. These people are Pro-Fetus and Anti-Woman with women rights set to be pushed back 60 years.

John Horgan is going to spend one billion dollars of taxpayers’ money for a new BC Museum in Victoria? Sure they say the cost is around $800 million but we all know, government projects are not known for being either on time or on budget so I am confident the cost will balloon. What is stupid is they are going to build the new Museum on the same site as the old. A location Horgan said is below sea level and one of the reasons why they have to build a new museum, ah is the new Museum going to be a submarine? Here is an idea, sell the land and buildings of the current Museum and with what you get, you can use that to build a new museum elsewhere on higher ground, perhaps in a community that could use some help in Tourism for example. Get a grip on the finances of the province and priorities. I for one would like to see that archaic highway out here improved, that affects me and everyone out here directly, the museum does not.

Putin continues to be a freaking asshole…..enough said there.

Quote of the Week

On Trickle Down Economics,  John Kenneth Galbraith said, “if you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows.”

The fact is that the West has repeatedly shown it prefers bloody cheap oil and supporting autocratic regimes with poor Human rights records not only against their own populations but the world at large. These regimes continue to fund terrorism and invasions from the revenues they earn from selling bloody energy to western nations. Why does the West do this? The West has demands for a particular lifestyle, of big vehicles, extensive travel, enormous homes, over the top consumption. Countries in OPEC plus Russia, control about 45% of total oil production and reserves and they know the lifestyle demands of citizens in the west. The US consumes nearly 20% of all the worlds energy per day and Europe is not far behind and this thirst for energy bodes well for all these oppressive regimes to future funding plans.

The West is always fearful to allow any criticism of OPEC or nation members. Saudi was the nationality of 15 of the 911 hijackers, and Saudi citizens today are still heavily involved in both the planning, financing and implementation of terrorism, yet no Saudis have faced any consequences.

Now we have Russia who is also one of the worlds biggest suppliers of crude, waging a war against another Sovereign State, to appease the delusions of a tyrannical despot, who cares little about his own people or the civilians in Ukraine, but instead is fixated on his own need to write a new version of Russian history.

In 2008 and 2014, the world sat by and watched as Russia invaded Georgia and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. The West did little because the world and especially Europe needs Russian energy. Just like no one did anything to Saudi Arabia after 911, because of their role as an oil producer.

American policy in particular has been to ignore the issues from both these players while at the same time treating its neighbors to the north, Canada, like shitty cousins. How many Americans know how much crude comes from Russia, Saudi and Canada each day into the US? According to a September 2021 report from the US Energy Information Agency, the US imports roughly half a million barrels a day from each Russia and Saudi. From Canada, the US imports 4.1 million barrels a day, dwarfing what comes in from those other two. Canada’s confirmed oil reserves are in the area of 300 billion barrels. Neither, Saudi Arabia or Russia have close to that, the Saudi reserves are estimated about 140 billion and Russia at 65 billion.

As the US and West spends money purchasing Oil from Regimes like Russia or Saudi, they are helping to fund campaigns designed against the US and its allies. Isn’t that a kick in the head too be funding those who don’t like you and want to destabilize your way of life, even attack you direct, like during 911? Has Canada since 1812 ever attacked the US or invaded a sovereign country? Nope in 1815, after 3 years of war and the burning down of the White House and most of Washington DC, in retaliation of the US invasion into Canada, both sides came to the realization of being allies rather than adversaries.  

Keystone XL, which was cancelled by the Biden administration, would have supported jobs in the US and would supply about 850,000 barrels a day of crude to the US, nearly fully offsetting the imports from Saudi and Russia. This could have helped to keep US fuel prices lower by establishing a steady and politically stable supply of Crude and the US would be less susceptible to world price shocks, and keeping inflation down.

The fact is we have a situation in Europe that has been funded by the purchase of Russian energy. European nations and NATO now have to arm in preparation of a potential Russian advance. The energy security of Europe is now an immense mess as countries with the energy agreements with Russia are now facing energy supply issues and the moral issue of funding an aggressor nation.

The fallout to America is hitting the pocket book of average Americans with an increase in oil prices due to the war and supply constraints. In addition, even though asked to increase production, OPEC nation states are dragging their feet as they are now coining it with respect to spot oil contracts and have no interest in increasing the supply and end this windfall.

Many of you reading this might wonder why then is the US still buying from these tin-plated dictators when a ready source is next door? The reason is the US has not been playing fair in Canada’s Oil markets through a couple of strategies it has employed. First is the use of paid protestors to create discourse on Canadian energy development and pipelines. Groups like the Tides foundation work not necessarily for the planet but for people like the Rockefellers, who are owners of Chevron and oppose Canadian pipelines to bring crude to market. By preventing and obstructing pipelines in Canada, most Canadian Oil is then land-locked and the only market is the US, where companies like Chevron manipulate the price of Canadian crude to their refineries, paying a substantial discount to the world price of oil. This savings is not passed to US gas consumers but the huge “Crack Spread” profits are passed to shareholders, like the Rockefellers. (Crack spread is the difference in value between unrefined and refined oil products)

The other campaigns against Canada are based on how dirty the Oil sands are and the emission of CO2 from burning natural gas to separate the oil from the sand. Most Oil sands development is done using steam injection into the sand, which does not disturb the land above and the oil is captured underground. Yes some Oil Sand production is done via strip mining and processing, but it is in a small area compared to how big the oil sands are, an estimated 90,000 square miles or the size of Louisiana.

While CO2 is produced to heat and develop steam, the industry has greatly reduced its CO2 footprint by utilizing new technologies and C02 injection back into the formations that help the flow of oil capture. It is not perfect and still produces greenhouse gases but all energy production comes with some pollution. The flare stacks in North Dakota run 24 hours a day, burning off so much natural gas that North Dakota looks like a city at night from space.

Let’s just be honest, all Western and Developing countries are energy whores and most are dependent on the whims and actions of mostly autocratic dictatorships.  While so many individuals and leaders talk about the affects of climate change few actually practice what they preach. What is the number one purchased vehicle in North America over the past 10 years….that is right SUV’s and Pickups, not compacts.

So given the fact no one is really prepared to change their lifestyle choices, the West needs to examine its choices. Does it want bloody oil associated with wars, atrocities, human rights abuses and having to deal with Narcissistic Autocratic Assholes like Putin, or does it make better sense to invest and develop technology to make Dirty Oil Clean?

I prefer the second choice especially when I look at what bloody oil is doing to Ukraine. Who knows how much this is going to cost the people of Ukraine but it is significant.

So this past weekend the Convoy for freedom started in Chilliwack and so my son Jack and I went down there to hear first hand why these people are supporting this protest. We went down there and interviewed people in the parking lot, then took our Pro Vaccine Signs to an overpass that was packed with Convoy Supporters and protested the Convoy.

Jack is very anti-Convoy, while only 13 he grasps the science of mutation and costs. He feels that his freedoms are being infringed upon by the virus dragging out and this is because of the unvaccinated. So he needed to get his voice out. He wanted to hear first hand why the protestors were there and so we interviewed 3 people at the rallying point and then stood at the overpass and interacted with another dozen but did not record it as it was a narrow area.

So what did we hear? Everything from the notion of tracking devices being imbedded to it will kill everyone who gets it. It was described a giant conspiracy by the elite and governments to control and take away our freedoms, this is a hoax, hospitals being overwhelmed is bullshit. When asked for them to describe the freedoms they lost it was they could not go to a restaurant, the movies, church, travel, the gym or a pub. Holy crap It was nothing but whining about first world problems by these supporters. Jack and I were not there to debate them we just wanted to hear where it was coming from.

I asked the question of one person if they thought the government was not being honest from the start and his reaction was yes, he felt that from the start. People believed the government has treated them like children and on that fact I cannot disagree with them. The other ideas and conspiracy theories many follow are in my opinion a result of people lacking critical thinking skills. Really world leaders cannot get their shit together about trade, human rights, climate change, Ukraine and the list goes on, but magically they all conspire over Covid to control the world that is what you believe? Wow!

When we were on the overpass with our signs ( Vaccines Equal Freedom, Support Canada Get Vaxxed) people were not so welcoming especially when their beliefs were directly confronted. They all had comments once they saw our signs and me not being a wall flower I could not help myself but to engage their logic or lack thereof. One supporter said that I was a fool to believe the vaccines. So I asked her, do you know what the m in mRNA stands for? Totally blank look, she had no idea. To which I pointed out, perhaps if you don’t understand the basis of the science you should not be against it.

She then went on that she was going to pray for us. Oh god, are we really going down that rabbit hole and I just could not resist. “Do you believe that God will protect you?” which she affirmed so I pointed out, “he did, he gave people the knowledge to create a vaccine to protect you.” At that point another supporter did not like my facts or arguments, I guess they were too logical, so he intervened and told me I should not be engaging in this discussion there given my views. Others actually stood in disbelief that we were there. One more Senior gentleman stood behind Jack and I just staring at us. I was not sure if he was trying to intimidate us, trying to use his anti-vaxx Jedi mind powers or trying to squeeze a fart out without shitting himself.

One individual started down the freedom road and this Protest is about body autonomy, to which I said, no it is about science getting rid of this before it mutates as it could change again and become deadly. To them I was the fool, for believing the lies of government and science. The reality is they simply don’t understand and when Jack decided he was putting his mask on, wow the looks then. Eventually they were crowding both Jack and I with one supporter using his sign to cover Jack’s. I had asked him earlier to back off( yeah I said it that succinctly) and not crowd us, but he now knew what our signs said so he was trying to demonstrate his Anti-Vax masculinity on a 13 year old, and that’s when I decided we should leave as we had enough of these potential Darwin Award nominees.

We accomplished what we set out to do, we held our signs out for an hour as the convoy passed underneath the overpass, clogging the highway and creating chaos at the US-Canada border.   As we left there were a few cat calls from the peanut gallery and Jack wanted to respond but I reminded him we were amongst those whose IQ was smaller than their shoe size any logical response would just go right over  their heads.  

My overall impression of the supporters was that a vast majority lack basic critical thinking skills. The government wants to track you using a chip in the Vaccine? What info are they going to get from you that is so critically important to national security? Track the number of times a day that you need take a dump? Do you own a cell phone, have a credit card, bank account? Yes, now connect the dots……..

We have all seen or heard about the convoy for freedom that is occupying Ottawa as well as causing some disruptions in Alberta and Manitoba. This started out as a protest of cross border vaccine mandates from Truck drivers crossing the border but has now grown to be a protest of that plus lockdowns, personal freedoms, mandates and many more grievances.

Personally I support everyone having to get vaccinated, but the real question is why do many of them not want to get vaccinated and believe these wild conspiracy theories and have such a deep distrust of government? Well I might have part of an answer to that.

Recently a golf friend of mine and I ran into one another and we started chatting about some of this and continued online. He would post things in support of the convoy and other matters. As he posted, others would also chime in and I would try to take a logical approach to this and explain it. No one wanted to accept what I was saying, and then it occurred to me why.

If you look at the start of the pandemic, the information being sent out was rather poor. Health officials started with it is not a threat, but then a huge threat. Initially they said it was not air born, but that was found to be totally wrong. Masks don’t help was what we were told at the beginning and then that changed. The Chinese are being transparent, everyone can get a test, lockdowns will work, vaccine will prevent Covid, all found to be BS. So right there people built a distrust because the information was constantly changing.

Then look at some of the decisions about closures. We close all gyms but leave air, train and ship travel open. We leave restaurants open but not pubs with little to no explanation as to why one business stays open but not another. Both business and the public have not been given any explanation about closures and I don’t think there is one. You can be on a crowded plane, but you cannot go to the gym makes no sense to me either.

Finally, of course is the transparency of data from the various health organizations and medical systems, which has been incomplete about hospitalizations and who is most susceptible. There has been this attitude by the levels of government that they must protect us from the information because the general population won’t understand, in short treating the population like children. HELLO, who is is paying the bill for the financial packages like CERB (what a joke) and hospitalization costs? The taxpayer and we should have a right to the info we are paying for given government is spending like a bunch of drunken sailors with no plan.

When I look back at what has happened and all of above, no shit people are protesting, they cannot trust the info coming out of government as government has not been forthright, so there is no trust in what it says. The people protesting are straight forward working people, like my golf friend, who are frustrated and feel no one is being honest with them. The distrust creates the opportunity for the BS train of social media to take over and people like Infowars Alex Jones, will use this to promote conspiracy of the vaccines and anything else on their websites and podcasts. They call out conspiracy while in the same breath hocking their vitamins to the public as protection from Covid.

If you know someone who every time they told you a “fact”, had to take it back and change the  narrative, time and time again, would you necessarily trust what comes out of their mouth? I would not necessarily trust what they say with that history. The people in this Convoy are straight forward hardworking individuals but they don’t suffer BS well and that is what they feel the government is trying to sell them…BS.

There is an old Scottish saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me” and that is how many of them feel. That the government under PM Photo Op, has not been honest, has acted as an authoritarian with mandates and has not trusted that people can understand and accept the information. I have a greater understanding and empathy for the protestors now.

The facts are for truckers to cross the border into the US the US side says they must be fully vaccinated to cross, just like any other person travelling to there. Even if PM Photo OP lifted the mandate for truckers the US won’t. So to truck back and forth into the US, they have to get vaccinated regardless.

The sooner everyone is vaccinated the sooner PM Photo OP and the provinces can all open up and the lower the chance of the virus mutating, but not a guarantee. The vaccine has been statistically shown to lower the chance of hospital admittance and death in those under 65 who are healthy to 0.9%. That will greatly help alleviate the medical crunch going on.

In my humble opinion, the hesitancy in vaccination by many is a direct result of the government’s way they disseminated information to the public and kept altering the protocols that we needed to follow. This created a distrust from the start and opportunity for those on social media with an agenda of their own, to exploit this distrust for profit in many cases.

I understand the hesitancy better. I don’t agree with it, as the vaccine is the best protection from the virus but with all the BS and misinformation, I understand why the protests are happening. Would it not be nice if PM Photo Op did?

It was recently announced that the Federal Government is spending $250,000 to look at the idea of taxing gains on a persons’ principal residence as a way to increase government coffers after the terrible financial handling of Covid.

That is right, PM Photo Op is looking at taxing the gains people make from their principal residence. Gains that have been tax free on the sale of a person’s residence since the advent of taxation back in 1917. Another idea that is also being discussed is from a study out of the University of British Columbia which recommends an additional one percent annual property tax on those residences with a value over $1 million dollars.

The government and this study believe by adding an additional tax onto properties, it will slow the housing market in places like Vancouver or Toronto. Again this is an example of our government and researchers looking at the low hanging fruit as the solution to all the ills of society as a big cash cow. They fail in my opinion to look at one of the key reasons we see massive increases in markets like Vancouver and Toronto, which is foreign ownership and the advantages they receive in the tax treatment of the sales proceeds.

Let me illustrate, suppose an investment property is sold today for $400,000 with an original cost base of $75,000, the gross gain is $325,000. With Capital gains treatment and filing a non-resident tax return the net tax a non-resident foreigner will pay is approximately $55,000, with a net gain of $270,000. If this investment property was sold by a Canadian resident the Canadian will pay in the area of $65,000 to $80,000 in taxes on the gains.

There is no law saying that a person has to be a Canadian to buy property. So a foreign national, (American, British, Russian, Chinese, or from any country globally) can buy property as an investment and will pay less tax than a Canadian who might own a similar property for investment when sold.

Further to this if a person is from one of these countries and is a resident living in the house they can then claim the principal residence exemption. Remember with Meng Wanzhao, the Huaweii executive who was under house arrest in Vancouver at request of the US and the Chinese retaliated by imprisoning two Canadians? She bought a house in Shaughnessy for her house arrest, which has now appreciated I am sure. She never had an intention of living here and as soon as she was released she left. However, she was a resident (not by choice) of Canada and so is able to claim Principal residence and pay no taxes on the sale of the Shaughnessy property. So if she bought it for $13 million and sold it for $16 million, that $3 million dollar gain is tax free.

In Vancouver it is somewhere between 8 and 10% of home sales are to Foreign nationals who either hold them as investments. Vancouver and Toronto are seen as safe jurisdictions for people to invest and to get money out from some areas in Asia and Europe.  

Canada has created this favorable tax environment that has encouraged Foreigners to invest in Canadian real estate and to believe that it is not being taken advantage is the definition of naïve, so what should we do?

First I think that unless you are a Canadian Citizen anyone who disposes property will have to pay taxes in Canada based on the gain, and that gain is taxed fully at their top marginal rate. So in my example above, with the $325,000 gain, the entire amount would be taxable at the prescribed individual rates. That would mean a tax bill on the sale of roughly 50% or $162,000. This would make it less desirable for foreign interests to compete in the real estate market due to the reduced tax treatment, so that might help with housing affordability in Vancouver and Toronto.

It would also add significant revenues to government coffers overtime but not at the expense of Canadians citizens and they would still be entitled to claim the principal residence.

This seems to me to be a more surgical approach to bringing about policy that can address the home ownership issue in centers like Vancouver and Toronto while providing a tax revenue stream that protects Canadian property interests. I am fricking tired of PM Photo Op and his gang of yes people always looking at the Canadian tax payer as the solution to his fiscal inabilities.

What I am referring to is the inability of government to act on the issues of disadvantaged youths in our society and the homelessness as well as hopelessness they have in a system that is nothing but a bureaucratic nightmare. A system designed by PhD and Masters thesis candidates with little to no practical application to those suffering out there.

The other day I went to take my dog for a walk in the park beside my home. It was bitterly cold around minus 10 Celsius with a biting wind and nobody is in the park but this one young girl sitting on a bench. She is hunched over huddling in the cold on this exposed bench. When I approach her I ask if she is okay, the response I got was in voice that was full tears and despair, “ no I am not”. It is really cold, she has a thin coat, crappy boots and wet gloves, I tell her to wait, I will be right back. I race home and call for my wife to get a hold of our local services telling her of the girl. I grab some hand warmers and a couple of blankets for her, she is frozen.

Help comes in the form of a local security company and they contact an Outreach society for her and this is where we all start talking of this girl’s situation and I start getting really upset and angry. This girl is all of 90 lbs, she has just turned 19 and has been on her own pretty well since 14. Her face is all scabbed from the drugs she has taken and all her possessions in the world fit in a shoe box with room to spare. She tells me how she hates this, she needs to get clean, but she has nowhere to go. She tells me of what she has had to do to survive including prostituting herself and doing whatever she has had too to survive. She is now at that low point that many have to get too, before they can accept help. Unfortunately and this is where I lose my shit, there is nowhere for her.

Yes there are some shelters for her to go to, but they are just shelters, they are not equipped or capable of providing the counseling and the drug rehabilitation services she needs. Even to qualify to get help she first has to meet with a councilor to determine if she qualifies for services. What? Young girl, living on the streets, prostituting to survive hooked on all kinds of shit and no doubt has some deep mental health problems, not too mention it is -10 Celsius, I think she frickin qualifies for services and help.

The Outreach worker, who came, brought this girl new boots, a coat and gloves and knew this girl and her story. She confirmed all this girl told me, there is nowhere. The government changed the way they help and so more bureaucratic hurdles designed by those with lots of letters behind their names but no practical experience or understanding of what goes on and who is on the street, let alone why they are there.

This girl has no family, no support and no one to advocate for her until now as  I am going to do what I can to get her some help and if that means annoying PM Photo Op and my MP’s or MLA’s oh well. Those of you who know me, know I like to stir the shit so that is what I am going to do for this girl because her living this way is not right and quite frankly as a society we should not let this happen to anyone. No one chooses to be hooked on drugs and prostituting themselves and I challenge anyone to show me anyone who wrote in their high school yearbook that their future ambition was to be living on the streets and prostituting themselves to survive, it does not exist.

If we really want to fix this problem then we need to be compassionate and we need to set the services so when a person, like this girl, hits bottom like she has, there is a place she can go, get warm, get healthy and get the help to fix all the trauma and mental health issues she may have. This girl was crying to get help so she could get off the streets and get a job. Yet in a city of 90,000 people there is nowhere for her to go and nowhere for her to turn other than temporary shelters which offer no services beyond a bed for a night and a meal. In most cases they have to be out by 7 am the next day. Imagine getting turned out during this past cold snap and having to repeat this every day, lining up for a temporary bed for the night, how can we expect anyone to get better?

It is estimated that the cost of homelessness and situations like above, cost the Canadian taxpayer an average of $7 billion per year, one study concluded the cost to society per homeless is over $53,000 per individual some studies have it as high as $70,000 per person. Yet the cost to house people and provide services is estimated to be about half this amount, so again my frustration as a taxpayer now comes out. The fact we are not dealing with the problem and wasting a shit load of money in not doing it. Again WTF is wrong with government and their thinking? Simple financial analysis says the way we are doing things is not working and costs more than providing housing and services to those out on the streets.

So here we have an insane system that not only is ineffectual but also costs more than the solution. What do you think taxpayers are going to say if its explained that fixing homelessness will save taxpayers money? Einstein said,” the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result “, yet we continue to do this and people like this girl who are ready and need help get caught up in the bureaucratic government where no one really understands either the humanitarian problem or the financial one.

This is not an issue of needing more money to fix the problem facing, housing for example the Federal government has committed billions towards housing so we are not looking for more of a commitment there, what we need is a commitment from all levels of government to quit flapping their gums about the issues and fix it. Enough Royal Commissions and inquiries at all levels, we don’t need to study it, we need to deal with it and get not just youth, but the mentally Ill and all those suffering out there off the streets.

Personally I am sick to death of hearing about Covid all the time and we ignore this glaring problem. Same with the Opioid Crisis that is still killing about 30,000 Canadians per year, yet nothing is done there either. Yet our governments continues to prioritize and waste resources on those who keep this pandemic going, the unvaccinated. In fact if a person ends up in the ICU it costs over $70,000 to treat them on average which is about double the cost of providing housing and services to someone like this girl for and entire year! The unvaccinated have made a choice, no matter how stupid and selfish it is. That girl in the park has had no choice since 14 and who I really think we should be helping and not the unvaccinated Covid – Darwin award morons.

Either get the Covid Vaccine or don’t. I personally don’t care anymore. I am sick of Covid and the moronic actions of those who cry about their rights being infringed or believe that Covid is a conspiracy to control and monitor us. Then of course there are those who espouse the religious argument that God will protect them.

So let’s discuss each one of these points. First, their rights are being infringed upon by restrictions, masks etc. Does the right to life not supersede another’s perceived right to not wear a mask? Exactly where in the Canadian Charter of Rights does it say a person has the right not to wear a mask? What it does say in section 7 is:

7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

This kind of “Trumps” the idea that a person has a right to not wear a mask and potentially expose others to a deadly virus. It provides all have a right to life, liberty and security.

I am tired of the rights argument because it only goes one way, the rights of the non-vaccinated. Well how about the rights of all the people who have followed the guidelines like me and my family who are all fully vaccinated. My rights are being impinged upon by a minority who believes their rights come before mine. The restrictions, mandates and all continue to be in place because people who are not vaccinated keep ending up in the Intensive Cares and they keep spreading the virus to people with compromised systems like cancer patients.

The second argument that this is some kind of conspiracy to control us all is just Bat Shit Crazy!! A conspiracy that is global in nature would be impossible to keep quiet as there are way too many players that would have to be involved, just apply common sense. Frick most people can’t keep a secret, yet you expect 100’s of thousands all across the world? What are you smoking?

Also there are no microchips in the vaccine vile and each vile has 6 doses in it, how do you make sure each dose gets a microchip if they are just floating around? I am sorry but really anyone who truly believes these mass conspiracy theories is simply a TWOT (Total Waste of Time). They lack Critical thinking skills at multi levels preferring to listen to a narrative they want to hear, not the truth. You cannot communicate with a TWOT, so don’t bother.

Third the religious argument, God will take care of me. God did by providing to you scientists to produce a vaccine to protect you. God gives us choice, in this case take the vaccine and live a long life or not take it and meet God now.

I am not interested in trying to change the opinions of anyone who thinks like above with respect to Covid. There has been enough factual and scientific information put out there by people who are a lot smarter than the average Canadian in these subjects. If a person does not want to get vaccinated fine, their choice but here is a couple of things I don’t want them doing.

Forget treatment, if you get it you are on your own don’t go to the hospital or expect medical help. There is no reason why the taxpayer should be funding healthcare for a person who chooses not to get vaccinated. Each shot is about $50 and the cost of treating a Covid patient in the Intensive Care Unit is over $70,000 on average. In BC there are roughly 100 people now in Intensive Care who were not vaccinated. That is going to cost Tax Payers roughly $7,000,000. In comparison for each to have gotten two Doses of Vaccine, the cost would be about $10,000, this pisses me right off. 

I also despise the hypocrisy of anti vaxxers with respect to treatment. They do not believe or trust the science that created the vaccines but if they get Covid they trust that science will save them. Get the F out!!  

Today I nominate everyone who dies of Covid and was not vaccinated for a 2021 Darwin Award. This award is given out too people who have taken themselves out of the Gene Pool via really stupid acts and I think not getting vaccinated qualifies as really stupid.

I like to have fun with it too. I have met people who have said they won’t get vaccinated and I have sarcastically said “Oh your going for a Darwin Award, good luck with it”.

A perplexed look  usually comes across their faces so I have to explain that a Darwin Award is, “for people who take themselves out of the gene pool by incredibly stupid acts.” Yeah I am a shit, but I am sick of Covid and all these TWOTs and Morons.

We know it is Climate Change so what are going to do? 

Scientists have been for over 20 years telling us to reduce, change our ways and how far have we gotten? Nowhere is where, temperatures are still rising and at the recent global climate conference in Scotland two of the biggest CO2 emitters, China and Russia, did not even attend.

The fact is no one wants to change the lifestyle that they feel they are entitled too. Just look at your local car lot and it is filled predominantly with huge fossil fuel consuming Trucks, not a line of electric vehicles, hybrids or compact fuel efficient vehicles. The world now consumes a 97 million barrels a day of crude oil and if the trend continues it will reach 104 million barrels by 2026. Prior to the Pandemic the world was consuming 99.3 million barrels a day. The world consumed in 2015, the year of the Paris Climate Accord 94.9 million barrels, this according to Statista a statistics research firm.

So if we are burning more and more Carbon, how do we stop global warming? You can’t plain and simple. We burn more carbon and the planet gets warmer. If you put more wood on the fire in winter, does the house get cooler? No, so if we burn more carbon how do we expect the world to get cooler?

The ability of Nature to absorb all this carbon is like a cup and saucer. The cup represents natures ability to capture Carbon and process it, but if you keep pouring tea into the cup, eventually it is going to spill on to the saucer. The saucer is Natures last attempt to absorb the carbon and as tea keeps spilling onto the saucer, more and more natural disasters are occurring, like the fires, heat waves and flooding we are enduring now. What the hell is going to happen when even the saucer can’t catch all the tea and it spills all over the table, floor, carpets and makes a huge mess….hmmm and then what are we are going to do when supposed 100 year floods happen every couple of years?  

So if we are not going to stop pouring the tea, how do we stop the saucer at least from spilling….you get a cloth to wipe it up. Since we won’t stop buying big trucks, flying everywhere and sucking on Oils tit at near unprecedented rates we are going to have to develop the technology to absorb the Carbon out of the atmosphere and store it somehow. We are going to have to spend 100’s of billions in the meantime, and I mean 100’s of billions globally on flood control and infrastructure to protect areas like BC’s Fraser Valley from these devastating floods. We are also going to have to spend billions on Fire equipment and personnel to battle these wildfires, which release millions of tons of Carbon themselves and further compound the problem.

I don’t believe for a minute that people will effectively change their consumption and what they feel so entitled too especially in Western countries like Canada, the US and most of Europe. Other countries like China and India aspire to the lifestyles of the west and are consuming fossil fuels at increasing rates and dumping Carbon into the atmosphere to achieve it. We have to realize the primary reason that our society is as developed as it is, is directly tied to industrialization and the use of fossil fuels from wood to coal to oil to power it.

So if we really are going to fix the climate we need to find ways to deal with the carbon as conservation and reduction is not a practical strategy because people don’t want to change their lifestyles. So if we cannot change global consumption of Fossil fuels, then the only solution is to deal with cleaning up the CO2 and building the infrastructure to withstand these catastrophes.