A Few More Quickies…

 

First Off – Former Member of Parliament – Del Maestro:

Here is a guy who was caught over donating to his Election Campaign by $20,000 some thousand dollars …. of his own money no less.

He loses his MP-ship / cannot run for office for 5 years; his reputation is gone; is fined and the Judge still thinks that a jail sentence is needed.  How absurd.

And then to add insult to injury his picture appears in all the nation’s daily newspapers in hand-cuffs and leg irons as he is walked out of court to the awaiting paddy wagon.

All the while the real cheats and scoundrels in Ontario’s Liberal Government go untouched.

Second – The Memorial to the Victims of Communism:

The Conservative Government of Canada has announced that it will built this massive memorial on the grounds of our Supreme Court despite the face that nearly 80% of Canadians – Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats alike – are opposed to it.

Even if there was 80% support for it and even if the structure was not so ugly – the question remains as to why build it here in Canada in the first place.  We never had a Communist Government! 

Better to build in Poland or Hungary – or similar countries that truly suffered under such administrations.

Is the reason for such folly an attempt to garner votes from refugees who settled here from the Iron Curtain countries?

Are you pandering Mr. Harper?

Third – Strike Two Mr. Brown:

In a recent Blog I gave Strike One to recently elected Patrick Brown as Leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives.

Well now the dear man has a Second Strike with his announcement that he will march in Toronto’s upcoming Gay Pride Parade which are merely outrageous demonstrations.

Brown was to be the new true spokesman for the Right but he has once again fallen into the trap of trying to be all things to everyone and will end up nothing to anyone.

Gays ‘yes’ ….Gay Pride Parades ‘no’

Fourth – A Second Team for Quebec

And speaking of pandering – this week saw Prime Minister Harper in Quebec City supporting another NHL Team for the Province of Quebec.

Quebec had a second team based in Quebec City but it folded for want of support.

Anyway we are now leading up to the Federal Election and Harper was quoted as saying ‘if Ontario can have two NHL teams then Quebec should have two as well’.

A couple of problems with your analogy Sir – first Ontario has over twice the population of Quebec and second – Quebec receives many times the largess from the Federal Government as does Ontario.

More federal cash for Les Habitants seems not to be warranted.

And Fifth – Young Trudeau and ISIS

The Young Lad was interviewed this week about the situation in the Middle East and ISIS.

He said that upon being elected Prime Minister he would call back Canada’s six (6) CF 18 Fighter Jets and replace them with on the training personnel.

After-all it would not be right to hurt these doers of evil – the ones that behead – burn – drown – bury innocent children, women and men.

He also stated that he would re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran. 

What a guy. No wonder his polls are declining.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

 

 

Charleston, S.C. … it is only fitting -

 

That the place where the first shots in anger were fired in 1861 to start the American Civil War is the place where true healing is now taking place.

Beginning with the Black Community’s unreservedly forgiving the 21 year old racist who shot 9 of their own while praying in Church this past week.

And now leading to the White Community voluntarily coming forward to denounce symbols of that War which to the Blacks represent their slavery and which to Whites they hold dear.

As an aside, the man who could have played a useful role in this – their President - once again proved himself to be most unhelpful by declaring that America’s DNA is rife with racism.

As he enters is last full year in power – his irrelevance stands in tact.

I am a Civil War buff and believe that Slavery was not the real cause of that War.  War, as I have said, is about Power and the Civil War was caused by a power imbalance between the rich industrial north and the poorer agricultural south.

As the population growth favoured the North, the South attempted to establish their own country and in the War to follow – the lion’s share of 660,000 killed were sons of the south.

To this date, Southerners look back on their loss in the Spring of 1865 as an end of their way of life – far more genteel and closer to the earth than their northern neighbours.

Slavery though was most certainly at issue in that lost way of life.

And yet, here in 2015, in recognition that the Blacks’ distain for the Southern Civil War Symbols far exceeds their own nostalgia for those same symbols Whites are now prepared to put those symbols to rest for the sake of their Black Brothers and Sisters.

We are witness to two miracles.

Amen to that.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’