GRASSHOPPER IS FOUND DEAD…

In an apparent drug related incident:

 

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the  withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying  up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the  ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The  grasshopper has no food or shelter,  so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself and / or hard work has its just reward.

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBC, CTV, Global and City TV show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.  Canada is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?  The little guy in the White House points to Canada as an example of a country that allows its rich to gain at the expense of the poor.

Kermit the Frog appears on CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.

Then Justin Trudeau has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

Kathleen Wynne condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper, former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard, and Conrad Black for the grasshopper's plight.

Justin Trudeau and Scott Brison explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his
fair share.

Finally, the Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes his home is
confiscated by the Ontario Government's Green Czar, Dalton
McGuinty, and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it..

The ant has disappeared in the snow never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in the next
election  and / or hard work has its unjust reward.

As someone on the internet sees it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

Bastion of Democracy and …

 

Sober Second Thought.

I am speaking of course of Canada’s illustrious Senate.

(Speaking of Sober Thought – I do believe by Elizabeth May’s drunken antics earlier this week she now qualifies for a Senate Seat or at the very least – Honourable Senator Status).

But back to the Senate itself.

The papers yesterday and today are awash with articles saying that our dear Senate is planning to deep six Michael Chong’s Bill intended to give greater powers to the average Member of Parliament.

All the Senate needs do is talk it out under the election is called this fall and the Chong bill dies on the order paper.

As was said in a famous movie – “they can’t handle the truth”  …. or in this case – they can’t handle democracy.

And why for heaven’s sake should they …after all they are but appointed hacks, flacks and ne’er do wells.

But don’t think for a minute the Senate is acting out of some sort of belief in their independence.

No sir – they are acting as the executioner for the Party Leaders in the Commons who were forced to support the Bill solely for public appearance sake.

Regardless of Party – Tory, Grit or Dipper – the last thing their Leaders want is empowered Back Benchers.

Dear Reader – we are in desperate need of a shake-up.  We need to get rid of the Senate – roll back the all powerful PMO and curtail an out of control Supreme Court.

The voters took matters into their own hands in Alberta – it is now time that this same rise up occurs at the national level.

Michael Chong for Prime Minister, anyone?

It Has Come To This…

 

This coming Thursday is the second of two days set aside to decide who will lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario into the next and far off Election.

There are but two (2) candidates and although both are likely decent folk, in their own right, neither is qualified to lead the Province’s Tories.

I heard them both on radio today and the woman – Christine Elliott sounded much the same to me as our current Premier – Liberal Kathleen Wynne.

The second candidate – Patrick Brown sounded as if he were being interviewed for a low level position in a high-school government.

I have a vote which I have yet to cast but have sadly come to the conclusion that neither is worth the effort.

This at a time when the Governing Liberals have run amuck and are in desperate need of some well deserved comeuppance.

Ontario has lost its way as has its major parties.  None on the scene seem to be able to do / say anything to get us back on track.

A New Party?

I think not. 

We have become a society of ‘me firsters’ – we have fallen in love with Big Government which wastes our money, over-taxes and over-spends leaving it to future generations to pick up the tab.

I did tell you, did I not, how worried Kathleen Wynne is about the future and her grand-daughter? 

She of course is worried about the effects of Global Warming but too bad it is not in regard to something important such as as our withering economy.

Wynne need not worry – she can take comfort in the fact that neither Tory Candidate is likely to cause her much - if any - grief.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

GOD …

 

AND HIS FOLLOWERS CAN TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

As in the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling last week that prayers have no place at municipal council tables across Canada.

The logical extension of this Ruling means that God no longer has a place in any of our Governments:

• No prayers
• No National Prayer Breakfast
• Not in our Constitution
• Not in our Anthem
• Not at Remembrance Services

And so on.

But as per my title – it will not be God nor any of his true followers who will suffer from the Court’s edict; it will be society in general.

Canada, like America below us, was founded on Christian / Jewish principles.

In short, those principles have made our countries great and to me it stands to reason that without those principles to guide us, we, as a secular society, are doomed to decline.

Principles such as the worth of the individual, human rights, love and forgiveness will wither in an ever increasing ‘me first’ environment.

I am not saying the Court was wrong in its decision since I can see that for non-believers and even for many left wing believers – God in the affairs of government could be seen as discriminatory.

I am merely pointing our what society is losing in its quest for universal inclusivity.

As I see it…

’K.D. Galagher’

 

It’s All About … Olivia.

 

As in Premier Wynne’s granddaughter.

So said our distinguished leader when she announced the Province’s latest folly  …the 2 billion dollar annual cap and trade tax.

She brought this stupidity in since she wanted “to tell her granddaughter Olivia that she did something positive about climate change”.

Too bad she is not equally concerned about leaving her granddaughter the massive Ontario debt – currently some $300 Billion Dollars – to pay off.

This from a Premier who, with her predecessor, lost 350,000 well paying manufacturing jobs to their totally misguided green energy program.

No less an authority than Warren Buffet is stated as saying that his decision to take Kraft out of Ontario was greatly motivated by Ontario’s inflated energy costs.

So now we have a new tax – Cap and Trade, which will further decimate Ontario businesses at a time when senior GM Union Officials are predicting the end of its manufacture in this province thereby creating further loss of jobs to the tune of 30,000 plus.

And I have yet to even refer to another of its major job loss initiatives – Ontario’s Retirement Pension Plan.

Having gone from the Engine of Canada to its Basket Case in 10 short years, Wynne and Company are making sure that our new have-not status will stay with us for many years to come. Indeed the very real danger exists that this status is now irreversible.

Some legacy to leave young Olivia.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

 

And Now There Are Two…

 

As in two candidates for next month’s PC Leadership vote in Ontario.

There were initially 5 seeking the mantle but as of this past week with Monty McNaughton’s withdrawal – there are but two left – Christine Elliott and Patrick Brown.

Makes one wonder if there is just too little interest in grabbing the leadership ring and maybe that is not all that surprising considering the Liberal’s 4 consecutive election victories.

Regardless – for the few of us who are actually interested in next month’s vote I wanted to share with you why I believe the Tory Campaign Rules forced McNaughton’s hand to withdraw.

The ballot was to be a ranked ballot meaning voters would have to state their first, second and third choices – so once the ballots are marked – it is marks the end of the voting.

No dropping off – no wheeling and dealing – no convention speeches to win delegates over – that results will already have been determined with the ranked ballots.

It really takes the fun and interest out of the process does it not?

With two candidates – the ranking of candidates no longer applies since one of the two is guaranteed to get a majority on the first ballot – unless in the unlikely event they both receive 50% of delegates’ votes.

So with Christine Elliott leaning left and both Brown and McNaughton leaning right – the only way for either Brown or McNaughton to influence the outcome was to withdraw before the delegates even voted.

And with Brown leading in memberships sold – it fell to McNaughton to take the plunge.

Will his strategy work?

We’ll soon know – but what had once looked like a coronation for Elliott – looks less so today.  Maybe Hillary Clinton should take notice.

What started out to be a boring campaign has degenerated into one of even greater boredom.

And you can thank the folks at the Ontario PC Executive for bringing this about.

Hopefully this does not signal another decade of Grit Rule for our once proud Province.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’

Have We Got A Guard For You…

 

The Ceremonial Guard for Canada’s War Memorial here in Ottawa kicked off its season today.

As per last year, there will be two Ceremonial Guards posted at the Memorial and at its Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from 9 am to 5 pm – seven days a week until Remembrance Day, November 11th, 2015.

But this year the set-up is different, the two ceremonial guards themselves will be guarded by two of Ottawa’s finest police at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly half a million dollars for this part year assignment.  It does include a cruiser.

The extra security is due to the tragic shooting death of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo on Wednesday October 22nd. 2014 @ 9:30 am.

Cpl. Cirillo was cowardly gunned down by a lone Islamic Terrorist aficionado.

The guard was initially posted because some male had urinated on the War Memorial in late hours of Canada Day – July 1st 2006.

Do you see something amiss here?

A Guard was posted during the day light hours to protect the War Memorial from a vandalism that took place late at night at a time when most vandalism is apt to occur.

Typical Government.

This stupidity then directly was a factor in Cpl Cirillo’s death since most certainly had he not be on duty that day, protecting the nation’s main monument from unlikely acts of daylight vandalism, he would not be killed.

I am not for a minute suggesting that his special duty caused his death – it did not – the terroist did that all by himself.

Indeed even without the urination incident, I believe the War Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier should be guarded during the spring, summer and fall and I would extend the Guard 7 days a week – 24 hours per day.

What I am pointing out is how inept Government’s can be when they set out to solve a problem.

But now the Guards too are guarded by the Ottawa Police.

Why not really get into it.

Many believe the RCMP is the proper police force responsible for the War Memorial – so let’s add a couple of RCMP constables as well.  Just think what a draw they would be in their Red Serge.

And don’t forget to give them a cruiser too.

And while we are at it – let’s add the Ontario Provincial Police since if the City Cops are there and now the RCMP – should not the OPP be represented too?

And of course their car.

And you can’t leave Guards guarding Guards there on their own – replacement Guards will need to flow through to cover coffee breaks and lunches.

The Minister Responsible for Ottawa – Pierre Poilievre is quoted as saying they have adopted this new system of guarding the guards to send terrorists a message that we in Canada cannot be intimidated.

I find it quite the opposite – guarding the guards sends a message loud and clear that we are indeed intimidated.

So here is what I would do.

I would keep but the two ceremonial guards – one to guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the other armed to guard the perimeter of the War Memorial.

Extra cost – none.

Change in the former guard arrangements – none save for the fact that both guards will now be issued real bullets to protect themselves.

They are part of Canada’s distinguished army and are well equipped at protecting themselves.

As I see it…

‘K.D. Galagher’