We’ve all heard about the tomb of the unknown soldier but how would we feel about the unvaccinated soldier? Would we cast them aside like the 4,000 hospital workers Bonnie Henry just fired or would we give them the respect and admiration they deserve?
During the pandemic the media hailed healthcare workers as heros. Now they are portraying unvaccinated healthcare workers as villians. We see a similar misrepresentation in New York.
As we prepare for Remembrance Day I’m seeing a lot of Liberals wear Poppies who don’t support the freedom those soldiers died for. The website Mounties 4 Freedom articulated it well.
"Each year, on the 11th of November, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms. From Flanders Field to Juno Beach, many Canadians have bled and died fighting tyrannical nations. We need to remember past events to prevent the repetition of history’s greatest mistakes. We find it ironic that an organization that preaches the honour and respect of Canadian values, and the sacrifice of their veterans, would support actions that contradict the values our veterans fought to uphold."
Personally I’m not against vaccines, I'm against RNA vaccines. My body, my choice. If you’re going to wear a poppy this year, stop pissing on good soldiers graves while you wear it. That kind of hypocrisy is offensive.
73 medical doctors in Alberta oppose the vaccine mandate.
In addition to remembering those who have lost their lives in war, we need to remember the 4,000 healthcare workers Bonnie Henry just fired because they were fired for the same cause.
ABC is reprtoing that Eric Adams is the projected winner over Curtis Sliwa for mayor of New York City. Although Adams was the best candidate of the Democrats, that was simply because he was the most like Curtis. New York had the opportunity to have the real thing but they dropped the ball. New York has shown the world how Liberals can destroy a great city and how Conservatives can rebuild it from the ashes. New Yorkers have lost their political will.
Everyone knows that de Blasio f*cked up. That’s why he wasn’t allowed to run again. Rudy Giuliani transformed New York City and de Blasio flushed it down the toilet.
Giuliani made New York safe through law enforcement. Giuliani made New York prosperous through low taxes. Candace Owens explained what happens when you raise taxes. The rich people leave and the poor people are left to pick up the tab. This is why Texas and Florida are thriving.
CYV is reporitng that "Premier Doug Ford has announced he will not mandate COVID-19 vaccines for hospital workers, saying he's not prepared to jeopardize the delivery of care to millions of Ontarians." Finally, someone with a brain.
We know what happens next, The 4,000 nurses who were fired by Bonnie the Freak Henry for exorcizing their legal right to informed consent and now going to move to Ontario which now leaves BC in a manufactured state of emergency. Bonnie Henry is a f*ck up. God damn her.
For 1st time since coming to Canada at 12 firefighter Andrew Mason says he has felt “shunned” @cityoftoronto @Toronto_Fire @TPFFA and said he would ask @JohnTory to be allowed to be a person “free” to decide on what medicine he discloses he took! pic.twitter.com/z5M0K2j2iI
I find it somewhat ironic that the Vancouver Sun is now pushing for a Provincial police force in BC. They are the one that maintained a hate campaign against Doug McCallum for fulfilling his campaign promise in Surrey to create a municipal police force. Ian Mulgrew has credible past history. Wally Oppal does not. Wally Oppal should be in jail for sabotaging the missing women's inquiry.
Anything Post Media News promotes is suspect.
If BC and or Alberta form their own Provincial police, it matters not to me. I still hold a romantic idealism towards the RCMP. They wore out their welcome in Surrey but we can see that in other provinces the RCMP still make Hells Angel drug busts. In BC they do not. In BC the CFSEU is compromised and IHIT is not far behind.
In Ontario and Alberta, the regional Biker Enforcement Unit and ALERT do tackle organized crime. The CFSEU in BC does not. That is the problem we need to address but it goes further than that. It goes right into the hallways of the legislature in Victoria.
The BC Liberals were the ones that dismantled the OMGU and oversaw the fall of the CFSEU. Instead of correcting the problem, the BC NDP have perpetuated it. Now the BC NDP is asking Ottawa to decriminalize more drugs. AYFKM? Looks like we need drug tests in Parlaiment because someone's on crack.
The DTES is the world's toilet. It is the perfect example of what not to do. We foster addiction and misery. We foster organized crime.
Possession of drugs is already decriminalized in the DTES. Nobody gets arrested for smoking crack. They do it publicly there. City workers hand out free crackpipes and sometimes even free drugs. That's what the drug dealers do to get their clients addicted. Then they brutalize them for drug debts. Portugal made drug treatment mandatory. You cannot cite the success of the Portugal model without citing that fact. It doesn't matter if it's provincial or federal police. We need to start enforcing the law. Our refusal to do that has created the problem we now face.
The Irish Post is reporting that "County Waterford has the second highest Covid-19 incidence rate in the country despite the fact that it also has the highest vaccine uptake percentage.
99.7% of all adults in the county have been fully vaccinated against the virus, but according to figures released by the HSE, Waterford's 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 of population currently stands at 404.6. While vaccination remains an important method of preventing serious illness when contracting Covid-19, it's notable that Waterford's high vaccine uptake hasn't prevented the county from having one of the country's highest incidence rates."
The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "A 57-year-old man has been shot and killed in Maple Ridge on Monday night. The victim was found wounded in a white GMC pickup truck. Officers attempted to save his life but were unable to.
The Integrated Homicide Investigations Team (IHIT) has taken over the investigation. The Ridge Meadows Serious Crime Unit is assisting."
The Indo Canadian voice is reporting that "THE Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) on Tuesday identified the victim of the shooting on Monday in Maple Ridge as 57-year-old Daniel William Delmark of Maple Ridge." He is not known to the police.
Once again IHITit claims that this shooting was not tied to the Lower mainland Gang conflict. These are the people that have Hells Angel associates in the rat out your rivals witness protection program. These are the people that were having threesomes with witnesses. Just sayn. Consider the source. Gang enforcement in BC is compromised.
Robert F. Kennedy makes a desperate plea to the world to resist the tyranny being implemented in the name of Covid warning we are now in Nazi territory. I don’t know why people (mostly on the left) that is going along with this don’t see what’s happeningpic.twitter.com/HGuduuHSkG
We remember Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow from the Avengers. I saw Black Widow in the theatre and thought it was very well done. We also remember how Scarlett Johansson sued Disney for ripping her off by releasing the video early and only giving her a cut of the theatrical revenues. Kind of a dirty deed on Disney's part. To be expected now that Disney has been taken over by the CCP.
Well, I just watched Lucy on Netflix with Scarlett Johansson.
There are two Brockton Poins in Vancouver. One in Stanley Park and the other on Mount Seymour. Today I hiked up the one on Mount Seymour. After two months of rain, we finally had a sunny weekend. The parking lot was packed. This is where the trail breaks from Mystery Peak.
A lot of hikers take different trails all over the mountain. I always head straight up towards First Peak. Brockton Point is on the way just after the Mystery Peak chairlift. As soon as I left Surrey, I could see fresh snow at higher altitudes. This is the first of the season. Then riding into Vancouver you could see a dusting of fresh snow on the Lions.
If you zoom in you can see a side view of the Lions. Normally we're used to seeing them head on.
Between Mystery Peak and Brockton Point the trail was a bit rocky and a bit icy. Winter will soon be here. In winter it's all smooth sailing and you power up on snowshoes. A lot of people do that trail at night with headlamps. One of my favorite places in Vancouver is right at the bowl of First Peak all the way to the top. In the winter it's full of wind swept snow dunes.
Sometimes when you get to the top of that bowl at the foot of First Peak and look over at Second peak, visibility is zero. The fog sets in, the wind and the falling snow make it impossible to see anything. That's when you say OK that's as far as I'm going today. Other days the sun comes out and the route to Second and Third Peak is clear and you make it all the way.
Timing is everything on the coastal mountains. In the interior it's a lot more consistent. Vernon, Kelowna, Revelstoke - they all have magnificent peaks.
Three months since my hip replacement and it's all good. I still limp a little but I like to use ski poles when I hike. It's more stable going up and down and I don't limp. I forget I even had the surgery.
I think this is the year I'm going to buy an electric vest. If my son's not coming back this winter, I won't bother putting the car on the road. I do want to go snowshoeing this year so the electric vest would make the long rides up and down the mountain a lot more comfortable.
I love this time of year. The fall colours are enticing. The leaves turn orange and red and begin to fall in anticipation of winter. It's not my favorite time of year but I do enjoy it. It symbolizes change and growth. Winter and summer are my favorite but I do love the transitional seasons as well and the anticipation they bring. I love experiencing the seasons.
I know someone who lives in Central America right in the tropics. They do have a rainy season but right now it's 27 degrees. That's a little bit nicer than the two months of cold rain we've had. There it's summer all year long. For many it's a dream come true. Many Canadians are snowbirds. They move to Arizona for the winter. I can see the appeal but I really like the seasons. I like snowshoeing in the winter and kayaking in the summer.
The Canadian flag has a red maple leaf on it. That's what it looks like in the fall. It's kind of magical. It's a nice symbol.
As I was hiking up the mountain, two ladies were hiking down. One says to the other "It's amazing how many young people are on antidepressants." Then she says "Actually it's not that surprising." It's actually kind of sad. Last summer I was having lunch on the patio of a restaurant. Two young girls sit down at the table beside me and order lunch. One orders a cocktail, the other doesn't. The one says to the other, I keep forgetting you're not old enough to drink yet. I just about choked. Holy f*ck. That means she's like 18. Then the younger one starts to go off about her counsellor, her psychiatrist and all the antidepressants she takes and I was like OMG.
I felt really sorry for the kid but I also kinda felt like this is a little TMI. Should I move and eat my lunch somewhere else in peace and quiet? I realize that chemical depression needs medication and I'm not a doctor. I do wonder if things are sometimes over prescribed just so we don't have to deal with the issues. Here's a pill, forget about it. Well, wait a minute. What is bothering you? Perhaps we can deal with that. Sometimes meds help but sometimes meds make things worse.
I remember speaking with another young man once who was somewhat successful. He said to me, sometimes I feel like life is passing me by. It broke my heart. I really like that guy. When I was young things were different. We were different. I had the fortune of doing a lot of traveling. I got it all out of my system. Everything I wanted to do I did. I'm a broke a*s b*tch now but I have no regrets.
There's always someone trying to make a buck off of someone else's problems.
When I was young, I wanted to travel so I travelled. When I got older, I wanted to have kids so I did. When I was young Chef used to look me in the eye and say having kids was the best thing I ever did in life. I totally agree. I'm really proud of my kids. They have good hearts, work hard and are following their dreams. I don't think they have any regrets. Life rarely turns out the way we had planned but we always adjust. Dust ourselves off, set new goals and dream new dreams.
People say be like water and I'm like no, I don't want to be like water. Water follows the path of least resistance. I want to climb. I always aspire to something higher.
Covid has certainly changed the game. We need to rise above the bullsh*t and get on with life. No lie can live forever. I didn't see anyone hiking in the mountains with masks on. I guess the free thinkers aren't sitting at home watching the fake news on TV. They're out and about getting things done.
