The Briar Patch

 I was gonna just tweet but it got too long. A few quick thoughts on the group of sick fuck cat stomping teens in Edmonton.  1) Pussies, cowards, I dunno what to call them. Bravo, it was what 5 of you to kill 1 small house pet cat? I was gonna say lets let each of you get a 5 minute beat down 5 on 1 by 5 large guys. So it is equal to what you did. Then I thought nah, lets let it be 2 Rotties, 1 pitty, 1doberman and maybe a cane corso alone with you for 5 minutes. Not good ones, that are family pets but mistreated angry ones. Let real terror fill you when they come. 2) Trash people come from trash families. Honestly who raises kids that could do this? Maybe it isn't the parents fault 100%. Maybe society didn't give the parents enough time with the kids to learn right from wrong or teach them cruelty is wrong.... Nah fuck that, you failed as a parent if your kid can do this. I am not giving anyone a pass. Even if they "had it rough" or whatever reason will be given. As ...

 The UCP is buying your vote! With your own money! (This is probably old news by the time I publish this) Just like any other political party. All over Abpoli threads, that all I am seeing. Umm FYI the NDP would do the same if they were in power. I didn't see this outrage when ya'll got your carbon tax rebates. That is literally the same thing, tax $ going back into your pockets. LIKE EVERY FUCKING REBATE IN HISTORY, YOU MORONS. So yes, Danni girl is trying to buy your vote, that's politics. I keep seeing people saying they will donate it to the NDP, good for you according to you it's your money so do what you want with it. Do I tell you when I buy toilet paper? Or some are donating to charities, I can get behind that. It just blows my mind the people offended by this are the same people that were happy to get a carbon rebate, same thing dumbasses. These same people were mocking people who bitched about the carbon tax but were happy to get a cheque from the feds. Now yo...

Spoilers! Just a heads up. This blog is 92% pop culture and for TV and movies there are spoilers. Just a heads up as I am getting so tired of spoilers.... Let me wrap up House of the Dragon and Rings of Power. I REALLY enjoyed both. Rings of Power starts slow but the middle is very good. Plots push forward and things tie together nicely. If this is a spoiler to some I am sorry but I am confused. I thought Isuldur was king a LONG time after the fall of Nuemenor. Clearly he isnt, I assume we will see the fall and see him become the king of Gondor. Just saying thought it was a big time jump. Like doesn't he fall and he house of stewards rules Gondor for a long time? Like if thats right there are barely any kings of Gondor? NO wonder Boromir say "Gondor has no king. Gondor need no king." Maybe that leads into..... I don't understand the hate for this series online. Its a well done high fantasy series. It might not be exactly as Tolkien wrote it but that does not make it b...

 I will be up front, I hate the liberal party and I am pretty sure Justin Trudeau is literally the WORST PM Canada has ever had. I am not going to rant though strictly out of my dislike for these clowns but out of facts and how they continue to fail at every turn. Honestly I don't know how or why there are still liberal voters and JT fans....  So recently I finished Indian in the Cabinet by Jody Wilson Raybold. Loved it. Not just cause it shows how sleazy the libs are but it is a great look at Canadian politics overall. First the party system, first past the post is screwed. Has been for years and EVERY party knows it. It seems like every party says they want to fix it until it gets them in power and holds them there. Without a doubt Jody does a great job of showing governing in Canada is not about governing but getting in power and staying there. Towing the party line. I won't say that is a Liberal problem, that would be any party in power, first and foremost that should be c...

 Every month I donate to a local animal charity, as I like animals much more than people. However I also choose 1 random charity to donate to as well. Something I feel is important, 12 charities randomly important to me, a year. NOW this isn't 100% altruistic. I do get to feel good doing something & there is a benefit at tax time. Fun fact I miss when rich people actually donated their money to decent causes instead of doing a rich guy space race. In true capitalism the wealthy were supposed to donate to keep society going and government was to back off and not have to tax as much because those who could help would. Seems like all "thinkers" they forgot to think about human greed. This little side rant is just saying IF more people who could gave a little more maybe the world would be a better place?? All the right wing nuts saying down with big government and taxes.... Did you ever think about this?? Truth and reconciliation, the pope coming all this I think is kind ...

Start this entry off with something fun and nice. We went down to Victoria for a week for holidays and it was awesome. Beautiful weather considering it is middle of September. Lined up a ton of activities. Whale watching, haunted tours, the sky walk and a bunch more. You can check out my yelp for a ton of reviews. Tavis P. There if you want. I am not going to go into detail but it was a great trip. What I will say is times have changed. Pre 2007 I went with some friends and we stayed in a "hotel" that a friend of a friend down there was the manager of. I say "Hotel" because the mattresses were on the floor, it was dirty and there was a skeezy bar in the basement. We stayed there cause that was all we could afford. Rumor was it had been a brothel that was just shut down before.... This time we stayed in a place that was $450 / night. In all honesty I could never afford that BUT points program helped. We had a valet lol & a king sized bed instead of mattresses on ...

 SO we get to the last 2. I will start with the Genovese family. The "Cadillac" of crime families. This was the Luciano family until he was deported and Vito Genovese took over. I won't get too much into the history but Lucky didn't really want Vito to run his family. He along with Carlo Gambino and others set up Vito on drugs charges and had his sent away. However the family kept the Genovese name. You may have heard of Joe Valachi. He was one of the first rats. He was televised blowing the Mafia wide open, admitting it existed when law enforcement denied that fact. However since then there have only been 10 rats. By far the smallest number of any crime family in the states. They are currently believed to be the most powerful mafia family left in NYC or the states in general. They are considered the Cadillac because of the fewest rats ever plus it is believed they are and pretty much always have been the wealthiest and most powerful family BUT a lack of rats makes it...

I was just going to do a couple blogs on the mob, a rando thoughts blog and then maybe try and work on my own writing. A comic book or a novel, something. Then the queen had to go and die. I wasn't gonna write about it but being on social media and reading the stupidity of people made me have to rant. So ladies and gents my short, unedited so please ignore speeling and grammar mistakes thoughts on the Queen. The queen passed and honestly I felt nothing. Not sad, not happy just another day for me. I don't get the upset when a celebrity or someone passes and people who have never met them get all upset. The fact is the person didn't know you, didn't care about you so why are you so upset they passed?? Saying that I get the queen is different. Not to be upset about but that the monarchy is a huge deal in Britain and honestly world wide. I mean technically she is still our queen even. The monarchy dates back how long in Britain? We can read about kings hundreds even over a ...

 Since 14 I have been obsessed with the American Mafia. I remember going into my junior high library and taking out a book and I honestly don't remember why but it was a history of the American mob. Now that would have been mid 90s so the book would have been published early 90s and a lot has changed but it dipped my toe in. From then on I couldn't get enough books, movies whatever mob related I wanted it. At first I just thought a secret "honor" society was so cool & of course I was originally only getting the Hollywood version where I thought I could be Michael Corleone. I even told my mom I wanted to be a mafia hitman. That set her off, I was in shit for a few days for not valuing life and she was ashamed of me. Her shame was worse than her anger, funny how that works with parents.... Either way there is no mafia in Grande Prairie and I sure ain't Italian. So that dream never came true BUT with the rise of podcasts and my time to listening to them I listene...