The Briar Patch

For all you right-wing retards..... It has never been the transexuals. They have existed across the entire planet for as long as humans have recorded history, without being violent or until recently thought of as mentally ill. It also isn't the guns, for you left-wing twats. Put any gun ever on a table, and see if it hurts anyone. Likely, it is just sitting there, doing nothing without a human hand behind it. Yes, this brief entry is all about the recent mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., and the "trans" that did it. It shocked the fuck out of me when I saw Tumbler Ridge was trending, and it horrified me when I saw why. First, I am not getting too much into gun control. I have beaten that horse to death. Without a finger on the trigger, a gun is doing nothing. You could give every house in the world a gun, and nothing would happen without a human behind it. My only semi snarky comment is all the left-wing people usually screaming for gun control after a tragedy seem mu...

Breaking my own rules real quick, this will be a real quick blog. Something happened last Friday and last weekend and it bugged me and it points out so many issues that I just gotta rant! I will touch on a few things "News Media" and journalism, social media, a little politics, Edmonton, gun control, the justice system and racism. Not really edited so sorry if it isn't the easiest read. Start with YEG wave, anyone else know who that is? I'll pretend you don't. They claim to be #1 in Alberta Culture and Entertainment pages. I personally found them because they have had news up on Edmonton way before the mainstream does. A quick scroll shows maybe it isn't culture they are into but crime and politics. I have seen them called racist online, that of course isn't true, let me explain. A view of their page and you can tell they are right leaning for sure. However nothing they post has been untrue. Also they rarely post anything of their thoughts just actual vide...

This one won't be popular or well-received for my blogs. Writing on society's ills, I must address the hot topics of guns and climate change. In the long list of things to get right, these aren't the significant issues we need to be worried about in Canada, Edmonton, OR at least not the way we are. So here are the two most giant nothing burgers we have today! Climate change is 100% real; I will not deny that. My question is, do we matter in that? LA and NY have 20 million people. All of Canada has just cracked 40 mill. Our neighbors to the south are well over 330 mill. We are a drop in the bucket compared to them; in fact, we barely crack the top 40 for nations by population. India, China, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia & the States, if they don't change, we could change everything about ourselves, and it wouldn't matter. This does not mean we shouldn't try, but we should do helpful things. I have said I am for a sin tax on health issues and addiction. I am not fo...

Okay, this is a quick opening to the following few blogs I post. The world is going to hell. It sucks to turn on the news, nothing good ever seems to be happening, and there is a constant spin in the media, hoping you start to see things their way. Media doesn't deliver just facts anymore; they provide how they want you to see the world. You open social media, and it is awful. What started as fun pics and stupid status' has been taken over by politics, attacks on people, or mind-numbing videos to keep people glued to their phones. You walk into a waiting room now, and no one smiles or says hi. They are slaves to the phone in their hands, and we look down at ours and join them. I am just as bad at this as anyone. Politics aren't even politics anymore. Politics are attack campaigns that are not about improving the world but rather about keeping power. Honestly, I never see anything saying this is what we will do, and this is why it is good. It is always what they will do, and...

 So I started listening to the Lights Out podcast and I will state I really like it. I mentioned it before an they still are in my top pods, so I don't want this to come off as an attack. Also it ties in perfectly with something I had been thinking recently, the 90s was the last great decade... Ill tie those together in a bit but Ill start with what I didn't like or don't agree with and that was some comments on the Columbine Massacre episode of Lights Out.  Also this is total filler, I do have a series of blogs I want to get done but they do take sometime and some thinking. I am currently wrapping up my last of school and work trips, then I am going to work hard on them but this kind of just popped into my mind driving and listening to pods... I think the hosts are a bit younger than me, I was in grade 12 in 1999 when it happened. Literally being the grad class that year was insane because of what happened there and I don't think people younger truly understand how muc...

 I love people who are against credit scores and overdraft fees. Thats sarcasm and I say this as someone who has had a shit credit score for many years. Yes credit scores are annoying, they have kept me from phones and credit cards. They made me angry but I do understand them. The banks are not going to give money to someone who isn't going to pay it back. Companies aren't going to issue credit if you can't pay it. A lesson I learned. Right here I have to say thanks to Capital One and Bell for taking a chance. Oh and BMO as well. The system does need an overhaul though. If a person shows legit payments that should count for something. If you have been working hard and it shows, companies IMO should try and work with the person. I know micro loans worked very well in Bangladesh and could work here as well. A small loan paid back would show the person is trying and might be worth taking a risk on. Also to the people mad about credit scores, keep in mind loans before were base...

 Honestly this is the last time I can do this rant (Probably not but....) A 6 year old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. Gun control people are blowing up my social media with stupidity again. Since common sense and facts don't work, maybe this time I will tell a story, people used to learn from stories. Maybe I can bring that back, at least on people who have no idea about guns...... Once upon a time there was a early 40s male who liked guns. He enjoyed going to the range and shooting targets, he enjoyed shooting clay pigeons on his parents land when they went to visit. He had grown up his entire life around guns and surprisingly had never shot up anything!! Now this short middle aged man had both his PAL and his RPAL (If you are for gun control in Canada and don't know what those are, your opinion doesn't matter, clearly you are clueless) Those 2 handy dandy little licenses said he could buy long guns and restricted guns. Well that was until a wannabe king and...

 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...