The Briar Patch

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...

 If you think global warming is causing all these fires and paying more taxes, maybe eating bugs instead of meat will help, you're fucking stupid. ALSO if you really think space lasers or paid arsonists are behind it same thing, STUPID.... Saying that there have been people arrested and charged with arson but I don't think it was paid with a conspiracy behind it, just really stupid people. NOW if you don't think global warming is real or possibly a part of all this, give your head a shake. It is real and it isn't good.  We have had forest fires for probably longer than man has been around. Wildfires have started from nature for freaking ever! Me paying more taxes won't change that. Along with that we as society are not helping. I still see people flick cigarette butts out the window. How, why, like what is wrong with those people? All the fires this year and we still have people doing that. We have people on ATVs riding around and causing sparks. We are being dumb, ...

Welp we got to see JT’s true face. No the blackface isn’t his true face but the white, rich, arrogant, privileged face is. I really don’t care he did it, once, twice or three times. What I take issue with is hypocrisy. He can’t blame being young. He was educated and actually teaching at that point. Then he went on to blame his privilege. REALLY?! I am not sure, BUT I think Bill Gates who has a bit more is well aware that would be the wrong thing to do. So that is another terrible excuse. JT isn’t some Social Justice Warrior that they want to paint him to be. He has fired women who don’t back down to him. He has blocked ethics investigations. He mocked native Americans with his “Thanks for your donation”. And sure it might just be bitter ole me BUT I still swear forgetting Alberta in a Canada address was an on purpose slap in the Wests face. Face it people he is a rich white boy, the exact thing people claim all conservatives are. He was grabbed because of his name and propped up to g...