February 10, 2011
Another day....
Another claim of discrimination that looks like it is really about poor performance.
Private businesses have the right to hire and fire anyone they want. Unlike the City of Toronto, employees of private businesses do not have jobs for life.
Of course, this is unacceptable to the left, and they continue to be able to use the Ontario Human Rights Commission to force leftist agendas onto private individuals and businesses.
Let's keep our eyes on this, shall we?
Therapy.
I hate therapists, particularly social workers and psychologists, and I am not crazy about shrinks either. I hate all the "helpy" people. I also hate therapy obsessed people who are so pathetic that they pay people to listen to their idiot babble for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a life time never making any "progress".
I also think 'couples therapy' is a massive load of dogsqueeze and I will tell you why.
A friend of mine from high school was seeing a guy during university and wanted to get married.
They moved in together ('shacked up') and she wanted an engagement ring. He kept putting it off. She kept waiting. He schlepped it out.
He was scared, he was not ready, he was doing his PhD, there was always a reason.
Their other friends said they should GO TO THERAPY to try to WORK IT OUT.
And I said that was a stupid plan and she should dump his sorry unappreciative ass.
I think I put it a little nicer back then.
Anyway-here's the point. The point is that couples have to be able to figuratively 'slug it out' if there is any hope of staying together.
Getting married is easy. Staying married is damned hard work.
But if you require a third person to resolve things-be it a therapist, or a counselor or religious leader or whatever-you are pretty much doomed as a couple.
Having a third person in the picture means that you are not being brutally honest with your partner. You require someone else to translate your thoughts for you to the person you have chosen to be with. That sucks.
I've had some doozy arguments with my husband. It's not fun.
But somehow, we have manged to muddle through and come up with solutions-nobody is happy all the time. Sometimes both of us are not happy.
But I really believe you can't rely on an outside person to intervene in a marriage.
When I hear people mentioning that they are considering seeing a relationship therapist, or that they are in therapy, I pretty much assume that the marriage is doomed.
Or, as a male friend of mine once said (and he is now happily remarried), "I don't need an ugly lesbian with a butch haircut and a bad sweater to tell me what an asshole of a husband I am".
Ya gotta work it out-just the two of you.
February 09, 2011
Steyn on Decline
Wow. Just listening to Steyn's interview on the Frank Beckmann show from Detroit.
It's very interesting.
I'm thinking that the people of Detroit are now kind of like America's Palestinians. This is a group of people that has no interested in weaning itself of dependency and welfare. It has grown used to paternalistic government taking care of things and I can't see them taking care of themselves.
The woes, in my opinion are not all economic.
I think that there are very clear signs of spiritual and intellectual decline that preceded the economic troubles.
If the spirits of the population are broken, unconnected to living a moral life, then there can be no physical progression in a city.
I posted this article earlier in the year. It is a devastating portrait of the decline of the American family, and the unraveling of previous shame of being a single mother.
It's written about Connecticut but I am sure that the picture is quite similar in Detroit.
Babies having babies, not getting married and not finishing high school-sure fire ways to remain mired in poverty.
The physical decline of Detroit has been documented and lamented in the mainstream media. But little has been written about the spiritual decline of the city.
Why should we lament the rotting buildings? We need to examine the corrupted souls of the city. Steyn is right-union greed, government greed, dysfunctional and bloated bureaucracies-are the city's Scarlett Letter.
The physical structures are merely a reflection of the decline of the American spirit in Detroit. The physical structures reflect the moral decline, and show us exactly what happens when people give up on their children and abandon their own individual responsibility to govern their lives to their highest potential-waiting for others and government to pick up the dirty, fallen pieces.
I'm reminded of this piece by Barbara Kay in the National Post. She refers to a teacher in Ontario and the absentee parents, but isn't it likely it is the same case in Detroit?
Detroit is shooting the messenger.
Getting Old Sucks...
But dying because you are so shallow and silly as to want a surgically enhanced butt is much worse.
February 08, 2011
Political Correctness Kills Americans.
It is a fact.
If you are American, there is a chance that you could be murdered-that your life will be sacrificed instead of hurting a Muslim's feelings.
How does that make you feel?
The juxtaposition between this fact and the recent flood of articles commemorating Ronald Reagan is truly jarring.
David Cameron
His words-heading in the right direction, but still mealy mouthed.
New York Post thinks he has poured out the 'multi-cult kool-aid'. I don't think so.
February 07, 2011
Is This What We Are Fighting For?
I have mixed feelings about the Afghanistan mission.
If the goal of the mission is solely to prevent an Islamic terrorist monstrosity from setting up shop there as the de facto government so that they can comfortably plan and launch another 9/11, then I guess I am for it.
But I really resent the idea that our soldiers are there to build wells or teach girls how to spell, or any other idiotic idealistic fantasies.
These people are barbarians and they will never change.
Well Knock Me Over With a Wet Noodle!
The Great Kate always says that the opposite of diversity is university (love that).
That is why this little piece is absolutely shocking.
Intellectual diversity-at a university?
Flying pig moment.
At Ground Zero, a sham memorial.
Truly a disgrace.
Every minute that goes by without new, better, taller towers-more glorious than before is another Islamic Nazi triumph.
Every day that goes by with bureaucratic bickering and the absence of an appropriate memorial is a sign of impotence.
Israeli Mandolin Player Up for A Grammy
Listening to the Mp3s right now-lovely.
And he's adorable. Check out Avi Avital!
February 06, 2011
We're Screwed.
WTF is wrong with western countries? I'll tell ya. Stuff like this.
This makes my blood boil-not because it's a Jewish event specifically-but because of the entire phenomenon. We are letting lefty activists RUIN the entire world, and impede the legal sovereignty of nations. We are total idiots.
The countries that don't stand up to this bullying are p&ssy wankers also.
Nancy and Ronald-a Love Story
There have been a lot of outstanding tributes to Ronald Reagan in the news lately, but I thought I would post something I saw in the newspaper yesterday.
I know there have been mixed reviews of Ron Reagan's book, but I found this excerpt very moving-I actually got tears in my eyes.
Ronald Reagan was a great man, a great leader and had much love in his life.
I may check out the book-as I found this passage touching, and the writing sensitive and respectful.
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