tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.comments2023-01-14T05:10:26.912-05:00Democracy Under FireRuralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comBlogger974125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-25150002880009719672023-01-13T21:09:50.362-05:002023-01-13T21:09:50.362-05:00This is a desecration beyond denunciation, Rural. ...This is a desecration beyond denunciation, Rural. The people must never stop voicing their repugnance to this rape of our natural resources.Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-27051343320089179402023-01-13T21:00:55.321-05:002023-01-13T21:00:55.321-05:00Once we reduce our standards environmental or othe...Once we reduce our standards environmental or otherwise , it is difficult if not impossible to re instate them.<br />The erosion of values that would and could benefit mankind has been a long and slow , but methodical process!<br />The world of the , often scoffed, futurists has been proven true .<br />The human race has denigrated to the level of squabbling over the remains of a once productive world/earth.<br /><br />TB Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-87061076113791015292023-01-13T19:36:34.408-05:002023-01-13T19:36:34.408-05:00Take something man-made, ugly and replaceable, des...Take something man-made, ugly and replaceable, destroy it and you are a criminal vandal.<br />Take something natural, beautiful and irreplaceable, bulldoze it and you are a respected developer.<br />This is egregious enough to resurrect a Weatherman or give a Dog Soldier a hill to drive a stake. lungtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526204597913219959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-36883292169547074002023-01-02T08:37:41.378-05:002023-01-02T08:37:41.378-05:00I would NOT be comfortable with any organized Reli...I would NOT be comfortable with any organized Religious Community UU, or go on a 'spiritual journey. Lifes everyday 'journey' has been quite enlightening all by itself over the last 3 / 4 century! <br />Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-53253095821061778522023-01-02T08:36:41.767-05:002023-01-02T08:36:41.767-05:00And all the best to you Lorne, I will try and be a...And all the best to you Lorne, I will try and be a little more active on these pages in order to keep the 'diminishment of faculties ' to a minimum!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-49300691420483726552023-01-02T08:36:01.044-05:002023-01-02T08:36:01.044-05:00I just fear our collective boat here on this world...I just fear our collective boat here on this world is heading for rocky shores Lunga Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-76684060909808464682023-01-02T08:15:29.013-05:002023-01-02T08:15:29.013-05:00It sounds like you might feel comfortable in a “re...It sounds like you might feel comfortable in a “religious community” known as Unitarian Universalist. They are a very liberal community of various backgrounds. Most would say they are Humanists.<br /><br />UUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-26370451358682794812023-01-01T14:21:39.646-05:002023-01-01T14:21:39.646-05:00Very good to read your thoughts here, Rural. In te...Very good to read your thoughts here, Rural. In terms of mental acuity, I think we all find gaps and shortcomings as we get older. I know that my ability to retain information from my wide reading is not nearly what it was years ago, for example. Nonetheless, I make a practice of reading daily and posting regularly on my blog; it helps to clarify my thinking and keeps my organizational skills fairly proficient. It is one of the ways I try to slow down any inevitable diminishment of faculties.<br /><br />My own worldview is a little different from yours. I think the universe is so vast, and our own understanding of it so miniscule, that I can hold some kind of ultimate transcendence as a real possibility, one that has little to do with traditional religion and more to do with a sense of something beyond the mere material worlds that we can perceive.<br /><br />In any event, all the best to you and your family for 2023, Rural!Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-32466244635132172712023-01-01T13:48:53.035-05:002023-01-01T13:48:53.035-05:00Welcome aboard
You're in a big boat.
Gaining ...Welcome aboard <br />You're in a big boat.<br />Gaining knowledge is like expanding a balloon, the big the known ,the bigger the border on the unknown.<br />I like the "It is foolishness for the finite to pursue the infinite"<br />...oh those old chinese.<br />My 2022 take on humans is <br />Who would have guessed that intelligence ,cleverness and inventiveness were not survival skills?lungtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526204597913219959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-30699454407794921802022-04-24T11:35:41.412-04:002022-04-24T11:35:41.412-04:00....and it is clearly not limited to the U.S. of E.......and it is clearly not limited to the U.S. of Eh either Lorne!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-53738139172158125522022-04-24T11:21:56.582-04:002022-04-24T11:21:56.582-04:00It's worth noting, Rural, that effluent flows ...It's worth noting, Rural, that effluent flows downhill as a general rule. Clearly, there are enough bottom feeders to consume massive quantities of this sewage.Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-4499067289357068662022-03-27T12:54:16.731-04:002022-03-27T12:54:16.731-04:00Not my personal work Lorne but yes it does say it ...Not my personal work Lorne but yes it does say it all.....Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-41311019143844675122022-03-27T12:51:11.692-04:002022-03-27T12:51:11.692-04:00Your poem says it all about the state we find ours...Your poem says it all about the state we find ourselves in, Rural.Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-83858895798154682862022-03-20T10:37:35.006-04:002022-03-20T10:37:35.006-04:00I wish.I wish.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-1734684658883626032022-02-20T19:25:13.222-05:002022-02-20T19:25:13.222-05:00Boil all this crap down, and what it amounts to is...Boil all this crap down, and what it amounts to is the revenge of people who were sent home without pay from their job because they wouldn't get vaccinated. Add to them the people pissed off because they got vaccinated when they didn't want to, just to hold onto their jobs. Personal resentment writ large triumphing over community spirit. How comforting.<br /><br />The common thread among these folk is that they couldn't have cared less about their fellow citizens. It was all about ME. Whether they believed Covid was a hoax despite the thousands of deaths, whether they believed the vaccines were poison or whatever lack of reasoning they applied, none showed any compassion for their fellow citizens' health. It was all an unjust imposition on their own precious little lives -- why should they be inconvenienced in any way?<br /><br />Easy then for the white-supremacist bigots to egg on the anti-vaxxers, and take over the incoherent minds of unvaxxed truckers in this instance, and send the dopes off to Ottawa led by themselves, the dangerous right wing white supremacist nutballs of society.<br /><br />The "leaders" issued a Memorandum of Understanding as the convoy drove to Ottawa to have the GG dissolve the Commons, and for the Senate to run the country. Non-negotiable. Aliens from Muskian Mars saying "take me to your leader who we shall destroy!" I<br /><br />Now, after the fact, typical nice softie Canucks on phone-in shows wonder why the PM refused to have a "dialogue" with them. About what? About a complete load of nonsense? A convoy of lunatics intent on replacing the elected national government? To talk down lifelong racists with a jolly nice friendly pow-wow and logic? People completely forget in only three weeks the ultimatum the trucker "leaders" made to change government unilaterally under duress and with no election.<br /><br />Then there's the goonish CPC trying to make hay out of siding with the lunatics to gain votes. Anyone who supports the Cons I have zero time for. Opportunistic slimeballs preying on the stupid instead of shoring up the country against goons. What's to like about the CPC?<br /><br />The people living in downtown Ottawa met and were forced to deal with these honking lunatics. I hope the citizen class action lawsuit ruins the truckers, I really do. It's heart-rending to hear the put-upon citizen stories, and there's really no satisfactory compensation anyone can offer them for what they've been through, more's the pity.<br /><br />The "story" will all get twisted and turned and screwed up beyond recognition in all the recriminations that will follow. In six months, the story of what happened will have changed beyond recognition from the reality, because everyone will put their own slant on it. We have no strong leaders who command respect to control the narrative with the definitive story, so chaos is likely to be the result.<br /><br />Meanwhile, if the new Omicron BA2 variant doesn't get us, some other variant will. I sincerely hope that such Covid gets the anti-vaxxers first. And I would jail for years anyone caught harrassing healthcare workers, couldn't care less about protester "rights" in such situations, which are simply beyond the pale of so-called civilized people. The inmates have escaped the asylum and are abroad,<br /><br />Jeez, I guess at heart I'm an authoritarian who rejects Conservatism, and pours sarcasm over people who refuse to be educated on basic virus spread, know zero civics as to how our government of three levels works, and who are proud therefore, to be both functionally illiterate and inconsiderate of others. <br /><br /><br /><br /> Bill Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15815258799473130453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-23236910756564804522022-02-13T13:16:56.901-05:002022-02-13T13:16:56.901-05:00Not sure exactly what your point is Lungta but the...Not sure exactly what your point is Lungta but there are most certainly a lot of 'nasty forces' involved!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-27915070260663792312022-02-13T13:09:45.941-05:002022-02-13T13:09:45.941-05:00Whilst I agree with you that this is a well funded...Whilst I agree with you that this is a well funded insurrection Lorne, funded in large part from outside sources I find it more difficult to criticize the police response. Given the restraints that they operate under and the limited local resources available initially I am not sure what they could do against such determined 'protesters'. I note that I do not subscribe to Twitter and have little faith in anything I have read on that platform!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-87061412885234024382022-02-13T13:07:41.082-05:002022-02-13T13:07:41.082-05:00SOMEHOW really nasty forces seem to hijack any goo...SOMEHOW really nasty forces seem to hijack any good hearted effort . <br />or is it nasty forces know how to dress in "good"<br />I got on OTTAWALKS on youtube<br />watched about 3 hours <br />most plates on the trucks were obscured <br />of the people i saw only 2 were colored<br />I have posted on 10 sites <br />What do you want to do to get the "freedom" you want?<br />.....crickets .....FREEDUM!!!.... crickets lungtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526204597913219959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-69499896864886207662022-02-13T12:39:58.121-05:002022-02-13T12:39:58.121-05:00It is becoming increasingly apparent that this is ...It is becoming increasingly apparent that this is a well-funded movement with both internal and external sources of support, Rural. And if their larger objective is to undermine trust in government and other institutions, I would say they are being aided and abetted by impotent police displays and even assistance, as I have from other sources on Twitter. Here is but one example: https://twitter.com/CAMSOttawa/status/1492703344305098754Lornehttp://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-67597366691720935012022-02-08T19:45:46.787-05:002022-02-08T19:45:46.787-05:00Whilst no doubt at some point if it continues much...Whilst no doubt at some point if it continues much longer the federal government will have to get involved, it is at this point largely a provincial problem and they seem to be doing absolutely nothing, where is the outrage of their non action?Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-83966268419328314362022-02-08T18:57:05.645-05:002022-02-08T18:57:05.645-05:00This is an attack on the very legitimacy of our el...This is an attack on the very legitimacy of our elected government. I didn't vote for the Trudeau Liberals. I don't like them. They were returned to power via a very flawed process. However it is the electoral process in effect to decide these questions. We voted. This is what we got. It is ours.<br /><br />It is not theirs to subvert yet that is what they seek to achieve. An incident of giving Mr. Trudeau's party the power of governance requires them to defend its legitimacy, its integrity against what the American constitution calls "enemies foreign and domestic." This, Mr. Trudeau has not done.<br /><br />It is not for Mr. Trudeau to clear Ottawa streets of trucks but it is his obligation - to all Canadians - to move against those who resort to sedition - pour encourager les autres.<br /><br />I fear that federal hesitation will only invite others from this despicable grievance culture to emulate this mob in future. That's what bullies do when they're not confronted.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-25180832736369930632022-02-08T14:11:32.856-05:002022-02-08T14:11:32.856-05:00Some folks need to spend a little time in places w...Some folks need to spend a little time in places where democratic government is but a dream Lorne, a little time in such countrys may give them a better appreciation of the 'freedoms' they enjoy here!....Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-7236341334721532592022-02-08T11:59:05.620-05:002022-02-08T11:59:05.620-05:00As you probably know, Rural, I share your concern ...As you probably know, Rural, I share your concern about the upheavals we are currently undergoing. The truckers and their supporters clearly do not represent the majority view, but even if they did, their 'solution' to essentially to overthrow government has no place in a democracy.<br /><br />All of them need to sit down with a good civics book to understand how our system operates. Oh yeah, and one more thing: They need to grow up.Lornehttps://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-82299703511608249522021-10-24T13:03:00.137-04:002021-10-24T13:03:00.137-04:00I am not holding my breath for a ground braking mo...I am not holding my breath for a ground braking moment through next week or indeed anytime soon DL!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7682160518082145513.post-48050390594926159992021-10-24T12:56:37.528-04:002021-10-24T12:56:37.528-04:00Separating the wheat from te chaff is become more ...Separating the wheat from te chaff is become more difficult by the day Lorne, no mater what the medium!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.com