I'm sure the teddy bear in question was made entirely of recycled, biodegradable, locally sourced materials. And was constructed by union waged workers at the factory on the other side of town and delivered to the local store by bicycle.
$36,000 fucking dollars for not letting someone stink up the place with her smelly lunch? Minorities must be doing pretty well if that is the worst thing they have to worry about.
I heard the story about the teddy earlier this week. I meant to send the boy a teddy bear. What's say we start a deluge of teddy bears to be sent to that boy -- in care of the school, letting them know that any other disposition of the bears will be considered theft and handled accordingly.
And those clowns also say they are against bullying? Believe it or not, I do try and keep my language fairly clean here -- but there are some stories that make it very hard.
I think the environmental activist posing as a teacher should be FIRED. Bullying a little boy over one lunch baggie is sick stuff, and this person needs serious psychiatric help.
The stinky lunch lady is pathetic. That's the nicest thing I can think of to say. !@#$
Fay, I'm sure the teddy bear was made with recycled materials.
Recycled cats and dogs. Made in China.
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I have a slightly different angle on the whole curry victim thing.
Let's just take the whole "Human Rights Tribunal" thing at face value for just a moment. After all, the first line in the Globe and Mail story is:
There are many cases of genuine racism and discrimination in Canada.
And I believe this is likely as well. Racist assholes exist everywhere, possibly even Canada.
Which means there are likely people suffering real discrimination - meaning, for instance, settling for below market wages and benefits - because of intimidation and harassment. For a market-oriented, liberty-oriented person like me, this is an anathema.
Now - are these people being helped by the Human Rights Tribunal? No. Who is? The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are. Like the "victim" in question, and her enablers.
So the "Human Rights Tribunal" fails at its avowed aim, and succeeds in its true aim (which is to undermine society and the law).
As for actual harassment and intimidation, reprehensible as it is, I have no cure which is not worse than the disease, save the remedy of the (real, actual, legitimate) court system for those cases which are so egregious that they rise to it.
For other cases of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, abuse - as in so many cases where norms are important but not practically enforceable by the State - social condemnation and disapproval is perhaps the only recourse. Which, of course, requires a society with a strong degree of cohesion, trust, and confidence in its norms and practices.
And here again, by undermining cohesion, confidence and trust, the actions of the "Human Rights Tribunal" will make it more likely for people to side with actual racists, rather than condemn them - giving the racists the benefit of the doubt in the face of insane and malevolent institutions like the "Human Rights Tribunal".
How could it be otherwise?
The greatest blow struck for human rights would be to tar and feather these two bit fascist tyrants and run them out of town on a rail.
Sheesh! I am totally gobsmacked at the PC-ness gone out of control in these stories, especially the poor kiddie with the plastic bag. I would suggest that instead of inundating the school with teddy bears we should inundate them with plastic bags. Green, recyclable decomposable ones (we get them here anyway). Give them a short sharp shock. 'Orrible people.
As for the race discrimination case, nothing surprises me any more nowadays. I'm only surprised that a court actually overturned the decision.
Let's see ... a tribunal case against one Mz Maxcine Telfer filed by oneSeema Saadi is heard and ruled on by one vice-chair Faisal Bhabha. No mystery about that ruling, eh? Group think as I mentioned elsewhere. Period.
I love the part about "stinky curry" ... loves me curry, Madras best, and I even add Korean red pepper at times. Wish I'd thought of taking some to work back in the day =))
[ ps: no curry on earth smells near as nasty as winter kimchi heated or otherwise ... now that'd be a valid complaint :D ]
Curry a "Muslim" dish ...not if the stores in my neighborhood are any measure. I have to drive 40 miles round trip to the Korean store to get a good pre-made curry base ... unless I want to make it from scratch ...e.g., start from a light roux and work it up over a whole afternoon. Even the Pakki stores west of me don't carry it often.
My curry is frequently a rather non-Hindu version made with beef, ground or thin sliced, and same veggies as regular curry (diced taters, carrots, onions)....or heavily laced with baby peas in butter sauce (Green Giant frozen product I buy by the dozen)seasoned with fresh chives when available.
Plastic bags? What is it with Canadian recycling ... don't do plastic bags? Even the mafioso outfits here recycle plastic bags ... in fact now with the segregation of recyclables requirement relaxed (all recyclables go in one 350 gallon wheeled container) over 85% or more of our trash is recyclable. The recycle container is always filled to the top and heavy.
Oh, and vis a vis "environmentalism" ... those same land fills run by the trash collectors have been running their generators and powered devices on collected methane for 20 odd years now. They vigorously support "Cap & Trade" as it would have given them huge credits (to sell) for something they've always done as economic expediency.
Now I know why Toronto and London Ontario like to send their trash here ... :=))
Lewy said: "The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are."
The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are.
Brilliant. That sentence is a work of art. Thank you lewy!
Babs Hall, the useless ex-mayor of Toronto, runs the Ontario Human Rights Star Chamber as her private satrap. She believes that she answers to no one- including the Courts. Fortunately, Divisional Court gave her apparatchik a good smack- and with a new Tory government expected this Fall in Ontario, Babs will be for the high jump. One hopes that the Legislature will curtail the OHRC's powers pronto.
scaramouche follows Babs' social engineering outrages with considerable accuracy- the OHRC never fails to astonish at its prolix PC run amok...
Wow, Aridog, you really know some curry! Like Dances, I don't want to try kimchi but the real curry you make from scratch starting with roux sounds great. And here I was so proud of my Madras curry that I mixed up using only other herbs and spices...
My dad had told me about Kimchi, he was in Korea, left shortly after I was born.
You two are so cute. I just copied off the recipe, it sounds delish. Be sure to give us a review!
We're eating a Safeway pizza during the game and, if hungry later, I have some leftover poached salmon and a spinach/pancetta risotto that is to-die-for. A meal in itself, actually.
Fay, do you have Sheila Luken's Cooking Around the World (or something like that)? It's a great cookbook, I have lots of recipes I make time after time from her.
Here's a football bah-humbug. College and pro ball have reached a tedious point. Mostly it is the rules and the refs' calls. Until they fix both I'll be less interested. For example: I cannot stand what passes for a "received pass" now ... measuring milliseconds of "possession" and receivers damn near flat on the ground already when they make a "catch." Another one: "false start" is now called if a ref notices an ear twitch before the snap. It has become absurd and materially effects games due to frequency of calls.
Yeah I watched the last half of the SB ... GB won as I expected.
I haven't watched a SB in several years but thought this one would be worthwhile as the teams seemed pretty evenly matched and I enjoyed the game for the most part. Yes, it could have gone either way a few times but then that's the breaks. I did admire Roger's calmness in action, staying in the pocket, taking his time to spot the open receiver, thought he did a fine job. I was less than thrilled with the announcers, Aikman and Buck? I thought there was an obvious bias in that they were constantly talking up how the Steelers were going to come back, looked good, etc, etc. Second thing I didn't care for is what turned me off those several years ago... the on-field celebrations for making a fricking tackle, or busting up a pass, or any little thing that should be considering a 'normal' part of doing your job on the field. I don't know, I guess I've always liked the strong silent types versus the 'look at me' type. Oh... tattoos, what the hell?
I'm sure the teddy bear in question was made entirely of recycled, biodegradable, locally sourced materials. And was constructed by union waged workers at the factory on the other side of town and delivered to the local store by bicycle.
ReplyDeleteNot.
$36,000 fucking dollars for not letting someone stink up the place with her smelly lunch? Minorities must be doing pretty well if that is the worst thing they have to worry about.
ReplyDeleteI heard the story about the teddy earlier this week. I meant to send the boy a teddy bear. What's say we start a deluge of teddy bears to be sent to that boy -- in care of the school, letting them know that any other disposition of the bears will be considered theft and handled accordingly.
And those clowns also say they are against bullying? Believe it or not, I do try and keep my language fairly clean here -- but there are some stories that make it very hard.
I think the environmental activist posing as a teacher should be FIRED. Bullying a little boy over one lunch baggie is sick stuff, and this person needs serious psychiatric help.
ReplyDeleteThe stinky lunch lady is pathetic. That's the nicest thing I can think of to say. !@#$
Fay, I'm sure the teddy bear was made with recycled materials.
ReplyDeleteRecycled cats and dogs. Made in China.
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I have a slightly different angle on the whole curry victim thing.
Let's just take the whole "Human Rights Tribunal" thing at face value for just a moment. After all, the first line in the Globe and Mail story is:
There are many cases of genuine racism and discrimination in Canada.
And I believe this is likely as well. Racist assholes exist everywhere, possibly even Canada.
Which means there are likely people suffering real discrimination - meaning, for instance, settling for below market wages and benefits - because of intimidation and harassment. For a market-oriented, liberty-oriented person like me, this is an anathema.
Now - are these people being helped by the Human Rights Tribunal? No. Who is? The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are. Like the "victim" in question, and her enablers.
So the "Human Rights Tribunal" fails at its avowed aim, and succeeds in its true aim (which is to undermine society and the law).
As for actual harassment and intimidation, reprehensible as it is, I have no cure which is not worse than the disease, save the remedy of the (real, actual, legitimate) court system for those cases which are so egregious that they rise to it.
For other cases of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, abuse - as in so many cases where norms are important but not practically enforceable by the State - social condemnation and disapproval is perhaps the only recourse. Which, of course, requires a society with a strong degree of cohesion, trust, and confidence in its norms and practices.
And here again, by undermining cohesion, confidence and trust, the actions of the "Human Rights Tribunal" will make it more likely for people to side with actual racists, rather than condemn them - giving the racists the benefit of the doubt in the face of insane and malevolent institutions like the "Human Rights Tribunal".
How could it be otherwise?
The greatest blow struck for human rights would be to tar and feather these two bit fascist tyrants and run them out of town on a rail.
Metaphorically, of course.
"There are many cases of genuine racism and discrimination in Canada."
ReplyDelete"And I believe this is likely as well. Racist assholes exist everywhere, possibly even Canada."
I would truly be surprised if this was a huge problem in Canada. We go out of our way to accomodate, acclimate, assist, employ, etc.
Oh, wait a minute, Matt never got that assistance when he immigrated here. But then he is a middle aged, white, North American, male.
Cases like this do a dis-service to individuals who have genuine complaints.
Sheesh! I am totally gobsmacked at the PC-ness gone out of control in these stories, especially the poor kiddie with the plastic bag. I would suggest that instead of inundating the school with teddy bears we should inundate them with plastic bags. Green, recyclable decomposable ones (we get them here anyway). Give them a short sharp shock. 'Orrible people.
ReplyDeleteAs for the race discrimination case, nothing surprises me any more nowadays. I'm only surprised that a court actually overturned the decision.
Let's see ... a tribunal case against one Mz Maxcine Telfer filed by oneSeema Saadi is heard and ruled on by one vice-chair Faisal Bhabha. No mystery about that ruling, eh? Group think as I mentioned elsewhere. Period.
ReplyDeleteI love the part about "stinky curry" ... loves me curry, Madras best, and I even add Korean red pepper at times. Wish I'd thought of taking some to work back in the day =))
[ ps: no curry on earth smells near as nasty as winter kimchi heated or otherwise ... now that'd be a valid complaint :D ]
Curry a "Muslim" dish ...not if the stores in my neighborhood are any measure. I have to drive 40 miles round trip to the Korean store to get a good pre-made curry base ... unless I want to make it from scratch ...e.g., start from a light roux and work it up over a whole afternoon. Even the Pakki stores west of me don't carry it often.
My curry is frequently a rather non-Hindu version made with beef, ground or thin sliced, and same veggies as regular curry (diced taters, carrots, onions)....or heavily laced with baby peas in butter sauce (Green Giant frozen product I buy by the dozen)seasoned with fresh chives when available.
Plastic bags? What is it with Canadian recycling ... don't do plastic bags? Even the mafioso outfits here recycle plastic bags ... in fact now with the segregation of recyclables requirement relaxed (all recyclables go in one 350 gallon wheeled container) over 85% or more of our trash is recyclable. The recycle container is always filled to the top and heavy.
Oh, and vis a vis "environmentalism" ... those same land fills run by the trash collectors have been running their generators and powered devices on collected methane for 20 odd years now. They vigorously support "Cap & Trade" as it would have given them huge credits (to sell) for something they've always done as economic expediency.
Now I know why Toronto and London Ontario like to send their trash here ... :=))
Lewy said: "The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are."
ReplyDeleteOh, oh ... I am sooo stealing that sentence.
". . .no curry on earth smells near as nasty as winter kimchi. . ."
ReplyDeleteI have never been able to bring myself to eat kimchi.
I've tried, but just could not get past the smell.
The professional grievance mongering, Western Civilization hating scum that has marched through the institutions and is squatting in them like the malingering, low-life scum that they are.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. That sentence is a work of art. Thank you lewy!
I'm not a big fan of rotted cabbage, and curry disagrees with my tummy. Even the smell of curry turns me green.
ReplyDeleteBabs Hall, the useless ex-mayor of Toronto, runs the Ontario Human Rights Star Chamber as her private satrap. She believes that she answers to no one- including the Courts. Fortunately, Divisional Court gave her apparatchik a good smack- and with a new Tory government expected this Fall in Ontario, Babs will be for the high jump. One hopes that the Legislature will curtail the OHRC's powers pronto.
ReplyDeletescaramouche follows Babs' social engineering outrages with considerable accuracy- the OHRC never fails to astonish at its prolix PC run amok...
WTH??? The second case was just a scam, plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteI had NO idea that kids were bullied into not using plastic sandwich bags. Quebec must be so proud.
Sign me up, Matt, I'd be happy to send him a teddy bear.
ReplyDelete#4 lewy
ReplyDeleteGreat post, your analysis is well-written and right on the money.
Give them a short sharp shock.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! Love it, annie!
Where is everybody? Are you all watching the Reagan birthday?
/raises hand from back of room...
ReplyDeleteI'm here, florrie! I've had my nose stuck in my books all weekend, trying to free up some time to watch THE GAME in a few hours. Go Packers!
Wow, Aridog, you really know some curry! Like Dances, I don't want to try kimchi but the real curry you make from scratch starting with roux sounds great. And here I was so proud of my Madras curry that I mixed up using only other herbs and spices...
ReplyDeleteMy dad had told me about Kimchi, he was in Korea, left shortly after I was born.
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ReplyDeleteAs I read more I see you meant curry as a dish rather than the powder.
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Yay, there's lady red! We're rooting for the Packs too!
ReplyDeleteI'll probably be outside working in the garden and can get updates every so often (or hear them outside, if the Packers are doing well, lol).
I'm here too, but busy making Alton Brown's Coq Au Vin, it takes about a week to prepare but tastes divine.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm! I haven't had Coq Au Vin in ages!
ReplyDeleteOh Fay, you're such a good cook. Matt is a lucky man!
ReplyDeleteI love Alton Brown, I'll have to check out his...recipe.
:))
He certainly is florrie!
ReplyDeleteAlton uses TWO full bottles of red wine in his recipe but even I can't justify using that much...I only use one.
Florrie #24
ReplyDeleteAnd don't I know it!
You two are so cute. I just copied off the recipe, it sounds delish. Be sure to give us a review!
ReplyDeleteWe're eating a Safeway pizza during the game and, if hungry later, I have some leftover poached salmon and a spinach/pancetta risotto that is to-die-for. A meal in itself, actually.
Fay, do you have Sheila Luken's Cooking Around the World (or something like that)? It's a great cookbook, I have lots of recipes I make time after time from her.
It's Sheila Lukins and sad that I didn't even know she had passed away.
ReplyDeleteWiki article here
No florrie, I don't have that one. I have the three Silver Palate books she did with Julie Rosso and use certain of those recipes over and over again.
ReplyDeleteI gave up before the end, when there was yet another dropped pass on the last ditch effort by the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteAt least they finally made a game of it, even though THREE FREAKING TURNOVERS!?!?!?!?!?!
BTW, I have to mention that Fay picked the perfect graphics for this thread, particularly the Teddy Bear.
ReplyDeleteSorry for your Steelers, Dances, but everyone here in Washington state was rooting for Green Bay, for understandable reasons...
ReplyDeleteThem's were my reason, Florrie. It would have been one thing if the Sea Hawks had lost to the Steelers, but they really lost to the refs.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Tom said he thought the Steelers got a couple questionable calls in their favor tonight as well...
ReplyDeleteYou know there had to be a reason they were able to make something of a comeback.
ReplyDeleteIt's just that the Packers are also a team who is expected to win. Seahawks? What are they?
I know what you mean, Matt. Remember all the build up? It was all Steelers, the town was all Steelers, RWC was all Steelers.
ReplyDelete:))
I mean, it felt like we had three strikes against us (sorry for the baseball metaphor :-) before the coin toss.
ReplyDeleteRemember all the build up? It was all Steelers, the town was all Steelers, RWC was all Steelers.
ReplyDeleteOur RWC was the first one to congratulate me when the Packers won. I guess I don't have to tell you all what a classy (and fun!) guy he is. :X
Here's a football bah-humbug. College and pro ball have reached a tedious point. Mostly it is the rules and the refs' calls. Until they fix both I'll be less interested. For example: I cannot stand what passes for a "received pass" now ... measuring milliseconds of "possession" and receivers damn near flat on the ground already when they make a "catch." Another one: "false start" is now called if a ref notices an ear twitch before the snap. It has become absurd and materially effects games due to frequency of calls.
ReplyDeleteYeah I watched the last half of the SB ... GB won as I expected.
A missed 52 yard FG and a bad 15 yard penalty against the Pack, that BR did not capitalize on- game coulda gone to the Stillers. But if...
ReplyDelete/good football, exciting
I haven't watched a SB in several years but thought this one would be worthwhile as the teams seemed pretty evenly matched and I enjoyed the game for the most part. Yes, it could have gone either way a few times but then that's the breaks. I did admire Roger's calmness in action, staying in the pocket, taking his time to spot the open receiver, thought he did a fine job. I was less than thrilled with the announcers, Aikman and Buck? I thought there was an obvious bias in that they were constantly talking up how the Steelers were going to come back, looked good, etc, etc. Second thing I didn't care for is what turned me off those several years ago... the on-field celebrations for making a fricking tackle, or busting up a pass, or any little thing that should be considering a 'normal' part of doing your job on the field. I don't know, I guess I've always liked the strong silent types versus the 'look at me' type. Oh... tattoos, what the hell?
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ReplyDeleteOur RWC was the first one to congratulate me when the Packers won. I guess I don't have to tell you all what a classy (and fun!) guy he is.
Yeah, he gave me a hard time when we lost the superbowl so I was just returning the favor.
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