Been Great

Today is the one year anniversary of starting this blog. It has been very therapeutic for me. I try to see the humour in our day to day headlines. Better to have a chuckle than to blow a blood pressure gasket – which occurs most times when I watched the nightly news or read the local papers.

I am away tomorrow seeing a friend in Washington State. I cannot get a relevant post out so I thought I would repost my very first post on this blog:

“Intro”

This is my personal blog. While I have had this site up in my mind and “to do list” for over 12 months now, this is day one. But hey, I live for procrastination – and sailing!

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That’s me boat #511. Juan de Fuca Strait, heading to Pedder Bay during a winter’s Sunday Race. Mountains in the background are the Olympic Mountains of Washington State. Beautiful!

I live in British Columbia. That’s Super Natural BC. Hippie-dom’s last vestige in Canada and probably on earth. Canada’s Greenie Province of protestors and environ-mentals – the wet coast and the left coast of Canada combined – Birkenstock paradise – land of fleece vests, Tilley hats, granola crunchers, tree huggers, cappuccino suckers, and…Salt Spring Islanders. Long skirts and gum boots. Hoelay Cliche! And, I am also a poor speller!!

The site’s header reflects one of the island’s a great views – looking east – across the beautiful Saanich Inlet, and the rest of Canada. But don’t eat the shell fish here. It will kill you. And you can’t swim in the water. It will freeze your bollicks, and other things, off.

From this viewpoint you can see the Saanich Peninsula in the distance: Cole Bay, Pat Bay Airport, Brentwood Bay and the famous Butchart Gardens (infamous if you suffer from environmental allergies) down the way south a bit. US Gulf Islands in the near distance, beyond the peninsula, with majestic snow capped Mount Baker on the far horizon towering majestically and menacingly over us all. Just hope the big one never comes. We will be screwed. But then again winds are westerly here. Ha, whew! Vancouver and points east??…you’re screwed. Perhaps the environ-mentals can clap their hands and change the plate tectonics, tsunami dynamics and vulcanology …er.. volcanology of the area, just as they arrogantly claim that they can control the weather and climate. If only they could just increase taxes, destroy the economy and donate everything to Gaia. If only they could just…be happy.

I am a retired Naval Officer. Just about 37 years of dedicated, loyal, unadulterated, blemish free service to her Majesty, the Queen. Yes, her Majesty the Queen, I am proud that I served my Queen and my Country – Canada. By the very essence of the military’s left, right; left, right; left, right cadence I am non partisan but I am very relieved that Harper signed my retirement scroll. I retired as a Lieutenant Commander, or a Two-and-a-Half in the vernacular lexicon of naval life.

Writing this blog is somewhat therapeutic. Hope you enjoy it. Please contribute.

SJ………..ShakeyJay

That’s it. I’ll be back with regular posts on Wednesday…God willing.

Peace!

Lest we forget! That religion of peace!

Slide 1 of 24: <p>It's been 16 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001. But for millions of Americans, haunting memories of that day are still fresh, and many lives were changed forever. </p><p> On 9/11, terrorists hijacked four planes and were able to crash two of them into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York and one into the Pentagon.</p><p> The remaining jet crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers overpowered the hijackers.</p><p> A day that started out with clear blue skies ended with a mass of twisted, smoldering metal where the Twin Towers once stood, leaving 2,977 people dead in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, along with the 19 hijackers.</p><p> September 11 happened almost two decades ago. One-quarter of Americans are too young to remember it. I have three kids who have no memory of it at all - they weren't born yet.</p><p> But we certainly don't want to forget, even as we get on with our lives and confront new challenges. So in memory of that day, here are 23 images that capture what no American should forget. And as someone living in New York City at the time, I can tell you what it was like to witness the tragedy as it unfolded.</p><p>Brittany Fowler contributed to a previous version of this story.</p>What really irks me is Prime Minister Chretien’s response when hearing that 24 Canadians died that day. When trying to establish some sort of memorial to recognize these Canadians who died during 9/11 his government’s response was that “Well, we cannot have a memorial for everybody you know.” or words to that effect. If they had been Quebecers there would have been a national day of mourning set up immediately. My government’s response made me sad and ashamed of being a Canadian. I mean if we can recognize Simon Bolivar as a hero with a statue in his name and likeness near the Byword Market in Ottawa than surely these brave Canadians deserve some recognition.

From the Fake News file comes this: fake sharks, fake alligators, fake looters: fakery abounded in Harvey’s wake. Lets see how Irma shakes out.

Fake maps of course. This one is not fake but sure looks a lot like that AGW hockey stick to me. Right-handed or could it be a left-handed stick. “Alt check into that and get back to you.” one meteorologist was heard to comment.

Dishwashers cannot protect valuables when Irma strikes. Say what? No, dishwashers are not waterproof say the experts. This coming from the same guy who brought us the story about displaced sharks caught up in the hurricane. PETA is hard at work to promote this story.

Bill Nye says powerful hurricanes caused by Climate Change. See? The word powerful. Irma was a Cat 2 when it hit Florida. No matter: powerful, deadly, catastrophic, scary, apocalyptic, “the end of the world is nye” – all adjectives or expressions describing Bill Nye’s thought process.

“Climate Deniers are literally killing us” one newspaper was wont to write. No. “YOU ARE KILLING US WITH YOUR FAKERY.” Its called hurricane season – August to end November, every year, since the last ice age.

This just in from another one of Holly Woody’s in the Morning brain trust and some well known spokesperson actress: “It’s disgusting. I mean, like, all of these disasters can be linked, like, to one man and to, like, one event. Like Trump and his election as POTUS. Like y’know, I mean, like, God is, like punishing us, the nation, like, because like you know, like we voted for this guy and like, God is punishing us, like, you know. Like it or not that is our, like, new reality.  She also has a new movie coming out: “The Likeness of Being”……………an idiot.

“An article titled “Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes the Strongest Hurricane in History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities off the Map,” (how about “Holly’s Woody in the Morning” for starters) published last week on the blog The Economic Collapse, was shared more than 2 million times on blogs and Facebook pages such as Sons of Liberty Media and Freedom Outpost, the BBC reports.” My response? Who or what is a Sons of Liberty Media and Freedom Outpost? What is a BBC? Cat 6?

And they wonder why today’s journalists are not taken seriously. It’s all agenda driven and that is why I do not watch broadcast news anymore nor subscribe to newspapers. Everything I need for a good laugh I can find on the net.

Canada’s new tax laws: “Work hard, study hard and we’ll screw you. New Tax laws? After all it’s only fair that if I get screwed then so should you., says Justinian as he whisks away for another Caribbean holiday on his private jet!

Oh, the Gov’t is going to fix and solve the housing crisis, just like they do with everything else. The MBA solution to all of this: “No housing, no problem! Let the market take care of this.”

From the “Who gives a flying F%$K file.” Apparently Toronto is all in a tiff as Rachel McAdams caught sleep walking in the lobby of a popular hotel. “Her PJs” are stunning, a well known fashion designed was heard to say.

Slide 7 of 18: <p>in a seafoam green column gown with ruffled trim and a tiered lace skirt at the Disobedience premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.</p>

I have come out. Finally I can say that I am a “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy and zee”……………………You know, Alphabet Lives Matter. They really do.

And with that have a great Monday.

SJ…………………………….out…………of it!

It’s All BS!

This just in from Vogue, another so-called news outlet suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. “Why can’t this administration get things right?” This from a reporter who was complaining about the First Lady’s attire as she was heading to Air Force 1 with her husband for the trip down to Houston to provide hope and support for the residents there.

Oh, I don’t know. Would you rather have her:

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Or her, in the White house representing all Americans?

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Vogue’s writer.

GE announces closure of Peterborough plant due to continued delays in the Energy East Pipeline approval process, 350 jobs lost. “Canada is not, I repeat, not open for business. How can I not be clearer than that” Climate Barbie, our Federal Minister responded:

Image result for Catherine McKenna Climate BarbieOr the constant Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion delays, our photogenic Minister added.

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Yeah, but she does have a nice butt, her coworker was heard to mumble in the background.

 

I see  Omar Kadr’s sister doesn’t think that Kadr’s crime is any big deal.

“What’s the fuss all about? It’s no big deal that he killed a man and blinded another. Hmmm?” Federal spokesperson responded. “Oh she’s sure to get $10.5 M for that remark. Guaranteed! After all this is 2017 and this is Canada. We’re smug you know.”

 

The Left’s Sunday picnic at Berkeley. It was a BYOB, “Bring Your Own Bombs” affair. Hell of a party. The bar was kept pretty busy. “Everyone wants a Molotov Cocktail these days.” A volunteer worker was heard to say.  “I ran out of olives pretty quickly and at an event like this Black Olives really do matter.”

On another note, Frosh week begins at a Boston College!

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What would war look like with North Korea? Well, we’d all have to have haircuts like this guy. (Pic courtesy of Maclean’s Magazine)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017. (KCNA/Reuters): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017. (KCNA/Reuters)See, they can’t even keep a straight face.

Another candidate for a Darwin Award: Animal rights activist gets gored trying to stop bullfight in France. “I just wanted to protect the bull’s rights.” He was heard to say. ” “He has feelings too you know.”

“It was all bullshit.” a spectator who was there remarked. “But then again, one has to look on the positive side of things. One less member of the gene pool of stupidity, one less member of PETA………Priceless.”

Only 10,000 more members to go!

 

Wednesday is “Hump day,”which has taken on a whole new meaning in Qatar ever since they imported 15,000 camels from Saudi Arabia.

 

SJ……….out.

Well that Eclipses Everything!

Seems that Cheerios is being blind sided in the misappropriation ballyhoo. Majority of those proper English Gents are no longer able to say “Cheerio” in social situations.  It is better to say “F%$K Off. More direct and to the point,” a Social Justice was heard to say.

Picture attributed to Wikipedia (John Cleese: Silly Walks Ministry)

From the Darwin Runner Up Award category: it would appear that some people in the Moonbat state of California are all in a tizzy with their Moonbat Governor because they almost blinded themselves while watching the latest solar eclipse. Seems somebody in the sunshine state told them that if they applied “Sunscreen” on their eyeballs they could look directly at the Corona. What they failed to tell them was that they were referring to the other set of balls for males at a nudist camp!

CarbondaleThese guys were okay. Not the Moonbat State.

On another note many solar panel officiates extremely upset that their solar panels failed during the eclipse. “If they can’t handle a simple stupid solar eclipse then what good are they? ” Someone was heard to say…….Geesh

Seems convicted Canadian Omar Kadr’s sister is coming to town. Wants to see Omar and find out from him how she can get on that government sponsored gravy train. “Just threaten to sue their asses off” someone was heard to say. It’s a win-win situation for you. After all you are a Muslim woman who is constantly being violated for your human rights…..right?….left…right?”

Damn: “Why are those lefties so darn righteous?…..Huh?”

Seems that our (Canada’s) Chief of Defence Staff attended Ottawa’s Gay Pride parade. Said he wanted to stay on top of things. As an ex Navy vet I am ashamed today. He also stated that he wanted to be there as the Canadian Forces unveiled their new under cover uniforms, as shown here.

Hey Charles, your hem line if getting a bit high, don’t ya think. Look to your mommy for guidance here.

Slide 1 of 30: Poderá ficar surpreendido com algumas destas restrições. Clique na galeria e surpreenda-se com algumas das mais peculiares regras às quais a família real mais famosa do mundo tem de se submeter!Seems that baby names like John, George, Ringo and Paul are no longer popular. Moonbat, Cirque, Hoelay and Weed are making a comeback for both boys and girls.

Heard that Yoko is suing for equal rights to the song “Imagine.” They told her that the screeching segment in the song had been edited out, years ago. No matter, just give me money, that’s all I want. It’s really an all-true-is-it? issue said Peter with his lisp. She wants the piano as well.

Oxy Moron of the week: Berkeley Mayor is so into free speech that he has requested the college to ban free speech week!  Say what.

Alt left and other progressives are destroying our way of life. Put out that joint and “Wake up People.” It is an existential threat to us all.

 

I can’t make this stuff up…………….SJ Out.

Hey John A!

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It seems the Ontario Teacher’s Union wants to ban John A Macdonald’s name off of all public schools. Of course he is one of our founding fathers here in Canada – but they probably didn’t know that.

Why? Because of his racist views. Views held by about almost every dude and dude-ess that lived in those days. If you’re going to erase his name then Cartier has to go too. Erased from all schools in Quebec. Laurier as well. See how that plays out….Geesh.

The schools will now be known as Zir Ze; Hey, Hey; Whoo Payz; and Zits.

 

Please dear God: can we have just one day in this country without some stupid story about Trump.

 

Mel B walks off of America’s got talent. Sorry, but who the F%$K is Mel B?

 

Politicisation of just about everything:

  • ESPN pulls football announcer because his name is Robert Lee, an Asian;
  • Calgary’s cattle Methane Corporation’s new CEO’s name: “Whoo Flung Pooo” is considered a cultural misappropriation. Changes name to Holee Cau;
  • CFL team managers and support crews wear “Diversity is Strength” during football telecast, then go on to lose by a very big margin. One just can’t get away from it…ever;
  • Kapernick will not stand during the playing of the national anthem. Many others in sports as well. NAACP in support of Kapernick. Making it a racist issue…fire them all and then see how much they’ll stand without their huge paychecks;
  • NHL banning draft in Dallas due to city’s transgendered bathroom issues. City will not cave in to idiots. Grow a set Garry, just like the city of Dallas;
  • Historical Statues coming down; and
  • On and On she goes.

I think I may want to get out of Dodge here Billy – sometime soon.

 

Short today….have to go.

 

SJ…….out