ShakeyJay

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Thinking about all these never ending Left and Right protests these past few years. I consider myself non partisan but I wonder how people would feel about me if they knew:

That I am a practicing Catholic;
That I believe in God and a higher power;
That personally I am a pro-life type of person – although I believe a woman has the right to choose;
That I was in the Navy for 37 years;
That I love my country;
That I believe in national sovereignty;
That I believe in the “Rule of Law”
That I respect our History – warts and all;
That we should live within our means – everyone, governments included;
That some things are worth fighting for;
That I am not hypocritical;
That I respect our Police and authority;
That I respect our constitution and Bill of Rights;
That my political views are between me and the ballot box;
That criticism and debate of progressive government policies will brand you a racist, a bigot and whatever phobia exists, by the federal Liberal government;
That the family compact of 1837 still exists in Canada, especially in Ontario and Quebec;
That I love to walk;
That I loved my late wife and I love my family;
That one should work hard to get ahead in life;
That handouts are for dogs and cats, not humans -troubled people excepted;
That a social safety net is important, except for cats and dogs;
That current music sucks;
That today’s news is oxymoronic;
That journalists have no work ethic and are dishonest, misleading;
That all mind altering drugs are bad, including marijuana;
That parents should teach their children morals and not their teachers;
That political indoctrination at school is a form of child abuse;
That graphic sexual education and promotion of transgenderism to young impressionable minds before puberty is a form of child abuse;
That changing the English language is not negotiable by University students;
That a good pint of bitter is nirvana;
That a good steak is wonderful;
That PETA sucks;
That Black Olives Matter, especially on Pizza;
That you cannot compromise or have a debate with a greenie;
That organic pizzas are green;
That the word Organic is a Latin word meaning grown in pig shit;
That the word Commune is a Latin word meaning shithouse;
That going to University is not a god given or atheist given right, its a privilege;
That one should pay their own way through school;
That climate change purported by politicians is the biggest fraud in history;
That Orwell was right and we are now living proof of this;
That the Baby Boomer generation was the most self absorbed, self centric generation in history – and I am one of them;
That the Baby Boomer generation is primarily responsible for all the shyte we are now going through;
That you cannot make your school change the date of a solar eclipse to meet your child’s scheduling demands;
That the song “Imagine” is well past its best before date;
That bitcoins and climate change are the currency of madness;
That to “Make Love, Not War” was not the rallying banner we all thought it was but a thought process of the 1960s that produced a lot of bastards;
That I am a Toronto Argonauts fan (thanks Ted); and
That’s all she wrote.

And this is all I have to say about that……….

Obviously I am a (insert whatever label here) phobian. So be it but I am happy.

Why can’t we all just get along, be treated equally under the law and be Canadians first and foremost?

Have a great Navy day.

SJ…………………………………out……………………………………Dot

Pee-You……

From the obviousness file comes this:

Rapper, er sorry, Crapper denounces Trump’s Arizona speech as scary. No it’s scary having a name like that.

Crapper made his obvious comments on CNN, which will be covered by the Washington Post and New York Times, all known supporters of Trump!

Crapper got really excited by Trump’s racist comments “about the need for unity and inclusion.” Yup, downright scary. No this is scary: “What a riot man!” Antifa coming to a neighbourhood near you.

Or this from last fall:

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.”

When kids are left alone with dad! Love it! (c/o twitter / facebook)

From the “I Can’t Make This Up File” comes this:

Success of future MARS mission dependant upon astronauts urine and CO2 emissions. I thought CO2 was poison man. Say what? And shit for fertilizer! They are going to call the first MARS expedition “The Call of Nature.”

Beach goers in a state of fearful frenzy as shark devours a seal. “Where is PETA when you need them?” One vegan on the beach was heard to say. “Gawd this can’t be right.” In response another was heard to say that “this is nothing but the call of nature.”

Cannabis not really effective against pain and PTSD, new study shows. They tried to treat patients suffering from chronic pain and PTSD with cannabis but couldn’t wake them up to determine efficacy. “Well, if you want to sleep all day then I guess it is okay for that,” a prominent researcher, Dr. Walter White, who wanted to remain anonymous, stated.

An Asian ESPN Sports announcer by the name of Robert Lee pulled from doing the play by play at a UVA football game. On another note an Asian entrepreneur who owns a string of Chinese restaurants was forced to change the name. “Holy Chow” was considered too religious for some patrons to stomach. He changed the name to “Holy Cow.” It is expected that PETA may have something to say about this new branding scheme. Meanwhile sales of his food chain skyrocketing in India.

CNN calls Trump demented, sexist, racist, a Nazi – “is there anything else in the lexicon that we can use?” Wolf was heard to say. I’ll let their own words speak for itself.

Trump sending troops to Afghanistan. New mission and aim. Destroy ISIS and terrorists. Kill them! No more pussy footing around. A prominent Canadian who wants to remain anonymous, wearing his new black and white socks, became outraged when he heard this new directive coming from the White House.

Other Stuff

Some of my latest least favourites:

Least favourite colour……………………… Green
Least favourite word………………………… Transparency
Least favourite food…………………………..Tofu
Least favourite song…………………………..Imagine.
Least favourite team…………………………. Leafs
Least favourite French expression…………..Je suis (insert whatever here)

From my other “I Can’t Make this Up File” comes this:

Newly elected Democrat Ocasio-Cortez has everyone on the Left in a tizzy about her proposed New Green Plan that MUST be implemented by 2030.

The more important parts of this plan are:

Ban all airplanes;
Built a train track across both oceans for pan oceanic train travel;
Demolish all buildings and houses across the US and start over;
Guaranteed living wage for all Americans;
Free Health care for everyone (heck, even in Canada health care isn’t free);
Nobody has to work if they do not want to; and
Ban all cow flatulence to save the planet. That means “Where’s the beef?”

Her response when asked who is going to pay for all of this?

“Easy peezey,” she said as only a millennial can. “We’ll print more money!”

When asked about facts and details of her plan she responded:

“Don’t bore me or challenge me with the facts. Being morally correct “Trumps” all facts or details as far as I am concerned.”

I kid you not. Her remarks remind me of this: Dum de dum dum……DUMMMM!

“Just the facts ma’am.” Good ole Joe Friday knows a thing or two about finances. And doors were poorly made in those days.

Crapper’s remarks, name and Cortez’s cow flatulence ban reminded me of this. Now, to a old fart like me who has a juvenile brain this scene was really funny. Flat-out humour:

I guess the Dems will try to ban all humans next!

Song of the day: It’s just the name of the game, that’s all. Badfinger cover by Anthony Harty:

Have a great Navy day.

SJ………………………………………..Out………………………………………..pee-you!

States of Confusion

The latest lunar eclipse reminded me of an earlier post when we had the major solar eclipse back in September 2017. Here is part of that post:

Craziness of the day:

Fall 2017

Leads to mass hysteria!

Mother in Texas demands that the local museum, which was holding an eclipse learning event at the library, reschedule the eclipse for a more opportune time for her children. I do hope that this woman viewed the eclipse without protective glasses………Geesh

Journalist (sic) states that the solar eclipse is racist and white privilege because the path of the eclipse crosses predominantly white states in America……Geesh….Geesh.

The solar eclipse is / was caused by climate change. “But the sun has no bearing on the climate. Everybody knows that.” one person was heard to say. Saying this, while the temperature dropped significantly when the sun was obscured by the moon./..Geesh…Geesh….Geesh!

The solar eclipse is Trump’s fault. It would never have occurred if Obama was back in office. “This event eclipses everything. Trump has to go and go NOW!” Geesh….Geesh….Geesh….and more Geesh!

Seems that EU cucumber harvest severely impacted by the solar eclipse. All cucumbers suddenly turned crooked and reverted back to their natural growing state. “250 EU regulations be damned,” a farmer was heard to say…good gawd…good!

Solar panel company’s bottom line severely impacted by the eclipse. Vows to ensure that it never happens again. Gaia followers nod in agreement.

Environ – mentals state that the UN and western countries must spend trillions of dollars NOW to prevent an eclipse from ever happening again. If we can change the weather and the climate on this planet then surely this would be a “walk in the dark.”

I am confused

Have a great Navy day.

SJ……………………………………………Out

Things Go Better With………

“Things go better with coke.”

It would appear that Delta airlines and Coke didn’t expect the fallout to their latest marketing plan of passing napkins to frequent flyers to pass to other passengers in what they called their “plane crush.” “You never know they said.” Well the unintended consequence of this marketing scheme was the unintended rush to the washrooms, of which there were just a few. Delta and Coke apologized and assured passengers that additional washrooms would soon be a fact of life on their long haul flights. I can’t make this up.

See the source image Stewardesses and Stewards were being issued new uniforms.

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Did you know that the latest progressiveness of the Democratic Party is to allow for 3rd trimester abortions up to and including the 40th week. They also believe that women should have the right to abort the birth immediately after delivery – if she so chooses. Yes, I am a staunch believer that a woman has the right to choose however there are limits and this progressive policy my friends comes down to infanticide – murder!

Senator Ralph Northam, the Democratic Governor of Virginia, exposed the Democratic Party’s position on long term abortion for what it really is: infanticide. The Democratic Party’s response? They found a old photograph of good ole Ralphy from his Medical School days dressed with another person in Black Face and a Klu Klux Klan outfit and put it out there for all to see and of course to destroy the Governor’s reputation. Bad taste and poor judgement on Ralphy’s part? Yes. Of course. But this occurred some 35 years ago when stunts like this were very common at University parties. And this coming from those tolerant, progressive Democrats.

The woman’s league of the party was not amused with the Governor’s remarks:

I hate hypocrites.

Does that picture remind you of something in the Dem’s deep dark past?

Meanwhile Ralphy has been forced to go back and reflect on the way he acts:

Interesting:

CNN’s response? Hitler! The devil incarnate. The speech was a disgrace to all liberal values, especially Climate Change and Global Warming and of course, the legality of long term abortions.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwestern states and / or western Canada:

See the source image What are your thoughts on this Al baby

Gotta love this. Typical liberal shitzspeak:

Heard in passing. Justinian praying to his late father about the economy:

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” Poppa. What’s an economy.?

Poppa’s response:

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That’s all she wrote.

This is kind of creepy:

Gotta go. I have a flight to catch:

Have a great Navy day

SJ…………………………Out

Lady of the Stones

I lived in Manotick, Ontario for over 11 years. It is a small village south of Ottawa situated on the Rideau River. I loved it there. The following is a poem that I wrote that tells the story of a tragedy that occurred at the newly constructed grist mill that was built in 1861. The mill was the focus of the village and provided Manotick with its wealth and prosperity in the mid to late 1800s.

The mill is said to be haunted today.

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Hope you enjoy it:

The Lady of the Stones

When the moon shines bright on a cold winter’s night

As the wind frost chills the bones

While life is asleep ‘cept for the spirit that it keeps

Amid the cries and the wails and the moans

All alone in the night in the soft winter’s light

Runs a river that’s cries as it leaps

Over weir and some falls as if dancing it calls

For the lady of the stones on the wheat

There stands all alone from a structure of stone

A whisper of death and despair

A suffering soul who cries out for her beau

Lost, breathless, alone she will stare

A lady so pale in her death knell she wails

For her time that was so tragically brief

Her soulful spent mourns and her perpetual scorn

For her life that was wrought by a thief

***

Moss Dickensen came to this landscape whose name

Its mantle Ojibwayan speak

Of a land all alone in a river that roams

From Big Rideau to the Ottawa it seeks

Moss Dickensen possessed as Joe Currier confessed

Great insight and a vision to spare

One thing that he knew from this river would brew

Great fortune, great wealth and great fare

A partnership grew with Joe Currier, Moss proved

That a mill would be true to their dreams

A town that would grow from the natural flow

From the Rideau and land in the stream

The building that grew, stonemason’s cuts true

Majestic with a Scottish-like ring

The millstones were laid, then dressed and well made

From the skill that Tom Langrell’s hands bring

From the weir and the falls as the water is culled

By the timbers the current it bleeds

Directed through stalls, turn turbines, run sloughs

For the seed that a town dearly needs

Like grist to the mill old Manotick was filled

With millers and farmers and feed

Prosperity grew from raw powered hewn tools

From a river that flowed to their needs

Joe Currier was blessed with good fortune and zest

That he married the girl of his dreams

Ann Crosby did come from Lake George she did run

To the arms of her lover, she beamed

Yet fate has a way of having its say

When life is idyllic and sane

For the riches and fame for Joe Currier’s reign

Like the king of the Rideau in name

Yet on one fateful day in March so they say

In eighteen hundred and sixty-one

The first anniversary of the town’s new prosperity

On a day that should have been fun

Joe Currier is seen with Ann Crosby they’d been

From their wedding just one month before

Brimming with pride, a new life and new bride

His fortune had come to fore

With their wives by their side the men went inside

The mill had just started to run

The stop logs removed and the water gushed through

The turbines they started to turn

The shafts all-awhirl, the millstones grind shrill

The walls and the floorboards did sing

A deafening roar as the water gushed forth

Was music to the ears of these men

A danger in sight but blind to their plight

The couples they walked up the stairs

On the second floor stage, they stood in a daze

As the music did play through the air

Ann walked out in time oblivious in kind

As she looked at the marvels unfold

But mechanical whirls will tear off the swirls

From loose coats and those crinoline folds

Quick as a flash Ann faltered and smashed

Her head to the pillar and shaft

For her crinoline was caught in a running gear fraught

With danger and death as it laughed

Her cranium whacked like a walnut it cracked

‘Gainst the pillar and shaft and the gears

Her eyes all ablaze in a mad induced craze

Amidst the screams and the wails and her fear

The light of her soul dimmed slowly then cold

As the darkness had captured her being

Her spirit was lost to mortality’s cause

Forever to mourn at this scene

***

As the years fell away and the memories fade

And life carried on as it will

The turbines still turn and the millstones still churn

Like time, like grist to the mill

So stranger be warned of a town that was born

From a river and land that was tamed

By men of such strength that they went to great lengths

For some profit, some glory, some fame

For a specter appears from a window so clear

For lost lovers, lost souls and lost tears

Poor Ann all alone in her death spell she roams

Amid the pillars, the shafts and the gears

For alone in the night in the soft winter’s light

Runs a river that’s cries as it leaps

Over weir and some falls as if dancing it calls

For the lady of the stones on the wheat

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What does this song have to do with the poem? Absolutely nothing but I love this song. The lyrics are great:

Have a great Navy day.

SJ…………………………………Out

Off to the pool.

ShakeyJay

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