Tag: leadership

Underneath God’s Light

From the MSN deception file comes this:

It seems Brad Pitt is in a spot of car trouble. Seems his Tesla rear ended a Nissan, probably a Leaf, that ran into a pick-up truck. Who won this battle of the Electric Vehicles (EVs)?  Why the gas guzzling truck of course. Nada scratch on her. But the headline reads:

“Brad Pitt Causes Chain Car Crash.” A two car EV fender bender? A chain car crash? Are you kidding me? No, no, no, this is a chain car crash:

Image result for pics of major chain car crashes

Hey, is that Brad down there in the blue shirt? Lost a bit of hair no doubt. And gained weight. But then the story spends the rest of the time – about 95% of the article – telling us about Brad’s personal life…who cares?………………….Geesh.

This is way over the top: Taylor Swift spends $50B buying apartment blocks somewhere in NYC. Wow. We should be so lucky. Hopefully this latest string of real estate deals will keep her sooooo busy that we won’t have to listen to her sing anymore. One can only hope.

This just in from Ontario PC leadership race: Christine Elliott has the support of the PC Caucus:

Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Christine Elliott has the early lead when it comes to support from the PC caucus. Elliott lost to former party leader Patrick Brown in 2015.

I can see why!

Jared Fogle – remember him? The Subway pitch man – is hoping to have his case reviewed stating that the judge was biased. She preferred MacDonald’s! Looking at Jared it would appear that the Subway diet isn’t quite what it used to be:

a man standing in front of a crowd: Jared Fogle enters the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse for sentencing, Thursday, November 19, 2015.

Hold the mayo!

More on Elizabeth May, The Green Party Leader of One…herself…and the investigation of her bad behaviour:

“At the very time that I am pressing the council and staff to start setting aside money for the 2019 election campaign, I have asked for expenditures that will run in the tens of thousands of dollars,” Ms. May wrote in the fundraising email. “If you can manage a donation at this time, it would certainly be appreciated. I truly regret this situation and its impact on the party.”

Are you kidding me? She makes, what? $200K plus per year and she is asking us to crowd fund her investigation of herself? There is a reason you call yourself the Green Party as in green-backs……and we’re not idiots like this guy below…………Geesh.

I am ashamed to call myself a Canadian these days (Italics mine) – Thanks to Small Dead Animals for this:

Canada has no core values or core identity;

Immigrants make better Canadians than Canadians themselves;

The Budget will balance itself – with the help of my selfies;

Refugees are ISIS terrorists;

ISIS are refugees that need to be integrated;

Castro was a great man and a dear friend of Canada;

Because diversity is our strength;

Refugees, including returning ISIS Canadians, receive 3600 per month;

Veterans receive??????????????????

Sheer’s, the US Medic who was killed by Khadr, wife and kids received nada;

Terrorists are just misunderstood and should be welcomed by all Canadians;

Canada is the world’s first Post Nation State;

I admire China and their dictatorship;

$10.5M to Omar Khadr – a convicted terrorist but a true Canadian hero. Just like Louis Riel – a convicted murderer and delusional madman.

$30M given by Trudeau to 3 Canadians of Syrian roots who were detained in Syria;

$2.6B… that’s right “Billion…” given by Trudeau to the UN’s Climate Change fund;

Nada to Canadian veterans: “We just cannot afford to give our veterans any more;”

Terrorists will not lose their Canadian citizenship;

Calling “Honour Killing” barbaric is barbaric as it raises some people’s hackles; yeah the “honor killing” killers;

 

And on and on and on it goes………………………..People….WAKE UP. We are slowly losing our country to an idiot.

 

Prayer of the day: Please Lord, give us back songs and artists like this and we’ll give you back Taylor Swift:

https://youtu.be/rX6D14Z3J3c

Have a terrific Thursday.

 

 

SJ……………………………………..Out

 

 

Rabid Dogs…7

…In August I was headed out west for a fourth time except this time it was by air and my destination was some small town located in the mountains about 70 miles east of that west coast city of rain. Unfortunately, the area in which I was to spend the next three months was caught up into the same rain pattern that had so much turned me off in previously trips. No matter. Free room and board, $415 bucks a month and all the haircuts one would ever want or need.

Basic training? How to describe it? Holed up with 30 of your closest friends, under one roof as part of a 90 man Company. I was in “A” Platoon, housed in a “H” Hut with communal washrooms and showers. The other 2 platoons, “B” and “C” of our Company were housed in a stark, white building called Pachena Barracks. Three platoons and you had a Company as everything here was Army oriented, which kind of sucked and ticked me off to no end being that I had joined the Navy. No matter. They said that Leadership was Leadership no matter the environment and being an Officer Candidate I would be exposed to leadership drills and test scenarios in an Army environment to ascertain whether or not I had the right stuff for this military culture. Individuality was a no no in this environment hence the communal haircuts with the requisite white walls cropped ever so thin on top, and tight at the nape.

We all had fashionable haircuts for the day, long and shoulder length. Our first haircut was a traumatic experience. It was extremely tough to watch as our locks fell like fluff on the barber’s floor, only to be swept away into that dustbin of individuality. All that work in nurturing those locks, for months, years perhaps, all for naught. I’m sure I even saw some of the lads sob with every turn of the razor. I have to admit that with all of this trauma, the Army was super organized. They had a very large “Haircutting Room” capable of handling 10 of us at a time. Ten newbie recruits sitting there in 10 chairs with 10 Army barbers. Army barbers is a term used loosely here. In reality these guys were regular Army types making a few extra bucks on the side. Peace-work they told us and we were their peace-necks.

There were the usual comments such as “Hey, just a little off the top will do” or “Thin the sides” or “Shampoo and a rinse if you don’t mind” or my personal favourite “Take care of those split ends will ya.” They, the Army barbers, had heard it all before many, many times and just smirked as they took their razors, snapped a Number 2 on to the business end and, in what appeared to be one small swoop, the locks were gone. Just like that. Shave the nape of the neck, clean around the ears and it was all done in about 2 minutes. Next! Ten more. Next! Ten more. Next! And before you could say “a little dab will do ya” it was all over. 90 raw recruits in one door with 90 raw recruits out another but in right Army haberdashery fashion! It was somewhat comical watching 90 guys milling about outside afterward streaming their fingers through the hair that wasn’t there. The feeling was somewhat akin to someone sensing a lost foot or a lost arm after surgical amputation, or so I am told. Nevertheless, the transformation was incredible. We all looked the same, particularly after the uniform fitting was complete. From cool fashionable dude to Army, military dork….