Things are not going well for me on this trip. Tonight I decided to use my sister’s brand new shower in her newly remodeled new house and created a flood.
Then I tried to put my clothes in the closet and broke the very first clothes hanger I grabbed.
Then I started having a fit of hysterical laughter and freaked out my sister’s fiancé.
I don’t even want to imagine what the flight back will be like.
, and the Democrat was newly arrived on Capitol Hill as North Carolina’s junior senator-elect. But Hagan was told that the Senate pool was males-only. Why? Because some of the male senators liked to swim naked
In case there were still any doubts as to why the Senate is so inept. These are all freaky and disturbed people with a host of extreme sexual dysfunctions.
All that people in Quebec ever do is pay taxes. Supposedly, they get some sort of welfare joys in return. These welfare goodies have been diminishing in recent years but there still was a service that Quebec was very proud of: accessible daycare system. For $7 a day, you could place a child in a state daycare center. Many children never got a spot because there were queues but still, the system existed and it was egalitarian.
Now, however, this bastion of public good has fallen to the approaching hordes of the “community of the aggrieved.” Successful, hard-working taxpayers of Quebec will be deprived of accessible daycare. The only people who will have it are, paradoxically, those who pay next to no taxes.
The government of Quebec seems bent on following the European example and creating tensions between the locals and Quebec ‘ s sizeable Muslim community.
Do you remember the Year of the Protester? The #Occupy, the Spanish Indignados, the Russian pro-democracy protests, the Canadian student protests?
All of these protesters failed to achieve anything whatsoever. They played at activism, tweeted, Facebooked, postured, and receded into oblivion without having achieved anything.
Out of all of them, the only successful protest was the one in Ukraine. It’s a slow, painful process, but Ukrainians are actually managing to transform their society. The reason why Ukrainians are successful where the American, Canadian, Spanish, British, etc protesters failed is that Ukrainians decided not to present the universe with vague supplications to “end greed”. Instead of begging a benign paternal authority to make everything good, they are starting to realize that the only authority over their lives is themselves. And that’s an enormous breakthrough.
There are people who are seriously discussing how great it would be if the compulsory military service were brought back in the US.
This is what happens to those who don’t read Clarissa ‘s Blog and are clueless about the collapse of the nation-state.
The preoccupation with online safety has reached creepy dimensions. Hotmail has blocked my mailbox because it noticed that I was trying to access it from a Canadian IP. I had to conduct a series of bizarre transactions to prove who I am but it still isn’t working.
Yesterday my sister called Hydro Quebec to pay her bill. The company refused to accept the payment because my sister didn’t manage to prove who she was. Because obviously there are crowds of evildoers running around trying to pay somebody else’s bills.
In the meantime, actual safety is of little concern to anybody. There is so much snow that two-way streets have become one-way. But the drivers are still charging in both directions, and nobody seems very interested in regulating the traffic or cleaning the snow. This is Montréal, so it isn’t like snow in winter is a total surprise.
The privilege wars have spilled over into the highly ideological area of brunch.
People have way too much time on their hands. I feel very underprivileged now that I have realized that society denied me the opportunity to see the privilege behind not seeing the privilege of the overprivileged. Or something.
