Saw Something Stupid Today

Miles is away for a few days so I have been coming into the office. Parking is always a problem downtown so I decided to bite the bullet and use the Pownal Street parkade, pay my six dollars a day and avoid trying to figure out when the meter guy is coming around to spread his special brand of cheer.

This isn't a huge parkade with its 4 levels, probably room for about 300 cars. I think its pretty typical in design with the ends being open so the air can blow through, concrete construction throughtout, no decoration or paint. But it does have something that is pretty impressive, a full blown sprinkler system. And I mean a sprinkler system, pipes like you wouldn't believe, they go everywhere and the size of them makes your arse muscles tighten up. Through the centre there are these big 4" to 5" round pipes that go vertically the whole height of the building and then there are two extensions of 4" pipe that run horizontally the length of each floor.. From these, pipes of about 2 " branch out between the concrete beams with sprinkler heads about every 20 feet. There must be miles of the stuff in there.

Makes you feel so safe knowing that in the event that someones car catches fire the concrete won't get burned up. If the system ever goes off, hope you're not at houseparty in Charlottetown taking an emergency dump in their bathroom because there will be no water left to wash away the pile you have left behind.

I have never seen a car on fire, I must have driven a million miles and lots of it in traffic but have never come across smouldering heaps of twisted steel and glass with the tires burnt off them. When I look at this building I somehow think I must be missing something, because I can't envision anyone making a builder install a sprinkler system that would have the capacity to extinguish the Great Chicago fire unless there was a pretty high probability it was going to happen. And if it did happen the fire department is just around the corner, wouldn't they just haul a hose over and put it out.

Last time I checked CONCRETE DOESN"T BURN. I wish I hadn't seen the damn thing now because suddenly I resent paying the six dollars a day when 50% of the cost is in a sprinkler system that will never be used and if it wasn't there they would only charge me three dollars.

I hate bureaucrats and inspectors and regulators they are screwing up the world with their rules and regulations. In the paper the last few days there has been a story about a couple from Illinois who bought a summer home in North Rustico for themselves and there 11 children and grandchildren to use. They leased it over the winter to a family with an expiration date of the lease in April. The people refused to move out, they say the owners shouldn't have the right to use the property for their summer holidays. Apparently issues like this go to IRAC who are the rental enforcers. Guess what, the people are still there, but horror of horrors for them IRAC is going to send them a letter.

Same thing happened in Murray River a few years ago, people stopped paying but decided to keep living in the house.the owners couldn't get them out. It went on for a year or more and when the owners showed up with a truck to move the renters stuff out were told by the RCMP they would be arrested if they tried. The worlds a crazy place!!

Svend Robinson

I came across this and realized I had never posted it after writing it, I'm not really a redneck but this guy has always gotten under my skin. This was when he was caught stealing the ring for his boyfriend. The next day I heard the former long distance runner Bruce Kidd on the radio going on about Todd Bertuzzi and Dany Heatly, there ws something about the whole thing that made me see red.

I see in the newpaper that Svend Robinson is going to challenge Hedy Fry in the riding of Vancouver Centre. Please, Please Hedy kick the daylights out of this guy at the polls so I never have to be revolted by either seeing him on TV again or listening to him spout his self serving and ridiculous crap again.

I was listening to Bruce Kidd the other morning on CBC radio as he was making the case for not allowing Todd Bertuzzi or Dany Heatley represent Canada at the Olympic games because they didn’t represent what he thought was the stereotype of a typical Canadian and their values. I get sick of these guys with their righteous indignations, but then I guess its our right as Canadians to have opinions, that is, its OK if your opinion happens to support the belief system of the touchy feely boys.

Ok Bruce you have the right to say you don’t think they are fit to be hockey players and represent Canada because of the rough tough life they live, well I don’t think that Svend is fit to be a Member of Parliament.

Todd Bertuzzi was one of the participants in an unfortunate accident where Steve Moore from Colorado who blindsided one of Bertuzzi’s teammates wouldn’t take the honourable route and settle things the way they have always been settled in Canadian hockey with a good old 30 second fight. And Dany Heatley as a young man with a Ferrarri was involved in a car accident in which his friend was killed, terrible thing and he has repeatedly said his irresponsibility is going to haunt him forever. So those two incidents make them unfit to play hockey for Canada. I watched the many press conferences these guys had to endure, and you know what, I was a heck of a lot more convinced that the tears these MEN shed were a lot more real than anything that Svend squeezed out. And you know the difference they weren’t crying over themselves, they were torn apart by what happened to someone else as a result of actions they took which they freely admitted they were responsible for, thats what real men do, not whine about themselves. Did I hear you say they should be in the same category as those using drugs?
Lets hear about Robinson and what his special personality traits are that make him a prime candidate for helping run our country from information I have seen the follwoing is pretty representative of this guy.

* Married his high school sweetheart but she divorced him when he cheated on her with a man.Way to go Svend thats what being a Canadian is all about. Don’t you think the RIGHT thing to do was to speak to her and tell her about your feelings for men instead of her having to catch you.
*Became an alcoholic as his way to cope with his mothers death.My mother died to but I don’t recall needing to have a drink 20 times a day to make me right. We all have major times of tragedy in our lives but the rest of us pick up the pieces and move on, its called strength of character Svend.
*Became a lawyer, but left the profession after a year.Way to stick it out Svend
* Was removed by his party as Justice critic after he publicly came out in favour of establishing red light districts and making whorehouses legal.Just what we need to help prop up the families of the nation, a whorehouse on every corner. Tommy Douglas, Stanley Knowles and David Lewis the architects of the core human rights we enjoy would roll over in their graves if they knew the causes their beloved NDP party was now promoting. Svend even you are way to far to the left for the likes of Jack Layton.
* Heckles President Ronald Reagan in the House of Commons after he has accepted an invitaion to address the MP’s.Most people learn on their mothers knee that you are polite to a guest. What a dork you are Svend to go headline hunting with such a cheap exhibition to a captive audience.
*Sentenced to jail for criminal contemptHelps kill Sue Rodriguez and my guess was this was more about publicity than compassion
* Gets hurt while hiking and credits his love for his boyfriend as the reason he survived by crawling 400 yards.What kind of a gooney bird is this guy, he sprained his ankle.
* Tables a petition in the House of Commons to remove the word God from the preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Svend before I checked up on you I just dismissed you as being a bit misguided but now I am seeing a pattern emerging, I don’t think you are a nice person.
* Travels to the Middle East to try an see Yassar Arafat, who refuses to meet with him.Even Yassar knows a fruit cake when he sees one and he won’t even let this one in the country let alone in his office.
* After a few days in Israel and no one will give him the time of day he pronounces that Israel is guity of torture and murder. He then resigns as NDP Foreign policy critic.Wow Svend you sure showed them a thing or two.
* Svend steals a $64,000.00 diamond ring and after he realizes he has been caught on tape (anyone who doesn’t think he got tipped off please step forward - no one thats what I thought) he fesses up.His track record to this point makes me question a lot of things about this bird, this clinches it this guy is a cheating, lying, publicity seeking, unbelieving, man with no sense of morality, nothing more than a petty thief who is not above trying to use every ounce of political correctness to his advantage to have to get off. What a weasel
* Instead of standing up like a man and admitting his guilt he whines about how his love for his partner and the stress he was under made him do it, so he really wasn’t responsible.Come on Svend even an wanker like me knows from my limited exposure to Doctor Phil that there is some serious sick stuff going on in the head of anyone who can’t accept repsonsibility for their actions.

And you know what, I bet the NDP leadership is cheering Hedy on, come on Hedy, put on those stompin boots, get his raisins into those vice grips! I think the NDP leadership all got the same sick feeling in their stomachs when he announced his return as Lucy had when she moaned her famous lament, “Aaaaarrrrggggh— my lips touched dog lips”

So Bruce baby I rest my case. This sick depraved, spineless piece of humanity isn’t suitable in my opinion to be elected to be a local dog catcher let alone be given a stage like the house of Commons.

But wait there is a special kind of disgusting reality called political correctness that will protect this puppy. He can’t be held responsible for anything because, if he is ever criticized for anything, he plays the “you are discriminating against me because I am gay card”. PS I have some gay friends and they’re darn nice people, No wonder this country is in such trouble.