My Ode to Harper the Hun

My Ode to Harper the Hun

Why is it, why is it our nation don’t rate?

It’s Steevil the Weevil our leader of late.

He’s morally bankrupt, a fountain of lies

And lately the leader of all of the spies;

And if you should bug him he’ll throw him a fit

And have you charged with some terrorist shit

A neat Neo-Naz, a Zionist too

He gets on his pulpit with shit on his shoe

If he feels like fucking he’ll do it to you

Yes we have a problem or two!

Canada once was a leader and trusted by all

But then we elected this asshole one fall

Our Peacekeeping changed into Spoiling for War

Our image as “Saint” was turned into a “Whore”!

And the United Nations just showed us the door!

Yes we have a problem or two

He thinks he’s a Messiah: a spokesman for God

But he’s turned out to be a despicable sod,

He denies all reality, reason and truth,

Science, Statistics and all other proof,

He farts out a vision of how we should think

That right in our face makes a horrible stink

Yes we have a problem or two.

His racism’s rampant, his ego’s obscene,

He’s pure living proof of a defective gene,

A nose that’s too long but fits well on a liar,

He’s immune to the pain when his pants go on fire,

He just can’t stop lying, he doesn’t know shame

For all of his flaws we’ve got parents to blame

For raising a bastard who loves doing evil

And I can’t stop calling Steevil the Weevil

Yes, we have a problem or two

But on the horizon there’s going to be fun

Justin the White Knight versus Harpo the Hun

When Justin defeats him with knife at his throat

He calls to the crowd for their final vote

Now we who have watched this all with frown

Can leap up and scream and give our thumbs down

And save us a problem or two or three

And save us a problem or two!

Written by me Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

With pride and contempt

Monday, March 9, 2015

I wonder if this will be called Domestic Terrorism. If it is:

for the record I am always unarmed and I never resist arrest.

What the Next Election Will Really Be About

What the Next Election Will Really Be About

A Terrified Middle Class

What follows is a simple reprint of a column by Colby Cosh

In the May 12 issue of

MACLEANS

And just like that the scene was set for the 2015 federal election. An overstatement, perhaps, but what a week: The RCMP ended its investigation of Nigel Wright, Elections Canada dropped the “robocalls” inquisition, the government retreated on changes to the Fair Elections Act, and the Supreme Court delineated conditions for alterations to the Senate. Meanwhile, amid all this slate-cleaning, the New York Times handed the Conservatives a windfall, announcing that the median after-tax income in Canada had surpassed that of the U.S.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Senate reference is a turning point. For 30 years and change, our renovated judicial branch, armed with dreadful power to dispose of and revise laws, has been able to play the role of defender of minorities and enforcer of sacred rights. It sees itself probably as having a similsr function vis-à-vis the Senate question: protecting the interests of small provinces thsat entered Confederation on certain terms.

In practice the Court has made federally led reform or abolition of the Senate impossible for generations. And though the decision was unanimous, the Courts reasoning is less than overpowering. Like those who have opposed the Prime Minister’s approach to reform, the justices complained that term limits would improperly “ imply a finite time in office” for senators- while insisting, without much explanation that the age limit imposed in 1965 poses no similar problem. (Throwing the old people out of an assembly whose name means “house of old people”? A trivial detail.)

The Court also found that it is unconstitutional for the Prime Minister to use the results of a consultative election to choose suitable candidates. He can use an Ouija board: that’s not a change to the “method of electing senators.” Chicken entrails? No problem. Use a professional polling firm? Fine. Only “elections” as such are deprecated.

The full implications of the ruling are unclear. The court was asked to rule on federal legislation providing for Senate elections. Such elections have been held in Alberta, and winners appointed, with no federal framework. Were these votes unconstitutional? Would future ones be? If not, are elected senators already in the chamber illegitimate? What about Mike Shaikh, the “senator-in-waiting” next in line for a seat? Is he the only qualified person alive who cannot be appointed?

Almost everybody will find something to dislike in this decision and its general effect is to fortify the odious present form of the Senate. There is no further avenue of appeal. The rule of stare decisis binds future Supreme Courts in a manner in which Parliament can never bind Parliaments. These truths must now sink in with Canadians- including the NDP’s Senate abolitionists- as never before. It does not help that the Senate ruling follows close on the Justice Marc Nadon business, in which a strong lone dissent rather shamed the majority of the court. - as never before. It does not help that the Senate ruling follows close on the Justice Marc Nadon business, in which a strong lone dissent rather shamed the majority of the court. Haps a long honeymoon has ended.

The other story with long-term implications is the New York Times middle-class splash, echoed around the world. For Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, who have spent a year hammering the theme of middle-class anxiety, this must be unpleasant. The immediate countermove has been to say “Sure, we’re doin well compared to the U.S.: It’s in the toilet.” (Sorry President Obama!)

To this approach one can only say “Lots of luck.” Every adult Canadian has spent his entire life comparing his station to that of analogous Americans. And anyway the Times’ charts have the median Canadians beating the median German, Dutchman, Swede, Briton, and Finn.

The Times did not mean to make mincemeat out of Canadian Liberal strategy, but I predict the Grits will respond by adopting Thomas Piketty as their totem. Piketty is a French economist whose new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is the intellectual blockbuster of the year. He believes he has discovered an iron law, whereby the rate of return on capital must exceed overall economic growth, fostering a return to the 19^th Century style social classes and quantitative inequality. Piketty advocates a global wealth tax in order to humble rising capital in the way two world wars did- with fewer exploitations, one hopes.

Piketty as his book title suggests, means to be the new Karl Marx. As an empirical analyst of inequality, Piketty has been universally celebrated. Marx was an outstanding data-digger too. Unfortunately, his entry into the racket of flogging historical laws may have been the single most catastrophic decision ever made by an individual. But Piketty’s updated line- that the middle class people everywhere are right to be anxious about scary, posh rentiers in monocles and top  hats- offers the Liberals an obvious escape from a tricky corner. Remember where you heard it first.

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I think I read this as

Tax the 1%.

Don’t you?

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART II

THE CANADIAN CONSTABULARY

THE BASTARDS AT FAULT

OR

COPS

THE

Corps Of Prejudiced Sadists

More and more, every day, control of the Law and Order governing the people of Canada is increasingly being usurped by the collective Canadian Police Forces. The average cop has become a personal threat to, and someone to be feared by every individual he confronts. No longer does he Serve and Protect the public: he now serves his masters and Protects his fellow Cops.

The Cop in your face wasn’t born that way: He was born smart; he was probably a good guy until he absorbed the mental and physical brainwashing of his training. He looks decent enough even now. What could have ground and molded him into this hostile enemy at the gate? Who was he and what turned the soul sour? That is a long story but we can we can place the fault directly on the training and regimen of:

THE CANADIAN CONSTABULARY

The Cop Mold Process

Believe it or not, once upon a time all the Cops who are stamping on our civil and legal rights were the good guys of their generation when it came to the NICE Index! They are part of the top 2% of applicants who manage to pass the entrance exam and be accepted into the Force

In order to become a cop an applicant has to pass an entrance examination that is more or less the equivalent of an assessment by three Psychological Tests

1.    California Personality Inventory (CPI),

2.    The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire Scales (16P), and

3.    The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

When used to assess police candidates, analysts developed a

"Typical Cop" profile group with group members found to be:

1.    self-disciplined,

2.    socially bold,

3.    extroverted,

4.    emotionally tough, and

5.    Low in experienced anxiety.

They also ranked significantly higher on scales of:

6.    "Poise and self-assurance,

7.    achievement potential,

8.    intellectual efficiency,

9.    social insight, and

10.                       To be more likely to seek social contact than the control group.”

By any standards this pool of young recruits is an ideal base for any training program and is the cream of the crop. Instead of a positive blossoming to butter the sour cream churned turns rotten. There’s obviously something wrong with the churn: what’s wrong with it?

Constabulary, as I use it, is an organizational structure designed to enforce order in the ranks of a semi-military force. It was developed by the British Army around the time of the Crimean war in the Mid-1800’s and was returned to Britain and created the structure of the Metropolitan Police Force under Sir Robert Peel. Law enforcement officers work in a quasi-military, structured institution. There are mental health concerns associated with working within a "quasi-military structure" and other mental health concerns of working in an "institution."

Military organizations require the sacrifice of the individual for the good of society. The "individual" is not a consideration; the "goal" of the group is paramount. In a military organization, the focus is on punishing the individual if he is not up to standards. It is a de-humanizing process to recognize that you are only valued as a part of a machine.

The “institution' takes the same attitude, only a step further. In an institution, you are locked in a set process and the process is more important many times than, not only the individual, but also the goal. When an officer does a remarkable job of police work, perhaps even saves a life, he can still be reprimanded if he doesn't file the proper paperwork. The paperwork describing an action in many cases is more important to the institution than the action itself. Both the quasi-military nature of police work and the functioning within an institution combine for a mental health situation that is quite undesirable and very stressful. The training academy of the Police Force he is joining is the churn.

This is the recruit’s first introduction to a Constabulary: a Constabulary is a quasi-military, structured institution. Military organizations require the sacrifice of the individual for the good of society. The "individual" is not a consideration; the "goal" of the group is paramount.

In an institution conforming to procedures is paramount and the paperwork describing an action in many cases is more important to the institution than the action itself. No gray areas. The law enforcement officer works in a fact-based world with everything compared to written law. Right and wrong is determined by a standard. They have a set way of going about gathering the proper evidence for the law and can justify their actions because they represent the "good and right”

The first step in this character transformation process is to isolate the individual from all contact with outside society and force him to adjust to his brother police officers for all social contact. ) They are isolated. The wearing of a badge, uniform and gun makes a law officer separate from society. The wearing of a uniform will tend to make any person de-humanize people who are without a uniform. Just wearing a badge or a gun can cause people to act more aggressively.  You are encouraged to feel like you’re a member of an elite group: the top 2%.This is the beginning of inclusion as part of the Blue Brotherhood and police training especially is designed to strip the individual's previous identity and "make" a police officer.

People deal with them differently and treat them differently, even when they are not working. The police uniform, badge and gun are universal symbols of power and authority. When the individual puts on the uniform, he assumes the authority that goes with it. He expects and commands obedience and respect from the public. Donning the uniform and wielding the power of the job contribute to what is known as the "police personality" and the Us versus Them problems that develop from this intensive brainwashing.

After isolation in training, the recruit is further alienated from his prior social circle by being required to work rotating shifts and a posting away from home. Shift work is not normal. The "rotating shift" schedule is very taxing on an officer's life. Our bodies are adjusted on what is called "circadian schedules" which is a repetitive daily cycle. Our bodies like to have a regular eating time, sleeping time, waking time, etc. 

An officer doing shift work never gets a chance to stay on a schedule. This upsets his physical and mental balance in life. The changing work schedule also upsets the routine patterns that are needed in healthy marriage and family development. Strong marital and family development is based on rituals, like dinners together, "inside jokes," repeated activities, etc. The rotating shift worker has less chance to develop these rituals and his relationships suffer. This predisposes the officer's family to potential problems ranging from divorces, to children acting-out. 

The recruit’s new "at work" world is very negative. He sees the bad part of society and even the stress is different. Cops have a different kind of stress in their jobs, called "burst stress". At any time in the course of a shift there can be a call with an indication of violence. The officer gets an adrenalin rush with the perception of danger and there is the inevitable “fight or flight” reaction. There may be no danger but that knowledge follows the mental and physical arousal of the reaction. Cops have a job that requires extreme restraint under highly emotional circumstances and they require special training to adjust to a completely different world with a whole new set of survival tools.

Almost all cops age too quickly, see too much pain and suffering, lose trust in almost everyone (because EVERYONE lies to the police), and lose their social grounding. In addition to the work there is the pressure to do it right and conform to the institutional rules fof documentation in addition to learning Chapter and verse of a bewildering variety of laws to be enforced. This happens in the first several years of employment and is accompanied by a progressive disillusionment with society that has to be replaced with a new social circle with members who can be trusted. 

The Constabulary has this all under control with the assignment of the recruit to a more senior member as a partner on patrol. This is his mentor in survival: both on the job and off but most importantly how to conform to the completely new society he has been thrust into without his consent. He is now a member of the Blue Brotherhood and he now learns the rules and regulations that will determine his long term survival in a hostile environment like the Constabulary he joined.

Within the course of the first two years after his training and indoctrination is complete, the recruit has had enough experience with both Constabulary and the members of the Brotherhood to make a final judgement of his choice of a career as a Law Officer.

To remain is to abandon all his previous life and connection to Canadian Society and join his new found officer friends in a society that will protect him and provide guidance for a lifetime career. It is a leap into the “Us” and “Them” mentality and with the support of the Brotherhood there is no deterrent for any violation of the law that he might perform in the course of his duties: Job security above all else.

The Police Officer knocking on your door right now has made the decision to remain a Police Officer and join his new Society- the Blue Brotherhood. As a career decision that is probably a wise choice but by doing so he swears an oath to obey the rules of the Society in exchange for his comrades’ support if he makes a mistake in the course of his duties, or even in his off hours. Unfortunately the rules of the Brotherhood have expanded to cover not only the Arbitrary Discipline rendered by the Constabulary they work for, but have been perverted to avoid any responsibility for ignoring and violating the accepted laws of Canadian Society.

That is the subject of my next post in this series:

The Blue Brotherhood

How The Culprits Work

An examination of the Brotherhood and its rules:

Stay tuned

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART 1

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK

HERE IS WHY!

Introduction: This is the first in a series of posts regarding the problems that exist within the Canadian Justice System. This first one deals with the source of the problem and the following posts will deal with other contributing factors that create the impulse for our Policing to fall into a Fascist mode

Over the course of the last decade on an ever increasing basis the Canadian Public has been witness to the deterioration of the Justice system into one where secrecy, lies, ignorance, obstinacy and submission are the controlling forces governing the conduct of the National Police Forces or Canadian Constabulary, The relationship between Police Officers and the Public has deteriorated to the point of mutual hostility and mistrust and contaminates our whole society.

Up until about thirty years ago if a Police Officer knocked on a citizen’s door in midmorning and asked if he could ask some questions he would be invited in, offered a coffee and his questions answered without reservation. There would be no suspicion of any ulterior motive; he was a friend who could be trusted.

THEN

In the same circumstances today a wise citizen will refuse the Officer entry to the residence unless he has a warrant and will refuse to answer any questions until in the presence of a judge, If any Cop is granted entry to the residence; anything he sees, or is told, is recorded as evidence that can be used to prosecute and convict you but none of that evidence can be used to defend yourself.

NOW

Watching this change in the relationship over the years I have tried to find the source of the disaffection and why the split occurred, but it is only in the past few months that I feel I have traced the origin back to a mistake made by Lyin” Brian Mulroney in 1985. In the interest of covering his own dirty tracks he created the Access to Information Act R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1 that specifically was intended to “extend the present laws of Canada that provide access to information under the control of the Government of Canada.

Passage of the Act was automatic considering Brian had the largest Majority Government in Canadian history. In his attempt to gain respectability and support, he accepted and protected the Canadian Constabulary’s role of secrecy with regard to investigations in progress concerning virtually all criminal activity.

Brian wasn’t smart enough to realize that he was dealing with a Constabulary, a structure created by the British military to maintain discipline in the ranks; and who opposed any reduction their control. He also missed the fact that the rank and file within the Constabulary had bonded together into what has been called the “Blue Brotherhood”. This opposing group was created out of necessity to resist the arbitrary disciplinary nature of the Constabulary. They were effective in influencing the list of exemptions for investigations that effectively grants all Police officers who commit a crime complete immunity from prosecution.

The moral of the story is that whenever a complaint is lodged against a police officer for a violation of any law it automatically initiates an investigation and details are not open to scrutiny.

At this point in Canadian history we are in a period where the police can commit crime with impunity because the Act prevents all information about the progress and nature of the investigation from being revealed.

As if this level of protection wasn’t enough there has been a corruption of the investigatory procedures to restrict the investigation to another Constabulary detachment. In short only Cops investigate crimes by other Cops. That is the topic of my next post regarding the worst advice given to Lyin’ Brian.by:

THE CANADIAN CONSTABULARY

THE BASTARDS AT FAULT

Until Then

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

The Risk Research Assessment Program A Proposal for Peace!

The Risk Research Assessment Program

A Proposal for Peace!

The Canadian Medical Association and the Provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons have finally succeeded in sticking their heads all the way up where the sun doesn’t shine. 

The Doctors have now taken the initiative and in return for their signature want total control of the Doctor/ Patient relationship. They accompany this with an exorbitant ever escalating scale of fees in the hundreds of dollars. We have a profession that, after admitting that they don’t know shit from shinola about any of the aspects of Medicinal Cannabis use or treatment, are demanding complete control of a patients treatment under threat of terminating their prescription for disobedience.

That is not going to fly. There is no way that a patient who has spent years developing a mode of treatment that suits his complaint is going to surrender control over his treatment and obey a dumb-fucker on a learning curve from nowhere.

What is most surprising to me is that I advised them to take the exact opposite approach and give the patient control of his treatment and teach the doctor out of his dumb-fucker state. I made this in the form of a proposal for a joint research project to Dr. Louis Francescutti after his appointment to the CMA Presidency. I was ignored as is standard practice for the CMA.

Since then I have watched the profession fester with resentment and they are now in an impossible situation making unreasonable demands that cannot be met because they have destroyed all confidence in their role as a trustworthy source of help.

I may be a fool or simply overly optimistic but I believe that there is a way to break the current impasse if only the profession will listen and understand that they need to show some humanity and understanding and above all negotiate a middle ground to establish a workable Doctor/Patient relationship in Cannabis Treatment and establish its benefit on a factual basis.

So where does that leave us now?

In a position where we can ignore Government influence and resolve the differences in goals of Doctors and Patients by partnering to a new instructional model and eliminating the shortage of information that so plagues Doctors in the assumption of the risk of treatment. To this end I now repeat the proposal I made the CMA to establish a joint Program to collect the missing information.

The Risk Research Assessment Program

We have two groups interested in the Medical aspect of the problem but at extreme ends of the treatment scale. The CMA wants good information regarding all aspects of Cannabis therapy and the Potential Patient population has all the answers. There is no communication between the two and unless that gap is eliminated there will never be a solution found.

The complexity of the problem becomes even more convoluted when the number of variables to be considered is magnified a thousand times. A large number of the patients most concerned are those who over the course of years have devised a personal treatment that works for them. They have selected hybrids as a source crop, and complex processing procedures to make the medications they use to successfully alleviate their symptoms. As a collective they possess all the knowledge the CMA needs and they need the CMA for a signature to purchase and possess their raw materials.

I am no doctor but I am a damned good statistician, a superb analyst and I’ve got excellent common sense. Combine that with humility that is exceeded only by my good looks and you wind up with brilliance or a fool. I believe that there is a way to break this impasse and I am now proposing it to you for your judgment of its merit. It will need polishing but it could work but only if the CMA assumes its proper role as a leader of a profession devoted to the welfare of patients. At the moment they are paralyzed by an obsession with risks and are blockading effective treatment and that must stop.

The risks they fear can neither be qualified nor quantified: What are the risks and how serious are they? They don’t know what they fear and my proposal is that they start doing some Research to find out what the Bogeyman is. The CMA is the only one who can! They have mistakenly interpreted the MMPR as requiring them to authorize the use of marijuana as a medical treatment. It does no such thing.

The responsibility of the physician under the MMPR limited to the same declaration required by the MMAR. Whatever steps taken to establish grounds for a signature, all the attending Physician is doing is certifying an applicant has symptoms of a disease that requires further treatment. There neither is any recommendation as to what that treatment shall be, nor is it a prescription for medication. It merely establishes the right to purchase and possess as much cannabis as required for the patient’s medical needs. The origin of the Cannabis purchased, legal or illegal, is none of the physician’s concern nor is the quantity purchased. All his signature accomplishes is giving the Patient immunity from arrest and prosecution for possessing his medication: If he elects to buy pot instead of a stereo.

Let’s Make A Deal and use our Combined strength against Harper for leverage

The one thing that is certain is that Stephen Harper wants his Commercialization of Marijuana to succeed. A continuing blockade to Customers by Doctors is not to be desired when the doors to his Marihuana Monopoly scheme open for business. The CMA should have a really good look at the huge pile of money he’s talking about. A billion and a half?

Gee? I wonder what our Fearless Leader would pay for Doctors to wholeheartedly agree to support his program in the interests of speeding up the supply transfer to Licensed Growers and no shortages to patients.

Minimum 10% Max? plus immunity from risk. Not too much to ask:

This is risky business so the CMA should request financing to start a Research Program to assess that risk. There is a risk of a completely unknown probability and any Doctor participating as a researcher and dealing within the program must be exempted with no liability that for outcome under both Criminal or Civil jurisdictions.

The Program would allow any licensed physician to participate as a researcher subject to guidance regarding the Doctor/Patient relationship that will be established per protocol.

This is a simple trade. Any doctor feeling qualified to do so can establish a legally binding relationship with a Patient that exchanges

access to cannabis for complete disclosure of the patient’s treatment regimen and detailed follow ups to assess progress.

The CMA wants data related to both the short and long term use of marijuana regardless of method of use or product used and dosage. There is none. Gather some! Get off your ass and gather some

Patients want maintenance of the level of medication they are currently using for relief of their particular symptoms preferably in the same form or better if found. Provide

Create a research project to gather the data you want with a trade.

The Doctor trades his approval for a patient’s medication requirement because he is participating in research, supplying an experimental drug and recording the treatment progress in order to assess its effects. Because it is an assessment of risk there must be no responsibility or liability for an unexpected bad outcome. Ensure that factor with Health Canada.

The Doctor must be in control of the relationship and its procedural requirements but the patient retains control over what is done with the marijuana after purchase. The patient trades detailed access to his treatment regimen and medical progress and any changes made for the right to obtain or create his own medication, He agrees to periodic reports and/or assessments to be determined. At this point there are 30,000+ potential research subjects waiting for the opportunity to share their knowledge for weed. All they need to know is that some doctor is going to look after their interests instead of their own and the flood gates will open.

As a statistician I am astounded by the immense pool of information about cannabis medical utility that can be extracted from 30000 users and the speed that it can be now be analyzed and understood.

With an intelligent first examination by the doctor and a structured interview, his physical symptomology and its severity is known, and a baseline established that can be expanded to include:

1.    A complete history of the patient’s use and treatment mode

2.    A marijuana sample to be used for genetic and pharmacological analysis

3.    A sample of any creams, oils, teas, or any product ingested

4.    An identification of the method of use

If all 30000 of the growers responded for just that first interview you could pull complete knowledge about every hybrid plant’s genetics and its potential as a producer of whatever cannabinoids are the effectors in any product used. You now have an established baseline: with a reasonable repeat assessment and interview schedule and the help of the patient you can measure whatever is changed in the treatment regimen and the THC and CBD composition in whatever product they are using and a verbal follow up on physical benefits.

One other point that should be noted by the CMA re their role in the matter: opposing is simply inflicting aggravation on patients who already have enough to worry about with the loss of personal and designated growth. Your signatures are of diddly shit importance to any potential grower who is in the position of having to grow his own because he cannot afford purchase it at current price levels. They are doomed to grow criminally under threat of arrest by the Cops and ruination from misguided building inspectors if their medication source is discovered.

That is a sourdough ending to what I think is a reasonable path to reconciliation and the restoration of a Doctor/Patient relation based on respect and trust. That is a far better outcome than a continuation of the current Doctor/Patient relationship based on lies, paranoia, fear and contempt. It can’t get any worse for the CMA image as seen by the Medical Marijuana Patient Community: They’re an arrogant collection of unsympathetic liars who don’t give a damn about their patient pool. These ethical cretins are primarily interested in their own professional and financial security, not in our patient welfare. The CMA does not represent doctors: It is simply a lobbyist representing the commercial interests of a ridiculously intertwined snarl of corporations owned by Doctors that owns and controls the Canadian Medical System.

Nasty and unwelcome as this professional image has become, it’s completely warranted by the twelve years of obstinacy, opposition and misinformation accorded Medical Marijuana by the CMA that prompted me to write this.

Thanks for your interest

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

I've had a Bad Week

This Sums It All Up!

Seems Mr. Hale Hit A Dead End Too!

I’ve had a bad week. I was going hell bent for election at my exercise program and overdid it, then I got a bladder infection and I collapsed. If you’ve had one you know the fire piss problem all too well: if you haven’t be thankful. It wasn’t the 40 times a night for a two teaspoon dribble that defeated me; it wasn’t the pain and burn each time I dribbled, it was a massive dose of that plus muscular pain and cramps, complete exhaustion and that constant I just don’t feel good focus. I went to the Walmart Walkin Clinic for Cipro and T3’s, got Cream of Tartar, Cranberry juice took the whole bunch and stopped dead in my chair and bed and stayed there until yesterday and I’m here now.

I had a very disturbing experience with my computer while I was lying here feeling sorry for myself and fortunately it made me realize the limits of what I can do by myself, in the hours that I can commit each day. In short, I lost Google and faced disaster for all my plans. There was no real problem but me but for two hours I lost my complete digital identity and access to all of my work and utilities.

When I went to sign into my homepage I was told my password was incorrect  and I was denied access to all my Google accounts including iGoogle, Google+, G-mail and worst of all Blogger. It was all false, but for two hours I had to think about everything I was losing control of: Projects and plans and big ideas. I had to look at what I had to work with to recover my advocacy and I pretty much came to the conclusion that there was no point in recovering much but a very small portion of my grand plans.

I’m too damned old and I’ve got to ease up. I don’t need any more stress than simple survival has to offer. So here goes the chopping block again.

Of my recent output I think you will all note I have been beating the drum about The 4100 Club for a Closed group, a community for Class Action and a pro-active protest collective. It’s a damned good Class Action plan that I believe could pay off but that is all I can ever do with it. There is far too much reasoning and explanation about what such an action is to waste and I will be publishing it but more as a general guide for a victims group or advocate.

The 4100 Club is a possibility but I won’t be the one to Administer it. There needs to be a central confidential circle for sharing ideas in private and that idea will be pursued. A place to participate with others about private problems and get group advice.

The simple fact is the 4100 victims have no impact as victims and it is all past history. If we were the survivors of any Canadian community that suffered a physical disaster we would be front page news. We are not there because we are the victims of a faceless bureaucracy and a timid national press. The Club has the potential of being a central locus of Agitation to wake the world up to what is happening and we are here to protest.

That sort of boils down where I want to go with my advocacy right back to where I started: It’s all a matter of principles. I’ve still got them but my world has lost them. I’ve now spent the last two years gathering evidence to support a complete loss of faith in our Democracy and its Governance. Not only under the Conservatives in Canada but under any collection of misfits operating under the secretive lying adversarial system that now infects Governmental Party Systems, the Global Commercial Conglomerate, and its greed.

So where does TheSmeeGoanGuy go?

What will be the driver of my advocacy?

What it has always been.

Character

WHY?

Because Nobody Knows What It Is

I note that over 50% of the recipients of my Newsletter announcing posts are not Canadian but rather US citizens. I have for some time wondered what the hell you guys saw in this raving Canadian maniac but I hope that it is my ethical scale of values that has kept you as followers. If not, hit “Bye” as requested because that’s what my new advocacy is about.

When it comes to ethical problems our countries are twinned.

I have decided to mount my “Bully Pulpit” and Bully some Bastards

A Simple Matter of Character is Not a Simple Matter!

Character is Complex and based on Six Foundational Pillars

Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility. Fairness. Caring. Citizenship.

Each of these pillars has a multitude of facets to be considered. It is on the shortcomings of our societal systems to even be aware of sufficient ethical probity to deserve our respect and trust. Simply look at the six Pillars and consider the three main targets for my Bully Pulpit sermons: Score each 1-6

1.     Politicians and Government    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

2.     Cops and Justice                    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

3.     The Medical Profession          (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

Just how I intend to attack the character shortcomings of each is now in the planning stage and each requires a serious rethink. At this point I have only a vague idea of how to play a new game and no idea how productive I will be in the immediate future or how frequently I will be posting. I can assure you there will be progress reports as the framework of my advocacy develops.

I would like all of you readers to not only be patient and wait but to take the time now to do some serious thinking about the current state of your world with respect to the three foregoing focus groups. Given the relative importance of each to our well being it would seem the obvious place to find a Man of Character concerned with the proper governance of his group. After all the cream rises to the top doesn’t it?

If you have managed to read this far please read the page titled The Six Pillars of Character that I put on the right hand side of this page for your convenience. It’s an education in itself.

If you get nothing else from the article you will begin to understand the things that are missing when someone makes you a proposition and you feel uneasy about it. It’s the itty bitty details that all together add up to form the “Skunk” factor of the presentation. How badly it stinks is a pretty valid indication of the moral and ethical values lacking in the speaker and on that we base our opinion and trust. It’s not so much what is said but how the speaker twitches when poked. LOL.

On that note I am gone. Thanks for your patience.

Blaine

TheSmeeGoanGuy