Random Rants

It's a slow news day, so I am just going to briefly address a few stories that came out over the last few days.

1. Chinese head tax paperwork creates confusion- Seriously, did anyone expect anything different than this. If you are going to get money from the government, they will make it as difficult as possible. It doesn't matter what government is in power, it will always be near impossible to get money from them. Don't believe me, do your taxes and call me when you get out of the psych ward.

2. Pull troops from Afghanistan by February: Layton- Ok, his heart is in the right place but I am putting out an APB on his mind. Layton wants us to stop the offensive military campaign in Afghanistan...fine, you came up with a good idea that has been echoed for months. Then you want Canada to pull out our troops....that's when he gets stupid. We need the troops there, they can do things other than kill people and die. They have been used in the past, and to a lesser extent than they should be in Afghanistan, to rebuild war-torn regions and train local military and police services so those nations can defend themselves. As I have been saying for a long time and I will continue to say until either this whole fiasco ends or I become Prime Minister (whichever comes first) Canada should be there purely for humanitarian and rebuilding purposes and to help train Afghanistan's military and police forces so they can deal with the Taliban themselves.

3. Alberta same-sex bill blocked by opposition- Now I am still trying to figure out how somebody can try to fight a freedom of choice/speech issue by using the freedom of choice/speech tactic. Since I have the freedom to say what I want and the freedom to choose to marry a person of the opposite sex, then it should be a law that everyone must agree with me. Come on people. If you work for the government, your bigotry stays at home. You deal with the fucking public, you have to deal with the entire fucking public. This bill was to allow justices to refuse to marry same-sex couples based on religious beliefs, to slander and defamate the gay and lesbian community, and to remove any mention of the fact that gays and lesbians exist in schools. This is getting fucking ridiculous and it must be stopped. I urge every Albertans that reads my blog to write their MLA and force them to remove such bigotry from the Albertans Legislature.