Dona Nobis Pacem 2019

We've reached a crossroads in Canada, luckily we went left instead of right.
Not to criticize your beliefs in life or politics, however I personally feel like we dodged a bullet.


I look at the states and see such division and hatred for one another.
I go on Twitter and Facebook and see the hate memes and ugly comments, the mis-direction and outright lies, it hurts my soul.

I see people claiming to love God and children while laying hands on a hateful man and praying for him. They should be at the cages and detention centers comforting the kids that have been separated from their parents. 

Just because you claim to be Christian doesn't make you better than your fellow man.

 You want prayer in school, but only Christian prayer.

You want a good Christian man to lead you but it's OK if he's a serial sexual assaulter and adulterer.

It's OK if he lies, it's OK if he steals, it's OK if he commits treason as long as he's a fake Christian.

We dodged a big old fat bullet Canada. We need to remember that. 

People over money, love over hate.  It's easy.

 Keep your religion out of politics and if you really feel so strongly about abortion and prayer in school, run on those platforms. Don't obfuscate, mis-direct and lie. Run on what you believe in. 

Slippery slopes

 You can call me naive if you want, however I was taught to give people a leg up. Give them a helping hand when they're down.
 I will never vote for anyone, (political party aside, this is personal) who will use their own prejudice as a platform for hate. There are more races, religions, orientations than *Caucasian Heterosexual Christian*

 Life is messy and loud, we need the services already in place, safe medical abortions, free speech, same sex marriage, freedom of religion.
 Holding tightly onto the purse strings because someone is gay and doesn't fit with your world view or they're not *religious* makes me question whether a person should even run for office.
 Yes the PM screwed up, yes he apologized, it was stupid, lets move on. Trudeau has done more for immigration than any PM I can remember. 

 I find the timing of this whole thing to be suspect.They had to root around in boxes in the attic to find the pictures, so they could create a *SCANDAL* This isn't reality TV, these are real people.
 The fake outrage is what gets me. The same people bitching about *brown* people coming for their pension cheques are outraged at the affront to said same people.

 I for one don't want to see Canada move backwards, these rights we enjoy now came at a great cost.
  I watched my Uncle hide who he was, he had to. He could have been arrested when he was young. Do we want that again? Do you want the mall to be closed on Sunday? No booze sales on Sunday or election day? Having some of your friends stand in the hall while you piously recite the Lord's Prayer? Get arrested for being gay? Lose funding because your school isn't religious enough? Want words like retard and fag to be acceptable again? Die from cervical cancer because your Women's Health Center provides abortions? Not be able to end your suffering on your own terms?

  We need to be vigilant, look south of our border if you're not sure.
 Oh, and climate change is real. Leaving it out of debates is absolutely putting us on the precipice of that slippery slope.

I wish from 2007

I wish you were still here.

I wish we'd had more time.

I wish you could see the kids.

I wish you weren't there every time I look in the mirror.

I wish you were there more often.

I wish I could discover the reason why you were taken.

I wish I could love a God that would do this.

I wish I didn't see you in my hands, and my feet.

I wish I saw more of you in my hands and feet.

I wish I could hear your voice.

I wish I could hear your laugh.

I wish I could have seen you age.

I wish we had a video camera in the 80's.

I wish I had more pictures.

I wish we could go camping.

I wish we could have chips and gravy, with a coke float.

I wish I could taste your cooking one more time, especially your chicken Kiev.

I wish I could get past this.

I wish it would get easier.

I wish this on no one.

I wish you were here.

What's good for the goose

So today Epstein is charged with 2 more counts of sex trafficking involving minors, and George Nader (remember him?) has been charged with having sex with a 14 year old boy that HE had trafficked. Sick pedophiles, all friends and/or associates with the President of the Unites States. (Who himself has had 23 accusations of rape and assault, one from a woman who was 13 at the time) If this doesn't ring any alarm bells, or warrant an in depth un-biased investigation I don't know what does. This isn't politics this isn't partisan this is child rape, kidnapping and abuse. We've seen the neglect and horrific conditions in the *camps* too. Children in brand new hoodies and toques (in 100 degree weather) faced away from the cameras and being questioned by a cadre of looming white men in authority, doesn't quiet my fears. I don't care how they got there or what perceived crimes their parents did, they are suffering and sick, some are dying, and some have died while that bloated pig uses 92 million (some diverted from Parks) for a Hitler type parade that *the people* had to watch from behind a chain link fence while he spouted/slurred crap from behind a plexi-glass barrier. 92 million that could have gone to bedding, medicine, food, housing for these poor little kids. They are suffering every day. I started blogging about them 2 years ago. What have we done in 2 years? We've lived our lives, worked, ate too much, had babies, got married, bought cars and houses and all manner of household things. Meanwhile the kids are still caged, still sick, still separated from their families. We've gone on-line and blathered on about how these kids deserve to be locked up and treated worse than homeless dogs because their parents are horrible and have broken the law. So? Using that as our litmus, the guilty by association cry then shouldn't we be working on locking HIM up? He's a philanderer, a pedophile, a liar, a cheater yet every day people defend him. It's not Politics, it's Humanity. I feel sick. The kids need immediate help, no committees no bashing each other in the media. The kids need to be our top priority.