"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Where are the options?

I had to buy a new frig. It takes me a long time to make a decision like that. It's a biggy.

The old one was over thirty years.  Sons were in their teens when I bought new cabinets from an outfit going out of business. The frig  only just fitted in the space left for it. 

The new one  is taller and deeper. The stove was replaced a few years ago. The  dishwasher  was  swapped for a washing machine so I didn't have to go up and dowstairs  with laundry. I got rid of the dryer at the same time and started hanging the wash out to dry I hang it from the deck on a line that stretaches across to a tree. 

The frig and the exhaust fan were the only almond appliances left .Ao now, everything is finally white in the kitchen. It took a while but it was bound to happen on the end. Lppks fresh and new. I like it. 

Re-organisation  is going at a leisurely pace. Mindless physical tasks are satisfying. They let me think 
Also ,if  there's not enough room for something I just put it in a box and take it to the goodwill.

I  put it in the passenger seat,drive up to the door open the window and they lift it out.

My son Andrew is taking the chest freezer. The new frig has a drawer .Andrew had a chest freezer and got rid of it. Then  he discovered he really missed it.

 I  don't watch news much theses days. I don't like to watch a man being kicked  to a pulp by a mob.

Rob Ford is undoubtedly his own worst enemy. It doesn't excuse  the righteous horde. 

But I had  to watch  the  provincial budget. What a crock . Ham-fisted  is the second word that comes to mind.

The  Honorables Charles Sousa, Finance Minister and  Winnipeg's former Mayor Glen Murray,now Ontario's Minister of Transport followed  followed the presentation with a  Doyley Carte Operetta chant. 

Sousa put the final inappropriate touch to the embarrassing affair. 

He made a reference to Rob Ford and obligation of chosen ones to conduct themselves properly.

The Honorable Minister's seat was saved  in a  previous election ,by cancellation of contracts for gas-fired  generating plants eventually costing taxpayers $1.2 billion. It took almost four years to  get the exact figures out. And didn't we have a rarely accessed prorogue of the Legislative Assembly. 

The Honorable Kathleen says this budget is not about politics. "It's about  the Ontario people and their needs"

In a pig's ear, it is. 

Virtue is not in the political lexicon.  A  wise politician steers wide of the claim. Particularly in  particular circumstances.

Ms Wynn had a tough row to hoe  following the Honorable Dalton McGuinty.. 

A  seemingly forthright personality,  with an imaginative script-writer and terribly transparent orchestration may not be  enough to get  past the finish line.

Notwithstanding  the Honorable Tim Hudack's appeal that we look at him. We are and no seeing anything to comfort us.

The Honorable Andrea Horvath may never have a better opportunity if the NDP ever get a platform to-gether. 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

At this stage, I'm thinking a pox on all of them. But I will vote on local candidates where I can have some sense, maybe mistaken, of what they really wish to do in politics.

Anonymous said...

I cannot figure out why Ms Wynne is picking a fight or trying to pick a fight with the PM. I do not like him much either but he is not the cause of her problems. They are self-inflicted.

Anonymous said...

Mr Pullano has yet another lengthy letter in the Aurora. This one purports to accuse the cartoonist of " fear-mongering " over the question of a ward system. For Mr Pullano's edification. I can report that copies of that cartoon can be found posted throughout the town, even in work places to the north and south of Aurora.
I believe it was hilarious and apt.
It was also a cartoon.Get a grip, man !

Anonymous said...

How this province can possibly continue to run even as a Liberal minority government is terrifying. Sickening actually!...They haven’t been and won’t be charged criminally for any of their actions. The people of this province can at least throw them out!!! Elections are a time when voters have the chance to be judge, jury and cast sentencing. Horwath has been harboring and supporting this fugitive Liberal government for far too long. So…like him or not…Hudak really is the only choice left (excuse me as I cringe).

Anonymous said...

Wynne would like another payroll tax to fund an Ontario pension scheme. A proven track record of being unable to handle taxpayers hard earned money and now this. I can see the headline a few generations from now ... Ontario's pension has billions in unfunded liability.

And yes Ms. Wynne add another 10 cents a litre to transportation fuel and throw the HST on top of it all.

I hope she keeps jogging somewhere far away and stays there.

Anonymous said...

Cllr Abel said that you had apologized for something last night. What was that about?

Anonymous said...

19:37
Moi aussi. I do not relish the thought but the deed must be done.