I Fear Change
Hey, hey! Welcome back, people.
Just thought I'd grace you with my presence once again. The title (see above) refers to the fact I am avoiding the New Version of Blogger with my usual paranoia.
So today I'm at the doctor's office, and my son is sick and in the care of a babysitter (the Neighbour Lady- two thumbs up!) and it's 2:45 pm; I am waiting for my 1:15 pm appointment. This appointment is, amoung other things, to check up on my pneumonia (eight weeks running now) or whatever it is, my still-inconclusive cholesterol levels (the doctor says I probably should have had a heart attack already). I do not fear this. This is not change. However, the increasing likelihood that I'll suffer a horriffic, painful death while waiting for a doctor to tell me I'm actually not sick is change... not so much that it happens, but rather that the entire doctoring profession seems so hell-bent on shattering what little faith I have left in them. This is change, I kind of expect the world to screw me over. That doesn't scare me. But you kind of expect people to put up at least a half-assed effort to pretend everything isn't actually their fault. I picture myself lying rent open on an operating table with my entrails splattered all over the room, a rusty cleaver jammed in my skull and rats with rabies and fleas chewing on my insides. A doctor enters the room, passing the heavily laden black-market organ salesman as he does; he's looking at a clipboard and says to me "Okay Mr. Currie, your tests have all come out fine; why don't we make an appointment to see you next year?"
...
Everyone's favourite premier, Mr. McGuinty, is at it again. Apparently his idea to keep kids in school is to deny them their driver's license until they drop back in. Now... I realize this on the surface may seem like a good idea, except for a few minor points:
a) If the kid gets his license prior to dropping out, there's nothing they can do 'till renewal time, which is in what- 5 years? Obviously most dropouts will balk at this because of how concerned they are about their future...
b) Mr. McGuinty acknowledges they can't possibly enforce this law, he has to plan to enable them to do so, and so the rare kid that actually is barred from his license will really be more of an anomaly than a policy.
c) The only kids which will actually lose their license are those who are convicted in truancy court. I skipped the better part of a decade in high school, hung out with others who did as well, and I never HEARD of truancy court. I guess he just figured our courts' backlogs are far too small, just like our doctors'...
d) Most kids dropping out of school to prostitute themselves and deal drugs will no doubt ne terrified of a driving without a license conviction.
... How's about we bar non-graduates from voting instead? In that case we're far less likely to have to deal with this issue again. Or at least, this premier.
Despite that, we all have come to realize that McGuinty is still doing a fantastic job. We MUST have realized that, because the provincial parliament is supposed to represent our wants and needs, and apparently we want and need the MPPs to all get a 25% pay raise (that's $22,000 minimum) by Christmas.
One Liberal MPP, a Mr. Patten, said "I think it's the right thing to do; it's fairly humble; if they don't (like it), they can boot us out."
Obviously doubling their RRSP allowance has nothing to do with this prediction.
The NDP called the raise "thouroughly repugnant"... what is the world coming to when the left-wing hippie commie types are the most fiscally responsible? We'll see how many of them send their checks back...
...
As an aside, those of you familiar with my thoughts on RSPs will no doubt realize the most MPPs can cash those RSP's in well before they'll need to worry.
...
Last little tidbit- apparently another 3 people have been snatched off the streets by the RCMP, held without trial, deported without due process and sent to the Americans in a nice big "terrorist enclosed" envelope. It's okay, though, because some terrorist countries said those guys were terrorists, and they wouldn't lie, right? Good thing the States doesn't torture their prisoners (nudge, nudge), right?
...
Well, now that I've made you all cheery and nostalgic for the lovely world around us, I'll ditch you in your pit of despair.
Bye Bye now!
As always, the Metaphobic Lexiphage.
Just thought I'd grace you with my presence once again. The title (see above) refers to the fact I am avoiding the New Version of Blogger with my usual paranoia.
So today I'm at the doctor's office, and my son is sick and in the care of a babysitter (the Neighbour Lady- two thumbs up!) and it's 2:45 pm; I am waiting for my 1:15 pm appointment. This appointment is, amoung other things, to check up on my pneumonia (eight weeks running now) or whatever it is, my still-inconclusive cholesterol levels (the doctor says I probably should have had a heart attack already). I do not fear this. This is not change. However, the increasing likelihood that I'll suffer a horriffic, painful death while waiting for a doctor to tell me I'm actually not sick is change... not so much that it happens, but rather that the entire doctoring profession seems so hell-bent on shattering what little faith I have left in them. This is change, I kind of expect the world to screw me over. That doesn't scare me. But you kind of expect people to put up at least a half-assed effort to pretend everything isn't actually their fault. I picture myself lying rent open on an operating table with my entrails splattered all over the room, a rusty cleaver jammed in my skull and rats with rabies and fleas chewing on my insides. A doctor enters the room, passing the heavily laden black-market organ salesman as he does; he's looking at a clipboard and says to me "Okay Mr. Currie, your tests have all come out fine; why don't we make an appointment to see you next year?"
...
Everyone's favourite premier, Mr. McGuinty, is at it again. Apparently his idea to keep kids in school is to deny them their driver's license until they drop back in. Now... I realize this on the surface may seem like a good idea, except for a few minor points:
a) If the kid gets his license prior to dropping out, there's nothing they can do 'till renewal time, which is in what- 5 years? Obviously most dropouts will balk at this because of how concerned they are about their future...
b) Mr. McGuinty acknowledges they can't possibly enforce this law, he has to plan to enable them to do so, and so the rare kid that actually is barred from his license will really be more of an anomaly than a policy.
c) The only kids which will actually lose their license are those who are convicted in truancy court. I skipped the better part of a decade in high school, hung out with others who did as well, and I never HEARD of truancy court. I guess he just figured our courts' backlogs are far too small, just like our doctors'...
d) Most kids dropping out of school to prostitute themselves and deal drugs will no doubt ne terrified of a driving without a license conviction.
... How's about we bar non-graduates from voting instead? In that case we're far less likely to have to deal with this issue again. Or at least, this premier.
Despite that, we all have come to realize that McGuinty is still doing a fantastic job. We MUST have realized that, because the provincial parliament is supposed to represent our wants and needs, and apparently we want and need the MPPs to all get a 25% pay raise (that's $22,000 minimum) by Christmas.
One Liberal MPP, a Mr. Patten, said "I think it's the right thing to do; it's fairly humble; if they don't (like it), they can boot us out."
Obviously doubling their RRSP allowance has nothing to do with this prediction.
The NDP called the raise "thouroughly repugnant"... what is the world coming to when the left-wing hippie commie types are the most fiscally responsible? We'll see how many of them send their checks back...
...
As an aside, those of you familiar with my thoughts on RSPs will no doubt realize the most MPPs can cash those RSP's in well before they'll need to worry.
...
Last little tidbit- apparently another 3 people have been snatched off the streets by the RCMP, held without trial, deported without due process and sent to the Americans in a nice big "terrorist enclosed" envelope. It's okay, though, because some terrorist countries said those guys were terrorists, and they wouldn't lie, right? Good thing the States doesn't torture their prisoners (nudge, nudge), right?
...
Well, now that I've made you all cheery and nostalgic for the lovely world around us, I'll ditch you in your pit of despair.
Bye Bye now!
As always, the Metaphobic Lexiphage.
posted by The Lexiphage at 3:50 p.m.
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