In The Right

AIDS activists are their own worst enemies

They were out in full force at the recent Toronto AIDS conference, rude and obnoxious as ever, demanding this and demanding that, booing federal health minister Tony Clement representing Prime Minister Harper, who wisely decided to steer well clear of the circus.

The tatooed and multi-pierced hetero-hating gays, lesbians, transsexuals, left wing lunatics with the usual airhead actors in tow as well as the unctuous Stephen Lewis and pop-celeb Bill Clinton conveniently overlooked the fact we spend billions of dollars on a disease, which in our country and most of the west, is completely preventable.

Statistics show that gay men are increasingly engaging in unprotected sex, perhaps more confident in the developments in successful treatment that are keeping them alive longer. Wear a condom you idiots! Don’t inject drugs with dirty needles! Don’t expect me to pay when you can’t keep your libido in check.

I have a lot of problem with seeing my tax dollars going to support this rabble when it should be spent on more urgent diseases like heart disease and cancer. The only exception is the Third World where the problem is one of primitive ideologies that suppress women who are forced to submit to men who won’t wear a condom. Here you have my full sympathy and support.

We should be diverting the money we spend here on AIDS to treat people in Africa where they deserve to be helped. It also makes sense from a financial standpoint. Healthy Third World countries have growing economies with which we do business. The healthier the population, the better the economic climate for us to export our goods and import theirs. Make the AIDS focus there, not here where they don’t deserve our financial support. In Canada, AIDS is generally a lifestyle disease.

Another very unwelcome result of the conference was the dozens of delegates who have HIV or AIDS asking for political asylum so they can get free health care here, joining the thousands of other illegals who are also here at our expense. Throw them out now. There is not a single logical reason to allow them to stay at our expense ($1 million plus per patient for treatment).

We’re giving our country away, folks. Doesn’t anybody care?

I demand an apology!

It has come to my attention that the following groups are seeking redress in the form of an apology and cash from our government for various heinous acts.

We all know about the demands of aboriginals, of course, who basically want the whole country back or cash in lieu and most recently the Chinese-Canadians (hyphen theirs, not mine) who want Prime Minister Harper to say sorry because of a discriminatory head tax they were forced to pay before entering this country about 100 years ago. I’m sure most of their descendants would be happy to be repaid the 250 bucks and return to Communist China and live happily ever after.

The Japanese-Canadians (their hyphen, not mine) got a generous payout and apology from the Mulroney government for being interned in the Second World War. Funny, I don’t recall any apology from Japan for the atrocities committed against our men and women in Hong Kong. Must have missed that one.

Anyway, now the Ukrainian-Canadians (their hyphen) want $12.5 million for some rude treatment they got during the First World War (yes, the First) and Italian-Canadians (ditto) who want some moola and a mea culpa for having some of their people interned during WW Two (Weren’t we at war with Italy? Or was that some other Italy?).

Also lining up with hands extended are Sikhs, Croats, Germans, Upper Voltans and sundry other hyphens for wrongs real or imagined.

Well I want my apology too. And a little cash would go a long way to making me feel better. You see, when my family first moved to Canada about 50 years or so ago from Holland I was teased about my inability to speak English, my funny clothes and strange sandwiches. These dreadful wrongs were committed by Canadians, white Canadians, whom we all know are guilty of everything. So pay up Mr. Harper or I’ll  come to Ottawa and stomp all over you with my wooden shoes.

Germans? Did I say Germans? You know what they did to Holland in WW 2? We were sitting there minding our own business planting tulips, eating gouda and fixing our windmills when in they goose-stepped. If not for those Germans I’d be a millionaire by now. Send over those Euros along with your deepest regrets, Dr. Z. And while I’m at it, didn’t the Spanish invade and destroy Holland in the 16th Century? That’s five hundred years of Spanish perfidy we’ve had to put up with. Damn Spaniards. Pay up...

T.O.’s leftist council wasting York tax dollars

I see the porkers who run Toronto city council just voted themselves a 9% pay raise that will see their annual salaries jump past $100,000 next year, not including fat expense accounts. That should cheer their champagne socialist buddies over on Toronto Island who recently had The Docks entertainment centre almost shut down because the noise was preventing them from enjoying their Yanni CDs. They may still succeed.

When was the last time you got a 9% raise? How many of you earn more than 100 grand? I wouldn’t mind them earning that much if they were half-way competent, but the majority are a bunch of leftist loonies who spend public money like there was no end to it.

I don’t live in Toronto so why should I care? Well, because tens of millions of our tax dollars are sent to Hogtown every year to help them with their social programs, like counting street bums and providing nice parkettes for crack whores.

If you live in the 905 area, you’re also a paying sucker, so you should be screaming along with the rest of us. Unless you support street bums and crack whores that is.

Anyway, to put things in perspective, the council members on my town council earn less than $20,000 a year and actually make sensible decisions.  They also work hard and return phone calls. Try to get one of T.O.’s council piggies to do that.

I expect the majority of brain-dead voters in Toronto will re-elect his elegance David Miller next November for a brand new four-year term. Look, if we elect John Tory premier next year (and I sincerely hope we do), one of the first things he should do is take over Toronto, fire the council and administer it through a team of hand-picked trustees who will run the city like a business.

If we don’t take drastic action, Toronto is on its way to hell in a handbasket and that will hit us all in the wallet when we have to bail them out.

Let’s kill this dual citizenship scam

The mess over the Lebanese rescue shows how stupid we Canadians are. Stupid for allowing such a thing as dual citizenship. If you want to become a Canadian citizen – already a ridiculously easy process – then you should be prepared to give up any formal allegiance to another country, the country in this case being Lebanon.

There are an estimated 50,000 Lebanese permanently living there with Canadian passports (50,000 - think about it). Most of them came here in the first place to take advantage of our generous social policies and freedoms, staying just long enough to get that coveted Canadian passport, then returning home to Lebanon to live and work.

Now that all hell has broken loose, these so-called Canadians are screaming to be rescued – at our expense, of course.

The Harper government has been roundly criticized by the Liberal opposition for not moving quickly enough (the same Libs who gave us the hyphenated Canadians and easy citizenship policies in the first place). Not to be outdone, the nitwit premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, (who knows how to  count votes) has said the province will waive the waiting period requirement for OHIP coverage for those who have been out of the country for more than six months. That means many of these people, many of whom have lived in Lebanon for years, will be able to come back to Ontario and get immediate full OHIP coverage, not to mention housing and whatever other benefits they need.

A press release from McGuinty proudly stated “The Ontario government is mobilizing health care, housing and settlement services to help Canadians returning from Lebanon to re-integrate into life in this province.” Well thanks very much Premier Nitwit. Guess that means any other so-called dual Canadian in a world hot spot who now wants out will get the same treatment, right?

You can bet that most of the duals will be headed back to Lebanon as soon as the situation stabilizes. Until they need to be rescued again, at our expense. Is there any political party out there with the guts to kill this dual citizenship scam?

We need to get out of Afghanistan

I'm not talking cut-and-run, but an orderly withdrawal. We shouldn't have gone there in the first place. Anybody with any idea of the history of that country would realize that. Just ask the Russians. Just ask the British. Just ask any would-be conqueror or ruler over the past number of centuries.

The idea is that we are there to bring democracy and freedom to the Afghan people and fight terrorism. That's risible. There never has been democracy there and never will be. We have to give up this stupid notion that we can somehow instill in backward Third World countries some idea of democracy and individual rights.

We need to accept the fact that some countries will remain poor, backward and corrupt and we have to give up this white man's guilt complex that suggests it's all our fault.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the American and other NATO troops, including ours, are holed up in Kabul and Kandahar, where the Yanks have established a puppet government (much like the Russians before them). The countryside is still in the full control of the tribal warlords (who run the heroin trade feeding junkies in the western democracies with the full knowledge of the U.S.) and Taliban lunatics. We'd require a million-man army and strategic nukes to weed them out.

Bin Laden? He's believed to be in Pakistan, one of our supposed allies in the war on terror.

Let's get our forces and resources back here to Canada where we really need them and work towards rooting out the homegrown Islamist terrorists in addition to securing our own borders. This is where the terrorists are. The guys with the Canadian passports (thank you multiculturalism!) who live in middle class homes in Scarborough and Brampton and Mississauga and North York and Vaughan.

We can't keep sacrificing Canadian soldiers for a lost cause. We have to start taking care of our own. Afghanistan can go to hell for all I care.

Thoughts on being Canadian on Canada Day

Our state-sponsored experiment with multiculturalism has been an abject failure. We didn’t need the recent arrests of homegrown terrorist suspects to tell us that.

The fanciful, naive notion by social engineers like former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the left-lib, pseudo-intellectuals who supported him is that a nation can somehow be forged by weaving together a patchwork quilt of different races and cultures from around the world. The thinking was that all these new Canadians would happily co-exist and build a brave, new Canada, distinct and unique in the world.

Trudeau, a vicious ideologue, despised the notion of the U.S. melting pot (no surprise, since he hated Americans), believing instead that state-sanctioned and funded multiculturalism would be superior to any system in the world.

And so the floodgates were opened, mainly to third world immigrants and refugees, most of whom settled in our larger cities, primarily Toronto. Once here they were supported by generous federal funding programs and encouraged to keep the traditions of the cultures they came from — regardless of how backward and undemocratic.

The hatreds and tribalism of their home countries came with them. The hyphenated Canadian was born. The idea that Canada would ever have a distinct identity was destroyed.

There would be no such thing as a Canadian, just hyphens: people with greater allegiance to their birth nation than this new country that so generously opened its doors to them. Our flawed constitution sealed the nation’s fate.

It wasn’t that way in the past. Before the Liberal governments of the ‘60s and ‘70s, immigrants were told they had to fit in. Work hard. Learn to speak English (or French in Quebec). Obey the law. There was no such thing as government health care, unemployment insurance or welfare, so you either worked or you went home.

Our cities are becoming more and more multicultural and less and less traditional Canadian.

If you think this is going to be an anti-immigration rant, it isn’t. We need more immigrants. I just think we have to ensure the people who come here (and I don’t care from where) have something to offer, share our values of hard work, respect for our laws and our traditions of equality and democracy.

For example, any prospective immigrant who believes women are not equal to men, or supports terrorism and political causes that tolerate it, should not be permitted into our country, let alone be given citizenship.

Our Canada in the past was a distinct presence in the world. We were Canadians without hyphens, a nation respected and envied. Not anymore. The multi-cult vultures have come home to roost and celebrate their presence with gunfire, violence, hatred, intolerance and criminality.

Oh, Canada.

Looney left sinks good ship T.O.

I’ve lived and worked in Toronto for many years, the last time being in the early 1970s when I was a shipper/receiver at the Cole’s book store on the corner of Yonge and Dundas. Can’t get much more Toronto than that.

It was a great city then. The streets were alive with tourists, buskers, hippies, merchants, artists, shoppers (this was before the Eaton Centre).

The big draw was Sam the Record Man just up the road and the old Eaton’s and Simpson’s stores down on Queen Street. The biggest hassle I faced was having to chase the Hari Krishnas away from the front entrance of the store.

We’d go in for a beer at the Gasworks or the Brass Rail after work and I’d enjoy the walk home up to Wellesley. No worries about getting mugged, shot or accosted by a cracked out street person or gang banger.

The CN Tower was inching its way up the skyline and Toronto was on its way to becoming a true world-class city with a reputation for cleanliness, safety and sophisticated cosmopolitan elan.

Since then, it’s been highjacked by the socialist twits on Toronto city council, currently led by Mayor David Miller, along with the various fringe arts groups, social workers, union thugs and poverty activists who cling to them like flies on a dead carcass.

Miller is typical of his ilk: a social engineer who thinks human behaviour can be changed with a little hug, a sympathetic ear and lots and lots of money.

Taxpayers’ money.

They take care of their own: witness their sell-out to the unions with their I’m Alright Jack attitudes - overpaid and underworked. Remember that ridiculous major campaign issue last time when Miller fought like hell to stop a bridge to Toronto Island? That’s where Miller’s cosseted and pampered socialist comrades live in splendid, taxpayer financed isolation from the hoi polloi.

Real important issue that. Shows you where his priorities lie.

Don’t be fooled by the big gang crackdown last week. The only reason the gangs are so out of control in Toronto (and most Canadian cities for that matter) is decades of looney left “justice”. It won’t change a thing in the long run.

Toronto is now dangerous, dirty and unfriendly. Last time I was there, about a year ago, I was horrified by that once-great city’s decline into putrescence. From world class to no class.

Like me, you have to have been gone for some years and then come back to realize how badly the city has deteriorated. Millions of tax dollars are dumped out on the streets every year to support what in large measure are a bunch of lazy ne’er-do-wells, criminals, drug addicts, squeegy kids and panhandlers who urinate, defecate, vomit, dump garbage and harass innocent citizens, all supported by their city-subsidized enablers.

Sure there are some human wrecks there as well - the mentally ill - but they belong in an institutional environment where they can be treated, and not allowed to live on the streets.

Toronto city council of course, will have none of this tough-love and strict crime enforcement approach used to clean up New York City. Toronto’s council, unfortunately, is rife with poltroons, fools, jackanapeses, nitwits, coxcombs, dunderheads, sluggards, boneheads, numskulls, dolts, nincompoops, airheads, ignoramuses, ninnies, dunces,  birdbrains, halfwits, simpletons and loonies — all living high off the public purse, as is the wont of socialists. And all with the tacit approval of the McGuinty Liberals currently infesting Queen’s Park.

These caviar socialists subscribe to a fuzzy socialist utopia where all march to the beat of the same politically correct, conformist drum. In real life, they’d have trouble running a self-serve gas station, let alone a city.

The tiny minority on that council who believe in hard work, fiscal responsibility and cleaning up the mess that Toronto has become, are unlikely to see their numbers increase when the next election rolls around in November. That’s because the people who voted for Miller and his cronies are primarily NDP supporters occupying a place at the public trough that they are desperate to protect. They must share in my aformentioned gentle description of their city council. You’ve destroyed what was a great city.

Oh, forgot one: morons.

Hey Leaf fans: You're suckers!

Are you a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fan?
You know, one of those slavishly faithful diehards who will cheer them on no matter what.
Take a look in the mirror. You're stupid.
I'm not sure if there are any sports fans in the world as stupid as Toronto Maple Leaf fans.
And you know what? The corporate suits that own the franchise are counting on that as they count their millions.
They know that no matter what kind of pathetic product they throw on the ice at the Air Canada Centre they'll fill every seat.
And next year, when they suit up another team of losers, they'll do it again.
What I would do is give every Leafs fan who plunks down their money for one of those obscenely over-priced tickets a T-shirt that reads "I'm with stupid". Matter of fact, that should be the team slogan.
The most successful hockey franchise in the world hasn't produced a Stanley Cup winner since 1967 and isn't likely to anytime soon. But wait for training camp. The Toronto sports writers (also stupid), will be giving glowing reports on what promise this year's team shows and gullible fans will buy into it. The worst is the Toronto Sun that regularly splashed game photos on their front page with delirious headlines. The latest reads "Way to end the season boys", referring to one of their rare wins to end the season and then called that season "disappointing."
Way to end the season? Disappointing? How about disastrous!
Ah well, hope springs eternal for Buds nuts. There aren't sports fans anywhere else in the world that would put up with this. Can you imagine what Yankees fans would do if they hadn't had a World Series win in four decades? Yankee stadium would be a pile of ashes and George Steinbrenner would be hanging from a lamp post in Times Square.
Doesn't bother Leaf fans though. They'll continue to fly their stupid flags from their stupid cars with those stupid Leaf logo licence plates as they drive along wearing their stupid Leaf jerseys.
Guess they enjoy being in an abusive relationship.

Shed no tears for tossing out bad apples

Say you're standing in a long line waiting to get into a great play. Suddenly, up near the front, a couple of people butt in. Their excuse is, well this is a play we would just love to see. It stars our favourite actor.
Guess you'd be a little pissed, right?
Well, that's why I am shedding no tears with the feds tossing out a number of illegal aliens last week, many of them Portuguese.
I have to insert a disclaimer here to deal with inevitable lefties screaming 'bigot' or 'racist'. Some of my best friends are Portuguese, OK?
The big protest is that a lot of these illegals work in the construction industry that badly needs their services in this building boom we're experiencing.
Well tough.
I'm sure there are plenty of people waiting patiently in line overseas to be our new immigrants who would love to have the jobs the illegals are doing illegally now.
The whole issue of illegals aliens and so-called refugees has been badly bungled by a succession of federal governments. It seems that about 50 per cent of refugee clamaints are approved, a lot, I'll bet, without the proper background checks. Yes, that's right, almost half. Compare that to Sweden, where about 2% are approved.
There are thousands of these refugee claimants who have just vanished, some of whom no doubt are terrorists. If they're so innocent, why not go on with their claim?
Fifty-fifty is a bet I'll take any day.
Note the incident last week involving an alleged terror suspect in Newmarket who was one of these bogus refugees. For the record, he denies it.
One benefit of all these illegal aliens living in our area is that we're probably safe from any terror attacks. Too much of a chance they'd kill Bin Laden sympathizers.

I’m not responsible for your children, okay?

We’ve sunk so far into the nanny state syndrome here in Canada that we’ve even got Conservatives dumping billions of dollars into child care. With the Tory plan that’s $1,200 for each kid per year, while the loopy Liberals and out-to-lunch NDP are screaming for a national subsidized daycare plan. More billions.
The Grits and N-Dippers are even threatening to topple Harper’s minority government if they don’t get their way. (Sound like spoiled brats throwing a temper tantrum to me).
What has the lefties in a lather is the Tory money would actually give parents a choice of what they’d do with the money (beer and popcorn anyone?), while they want to control the cash that’s doled out. You know, these people just shudder in horror at the idea of a stay-at-home mom.
This, you see, fits right in their philosophy of getting the kids into the system early so they can be indoctrinated with left-lib mush and grow up to be politically correct, sensitive New Age types — the kind so adored by the airhead academics. You know the type.
Anyway.
Why do I have to pay? 
Look, if you can’t afford to have children without public money, then don’t. It’s that simple. Take some responsibility for your reproductive urges for God’s sake and keep your fingers out of my wallet.
Your children are not my children, so don’t expect me to pay for them.
By the way Slykhuis is pronounced Slike-house (other prefixes have been used, and I’ve heard them all). 
Join me right here in the house and give me a piece of your mind.