Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back: Canadian Grey Cup 108 Years! Reggie Pukes!

So we all headed to Hamilton, Ontario on Saturday night to stay at the Imperial Hotel in Hamilton the night before the big Grey Cup game on Sunday at Tim Horton’s Field. After being in so many European cities on promotional tours for the Disney film “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” I would say Hamilton is a bleak city. But the citizens are amazing. Warm. Affectionate and joyful Hamiltonians greet me like one of their own. And to be fair arriving in the twilight on a gloomy and cold night tells me Hamilton deserves a closer look. Perhaps if we visit Niagara-on-the Lake we can stop in there or even make a week-end of it in the summer and watch the Hamilton Tiger Cats play a game. I bet you they want another shot at the Grey Cup next year!

We arrive at the Imperial Hotel and there are cameras popping flash bulbs. What…am I Nicole Kidman? Actually Nicole has asked Bob if I could co-star with her in her next movie “How a Dog Saved My Life”.

So we check in and there is a huge assortment of gifts and fruit baskets in our suite. The mayor of Hamilton has sent a couple of Gamay wines from Malivoire Winery in Beamsville which is very close to Hamilton and a couple of cases of assorted micro-brew. And the mayor of Winnipeg has sent us some perogies and two beds with a big Winnipeg “W” on them! Dylan the Westie jokes and says W is for Westie. We settle in and chow down. Dylan the Westie and I have our chicken kibble and two perogies each. Bob and Fay watch some movie while we dogs snooze. At 11 p.m. Bob takes us out for a walk. While we are ready to sleep the city of Hamilton is on fire! Groups of fans from all over Canada are crowding the bars and streets and the air is chock full of beer fumes and happy vibes.

While Bob walks us he talks to us and says Canadian football is one of the few facts that separates us from our American neighbours. As I know really nothing about football I can’t understand what he is talking about. Bob says Canadian football is more fast paced as there are only 3 downs? As I have not watched a BBC documentary on Canadian football I am ignorant about this! We go for our pee and poop and head up to our room for a sleep.

We are up at 9 a.m. and the mayor of Hamilton has sent us a special breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, blueberry waffles and a keg of local Hamiltonian brew! And all of us get a Hamilton Tiger Cats jersey even us two dogs!

Dylan the Westie and I go out for a long walk after breakfast and many Hamiltonians stop us and say how much they love Reggie and his best friend Dylan the Westie!

There is a little stink from the steel mills in Hamilton but then again we dogs have a sensitive nose!

At 2 p.m. we join the Trudeau’s for High Tea. This Prime Minister is as smooth as silk, like an actor. We have some great jasmine tea and cucumber sandwiches with lots of little cakes. We dogs get a bite or two of these English sandwiches. I feel like I am back in London! And Dylan the Westie and I get a half a cup of jasmine tea.

At 4 p.m. we are picked up by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police escort to go to the game.

We are taken to our seats by the Trudeau’s and  their family. The crowd is wild and the smell of beer envelopes us. The fans are crazy with bizarre outfits. Quite frankly I have never seen such a good-hearted frenzy!

I know almost nothing about Canadian football but the game goes into overtime and dramatically is won by Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

As I told you after the national anthem Dylan the Westie and I do a round across the field with team flags in our mouth then jets from the Canadian Airforce zip over our heads.

The crowd chants “REGGGGGEEEEE” and then “DYLAN”. Almost a billion people have watched “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” but the chanting chills my bones and makes me shiver. Canadians have their problems and issues particularly with those nasty residential schools for its aboriginal children but tonight many Canadians are ready just to have some simple fun.

We are in a security bubble. We dogs don’t really understand football but feed off the vibes of you humans.

What is real is that after having chunks of burgers, fries, perogies and pizza with all the excitement from the field I am becoming a bit dizzy and my stomach wants to expel the human food I have ingested. I gotta puke and the limo driver pulls aside as I empty my stomach on the streets. Dylan the Westie comforts me and says “You pups can be so silly sometimes. You shouldn’t have eaten a whole piece of pizza one of the Trudeau children fed you when no one was looking.”

Back in our suite Dylan is in his fancy Blue Bomber bed and happily snoring as 14-year-old dogs do. Bob pours some ginger ale in my water bowl and asks me to drink some. It is sweet and tickles my throat and excuse me I let out a very loud belch but my stomach feels much better. I hit the sack and fall asleep in a flash. I remember Bob giving my jowls a rub and he says ,”We are so proud of you Reggie. You have come a long way!”

RKS Film: “The Big Hit” (Un Triomphe)

A struggling actor Etienne (Kad Merad) volunteers at a French prison to offer a theatre workshop to a small group of prisoners. He plans to mount a Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for Godot”. This is not a simple play but in six months he has them ready to go. Their first performance in Lyon takes place at a friend’s theatre. It is so well received off the prisoners go on a theatrical tour of France. Well you can guess the rest but the ending will surprise you.

Much of the film was shot in a French penitentiary giving the film some gritty reality. The prisoners know much about waiting as they wait for the days to pass when their sentence is served or they are paroled. Prisons are designed for retribution and rehabilitation. However the prisoners in the theatre troupe are not being rehabilitated in any meaningful way until they prepare for the play. They realize their potential as actors and human beings despite their insecurities and general lack of self respect. It’s a rocky road for the prisoners and Etienne.

Etienne and his troupe of actors

And their biggest and final performance is at the Odeon Theatre in Paris where even the Minister of Justice is in attendance. But if you are expecting a compelling performance you’ll be surprised who gives it!

Although their success transforms these prisoners returning to prison is a difficult and disheartening experience and you really feel it in your bones.

The film is based upon the experience of Jan Jönson a Swedish actor who trained a group of convicts in Sweden to perform “Waiting for Godot”. As for their last performance Beckett said it was the best thing that could happen to his play!

The film was directed by Emmanuel Courcol.

You can see the trailer here https://vimeo.com/466653375

The film is currently playing throughout Canada.

Poetry Corner: Terror After Terror

Terror After Terror

COVID-19 causes an initial scream

Delta variant an abnormal bad dream
but a Big Pharma wet dream

Yet now another mutant Omicron
MORE VACCINES proclaims the BIG PHARMA big con
So brilliant it takes three vaccines to curb the harm
billons made with each jab in the arm
with each variant you’ll create a dream
the never-ending story on your balance sheet

With humanity you are nothing but a big profitable cheat
with a new vaccine for every variant
you profit seeking deviant

Robert K, Stephen

“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 117: The Mutants Keep on Getting Shit Upon

The mutants thought it preferable being weak and sincere as opposed to strong and hypocritical. USSR mutant hate was secondary to USA hate. During the Vietnam “conflict” the Yankee mutants had ferociously diatribed the idiocy and brutality of their government which resulted to numerous braying’s of betrayal. Former United States President Affliction had made them one of his targets in his notorious Houston Plan implicating them in a Vietcong drug ring operating in the United States poisoning high school students with heroin laced candies. The naïve American public, at least those who ate Swanson frozen dinners in front of their televisions nightly, lapped Affliction’s barbs against the mutants, making it open season on the mutants. The mutants were exonerated later after an Affliction tape recording had been unearthed by the Washington Post where Affliction snickered, he was going to frame those “mutant bastards”. Southern United States had a special hatred of the mutants as over half the mutant cadres were non-Caucasian. They had always been actively fighting segregation in the Southern United States which riled the Fucked-Up Clan, a senile group of fascists service station owners that specialized in beating, hanging and maiming loud mouthed coloured’s and stupid Northern student communists that supported negro rights. More than a few mutants were gunned down by the Clan who retaliated by blowing up half the service stations in Georgia.

Many parents in the United States told their children that mutants were the monsters hiding under their beds and if they didn’t eat their broccoli the mutants under their beds would haunt them. Initially after the grisly Tate murders in Los Angeles the mutants were blamed. Farly Manson the mastermind and chief butcher in the Tate murders was labelled a mutant, A mind mutant he was but he had had no place in a mutant movement that rejected mutants who were murderers, perverts and the like. Americans began to fear a rash of mutant killings until Twiggy, one of Manson’s killers issued a statement that Manson detested mutants and called them “walking imperfections” who would be destroyed when his family seized power.

The mutants of the world assembled at the Hellsinkit United Nations Human Rights Convention in the hope of being able to address the delegates on the evils of mutant prosecution and violation of their human rights. However only “official delegations” appointed by their governments were permitted to speak and attend the Convention meaning of course the mutants were denied a voice. Squid wrote a statement in the International Mutant Herald:

“Mutants of the world we have been rejected from participation at the Hellsinkit Conference on Human Rights. This is a body that supposedly is concerned with violations of human rights in the world. Very odd considering that governments are the biggest violators of human rights in the world yet only governmental delegations are permitted to speak at this conference. Consequently, this is a sham Convention which is nothing more than a media circus and a public swindle of the grandest proportions. We mutants are aware that nothing of consequence will emerge from such a circus of hot air performers!

The main performers in this Convention are the USA and USSR which are the two biggest violators of human rights in the world. In public they criticize each other but, in the bars, afterwards, where the real business is done, they laugh with each other over shots of vodka. Overt human rights repression in the USSR was evident with the liquidation of the kulaks. Writers and poets are imprisoned for “thought crime”. In the USA repression is a bit more subtle where that regime concentrates its repression in Central and South America. It really doesn’t have to dirty its hands as it has local lackies doing that for them.

We mutants are a nation linked by our common suffering. We have no need for a homeland. We asked to be treated decently in our homelands. We challenge all repressive regimes and for these concerns many of us end up imprisoned. We don’t ask much at the moment. Let the world treat us mutants with respect. If you don’t give us the status of mutants then at least give us the status of “normal people”. Perhaps we mutants are dreamers but didn’t Dr. Martin Luther King have a dream? It seems our dreams bring ridicule while their dreams bring them Nobel Peace prizes. For many of us our dreams are all we have left. That is a poor reflection on this world.”

Poetry Corner: “Omicron Exposing the Big Con?”

Omicron Exposing The Big Con?

Like advertising executives who were actually quite well used during the COVID plague
the message was quite clearly backed by Big Pharma that now is suddenly vague
more and more jabs needed to stop the wave
97% effectiveness has faded for so many to meet their grave
Yet another mutation evading Big Pharma praised for being all knowing
but our faith in your never-ending series of vaccine shots is slowing
it is becoming rather evident you do not know what you are doing
For you we should be class action suing but you clever profit seeking bastards
have negotiated non liability clauses for your weakling injections
that have done nothing more than increased profit seeking erections

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Wines: Opening the Malivoire Treasure Trove

Yes, we try two Malivoire wines that are sold out. Is this a winery owner’s dream? Is it a wine writer’s despair his readers can’t try what he is writing about? Well “sold out” is “sold out” and neither I or you can do anything about that! But if you like what you read there are ways I can advise you later how not to lose out. By the way Malivoire is an Ontario winery in the Niagara region and on a good day is about a 90-minute drive from Toronto. Four different highways for me.

From the Malivoire Demo Series we try a sold out 2020 Analog blend of Cabernet Franc and Gamay. When done well Ontario can produce both Gamays and Cabernet Francs that are world class. In my opinion they are Ontario’s biggest red wine strength. And blend two possible superstars together the chances are something spectacular will result.

The ferment is indeed innovative as the Cabernet Franc was co-fermented with Gamay that has undergone carbonic maceration in concrete then aged in ceramic and older oak barrels.

73% Cabernet Franc and 27% Gamay. The Gamay was taken from the Foxcroft site and Cabernet Franc from the Homestead Property

We uncork the Analog and what do we get on the aromatic side? We get a luscious laser beam of red fruit generous and very fresh and pure. Cherry, strawberry and raspberry. The winery is certified sustainable but the purity presented on the nose reminds me more of an organic wine. The tannins creep up on you so there are some but in modest amounts. The oak is equally modest. The palate is also gentle with discrete Niagara cherries, with strawberry and raspberry lurking in the background like an understudy at a play ready to jump in at any minute when the star’s voice begins to crack. In a sense it is French on the palate and very Niagara on the nose.

There is enough tannin in this wine to justify ageing until 2025.

I am one to prefer a Pinot Noir with a duck confit but this will do just as nicely and it is a great sipper. This gentle wine deserves to be served with a gentle food so in addition to the duck confit I would suggest also farm raised Irish organic salmon. Although I prefer wild salmon I think it might overpower this gentle giant. No spicy foods or beef please! For vegheads I think a homemade pizza topped with Pasta a la Norma sauce and crumbled feta cheese would do the trick.

In short this is a gentle giant and it deserved to sell out! And I am sorry you could not get a chance to try it. The label makes a statement, “This series of rare demos is imbued with our winemaker’s intent to explore investigate and experiment”. Well Malivoire this was a successful experiment. If I could make a wish list to Santa Claus, I would say let’s ramp up production. I have been a very good boy this year. I hope Santa can come down my chimney so I can leave out a glass of this wine for him. Forget the cookies and milk as Santa may have a cholesterol issue!.

(Malivoire Demo Series 2020 Analog Cabernet Franc and Gamay, VQA Twenty Mile Bench, $27.95, 750 mL, 13% SOLD OUT Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 93/100).

The Malivoire 2020 Gamay “Le Coeur” was a Platinum Winner at the 2020 Wine Align National Wine Awards. A scant 40 cases of six were released this week and sold out in twenty minutes. I am not swayed by medals and awards but when Martin Malivoire tells me this is a very good wine I listen!

Well, no sense in dilly dallying so let’s get to business.

A concentrated nose of black cherries, raspberries, a bit of milk chocolate and Portuguese Obidos cherry liqueur. On the palate this is a Gamy shifting into second gear with a hot engine. There is power and heft to it that I wasn’t expecting. It’s a feisty little bugger with lots of swagger. It borders on being juicy. Although one often expects a blueberry on the palate with a good Cabernet Sauvignon you get it with Le Coeur along with cherry pie. Hauntingly delicious. A long finish that fades slowly.

Whole cluster fermentation a la carbonic maceration for one week followed by daily bucket overs to encourage natural fermentation. Bottled unfiltered after a short stint in old French oak. The wine has the tenacious heart of a Scottie and a West Highland Terrier, the former tough enough to take on a badger and the latter to deal with foxes.

I would pair this with a Greek Shrimp Saganaki for which you can find the recipe here  https://miakouppa.com/2019/06/03/shrimp-saganaki/

I think this will age nicely over the next three years. Do not decant and serve slightly chilled as you should do with all Gamays.

The wine highlights that Ontario Gamay is to be taken very seriously. The label says “Le Coeur” holds a special place in our winemaker’s heart. Capiche!!!

(Malivoire Le Coeur 2020 Gamay, VQA Beamsville Bench, $29.95 (Sold Out), 750 mL, 13%, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 94/100).

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Belarus sanctions

From: Global Affairs Canada

Backgrounder

Effective immediately, Canada is imposing sanctions against Belarusian officials and entities in response to gross and systematic human rights violations that have been committed in Belarus.

The Special Economic Measures (Belarus) Regulations impose on listed persons a prohibition on any transaction (effectively, an asset freeze) by prohibiting persons in Canada, and Canadians outside of Canada, from engaging in any activity related to any property of these listed persons or providing financial or related services to them. The individuals listed in the schedule to the regulations are also rendered inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The specific prohibitions are set out in the regulations.

The names of the individuals and entities that have been added to the schedule of these regulations are the following:

Individuals

  • Sergei Yepikhov
  • Natalia Mikhailovna Buguk
  • Alina Sergeevna Kasyanchyk
  • Maksim Leonidovich Trusevich
  • Dmitriy Karsyuk
  • Andrei Parshyn
  • Anatol Lapo
  • Ihar Butkevich
  • Raman Podlineu
  • Ihar Pechan
  • Siarhei Novikau
  • Konstantin Molostov
  • Igor Gutnik
  • Dmitry Lukashenko 
  • Dmitriy Korzyuk
  • Oleg Larin
  • Denis Chemodanov
  • Mikhail Bedunkevich
  • Vasiliy Sysoyev
  • Dmitriy Kovach
  • Aleksandr Zhivlyuk
  • Andrei Makarevich
  • Vladimir Vashkevich
  • Aleksandr Alyoksa

Entities

  • Tsentrkurort
  • Presidential Sports Club
  • Gardservis  (originally called BelSecurityGroup)
  • BelTechExport
  • Peleng JSC
  • 140 Repair Plant
  • AGAT Electromechanical Plant

Passage of the Day: What is Dialectical Behavior Theory?

“At the core of DBT is the dynamic balance between opposing therapeutic goals: acceptance of oneself and one’s situation in life, on the one hand, and embracing change toward a better life, on the other. That is what ‘dialectics’ means: the balancing of opposites and the coming to a synthesis of two opposites. This focus on pursuing change strategies balanced by acceptance strategies is unique to DBT.

The role of DBT skills is to give clients practical ways of, first, accepting the problems they have and then, second, solving the problems they have. Each person will have a different set of problems, so each will need a different set of skills to solve them.”

“Building a Life Worth Living” Marsha M. Linehan, Random House

“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 116: The Mutants and Soviet “Communism”

Enemies of the mutant movement were frequently and erroneously referred to as Marxists and communists. The truth was that the mutants were severe critics of the failure of Soviet Marxism and its imperialistic tendencies which were just as bad as the United States. At the 1976 Soviet Writer’s Union Congress several writers frustrated with government censorship suggested they throw their hat in with the mutants. Earlier the Soviet leadership had toyed with mutantism being a force that would transition into communism but facing mutant criticism they quickly changed their tune calling the mutants “degenerate hooligans”.

Five of these Soviet dissident writers sent a joint letter to the International Mutant Herald a letter of support. The mutants had incurred the wrath of the Soviet leadership when they debunked the myth of the proletariat as a revolutionary force. Perhaps in 1915-17 in Russia they were a revolutionary force but this was decreasingly so in the modern Soviet Union as the proles wanted cars, cash and quite frankly the bourgeoisie lifestyle. Who cared about revolution when you saw that beautiful television in the store or the big chunk of prize beef at the party member’s “Special Store”?

Worker’s Councils that once were powerhouses of the 1917 revolution were now controlled by Party bureaucrats. Union men were some of the biggest conformists around. They clapped at their meagre gains hoping they might one day buy a colour television. Until then it was cheap “Victory Vodka”.

While the Vietnam War had raged Canadian and American unions were silent as the military industrial complex was a huge employer in North America. War meant jobs and a steady paycheque. They had the nerve to call themselves progressive while benefitting from their employer’s exploitation of their working class “brothers” in lesser developed nations. While the North American proletarian had lost their sons in an imperialist Vietnamese war they were thrown a few extra tidbits to maintain their happiness. The “foreign” proles were not brothers but rather a threat to domestic jobs.

The sad shape of the Canadian working class was hammered home to Squid and fellow mutants after the creation of the Canadian Anti Integration Board. Under the guise of controlling inflation the goal of the AIB was to ensure high profits for the bosses and low wages for the workers to “control inflation”. The mutants were puzzled why Canadian workers never mounted a general strike to combat it. Before the legislation creating the AIB had been passed unionized workers had been making tremendous gains hopeful they could slip through the back door and become members of the middle class. Their bosses were upset with the diminishing of their profits and called upon their in-pocket politicians in Ottawa to stop inflation by squashing union pay increases.  The bosses had done a decent job of increasing prices for consumer goods to wipe out gains the unionized working class had made.

Gomperist bureaucrats in the union power structure trembled in fear of being overturned by militant rank and file union members but managed somehow to placate the militants as good Canadian citizens should. Democracy was safe again! As far as the mutants saw matters the solution was the overthrow of the existing system. At present the union movement was simply to maintain an equilibrium and support for the system. A steam valve of control. The unions really never made any substantial gains but just enough to keep the one-sided system in equilibrium. The union hierarchies really saw no need to overthrow the system. What point was there in organizing 70% of non-unionized workers to split the pie further? And those new immigrants could hardly speak English and ate too much garlic so you couldn’t even get close and talk to them. Who wanted to organize the unorganized when the attitude was “Hell no. I ain’t going nowhere. Why should I miss Hockey Night in Canada? “Obviously a minor sacrifice in comfort was too much for the union fat cats.

Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back: Reggie’s Perspective on COVID

You’ll be tempted to say Reggie is but a celebrity dog so what does he know about COVID! By saying that you insult me and my intellect. You may want to listen to me and you might get a fresh perspective. Obviously as a dog I have not been to medical school but as a street dog don’t discount my smarts and knowledge about you humans. Here is what I think.

  • LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT: Given the lack of vaccinations in the Third World thanks to the North American and European hoarding of COVID vaccines there will be waves of COVID mutations heading to those countries that are vaccine hogs. The selfishness and smugness of the vaccinated elite may come back to bite them. Historically plagues do disappear but viruses never die. They sleep or are weakened by herd immunity. Accept at best you might be able to manage them but eradication? I think not.
  • HOSPITAL SYSTEMS CAN’T HANDLE THE LOAD: Your hospitals are hanging by a thread in the developed world and when the next mutation of the virus comes there may be no room for the infected. You humans failed to keep hospitals properly managed and funded. I watched a documentary on the CBC about COVID in Quebec and do you know there are only 1,300 intensive care beds in Quebec and only 350 of them can be occupied by COVID patients
  •      THERE ARE MORE THAN COVID VICTIMS: COVID is a selfish pig as it, encouraged by the paranoia and           short-sightedness of you humans, devours medical resources delaying diagnostic tests and many surgeries causing huge backloads. But in those numbers look at the human suffering of those caught in the BIG WAIT.
  • THE BEST-CASE SCENARIO: You will have an arsenal of effective vaccinations which will be fairly distributed globally to contain the virus. You’ll regain your lives under minimal constraints.
  • THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO: You will be living in a depressed, divided and pessimistic world facing continual waves of mutated virus strikes. The developed world will undergo continual waves of vaccinations and God help the poor countries of the world! But developed world beware that a mutation may arise that can’t be managed by vaccines.
  • WHAT ABOUT THE LONG HAULERS?: These are humans that have “recovered” from the COVID virus but have been temporarily or permanently affected by it. You humans at best know some of the effects of the virus but not all and do not understand why these long-haul effects are caused. You do not have the skills and resources to assist in recovery of the Long Haulers. Get moving!
  • YOU KNEW A PLAGUE WAS COMING: You had experience in Canada with SARS in 1993 and yet you failed to prepare for subsequent viral attacks. Instead you practiced for physical disasters and “contingency plans” for such events which became a hot and beloved topic. You knew about the Spanish flu. You also knew about the Russian flu which started in Uzbekistan in May 1889 and by November was in St. Petersburg then spread like lightning by ship and train travel. In 6 weeks Western Europe was blanketed with the virus and by January 1890 it was in New York where at one point 1,200 died a week there. Then it spread to New Zealand. And these were the days where there was no airplane travel! The Russian flu lasted 4 years killing 1 million when the world at that time had five times less population that it does now!
  • YOU HAVE BEEN SOLD A BILL OF GOODS ON THE VACCINE: I remember certain drug companies were saying their vaccines were 96% effective in preventing infection. Yet on this cold December day in Toronto of the 1,200 new cases about half of the new cases were amongst those that were vaccinated twice. You humans have been taken for a ride by Big Pharma. Isn’t it interesting that multiple vaccines are being given? It seems obvious the manufacturers of the vaccine have no interest in creating a one-time vaccine as brilliant as the politico medico elite claims they are. Do I smell profit motive? And you know we dogs have an excellent sense of smell! The anti-viral molnupirvar developed by Merck when approved will be approximately $900 a dose! There are lots of juicy bones for Big Pharma in this plague.
  • YOUR RIGHTS AS HUMANS HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENTS: I recall when Bob was downstairs working on his novels and screenplays he had the radio playing and it was a non stop barrage of “public health” advertisements. Bob said they have crossed the line into the world of propaganda helped by their “medical teams”. How convenient to blame a violation of civil liberties on a third party such as your medical team! At certain points you humans were subject to lockdowns that prevented freedom of assembly. Rat Fink hot lines for informants were established and COVID police fined and threatened. Anyone who refused to be vaccinated with experimental vaccines were reviled as “anti vaxxers”. You blindly obedient and subservient Canadians were led down the garden path failing to realize how your rights were being jeopardized. And you support vaccine passports the ultimate weapon against freedom of association and the right to make a living! Wake up people.
  • THE FIFTH ESTATE AS AN ALLY OR LACKIE: I watch many newscasts and am surprised how many are mouthpieces of the “public health messages”. Get your vaccine. Naughty anti-vaxxers tied into some Trump conspiracy. No presentation of criticism of the politico medico teams. In fact the medicos are given free reign to spread their “public health message” and the so called independent and critical media have lost their bite. Just look at all the Big Pharma ads on CNN. Why bite the hand that feeds you?
  • THE EXPLOITATION OF THE FRONT-LINE WORKER: I applaud the work and sacrifices made by the front-line health workers, truck drivers, grocery store clerks and those poor folks that don’t have the luxury of WFH (Working From Home). Some are given a little extra pay. The health care front line workers are deified by politicians and the media but when it comes to pay increases for those who want respect as opposed to hero status good luck. They are political fodder conveniently exploited by the politicians, hospital administrators and the media with angelic music and homilies creating demi-gods as good entertainment. The only payout awarded to these poor sacrificial lambs are job cuts as elective surgery revenue isn’t there because of COVID hogging the medical systems’ attention.
  • MY LAST WORD IS THAT THERE IS HOPE FOR THE NEXT PLAGUE: COVID has highlighted the dysfunctionalities of a broken and ill prepared medical system. There are lessons to be learnt humans and that is a big housekeeping is required in the medical system that is perpetually on the verge of collapse and may collapse yet.

Why is it we dogs don’t contract COVID? When I pray every night to Allah I ask that question but I never receive an answer. I can only thank my god that we are spared. You humans who many consider themselves as above all creatures of the Earth should take a moment and wonder if a greater power than yourselves is sending you a message.