http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/11/18/maloney.ar.girl.tasered.KHBS
Okay...so I know there are stupid people everywhere and I've met more than enough ridiculous humans in Toronto, but this police station in Arkansas really needs to be looked at.
It's no wonder I walk around and people tell me how wasteful, inappropriate and ignorant Americans are...well now they can make fun of me because I live merely one state up and over from the one in question --Arkansas.
Wow, what's going on in that state when you have to electrically shock your third graders just to get them to go in time out.
And the officer in question is like "Well I guess I could have used a metal rod on the girl."
What?!? Dude this girl was 10. You should be putting her in the corner for timeout, not tasing her bro.
Arkansas....Not a real representation of the US
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
It's official, the city raised transit prices today in the middle of a rough recession..
Alright, so Macdonald's is already more expensive then in the states:
-Double Cheese in the states = 1.00
-Double Cheese in Toronto - 1.39
And to make matters worse, the TTC has officially voted to raise our monthly bus pass from 109 per month to $121 per month.
As I was telling my buddies last night, I understand having to pay more for better service, faster service, cost of living ect...Which is why a reasonable raise of a few dollars or may even five dollars would have been acceptable. But it just seems like this city is jacking up the price of things as people are losing their jobs.
I understand that even at $121 the TTC metropass is still a good deal. I will most likely use it more than enough to get my monies worth because a single ride now costs $3.00 --more than any other city might I add.
I guess it's just the idea that the councillors and people at the top of this joke don't seem to care about the user. If they cared about the user they wouldn't have gone hundreds of millions of dollars over budget therefore enabling them to hike up our costs.
Maybe an extra $12 a month isn't a lot to Adam Giambrone (ttc chair) but it's a lot to people just out of college that are trying make ends meet and are trying to pay back student debts and start a life.
If the people of Bloor-Lansdowne don't vote that joker out next year something is wrong with that community.
It's a difficult thing to swallow that everytime your down, your city and provincial gov. is their to hit you even harder with an HST, land tax, TTC price increase and more...
It's equally as difficult to swallow that it doesn't matter how much they hike up costs...people are still going to use mass transit because they are like me, they have to choice but to obey the nanny state, suck it up, and hand over the extra 100 bucks a year because it's still cheaper than owning a car.
At least I can say i'm green!
-Double Cheese in the states = 1.00
-Double Cheese in Toronto - 1.39
And to make matters worse, the TTC has officially voted to raise our monthly bus pass from 109 per month to $121 per month.
As I was telling my buddies last night, I understand having to pay more for better service, faster service, cost of living ect...Which is why a reasonable raise of a few dollars or may even five dollars would have been acceptable. But it just seems like this city is jacking up the price of things as people are losing their jobs.
I understand that even at $121 the TTC metropass is still a good deal. I will most likely use it more than enough to get my monies worth because a single ride now costs $3.00 --more than any other city might I add.
I guess it's just the idea that the councillors and people at the top of this joke don't seem to care about the user. If they cared about the user they wouldn't have gone hundreds of millions of dollars over budget therefore enabling them to hike up our costs.
Maybe an extra $12 a month isn't a lot to Adam Giambrone (ttc chair) but it's a lot to people just out of college that are trying make ends meet and are trying to pay back student debts and start a life.
If the people of Bloor-Lansdowne don't vote that joker out next year something is wrong with that community.
It's a difficult thing to swallow that everytime your down, your city and provincial gov. is their to hit you even harder with an HST, land tax, TTC price increase and more...
It's equally as difficult to swallow that it doesn't matter how much they hike up costs...people are still going to use mass transit because they are like me, they have to choice but to obey the nanny state, suck it up, and hand over the extra 100 bucks a year because it's still cheaper than owning a car.
At least I can say i'm green!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Canada as the "Nice and tolerant" country...
When it comes down to it, there's not really a difference between, say, a Minnesotan and a Canadian, but for some reason, up here north of the border we like to say that Canadians are respectful, tolerant and the nicest people on Earth.
Well, I've come to find that this is simply not true. One ride on the TTC (subway...bus...street car...) during rush hour will show you just how nice that fellow Canadian is and just how respectful that TTC driver is. If you've ever experienced being ushered into a bus or street car like cattle you know just how irritated people can get.
Further, Toronto isn't really a good representation of Canadians anyway because of the amount of immigrants that have flooded the city and could care less about Canadian customs or freedoms (I suppose that includes me although Americans aren't really foreigners here. They are simply glutton, capitalist, health care grabbing pigs).
Alright, I took that too far. Most Canadians are very respectful, just as Americans, Brits, and western Europeans are, but there are bad apples among every bunch. However, my experience tells me that, in the end, tolerance is thrown out the door in many situations both north and south of the border. So why is it that Canadians always say they are the most accepting people in the world? I really don't see any difference....
Well, I've come to find that this is simply not true. One ride on the TTC (subway...bus...street car...) during rush hour will show you just how nice that fellow Canadian is and just how respectful that TTC driver is. If you've ever experienced being ushered into a bus or street car like cattle you know just how irritated people can get.
Further, Toronto isn't really a good representation of Canadians anyway because of the amount of immigrants that have flooded the city and could care less about Canadian customs or freedoms (I suppose that includes me although Americans aren't really foreigners here. They are simply glutton, capitalist, health care grabbing pigs).
Alright, I took that too far. Most Canadians are very respectful, just as Americans, Brits, and western Europeans are, but there are bad apples among every bunch. However, my experience tells me that, in the end, tolerance is thrown out the door in many situations both north and south of the border. So why is it that Canadians always say they are the most accepting people in the world? I really don't see any difference....
Monday, November 16, 2009
Canada v. US hockey...The only reason why Canada is dominant...
1. Football - 13.8%
2. Mountain biking - 7.7%
3. Basketball - 6.0%
4. Soccer - 3.5%
5. Skateboarding - 2.7%
6. Baseball - 2.6%
7. Softball - 2.3%
"According to USA Hockey—which has jurisdiction over the vast majority of youth leagues nationwide—there are 347,061 players under the age of 20 registered with the organization across the country."
vs.
"4.5 Million Canadians involved in hockey" according to cmaj medical journal
When sitting around having beers with my Canadian buds, we commonly watch hockey and sometimes debate why Canada is so dominant in the NHL and in the Olympics.
For me it's simple. There are way more youth hockey players in Canada then there are in the US. As a result, those youth hockey players fall in love with the game from an early age and stick with it as fans, referees or participants throughout their lives.
Just look at the numbers I've provided. The most striking to me is the percentages. The most dangerous youth sport in America is football followed by mountain biking...on down to seventh which is softball. However, hockey is nowhere on the list. So in the US...softball is more dangerous then hockey meaning more softball players are injured yearly than hockey players.
We all know how dangerous hockey is so why isn't hockey on this list? It's simply because only around 300K youth play hockey while there are over 4.5 million involved in hockey in Canada.
It's actually remarkable that the US is anywhere near Canada in terms of the Olympic games.
Hockey has about the same amount of registered players in the states as lacrosse does. Soccer, on the other hand, is the fastest growing sport in America while baseball is still the most popular.
It's no wonder that (just as Canada is dominant in hockey) Canada will never compete against the US in soccer, football or baseball. These sports are driven by our youth and there is simply nowhere to even play hockey in most US jurisdictions.
While all of my Canadian friends played hockey as youths...I on the other hand have yet to hold a stick, take a slapshot or skate around in an ice hockey rink....I'm 23.
2. Mountain biking - 7.7%
3. Basketball - 6.0%
4. Soccer - 3.5%
5. Skateboarding - 2.7%
6. Baseball - 2.6%
7. Softball - 2.3%
"According to USA Hockey—which has jurisdiction over the vast majority of youth leagues nationwide—there are 347,061 players under the age of 20 registered with the organization across the country."
vs.
"4.5 Million Canadians involved in hockey" according to cmaj medical journal
When sitting around having beers with my Canadian buds, we commonly watch hockey and sometimes debate why Canada is so dominant in the NHL and in the Olympics.
For me it's simple. There are way more youth hockey players in Canada then there are in the US. As a result, those youth hockey players fall in love with the game from an early age and stick with it as fans, referees or participants throughout their lives.
Just look at the numbers I've provided. The most striking to me is the percentages. The most dangerous youth sport in America is football followed by mountain biking...on down to seventh which is softball. However, hockey is nowhere on the list. So in the US...softball is more dangerous then hockey meaning more softball players are injured yearly than hockey players.
We all know how dangerous hockey is so why isn't hockey on this list? It's simply because only around 300K youth play hockey while there are over 4.5 million involved in hockey in Canada.
It's actually remarkable that the US is anywhere near Canada in terms of the Olympic games.
Hockey has about the same amount of registered players in the states as lacrosse does. Soccer, on the other hand, is the fastest growing sport in America while baseball is still the most popular.
It's no wonder that (just as Canada is dominant in hockey) Canada will never compete against the US in soccer, football or baseball. These sports are driven by our youth and there is simply nowhere to even play hockey in most US jurisdictions.
While all of my Canadian friends played hockey as youths...I on the other hand have yet to hold a stick, take a slapshot or skate around in an ice hockey rink....I'm 23.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Toronto, a city full of Euro Snobs
First let's define Eurosnob...
A Eurosnob is someone who believes with all their heart that European soccer leagues, players and statiums are the best in the world....Are they too far off....maybe not, but I'm sure a lot of brazilians, mexicans, Ghanaian's and Argentians might have something to say about that...
Anyway....
Eurosnobs...include Englishmen, Italians and the portugese/spanish that come over to North America and won't shut up about how great European soccer is. In fact, they won't give the Toronto FC the time of day because they think American and Canadian soccer is pretend and not worth their time....
Well, Hey Italians...at least our league doesn't have a multi million dollar gambling problem in which players are paid by the mob to throw games. I wouldn't go to an Italian soccer game if you paid me simply because I'd rather drink beer instead of red wine at the game.
Eurosnobs think european world cup qualification is so difficult too...
Did they even take a look at the tables...did they see the group the netherlands had? Dear lord...Scotland, macedonia and iceland and some other country that's smaller than PEI? Any one of the final six teams in Concacaf would dismantle those guys with the exception of Trinidad.
Anyway...Eurosnobs have Christiano Ronaldo like haircuts and they all think they're gods gift to soccer. They're the ones that get into fights outside in the parking lot of the scarborough indoor soccer centre...they're the one's that cram into bars just to see which team the mob paid off this week in league cup action.
Eurosnobs suck...
A Eurosnob is someone who believes with all their heart that European soccer leagues, players and statiums are the best in the world....Are they too far off....maybe not, but I'm sure a lot of brazilians, mexicans, Ghanaian's and Argentians might have something to say about that...
Anyway....
Eurosnobs...include Englishmen, Italians and the portugese/spanish that come over to North America and won't shut up about how great European soccer is. In fact, they won't give the Toronto FC the time of day because they think American and Canadian soccer is pretend and not worth their time....
Well, Hey Italians...at least our league doesn't have a multi million dollar gambling problem in which players are paid by the mob to throw games. I wouldn't go to an Italian soccer game if you paid me simply because I'd rather drink beer instead of red wine at the game.
Eurosnobs think european world cup qualification is so difficult too...
Did they even take a look at the tables...did they see the group the netherlands had? Dear lord...Scotland, macedonia and iceland and some other country that's smaller than PEI? Any one of the final six teams in Concacaf would dismantle those guys with the exception of Trinidad.
Anyway...Eurosnobs have Christiano Ronaldo like haircuts and they all think they're gods gift to soccer. They're the ones that get into fights outside in the parking lot of the scarborough indoor soccer centre...they're the one's that cram into bars just to see which team the mob paid off this week in league cup action.
Eurosnobs suck...
The Canadian Justice System and other systems around the world are WEAK
This story has me going...
In the U.S. we celebrate Veterans Day, a time to remember lost lives, war, hardships, terror and everything that comes along with it. In Canada we have what's called Remembrance Day which is the equivalent.
On Remembrance Day in Canada it is customary to purchase a red poppy from a vet that stands outside in the cold selling them for spare change. The vet then pins the poppy on you and thanks you for your time, consideration and admiration. The money goes to help vets serving everywhere.
So yestersay, a man described as dark skinned, with a mask and all black fatigues invades a vet legion centre trying to steal Remembrance Day proceeds from the 80-year-old men who were counting it. It was estimated that somewhere around 10k the vets had collected was nearly stolen after a masked man ran into the legion, with a gun, and attempted to take off with the cash.
Are you kidding me...stealing from the same vets, soldiers and army personel that have given you the freedoms you experience today?
The best part of this story? The Army vets manage to wrestle the would-be thief to the ground before the thief took off without the money.
My question is...would this happen if the Canadian and American justice systems weren't so weak? Maybe this guy decided to attempt a major theft because he knew if he were caught he'd most likely spend a night and jail and then get a year's probabtion.
Here's my suggestion....how about we gather these individuals, the kind of people that would do something like this, and send them to the northwest territories. Canada has so much uncharted territory and tundra that we would never hear from these people again. Instead of giving them a slap on the wrist why not send them to the arctic? We would give them food and a bit of shelter but it sure as hell might make people think about getting into legal trouble if they knew they were going to subzero temps in the polar regions.
Instead we'll just allow them to keep on stealing, shooting people, and assaulting others while giving them weak sentences and early release.
How about for once we think of the vets that gave their lives for Canada...how about we think of the vets that gave their lives so Canada could retain the Great White North...better yet, how about we send our criminals to the great white north never to be seen from or heard again....
In the U.S. we celebrate Veterans Day, a time to remember lost lives, war, hardships, terror and everything that comes along with it. In Canada we have what's called Remembrance Day which is the equivalent.
On Remembrance Day in Canada it is customary to purchase a red poppy from a vet that stands outside in the cold selling them for spare change. The vet then pins the poppy on you and thanks you for your time, consideration and admiration. The money goes to help vets serving everywhere.
So yestersay, a man described as dark skinned, with a mask and all black fatigues invades a vet legion centre trying to steal Remembrance Day proceeds from the 80-year-old men who were counting it. It was estimated that somewhere around 10k the vets had collected was nearly stolen after a masked man ran into the legion, with a gun, and attempted to take off with the cash.
Are you kidding me...stealing from the same vets, soldiers and army personel that have given you the freedoms you experience today?
The best part of this story? The Army vets manage to wrestle the would-be thief to the ground before the thief took off without the money.
My question is...would this happen if the Canadian and American justice systems weren't so weak? Maybe this guy decided to attempt a major theft because he knew if he were caught he'd most likely spend a night and jail and then get a year's probabtion.
Here's my suggestion....how about we gather these individuals, the kind of people that would do something like this, and send them to the northwest territories. Canada has so much uncharted territory and tundra that we would never hear from these people again. Instead of giving them a slap on the wrist why not send them to the arctic? We would give them food and a bit of shelter but it sure as hell might make people think about getting into legal trouble if they knew they were going to subzero temps in the polar regions.
Instead we'll just allow them to keep on stealing, shooting people, and assaulting others while giving them weak sentences and early release.
How about for once we think of the vets that gave their lives for Canada...how about we think of the vets that gave their lives so Canada could retain the Great White North...better yet, how about we send our criminals to the great white north never to be seen from or heard again....
Homeless people in Toronto
There are at the very least hundreds, maybe even thousands of homeless bums scattered throughout the Greater Toronto Area. These are people that live on the streets year round under bridges, in door ways and in bank ATM outlets. Nonetheless, they are people with severe mental issues that for some reason choose the dead of winter over attempting to better their lives by finding a decent place to live and, at the very least, a job at mcdonalds.
So why am I discussing the bums today? I don't know, I just really don't like how they're so good at making people uncomfortable. For instance, If you walk into a drugmart, as soon as you come out there's a bum asking you for any "spare change" you have. what really makes this an issue is that...yes of course I have spare change, I just bought some toothpaste and a scratcher ticket. But honestly, I don't feel like giving a perfectly able human being money.
Maybe I'll start carrying around granola bars and handing those out instead.
Hear is what really grinds my gears. These bums are always smiling and are always telling you to "have a nice day" and so on....do they really mean that? Or are they just trying to get a loonie out of you?
I'll end with a story from last week...I'm walking into an ATM machine area when I see a rather large native woman laying on the floor. By this time my girlfriend Sinead is so horrified she decides to not even go it. The ATM machine area smells like a ciggarette because the lady has been illegally smoking indoors and she has what's left of a blanket thrown over her. Somehow she has one eye open and the other is as if she's sleeping. I go to pull 60 bucks out of the ATM machine for a laugh and a chat when I hear "excussssseemeeeee, can youuuuu, sparrrrrre someeeee change???"
Ya lady....I just pulled 20s out of the machine and I'm going to make it rain on you?
I simply didn't anser her and as I left I told her she should stop smoking in the enclosure. She didn't seem to hear me and instead went back to her slumber.
So why am I discussing the bums today? I don't know, I just really don't like how they're so good at making people uncomfortable. For instance, If you walk into a drugmart, as soon as you come out there's a bum asking you for any "spare change" you have. what really makes this an issue is that...yes of course I have spare change, I just bought some toothpaste and a scratcher ticket. But honestly, I don't feel like giving a perfectly able human being money.
Maybe I'll start carrying around granola bars and handing those out instead.
Hear is what really grinds my gears. These bums are always smiling and are always telling you to "have a nice day" and so on....do they really mean that? Or are they just trying to get a loonie out of you?
I'll end with a story from last week...I'm walking into an ATM machine area when I see a rather large native woman laying on the floor. By this time my girlfriend Sinead is so horrified she decides to not even go it. The ATM machine area smells like a ciggarette because the lady has been illegally smoking indoors and she has what's left of a blanket thrown over her. Somehow she has one eye open and the other is as if she's sleeping. I go to pull 60 bucks out of the ATM machine for a laugh and a chat when I hear "excussssseemeeeee, can youuuuu, sparrrrrre someeeee change???"
Ya lady....I just pulled 20s out of the machine and I'm going to make it rain on you?
I simply didn't anser her and as I left I told her she should stop smoking in the enclosure. She didn't seem to hear me and instead went back to her slumber.
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