{"id":1064,"date":"2016-01-13T12:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:16:56","slug":"1064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Nota in Brevis January 13th: Of Bridges and Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"nipigon<\/a>

Just don’t slow down as you cross…<\/p><\/div>\n

*Ah, the public boondoggle waste of our tax dollars continues by an incompetent Ontario government run by our disordered Premier:\u00a0 A main bridge on the Trans-Canada, built but a scarce two months ago to the tune of $106 million, collapsed on the weekend, forcing the closure of the only land route across Canada.\u00a0 Trucks and cars had to take a 12 hour, yes, 12 hour, detour through the United States.\u00a0 The bridge is now sort of fixed, but we may ask:\u00a0 Is this an act of God, or shoddy workmanship, or an act of God that reveals the shoddy workmanship?\u00a0 Should not bridges in the north be able to handle northern winters?\u00a0\u00a0 But what do you expect from the Wynne and her sycophants?<\/p>\n

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\"saad

Why so sad? You are a rich man, my friend.<\/p><\/div>\n

*And the annals of bloated public salaries continues, as our provincial debt spirals out of control:\u00a0 We first had the debacle of the ‘Pan Am Games’ last summer, itself a colossal waste of money, costing Toronto untold millions.\u00a0 After all, who watches these wanna-be, mini-me Olympics? \u00a0You won a gold medal?\u00a0 Oh, at the Pan-Am Games…The stands were by and large empty, untold numbers of roads were needlessly closed to handle the anticipated ‘crowds’, and the event left Toronto swimming in an Olympic-sized debt.\u00a0 Anyway, the individual who oversaw this debacle, Saad Rafi, has now been offered the job of overseeing Ontario’s rapacious pension plan to the tune of $525,000, yes, half a million dollars.\u00a0 Mr. Rafi will manage Kathleen Wynne’s intention to garnish a certain portion of workers\u2019 wages, to be invested by her wise government officials, who will then pay it back in dividends when we need it during our golden years. After all, Ontarians cannot be trusted to invest their own money. Good luck with that, Ms. Wynne. As things now stand, our public debt load may crush us far before then, the dollar may sink to unplumbed depths, the stock market may collapse and, anyway, even if things do not so south, who would trust this government to invest their money?\u00a0 Have you seen their bridges?<\/p>\n

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\"cologne

No violence against women, indeed.<\/p><\/div>\n

*The concerted sex attacks in Cologne (sadly, right in front of the historic Cathedral), and, it now turns out, in many other cities across Europe, the news of which was deliberately suppressed for fear of retaliation against the refugees, have now given an even worse proverbial black eye to the new Islamic arrivals.\u00a0 Even soft-hearted, or more properly soft-headed, liberal, post-Christian die-hard, open-the-door-to-all leaders like Angela Merkel are now realizing the gravity of what they have done.\u00a0 But the \u2018black eye\u2019 on the refugees pales besides the untold bruises to the sensitive parts of Germany’s young women.\u00a0 Over dinner, I listened to the beginning of a CBC interview with an official in Norway who actually has a job giving sex advice to incoming refugees.\u00a0 My mouth was agape at the irony.\u00a0 After this official claimed that the (predominantly young male) refugees ‘misinterpret’ the signals of what they perceive as the ‘come-hither’ advances of the scantily-clad frauleins<\/em>, well, poor fellows, it is not really their fault, they do not understand our culture, they think such signals are an invitation for a wee bit of ‘intimacy’, blah, blah…I had to turn it off.\u00a0 I hope they soon realize that it is in the very nature of Islam to treat women differently than the Christian culture upon which Europe was built. Women in particular will soon wake up to the fact that their rights and freedoms, instantiated now in law, flow from a Christian worldview: \u00a0that all people, regardless of sex, race, age or height, are made in God’s image, and are therefore equal in dignity.\u00a0 To return to barbarism, as Islam would have us do, will turn women once again into sex objects, to be used and discarded by men.\u00a0 The ISIS \u2018caliphate\u2019 has now decreed religious \u2018rites\u2019 surrounding the rape of female captives.\u00a0 And so it will go in Europe, unless something is done, and soon.\u00a0 But, as the German police demonstrated aptly on New Year’s Eve, the ‘men’ of this post-Christian, androgynous generation will do little to protect the women.\u00a0 What can a few thousand police, steeped in \u2018sensitivity training\u2019 and political correctness, do against a million randy, violent Islamic young men?\u00a0 As the (female) mayor of Cologne implied, let the women protect themselves, by staying an ‘arm’s length’ away from those of the male persuasion, especially, it is left unsaid, if they appear to be from certain regions of North Africa or the Middle East.\u00a0 And if that does not work, stay home.<\/p>\n

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*Or perhaps not.\u00a0 My non-politically correct advice to German women?\u00a0 Marry a real man who can protect you, and raise a passel of children whom you both can protect, and raise them up to protect Germany and its once-Christian culture, and live the faith of your forefathers (and, by that I mean, Saint Boniface, not Luther or Goethe).\u00a0 Standing disrobed to protest the ‘rape culture’ displayed by the new immigrants just puts you on display to them, makes you more vulnerable and sad.<\/p>\n

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*And, today, we should be happy, as we celebrate Saint Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), whose name means ‘joyful’ (as in, hilarious), one of the great foes of Arianism, an expositor of Trinitarian doctrine, and a great bishop and doctor of the Church. \u00a0So may the truth win out, et ora pro nobis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Ah, the public boondoggle waste of our tax dollars continues by an incompetent Ontario government run by our disordered Premier:\u00a0 A main bridge on the Trans-Canada, built but a scarce two months ago to the tune of $106 million, collapsed on the weekend, forcing the closure of the only land route across Canada.\u00a0 Trucks and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}