What should Schools Teach?

I recall going to a YMCA gym in downtown Toronto years ago. It was small and its layout was compact. When I went to the spin room to do some cycling on a stationary bike I was at first taken aback at how close the bikes were to each other. The sweat from the guy next to me hit me in the face. Not pleasant. But what really bothered me the most was the lack of music. There was none. I asked around why was there no music. The gym I normally went to (JCC - Jewish Community Centre) played music constantly which added a great vibe with which to work out to. They told me that some months prior, some members got into a squabble about the type of music that should be played. Some liked rock, others classical. Since they couldn't settle their debate, they decided that no music would be played in the end.

Certainly it wasn't the perfect solution but sometimes we must settle for an imperfect solution.

In our schools today, a lot of focus has been on sex. Ie. transgender studies, gay studies and a myriad of other sex based topics. Some many might view as legitimate. Some might be as so over the top, they are considered obscene. 

Here, where I live in Ontario, Canada, our school board has become a sad joke to the world. A male teacher who identifies as a woman, has been wearing huge, prosthetic breasts while teaching in a public school. I would have thought that the principal, school board, government officials, parents and students alike (ie. everyone) would agree that this was not appropriate 'attire' for a teacher. But then I would be wrong. Because the school board sided with his right to wear them. I know, I can't be making this up can I?

Here is the full article about him. I'm not sure what his preferred pronouns are (perhaps 'it'), nor do I care.  https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/09/ontario-teacher-prosthetic-bust-school-board-defends/

Of course a topic near and dear to my heart is the decades long attack on Jews and pro-Israel students and teachers within our school board and universities, especially in Toronto. I have blogged about this repeatedly (In My Own Backyard). It appears that despite our best efforts to stop this sort of discrimination whereby only anti-Israel views are acceptable in our education system, we are no further ahead in this fight. Believe me, I'd love nothing more than true, open debate about Israel and the Arab states at large but since it's blatantly obvious that this is not happening, hasn't happened and doubtful that it will, it's best just to keep politics out of the education system. 

We have all read so many articles on what's going on and I'm sure we all have an equal number of diverse opinions as to what should be permitted and what should not be. I can guess that whatever solution one school board or parent might propose, it would most likely be shot down by another school board or parent.

So I propose another imperfect solution. Let's focus instead on teaching our children the basics. The core studies that have been the fundamental learning subject for our children for thousands of years. It began with reading and writing. It then went on to include subjects like arithmetic, science, history and geography. Most schools includ art, music, gym and shop. At higher grades, accounting, chemistry and computer science and other subjects.

In North America we spend billions of dollars on education every year. Yet studies year after year show that our children are near the bottom in the academics, world wide. Countries much poorer than ours are teaching their children at a much higher standard than we are. Could it be because we have lost our way? Could it be that we are fighting amongst ourselves on topics that should really be taught by the parents of the children if at all?

I think so.

More Evidence: That the world is Upside Down

I thought I'd have some fun (sort of) with my blog title. So the following is a short list of the latest news items that will prove that the world is in fact upside down. In reality however, there is nothing funny about any of these news items.

                                            Upside down world

So in no particular order, here goes:

The United States announced humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan. Apparently the 2 trillion dollars in aid (both military and other)  that the US has given them over the years was not nearly enough. Neither were the billions of dollars of the latest military weaponry that the US left them after they killed some US soldiers. Good news though. The US confirmed that their weaponry often breaks down due to the hot, sandy weather there. No more worries....

In order to avert WWIII with Russia, the US is now supplying Ukraine with the latest missile defence systems that only American soldiers can operate.  Apparently the 54 billion dollars they've given to Ukraine wasn't enough. 

In order to stop Iran from its completion of nuclear weapons which it has clearly stated that it wants to use them against both the great satan (US) and the little satan (Israel) and other states (Europe), the US and the EU continue to fund the worlds greatest terror state (Iran). Apparently the 1.7 billion dollars Obama gave Iran in cash, secretly overnight, was not enough. 

Americans and others in the West wish to help young children deal with severe depression and even suicide by offering and often pushing them into sex change operations with or without their parents approval. Offering a different opinion can land you in jail.

Following the science on Covid. There is much debate about the efficacy of the vaccinations available today. But having an opposing opinion or even questioning some of the supposed 'facts' about them (or other medicines) pushed by the very pharmaceutical companies that produce them, can land you in jail. This also applies to the strict mandates that the world (most of it) has undergone, such as closing schools, businesses, restricting travel and forcing the elderly to die alone in isolation. 

In order to save the planet, most countries in the West are pushing to get rid of fossil fuels and replace them with wind and solar power. Honest scientists will agree that not only is this not feasible at this time (maybe never), but attempting to do this now will cause misery and death to many on the planet. It already has. Recall the terrible Texas freeze because they thought they could replace oil (which they have in abundance) with wind turbines? What a disaster - they are still paying for it. Or how about Germany who laughed at then President Trump who warned them not to rely on wind or solar or Russian oil? Get your sweaters on....

The Supreme Court in Israel has outlawed the late Rabbi Kahane's, Kach party (the most pro-Israel, Jewish political party there ever was) but allows many vile antisemitic, anti Israel, Arab parties in its parliament (Knesset). 

President Biden suggested that Russia blew up its own multi billion dollar, under water,  natural gas pipelines. Hmmmm...

We have a president in the USA who rarely knows what day it is (I wonder if he knows the codes to their nuclear missile bases?) and a PM in my country, Canada, who like Biden gets everything wrong. Coincidence? I don't think so. Think WEF.

I got kicked off the Times of Israel blog because I had the audacity to accuse George Soros as an antisemite and a war monger. Their response: He's Jewish and he gives a lot to charity. They forgot to mention that he donates to their newspaper. 

According to the Biden administration, we are not in a recession. Sometimes he does change his mind. His proof? He still gets to fly on his helicopter anytime he wants and eat any flavour of ice cream he desires. 

CNN was the #1 news outlet from the US reporting on the war from Ukraine until it accidentaly filmed a Ukrainian soldier doing a nazi salute. Then they got kicked out.

Despite the tons of evidence that the US presidential election was stolen, the Democrats and other nefarious organizations and foreign entities have been and continue to crucify President Trump. Absolutely no let up from them. Meanwhile, just about every person who wanted to speak up about the corrupt Clinton Foundation have mysteriously died. As secretary of state she got away with using her personal phone for sharing top secret info and then destroying the evidence. Letting American's die a horrible yet avoidable death in Libya was another unforgettable achievement. 

But the Biden family has been arguably more criminal than the Clinton's. President Biden and his family (especially his son Hunter) have been compromised by just about every state government in the world. He has every government agency plus the mainstream media protecting him and his family from justice. His overt criminal behaviour gets an A for chutzpah!

Speaking of President Trump, who was the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel president in modern times, most Jews (especially reform) accuse him of being an antisemite and comparing him to Hitler!

I could go on and on but I'll stop here (for now).

Happy Hanuka and Merry Christmas!

Jews like her, we don't need!

This is the second time I'm posting about Whoopi Goldberg. I hope this will be my last about her. My previous post Leon's: The World is Upside Down  was a commentary on her comment: 'The Holocaust was simply white on white crime'. For that she received a 2 week suspension from one of the worst TV shows on air today, 'The View'. 

This time on the show, they were discussing Kevin McCarthy'S (most likely to be the next speaker of the house) plan to kick Democrat, Ilhan Omar, out of her current job on the Foreign Affairs & Defense committee after her many antisemitic remarks. She also hates America too (that's why she moved here from beautiful Somalia). One of the ladies on the show said that Ilhan's comment declaring that the US, Israel, Hamas and the Taliban as all being terrorists was disturbing. 

Whoopi commented 'It depends on who you talk to'.

Whoopi identifies as a Jew. She isn't. She never converted. The most Jewish thing about her is her fake last name. She is as Jewish as Kanye West who also thinks that Blacks are the real Jews (or Hebrews as he calls themselves). 

In these days of 'identification', she is certainly entitled to call herself Jewish if she wants. When I play pickle ball at the gym I rarely bring my membership card with me so I'm forced to borrow a friend's card when I need to go the bathroom. When I borrow my female friend's card I always declare that at that moment I identify as a female. It's a joke. But Whoopi is no joke. Maybe she thinks that by calling herself Jewish, it entitles her to attack Jews. Anyone who supports real terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban or in any way sympathizes with them or has the least bit of trouble identifying them as terrorists are themselves complicit in the terror they do. 

She had previously apologized for her Holocaust remark (sort of). What will happen this time? Will she get another 2 week suspension from the show? I can guarantee that if a white Jewish person like me (but famous - not like me) made the following comment on a TV show where people were discussing the KKK and someone called them evil and I said 'It depends on who you talk to', I'd be fired so fast that the door would hit me on the ass as I left the building. 

She got off easy once. Now she needs to go (ie. leave the building). I suggest that she moves to Gaza and then she can make a proper assessment as to whether Hamas is a terrorist organization or not. Perhaps she can take Representative Ilhan Omar with her where she can live out her antisemitic dreams with the non-terrorists she loves.  One last quote from Ilhan: she described 9/11 as the day 'some people did something'......

Ukraine: Do You Get It Now?

Back in March I had written 3 posts about Zelensky and Ukraine in close succession because I saw the danger of the world approaching a world war (possibly nuclear) with Russia over Ukraine.

Then the world was 100% in favour of helping Ukraine at all and any cost. Both the Right and Left were in lock step on this. Even most of my Zionist friends were on board with it. Of course Jewish liberals were on board due to Tikun Olam thinking. (Whenever I hear that from the Left I want to vomit)

Many people both Gentile and Jew considered Zelensky to be a hero. A Jewish hero no less. By now his 'Jewishness' has been debunked. He was born a Jew but that's as far as he took it. Leon Trotsky the founder of deadly communism was also born Jewish. That factoid taken on its own means nothing. 

Now, thank G-d, 'only' 80% are in favour of helping Ukraine at all costs. 

Some of my Israeli blogger colleagues were in awe of Zelensky and his heroic heroes who stood up to big bad Russia. Even people who I respected like Dennis Prager explained it simply: Russia invaded Ukraine so Putin and Russia are the bad guys. He left out all context! No wonder so many consider Israel occupiers of Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). They also leave out all context. To them the context began at the end of the 6 Day War. Likewise in the Ukraine/Russia war, the context we are fed, began just 9 months ago.

I will not repeat the details I wrote in my previous blogs but feel free to check them out if you haven't done so. In addition there have been many treaties that have been broken both by Ukraine and NATO that I didn't mention.   In one of my posts, titled: Can the War in Ukraine Spark a World War? I was warning of exactly what almost happened recently and what may yet still occur, G-d forbid!

The other day it was reported by EVERYONE (except for Russia) that Russia fired 2 missiles into Poland! Zelensky went to the air waves immediately and tried to call for WWIII with Russia. After all, Poland is a member of NATO unlike Ukraine. When one NATO member is attacked then all the remaining NATO members are obligated to defend their fellow NATO partner. Zelensky knew from where the missiles came from but lied to the world. He and his puppet masters were hoping to draw the world into a war with Russia and/or at the very least continue to put pressure on us to continue to send billions of dollars in aid and weapons to Ukraine. Russia was able to disprove this hoax in 10 seconds by both examining the missile fragments in Poland and offering their own missile tracking data. 

Also please don't forget about Russia's underwater natural gas pipeline that was blown up not so long ago. Biden would have us believe that Russia blew its own pipeline up. Of course anyone with a brain knows better. This supply of gas could have helped Europe endure the cold winter that is already upon us. Now countries like Germany & Poland and others will suffer. I myself am not losing sleep over them but I am losing sleep over a possible world war over Ukraine that has been fanned by the US and it's western allies. I am also losing sleep of the millions of dollars that my own, in debt country, Canada, continues to send to Ukraine when it cannot even supply cold medicine for infants here!

The good news is the truth came out just in the nick of time and saved us from WW3. The bad news is that no matter what, Zelensky, his puppet masters and his nazi factions in Ukraine are still viewed as the good guys. I want to impress upon you exactly how close we came to WW3 just now. But every day that we continue to pump billions of dollars into one of the most corrupt regimes on earth and continue with our mantra Ukraine-Good, Russia-Bad, we are inching towards a catastrophe. As it is, the world is suffering. Hyper inflation, food shortages, energy shortages, crime waves and wars erupting everywhere are evidence of this. We need to de-escalate this war ASAP! 

We've seen this before. For decades, modern Israel has been under constant, daily attack from her Muslim neighbours and the world at large. What so many Jews and Israelis in particular couldn't understand is why so many in the West and in particular their ally in the US didn't get it. They kept restraining the Israelis. Forcing them to give up precious land and most precious of all, lives. Then 9/11 happened. Finally the Israelis thought, their American friends will understand exactly what the Israelis have had to deal with all those years. But to their chagrin, it didn't help one iota. Nothing changed. The immediate conversation by so many, including American leaders, was to appease their radical Islamic enemies. They blamed themselves for the carnage of 9/11 and of course Israel too. Islamophobia became and remains the word of the day. American political leaders like Ilan Omar got away with describing 9/11 as: 'some people did something'. 

One last point. Throughout the MSM (mainstream media) and every single government in the world (including most Israeli politicians), none have mentioned the nazi elements within the current Ukrainian government, never mind their vile antisemitic past history. I find it ironic that so many on the Left accuse us right wing conservatives of being nazis but when real live nazis are running Ukraine, they are overlooked and even hailed as heroes and sent tons of money.

Recently CNN (not my favourite media outlet) filmed Ukrainians celebrating their 'winning ways' in the war with Russia. In the clip they focus on a Ukrainian waving their national flag while standing on a moving vehicle. Eventually he added the nazi salute. For that CNN, who has been championing Zelensky and Ukraine, has been banned from Ukraine. 

Here is the video clip:  https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/yuut8u/cnn_video_shows_ukrainian_doing_nazi_salute_in/

In short, Zelensky and his nazi colleagues have taken a page directly out of the Palestinian playbook. They beg the world for money, lie, perpetrate hoaxes continually, use their citizens as pawns, could care less what damage they may cause us and become billionaires in the process. I don't blame them. They see that it worked for Arafat and Abbas. I blame us!

80 % of the World Does Not Like Us

Some of you have already received my original email on this topic. But it lacked context so I decided to include it in my blog here now with context.

For some who might not know, Kanye West (now goes by Ye) is a very successful Black American musician and fashion mogul with a huge audience in the tens of millions. He stands out as one of the very few Black entertainers who does not follow the typical Hollywood scene that is dominated by people on the Left and its Democratic base. He even had the courage to publicly support President Trump. 

                                     Kanye West

Joe Rogan made his claim to fame as a mixed martial artist commentator in the UFC. I would credit him (and a few others) for mainstreaming that sport world wide. As someone who practices martial arts for many years I often watched the sometimes brutal sports to learn some of the subtle jiu jitsu moves that only he was able to describe and explain. He then moved into having a very successful podcast with millions of followers. I occasionally watched them when he interviewed people that interested me. 

                                    Joe Rogan

What both these men have in common is their huge influence on millions of ardent followers and their Right wing stance. 

Tucker Carlson is the most popular news show on Fox News. I often watch him because he does not follow the mainstream narratives. So his shows often interest me. I am not naive and realize that he is also a propagandist of sorts. But not to the extent that I see on the Left on 'news' shows like CNN or MSNBC. He recently interviewed Ye West. I didn't find the interview too interesting other than a confirmation of where Ye's politics lie (on the Right). Frankly I find it difficult to listen to Ye as he readily admits that he suffers from mental issues (bi-polar?). 

(By the way I have never heard Tucker say much about Israel, either positive or negative. I've certainly never heard him support Israel. If I'm wrong, please let me know. I consider him to be one of the 80% of the world who does not like us but not a true antisemite.)

Needless to say, that interview went viral (4.5 million views on youtube). Shortly thereafter Kanye tweeted "I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” later he added “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

Around the same time, Joe Rogan interviewed Roger Waters who is a former lead member of the famous rock band, Pink Floyd. Waters like West and Rogan has many followers and has a huge influence as a rock star. For decades Waters has made it crystal clear that he despises Israel. He wants it to disappear from the world just like Hamas, Hezbolla, Iran and many others. Unlike them he pretends that he is not an antisemite. He has no problems with the Jews, just Israel. He uses his concerts and any opportunity to push his racist agenda. He did so with Joe Rogan. The trouble here was that Joe never once pushed back on his vile, antisemitic comments. I was shocked when I watched the interview because I know that Joe has the balls to ask the tough questions of his guests on his show. Not only did he not ask them, he often agreed with Water's comments. 

These events with Joe Rogan and Ye West sparked a huge and ongoing controversy. West was kicked off of Twitter for his antisemitic remarks. Not sure if Rogan has suffered at all over his tacit agreement with Waters. 

The emails were flying in my inbox. This is what precipitated my email and this blog post. I had some colleagues who wanted to crucify both West and Rogan while others defended them. Both sides made great points. That's when I wrote the following email to my contacts but I've edited a bit here.

Let’s face it. About 80% of the Gentiles in this world do not like us Jews. Maybe a better way of saying it, is that they are not in love with us. I’m not saying that they are all antisemites. I’m simply saying they don’t like us. Maybe it’s resentment of our success or maybe it’s a mix of many other reasons. Most of these people have every right not to like us. Just like I have the right not to like them. I’m not advocating that they must die or suffer in any way nor would I incite others to hate them. Likewise most of this cohort of Gentiles (and some self hating Jews) are not waking up in the morning conspiring how to hurt us with words or physically. 

Out of the 80% maybe 10 to 20% are real, true antisemites. Roger Waters is such an example. 

I don’t believe that Joe Rogan is. Nor do I think that Kanye is. Like I said, they might not like us but they are not busy hating us. They have other things on their mind. Kanye had some issues with some powerful Jews so he’s not a fan. I can bet that he had many dealings with Jews both in the shmata business and the music business that might have pissed him off. Joe Rogan is no historian and leaves it to his assistants to do his research for him. They probably turned to Google, FB or Twitter and they all side with Roger Waters.

To be fair, how do we decide that we like or dislike a people? If I lived in an isolated town somewhere and I met a Jew who ripped me off and he was the only Jew I ever met, chances are I might formulate a negative opinion on all Jews based on that one case. Is it right? Of course not. But human nature, what it is, that is sadly often the case. 

That leaves a mere 20% of Gentiles who actually like us. They are truly philo-semitic. We rarely hear from them. Now and then some of the more famous ones become known to us. People in the past like Mark Twain, Raoul Wallenberg (in my original email I included Churchill but it sparked some controversy so I used Raoul instead), Martin Luther King and others. Or more currently, some brilliant deep thinkers like Jordan Peterson, Salim Mansur or one of my favourites Douglas Murray. 

That leaves about 60-70% of Gentiles who don’t like us but I would not call them antisemites because they don’t HATE us. We don’t know who they are because they are quiet on this topic simply because it’s not that important an issue to them. 

I'm sure we've crossed paths many times. Would I trust them to save me in a Holocaust? No!  But let's be fair. Could they trust us to save them in a Holocaust? You will have to answer that question honestly, yourselves. 

Rather than debating to death who is good vs who is bad (sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it isn’t) we should try to turn those 60-70% of Gentiles who don’t like us into liking us. It certainly couldn’t hurt. ( I wouldn't waste much effort trying to turn around the 10 to 20% of the real antisemites.)  A good way to start would be to offer a free guided trip to Israel sponsored by the Israeli government and supported by Jews everywhere (us). The tour would include trips to the borders, Yad Vashem, talking to the politicians, seeing the Holy places (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) and other incredible sites. Kanye is a religious evangelical. Can you imagine how he’d love to walk where his prophet Jesus walked? Let them talk to our arab enemies and decide for themselves if apartheid really exists there. Let them meet the many victims of terror in Israel (all faiths). I’m pretty sure that Abbas and other PA/Hamas leaders would shun them for taking the free trip in the first place. So chances are, people like Joe Rogan would not try to appease them and hopefully come home singing a different tune. 

Candace Owens is a wonderful, bright, articulate young Black American, conservative woman with common sense. She is Ye's friend and was seen with Ye wearing shirts saying' White Lives Matter'. This took some serious courage for both of them to display in public. I also suggest that she should talk to West and get him to explain better (he is a terrible communicator) why he said what he said and exactly what he meant. I personally don't think he was calling out ALL Jews. I think he was calling out the Jews that he had issues with. She needs to explain that many of his followers might misinterpret his remarks and it might spark some serious antisemitic incidents. 

                                                Candace and West

I have a few Righteous Gentiles who follow my blog and emails religiously and I couldn’t be more grateful. Because there are so few of them, they stand out like a bright light to me and must be encouraged to support us. 

Like I said, I won’t bother following Joe Rogan any more (I didn’t ever really follow him anyways). That’s my prerogative. I’m sure that he hasn’t read my blog either. The same with Kanye. Not a fan of his music, don’t care about fashion and he frankly is just not that interesting to me. I don’t hate them, just don’t like them right now. If they change, I too will change my opinion of them. Like I’ve said so many times before, we are such a small % of the world’s population. We need all the friends we can get and we simply can’t afford to alienate the world when it’s not necessary to do so.  I also believe in Truth. So all the facts and the context is always important to hear and acknowledge. I very much appreciate my colleagues who called out Ye and Rogan for their 'normalization' of antisemitism even when it comes from the Right. I did so myself. But it's our response that matters. We must be able to differentiate between the really vile Jew haters like Roger Waters and others like Joe Rogan and Ye West. Therefore if you chose to follow people like them or even be a fan of theirs, I will not judge you, nor will I call you out on it. If I did, I’d have to call out 60-70% of the Gentiles who don’t like us, and that serves no purpose. 

The Queen, shmeen

After reading numerous articles and watching the news about THE QUEEN (ad nauseam), and how fantastic she was and how great the monarchy is, I felt compelled to write this post.

What really got to me were the hundreds of social media posts, decrying what a wonderful woman she was especially from my fellow Jews. 

One can easily find many facts from Jewish articles about how she knighted the late chief rabbi of England, Jonathan Sacks. That was great. Or how she listened with interest to Holocaust survivors when they told her of their escape from Europe and how she even delayed her departure from that event, contrary to monarchy rules (WOW!). How she had many Jewish friends is also a common dubious theme. How about when she hired a mohel (kind of a rabbi who does Jewish circumcissions) to circumcise her son, King Charles. (double WOW!)

Of course there are literally millions of posts about how she'll be so missed (not by me). Her natural beauty and eloquence. Her intelligence, incredible work ethic, posture, costumes, taste, etc.

The world simply won't be the same without her.

Now let me tell you some things you might not want to hear but you should in order to make a fair assessment about who she really was and a bit about the monarchy.

She never once visited my Jewish homeland, Israel, despite visiting over a hundred other states including most of Israel's enemy states, some of which she visited more than once. 

Why didn't she?

Could it be that Britain never forgave Israel for bombing the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 which was British headquarters at the time? Just so you know, that the British sided with the arabs at the time and stopped Jewish immigration to Israel during and after the Holocaust. Millions of Jewish lives could have been saved from the nazi ovens but England (and most other countries) did not let the poor Jews escape to Israel. Some Jews in Israel had enough of the Brits. They were tired of fighting off the arabs who were often supported by the British so they finally bombed the hotel. 

Years later the queen was visiting King Hussain in Jordan when she and the King's wife witnessed Israeli jets flying near the border with Israel. They were both appalled by the site. How terrible for poor Jordan to have to put up with their Jewish neighbours jets who were guarding Israel from Jordanian terrorists!

Then there is her upbringing. In the 2nd photo below one can see her as a child giving a nazi salute along with her uncle, the former King Edward VIII who was a nazi collaborator. The first photo is of her uncle who is palling around with his real nazi friends in Germany in 1937.

Here she is at age 7 doing a wonderful nazi salute!

The monarchy has always blamed the conflict in the Middle East on those pesky European Jews. If only they stayed in Poland, Ukraine or wherever the hell they were in Europe. They have helped to shape the politics in Great Britain in this regard. 

In any case, we'll never know why she refused to visit Israel. 

I do know this. The British monarchy has cost my Canadian citizens millions of dollars over the years. Every time she or a member of her royal family came to Canada, we had to provide security, expensive hotels (only the best for the queen), travel, meeting with government officials and others. 

Add to this we have a governor general who represents the queen (monarchy) who gets paid an annual salary ($50,000 but this might be out of date) and lives in a beautiful residence in Rideau Hall. Has an expense account of $25,000 (again this might be out of date) and employs numerous aids and secretaries. All finances paid for by regular Canadian citizens like myself. 

When I used to work in downtown Toronto in a provincial ministry off our main street University Avenue, I would constantly see city workers plant flowers along the island in the middle of the boulevard. It happens every spring. But then the queen announces a visit and then it was decided (no one asked me) to rip out the newly planted flowers and plant new flowers that were more appropriate for the queen. Now I'm not blaming the queen for this, I'm blaming our stupid government. 

If you were to total the cost of the monarchy to all members of the common wealth, not just Canada, I can only imagine what the queen and her monarchy cost the world over all this time. Billions?

The question is: What was our benefit? I know that we have a lot of homeless people on the street or mothers who can't feed their children. I would much rather dump the queen and save our money to help them. 

The queen was a figurehead. Was she a vile antisemite like her uncle? I don't think so. But she meant nothing to me and if you liked her, great. But please let's get all of the facts out in the open so we can make a fair assessment about her and the monarchy.

Monarchies are remnants of the past. I would suggest that almost (if not all) monarchies today must go. They serve no purpose other than to sustain themselves in a disgusting display of extreme wealth. Most royalties today are extremely corrupt. Look at the ones in Africa and all Muslim states. 

Princess Diana left close to $30 million dollars to her sons. They represent some of the most entitled people on the planet. Of course who can forget prince Harry in a nazi uniform:

I predict that the monarchy will slowly collapse into dust in just a few years. I certainly hope so. 

 

The Left is Behaving like a Cornered Rat

Some of my worst fears are coming true. The Left is over the top and has lost any sense of fair play. They realize that they are in trouble. They realize that they will most likely lose the next presidential election as well as possibly lose the senate and the house of representatives. So they will do anything and I do mean anything not to lose. And they are. 

                                Girl bitten on the face by rat (inset). 

When a wild animal is cornered they are dangerous. Even an animal as innocuous as a small rat can attack a human being if it feels threatened. That is today's Left. In the US they call themselves Democrats. Here in Canada they are Liberals, NDP, Green Party and others. In Israel they are Labour, Yesh Atid, Blue and White and others. The US just launched a new political party called Forward. They call themselves centrists. I submit to you that there are very few, if any, real centrist parties in the world's political arena. 

As Thomas Sowell recently stated in his brilliant piece The Point of No Return he notes that 'the issue is that we've degenerated to a point where we are destroying ourselves before our enemies can'. It's no longer about Democrats vs Republicans. 

Yesterday the FBI raided President Trump's home in Florida! A few months ago, a Supreme Court Justice was threatened publicly by many including Chuck Schumer,  the senate majority leader of the Democratic party. The last election was clearly stolen under the nose of everyone. At that moment, the US officially became a banana republic. At that moment I really began to worry. If we can't have fair elections, how can anyone overthrow the current Marxist regime?

We are a hop, skip and a jump from the current government in the US, dragging former President Trump outside in his underwear in front of the world with CNN cameramen waiting. I know as I say this, many on the other side would wish nothing more. They couldn't care less what happens to their country as long as they get to see the legally elected former president who they hate, embarrassed and physically hurt on camera. I despise the current, corrupt, demented president yet I wouldn't wish that on him. Not because I feel sorry for him. I do not. But because it would hurt the US. And because I like to think that I follow the rule of law. 

I find it beyond frustrating that so many on the Left hate President Trump for reasons that for the most part they can't even articulate. Likewise they like Biden for the same non-reasons. 

As time moves forward I see the Right wing parties throughout the world getting more and more diluted. What was Right years ago is now in the center. What was Left is now Marxist and dangerously corrupt Marxists at that. 

I have no answers or suggestions. I am simply an observer. All I can say is hold on to your hats, we are in for a rough ride ahead. Our enemies are paying very close attention to our behaviour and are patiently waiting for the right time to really strike. Clearly they've been attacking us all along but so far, we in the West have mostly been spared. I don't know why G-d hasn't just let us get what we deserve already. He is clearly more patient than our enemies.