First entry

New to the blogging sphere. In the office, where it is about 25 degrees centigrade. Outside, the night time temperature is about 50C.

Blogs are a sop to one's vanity, and give even the most pathetic of scribes the opportunity to vent online. This blog has been created in response to the news that Doctor Mengele/Morgenthaler was given the Order of Canada award recently. As I have said before, and here commit to print, "Canada is a nation where you are allowed to kill babies but you are not allowed to smoke or burn leaves in your back garden." Consider the dark background to this situation: burning leaves hurts the environment; smoking might damage your health and, according to liberal, government funded scientists or pseudo scientists, the health of people around you. Therefore, kill people before they can smoke or burn leaves. Have I read too much into this perverse triangle of darkness? Kill babies so that they do not grow up to become smokers or leaf burners?

Only in Canada could the murder of several thousand people per year, on the grounds that later on they might burn leaves (smoking is really just a kind of industrialised leaf burning), be justified with a straight face. It assumes, of course, that smoking is actually a bad thing. One wonders why, if we can kill people by letting them smoke, we bother to kill them before they are born. Think of all the millions that are lost in cigarette and cigar taxes by killing people before they start smoking.

Let's think about what else you can, and can't do in Canada. You can marry another man (if you are a man). If you are not yet a man, and want to be one, you can become one, presumably funded by the government for doing so. If you cannot afford the operating, you can probably sue somebody for denying your rights. Having become a man, you can then marry the man of your choice, in an Anglican church in Vancouver, probably presided over by a woman (possibly a woman who used to be a man). Of course your own parents and the parents of the woman priest performing the ceremony, and the parents of your male spouse, did not have abortions. One wonders if, knowing what you would turn out to be, they might have had them.

What can't you do? You can't smoke in a public place, you can't say what you think, unless you are a woman, gay, an anti-smoker, a pro-abortionist, a native, a negro or some other kind of disenfranchised fringe type. You can't burn leaves, and you can't kill people -- unless those people happen to be babies. You can't be killed, unless you are a baby. If you kill someone else, nobody will kill you, unless you killed babies in large numbers and happened to be a doctor. In that case, they give you a prize.

Now what would happen if someone smoked 10 packs a day and thereby killed himself, sold cigarettes to thousands of children and thereby killed them? Would he or she be given the Order of Canada? I say this because, at least early in his career, Dr Mengele/Morgenthaler was actually breaking the law, as you would be if you smoked 10 packs a day -- because to consume that many cigarettes a day, you would have to smoke in public places.

But wait. It gets more complicated. Smokers do not have federal funding, so you would have to buy the cigarettes yourself. And, smokers do not have politicians supporting them, or the combined forces of thousands of virago feminists to storm campuses, hospitals and provincial and federal capitals on your behalf. So, if you are thinking of trying to bag the Order of Canada by smoking yourself to death, don't bother. Because, as all the politically correct elements in Canada will tell you, smoking is "not nice", but killing babies is "nice". If it were not "nice", we would not have given the Order of Canada to Dr Mengele/Morgenthaler.