Freddie P's Blog

I was shocked again yesterday by the while driving from Brampton to south Mississauga. The litter is unbelievable, and I'm well aware that it's the same way right across the GTA.

Driving down the 410 is absolutely shameful with wall to wall litter in the grassy area between the two highways.

It was bad last year, and now that the snow has gone, it's even worse this year. But I'm not about to blame the province or the municipalities for letting this get out of hand, I blame the citizens.

There's no way the province or any city can keep up with the filthy and selfish habits of day to day commuters. The litter on our streets and highways is mostly coffee cups, water bottles and disgusting cigarette butts.

All things that you know have been thrown directly from a car onto the highway. Things that could easily be kept in a car until you arrive home and then placed in the garbage can.

But for some reason attitudes have changed. People want to get rid of their garbage "now" with absolutely no regard for the environment, and to expect the city or province to keep up with it is way too much to ask.

It all falls on the shoulders of the people.

The off-ramp from the 403 to Erin Mills Parkway is grotesque. When did it become acceptable to stop your car, open your door and empty your ashtray onto the road? And who are the type of people that finish a McDonalds meal and then throw everything out the window.

The hypocrisy amazes me and only serves to highlight all the insincere bullshit that surrounds global warming.

Everybody's concerned about the environment as long as it's convenient, as long as somebody else actually has to do something about it.

But when it comes to keeping the inside of a car tidy - screw the world.

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Yes, thankyou for contriubting to the FreddieP.ca through the "discuss" bottom on the bottom of every story, it's much appreciated.

You may have noticed that I haven't responded to most of them because I haven't felt the need to. I think it's great that my stories have created such dialogue between other people, so I'm not going to intervene unless I have to.

I also want to thank those people who've e-mailed me directly through the "contact" page. I try to answer all the e-mails but I get so many it's hard to keep up.

But please don't stop.

Thanking your own self.
Freddie P.

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The price of gas is up again this mornings and nothing will be done about it.

We're getting screwed in this country and all levels of government just stand back and watch it happen while the oil companies prove how powerful they are.

The excuses for price fluctuation have grown tired and predictable because we all know it's nothing but lies.

It's collusion and price fixing in it's purest form and these monsters are allowed to continuously break the law and beat up on hard working Canadians with no accountability.

It happened under the Liberals and now it's happening under the Conservatives and the silence is deafening.

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What a fabulous day yesterday was. Not only was it sunny and warm, it also provided that undeniable smell.

It's one of those spring time indicators that make you feel all warm and fuzzy. You walk along in the therapeutic sunshine and listen as the snow melts and the water rushes into the catch basins.

The yellow grass begins to appear along the edge of the sidewalks as it looks up at you with hope.

And then you catch a whiff - an undeniable and oddly acceptable smell of early spring.

The smell of melting dog poop.

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My mother sent me this startling picture of the Saddam Hussein hanging. It's rather graphic so I caution you before having a look.

It was taken just moments after the trap door dropped and before he was taken away for burial.

Again, if you have a weak stomach, don't look.

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Below is the BBC documentary called the Global Warming Swindle that was aired on British TV last week.

In flies in the face of the global warming hysteria that we've been subjected to over the past several months and addresses how global warming has moved from an environmental issue to a political issue to a morality issue.

It doesn't dispute global warming; it simply questions the prevailing science and gives proof of other factors that are contributing to it. Factors well beyond our control which means there's nothing we can do about it.

And most of all it attacks those arrogant bastards who claim the debate is over, those who make you feel like you're an enemy of the planet if you raise a few questions and disagree with KYOTO.

It provides the other side which has been suppressed by too many left wing loony tune losers.

I'd like to get a copy in a format that I could conveniently shove up David Suzuki's ass.

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Read this story from yesterday's Star and then tell me how I'm supposed to feel.

Am I supposed to feel, guilty? Am I supposed to feel ashamed? Am I supposed to feel sympathy?

I'll tell you one thing, after reading the article I don't know how I'm "supposed" to feel, but I know how I "do" feel. Pissed off.

I'm pissed off that someone who had a child in another country and then brought him here without a father and apparently no skills has a sense of entitlement when it comes to earning a living.

What exactly are we supposed to do for this woman who came here from Jamaica thinking Canada was the land of milk and honey only to be shocked that "she'd have to work so hard and live pay cheque to pay cheque."

And once she the reality set in, why would she have another kid, obviously by a different father who apparently isn't around either.

Too freakin' bad lady, you make your bed and you lie in it, just every other person who makes bad decisions in their life. Don't look for Canada to bail you out, look to your own family and you might want to start with the fathers of your two kids.

And how predictable that Olivia Chow would throw a few logs on the fire with her socialist NDP crap when she complains that in Canada children are seen as a woman's responsibility and not a government responsibility.

Children are the responsibility of the people who choose to bring them into the world.

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I've always been amused by the "losing an hours sleep" issue that comes up every spring.

Listening to the radio this morning I heard the predictable "streeter bits" where young reporters go out and ask people if they've been affected by the time change.

And predictably, a good number say they have. How bizarre.

I've never been able to buy into this line of thinking and I'm a guy who used to get up at 3:30 in the morning. How can anybody say they've been directly affected by one hour of sleep once a year?

How is it any different than any other night where you might toss and turn for an hour, or a night where you went to bed an hour later than usual?

Yesterday morning when it was eight o'clock it was actually seven, but unless you had to get up, you probably stayed in bed till nine when it was actually eight.

But even if you didn't, last night when you went to bed at eleven, it was actually ten so you still got your eight hours if you got up at seven this morning.

It's all so ridiculous. If a one hour time change that steals an hour once a year is an issue in your life, then maybe you have other issues.

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A couple of union stories caught my eye today.

First of all the NHL Players Association has finally come around a made a move on Ted Saskin.

They've suspended the executive director albeit with pay until they decide how they're going to dump him. It's long overdue.

From the moment the transition from Bob Goodenow to Saskin started, there's been nothing but controversy and suspected scandal, and what will bring Saskin down ultimately will be an alleged breach of privacy regarding e-mails.

He's suspected of intercepting the e-mail of union members who disagreed with his hiring.

Regardless of how you feel about the guy, that is absolutely unacceptable and indefensible. He's done.

The second union story deals with the Brampton Chrysler plant. Staring straight in the face of unemployment the union had an about face and accepted an agreement that could see them lose about five thousand dollars a year per employee.

Chrysler is hurting and they needed co-operation for the union to continue in Brampton, but there was a militant fringe that refused to back down at all, and Chrysler management was growing increasingly impatient.

Survival of the Brampton plant wasn't a bargaining ploy it was ice cold reality and the union finally came around and faced that reality accepting a package that reduces their exorbitant salaries but keeps them employed.

It's about time.

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News Item

A Toronto high school teacher is charged with sexual exploitation following allegations that she has been romantically involved with a student for the last 18 months. And even more startling, Toronto Police confirmed yesterday that the family studies teacher is carrying a baby believed to have been fathered by the teenage boy who could be as young as 16.

I realize when it's an older woman victimizing a teenage boy, the tendency is to laugh it off and talk about envy and fantasy but this really is a tragic story.

This kid must have been about 15 when the relationship started, and apparently a good student. Now he's a drop-out and preparing for father hood long before his time.

All teenage boys fantasize about having sex with older women, especially good looking teachers, but percentage wise, it almost never happens.

But in this case it did. And even if the kid was a hormonally charged horn-dog, and he was ready, willing and able, he was still drawn into this by someone who should have known better.

I'd say any 35 year old teacher, who would get herself involved in something like this has to be mentally disturbed

And now her problems have become a huge problem for a kid who I'm sure "didn't" know better.

Here's a link to the entire story.

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