Maybe the title should read, “WHO does this remind you of?”

Hint: A blogger. A Mitchievillian commenter. From the southern USA.

When you figure out the answer, you will poo brix.

Thank all the gods except the Christian god that this article * appeared in the National Post, and not the vanguard people’s daily, the Red Star. After all, the bedbug crisis in Toronto is generally blamed on the darlings of the left, namely immigrants, the perpetually poor, and those in receipt of the bottomless, but never adequate, state handouts collectively called welfare.

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Charter of Rights & Freedoms be damned, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair wants all guns off the streets (and homes), and he’s starting by confiscating them from, as he puts it, “Legal handgun owners”:

Toronto police have seized almost 400 firearms from registered owners in a six-month push aimed at reducing the number of guns on the city’s streets.

In March, officers began soliciting registered firearm owners across the city as part of what they call the Safe City Project. Many of those who had to surrender their firearms had either let their registrations lapse, or had stashed their guns improperly under beds or in closets.

How on earth would the police know if a legal handgun owner was storing their guns illegally “under beds or in closets?” Maybe they are being stored in gun safes, like the law says.

I suppose if you want to seize legal weapons from its citizenry, the first thing the government/police must do is come up with a pithy title, hence, “Safe City Project”. Who on earth wants to live in an unsafe city? Not me, that’s for sure. And as we all know, legal gun owners and collectors are committing the majority of gun crimes on Toronto streets, so let’s hassle them and take away their weapons.

If the police are taking guns away from people who have let their registration lapse, wouldn’t be just as easy to ask that person to re-register their gun instead of taking the weapon away from them? I mean, the gun collector/terrorists’ information is the same, they live in the same house, they have the same name, what’s has changed other than a “lapse?”

Targeting people who had registered their guns is a preventative measure, said Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair.

“Legal handgun owners are not dangerous individuals,” Blair told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. “But we know from experience that their firearms can become extremely dangerous when they get into the hands of criminals. And so we have undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the availability of those handguns.”

And one of the “initiatives” to reduce the availability of those handguns is to trample on the rights of gun owners by confiscating their weapon(s).

Since confiscating the guns of registered owners is a ”preventative measure”, what are they preventing? Seems to me the police are saying these guns that are being stored “under beds or in closets” are being stolen and used in the commission of crimes. I wonder how many crimes? What are the stats on something like that? Do guns stolen from homes where people are storing them improperly count for 20% of all gun crimes on Toronto streets? 30% 95%? Don’t tell me the police don’t have stats on something like that, they seem to be able to pull out stats to fit their purpose on a whim.

If the police (and when I say police, I’m also referring to Toronto Mayor David “yellow” Miller) are so worried that guns are being stolen from homes, perhaps the coppers should concentrate on patrolling Toronto neighbourhoods more thoroughly. I’m sure the 20 or so officers that are confiscating the guns from the registered users, and pushing paper at a desk, could be put on patrol and sent out into some of those *at risk* neighbourhoods we often hear about. Of course, that implies that the people stealing weapons are from *at risk* neighbourhoods, which makes me a bigot, a racist, and perhaps worse that Hitler, but I’m just throwing that out there for your general consumption.

Considering that Toronto just went through Summer of the Gun II™, I can see why this initiative is now in full force: They’re trying to take your attention away from the people who actually commit gun crimes.

It’s funny in a way that Police Bill Blair admits that the people they are targeting - the registered gun owners - are “not dangerous individuals”, yet guns are “extremely dangerous when they get in the hands of criminals”, but yet they punish the registered gun owner. Hmmm. Perhaps they are targeting the wrong people then? Buehler?

The Safe City Project is a load of horseshit , but completely expected considering it originated from David “Yellow” Miller, Police Chief Bill “Yes David Miller, three bags full sir” Blair, and the rest of the dinkwad socialist tools on Toronto City Council. Registered gun owners are of NO threat, they are NOT the *root cause* of gun crime in Toronto. I’ll give you hint who is an actual threat though: Go to Jane and Finch and open your eyes.

From the sound of it, she was just giving a truthful promotion of what Toronto is really like:

A former Miss Toronto Tourism faces 19 weapons and drug charges, including possession of a Glock loaded with hollow-point ammo.

Zenovique Wilson, 23, Miss Toronto Tourism 2005, is to appear Monday for a bail hearing at College Park court.

A sharp-eyed copper was drawn by “suspicious behaviour” to a car parked outside a plaza, 31 Division acting Supt. Nick Memme tells me.

The uniformed officer spotted drugs in the Honda’s back seat and called in the cavalry.

Two men and a women were nabbed, with some Ecstasy and two semi-automatic handguns. The Glock held 11 rounds.

“She’s crying,” her lawyer, Ari Goldkind, tells me after leaving a court holding room.

“Jail is a big shock to her.”

Being in a car with a whack of dope and a few guns isn’t a big shock to her, but jail is. Go figure.

There are quite a few people saying that Wilson isn’t much of a role model considering she was Miss Tourism 2005, but The Mayor thinks she’s a perfect representative for Toronto Tourism. She originally lost her crown when it was found she was on bail. She obviously didn’t win the crown based on her beauty, but probably because she was an *at-risk* yoot, or *inner-city disadvantaged*,  or what have you, and now she gets busted for being in possession for drugs and dope. What is more representative of Toronto than that?

Wait, does she drive a Prius?

I have never been so outraged as I am right now. Even the sunlight coming through my office window does not warm my hands, and I cannot really enjoy cloud watching as much as I normally do at work. As an activist, and a progressive, I am filled with care and concern for the most downtrodden and hard done by in our racist, oppressive society. Even more so that they are not getting the administrative support for their caregivers that they deserve. My left eyebrow is twitching, and even my afternoon tumbler of Jack Daniels is emptied and ignored. I do not have the strength to fetch my assistant to fetch me another. I am upset.

Like all progressives, I prefer to read the office copy of The Toronto Star that you taxpayers buy. At home, I subscribe to the National Post, for superior insight for my investments. And what a bucketful of outrage there was in the paper today.

Read this article about the stench in Toronto * . Shocking, is it not? I am glad that the Red Star does not cover the negative aspects of the strike, as this would not fit the narrative of ‘all leftists good, all non-leftists bad’. And this article is full of bad, which is bad.

Mira Soliman lives near the Ted Reeve arena at Danforth and Main. I used to live near there, before socialism took away my job. Now comrade Soliman can live close to the gangbanger apartments on Danforth at Main. I hope her children are learning hip hop in mathematics class, and her daughter can correctly conjugate the verb ‘ho’, for she will need to know this to get an education in Toronto. As for her complaints about being a screwed over taxpayer, she should cut out that sort of talk. Taxspenders do not like it. In the interest of free speech, she should STFU, as the Crips gang who live upwind of her say.

And as for the paradise of Moss Park, lefties normally only mention it in regard to the horrible murders that occur there, and do not normally mention all the money, government money, that has gone into making is so attractive to the people who go there. By day, public works workers, social workers, and needle exchange picker-upers, and by night, whores, pimps, and drug salespersons. Too bad the once beautiful park (as it was in the days of Orange Toronto), has turned into a diseased place of corruption and evil. Then came the garbage strike, to make it smelly, too. If only Moss Park could become the tranquil place it was back in the days of Orange Toronto, back when there was no social spending, but have it tranquil but with lots of social spending. It is sad, however much more is spent of other peoples money, it still gets worse. My cheque cashing hand gets sore just thinking about it.

Then there is this gem of an article * . Of course it is not politically correct. Nasser Obsieh is obviously not a white Christian. Mentioning that this person is collecting a state pension for madness, when madness is supposed to prevent you from immigrating, is not sticking to the narrative. Poo poo on the Post.

Tuberculosis. I have mentioned frequently the prevalence of TB in Toronto. But only as a means to increase social spending. So what is the Post doing mentioning the widespread existance of this disease without a plug for more community centers, free ballet shoes, or safe injection sites at homes for unwed mothers? And mentioning that all these diseased people are off coughing in a fast food line is really not the image that a progressive, an activist, or whatever the aristocratic elite like to call themselves this day, like to present. To think that the scruff beside you in the pizza parlour is a raging vector for plague is not the image of cute and fundsworthy that the perfumed and highly pensioned no-workers of the taxspending enabler class wish to present.

Toronto, the city of light, harvesting the rewards of billions of years of inadequate social spending.

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this

xpd Mitchieville, DustMyBroom

Although the roads of Toronto are filled with potholes and infrastructure is decaying at an alarming rate, even though thousands of Torontonians are losing their jobs every week, and even though the City of Toronto is in an economic crisis and the economy of the city has collapsed, Toronto Mayor, David Miller, intends to boost the arts funding another $2 million dollars this fiscal year:

Much of the proposed 2009 increase would go toward youth outreach programs in “priority neighbourhoods” plagued with gang crime, and for an expansion of a school meals program.

Just what the city needs, more midnight basketball courts for marginalized inner-city youth who are railing against the affects of colonialism in Africa.

In the 6 years David Miller has been Mayor of Toronto, arts grants and freebies have increased about 35%. Recession, depression, cataclysmic economic devastation, no matter, the show must go on.

Although the city is bankrupt and economic collapse is near, the Toronto Mayor will defend the freebies to the art community to the bitter end:

“It’s a deliberate, strategic choice, because those programs are always important, but they are essential at a time when people are losing work,” Mr. Miller said, adding that the “shoestring” programs “work literal miracles in people’s lives.”

Other than the hoop-shootin’ gangbangers that now have a lit area to sell their drugs at 3 am, who else is a beneficiary to the great taxpayer moolah giveaway?

Others included $4.8-million divided among a list of major institutions and events, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Opera Company, the Pride Festival and Caribana.

Congrats to the rich, the gay, and the black, you’ve earned every nickle.

While some people believe that shoveling taxpayer money to subsidize the rich folk so they can go see Pavarotti at The Toronto Opera Company is a bad idea, they only feel that way because they’ve never seen him sing Nessun Dorma from Turandot live.

In the long run I suppose it doesn’t matter. Toronto is imploding, and all the money Miller is wasting on these useless programs designated for the sludge that live in the corrupt cesspool known as TO will go down the toilet. And when Toronto does implode and goes bankrupt, I suppose the fault will have to be laid at the feet of the real criminal behind all of Toronto’s woes: Mike Harris.

The City of Toronto may be on the verge of bankruptcy, taxes may be some of the highest in the country, user fees are costing every Torontonian thousands of dollars a year, and property taxes have skyrocketed, but all is not bad news in the City of Light, as the City of Toronto is looking to add 1300 new workers to its payroll:

But Milczyn, a former budget committee member who doesn’t support Mayor David Miller’s $8.7 billion spending plan for 2009, said there are several hundred new hires – particularly in internal administrative functions – that he finds questionable.

Milczyn said it seems the budget committee has been more accommodating.

“Every year, staff bring forth lists saying they need more people and every year council would say no. This year that doesn’t seem to have happened. It seems that staffing requests that have come in are being approved.

“It just seems to me that it’s the kind of budget that the labour unions would love,” Milczyn said. “It seems a pro-labour mayor is doing what labour would want him to do.”

Taxpayers who are looking at a 4 per cent property tax hike have less reason to celebrate, he added.

“It’s almost as if the budget committee ignored the economy and the city’s finances,” he said. “I find it to be reckless. Reckless and irresponsible.”

Nonsense, you big meanie, it’s only reckless and irresponsible if you pay taxes or don’t work for the government.

These jobs are needed, I can’t possibly see how the City of Toronto can function without them. For instance, here’s a small sampling of some of the jobs that should be filled immediately:

• Five permanent inspectors for grow-op crackdown.
• One lawyer to handle increased demands to attend Ontario Municipal Board and Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. hearings.
• One lawyer for human rights tribunal hearings.
• Eight permanent positions to gear up for 2010 municipal election.
• 11 customer service representatives to reduce delays at parking tag counters/call centre.
• A BlackBerry support specialist to handle problems with the more than 2,000 BlackBerrys issued to city staffers.
• Seven tech jobs for rollout of 311 service.
• 11 security staff for parks and recreation and water departments.
• Eight jobs to increase the number of dog and cat licences.
• An animal nutrition research assistant.
• Two workers to maintain street trees.
• Eight workers to handle tree-cutting applications from developers.

This doesn’t include the new workers the City of Toronto will need to collect the bevy of new taxes that were proposed last year. Make a tax, hire workers to collect tax. That’s what we refer to at Mitchieville City Hall as a *ching ching*.

Every last one of these jobs is critical in making Toronto run like a well oiled machine. Without an animal nutrition research assistant, there would be animals roaming the streets of Toronto without knowing the proper nutritional guidelines animals should aspire to have.  

A Blackberry specialist is also very important for those workers who can’t access a Blackberry homepage, or reach an IT professional at Research in Motion.

As for the rest of the jobs listed, well, they speak for themselves.

This is a good deal for the taxpayers of Toronto, a little math will put it all into perspective:

1300 employees @ $60,000.00 yr = $78 million

1300 employees–City benefits @ $5k per person = $6.5 million

Total: $84.5 million

That’s a good deal.

Toronto–always leading by example

A task force set up by the City of Toronto to figure out how to take the more than 350 million takeup cups out of circulation  will not meet its April deadline to propose its changes. So far there have been no recommendations forthcoming, and the price tag to figure out a takeout cup alternative has grown and grown:

What to do with the empty cup? That will take six months of deliberation by a 40-member task force, split into five subcommittees and backed up by $50,000 worth of consultants’ reports.

Rathbone says the process won’t grind on forever, because he has been directed to come up with recommendations for councillors by June.

“We’ll come back with a recommendation,” Rathbone said. “Whether we reach consensus or not with the stakeholder group is another matter. Ultimately, it’s our job to listen and to weigh all the various opinions and write our recommendations.”

De Baeremaeker says that while the process appears long and costly, it’s worthwhile to find the right solution.

“When you look at 350 million coffee cups a year, every year for the next decade, it will cost millions upon millions of dollars to come up with a solution,” he said.

“So, investing $50,000 up front to come up with the most financially and ecologically sound option is money well spent.”

Yes, it’s quite a deal for taxpayers. City council seems to be leading by example, they’re taking taxpayer money and recycling it into thin air with zero carbon emissions.

The *investment* (taxpayer $$$ investment) De Baeremaeker’s is talking about is just the tip of the iceberg, of course. You would have to add up the thousands of hours the 40-member task force has put into this project to date, add the next three months they’ll continue working on it, also tack on their expenses, office space and supplies, website to promote this, performance bonuses for eventually getting the job done, and another zillion hidden costs, and you can start to see the true cost of this *investment*.

Keep in mind we’re talking about cardboard cups here. Thousands of Torontonians are losing their jobs every day, Toronto is dead broke and running a massive deficit. Businesses are escaping the City of Light quickspeed. The homeless are being stacked like cord-wood on every corner in TO. Social services are overloaded. Taxes are some of the highest in the country. Local kiddie pools will be closed this year due to lack of funds. And what are we spending millions of dollars on? Paper fucking cups.

The idea of a 20 cent takeaway cup tax is on the table, but what will end up happening is Toronto City Council will ride in like socialists knights and only  issue a 5 cent per cup tax. It will be a great triumph, the environment will be saved and coffee drinkers will only be wounded, not killed. And all the new-found tax money will be rounded up and put into a fund with an important name, like the *Environmental Consciousness Awareness and Anti-Destruction Fund*. A new bureaucracy will be formed and 98% of the new money will go into the pockers of like-minded establishment destroyers like the doosh nozzles that scurry around Toronto City Hall. And after that tax is implemented, the reptilians will then declare that the earth is being destroyed by toothpaste caps, or straws, or pencil shavings, and the tax and spend will continue simply because the people of Toronto are forever idiots.

It was a sad day in the Reginaldson house last Saturday when my modem crashed and I was left without home Internet access. Sadness turned into gloom when one of Bell Sympatico’s finest minds in Bombay told me it would be a few days before I got a replacement modem. Gloom turned into despair when I got home late Wednesday and I found out my modem was at the Post Office but the damned Post Office isn’t open at 10:30 at night. Despair turned into sheer panic yesterday after I plugged in the new modem and still no connection! A sacrificial offering in the name of Set and another call to Bell this morning and BOOYAH - I’m back.

Logan and I are going with a theme this week which I’m sure the more perceptive of you will figure out right away. It sucks to be Logan btw (heh heh). He may be in Vegas today, but I got to go to Mississauga on Wednesday for work (if there is anything more exciting than a 5 hour meeting at an airport hotel in Mississauga I don’t know what it is). After the meeting my boss took us to supper at a new restaurant called Canyon Creek. After falling in love with my waitress (hi Tia!) I fell in love with a 16oz Pork Chop that was smothered in this tasty ligonberry sauce. I have no idea what a ligonberry is or where it comes from - it sure as hell isn’t native to Belleville - but it is damned tasty! With no Internet access for the week I didn’t have time to find new Female Flesh pics so I stole the pit pics above from our sister blogger Ice. If you find yourself at Canyon Creek this weekend try the Pork Chop and tell them that the guy from Belleville sent you. Oh, the Brownie and Vanilla Ice Creme for dessert is to die for.

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