Viagra

Those Viagra commercials are way off the mark. All Viagra does is make a penis hard. It doesn't make you a good lover or an attractive person. What good is a penis that is hard for four hours, if the owner has no idea what to do with it? These misleading commercials would have us believe that all kinds of romance and sensational sex are brought to you by Viagra. No. They're not. A stiff dick is brought to you by Viagra.
I can only imagine the silent anguish of millions of women who had been released from conjugal obligations because their men were suffering from erectile dysfunction, when a well-meaning male research scientist discovered Viagra.
Now we have millions of men with a new lease on life, who think they are saving their marriages and giving the greatest gift of all to their wives. So typical.
Viagra does not a good lover make. Unless it eliminates denture breath, excessive body hair, or messy sperm leakage, and provides its consumer with wit, intelligence and a brilliant sense of humour.

The pig farmer

Willie Pickton. Now isn't that a guy who deserves your money and mine? How many millions of taxpayers' dollars have been spent so that Justice can be served? And that's for only a half dozen victims; stand by for yet another trial for the untimely demise of more hapless victims. Why couldn't just a smidgen of that amount be spent by putting itin a brown paper bag and giving it to some feisty bastard who would do us all a favour by ridding us of any future monetary obligation, if you get my drift??

Tasers

May I first say that the tasering incident at Vancouver airport was most unfortunate, a sad and tragic incident, without doubt.
However, we can't just wag our judgemental fingers at the cops. What about the hundreds of airport employees who left that poor Polish guy alone for ten hours? What about the flight attendants -- didn't they notice he couldn't respond when they said, "Have a nice day!" as he left their plane? Or the hundreds of other workers who could have helped, had they taken the time to conscientiously do their jobs? How ironic -- all that money spent on making them bilingual -- and it didn't even help.
What about his mother? What stopped her from asking about her son's arrival time? Why didn't she ask someone, after there was no sign of him for several hours? If she tried, and an employee brushed her off, or if either the son or the mother was trying to solve the dilemma and they were disregarded or brushed off, then heads should roll.
My point is, the cops aren't the only ones to blame here! Sure, it's an unpleasant video to watch, but we are watching it with 20/20 hindsight. It's always easy to point fingers at the cops, especially tasering cops, even though they might have had reason to fear he was some drug-crazed unpredictable kook.
I'm glad there's going to be an inquiry. I regret that some lawyers will benefit the most, and the taxpayers will be further burdened, but if it's going to mean a weak link gets exposed in all this, then it will be worth it.
And to the pacifist anti-taser tree huggers who showed up at the funeral to get your point across, under the guise of really caring about this man and his family, SHAME ON YOU!!

Kneejerk Reactions

I've spent the better part of today (and several other days) trying to get on my Rantankerous blogsite, so that I can vent and indulge in some self expression. I think I already posted a note on some other nagynugg Rantankerous Rumblings blog. What can I say, other than: I am technologically challenged/impaired sometimes.
I want to post my immediate responses to news stories as I hear them. And change my mind as the stories evolve, possibly. Like the tasering thing in Vancouver airport. I'll comment in a bit; first I have to see if this works.