Klaus Rohrich

The wacky world of environmentalism

It’s usually in the spring of the year that we take a good look at our lawns to see how they’ve weathered this past brutal winter. Walking along the grassy tract outside of my home I noticed large areas of lawn that consisted only of weeds and bare earth.

Revenge of the bean counters

Last week history was made when the RCMP executed a search warrant on the national offices of the Conservative Party of Canada. Acting on an affidavit sworn by Canada’s election commissioner, the Mounties removed a number of boxes of documents as well as computers from the Party’s headquarters.

From the start the fix was in

Anyone who believes that there was ever a chance of the Toronto Transit Commission’s employees going on strike is in serious need of therapy. From the day that contract negotiations began the outcome was never in doubt as the clever social engineers at Toronto City Hall had choreographed each and every step.

The myth of a vibrant multi-culture

When Pierre Eliot Trudeau first started musing about the advantages of multiculturalism, it was seen in terms of that Coke commercial of some two decades ago wherein young people of all races joined hands around the world and sang, “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...” While that was an attractive and effective image in a commercial hyping soft drinks, it didn’t quite materialize in those terms in Canadian society.

Wide open immigration a really bad mistake

Currently there appear to be two opposing views on immigration to Canada. There’s the view of individuals like Liberal leader Stephane Dion and NDP MP Olivia Chow, who believe that Canada’s doors should be wide open to anyone at any time under any circumstances.

The blind leading the blind

I wasn’t surprised to see some people supporting Toronto Mayor David Miller’s call for a complete ban on the private ownership of handguns in Canada. What surprised me was the level of ignorance to which those in favor of the ban seemed to aspire.

How about a ban on socialists?

Toronto Mayor David Miller has launched an on-line petition to have the federal government legislate an outright ban on the ownership of handguns in Canada, believing if such a ban is instituted in Canada it would reduce the incidence of hand gun crimes.

A few modest proposals…

Politics has always been about people and ideas. Some people have great ideas, but don’t have the people skills to actualize them, while others have really bad ideas that somehow find their way into the mainstream.

Lose your job yet?  Keep voting Liberal

Dalton McGuinty’s fiscal policies appear to be designed to bring Ontario’s GDP on par with that of Burkina Faso. His finance minister, Dwight Duncan (Donuts) unveiled the province’s budget last week to great fanfare from the Left and dismay from everyone else, including federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who had urged the McGuintyites to cut corporate taxes.

Futility in Africa

Today citizens of Zimbabwe will go to the polls and reelect 84-year old Robert Mugabe for yet another term as President For Life. Perhaps reelect is the wrong term, as it implies that there was actually an open and honest election. More apropos might be that Mugabe reappoints himself President for Life following today’s election.

Media beginning to see Obama’s warts

It took some time, but the limp-wristed sob sisters of the former mainstream media have finally noticed that Barack Obama isn’t all that he’s cracked up to be.

What makes us so angry?

A 21-year old man was killed in a road rage incident in Aldergrove BC, after the driver of another vehicle ran the young man’s truck off the road and then turned around and ran over the young man, killing him instantly.

Seven additional reasons to go to hell

In an effort to stay abreast of the times and to feel more relevant, the Catholic Church has issued a decree that doubles the number of “capital” sins to fourteen.

Alienation in an alien nation

The fragmentation of our society is nearing exquisite proportions as more and more identity groups discover victimhood. Not a day goes by when some individual doesn’t claim to be offended on behalf of some identifiable affinity group. It’s gotten so our lexicon is rapidly being purged of words that identify members of any cohort, lest there be offense. This tendency to take offense on behalf of certain groups has reached the grass-roots level as now members of groups take offense by what local politicians say. Recently Toronto councilor Rob Ford got himself a lambasting for daring to identify Orientals by the name “Orientals” and he did so in the most positive way, praising people of Asian descent as being well-known for their work ethic.

A preemptive surrender

On November 2, 2004 a Dutch film maker named Theo van Gogh was shot eight times, had his throat slashed to near decapitation, stabbed in the torso several times and then had a note pinned to his chest with one of two knives embedded there.

In the US they’re still lynching Blacks

Today Conrad Black surrendered to authorities at the Coleman-Low Federal Penitentiary near Orlando, Florida to begin serving a six-year sentence for three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. Black’s prison sentence amounts to a lynching, pure and simple, as forces beyond even his control conspired to deprive Black of his wealth as well as his liberty.

Curious George has his knickers in a knot

Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman is curious about the adequacy of adult diapers being used in Ontario nursing homes.

Global “coorming”?

For over a year now, the few scientists who haven’t been intimidated or bullied into silence by the so-called “scientific consensus” we hear so much about, have predicted a rapid cooling of earth’s climate due to the ...wait for it.. activity of the sun. That prediction is tempered with the qualifier that sun spot activity has been virtually dormant for over a year and unless that activity returns soon, the planet will once again experience a “little ice age” like the one that ended during the 1850s.

Almost euthanasia

Next time you feel like bragging about how great the Canadian healthcare system is you may want to consider what’s routinely done to elderly patients in some of our hospitals. Recently an elderly woman, let’s call her Mary, had a stroke, which affected the left side of her body, meaning that the stroke occurred in the right lobe of her brain.

In Canada the Mushy Middle runs the show

Have you ever wondered how poll after poll shows Canada’s Liberals and Conservatives each with somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-35% of decided voters?