Rational Radical

There’s poor judgment….

As I always say, when I come down on a person, it’s not usually because of one particular action but because something about that person’s demeanour or the story itself suggests there are more issues lying underneath.  Adam Giambrone is one such person.  The most recent news is one more example of his lack of judgment (the COMMENTS section below contains the Star story):

Adam Giambrone says sorry for affair with young woman — Woman shows Star text messages, purportedly from politician, and says she was shocked to learn he had a live-in partner

Kristen Lucas, left, learned about Adam Giambrone’s partner, Sarah McQuarrie, seen with him at right on Feb. 1, 2010, in late December 2009. Lucas says she and Giambrone began dating a year earlier. (CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR)

Finally, someone caught one of these jerks doing his personal crap while on duty, causing everyone to wait for him. This happens ALL THE TIME, whether it’s for banking, coffee, or pizza slices (I’ve seen them all).  I hope everyone clicks more pix like this one and these guys get heavily reprimanded.  This sense of entitlement really needs to stop and the TTC Union boss–Constant Argument for Birth Control, Bob Kinnear–needs to piss off.  The COMMENTS section contains the full story (yes, it’s the Sun, but again, I have a reason to be here…):

Riders see red as streetcar driver takes break — TTC employee halts Red Rocket, gets off and does his banking (By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun)

has to be tasered by COPS because he lunged at a neighbour with two knives?  Well, in Ontario, that psychopath gets released on bail the very next day and is not even ordered to stay away from his victim.  Fortunately, Jamie Lee Roche was not injured in the original attack because her boyfriend intervened.  So you know, the COPS told the victim that they would let her know if the psychopath (or psychotic–I don’t know enough yet to determine if he is mentally ill; she claims he is a known drug user so his odd behaviour could be drug-induced, which is no excuse!) would be released but they failed to do so.  Imagine her surprise when she saw him in her apartment building the next day where he also lives.

Click here to be taken to a video of the story (yes, I know, it’s the Sun…but I went there to check out another story I heard on the radio).  And the written story is contained in the COMMENTS section below.

This link takes you to a funny clip on how to report the news (thank you, MM):

http://www.break.com/index/how-to-report-the-news.html

I’ve written many times about Toronto’s dysfunctional City Council.  You will never find a greater bunch of “entitled” assholes who believe they are above us all, as this quote highlights: Gloria Lindsay Luby, who as deputy speaker ruled the night councillors voted that council “reigns supreme,” also would not comment.

I do not read the Toronto Sun (no one with a triple-digit IQ would read that paper) but I do listen to the radio when in my car.  One Sun writer, Sue-Ann Levy, has been following this story, which I first mentioned over seven months ago in this post.

I heard on the radio that these cowards–Karen Stintz in particular–refused to answer their phones when CFRB1010 called them for comment.  Here are the other entitled assholes who refused to answer Sue-Ann Levy’s calls: Karen Stintz, Shelley Carroll, John Parker, Raymond Cho, Glenn De Baeremaeker, Howard Moscoe, Gord Perks, Joe Pantalone, Joe Mihevc, Mark Grimes, Adam Vaughan, Joe Mihevc and Anthony Perruzza.

And then that douchebag, David Miller–the only mayor who could make me long for MAYOR MEL LASTMAN–claimed that:

1) this brou-ha-ha was all due to the media, not his and his cronies’ illegal actions

2) the city solicitor, Anna Kinastowski, was a jerk for daring to disagree with him and explain that the LAW clearly states that what he and his cronies were trying to do was ILLEGAL

3) other city lawyers disagree with the City Clerk, which means that Miller paid lawyers with OUR TAX DOLLARS to try to get them to agree with his illegal actions, even though he was told clearly that he was in the wrong

4) somehow, when the media try to call to get comment on this major story, these poor baby councilors are being “harassed”

5) Adrian Heaps–the douchebag in the middle of this story–never asked for the “FREE” TAX-PAYERS’ money (nearly $66,000) that his buddy, Paula Fletcher, arranged to give to him.

What am I talking about?  Read the two stories in the COMMENTS section below by the Toronto Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy. 

I always laugh when people get so upset and distressed over bad calls by referees and other “injustices” to over-paid athletes.  Okay, I do feel bad when Olympic athletes fall prey to obvious scumminess because the IOC is corrupt and ineffective.  However, if people could muster even a fraction of the outrage they feel when pro athletes get a “raw deal” with respect to REAL issues on the local or global level, our world would be a much better place.  I usually refrain from commenting on sports issues because of this kind of silliness.

However, as someone who used to love competing and watching sporting events, I do have concern over the recent increase in violence in sports from a very young age.  In most cases, the kids are encouraged to act badly by their “heroes” on TV, their coaches, and sadly their parents.  Any parent who acts too inappropriately should be banned from kids’ sports for life–simple.  They should also serve jail time in many cases, when physical assaults take place.

Similarly, any coach who encourages little kids to take cheap shots should be banned from coaching for life.  A few high profile cases like this will do wonders for the game.  As for the kids themselves, since they are caught up in the middle of the action and are often following adults’ orders, they should be suspended for quite some time for severe actions and then banned for life if they repeat such transgressions.  As they get older and become more responsible for their actions, the same rules should apply except that they should be punished more severely and face a lifetime suspension more quickly.  Once again, a few high profile cases should help to clean up this mess.

Let’s see how the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League deals with the brutal cheap shot by Patrice Cormier, who came off his team’s bench and caught an opposing player, Mikael Tam, with an elbow in the neutral zone, knocking out some teeth and sending him into convulsions on the ice; he may now have a brain injury. Don’t get me wrong.  I enjoy the physical aspects of hockey and love a good fight among two willing players.  But cheap shots that can ruin a person’s career and possibly kill him/her have no place in hockey.

The COMMENTS section contains the whole CANADIAN PRESS/STAR story and shows that Cormier and his coach/team don’t get it. Assholes.  And if anyone doubts that Cormier is a douchebag on ice, check out his similar elbow/cheap shot during a freaking EXHIBITION game during the World Juniors.

Patrice Cormier, seen here during the world juniors on Jan. 2, 2010, was given one of the longest suspensions in QMJHL history. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO)

I and others on this blog have written about what a scumbag Jason Wallace is.  He’s the father of Kaylee, the little girl who was on death’s door last summer but miraculously survived.  Her parents arranged for another child to have their daughter’s organs upon her death but did so in an inappropriate manner.  Then the father caused big troubles with the hospital and had to be removed.  As is often the case, one’s actions in one context usually reveal something more about the person’s underlying character, even when the circumstances are extraordinary.  Well, we later learned that the scumbag had outstanding charges and attended court with a freaking entourage!  He and his wife are the same glory hogs who wanted a helicopter ride back home and have done everything possible to exploit their daughter so they can remain in the spotlight.  They also took people’s donations for Kaylee and used them for their own needs, which they claim can also help Kaylee.  The COMMENTS sections contains the most recent story on this waste of flesh, who was involved in the beating and abandoning of a friend that almost killed the man.

The next story in the COMMENTS section is just as bad, as this monster prays on senior citizens and in at least one case physically assaulted an elderly woman while stealing her purse.  Of course, once this habitual sociopath is caught, he’ll spend about 24 hours in jail in total, get released, and start all over again.  Trust me, he cannot be rehabilitated, as he has no conscience.

Security video shows a man snatch a purse in the lobby of a building. Police are looking for Richard Earl Rupert, top right, 54, wanted on charges of theft and fraud.

The conflict in Afghanistan is very complex and there are many issues that cannot be addressed in simplistic, black and white terms.  That includes the torture of prisoners by Afghan forces.  However, the Star story in the COMMENTS section does seem pretty easy to understand.  Namely, this apparent hero–Richard Colvin–seems to be getting the ol’ FUCK YOU by Harper’s government for daring to report the truth.  Again, I don’t care what you think about the Afghan war or Canada’s role in it.

This story is about the Harper government fucking over anyone who dares say something that Harper does not like.  It’s also about how Harper’s government tries to hold itself entirely UNACCOUNTABLE and NON-TRANSPARENT, despite their promises to the contrary before the election and their claims afterward.

Richard Colvin has said his warnings about detainee transfers were ignored. (PAWEL DWULIT FOR THE TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO)

Okay, I admit it.  I got choked up reading this story.  In short, a family with a dying three year-old boy–Tucker Patterson–whose motor functions are rapidly deteriorating, were refused access to a skating rink for one of the boy’s few pleasures in life.  The Leafs stepped up and have arranged for a great day for the boy and his family, although the story does not make mention of the boy being invited to watch the game itself.  The story from the Star is in the COMMENTS section.

Tucker Patterson, pictured last summer, will attend the Leafs practice at the ACC after being turned away from a Hamilton-area skating rink. (RON SCHEFFLER/THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR)

As soon as this idiot began wasting tax-payers’ dollars and taking up a streetcar to do his self-promotional  program, I think most people realized what his true goal was: Begin the promotional machine for his run for mayor of Toronto.  The only reason he got where he is today (aside from his moderate intelligence and abundance of ambition) is that he was the “teacher’s pet” to David Miller.  I really hope that people see him for what he is and hand him a horrible defeat.  Otherwise, we’re going to get “Miller Lite” as our next mayor and this city cannot handle any more of the crap that Miller and his cronies have been doing to it.  Of course, the right-wingers are no better, so we’re screwed either way.

 TTC chair Adam Giambrone, 32, is poised to announce his candidacy for mayor of Toronto. (STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR)