Blog… Phlog… Phil’s Blog The writings and ventings of a 30-something in Ontario

You know, you live somewhere and think you know everything about the place. Then you find this cool bit of information, with video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpUMSarCSQw

Well another school season has started. Sent home today on the first day of school was a list of things we can and cannot send to school. Nothing with Peanuts, because there is child who is allergic in the class. Nothing like fruit snacks or the like. Don't send your kids in with markers, because they provide them. Send your kids with Kleenex boxes though.

Here's my issue though.
1) In the school, there are two classes of the same grade, each with one child who is allergic to peanuts. So both classes are banned from kids bringing peanuts or nut products. Obviously putting both kids into one class would make too much sense!
2) The school doesn't want nut-based snacks, nor do they want you to send in fruit snacks (which are not un-healthy). But yet will the school pay the extra for all of these "Nut-Free" items. No
3) The school doesn't want us to send in the washable markers that are easy to get out of our kids clothes. But the school can't afford those markers so they give the kids the markers that will permanently stain the kids clothes. Is the school going to pay for the cleaning bills and clothing replacement? No.

Day one, and the battles begin. This is going to be a long, long, LONG school year. Thank god for the public education system!

The Sierra Club is poo-pooing the new Happy Meal toys of McDonalds because they have toy Hummer H2 and H3 SUVs as the prize. Does the Sierra Club not have something better to do than to go after kids toys? How about they go after their own members who own SUV's.

Example. I was at an Ultramar getting gas for my car, when in front of me was a Cadillac Escalade $50,000 SUV, with a "Member of the Sierra Club of Canada" bumper sticker on the back. Ironic? Now surely this is just a one-time idiot who happens to support the Sierra Club to cover for their guilty conscience of their gas-sucking SUV, right?

Wrong! In fact I have seen a few bumper stickers on cars while toiling in Ottawa rush-hour traffic, for the Sierra Club. On the back of a Ford expedition, a GMC Yukon, a Toyota Land Cruiser and lastly, the back of a Ford Mustang GT.

All of those vehicles have gas sucking V8 engines. The Mustang surprisingly has the best MPG at 28 MPG on the highway, 17 in the city. What about a GMC Yukon? 20 and 14.

I have yet to see a Sierra Club sticker on any car that is even a little bit eco-friendly. Is the Sierra Club an elitist group of Gas suckers who hide their SUV's behind an environmentalist group name?

Probably not, but if the Sierra Club wants to promote eco-friendly and slam SUV's, start at home first please.

Four soliders died in Afganistan today and Jack Layton goes on TV to score political capital out of it. What an idiot.

When he was first elected leader I was actually for Jack Layton. I supported his candidate in Leeds-Grenville for an election, and did the website for him for two elections. But everytime Jack Layton opens his mouth, he continues to push people away.