What some people won’t do for money

In case you thought I was getting soft with all the pay it forward, what goes around comes around stuff, here's another rant for you.

What some people won’t do just to make a couple of dollars, even to the extent of putting their life in danger. The first of October I had to move because the old house I was renting was in sad shape. The landlord received permission from the city to demolish it as he wanted to build a duplex. When he informed me that he received permission to demolish it, I looked for another place, I found one just a couple of blocks away from where I had been living. On the first of October I moved. After everything had been moved, and was settled in I noticed something for the first time. I had to go to the bathroom for the first time in the new place. I walked in the bathroom and when I flipped the switch for the light, none came on. So the next day I informed my new landlord and she said that she would send an electrician down the next day to see what was wrong.

The next morning there was knocking at the front door. When I answered it, this guy introduced himself as the electrician who was here to fix the bathroom light. I let him in but I noticed that he never had any tools or tester to check the wires. So I followed him to the bathroom and what did he do? After disconnecting two of the wires that were connected together, I found out that his tester was thumb and index finger. He touches one wire with his thumb and the other one with his index finger then he turns around and says "I feel a little tingle". I would say that if there would have been the 110 volt that it was supposed to have he would have taken a flip off the toilet he was standing on. Not very professional.

I guess he went back to the landlord and told her that there was power. But the next day she sent a real electrician and he tested those same wires with his tester and found out that there was only 75 volts coming through. Since the kitchen light wasn’t working either, he took that one apart and found out that the way it was connected it was causing a short so he had to repair that one also.

I would say that the first one that represented himself as an electrician is a danger to himself and the property of others and other people’s lives. He's getting paid identifying himself as having a skill that he probably doesn't really have. While talking to him, I realize that the first "electrician" seemed to have a big ego and that big ego is liable to affect his decisions especially in doing electrical work.

That’s my rant of the day.

What goes around comes around (Part 2)

Here is another example of what goes around comes around.

I had rented this house and had been living there for 18 years. After 14 years of living there the original landlord died and his wife, the landlady, sold it. After it was bought by another person he asked me if I would sign a lease with him and I did.

After 4 years he decided to get that old run down house demolished to build a duplex. So I had to move out recently. But he did offer me an apartment somewhere else. I didn’t want to move in the section of town that it was in so I found a place myself instead and I moved out.

I have always paid my rent, but something happened one month when I was with the old landlord and instead of paying my rent on the first like I usually did I paid it at the last of the month. After that, I was always running a month behind and that payment cycle carried on with the new landlord.

So when I moved out, I offered to pay for the last month and then I would only owe him for the month that I was behind. Surprisingly, he refused the 2 months that I would have had to pay him ($1000.00). And to top it, off he offered to give me money if I needed some. He also told me that when his duplex is finally built in that old location, and is ready for renting that he will let me know. I will have the first opportunity to rent it from him.

I will say that these two people have showed me that there are still good people in this world and that not everyone puts money ahead of a person in need. They have renewed my faith in other people.

So that's not exactly a rant, but it is worth sharing.

What goes around comes around (Part 1)

Do you believe in that old saying what goes around comes around? Well, I must say I didn’t always believe in that saying. Since I was old enough to work for my money I’ve always helped anyone that needed help and I never expected to get it back. I’m 79 so it has been a while. I would say about a year ago I received a big surprise which I never expected.

My granddaughter had come down for a visit and she told me about a friend of hers that needed money to get either her driving permit renewed or for insurance for her car (I don’t remember the exact details).

I gave my granddaughter the money to bring to her and I never expected to get it back. When my granddaughter came down a couple of weeks later she informed me that the lady had given her the money that I had lent her. I was surprised because usually when I have lent money out, it was never given back to me. Anyway when talking with my granddaughter I mentioned that I would have to buy myself a new bed as I was sleeping on a hide-a-bed but it was getting old then we moved on to talking about something else.

My granddaughter comes down every two weeks to and when she dropped by my place she brought in a big box and it turned out to be a brand new bed. It had been bought by the lady to whom I had lent the money that she needed. I offered to pay her back for the bed and she refused.

To be continued.

Police protecting citizens in the USA. LOL

This is something hard to believe. I wrote before that the USA is either turning into a third world country or a communist one. Now I've changed my mind after reading this. I would say it’s already a combination of the two of them. With everything I’ve read about some police officers’ conduct on duty being contrary to what they were hired to do, the nation has already tipped off the cliff. Police were hired to protect the people.

From what I’ve seen on videos and read on the news, a lot of them should be hired as policeman in Russia because they act like the judge and jury and they like to beat up people for no reason. I will point out that not all of them conduct themselves in that manner and those officers are getting a bad reputation from the rotten ones.

I would say if a person applies to become a police officer, having grade 10 completed would have to be one condition. It seems like they might have been short of applicants so if grade 10 were one of the conditions, then they might of hired 2 persons that might have completed grade 5 instead. The 2 combined would be grade 10 and put them on detail together as partners. LOL. When I read or see what some people do when put in a position of authority it makes me mad to see that they become judge and jury and not accountable to anyone in their way of thinking.

If you have any intentions of visiting the USA, be careful. There are some brainless cops on the loose over there. Don’t try to argue because you might be charged for resisting arrest, and if you’re not charge with that, they will find some excuse to charge you with something else.

Like I mentioned above, they are certainly not all like that. There are some good ones that know what their duties are and conduct themselves appropriately. But you don't know when you run into a police officer if that's who you will be dealing with.

That’s my rant of the day.

John Abbot

Here is another politician saying (I guess) what he thinks that some people want to hear:

“Ontario has always taken a hard line when it comes to its provincial anti-smoking laws and MPP John Abbot says.”

If he manages to get a registry of the sort he is suggesting, I just wonder if it’s going to cost the tax payers billions like it did for the gun registry. Probably.

From what I understand the gun registry doesn’t exist anymore. Does he think that kind of statement would get him elected in the next provincial election? I don’t think so.

If the politicians of Ontario would smarten up they could find out why the companies that make all kinds of garbage to stop smoking, don’t produce a safe product that would not affect the heart of a person that would want to stop smoking. It’s a known fact that smoking affects the function of the heart. For instance, seniors that have trouble walking, people sitting at their desk all day and have no time for exercise, what happens to their heart?

The heart loses pressure, their lungs get filled with the fluids because the heart has lost strength and doesn’t have enough pressure to push the fluids out of the lungs and the results are that you drown in your own intake of fluids. That’s exactly what happened to me. I died briefly as a result of it, then came back alive again. My kidneys and lungs had shut down and once the fluids had been drained from my lungs the heart picked up strength again. I was lucky.

Now you go and buy a product to help you to stop smoking and when you read the label it says consult a physician before using if you have heart problems. John Abbot is looking in the wrong place for a solution.

Global warming.

For us who keep up with what is going on in the world,  I find that this world is getting worse and worse for people lying and imagining and twisting things around just to get themselves in the news.

Here is one of the things we hear about every day: Global warming. To me this global warming hysteria is garbage. I believe it is the results of someone turning up the thermostat before going to bed because it got cool and with the sun rising in the morning, it got hot again.  But because he was having a nightmare about him being on Mars and the setting of the thermostat the previous night and then the thought came in to this person's mind that the planet was warming up. So this person believed in spreading the word that the planet was heating up knowing full well that the government would enact more rules or laws to rip people off an make life more miserable for them.  That's about as plausible as the world actually overheating in recent times.

I live in Canada and usually in the summer the heat used to become unbearable. Now we get some hot days in the summer but not nearly like before. In fact, there was a couple of days the heat came on automatically in my home, as I leave the thermostat on at 21 Celsius which would be approximately 68 to 70 Fahrenheit.

Even in September the heat would not come on until almost the end of the month in years past. Now it came on after the second week of September. So the person that came out claiming that the planet was warming up must hear some little voices in his head talking to him. In my observation, even the people that predict the weather are wrong most of the time when talking about 3-5 days from now.  So this person predicting the weather for the whole planet and decades into the future must be hearing voices because he can't be using reasonable science.

Was this done purposely?

Be prepared to be surprised. I am about to cut president Obama some slack.

Some people tend to criticize without waiting to see what is really going to happen. The speech that was given by Obama in regards to ISIS does deserve a little bit of time. Myself, I don’t like him because he doesn’t seem to know too much about the strategy of war. And I have criticized his approach to a number of things, including ISIS.

The speech he made sounded as if he was giving ISIS his plans for attacking them. On the surface, that seems pretty dumb. I will ask this though - was it to throw them off on what he really intends to do? If that was, it backfired because these sadists would start hiding among the civilians and move their equipment into schools and around the most populated areas because they would know that a coalition would not bomb a school or hospital or where there was heavy traffic of civilians.

If I was to give a speech like He did, I would make sure that what I would say would be all lies because I would already have a plan B (which was actually my plan A). It would be contrary to what I said when I had given such a speech. That is why I call people brainless for criticizing him without waiting to see if that was exactly what he intended to do.

Maybe that was part of his plan that would get the people in an uproar and would be more convincing to those killers. In the meantime he could deploy troops and go in with guerrilla warfare tactics. They would not be ready for that kind of battle. He could have had spotters (or drones) to indicate where most of those killers would be at and hit them hard. And whether they be any Westerners or not, blast them because if Westerners are among those people that would mean they are with them than they deserve the same treatment kill them all.

So, maybe Obama will surprise us. Maybe he does have a secret plan, or his generals do. If so, then he'll deserve credit for the deception for once. But in the end, he may disappoint us because his plan was pathetic. All I'm saying is that it's too early to tell at this point. If we are going to be disappointed in him for mishandling ISIS, there will be plenty of time to do that down the road.