For some reason, the urge to blog has hit me again. What do we want to rant about today? Well, here are a few choice things on my mind.

-Canada’s birth rate. We are, in Canada, sitting on a demographic time bomb. That baby boom generation, that I am so proud to be a member of, is retiring in droves, causing a serious labour shortage. What, pray tell, are we doing about it? Well, I see women of child bearing age all around me with no kids. What is this? Well, it is because women marry up. I have never met a woman who truly wants to marry a guy with less coin than she has. The salary gap between men and women has virtually disappeared. Thus, women, waiting for the handsome rich prince to sweep them off their feet, are waiting a long time. Like forever, and no matter what Dr Phil may say, at 40 you are too old to have a baby.

So we import people. Is this a good thing? Well, I am not so sure. The immigrants I see here have no interest in integrating into Canadian culture in any way whatsoever. They live in their Chinese world. This may work for now, but where are we going to get our leadership in say, thirty years?

We also allow people to buy visas into Canada under the investment programme. Problem is it costs a lot more to buy your way in to Vancouver than say, Trois-Rivere, Quebec. The way around it is easy. Set up a shadow company in Quebec, use it to buy yourself a house in Vancouver and then get on the plane. Land in Montreal and register with immigration. Then get on the plane to Vancouver. It works because once that “investor” has that Permanent Residence Card, nobody from Citizenship and Immigration Canada will ever check. Keep your nose clean for two years and you have successfully bilked the Canadian government out of a cool half million bucks.

Meanwhile, there are 900,000 people waiting in line for their cases to be processed. CiC is so busy doing “fast tracks” like “investors that honest working stiffs, who have ponied up a lot of coin to even apply, wait in line. Not only that, but our fascist government has introduced new legislation trying to reintroduce “Ministerial Discretion” that would allow the minister to allow or reject anyone he or she wants without justification. That is hardly what I call fair.

Recently, the much vaunted Vancouver Canucks again failed to make the playoffs. This led me to think about what a stupid thing professional sports are, and especially hockey. Even more absurd is Don Cherrry.The most annoying Canadian by far is Don Cherry. I flicked on the TV the other night and there he was, dressed up in an even more silly clown suit than the last time I had the pain to see him. The guy's only claim to fame was by some total fluke, he managed to get the best team money could buy the Stanley Cup. They won it despite him, the players all detested Cherry. He then proceeded to bomb the rest of his coaching career. He then got a job as a hockey "pundit." I hate pundits and Cherry has to be the worst of them all. The only thing he can say, in his caveman drawl is:

"Duhhh, them guyz gotta hit more and play like a team and them Yourapeein playerz is all ferries."

It is like the Canadian Homer Simpson, sans animation. And you know what, the kids on the prairie eat it up because if Europeans are so bad, they can get into the NHL

Even the CBC hates him. Only knuckle draggin', pick up drivin' retards like him. But wait, these are the people that drop $1000 for a hockey game. They drive in from the farm, get a hotel, hookers, coke and beer and watch the game. The CBC tried to shitcan Cherry a couple of years ago but the groundswell of morons had him reinstated.

Speaking of hockey, and professional sports, I have never understood it. Look at out much vaunted Vancouver Canucks. Never won the cup. Got into the final ONCE and got beat four straight. Failed to make the playoffs two years out of three, which is pretty hard in the NHL which plays all year only to eliminate the one team in the divisional basement.

Why, pray tell, are the Canucks so bad? Because they don't have to be good. They have sold out something like the last 200 games. Clonebot retards line up to but they made in China overpriced merchandise like the good little clones they are supposed to be. They even change it every few years and the clones still pay $200 for a mesh jersey that cost $2 to make.

It was hilarious to watch the press conference after the Canucks bombed. All the management had sullen faces. The didn't say much. They didn't have to; they had accomplished their goal. They had made the team owners a pile of money. After their hang-dog act, they went into the back room and broke out the bonus cheques.

It is not just hockey, it is all sports. I really respect the parents of the kids I teach,. All are very, very wealthy people. They all, to a one, strike me as intelligent, kind people. They are SMART. Their kids are cramming calculus instead of wasting their time trying to be an NBA star
(or any other star for that matter). Now, if you really want it, how do the odds of being a  Civil Engineer rank compared to being an NBA star?
Any kid will have a much better chance at being an engineer than being a "professional athlete."