Political Correctness and Addiction

Why won’t they stop?  Why????  Valentine’s Day has already been watered down by the fact that students in school can’t give cards to just the special people in their lives, they must give them to everyone in their class.  What’s the point, there is no specialness in that, and isn’t that what Valentine’s Day is about?  The special people in your life?  And now the politically correct gurus at Caroline Robbins School in Saskatoon have renamed Valentine’s Day as White, Pink, and Red Day.  This is so pathetically sad, I don’t know what else to say about it.

In other news this week, another member of the rich and famous has died of a suspected overdose.  With the death of Whitney Houston, tragic as it is, I have heard it mentioned again that addiction is a disease just like cancer, or any other disease.   I completely disagree with that notion.  It is NOT the same.

Addiction is labelled as a disease these days in order to free the addicted from any responsibility.  I don’t say this because I think it is easy to deal with an addition.  I know it is not.  I also know that addiction is often the symptom of other problems, such as depression.  Depression, I agree, is a disease and the afflicted should receive whatever help they need.  However, to include addiction in that category removes the implication that there was ever any choice in the matter.  With addiction, there is always the beginning in which there is a choice.  Even after a person is addicted, there is still a choice to get help or not.

When it comes to cancer, there is NEVER any choice in the matter.  So please stop calling addiction a disease and call it what it is, an addiction.

Seniors and Porn (but not at the same time)

The federal opposition parties, along with the media, are stirring up trouble by insinuating that old age security (OAS) benefits are going to be cut.  They are completely overreacting and making seniors worry needlessly when all that was announced was that there would be a review of OAS.  This government has said that any changes that may be made will have NO EFFECT on any current seniors, nor even anyone who is currently over the age of 50.

One of the possible changes may be that they raise the eligible age from 65 to 67.  People are now living much longer than they were when OAS was first set up, so benefits are now being paid out for much longer periods of time, something it was not designed for.  In addition, right now there are between 4 and 5 working people for every senior.  Come 2030, the projections are that there will be two working people for every senior.  Do we really want to leave that burden for our children and grandchildren?

  

All of our social programs need to be reviewed and have needed to be reviewed for quite some time.  However, nobody to date has had the courage to even mention any changes, let alone make any, because of the backlash.  Prime Minister Harper is not going to hang seniors out to dry, no matter what Bob Rae, Nycole Turmel, or the ever trouble-making media may have you believe.

On a much, much different note, did you know that CBC is in the porn business?  Yep, you read it right.  Porn.  They have purchased from France (with your money, of course) a French TV series called “Hard” and they are running it for free on their website Tou.tv.  They claim it isn’t really porn, however, I have seen some of the scenes from one episode and it is definitely porn.  Now, before you get the idea that I was surfing the internet looking for porn, I was actually watching SunTV and they showed some scenes from it (with the actors’ unmentionables covered, of course).

All I can say is this--with all the much needed cuts this federal government has made and will be making in the future, they damn well better be making some cuts to the CBC.