News - Stories and Rants
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Monday, 9 October 2017
Former R.C.M.P. Sgt Gilles Cote is the new Sergeant-at-Arms of the New Brunswick Legislature!!!
Will he be Stupid or Smart???
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Myra Stewart died one year ago today!!!
Myra died one year ago this morning....I sure wish time didn't exist....:(
I read some old facebook messages we exchanged and it was quite a relationship.
Ever since she died I still DON'T understand why I feel this way? There's no way in the world Myra would have mourn over me the way I'm doing. I'm writing this note with tears in my eyes. < Very strange >
The morning she died, I was having this picture taken with a good friend < Young Doctor > and supporter of mine.
I haven't visited Myra for the last two weeks because I had a cold.
Once home, I emailed her Daughter asking her if it was OK for me to visit her mom at the hospital?
She asked me for my phone number? She called and cried on the phone telling me that her Mommy just died.
I will never forget that crying sound for the rest of my life.
People told me that once you're in Palliative Care? It's over!!!!
It was still a shock to this Scottish individual that she was gone.
She looked OK but nobody knew what that darn and deadly Cancer was doing to her body.
Yes....it was the beginning of a mourning period for this Blogger. I would preach to anyone who I saw puffing a cigarette!!!! I cried and cried that day. I didn't understand what I was doing because she would have never cried for this pain in the ass individual...:(
This is the only picture we took together...It goes to show you how heavy the drugs she was taking...lol
So I went on an emotional roller coaster. I preached to strangers the danger of smoking. As Myra would say - I was told to Fuck off!!! < by a few >
Here's a video I made the day she died!!! I never mentioned her name because she never wanted to be on my bullshit blog < as many other of my friends >
Please share this video if you can -
This is going to be a VERY difficult day but I will manage.
We were like Sister and Brother who would look after each other.
We would fight and fight. As she would say - We don't get along because she always fight. The MAIN issue was smoking and she didn't want to hear it.
I remember telling her - Why do I even talk to you??? Other people did less and I never spoke to them again!!!
She answered - You know I won't tolerate your Bullshit!!!
lol
I often wonder if Pete misses Myra???
I remember when I was a fat bastard and I didn't even know it. < 250 pounds > We made videos of me being the biggest loser and I lost 50 pounds. Myra was the pusher being me. I'm going to go on a another diet tirade this week in memory of my friend.
So...I am sending my prayers to her family < Lisa and Jeremy > and friends on this sad day.
Until we meet again my friend and it would be nice to hear you telling me off once again....:)
Charles,
Your message was to the point, and your remininiscings very well presented. Smoking is a curse, dreadful addiction ruining every organ in the body, and too many times ending with dreadful cancer. Keep doing a good work. Yours, Vladimir Sokolowski from Miramichi NB
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Kelly Lamrock spotted at the Farmer's Market in Fredericton!!!
Did you know this idiot goes into private documents of the citizens in this city???
I just don't understand why Blaine Higgs want to be associated a guy like this?????
Could be an election ue with this Blogger!!!!
Green Party Leader David Coon will bring issue to Question Period of inmates in Provincial Jails are force to walk home!
Charles
The problem is much deeper that the government and the justice system, the problem lies within the society its self. We hold that we are an advance society. We are caught up with all this fancy, complicated technology and in that sense we have advanced but that its it!
We have not ventured beyond our emotions. As a society we let our emotions, rational decision making takes the back seat in judging others. There are some exceptions, rationality comes to the forefront when the consequence of those decision that directly effect us, for example, the decision to buy an house, car. to move from one area to another, yes we are very rational in our thinking when it comes to "Me" decisions.
Once we go outside of our subjective (the "me" decisions, to the "you" decisions then the emotional thinking kicks in) and judgements are based on our emotion state rather than on our rational state. In other words the rational thinking shifts from the frontal lobes of our brain which is responsible for higher order information processing to the amygdala of the brain which is the core of our emotions.
You ask yourself what does that have to do with the story?
To answer that you need to answer the question is what is deviant behavior? The answer is any human behavior that is outside the socially acceptable behaviors at a specific time.
What makes a person a criminal are the specific behaviors that have been identified in a body of law commonly known as the criminal code. Those behaviors fall under the main umbrella of deviant behavior.
Once a person has been labelled a criminal he/she have are down graded to sub human and are treated as such, those who have been labeled as such, like the blacks pre 70's in the states are discriminated against, they are denied employment and other opportunity, looked upon as a social pariah and be treated as such.
Now here is the contradiction and this is where not transporting a person back to the place of sentencing comes in. At one level we say we must "Rehabilitate the offender", Yet as a society we do everything to set the individual for failure upon release from the provincial jail. By not taking a person to their place of sentencing after release that action puts that person in a high risk of offending.
Not all inmates who are sentence to provincial jails are criminals, but are there because they either refused to pay a fine or can not afford to pay a fine.
If they have been incarcerated because they could not afford the fine, forcing that person who has no financial means to get back to their home places them at higher risk of engaging in criminal behavior as defined in the Criminal code.
Corrections both provincially and federally is an "industry that creates thousands of decent paying jobs" I guess if we were too successful in reintegrating the individual to accept the acceptable social norms that would mean a loss of jobs for many. So it isn't to the best interest of the economy to lower the recidivism rate.
So until social attitude changes, for these inmates who are released, Nancy Sinatra summed it up in the song "These boots are made for walking", 'Are you ready, boots? Start walkin'
Friday, 6 October 2017
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