Krokodil

Wednesday already!?

/Life is tough en’uf without having to worry about-Krokodil.

It’s a new designer drug that can turn an addict’s skin greenish, scaly and cause it to rot!!!!

A derivative of morphine, Krokodil, (also called desomorphine) is something new from Russia but U.S.

drug administration officials expect it in the States sooner than later!  If the past holds Canadian

health officials won’t know anything about Krokodil until the Americans tell them!

Russian police say they seized  65 million doses in the first three months of 2011.  Guesstimates,

also  by the Russians, suggest more than a million people in that country, known for its love affair with vodka, are users of KROLODFIL………main attraction:  cheap!

Mix codeine with gasoline, paint thinner, hydochloric acid and red phosphorus.  And that gives you Russian heroin!

Take some and say “Dobra vacher, Boris.”   Krokodil-another of life’s sink-holes./

/Pass me the soda pop–yes!!! no, no,no??  How about this:  diet soft drink drinkers, as a group, experienced ” 70% greater increases in  waist circumference” compared with those

who drink no diet soda!!!  Abdominal fat is a major risk factor for diabetes, cardio problems, cancer and other chronic health worrisomes.

That was the result of  studies using humans.  They did a mouse study feeding them aspartame—but we all know nobody takes just aspartame. And neither would the mice

but they were conscripted after refusing to submit voluntarily.  The researchers claim after forcing the aspartame into the mice, the mice showed elevated blood sugar levels!!!!

Remember when eggs and butter were no-no’s and after telling us to use only margarine, we were told get back to butter…..?  As I recall they started that rollercoaster with mice too……..

/The Dodgers may be bankrupt, BUT  when you consider pitching so are the Blue Jays!!!

Last night Jo Jo Reyes left his mojo in the clubhouse.  Gave up 9 hits and 6 earned runs in 3 and a half innings!

The announcer said 17-thousand paid for the game, but I don’t think 17 thousand attended.  This year’s edition has expansion written all over it…

Last night it was no pitching, poor fielding and  squandered hitting.  Night before in Detroit it was the Bullpen that missed the game.

As Casey Stengel once said about his useless New York Mets, “, can’t anybody here play this game?”

/The people of Illinois can put together a streak!  They have now elected two Governors in a row who have gone to jail.

The latest is Rodney Blagojevich(Blago) for short.  In today’s Wall street journal Roger Simon details the hilarious Blago Saga, including

a quote about the convicted Governor from a Chicago political insider–“you could cut off his head and he wouldn’t be any dumber.”

/And here’s another.  This one an observation by Paul Sullivan writing about women’s shoes in today’s freebie paper-Metro:

“wherever I look,  women’s shoes have morphed into something Darth Vader would wear if he were into cross-dressing >”

Lord ain’t that th truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/

FATHEAD

Here’s another question for Bill Blair, the Toronto police chief who has been hounded by questions about his helmsmanship

during the G20 debacle: Chief Blair is it policy for your people in 43 division to ignore violations of a restraining order????

And if that’s true in 43 division is that policy(sort of) in other divisions as well?…./ The tragic death of a York police officer

this morning on Davis drive, Newmarket hammers home the dangers our police officers face everyday!  Next time you see an officer

working the traffic detail, walking to or standing unprotected next to a stopped vehicle–slow down and register your support!!!!/

……………/Rob Ford is making some crucial mistakes!  His ‘I’m building a subway come hell or high water, was one; the other was

proposing to dump all the work done by the previous administration to get us more transit in crucial(Eglinton ave) areas and now the dumbest

of all decisions–‘there’s no PRIDE in my life.”  The automatic rule after you are elected to serve people is axiomatic: you represent ALL

THE PEOPLE.  You violate that at your political peril>>>>we know the drill: Ford doesn’t like the Gays as a group, they don’t like him,

not many voted for him and most are embarrassed that he was elected mayor.  So what!

Despite the obvious he needed to swallow his dislike(we can’t use pride)–see above— for the coming Bacchanal in his city and do the Right Thing–

He didn’t because: (1) he’s a fathead;(2)  the people advising him are fatheads.  If he’s not a fathead then he’s stubborn and if you are the mayor of

2, 504,000 individuals and you ‘re that stubborn you will miss a second term–guaranteed!!!!  He could change his mind but the damage has been done!<<<<<<!

/Flathead, (one word) did he say FATHEAD???? What era is he from??? yes fathead, it was a common word description used when I was growing up

and you can look it up. It’s still in the Canadian Oxford and in my small world it’s still cool and particularly apt today!!! /

/The Arab spring threatens to be succeeded by the European fall.  Today’s rioting in Athens is liable to send the Greek bailout to the court of public opinion

because no matter what the Grecian parliament does, the government will have to enforce the draconian austerity measures and my guess is the

Greek people will refuse to be sent into further penury by the Banks of Europe– what we are looking at is a coming war  between the Lords and the Serfs.

The EU has told Greece, failure to accept our terms means–default!!!!!   Default or Die!  The Greeks may decide they will not be slave-driven, not now, not never!!??!

It could be contagious!!!!

We are living in perilous times!

//From the Sun sports page –“Jays ‘pen blows game.”—–how many times has this happened this year and how many more will we see?

This Jays team is marvel of inconsistency but the BullPen recalls “in the beginning ” when there was no bullpen.

//Speaking of the bizarre do you think Rob Ford’s meeting with Brian Burke will recall Saul’s epiphany and Ford will change his mind

and lead Pride Parade to it’s Glorious conclusion????

Could happen!

It’s monday!

Is this real…the International court has an arrest warrant out for

Qaddafi, the butcher of Libyia?  OK it’s real but where are the warrants

for Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Syria’s Assad?

How about one for Henry Kissinger, architect of the brutality inflicted

on Laos and Cambodia!!!……………./quiet the Senators are sleeping late!

They were pressed into service yesterday, sunday(if you can imagine)

to pass legislation that gets the posties back to work…………..

/the NDP does not know how to pick its fights, I’ll bet more of their

constituency was affected by the strike than voters who support the

others/…………Does the decision by Minnesota’s Michelle Backmann to

try for the GOP nomination sewer Sarah Palin’s thinking on declaring ?

/The truth  is out–the bums from Brooklyn really were bums—

what happened to the Dodgers? The question is on the lips of all longtime, long-suffering Dodger fans–did ya hear?..the Los Angeles Dodgers have filed for bankruptcy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/Bankruptcy, a word that is striking fear in the boardrooms of some of the largest banks in Europe….most people have never heard of Italy’s UNICREDIT bank but financial expert/analyst/researcher Porter Stansberry predicts disaster for Unicredit.  And sees “the next stage in the ongoing global financial crisis will feature the collapse of the Spanish and italian economies.”  that’s a quote from PS!

Is it true that Unicredit has borrowed $300 billion from other European banks?….  is this a problem?  Standby, someone will get back to us on that! ../the hacker group, Lulz is calling it quits.  No more hacks from it apparently–giving the political hacks, a breather.

/And how great is that first amendment in those United States?

The US supreme court has struck down California’s law banning sale or rental of violent video games to children. T he Court opts for the gaming industry’s self imposed voluntary rating system…. yea the industry will protect you, oh yea.

In Canada we have an industry-wide self-imposed, voluntary rating system that fixes the prices at gas pumps, taking the guesswork out of which gas company you wish to buy gas from today??

Are we sheep or what?

Hudak leads by a long shot

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1015084–hudak-tories-roaring-toward-a-majority-poll?bn=1

The saddest news of the day comes via an opinion poll posted on the Daily Star—-

namely that Tim Hudak and his band of warriors have been selected by 41% of the surveyed to lead the province, if the election had been held  when the survey was conducted

whenever that was?????

The good news is: that the election won’t take place until October 6!

There is a possibility that common sense will prevail and the common people will come to their senses and narrow the lead given Hudak in this survey conducted by Forum Research.

That they will come to their senses and throw more support to Andrea Horwath and the NDP and to Flinty McGuinty who needs to find better people to help him run the place if he figures to be in charge October 7th.

I mean look at his dismal choices–for ministers:  Margarett Best, Harinder Takhar, Dunkin’ Dwight Duncan(poor image), and in the past George “pitbull” Smitherman,  Jim(full of myself) Watson!

Flinty McGuinty doesn’t have a lot of ministerial support and that’s not a good thing.  But that may be cancelled by some of the stock waiting with Hudak—think Randy Hillier,  Jim Wilson, Bill Murdoch and Frank Klees.

Bottom line, Horwath needs to make an impact and a big one–quickly!!!!!!

flogging the blog

It began as a serious project and became even more serious as the days wore on.

This blog happened only because the Old fool has a 23 year old granddaughter who knows how to do these things!!!!