The Boston Marathon

Today at the Boston Marathon,
It started as a peaceful day,
Some lives and innocence are gone,
As explosions took them away,

Dreamers reaching for a goal,
To finish their longest run,
Because of someone with a dark soul,
Tragedy replaced their fun,

People expected a hard day,
Filled with aches and pain,
They could stumble along the way,
Or have to run in the rain,

But no one predicted an ending,
of such a brutal and violent act,
We spend our days pretending,
Such violence isn't a fact,

But help is desperately needed,
To save us from ourselves,
A lesson should be heeded,
From how low the spirit delves.

Innocent lives are gone forever,
and many have an injured loved one,
What can we possibly endeavor,
To ensure the violence is done.

Drivers Are Crazy Eh?

Toronto drivers are crazy eh?
You see crazier ones every day,
They go really slow in front of me,
But sped by so that was where they'd be,
Red lights are taken as a mild suggestion,
And are timed to cause maximum congestion,
Uturns are definately the norm,
and drivers ignore weather from a storm,

I go 120km in passing lanes,
And some dude behind me still complains,
You suddenly cross three lanes of traffic,
With drivers shouting words quite graphic,
You were going to miss you turn,
So others shouldn't let their collars burn,
We should all know where you're going,
It's all our ignorance that's showing,
We should be able to read your mind,
And understand you had gum to find,

The guy in front stops for yellow lights,
The guy behind doesn't, now your cars a sight,

Every third car has damage on it's side,
Cause crazy drivers tend to collide,

You go to insurance companies you pay,
They raise your rates that very day,

With one hand you are drinking coffee,
With the other you're unwrapping a toffee,
On the phone you're talking to your mom,
About how your wife's demands are so dumb,
You forget you're driving and where you're going,
And pretty soon it's your car they'll be towing,
Cause you drivers are crazy eh?
You're there to drive, not to play.

Politics

Politics are crazy eh? The government says they don't have time to meet with poverty groups or First Nation leaders, but they have time to make attack ads when there isn't even an election on. They are suppose to be busy running the country but are too busy worrying about what their opponents are or are not doing.
They say there is no money for youth or mental health programs but they seem to get a good pay cheque, own two houses and retire with multiple pensions. I don't know any other career that you get a pension for every level of the organization you work at.
Politics are crazy eh? They say they want to build a good future but spend all their time arguing about choices their competition has made in the past. They set up review boards and counsels and committees that they all sit on, and get paid for to argue about what they might do. Meanwhile people who need help have to wait years for politicians to make up their mind.
I think if they are going to make decisions for people on welfare or disability that they should have to live on the amount of money they propose these individuals live on. If they are going to make decisions about mental health services and closing group homes or other support systems that they should have to live for a week with a family affected by their decision.
It is easy for them to get wrapped up in politics instead of focusing on the people who are counting on them to make life better and make our nation the strongest possible. It cannot be a strong nation if it's inhabitants are overstressed, under nourished, neglected or down trodden.
While they travel between their different homes they own, having limos flown around the world for them to comfortably travel in, getting catering that costs hundreds per meeting and mayors taking trips to see the world. Perhaps they could focus on the people who voted them in, the ones who are at home struggling to feel security in their life. Maybe we could spend money on protecting youth on the streets of Toronto from violence or feeding our children that are going to school starving rather than PR campaigns around the globe and photo ops that do us no real good. Instead of photos with Pandas you should have conversations with First Nation youth that just walked thousands of kilometres in hopes of changing the country for the better.
Tuition fees at post secondary schools are sky rocketing and politicians are charging the schools tens of thousands of dollars to speak to students that are the future of our nation. Are we not paying our politicians more than enough money? They decide when they get a raise or when others don't have a right to fight for their rights on a job. They decide where we have free speech and where we don't, when we need help and what help we will get. As they eat their $12 catered muffins and sip their expensive coffee.

I'll Vote For You If You Show Me The Money

You know what is crazy eh?
Politicians of Canada today,
They make over 200 grand,
and still stick out their hand,
Wanting donations to get elected,
Promising our rights will be protected,
Instead they wait for their pensions,
and spend lavishly on party conventions,
They say they'll do what's right,
but spend all their time in a fight,
They set up committees and boards,
To see which of them lies and hoards,
They get pay cheques and budgets galore,
But say they have no money to help the poor,
They bicker and complain constantly,
And spend our money recklessly,
Why do we all pay more taxes and money,
So they can all go retire some place sunny,
Politicians in Canada are crazy eh?
We allow the insanity every day.

More Than Just Beaver Tails, Crazy Eh?

Castoreum is a common ingredient in food. It is often labelled as simply "Natural Flavouring"...usually with raspberry, strawberry or vanilla foods... Castoreum is a fluid that is extracted from a sac located near the anus of the North American and European beaver. Crazy Eh?

When I read this I all of a sudden pictured beavers having their butts massaged by a bunch of farmers. Who was the first person to think of adding beaver butt juice to our food?? does it add to raspberry and strawberry flavouring because beavers eat berries? Did a caveman somewhere or settlers of the north decide the food they were growing just didn't have enough flavour so they'd add beaver butt to it. I bet it started out with some men drinking and daring each other to eat the most disgusting thing they could think of.... When I think of natural flavouring I am picturing them getting it from a strawberry, raspberry or vanilla beans or something other than beaver bodily fluids. I always knew there was a reason I liked chocolate best...I'm not even going to research what's in it. Castoreum.... Crazy Eh?