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Post by agentf on Mar 17, 2016 8:14:51 GMT -5
Sigh!  It's wishful thinking to imagine having a rampart against those Australian wannabes (minus the sunny disposition, charm and intelligence to redeem themselves and thrive brilliantly). (bad example, I digress) Happy St Patrick's Day! In my principality, it would be a national holiday. (And we would celebrate with a Conan O'Brien whipping contest.) Bondi Vet is welcome anyday too. |
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Post by agentf on Jan 30, 2017 7:40:13 GMT -5
A baffling and sad morning in Qc city as last night our mosque was attacked and people in the midst of prayers were killed by cowards and decidedly unreligious people because for these killers, Sunday should have been a day of rest not of carnage had they been Christian. And as students, these suspects were armed with professional caliber weapons. Many blame Trump's incendiary policies that have crowds around the world frothing in hatred. Let's remember Muslims spend more time a day praying to God than some monks even, and that they consider war or aggression as an absolute last resort and therefore are highly desirable as peaceful citizens. Whoever orchestrated this attack had access to weapons, wants to sully U Laval by association, most likely wants to extend the push of federal power over security to the detriment of civil liberties. Lets remember Muslims are not the Bronfmans and Jacobsons of this country who work(ed) to undo Quebec pride.
Hasbiya Allahou wa ni'mal wakil
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Post by agentf on Feb 2, 2017 9:05:27 GMT -5
Kudos to Regis Labeaume for his palpable compassion. Another fine Québécois, former minister and now ambassador to Germany Stéphane Dion made a great observation in his parting speech in the House about our people, by highlighting our contribution as founders of Canada. In modern times, there's a push to take those who built this country's first permanent structures 400 years ago and to treat us as immigrants freshly arrived. Though yes, as a brilliant journalist said there are no "half-citizens" here, in reference to our Muslim Quebeckers, just as much Québécois are not second-class citizens. M. Dion, don't go too far. But do enjoy a country with a great leader and bring back some of that influence with you as the statesman you are. M. Labeaume, insistez pour que les visiteurs de la mosquée se déchaussent svp. Bien que ce tapis à ete désécré lui aussi. Je vous embrasse et suis davantage fière d'être Québécoise en constatant votre grande humanité. Let me get a cute video of what it's like sometimes to be a French-Canadian in this big world sometimes. For levity' sake... Brb www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5wrwcEZ3Btw |
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Post by agentf on Feb 2, 2017 14:41:44 GMT -5
In another breath... I want to talk about Islam. Islam means "Truth", and Islamaphobia then means to be afraid of the Truth.
Islam's prophet is the 10th and last. Jesus is the 9th and is equally regarded as a fellow Messenger of God. The message has been to prepare to be judged not only by one's words, but also his works in the case of Muslims. There is no conflict with or repudiation of Christ, only semantics. We share monotheism and a message of love, tolerance and a need to cultivate a personal relationship to God. There's no preferential treatment and we are all children to God. Christ sublimated himself to God as an example to follow so we could all be sons and daughters.
Disbelief and incredulity are a powerful plague on the world. They cause unnecessary hardships through avoidable misunderstandings and general incomprehension. Faith is the peaceful antidote to this plague. It's those who believe in nothing that the faithful fear, often for good reason. When Muslims for example reject "infidels" - a term we used against them in the Crusades - they mean disbelievers, people who don't believe in God. Everyday Muslims are generally people of personal modesty, family-oriented, not individualistic or shameless self-promoters.
The accelerated modern world of the last 100 years in my view is psychologically violent to those who enjoy worshipping God throughout the day, everyday. Westerners have even turned to New Age and meditation just to get in touch with themselves again, as a symptom our ways were becoming too disconnected from spirituality.
Whereas Quebec survived centuries thanks to its faith and though its churches are growing vacant, our values still echo our historic spiritual heritage. For Muslims whose religion is still young, fervour is alive and well. In any event, I'm proud to be Muslim now. I'm glad to carry on a tradition of happy submission to God and am happy to learn something.
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Post by agentf on Feb 4, 2017 10:28:30 GMT -5
Lastly...
Thanks to the Ancients who came out and offered the Muslim community the symbolic braids and extended their welcome on Native ancestral lands. Bravo First Nations.
Merci à la France qui a surmonté toute frilosité qui aurait été justifiée, afin de transmettre son appui contre l'extrémisme de toute sorte. Ce fut élégant.
Thank you to the King of Morocco and other regal persons such as the anonymous donors who covered the family's expenses as well as the future mosque renovations, and who chose not to grandstand the proceedings and kept the focus on the departed. Their blood runs in our veins.
#TousUnis #AvecQuébec
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Post by agentf on Feb 9, 2017 8:35:01 GMT -5
Classy: www.washingtonpost.com/pwa/#https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/02/08/quebec-nationalism-is-not-to-blame-for-the-barbaric-mosque-attack/Of the 4 mentioned by the Vancouver cartoonist op-Ed, 2 attacks on our soil were misogynist, 1 was against a female nationalist leader (by an Anglo) and Qc was against Muslims. Get your facts straight, JJ McCullough. On the issue of our language, French was only one identifier in the quest to differentiate ourselves from ROC. The others were our Civil Code and our official religion. That Trudeau père decided to ram French down the throats of ROC was not our intention but his way to produce hostility against us. Today, most Canadians don't even list English as their mother tongue. Thank God I love Pirandello, it prepared me for the surrealness of our circumstances... |
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Post by agentf on Mar 2, 2017 12:28:30 GMT -5
{ Faites-moi plaisir. Quand Trump se plaint que ses aérogares lui donnent l'allure d'être en pays du tiers-monde, ne nous garochons pas pour encourager la Caisse de Dépôt de lui bâtir des nouveaux bâtiments de la qualité de Dubai qu'il compte faire construire par sa classe ouvrière à qui il coupe l'ascension sociale, en plus de promettre de payer le loyer de ces dites-aérogares alors qu'il s'apprête à faire peter la balloune boursière et entrer à pleins pieds dans la Plus Grande Dépression? Qu'il se les paie lui-même. Il n'a qu'à couper dans l'aide à l'Israel  . De plus, à dépenser dans l'armement, c'est clair que quand son cirque deviendra un #epicfail, il part en guerre celui-là. On en veut pas. } {Par contre, s'il veut Justin, j'ai les timbres-poste} PS: Reverso can't translate this. |
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Post by agentf on Mar 22, 2017 6:12:36 GMT -5
Ok. As with Trump's treatment of Angela Merkel, I thought gracing it with any comment was just unnecessary however... my little part of the world is being mistreated by the same academic sloppiness as a Gil Troy does writing puff pieces on US presidential couples and worse, at my alma mater. An "article" has been written reprising familiar themes but twisting them. Firstly, the author betrays his motive in the first paragraph by showing he seeks to steer the narrative away from the goodwill sentiment shown to our recent Muslim victims in Quebec. Instead he tries to turn a blizzard into a snow job by calling us misfits who feel alienation. Look a few posts above, it's cute aliens, stupid Anyway, I'm going to read the whole delirious piece but what jumps to mind is not my society's malaise, other than making RoC understand "we're not that into you", and with good reason because like I said to Conan OBrien : we're obviously not missing much. www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-a-snowstorm-exposed-quebecs-real-problem-social-malaise/This is the magazine who also called us the most corrupt province. I refer anyone to any of my posts here exposing Canadian systemic corruption from Ottawa to Bay Street via Ponzi schemes etc. |
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Post by agentf on Apr 1, 2017 7:51:44 GMT -5
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Post by agentf on Apr 12, 2017 8:19:29 GMT -5
No one apparently wants to be Montreal's mafia boss. Boo Hoo. However, it doesn't let them off the hook. It's now up to them to get rid of one of theirs, a man named Roger Cappanelli who so wrongly and blindly championed his deadbeat sibling and persecuted a woman for almost 30 years after she stopped dating the irresponsible twit. The huge collateral damage to his vendetta is the death in 2015 of a regal Samaritan, after too many attempts to kill her, ruining her health and ability to have children, infiltrating and chasing her out of her home time again, jettisoning her professional life, defrauding her for millions and even crippling her British childhood friend Mark (Tiplady)... the list goes on. No one ever suspected Cappanelli because only he's stuck in the past on some perception of affront. That said, let's get this thing over with. I've been waiting like a sitting duck since his ridiculous kidnap attempt last Fall, and frankly mobsters have already cost too much time in this one lifetime and almost cost me my religion. So please hurry up so I can defend myself, and hopefully move on from this ridiculous corner. There's only so much time a grown woman can stay around her mother. I want my privacy, I want to walk the dog without mobilizing a police escort. I'm so sick of being stuck in the middle of this bad drama. Everyone seems to forget I need rest, my own walls, my own bed, my own kitchen and bath, clothes that fit, a garden etc. I'm glad to serve on some level as a deterrent to organized crime but it's at the very least a man's job - and it's not my job.
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Post by tops on Apr 12, 2017 9:38:28 GMT -5
i was trying to look up Roger Cappanelli but i cannot find anyone with that name spelling.
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Post by agentf on Apr 14, 2017 13:16:13 GMT -5
You have to look under rocks for people like that, or have the misfortune of going out with your best friend one evening to catch up after a trip. i was trying to look up Roger Cappanelli but i cannot find anyone with that name spelling. |
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Post by tops on Apr 15, 2017 11:30:54 GMT -5
You have to look under rocks for people like that, or have the misfortune of going out with your best friend one evening to catch up after a trip. i was trying to look up Roger Cappanelli but i cannot find anyone with that name spelling. I understand. I dealt with some of those kind in NYC... they are everywhere! |
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Post by agentf on Apr 16, 2017 14:07:34 GMT -5
You'll tell me about it someday. They're everywhere and yet it's often the same pattern of attacking women whether morally or physically. I think they receive too much validation growing up and when they realize that they don't fly in society, they resort to baseness. Again and again and again. Its human pollution really. You have to look under rocks for people like that, or have the misfortune of going out with your best friend one evening to catch up after a trip. I understand. I dealt with some of those kind in NYC... they are everywhere! |
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Post by agentf on Apr 25, 2017 13:11:47 GMT -5
What to say about Trump and soft wood other than he should sympathize seeing the two have so much in common...
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Post by agentf on May 7, 2017 7:34:45 GMT -5
Ce qu'il ne faut pas devoir endurer!! Pour les inondations, il y a la garde côtière et la marine royale canadienne avec sûrement suffisamment de navires capables d'evacuer et loger temporairement les sinistrés et leurs effets personnels, à partir des fleuves, lacs et rivières engorgées - tout de même!! Prenez l'exemple de Noé pendant le déluge. #!@/*?#
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Post by agentf on Jun 1, 2017 7:28:24 GMT -5
I want to explain - all bombasticity aside - why I even care. Below is a visual of what it was like for my father's ancestor when there were barely 1000 Europeans on the continent with none of our modern amenities:  So when I speak out of line, it's less to be arrogant than to honour the work of our ancestors when half this continent was ours all the way to the Missouri River and down to Louisiana. I dare any modern leader with the same conditions, to approximate this. We love America, like it's our baby. Humour some of us. |
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Post by agentf on Jun 2, 2017 7:36:28 GMT -5
UGH Our PM yesterday, honestly Philippe!! You don't keep hitting your head against a wall petitioning the very person who will inevitably throw up a wall. Unless its a ruse and you've already got a document written up amounting to a federated state's constitution in your back pocket to hold the other side to the letter of the law when they balk that you went ahead and created one. It's our role to innovate, always has and to take the hits for it until everyone catches up and "assimilates" or "appropriates". Grow a pair, for God's sake.
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Post by agentf on Jun 7, 2017 7:44:32 GMT -5
Obama came. Obama went. The gist? A wasted opportunity IMO. I hope however it served as safe testing ground for his international speaking engagements. Questions that begged asking that were missed... Scotland, as a proxy discussion on self-determination and trade; the disgruntled American working class that voted for Trump and how the Democrats could have done better to reach or for Obama to spend more time chest thumping so they'd get the message he did work for them; whether Europe without American leadership would really amount to a self-help society. See what I have to deal with? UGH
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Post by agentf on Jun 15, 2017 10:50:15 GMT -5
À la place de vérifier les coûts de la plomberie à Paris, pourquoi ne pas vérifier les liens entre les investissements en immobilier à Montréal par des dictateurs africains...et Michaelle Jean? Ordinairement, quand on tombe dans la démesure c'est un indice. Le couvert que la diplomatie offre des fois est drôlement profitable pour certains et ils s'habituent à un train de vie... démesuré. Just saying. L'opacité de la boite et la revision de leurs bilans concernant ses voyages dispendieux? Elle peut facilement être la connection ou le courrier pour ces drôles d'affaires.
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. De plus, à dépenser dans l'armement, c'est clair que quand son cirque deviendra un #epicfail, il part en guerre celui-là. On en veut pas. } {Par contre, s'il veut Justin, j'ai les timbres-poste}