Sunday, July 10, 2011

THOSE WHO CAUSE MISERY

 
 
 
 
There must be a special place in hell - 
For cruel landlords and destructive tenants.
 
Once there, they will meet conniving lawyers,
Crooked cops, and corrupt judges.
 
If only they would all gather there soon,
And let the rest of us live in peace.
 
 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Saturday, July 9, 2011

WHO IS PHYLLIS CARTER ?

 
 
 
 
I am a devoted friend,
and a tenacious enemy.
 
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you, I will curse.
 
Genesis 12: 3
 
 

ENERGY - WHY NOT ?

 
 
 
 
In the 1950's, I joined Vic Tanny's Gym.

And as I watched all the people peddling,
 
And treading,
 
And giving off all that sweat and heat  -
 
I asked -
 
Why can't we harness all that energy ?
 
No one answered.
 
No one has answered.
 
 

Friday, July 8, 2011

FIGHTING INJUSTICE WITH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

 
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I wish I were still healthy and I could still go out into the streets to protest. Since I no longer am able to do that, I sit at my computer day and night alerting and encouraging others to get on with it. Make yourselves heard loud and clear and without ceasing.
 
Canadians most of all are guilty of being too nice and polite. (That does not include the boors who sit around drinking, smoking and cursing. I am speaking of most Canadians.) We are too inclined to contemplate our navels and wait for someone else to take action.
 
Get out there and make yourselves heard. Make the politicians and the police afraid - not of violence but of truth. Truth is the most powerful weapon on earth and villains fear it. They will try everything to stall, to distract, to divert your attention, to make you believe you are the problem, to make you believe you are the only one complaining, to make you believe there is something wrong with you. Landlords and police use these weapons to intimidate and to silence the truth.
 
Do not be silent.
 

REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS - RECOGNIZING THE SALT OF THE EARTH

 
 
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My Father, George Rubin, President,
Metropolitan News Agency,
1248 Peel Street,
Montreal, Canada
 
My ancestors came to Canada a hundred years ago to escape the butchery of Jewish people in Russia and Poland. Once ashore, they had to deal with anti-Semitism in Quebec. They worked their way around it and suffered it in painful silence. They laboured day and night to make a life for their family in Canada and later, to provide jobs for others.
 
My grandmother slept on the factory floor in order to be at her sewing machine first thing in the morning because she was paid a few cents each for piece work and every cent meant some food on the table for her children. My father slept on the newspaper work table over night, to be sure to open the store early in case of a snowstorm, so that the employees would not be left waiting on the icy steps in the cold, and the customers would not miss out on the early editions of The Gazette and The Herald.
 
What any society needs is honest, decent people who are willing to do good work for a fair wage, respect, security and the basic necessities of life. People who will appreciate their neighbours and expect the same in return. People who hunger for education and will use it to help the community that has welcomed them. People who will care for their children and guide them to become honest and honourable citizens if they are just given the seeds of life to get started - food, shelter and health care, and the opportunity to do honest work. 
 
As human beings, we must have a heart for refugees, and we must not turn them away to be slaughtered in their lands of origin as was done to the Jews in the 1940's by Canada and the United States and England. But we need not be fools and allow ourselves to be trod upon by thieves and leeches.
 
To be a truly great and admirable and successful society, we must welcome talented people from other lands - most especially competent doctors. If the individual has the skills, the good character and the genuine desire to heal the sick, we must not reject him or her out of fear or selfishness. "This is all mine. You can't have any." That cancer specialist you have just rejected could have saved hundreds, if not thousands of Canadian lives. Perhaps your own. But you told him to go away and re-apply later. How many Canadians will die because you sent him away?
 
We must not allow prejudice and greed to dictate against people from other countries. But refugee claimants should not be allowed to enter the country under false pretenses when all they really want is the benefits, the goodies, the perks. If we welcome such people, they will swallow us up and spit out our depleted bones with a contented smile.
 
This is a huge land with incredible, yet unimagined resources. There is enough here for millions of good people,  but not an inch to spare for more criminals.
 
Phyllis Rubin Carter
 
 

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

ALWAYS DO RIGHT

 
 
 
 
 
Always Do Right.
 
This will gratify some people,
And astonish the rest.
 
Mark Twain
 
 

Monday, July 4, 2011