A Canada Outing Part 2

Yesterday, I drove my Mom on a trip series that started with returning 2 plastic farmer produce flats to the Blueberry Farm, where there was not a monetary deposit.

The Family Daughter was pleasantly surprised and amused.

The chore part done, we then returned to the ICBC Driver License Centre to make an appointment for my disabled elderly aunt to get a renewal on her photo ID.

Because ICBC Service Offices does not accept phone calls at all and my Mom does not use the internet for general booking at your nearest one; and as it turned out, explained at the office at the counter by an employee – the appointments are only for the “enhanced ID” not the regular issue, which, as a blind person who does not travel, is all she needs.

This was a complete systemic circle jerk and my Mom got upset at the clerk, and explained the “she’s blind and my Mom is disabled” – She uses a cane and  the “I’m her daughter who drives her”; which ends where the family drama portion of the story ends, and my privacy at not also being revealed as disabled – because I appear normal.

And, at that point, the Counter Employee then said – “just bring her to the counter and we will just do her ID”

– and the issue of line jumping, and fairness to all the others who were waiting?

A Most Canadian of Outings

We were assured an exception would be made, and I asked “But what if You are not here?”

So, she hand wrote a memo, a permission slip to bypass the take a number first in first out; spanning a range of possible appointment types.

Thus, off we went to the Canadian Superstore to get the on sale vitamins that arrived that morning, but had not been unpacked – and that location had sold out later that day, so there was none for the second day of the sale on the product.

My Mom complained to the Pharmacy Area Stocking Employee, who complained about head office doing the ordering and not listening to the employees and had actually said “I beg you to complain.”

This was then repeated at the Customer Service counter at the store; where, that Customer Service Employee wrote on the flyer rather than issue a store rain cheque for the item. Which I also questioned, and was assured that the signature on the flyer was the guarantee.

We went home.

My Mom called the corporate head office and she made her complaint about the product availability and mentioned the store and the ordering issue.

That Corporate Head Office person took the complaint and I asked my Mom to hand me the phone.

I complained that their store employees were making corporate workplace culture issues into customer complaints.

I also mentioned that I had advised a number of employees across differing levels of employement about a building HVAC problem with the air and pipes needing rebalanced as being a health hazard to people like me who are customers – which sounds triggered migraines – and for their employees – hearing loss at the high squealing sounds over time.

That, our day had been taken over by their corporate issues of employees not being heard by local management or them by head office.

I was not able to read my Mom’s facial expression, so I apologized if my tone of voice was at all miss, and she was struggling to write down what I had said, from the concrete what was said and seen in the store, to the bigger issues normally done for consultant contract fees.

I was not used to saying that much of scope and magnitude and handed the phone back to my Mom – who then – went through the time period with the Corporate Head Office employee.

 

So.. yay us for striking a blow for worker rights and human dignity.

This Post is a Test of Law In Canada

but, then, I got a letter from the Federal Human Rights Commission.

so I was not able to blog yesterday.

Today, I Paid for Registered Post

 

Marriage and Equality in Canada, eh

Today I used the Canada Marriage Equality Stamp

 

Again with the O Canada

Save Canada Post

A Most Canadian of Outings

Today, my Mom and I took my Aunt Olof to get a renewal of her BCID – British Columbia Identification Card.

We picked her up from the Private Care Home and went to the ICBC Service Office, where there was over 50 numbers between current serve and the number for my Aunt.

We sat for a while and there was a television on the news, and there was some good news, the Williams Lake BC fire is contained. so that should mean people will be returning home sooner than later, and having homes to return to.

We decided to leave and book an appointment, which there was signage about.

People had vacated chairs to allow my Mom with her cane and my Aunt who is blind to sit.

When we left, one young woman looked at my Aunt and said -“You should ask them to take her.”

without missing a beat, I said

“That would not be fair to everyone else who was here first. It’s okay, we’ll make an appointment.” I assured the concerned random act of kindness would be doer.

We returned my aunt to her Care Home and then did a quick hunt n gather at the grocery store, and then brunch at the Prairie Cafe on Fraser Highway – where I also dropped into the Vape shop between the Cafe and the Non-Stop Pizza; another really good local chain.

At the Prairie Cafe, I asked what they had renoed, because the cafe looked the same – but the kitchen had a serious upgrade.

They had just had a rush, and there were three people at separate tables, who had all ordered the wonton soup, two with noodles and one who learned that there was a noodle option.

I had a classic clubhouse, a turkey blt with three slices of rye bread and fries with chicken gravy as a dipping sauce for the side and the sandwich.

Mom ordered the daily special, a spicy pork teriyaki.

The menu was also new, and funny enough, had an error in the camera art, so there was handwriting under the laminate – eggs benny was gone from the breakie/brunch menu, but otherwise, the brunches intact, the burgers now included a chicken option to the beef burgers and there were new items to the standard and classic Canadian Chinese fare.

I complimented the owner twice on the clubhouse before I’d even finished it.

The woman who learned noodles was an option was assured by one man that they were excellent and his favorite and the other man offered her to come try one from his bowl and she only went over to look. Next time, she’d get the noodles too she vowed.

We had recently ordered food from a BC Chain called Bozzini’s, a Greek-Italian that is now a Greek-Italian-Indian fusion, and for a chain that we’d been customers of since the 1990s, and in more than one city in the lowermainland, it was disappointing.

 

So at brunch with my Mom, I said how much I enjoy the Prairie Cafe, because no matter when I go or what I order, it is consistently delicious.

 

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Morning Update: The U.S. NAFTA demands; latest on B.C. wildfires; more suicides on Ontario reserve: Also: The Quebec referendum system behind the rejected Muslim cemetery

Morning Update: The U.S. NAFTA demands; latest on B.C. wildfires; more suicides on Ontario reserve

democracy is rule by the mob

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A referendum, ostensibly about zoning changes, ended up giving a handful of non-Muslims the power to tell Muslims how to bury their dead.

Quebec town should not have held referendum on cemetery for Muslims: Paradkar | Toronto Star

Defence officials say that since the centre started operating, military police have opened 55 investigations into alleged sexual crimes.

Military’s sexual misconduct call centre to be available 24/7 despite staffing struggles | Toronto Star

this is why sensitivity classes do not work, being unaware of one’s impact on others…

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Toronto is a remarkably safe city, and the tough day-to-day work carried out by thousands of police officers is a big part of keeping it that way. #Editorial

Toronto is safe, and police union shouldn’t spread fear: Editorial | Toronto Star

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#ICYMI Five intelligence officers and analysts with Canada’s spy service have launched a $35-million lawsuit against their employer, claiming the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is a toxic workplace with managers who openly espouse Islamophobic, racist and homophobic views and discriminate against Muslim, Black and gay employees.

Read our #exclusive Star story by National Security Reporter Michelle Shephard.

Five CSIS employees are accusing the spy agency of Islamophobia, racism and homophobia in a $35-million lawsuit | Toronto Star

Landmark deal in RCMP sexual-harassment class action wins court approval

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/proposed-lawsuit-alleges-discrimination-bullying-in-canadian-armed-forces-1.3861109

Proposed suit alleges harassment, discrimination against women in Canadian military

LGBTIQ public servants demand apology for the Canadian war on queers |

Originally shared by Washington Blade – 1 comment

Impact of anti-LGBT stigma, violence considered at U.N. http://ow.ly/31LX30dFl26

America’s falling out of the G20 nations on quality of life and ending the Supreme Court, is making everyone else remember and realized, what is is, that we Lest Not Forget, eh

Dear Left, Mind the Gap

Nina Tryggvason
+1
atheists are the most historically oppressed group and there continue to be laws, in America, against atheists holding public office.Nina Tryggvason
as true and funny as this meme is, thinking back to the 1990s, saying it to so called moderates resulted in emotional responses comparable to rationalizing racism and homophobiaAlan W
+Nina Tryggvason That’s actually unconstitutional, but it shows their strong intentions.

Nina Tryggvason
+Alan W fanatical extremism is not admirable. and being bothered by that others exist is mental illness

also, when the sentence starts with “it’s unconstitutional” there is no “but” exception or admiration for that which is traitorism by meaning or definition.

Richard Williams
+Nina Tryggvason most of the laws are like that though. I think it is still on the books in Texas that if you have wire cutters near a fence, you get the death penalty. They just cannot be enforced anymore. And taking the time to rewrite everything is not worth it.

Nina Tryggvason
+Richard Williams actually, updating legislation that fails to conform to foundational documents is essential, because laws on the books are laws that are gonna get used. Iceland threw out it’s entire government structure and re-built it.

Nina Tryggvason
+Richard Williams America is overdue for an overhaul and revolution. Theocracy is the wrong way to go

Nina Tryggvason
+Richard Williams that politicians spend time controlling women is the waste of government money and time.

Richard Williams
+Nina Tryggvason no.

Nina Tryggvason
+1
+Richard Williams then you are the status quo to be overcome and part of the problem.

Nina Tryggvason
+1
goverment can and does change rules, look at how Trump & Repubs have ended the USA Supreme Court and changed a democracy into a theocracy in less than 1 year

Ebony Skeptic
+Nina Tryggvason

Less than a year is very quick! I mean when you look at the timeline of how things that were consisted taboo took MANY years to change like interracial marriage or gay marriage

Nina Tryggvason
+1
+Ebony Skeptic reactionary is faster than revolutionary. one is fear of and the other is change
social change can also occur quickly, in Canada, 60% were against marriage equality and after it happened, it was less than a year that it became 60% for and now people realize, it had no effect on them. and Canadians made fun of Americans for delaying and freaking out when it happened – and they act as if other nations did not successfully and peacefully integrate and improve the economy,

Richard Williams
+Nina Tryggvason Why would you rewrite something that doesn’t matter? Why waste billions and billions of dollars rewriting something that will then also need to be rewritten. I use to think the exact same way. REWRITE IT ALL! But that is a slippery slippery slope(IE who gets to rewrite it?). Texas cannot enforce the no atheist in politics because of the Federal laws that prevent it from working, noted by Texas actually having atheists in office. End of story.

Now you did sneak(I replied “no” not seeing that comment) in the “controlling women” part, which I am totally with you on. Women should be allowed to make their own choices.

+Nina Tryggvason “then you are the status quo to be overcome and part of the problem”

As a liberal atheist in Texas please explain how this applies to me. Otherwise, I’ll just take it as a snap judgment and ignore it.

To me the easiest solution to all politics is a really really simple one. REMOVE lawyers. 98% or so(last I checked) of all politicians are lawyers. Lawyers don’t “do”, they argue. Get people that do things and know things in the positions that are meant to be there. In a department of health you should have the appropriate degree or you get to leave. Simple as that.

Nina Tryggvason

people thinking it’s simple is why Trump is president.

+Richard Williams because law does matter, and your failure to understand that is why “you are the status quo to be overcome and part of the problem” – and Modernizing Law is the reflection of the change in society. and going by what you posted, it is clear to me that you do not understand the complexity, so not talking to you is fine by me. have a nice day, eh

this “As a liberal atheist in Texas please explain how this applies to me. Otherwise, I’ll just take it as a snap judgment and ignore it.” you are trying to dismiss to cling to your pov, which is the core of your problem, and again, why you are part of the problem – you confirm what the republicans say – that you are not really liberal.

Originally shared by Ebony Skeptic

It’s a lie!

Richard Williams

+Nina Tryggvason you do realize the law currently says an atheist can hold office. Simple as that. I am not talking about laws that are still in effect that do have real consequences on people, since the atheist law DOES NOT AFFECT ANYTHING(it is unconstitutional as stated above, removing it only costs money and could cause other problems with how it is removed). And as I said before I agree that we need new up to date laws. And my views on actually how to do this are really really far fetched since my removing lawyers was just the iceberg.

Suicide does not prove free will. (And Alans joke was awesome)

No idea why Trump has anything to do with it. I said my best idea for a solution would be removing all lawyers from politics. I don’t think this is a mainstream idea. But it would be a great start. As I voted for the first woman president I do not approve of Trump.

Canceling religious holidays would be awesome! I agree lets do that.

Can you please expand on what republicans say that confirms that I am not a liberal? I would love to hear it! I literally just talked about removing almost all politicians from office(since 98% of them are laywers). I haven’t liked a politician ever. Bernie is the closest I get and he is still just middle of the road between left and right.

Summary
-Atheist can’t hold office
~It is in Texas constitution
~Cannot be enforced since it is unconstitutional
~Could cause other problems just removing it
~It has never been used to prevent someone from taking office

Let’s start with things that actually have an impact on people and go from there. Holidays (Holy days) do sound good.

+Richard Williams you are talking about your state as if it’s the sum total, it’s the Alberta of America. And you need to re-read what I posted to you, asked and answered. continuing to demonstrate your inability to interact conversationally. and stop blogging at people.

Team Trump Excuses for the Don Jr. Meeting Go from Bad to Worse

this is why parody becomes pointless and reality is too harsh for popcorn.

Impact of anti-LGBT stigma, violence considered at U.N. http://ow.ly/31LX30dFl26

Originally shared by Washington Blade

America’s falling out of the G20 nations on quality of life and ending the Supreme Court, is making everyone else remember and realized, what is is, that we Lest Not Forget, eh

Originally shared by Darlu Littledeer

In Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Court Finds That Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law – THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAN

Environmental Rights are everyone’s existence

Torah 1.0 Bible 2.0 Quoran 3.0 and Mormon 2.5: going around the no adultery in an era of women scarcity, little wonder Smith was gunned down in the street after being dragged from jail

Originally shared by Washington Blade

Washington florist seeks OK from Supreme Court to refuse service to gays http://ow.ly/QcG630dECA4

Americans preventing other Americans from Shopping seems unamerican

Dear Business

you are not entitled to cherry pick from the public

to whom you owe for the infrastructure that allows you to operate a business

Dignity of person is when rights are extended is required for a civil society

• 
  Alan W

  The First Amendment forbids the Government to get involved with religion, they must stay neutral.

  There is no religious test required to run for or hold any public office. It is unconstitutional.
• 
  +Alan W which is why laws that do not comply with the Constitution and other obsolete laws must be removed: thehumanist.com – Unelectable Atheists: U.S. States That Prohibit Godless Americans From Holding Public Office – TheHumanist.com

  

  Unelectable Atheists: U.S. States That Prohibit Godless Americans From Holding Public Office – TheHumanist.com
• 6s
• 
  +Alan W and America was the only G20 nation where women remain unequal, but it’s out of the G20 group now, eh.

  USA Watch: Time for a Religious Test for Office

Yesterday’s Outing

My Mom and I went for a Mall Walk and then for a quick stop at that Safeway.

A White Man Threaten To Kill Me

I thought about going to their Customer Service counter, but decided to do a written letter instead.

Then, at the check out, the clerk was so nice, that the story stumbled out.

He was horrified and the customer in line behind was in disbelief.

My Mom said, “I was there in the car when it happened.”

I mentioned the dead homeless person from a months back, another time we had been there and seen the emergency responders – but not the body; something that the clerk was unaware of, going by his stunned expression.

He advised me that I should have come into the store and reported it.

I said “I’m in the RCMP Class Action Suit, and I have little reason to trust authority.”

 

So, to all would be helpers, unless you do more than take down a report, you are not actually helping and reporting during the stress event and having nothing done would have increased the trauma and event.

if Safeway had responded, but RCMP did not, even worse.

In the moment and then later now, eh.

predictability is social confidence

 

This Post is a Test of Law In Canada

Suzanne Catty
Trudeau is continuing the Harper era lack of transparency. He also extended the use of coal in two provinces by 5 years clearly showing he is the enemy of science and the environment. No surprise funding is lacking, so is information.
The Globe and Mail supported Harper and his silencing of science and fact for over a decade, you are hardly in a position to whine now. However you could redeem your position as a globally important newspaper by actually publishing facts and submitting FOIA’s to ferret out the truth. Just sayin’.

Nina Tryggvason
huffingtonpost.ca – Why is the Harper Administration Throwing Away Entire Libraries?
Why is the Harper Administration Throwing Away Entire Libraries?

Griffin Walker
You can’t fix this…you can only guard against effect’s… Tell the people publicly the truth and they will get behind this…the whole truth including how government made it worse…

Nina Tryggvason
+Griffin Walker a Harper Era Law that is not rescinded prevents me from posting an actual comment.

Nina Tryggvason
The above post and this one, are a public test of the limit of that law. Not.Just.Saying. eh

Welcome to Public Service Appreciation Week

 

Originally shared by The Globe and Mail – 5 comments

Without funding, Canadian climate science is in peril: Effective action and commitment will be impossible unless Canadians and decision-makers have up-to-date information on how our climate is changing

Without funding, Canadian climate science is in peril

Why is Consumerism a Statutory Holiday?

It is real, and it’s on.

Only In Canada, eh

First, I want to apologize for this meme being out of date

and with the wrong picture of my American Counterpart

whom, I am very pleased to see is no longer in jail

either in Government custody or in the gender

I will be doing an updated version – so this version is just a preview

and not the final version – and I am a Dyke – I am revealing myself to be a Government Employee. Disabled and Retired.

but, I am in 2 important class action lawsuits in Canada

because unlike every other social movement for rights, women, ethnicities and unpopular cults until they are of size to be deemed religion – and especially the most hated, feared, loathed and misunderstood group of all:

people who are free thinkers who do not religion at all.

Like Queers, Atheists can look like anyone

just push the post button, no sense letting fear stop you know, when you’ve already gone too far, eh.

D’Oh Canaduh

Chelsea Manning is taking on the transphobic haters and it’s beautiful

A White Man Threaten To Kill Me

It turned a so-so outing into the worst one ever.

My Mom and I went to the Fresgo Inn for a disappointing brunch, first time ever, on King George Highway, Surrey BC.

Then, over to the Mall, were I got a wheat grass with a pineapple chaser, and a moderate walk around the complex. Jen, my usual Booster Juice Gal was not there, she works weekdays and I had forgotten that week/weekend concept a while ago, days blurred into sameness – as the world around spins.

Last stop, the Safeway. Inside the store, nothing untoward.

It was in the parking lot, I was putting away the cart and I could hear a man say, “say in the car, we’re only going to be 5 minutes.”

from the tone of his voice, I thought he was talking to a dog.

and it was already sweltering in the afternoon sun

the woman had walked away and the man had followed her from their car, parked beside ours

I didn’t see a dog in the window. or a person

I was just getting into the car, when it dawned on me and I said to my Mom, in our car

 

“Are they leaving a child in that car?”

I looked over my shoulder to see the man turn back

He was a white man, over 6 feet with big shoulders and a powerful build, but he had no tattoo and had hair, and was dressed like a jock confused that high school was over.

His wife was just over 5 feet tall and of a different ethnicity, so nothing like Neo-Nazi or biker suggested itself to me

“Mind your own business” he barked at me. He claimed he was kidding, but the toddler was under 5 and not capable that that level of understanding and would only know it was left in a hot car and the parents walked away.

“I’ll call social services.” I said, standing my ground – which is also known as moral ground, and applying ethics and socially capable concepts of a village raising a child, eh.

at that point, his body stiffened and his pose was posturing, he threated to hit me and knock me to the actual ground

“That’s uttering threats.” I said, still standing.

“I will kill you.” he said and he got his child out of the car.

I continued to stand my ground. He and his wife and child went into the store and I got into my car and drove home. rather in shock.

 

 

to a stranger in the parking lot – what they heard were those words

 

and what they saw was a white man in his 20s threatening a middle aged white adult woman of over 200 pounds

 

on a hot day

 

where he left his child, a toddler in the car

 

and his response to a stranger’s concern, was to threaten assault and murder

 

he would not have even known I am a lesbian

 

so

 

anyone who thinks that his behaviour is acceptable towards another person

 

and this is Canada, if that had been in America, I would probably have been shot to death

 

anyway, next time someone asks me to think about the children

 

I am gonna make them read this

 

I drove home, and what I should have done was write down his license plate number and returned to the store – Safeway, and have their security bring in the police – which is RCMP

 

and me, in the RCMP vs women class action.

which, already trying to manage that confrontation caused panic attack – and knowing my Mom bought frozen foods…. this is not supposed to be Canada’s reality.

Now, the above video explains a bit about my background with an incident from my RCMP employment and for the interests of public safety and self defence:

 

the man was standing far enough away from me that if he had moved towards me, I was hardly going to stand there and allow him to assault me.

I had a few options

1. charge him and use my smaller height and greater weight and strike him below his centre of gravity and knock him over, and pin him to the ground until help arrived
2. get into my vehicle and back up, also knocking him over
3. get into my vehicle and if possible drive forward and away, but there was another parked vehicle blocking that option

If I had thought they could or would be of help, go into Safeway – which I later did report the incident to a cashier and not customer service

but mostly, men need to understand that they may not verbally threaten or physically intimidate other people and they need to own when they are wrong and not become violent and then behave as if they were somehow in the right at any level, in what is supposed to be a civilized society

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/09/asking-if-a-transgender-person-had-surgery-or-just-enjoys-crossdressing-is-a-microaggression-now/

Asking If A Transgender Person Had Surgery Is A ‘MICROAGGRESSION’ Now

Actually, asking rude, invasive questions has always been a social aggression

Other people have no right or need to know more than the public presentation of one’s person.

 

Dear people who expect safety

You need to offer and include other people in that

do not ignore that the most dangerous and threatening demographic

is Heterosexual Males of all ethnicity.

stop blaming the marginalized for mainstream problems

Washington anti-transgender campaign fails for second year in a row

BCHRT: Completing the Complaint

I printing some of the material and I crafted other documents.

I need to print out the initial translink and the brain conference posts

and I need to print out the Life Labs correspondance

and Write The Doctor Memo, Worksafe BC…

then, finish the BC HRT letter to overview those documents

• regular mail the Shopper’s Drug Mart to their corporate office
• register mail the package to BC HRT

 

Monday, I have a Legal Call scheduled, so afterwards –

then I have the Federal/BC cover letter with a copy of the BC package, which goes to both

 

and then for the feds.. cut n paste what I send and save the postage on the forms requested, eh. & cite revcan form policy

Originally shared by Toronto Star – 15 comments

Justin Trudeau said the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects all Canadians, “even when it is uncomfortable.”

Khadr apology, settlement about violation of Charter rights, Trudeau says | Toronto Star

 

Nina Tryggvason
excellent, this was exactly what I needed for my Federal and BC human rights complaintRob Reiner
+1
This government I guess feels it’s justified to violate all the rest of Canadian’s constitutional rights to be politically correct.
You just shit on alot of Canadians and I mean alot in all avenues.
Respectively you have made numerous promises to people of this country that are in fact in need of help yet you seemingly feel it best to turn a blind eye and compensate a terrorist.
Truly sickened but still proud of the flag and in which it stands for but I guess you have lost the values in which it signifies.
You could have I would only have hoped, apologize to the many other Canadians you made promises to prior to betrayal.Rob Reiner
His parents were in questionable means in direct contact and plot and ploy with world known terrorists in which employ many young people in which well know their purpose. I have ask myself, how in the hell did he became a Canadian citizen in the first place well knowing obviously by intelligence, video and confessions attesting to terrorism. I guess in fact that the personnel within our military die in vein, are dismembered in vein and come back with afflicted mental disorders beyond. How are they accommodated other than a usher down heroes lain. This has to be the most herendous insult to those that sacrifice themselves for our country. Als all those within our country that are well known to be in need. We have a wonderful country in which I am extremely grateful and proud for. The standards unfortunately have changed for me with this insult to the integrity this country once stood for. Wake up Ottawa, you may be interested as to how many you pissed off and never lose sight that it is our country. Not only yours to just piss on.

Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada’s largest network.

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Rob Reiner
Sorry for the heated response. Unfortunately this degenerate didn’t commit a crime in our country in which is debatable by being penalized in another country. Their are international laws though that he would fall under in which I do not understand why he has been evasive off. We had Canadians beheaded as to the rules of no negotiations with terrorists, yet our government feels deem to pay one out. Would it be different if it was Canadian soldiers that were affected.

Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada’s largest network.

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Rob Reiner
Youeither talk to me directly or I am not going to at all.

Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada’s largest network.

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Nina Tryggvason
+Rob Reiner what right is being denied to you exactly? you are legally allowed to complain about it.

Rob Reiner
If I may whom are you question?

Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada’s largest network.

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Nina Tryggvason
+Rob Reiner I am a person in several genocide demographic categories, so I am challenging your claim that you are personally impacted by this news item, so if you can’t or won’t answer a reasonable response to your post, then you are clearly part of the problem of thinking something is a right, when it’s not even a privilege or entitlement. You are not using the word “right” in the legal meaning of it in Canada, eh.

I was also first to post on the topic that I am in the process of filing human rights complaints, federally or provincially, and you posted after me. so that’s who I am to question your dubious claim of rights removed from you, when, as I said, you are legally allowed to complain.

that you expect to go unchallenged and be assumed to be correct, demonstrates that you are extending what you think is your rights, and using that to take away other people basic rights. which is not what free speech in America or Freedom of Expression is in Canada.

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when I checked for a reply, his comments were not visible to me

so I posted:

he claims his rights are infringed, cannot name the right and then blocked me for challenging him… telling, eh

Back from Richmond

The drive to Richmond was better than the one coming back to Surrey.

I met my great uncle and it’s given me an entirely new perspective on the world and understanding of myself.

when he was a young man, he worked on ship that sank under the weight of ocean ice

he was the radio operator

and his was not the only ship that sank

I looked through a recently published book, in Icelandic

his photo was in it, twice, once at some time during that year in the radio room

and then a recent photo for his interview in the book.

I am a former Emergency Preparedness Professional

and this is my favorite tv series

Seconds from Disaster (TV Series 2004– ) – IMDb

Every breath you take contains a molecule of history

‘Caesar’s Last Breath’ tells the stories of invisible gases

Every breath you take contains a molecule of history

Nina Tryggvason
we all breath the same air, and ultimate drink each other pee, water water everywhere

James Sossou
Did you really have to bring urine into it?!

Nina Tryggvason
well, it was the more palatable than the other waste use of water, eh?
I mean, have you ever read a report of what’s on money?

Originally shared by Toronto Star – 1 comment

“If there is such a thing as sisterhood, it requires us to stand with – and yes, even behind – the families of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.”

Feminists should work to secure justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women: Mochama | Toronto Star

or maybe the men could stop being oppressors?

the problem is not that women aren’t addressing this

many women are and they are not being listened to

it’s that the problem causers don’t care

and the systemic failure to actually apply the law

and the system is not correcting

because society is stagnant and not progressing

‘

religion is mental illness

Dear Public: There is no ethnicity of heterosexuals who do not genocide, oppress or marginalize us

Analysis | Yes, there’s racism in the LGBT community. But there’s more outside it.

Malaysian Muslim group joins Indonesian call for Starbucks boycott over LGBT stand | Reuters

Dear Christians, before you think there’s a difference, when you are doing the same religion

Fire Intentionally Set at Dallas LGBT Community Center

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“A new video has been released which features a 78-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy sit down to talk about their experiences of being gay.
78-year-old Percy and 13-year-old Louis talk about how they each experienced growing up and living as gay.
The video was released ahead of the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.”

A 78-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy sat down to talk about being gay (VIDEO)

Now THIS is something very new to our community

I came out in 1993, and there were survivors from the 1970s and 1960s and even 1950s

As harsher that those decades were

The groups that came out in the 1980s and 1990s, were decimated by AIDs

It was our generations X and Y – that really came out, because queers got all the blame for AIDS, where it was not “our fault”

THAT Said – it was Gay Men who had money that allowed American Researchers to figure the virus out, before the France team claimed the USA work as their own.

AIDs would never have been detected if it had remained in Africa, where it is now known to have existed back into the 1800s – yes – eighteen not a 8/9 typo.

The reason for that was mostly because other outbreaks of viruses killed people faster first – so it was hidden.

The reason for the spread of AIDs in Africa was the highway system – the trucking industry and sex workers in every town.

The Spread of AIDS around the world was owing to the airline industry for tourist, and the traditional Soldiers, Sailors & traveling Salesman putting boots under beds as much as on ground.

As each previous diseases were via ships of new and first contacts.

So – the world has very much, seriously and actually literally – which is telling that it has to be clarified:

Thank you to the Gay Men who died from AIDS, who were able to afford Health Care in America because they were not hampered with a wife and children – who were not downlow or closet that is – and were able to tell the medical staff that they were gay – and the pathogens were eventually traceable.

and Shame on the Health Care system of paying for blood, and delaying a proper testing – and causing more trauma and lesser quality of care and social life for queers – creating a horrifying division of deserved to get it vs victims of an infectious disease.

North American public society has been so sanitized – and that word is advisedly used – that people are unaccustomed to seeing that there are people who are different across many factors having to do with our physical bodies.

And, that distress some people feel at seeing another person who differs actually existing – is their disgust issue and their mental health problem

It says everything about them and nothing about the person they are looking at.

If they were to sneeze into a tissue and demand you take it

You really don’t have to

anyway.. in the 1980s, I was in high school and there was Boy George and Annie Lennox and Genderqueer was the polite phrase, Genderfuck being the other

The 1970s, when the hets discoed and began acting like queers, following their 1960s boy-girl sexuality cultural revolution following on the 1950s with Elvis Presley putting female desire and sexuality on the map – it was never about him and the Commie/Black thing was a red herring for the real fear:

Female Sexuality and her ability to choose or not, and if yes, demand satisfaction – which is the more emasculating of the castrating: performance anxiety

which, that flip side is that, they are not really turned on by women and their own rejection is what causes the lashing out at gay men, usually in groups

heterosexuals are very into controlling each other and group sex as a predatory norm apparently….

which is why: Purer in public, the bigger the perv in private

whereas, as a queer person, that’s in a way permission to be vanilla in practice lol. or not.

Ah… the other thing about the 1990s – and it helps to explain the tv show FRIENDS – which pushed the tv boundaries for queer characters, with specials guests and running characters,

was the 1990s was, in the mainstream – not only the decade when AIDS was finally understood as a global problem; with lesbians as the lowest risk group, notice it is not no risk, but low.

the 1990s Decade of False Memory Syndrome as a festering fad, but importantly, it was the Decade of the Adult Child of Alcoholics and Coffee Shops were on every corner, at every intersection.

Agoraphobic Outings, Past, Present and Future

July 4

At a strip mall, my Mom went into the Produce Store and I went into the Pizza Shop for a slice. They had just opened and the pizzas were a few minutes from being out of the oven.

“I’ll be back” I said, without Doing Arnie (The Terminator, pop culture reference).

I left and I did return – to the clerk’s surprise – and they were taste, fresh from that oven, not sitting or stuffed into a cardboard box.

July 5

A short hunt n gather at the Chain Grocery Store.Uneventful

July 6

Back to that same store.

In the ice cream aisle, I joked with my Mom about the cheap half dipped in chocolate ice cream as being climate change and the cost of cocoa beans.

A woman with 2 young boys laughed when I said I feared a world without coffee and chocolate.

“We’re doomed,” I said, continuing talking to my Mom but looking at the young mother with her 2 children. bigger than toddlers but not yet tweens.

“We passed the carbon tipping point.”

She smiled, but now, she wasn’t so sure I was funny, and I wasn’t.

I smiled and headed off down the aisle after my Mom and she the other way with her 2 in tow.

At the checkout:

“Did you want the deal of the week item” she intoned and waved her hand.

“No, and I am sorry that you have to do that.”

She looked at me for a long moment and then said “Thank you.”

Cashier is a different skill than sales.

 

Outside the store, there was another young mother with a group of 4 boys in that same span, just out and almost in.

Her sari was so stunning that she caught me staring and there was a hesitation to meet my gaze that her 4 sons did not notice.

“I am sorry for staring, but your sari is so beautiful, a double rainbow.”

The shawl was all the colours in three hues gradient, the top 3 repeated and the bottoms 4, with elegant stitching.

She laughed in delight and we chatted as we walked to the parking lot.

She explained she loved colours and had to wear black and white at work.

“And we’re not penguins,” I replied.

 

then home

 

but tomorrow

tomorrow I am going to Richmond BC

 

to meet a relative visiting from Iceland

my Great-Uncle,

so.. it is going to be out of the house for over my 5 hour tolerance

 

in the one city I fear physically in BC owing to it being a river sand bar in a bowl, like New Orleans, is under sea level

but it’s still less scary than Vancouver.

Evolution’s Revolution

Among these representatives of primate evolution, both body size and brain size increased, but body size increased faster. The blood flow to primate brains increased roughly in proportion to brain size. Only in the hominins do we see that blood flow increased faster than brain size, which indicates that the brain was not only developing in size, but in usage as well. And that shows our ancestors were getting smarter.

How our species got smarter: through a rush of blood to the head

it’s the standing upright instead of parallel to the ground

the heart, but also the legs doing the pumping

hips the locomotion

plus eating meat, too

brains are expensive organs to operate

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/photogalleries/neanderthal/

Neanderthal Range Map

If modern humans didn’t reach Europe until about 60,000 years ago, how has DNA from them turned up in a Neanderthal fossil in Germany from 124,000 years ago?

“The answer seems to be that there was a previous migration of early humans – more than 219,000 years ago. One that we’re only just starting to reveal from piecemeal evidence that is DNA extracted from fossilised bones.”

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

newscientist.com

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  We breed them to extinction

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  we had art and language and out competed them
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  They have arts and crafts too. But you are right, we out compete them.
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  not at the same level of construction, also they did not innovate in their tools as much as we did.
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  I don’t know about you but this look artsy to me and it’s confirmed to be drawn by Neadertale

  
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  We can survive on 2,000 calories a day. I’ve read they needed 5,000.

  That’s a huge advantage right there.
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  +Khanh Nguyen they did have art, they did not have the same complexity – their burials were more simple, as far as I am aware, their art was representative of real world, whereas sapiens also made symbolic art, which indicates a different level of culture. and, their tools took much longer for change and innovation
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  +Kevin Carney yes, they were bigger bodied and brained than us, and brains are expensive organs; we had leisure time, they didn’t. thrival vs survival.
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  +Khanh Nguyen what is that image? it looks like of drawing of them not by them.

Neanderthals vs Sapiens

with their higher food need, they had to spend more time in hunting/gathering

while “we” with the lower food need, had more leisure time to develop innovations, decorations – and allow for work specializing that gave rise to trades

and not everyone had to hunt n gather

 A life-size reproduction of a Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis, dressed in modern suit in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany.

the textbooks preferred Out of Africa

but included the China finds

Peking Man Lived 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

news.nationalgeographic.com

Indonesia’s “Java Man”. While searching for fossils in Java, physician Eugène Dubois uncovered the tophalf of an early human skull in 1891.

Trinil 2 | The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program  humanorigins.si.edu

 and in the 1970s and 1980s, it took time for the textbooks to remove the hoax of Piltdown Man

July 10, 1997…In London, scientists said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported the theory that all humanity descended from an “African Eve” who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

It was only a couple decades ago that there was total denial

and now, evidence – skulls n other bones and DNA most astonishingly

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Last Century, when I was in Post Secondary

we had no idea about this group

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

Denisovians the other archaic

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“A team of researchers with members from Russia, Germany, Canada and Italy studying a tooth found in Denisova cave back in 1984 has found that it belonged to a young Denisovan girl and that it was a baby tooth. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the team also notes that DNA evidence suggests the girl lived approximately 20,000 years before other Denisovans living in the same cave who also left behind fossils that have been found and identified.
The Denisovans are believed to be extinct relatives of Neanderthal. The newly identified fossil brings to just four the number of Denisovan fossils that have been found and identified—one finger and three teeth. Because of the location of Denisova cave, which is located in Siberia, researchers believe the hominins lived in eastern parts of Eurasia, whereas Neanderthal are believed to have lived in western Eurasia.
The Denisovans first came to light back in 2010 when a team of researchers studying a finger bone found in Denisova cave managed to extract a small bit of DNA. Analysis of the sample showed that it was not Neanderthal as had been suspected but was instead from a different early hominn. They called it Denisova after the cave in which it was found. An even closer look at the DNA samples conducted later on showed that the Denisovans split away from Neanderthals during the time frame 470,000 to 190,00 years ago. Subsequent digging in the cave led to the discovery of two teeth that were also identified as Denisovan. The newly identified fourth fossil is believed to have come from a girl approximately 10 to 12 years old”.

A fourth Denisovan fossil has been identified

Ancient women found in Russian cave were close relatives of today’s indigenous population

Human Evolution Maps