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I'm so tired of Christians sitting by the wayside because they don't feel it's up to us do anything. It's God's responsibility they say. "We are not to go around protesting" they say. We are only to spread God's word.
I call bullshit!

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Friends of Children in Care Candle Light Vigil, Guest Speaker Robert P. Lee

                                                                                                                                                                
{ A story is soon to be posted about my attendance to this event. Thank you for your patience.}

Tic-Toc, tic-toc...

  Apologies once again... I still have no idea of when that trial date will be set. my legal team is still awaiting the "Disclosure Reports" so it's anybody's guess when I will be able to release that story. But I'm playing back and forth with a couple other ones and procrastinating on everything (snicker, snicker, snort!)

  You have to remember though that I am doing my best to serve and write primarily for the Fathers will and glory so being the old fleshy meat-bag that I am, it takes time getting myself to the back of the bus and Him settled in the drivers seat. I must say though, the way they're turning out you your gonna love 'em... your gonna laugh, smile, cry and possibly urinate all over that plush leather chair of yours.

  Well ok... maybe that's taking it a little far. but hey! Any publicity is good publicity I'd say... wouldn't chew?

 In the mean time you need to check out this article about a 192-page climate change encyclical  released by Pope Francis. Just click on the link situated to the right of his mug... from your perspective... ya you got it... now just click. It's got meat!
                                                     
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                                                          http://ictmn.com/4qB3

 

Whew!

Well I'm writing again... just been to hell and back and will  tell ya all about it very soon... hopefully. lol. Keep an eye out for "My Insanity"  COMING SOON to a monitor near you! I must apologize from all the long waits but I just want you to have clear, concise and truthful writing from me as much as possible. You deserve that cuz ... well... yer special! luv ya.
                                                             johnnyluv

Good Read... but not mine.

May 18, 2015 Updated : May 19, 2015 | 10:41 am

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Alberta government program rents infested Edmonton motel rooms to impoverished clients

By Ryan Tumilty Metro

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Kevin Tuong Detectives Roger Bellerose and Kevin Fald outside of the Edmonton Police’s West Division headquarters. Over the last year, the pair have attempted to work with motel owners, after discovering families on social assistance were living in the substandard rooms.

Albertans in financial distress are being housed in substandard conditions at discount motels on the province’s dime with the government unaware of the squalor, a year-long police investigation revealed.
Edmonton Police began the investigation, dubbed Project Watch, when they noticed higher crime rates around a cluster of west-end motels. But as it unfolded, they found people on social assistance occupying rooms filled with mice, bedbugs, asbestos and mould.
As a result, police are investigating motels across the city and bringing in other agencies for help.
Det. Kevin Fald, one of two officers assigned to Project Watch, said he was stunned at the state of rooms covered on the government tab.

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Fald added that Alberta Works, which oversees rooms for people in financial distress, appeared ignorant to the reality of the situation – the only interactions with clients were via phone.
“These places were a mess. What we found was there were bedbugs, cockroaches, mould, asbestos,” he said.
According data provided by Human Services in late 2014, the province placed 1,040 people in motel rooms on an emergency basis during the 2011-2012 fiscal year; in 2013-2014, that number jumped to 2,276.
The cost of these lodgings has risen to nearly $4 million annually.
Kathy Telfer, a spokesperson for Human Services, was unable to provide current costs and admitted the organization didn’t know about the state of the rooms.
“It was new information to us. We know that there is a challenge in finding temporary accommodations for families who are finding themselves in these situations and needing supports.”
Supt. Brad Doucette, who first pushed Fald to look into spiking crime rates around motels, said officers are now working with health personnel, city bylaw officials, occupational health and safety and Alberta Works to improve living conditions for the families living in these properties.
“We’re getting all of those folks to the table now that they know the issue is as big as it is.”
Doucette said he would like to see the government adopt a minimum set of standards for motel and hotel operators, which currently don’t exist.
“There is no rule that says they have to change the sheets between customers,” he said.
He said many of these places also had advertisements that don’t bear any resemblance to the reality of what the rooms are like.
“There are pictures on Trip Advisor of rooms that do not exist in that hotel,” he said.
Det. Kevin Fald said with the city having such a low vacancy rate there will continue to be a real challenge housing vulnerable people, which is why they need to work to improve these facilities.
“We’re really lacking in housing and in family friendly shelters, so we have to use the hotels and motels, so it’s in our best interest to keep them safe.”

More from metronews.ca

"Un..." Well, actually it is "freakin' belieavable!"

    Let me turn you on to a very wise, entertaining and enlightening young gentleman who makes a wide range of videos. His name is Yousef, but goes by "fouseytube"on Youtube. One of his main focuses is shining a light on the homelessness issue and how society at large responds to people who find themselves in such a position. He purposefully and tactfully as well as not so tactfully draws out attitudes & stigmas which are associated in relation to this issue. I would suggest you search out other videos of his on this subject I wish to share this link to one particular video with you that produced a measure of shock within me. And I thought I've seen it all. God bless you all.
                                   johnnyluv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZvYvOkqxA8&feature=em-subs_digest

 additional (uncut) version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrz5S7KSL0o

P.S. I don't  know if I've mentioned this or not but I finally got to see my grandson after a long wait. I had a great time with him. Here are a couple pics of our time together in his playhouse.(And "yes", that is genuine surprise when I saw my daughter with her camera on us as I was making faces at my host.)

 (from an earlier Post)                                                              
So Sorry

 Once again I must apologize, I made a mistake. I though I could release that story I've been talking about on the 22nd but am not able to until my trail date. I have been charged with uttering death threats against a housemate which is untrue, all stemming from elements which are concerning this story, so I think it would be wise since there are elements in the story that concern the trail so I had better leave it till then. Once again my apologies because I am only scheduled to enter a plea on May 20th. then a trail date has to be set. When that date is set I'll let you know.
   Ya I know, that's a long wait. Oh well, I have something for you before then anywho and besides, It's not like many people are reading my blog anyway because I 'm not posting as much and as often as I should... so right now I feel like I'm talking to myself so I'd better stop before You people think I'm crazy. Later.

                                                                   johnnyluv    

Heads Up

 My next big story... and it will be big, will be out on April 22nd. Tell your friends and see you then. Love you. Here are a few tid bits that are no less important.

(the following comment was written by Brianna B. on Facebook in regards to this link to an article entitled "Red River Women" written by Joanna Jolly)

"This is such a well written article regarding missing and murdered indigenous women. Educate yourselves! Please read it."
                                        
With Aboriginal peoples making up less than 5% of Canada's population of 35 million, this figure is astonishingly high - Aboriginal women are four times more likely to be murdered or go missing than other Canadian women.“What most people fail to recognise is that the establishment of Canada was actually formed on colonial imperialism, fuelled by racism,” Fontaine says.

Newcomers, explorers and settlers did not understand, she says, that many indigenous societies were matriarchal.
“Whereas indigenous people understood indigenous women and girls as life-givers, as sacred, as equal, we start to see that shifting to, ‘No they're whores, they're promiscuous, they're squaws.’”
The Iroquois word “squaw”, in particular, bothers Fontaine.
“It's the word for female genitalia.”
“We have a swear word that starts with a C and ends with a T that is essentially what generations of indigenous women and girls were called.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-dc75304f-e77c-4125-aacf-83e7714a5840
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David Suzuki on, well... saving us from ourselves of course.

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 Searching for a new Earth:
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