Grandpa Richard Speaks

The Canadian government’s rules on obtaining citizenship have been changed, effective immediately. A new citizen must show their face to the citizenship judge when they take their oath to ensure they “are actually reciting the oath,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced earlier this week.

Is the Niqab an actual necessity under the beliefs of the faiths involved? Or is it a cultural matter separate from religion?

Walkom: What’s right about Jason Kenney’s very wrong no-veil rule
By Thomas Walkom National Affairs Columnist Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s decision to withhold Canadian citizenship from veiled Muslim women is ham-handed and, at one level, absurd. It is a remedy to a problem that does not exist, …
www.thestar.com

Grandpa Richard agrees with the new rule. I disagree with some of Mr. Walkom’s comments, although he is also commenting on other issues which I do agree with.

Our society uses the face as a major way of identifying a person. The most common facial coverings in my mind are the masks of criminals. Imagine a trial that asks a witness to identify someone involved in a case. That is almost impossible without seeing the face.

Hate it if you want, but don’t ban the niqab
Given that constitutional liberalism is the bedrock of Canadian values, what are we to make of Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s diktat concerning women wearing the niqab at citizenship ceremonies? Mr. Kenney is cynically exploiting …
www.theglobeandmail.com

Here is a comment I heard at work today, where, I might add, traditional white Europeans are not the majority. Much of the multi-cultural “stuff” dictated by the government is not really being requested by the new immigrants involved. They WANT to become Canadians, not culture XYZ living in Canada.

Your comments?

If you commit a crime, and during the commission of that crime cause yourself a serious injury, can that be enough of a penalty?

That is the question I ask myself in this case.

Accused in York Region officer’s death granted bail
Garrett Styles, 32, died in the line of duty last June. The teenager accused in his death has been granted bail but remains a quadriplegic, his lawyer said Tuesday. A teenaged driver accused of fatally injuring a York Regional Police officer was …
www.torontosun.com

Note that the accused is now a quadriplegic, as a result of the accident that also caused the death of the officer.

Any thoughts you’d like to share in the comment section?

Those in the know will know that Grandpa Richard Speaks is built on an awesome piece of software called WordPress. It makes life so much easier than the raw HTML days. Ya, it also can restrict life online, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

By the way, WordPress is free!!!

WordPress was started by a young fella named Matt Mullenweg. I was scanning through his blog today and came upon this quote.

Finally, home theatre needs disruption — this is a land of $200 Monster HDMI cables and similar gouging that functions like a state lottery, an intelligence tax. When I walk through Best Buy, which I try to do once every few months, it feels like it’s technology at its worst, the magic of progress used as smoke and mirrors to confuse and dupe consumers rather than make their lives better.

How true!!!

How about a replacement battery charger for the batteries for my camcorder? The salesman replies, “About $200″.

Grandpa Richard chokes and sputters and goes home to a Chinese supplier based eBay and gets one for 10% of that. Sure, it is not as good, and sometimes they sputter and smoke and you throw them out. But, come on, $200???

Comments?

No comments from Grandpa Richard on this one. Please just read the quote and make it part of your life.

If you get, give. If you learn, teach.
— Maya Angelou

Here is some recent news about Maya.

At 83, Angelou still traveling, teaching
By LAURA HAMBLETON | Special to The Washington Post Poet, writer, civil rights activist, professor, filmmaker, dramatist, singer, Grammy Award winner: Maya Angelou, 83, has also been called the nation’s premier memoirist. She was in Washington recently …
www2.tbo.com

Maya Angelou by Rusty Darbonne, on Flickr

Ouch! Grandpa Richard talking about tripe X rated topics?

There is a new domain naming type available, dot xxx.

What does that mean? Look at my domain name. GrandpaRichardSpeaks.com. Nicknamed a “dot com” domain name.

How about GrandpaRichardSpeaks.xxx?

The idea is to get all the porn operators to move to dot xxx so that it is obvious to a surfer that it is porn related and they can visit or avoid, dependent on their personal beliefs and thoughts. However, is it that simple?

The following are two news items that respond to my question.

New .xxx domain for porn debuts to mixed feelings
By Peter Pachal, Mashable For some, today’s official grand opening of the .xxx domain is the best thing to happen to Internet pornography since it was injected with life in the 1990s, as depicted in the movie Middle Men. For others, it’s a dangerous …
www.usatoday.com

XXX Domain names for sale
That’s the day that the XXX Domain names went on sale. And an estimated 100000 new porn websites were launched. Some of the first to pay for the new XXX sites were universities across the country. And one of them was Southern Illinois University in …
www.kfvs12.com

We have all seen them. We have all made them!!! Typos. Typographical errors, in full.

This fella has an interesting style when creating a video. This is not really a LOL type video for me, but I did crack a smile now and then.

Otherwise, it’s been a slow week and I really need to post something. (now that is a LOL moment!!!)

p.s. Happy Birthday to my youngest daughter. One of the big ones, but I’m not mentioning an age. It is against the rules to mention a female’s age once she is older than 12.

I want to avoid being like a tabloid, but the fact is that Paulina’s twitter account is back online.

Paulina Gretzky is Back on Twitter, and Tweets – ‘Don’t tell Dad’
By Drishya Nair | December 1, 2011 6:43 AM EST Paulina Gretzky, whose Twitter account deletion made headlines in the last few days, is back on the social media and she tweeted, “Hi, everyone I’m back! But shhh don’t tell my dad. …
www.ibtimes.com