Outrage of Emergency Act Ruling

I’m completely disgusted at the recent ruling of the emergency Act Ruling in regards to weather or not Trudeau’s government did or did not break the law by implanting the Emergency Act when so-called protestors spend weeks basically shutting down ALL of Ottawa in 2022.

For those who don’t know in 2022 from mid-January til February 14th there were a bunch of “protestors” who settled in Ottawa “Complaing” about the Covid 19 Restrictions but during the weeks (Jan 29th to Feb 14) that the “protestors” harassed, attacked, or other wised harmed the Ottawa Citizens to the point that business including the Rideau Centre (aka mall)- had to shut down because people were too afraid to go to work because of being psychically attacked-I think more then several citizens ended up on the ground due to attacks. In the early weeks until one woman was able to get an injunction I believe its called- these “protesters” were honking their horns 24/7 so that no one could sleep- so that some of these residents lost their hearing.  And a week or so before the Emergency Act was passed-that some of these protests basically did terrorist threats by putting I can’t remember weather if it was a real or fake Smoke Bomb and then locked an apartment door with people still inside the building and then tried to claim it was the anti-protestors who did that trying to frame them.  And since several police officers were on the “protestors” side, they even called off sick to work so didn’t do spit on dealing with them until AFTER Feb 14th. I also want to add-that some protestors blocked off the Canadian/U.S. borders as well.  Oh and also some of these “protestors” were intentionally going to the bathroom on people’s lawns.

There had been an public injury and that judge/justice ruled that Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was justified because of it-the “protests” being a threat to both the government and to the citizens of Ottawa. Another ruling was made on Tuesday and that ruling said it was illegal basically and that Trudeau’s government was breaking the law. So basically the 2nd justice (who was looking at something different then the first one) is saying that the criminal people who terrorized Ottawa should be free to join other protests but if it had been any other kind of case-the criminal isn’t suppose to do the crime they got arrested for- ie a Robber who gets caught isn’t suppose to go rob again after being on bail; a person with a firearm violation isn’t suppose to go and get another fire arm on bail; a person with history of SA, or DV, isn’t suppose to be with or go near their ( ex-partners) they committed SA/DV on; and so on and so forth. 

I think the justice should be removed from his post and replaced with a justice who actually has brains because apparently this justice apparently needs to see a certain wizard to get some brains because at the moment he technically hasn’t gotten any..

Kidnapped(1960)

Warning: Spoiler!

Kidnapped was a great Disney movie. Its about the 1751 story of a Scottish boy David Bafour (who doesn’t know he was Scottish until his father’s death) who goes to live with his misery uncle. Due to plot reasons, the Scottish misery uncle doesn’t want to live with him so arranges to have him kidnapped. After meeting Alan “Breck” Stewart (a historical character) on board the ship and getting shipwrecked, the two try to find their way back to England- for David to get to a lawyer and for Breck to get a ship to France. Using Breck’s help, that they got David’s uncle to confess to the crime of paying someone for kidnapping David. The plot reasons being that David’s father, the eldest brother, gave up the right to the estate/wealth when the girl both liked chose David’s father. But that agreement died when David’s father died.

The movie was very interesting, I think i read the book quite a long time ago so I can’t remember if it matches up or not. But sometimes I wonder if I had another life- as a child or youth who never reached Young Adult but watched these movies because when I watched Kidnapped- near the end I thought it looked familiar and this time I can’t pass it off as seeing it on the “Family Film Collection” ad because it’s not there.

It’s was interesting seeing Peter O’ Toole as a son of Rob Roy McGregor as the Disney debate folks put it- Kidnapped is the unofficial sequel to Rob Roy movie. Robin McGregor (O’ Tool’s character) and Breck have a bagpipe duel instead of using swords. Both of them were pretty good but Robin appeared to be even better. This is from someone who doesn’t have much experience with them. This movie was Peter O’ Toole’s first film, and two more movies with him followed in the same year and within weeks of this film.

It was also interesting in seeing James McArthur for me the last time since I already watch Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson movie and I have to agree with Disney Debate folk- he was way better in this then A Light in the Forest and Third Man on the Mountain -but I have to think historically in the first film-A light in the Forest about the actual reason for McArthur’s character to be ‘having a ton of arguments” – I mean imagine if you were taking by another (non-white) culture as child and raise in that culture’s ways and then suddenly you’re can become a “white” person again but you haven’t been a white person since you were “6, or 7 or 8” (and yes I might have borrowed that half-line from a non-Disney musical) and you’re like 16, 18, or 20 years old now? Especially when their (the white folks) customs are strange to you compared to the customs of the non-white people who mostly raised you after taking you? 

Its like the other way around of cases, here in Canada where youth of I believe it was Afghan descendent are deported to Afghanistan despite being born in, or at least raised here since they’re really young so they don’t speak the language of their people and the parents have passed away or something before the youth was deported.

Not entirely certain why the other character from Third Man on the Mountain was so argumentative, but maybe it’s because everyone – his uncle, mother, and the hotel owner – were cramping his style as he tried to follow in his father’s footsteps as a mountaineer guide. Naturally, that would make anyone grumpy. I can relate to that frustration – I have to assert my independence too, but in a completely different way.

During the movie I sometimes have to remind myself that we are in 18th century that means the 1700s so King George the first was on the throne-first of the Hanoverians which technically ended when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert and the family became Saxe-Coburg and Gotha which didn’t get changed until WWI under George V to “Windsor”.  I’m kind of used to the tri-corner hats but sometimes its gets confusing sometimes watching men where weird hats like that but I sometimes have to remember I used to see a dog wear a hat like that before -(Wishbone TV series). I also have to remind myself in movies in the 18th century-what a Jacobite was. Someone who believes that James II’s Catholic descendants should be on the throne instead of the “foreigner” Hanoverian King George Ist. 

Supposedly the Kidnapped story by Robert Louis Stevenson (Who was apparently half-Scottish on his mother’s side, the last name for David, was his mother’s maiden name), were inspired by two real-life events- the kidnapping of a Irish boy, by his uncle who was sent to do indentured servitude in the Carolinas but after 13 years he escaped and came back to Ireland and caused a very long lawsuit aganist his uncle. 

The other inspirations and the only inspiration, according to Fanny Stevenson was the Appin Murder trial otherwise known as The Trial of James Stewart the trial of James Stewart for the murder of Colin Roy Campbell, otherwise known as “the Red Fox” , due to the fact he as a Royalist, Hanoverian supporter was clearing out of the Stewarts clan and replacing them with members of his own Clan Campbell. Their (Campbell clan) main suspect was Alan Breck Stewart but he was out of their range because of being in France so to speak. And James was just as innocent and when his body was returned to the Stewart clan, the actual murderer of the Red Fox had to wash James’ bones for the Reform Funeral. And also the hills, or Glens, which the murder took place, the lord (or laird) was James of the Glen who might have actually ordered the kill despite him denying it for years afterwards.

Learning about Food for the Masses

Trigger Warning: suicide mentioned.

Beside watching Disney movies (for research purposes for my SimLit) I been watching TV documentary series the first series was “Toys that built America” explaining how everything from Game of Life and Monopoly board games to gross out products like Slimmer and others got created or made. The current series I just started is “Food That Built America” 

Let’s me list some things I found interesting:

KELLOGG’s

What I found interesting that I didn’t know before is the Dr. John Kellogg of the Kellogg Sanatorium is the first person to have made an exercise tape- due to the fact TVs weren’t a thing back in those days the exercise tape was of course on a record. It’s kind of a same both his Sanatorium, and later his brother’s first cereal factory burned down. 

POST/GENERAL MILLS FOOD

C.W. Post was a patient at Kellogg Santorum and because he wasn’t rich like the other patients he couldn’t afford to pay the normal way so he helped by working with Will Kellogg in the kitchen. When his time was finished at the Santorum, he “stole” the recipe for the “cereal” that was yet to be invented. That after his suicide death he left everything to his 27 year old daughter Marjorie Post which was unheard of at that time when women weren’t in the work force yet

  c) and she apparently had quiet the eye for good deals? That she brought up other businesses including a company (Birdseye) that was having trouble getting its feet off the ground due to the lack of cold storage everywhere from trains & trucks, to homes.

HEINZ

I found it really interesting that Heinz ketchup factory was the very first factory to have electricity. Also he was the first person to have their product in clear container to make it more trust worthy. He also was the first person to have an assembly line (so that means even before Henry Ford!). I also learned that, Henry Heinz, through his son, Howard, that the United States got a precursor to the FDA under “Teddy” Roosevelt to try to stop the other competitors from putting “nasty stuff” in their “knock-off” versions of Heinz’ ketchup. Even if the predecessor of the FDA also got Cola company because by then, the main ingredient in it, was no longer being use.

HERSEY

I was not aware until listening to this that milk chocolate was a luxury in Europe but Henry Hersey wanted to get it “to the masses” and he wanted to use fresh dairy milk in Pennsylvania near where his factory town is now. I didn’t realize THE William Murray mentioned in the first two episodes aka Hersey’s semi-partner was the same Murray whos name is represented in the M&Ms from the Mars company. I also found it interesting that Hersey company in the Great Depression greeted a version of a “Meal Bar” aka M. Goodbar – which might or might not have been where Welsh Roald Dalh got his idea for a “meal gum” for Wonka’s Chocolate factory in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” story I knew the Great Depression was bad but it was so bad that the Hersey workers had a “sit-down” strike and it ended up in a bloody fight with the angry local dairy farmers coming in throwing stones and pitchforks and what nots. I think if Torches had still been a thing they probably would have used that as well!!!

MARS

I was not aware of the fact that the founders of MARS candy factory were father (Frank) and son (Forest) but due to reasons ( think divorce?) that Frank and Forest never really meet until Forest was an adult. You know those type of parents, that take over their children’ projects, and such? Well think of a reverse scenario so to speak which the child takes over the parent’s “project”? The next time I ever see one of those “You aren’t You when you’re hungry” Snickers commercials -I’m going to wonder if their horse turned into a human, or a donkey or another breed of horse, when it’s hungry. I’m only saying that because the candy bar Snickers was named after the Mars’ ‘favourite horse” or something like that. But after not a lot of respect from *both sides* of the father-son duo, that Forest walked out and never got to make amends with his Dad because he died shortly afterwards. But Forest didn’t directly inherited anything he had to “have a big idea” in order to buy a share in his Dad’s company and that’s how M&Ms happened. But due to U.S joining WWII that M&Ms became popular with American soldiers over seas and they wanted more of them when they got home after the war ended.

MCDONALD’S

I know the first ever McDonald’s was in California. But what I didn’t know is that Dick and Mac McDonald  had originally opened up a drive-in movie theatre but they scrapped the “movie” part of it, once they realized they’re earning most of their money from the concession stand and not from the tickets. 

So as I said they got rid of the movie part of the drive-in- movie theatre and started a drive-in resturants. But its seems to be because of a mix of both too much food on the menu as well as employees-in this case the teen girl carhops, being the age-old ENWW “Employee Not Wanting to Work” and might be more interesting in batting eyelashes, or playing with their hair-aka flirting that took forever to get out to the customers instead of it being fast like they wanted, the drive-in restaurant became a ‘glorified parking lot” as the series called it.  So they fired the car hops and eventually figured out the “fast food assembly line” that we’re know so well today with the flipping and assembling of burgers and the frying of fries or other fried items. They didn’t even mind showing it to anyone who asked- that on the same day they showed it to the two people who would make one of McDonald’s competitors, Burger King, as well as Glen Bell who would create Taco Bell.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)

As I said with another company above, I know the Great Depression was bad but to understand just how bad it was is listening to the early days of Colonel Sanders’ (before he was a Colonel of course) gas station/service-station in Hell’s Arce Kentucky gives you a new perspective. That there was one other service station in the town, that the two had an ongoing war so to speak because the latter kept painting over Colonel Sanders’. signs for the service station. It got so bad that the last time, the Colonel Sanders and the other guy literally got into a gun fight and the former short the latter in the shoulder but one of Colonel Sanders’ employees got killed. The other service-owner got put into jail.

It was around this time that Colonel Sanders started a mini-restaurant in his service station of course serving chicken. Like the Dick and Mac McDonald brothers, that customers at this restaurant got tired of I think the hour long wait for the food- that Colonel Sanders had to find a quickly way to cook the chicken so that he turned a pressure cooker into a pressure fryer and boom business! But its a shame after WWII, that I think is was Route 66, was created so it passed by Route 22/25 where his sit-down restaurant was so because he was so much in debt, that he had to sell off the restaurant. But that didn’t stop him and he took the chicken recpie and the pressure fryer on the road and sold it to various buisiness and saying he would get 4% of the sales of each chicken sold.  The recipe and the pressure fryer didn’t get completely sold until the 1960s when someone brought it outright from him.

I wonder what I’m going to learn next from Season 2 and Season 3 of the series? I know that the next topic is two Pizza restaurants I’m familiar with Pizza Hut and Domino’s.