It seems that Michael Jackson was about 1/2 Billion dollars in debt when he died. This mean that my net-worth is more than the King of Pop, who sold over 750 million records world-wide, and is the world’s most famous person.

I, Erwin Gerrits, am worth more money than Michael Jackson. How’s that for an ego booster?

Ol’ Tom got me all riled up here. Pensioners in this country, who worked hard all their lives, make $519 a month. And that’s TAXED. And we’re gonna give this crook $317,000 severance? In the seven months she worked for us, she made about $100,000 a month. $100,000 A MONTH. She defrauds the Ontario taxpayer to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and our “esteemed” health minister Caplan doesn’t even have the guts to fire her. They came to a “mutual decison” to “resign”. Give me a break.

People with MS can’t pay for their meds and are being  cut off. Kids with autism can’t go to their therapy. Going to emergency in this province takes 5-13 hours. Waiting for an MRI takes 8 months. We all pay up to $1000/year EXTRA taxes to make our health care better, and they turn around and give it to crooks and bastards, who would rather bill $2700/day AND charge for a cup of tea, than hand over that money to one MS patient so she can afford to get her shots for another month.

If you have any scruples, all of you, you surrender your “bonuses” and severances so these people can buy their meds.

What’s wrong with this country? We’re bailing out private companies, give 3.5 billion dollars to retired workers so they can live better than all the rest of us who don’t have pensions, and now we’re payign $2700/day to consultants who INTERVIEW THEMSELVES?!?

I’m so pissed off, it’s unbelievable.

In a report published by the Global Humanitarian Forum on May 29th, Kofi Annan (yes, him) warns the world that hundreds of thousands of people are currently dying from Climate Change, and by 2030 that could be 500,000.

Highlights of the report:

Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per year; people affected by climate change annually expected to rise to over 600 million and the total annual economic cost increase to around $300 billion

To avert worst possible outcomes, climate change adaptation efforts need to be scaled up by a factor of 100 in developing countries, which account for 99% of casualties due to climate change

Of course, the report is short on facts, long on fear-mongering:

The report estimates that climate change today accounts for over 300,000 deaths throughout the world each year, the equivalent of an Indian Ocean Tsunami every single year.

And this is my favourite quote from Kofi:

We need an international agreement to contain climate change

Good luck with that.

My five random questions to which I need answers:

1. Why do BBQ chips no longer taste like BBQ, but are just plain sweet?
2. Why is a hot day proof of Global Warming, and yet a cold day is “just weather”?
3. Why do the tax dollars of someone who does not have a pension plan (me) go to pay the pensions of retired GM (a private company) workers?
4. Does Dalton like the look of weeds all over the city?
5. Does ANYBODY watch “I’m a celebrity–get me out of here!” ?

Discuss.