Daily Rantics

January 26, 2011

Conservative Party of Canada
#1204 - 130 Albert Street
Ottawa, ON  K1P 5G4

Dear Prime Minister Harper:

This letter is meant to bring to your attention the plight of our Gay and Lesbian, Transgendered and Questioning residents in Canada.

I am a first year Social Service Work student at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario currently working on a LGBTTIQQ project researching community programs available to the LGBTTIQQ community. I was appalled to find out that, as a heterosexual married female I am offered mid-level health care, and I will admit I take it for granted—but to find out that services that specifically catered to the LGBTTIQQ community were cut off by your Conservative Government. Community non-profit organizations such as the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition have laid off their entire staff members, because your government has decided the rights of Homosexual Canadians aren’t as important as the rest of us Heterosexuals.

Mr. Harper, I know your stance on Gay Rights, and you are entitled to your opinion, however off-track and misguided as your religious standpoints are; but that being said, who are you to decide that regular Homosexual taxpaying, law abiding citizens are not as valuable as his or her neighbour? Yes, you’re the Prime Minister, and congratulations on attaining that title, but people expect you to be unbiased and focused on the wellbeing of all Canadians, regardless of their sexual orientation, religion or colour.

I would like to remind you that 50 years ago African Canadians were in the same boat. Can you honestly say that such backward thinking as not providing Homosexuals the right to access health services that pertain to them is right? Is it politically correct? Is it fair?

No, it isn’t. There are many Women related health non-profit organizations that are still being funded, many Cancer related health non-profit organizations are still up and running, why choose to cut an entire area of health directed towards Canadian Homosexuals? I am not saying that the above mentioned non-profit organizations deserve funding cuts, but perhaps you would not look so one sided if you had spread the funding cuts across the entire spectrum of non-profit organizations, instead of focusing on one area. Or, perhaps you could have not cut funding at all? I’m sure we would have passed on the expensive Canadian Olympic opening act if it meant one group of people were to be singled out and oppressed.

I pay my taxes, I vote, I work hard, go to school, volunteer my time and I am a Heterosexual, and I believe the rights of Homosexuals are being infringed. I am the new wave of Canadian Mr. Harper, and you are in dangerous waters if you think your way of thinking is the way our great country is going.

I love my neighbour, whether or not he has a wife or a husband, reads a bible or Quran, wears a wig or a turban. Can you honestly say you do?

I do not expect a reply back, I do not even expect your eyes to view my argument, but consider this a warning that your way of life is coming to an end, that one day Canadian’s will rise up and open their minds to all individuals and accept all people as they are. Perhaps then we won’t need to fight wars and terrorism. Your point of view will be outdated. It’s up to you as a political figure to change with the times, to stay current. If you like your job, you will heed my warning.


Sincerely,


Kala Bennett-Alexander


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Another shitty, sick weekend, is here and half way over. I am in no means a half-glass empty person, but I just can't seem to be positive when I might cough up a lung at any second not to mention, a couple teeth.

Adam worked all day today and has to work half the day tomorrow as well. SO... here I am, I guess I'll chill by myself and do some studying right.... wrong. Lucy won't give me the time to get to sitting down and concentrating since shes going nuts.  I have been sick for the past two weeks and haven't been that socially available to her, so now I think shes going nuts and its boiling down to that shes not stimulated enough.

Kinda hoped Adam would have been home to entertain her for a bit while I got caught up on my psychology stuff, but alas, he had to work, so crazyface and I bickered and bit all day. Meh. Then he comes home, and I ask him to entertain her, so he sits on the floor and plays video games. As if sitting on the floor is going to cure her of her need for stimuation, and lots of it. I even tried playing with her today but that didn't work either...so yeah.

Everyone is a little emotionally unavailable now.

I wish my body was unavailable right now, that would be nice. After yesterday with the vomitting and the migraine, stupid blood clots in my wisdom teeth moving and bleeding, fever and the infection with the nausea and diahrea, I am physically spent. I spent the entire day in bed, and didn't go down stairs, partially because I knew I couldn't make it back up the stairs after I made it down here...and my only bathroom is on the second floor...soooo you don't put a diahrea infection girl on the floor without a bathroom with tons of stairs in between said bathroom... Its just common sense.  I probably should have had Adam bring some snacks up for me for the day, because I think I was kind of hungry but all I had in my nightstand was rasins. lol Yah I dont know why I had raisins in there...but I ate those and drank water from the bathroom all day. It was ..gross.

THAN. Adam works late, comes home around 9! yay me! I got to eat soup at 9. first real thing to eat since 7 the following day.  Hes been working late since Thursday, of course. My luck right?

The wisdom teeth thing has been a breeze. Nothing out of the ordinary, as I expected. I have had teeth pulled before, just never been under. I got over it, so its ok. But this cold, its holding me back. I had a fever with it, so I'm a little worried its more than a cold. There's a lot of fluid in my lungs and ears, so I started taking sudafed again, and if its not cleared by monday, I'll have to go to emerge, as any longer and it'll turn into pnumonia again, and I dont want that again. Especially since my immune system is bad right now.  I haven't had this bad a fluid build up since last Augusts pnumonia scare.  YEAH. pnumonia in august. lol only me.

Anyway, off I go, going to do some more reading for school. not much else to do right now!