Boy do I hate people!

Well, it looks like the NB government has decided to scrap the early French Immersion program. They seem to think that enhancing the late immersion program will help to increase the number of bilingual students graduating from high school. Since the percentage of students who are currently graduating and are functionally bilingual is too low, it is the belief of this government that scrapping Immersion from grades 1 to 4 will make it better!

Does this really make sense?!?

This is why I HATE POITICIANS... again!!!

I was surfing the internet the other day when I came across a CBC report on literacy in New Brunswick. The report stated that between 1994 and 2005, the literacy rate in New Brunswick was hovering around 60%. The report goes on to say that this is among the lowest rates in Canada.

Perhaps the geniuses in the NB legislature should come up with an "Intensive literacy" program starting in grade 5 and scrap teaching reading and writing in grades K through 4! Hell, let's take it a step farther and scrap grades k through 4 all together and have an "Intensive F#$%ing Education" program in grade 5 to catch them up!!! I am sure that will lead to greater competency!

It amazes me that the government, who want to make grand claims about New Brunswick being a bilingual province would decide to scrap early immersion in favour of a quick fix in grade 5. On top of this, they claim that they want 70% of students to be bilingual by 2012 (when they can't even get the literacy rates above 60%).

The reality is that after 5 years of schooling (K through 4) in English, many students who may have taken early immersion (and done very well in it) will not bother with French Immersion at all because it will be too much of a change for them and those that do take it will have missed out on years of French training that simply cannot be replaced in one year of "intensive" training. I grew up in Northern NB and never had the option of early French Immersion. My attitude when I could have started French Immersion was that I didn't want to change what I was doing. To this day, I regret not being able to speak a second language. As an adult, I tried to learn a second language and I found it very difficult - as opposed to when I was younger and had nothing to worry about but school and I picked up everything relatively easily.

Maybe the NB government should be looking at ways to make the early immersion program work (if it is truly not working). What about having a K or a pre-K class that parents can choose to put their children in that has a focus on language? What about continuing the early immersion AND bulking up the late immersion?

I am sure there are much better solutions than cutting the program.

Oh well, it seems that the Anglo society of redneck, backward, inbred idiots are going to be celebrating a victory over the evil French language! Francophones better start learning English (although most of them can already speak it), because pretty soon, there will be less competent unilingual people graduating from high schools across the province and government jobs requiring bilingualism will start to disappear as the resources to fill these jobs will not be available East of Quebec.

Way to go NB Government!

Boy do I ever have something to blog about today!

Let's start by saying I will not hide this blog from anyone... I hope they all read it, because unlike some, I will tell you exactly how I feel about you, and if I have a problem, I will tell you.

And no, this is not the usual, light hearted commentary about silliness that I experience in my every day life. This is about specific people...

If you are one of these people, you WILL know it!

Let's start off with the usual title...

I HATE PEOPLE WHO ACT LIKE CHILDREN!!!
The Cookie Bitch Edition:

Now some of you may be asking... who are the cookie bitches?

Well, let us start at the beginning....

Once upon a time, there was a nice lady named HP. Right around the Christmas season, HP planned a magical cookie exchange where people could come and exchange their lovely, sprinkly cookies for many different types of wondrous cookie treats. When the magical cookieful day came, HP did her best to make sure everyone was filled with the joy that comes with trading sugary delights.

On that same day, the Evil Queen J (who had already baked her cookies), selfishly attended a Christmas concert (that she even more selfishly forgot about) for her son, the Evil Prince. She did not phone HP and let her know that she would not be attending. HP was very upset about the Evil Queen J not showing up for her delightful cookie exchange and even more upset that Queen J did not phone, so she wrote a blog about how upset she was. Well, many comments were made about the how the malevolence of the selfish Evil Queen J transcends the wickedness of anyone in the history of cookieness!

Meanwhile, the Evil Queen J, feeling quite hurt about the whole thing decided to post a blog stating that she was sorry to HP, but the blog and comments were very hurtful and about how people in glass houses should use blinds. The next day, Evil Queen J and HP talked, apologies were given and all was forgiven... or so it seemed...

Apparently M, N and J decided to start a club I affectionately refer to as the Cookie Bitches! M, the leader of the Cookie Bitches took it upon herself to try to have Evil Queen J banished from the sweetful, treatful, sugary cookie land. The interesting thing about M becoming the leader of the Cookie Bitches, is she was never involved in the wondrous cookie exchange to begin with.

With a stroke of a key, the leader of the Cookie Bitches began the Cookie Land turmoil. She emailed everyone she knew in her campaign to banish Evil Queen J. She did everything in secret... in the back alleys of cyberspace like only a true Cookie Bitch would do. Meanwhile, Evil Queen J had nary a thought about the cookie fiasco as she had apologised to the only one deserving of an apology and HP, like an adult accepted the apology (good on you HP). Little did Evil Queen J know, the leader of the Cookie Bitches (M) was gathering her minions and spreading her nasty Cookie Bitch stories about the evil queen. Apparently, the evil queen's immorality had grown to the point where even those who she considered friends would not speak to her. Her Evilness never recieved an explanation as to why the Cookie Bitch Leader wanted her banished or why her Cookie Bitch followers decided to follow (probably why they are called followers), banishing Evil Queen J from their Cookie Bitch virtual world. I guess when you are as evil as Evil Queen J, you don't deserve an explanation.

One can only assume that the Cookie Bitches have a whole lot of Cookie Bitch stories they wish to exchange and they fear that the Evil Queen might expose the truth behind these Cookie Bitch stories. Isn't it nice to know that there are so many Cookie Bitch flunkies that can so easily be lead that all it takes is one Cookie Bitch Leader to decide the fate of friends and foes?

But wait...

M should watch her back, because you never know when a new Cookie Bitch is going to come along and challenge her leadership, and if her Cookie Bitch followers were so quick to follow her, not think for themselves, act like 12 year old, insecure little pre-teen Cookie Bitches and not like the adults they pretend to be... you never know when you too will end up banished from their Cookie Bitch virtual world with no explanation or adult discussion.

For the time being though, you have chosen your followers well oh mighty Cookie Bitch Leader! You found the most insecure children in Cookie Land and gave them a cause. You gave them love and acceptance and since they have no mind of their own, there is little chance of any sort of dissention in the ranks.

Enjoy your little cult Cookie Bitches... When you want to start acting like adults and working out whatever mental problems and insecurities you have, don't look to the Cookie Bitch Leader for guidance because clearly her mental and emotional development stalled when she was very young!

I hope all the Cookie Bitches out there like their cookies sour, because those are the only Cookie Bitch recipes that your Cookie Bitch Leader can concoct.

FIN

OK, I know it has been a dog's age since I last posted, but Jen's trip to Halifax left me rather inspired, so here goes...

I hate hotels and the people who work and stay at them!!!

Here is a countdown of 10 Do's and Don'ts when staying in a hotel...

10. DO NOT sit on the top blanket on the bed without the understanding that the last guest may have had their stinky, sweaty, nasty bare ass sitting on this blanket while either changing or having sex (with themself or someone else).

9. DO NOT sit on the floor.

8. DO NOT touch the mouthpiece of the phone to your mouth! You don't know where it has been.

7. DO Make sure you use the bags that come with the ice buckets. You don't know when that has last been cleaned.

6. DO NOT insult or complain about the maids until you leave. It is like sending food back in a restaurant... you could end up with a spit burger!

5. If you have to change rooms, DO be nice to the people that are moving you. Once again, the spit burger thing.

4. DO NOT drink from the glasses (or coffee pot) in the room! These are usually washed in the room by the cleaning staff. Have you ever seen hotel cleaning staff with dish soap? Also, when they go into the bathroom to clean, how many cloths do they bring with them? Seems to me the cloth that "cleans" the dishes is the same one that cleans the toilet.

3. DO bring your own plastic/styrofoam disposable glasses to the hotel, or get glasses from the kitchen.

2. DO say hello to your maid and give him/her a compliment or leave a tip. This can go a long way in making sure your room is extra clean -- or cleanER at least (I still wouldn't drink from the glasses).

And the number one thing that nobody thinks of when staying in a hotel...

WHAT IS THE FILTHIEST, MOST DISGUSTING THING IN MOST HOTELS? MORE DISGUSTING THAN THE TOILET AND I'D RATHER LICK THE BEDSPREAD THAN TOUCH MY MOUTH TO THIS...

1. DO NOT touch the TV remote control before first disinfecting it!!! Think about it... How often do the cleaners think to clean TV the remote? Does the TV in the hotel have PPV porn? How does one access this service? And what does one do when accessing this service? Do I really need to say more?

Well, that is all for me. I sure hope you can all stay in a hotel after reading this. Just remember one thing... germs are important. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!