Voted for election in Ontario

Minus 20 degrees celsius this morning at 8:29 a.m.  The snow is starting to harden into blocks and fall off the piles. There is a lot of snow out there.

 Took the bus to the Advance Polling Station and voted yesterday, took about ten minutes roughly (and then another ten minutes in the pharmacy where I bought Voltaren, toothpaste and 81 mg aspirin back on the bus and home again all done in an hour). There was a small lineup in the polling station but they were very efficient. I of course voted Conservative. Plus I am happy to have military be the centrepiece of the federal conservative campaign whenever that happens. I would like them to go ahead though with the high speed rail as well. If they eliminate the dental plan (perhaps the provincial Healthcare plan could find a way to add dentistry to those who can not afford treatment that is needed where dementia appears to be a product perhaps of poor dental care - a slight increase in funding perhaps), I really think it would be cheaper to give the money to healthcare than to run it federally; when my daughter was knocked off her bicycle and her tooth broken that was paid by OHIP (so dentists must be listed with them already) and find a way to make the school lunch program self-supporting (the city could set that up and include the cost in their taxes, it would mean an increase in taxes likely). I definitely would have paid to have my children eat at school. I am sure if I concentrate on it that I can think of other items - although I support the idea of basic income we can not afford it at this time. But it would be good to keep it on the back burner of thought as the money is spent in the area where the people live and if it is a depressed area then the businesses benefit as well. Again I would like to see such a program very local - not being nasty but if the setup is from a distance then it is less capable of handling whether or not a person will really benefit from minimum income. There has to be a bonus to them and the tax payers - perhaps it pays for community college (we definitely need more trades graduates and it is a healthier lifestyle than sitting in an office). It must be strictly controlled.

Hamas continues to look healthy and well fed wearing new uniforms with their faces entirely covered like the cowards they are because like Satan they hide from truth. In a country that is totally cut off who provides for them - they should feel guilt to the very center of their soul to support such evil. All the people in the crowds gawking at these frail young men (who have been hostage for over a year and a half) are well dressed and look well fed. Once again the hostages are frail. Hamas is responsible for all the deaths that have occurred in Gaza - every man, woman and child. My respect for the Muslim world has gone down knowing that they stood by whilst all those children died. They could have saved the children of Gaza in their own homes far from the devastation. Those children continuing to live in the same conditions as they were will be tainted and unable to rise above the hate that generations of Palestinians have harbored against the Israeli peoples. They do need to have clean places in which to live; parks to play in and proper schools where they learn the real story of this part of the world. It needs to be free of Hamas - they are evil. Keeping those children in the same area is really a psychological nightmare and will only breed more terrorism. Personally I think it should be a dead zone with no one there other than the Israelis or their designate for quite a while - it will take a long time to clean it up for sure. Then like Israel it can be made to bloom and grow food for the millions which it could have been doing all this time. The Israelis have bought this land with their blood - so many including two little ones (nine months and four years). What justification can there be for the killing of small children.  The little ones souls are free now after being in captivity for so long; they are safe with God. Leave Gaza Hamas and one hopes it is the road that Hitler took because he too was so evil; too evil to live.

I promised myself I would get these wills done. Thinking about my reading of Richard's will and he refers to his sister in law (only one) and a nephew Robert Blake. That is a change from my reading of the will back in 2014 but my latin is much better.

Yesterday I worked on my Latin lessons, French lessons and German lessons. I am surprised at how much German I remember as it is a long time since I did any work in German (back when I was proofreading/copyediting there were a couple of times that I had German material). Interesting that my ethnicity is primarily English but also includes French (Huguenot, known to me coming to England in the 1400s) and German (absolutely unknown  although I continue to be suspicious of my Buller line).