Xanthippa's Chamberpot

All right – a warning:  this is a rant!

A bit of an angry rant!

Why?

Because our most esteemed City Council gave my 10-year-old a nosebleed!  LITERALLY! (And I use that term accurately.)

How?

Well, just read on…

The Ottawa City Council has so lost sight of what their role is – quite a while ago. I do not know if there is any hope of shaking them out of their fuzzy dreamworld and back into reality.  You know, where we, the taxpayers without expense accounts have to live!

The only member of this Council who actually wanted to focus the City on its core tasks was the Mayor – and he has been effectively neutralized through lawfare.  In the meantime, the rest of our elected officials are planning to spend hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars on a new Central Library – which will be a legacy to their brilliance and importance… a tourist attraction, they tell us… while they are also building another new library building on Woodroffe avenue – less than a 10-minute walk from an existing huge library in the former Nepean City Hall!

They are busy banning kids from playing street hockey, banning people from having nice gardens – or, at least gardens that look like the people want them to, banning people from selling their property – because they went there for a movie once, banning people from just about anything they can think of that is none of their (insert expletive of your own choice here) business, while wasting time doing anything they can think of – except their real jobs!

In the meantime, our most esteemed councilors do nothing to stop

• duping huge amounts of raw sewage into the Ottawa river…
• unruly crowds which illegally block our streets
• endless pet projects, which lack vision for the city as a whole
• neglect in maintaining city-owned buildings, so that they are condemned
• AND  our roads from getting so pot-hole riddled that, today, on the ride home, my son said his school-bus went over some bumps on the road that were so big, he got a nosebleed!

YES!

The school-bus ride on Ottawa City roads was SO ROUGH, my son was jostled so hard inside his school-bus, he started to bleed from his nose!

No, his head did not hit the window, or another seat, or anything like that.  It was simply the force of the jostle – from the neglected, decaying and increasingly un-navigable Ottawa City streets – that triggered his nosebleed!

And, no – he does not get nosebleeds easily.

Yes, he has had some in the past – but they tended to result from expected causes:  a sudden impact into a wall he did not see in time while running, or a ball whose trajectory he did not triangulate properly, and so on…  all ‘normal’ and understandable reasons for an active kid to get a nosebleed from.  And, no, he has not had any such ‘close encounters’ with walls or balls or related things – or any nosebleeds – in the last few days or weeks…so this is not a case of a ‘scab coming off’ or any such thing.

He said he was lucky that a lot of the kids sitting near him had kleenexes, so he did not get his blood all over the bus or any of the other kids.  Still, his own shirt bore the marks of it…

In other words, through their failure to maintain the roads – one of their primary roles as our elected officials – the Ottawa City Council, in no uncertain terms, gave my son a bloody nose!

I could not make this stuff up if I tried… and I am so angry now, that if a Councillor showed his or her face to me now, I would give them such a tongue-lashing, their EARS would hurt!  May be not bleed, but – man – when kids end up bleeding, because our politicians are not doing their jobs…

Oh, I had better end this and go calm down a bit…  I wonder if our politicians will fix the roads leading up to their Taj Mahal of a new library….you know, so the ‘tourists’ don’t get blood on the books!