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Google's One-Way Window I remember how excited I was with my first YouTube and Blogger accounts. I thought I had a window to the world that would let me spread my work and make me famous. But after erasing those accounts and trying again with the accounts I'm using now, I see how this window works. It stays open to let an army of frauds steal every good thing you might share in a ten year period, and then it closes on you when you try to get your property back. As an artist, I've always written from my heart. It takes a heart to produce music and comedy at my level, but the heartless business stole everything I shared that made people feel good: thousands of original posts. And now it looks like they want you to keep loving and trusting them for it. After over twenty years of complaining about this crime against my work and my image on Blogger, I can say with certainty that my life would have been much happier if it weren't for Google. As long as they...

Crimetube Stinks Look at all the plagiarism on Youtube today. Here are a couple of my old erased posts from 2006. I've still not received a dime in royalties for them. Let me tell you, a crime like this is so wrong, I bet its victim could still go to heaven after committing a mass-murder/suicide. For the CBC's sake, I hope I'll not be pushed that far. If I'm lying, come and lock me up. If I'm telling the truth, what price will you 18 million viewers pay for supporting such evil fraud? And while I'm at it, does Youtube really need ten commercials on that old forty minute WW2 documentary I saw last night? Surely, it couldn't have cost that much to produce and share. Say what you want about America, land of the free, home of the brave, we got some dumbass motherfuckers floating around that country [like George Carlin fraud fans]. (Now obviously that doesn't include my readers). And I'm not just ranting and raving, I have some evidence t...

Most Dishonest Performers Hey, Youtube, why do you want people to love such nasty crooks? George Carlin? What's he doing in my selection column? Yeah, I was too young to be his victim in Johnny Carson's heyday, but since he stole every word of his standup from my blogs after 2005, do you still think he started out as an honest performer? I hope God punishes your website for pushing a fraud like him on the public. As for Chris Rock, another asshole who stole from my blogs, if he got 'smacked' on stage, maybe that's what happens to comedy frauds when they try to write their own material. Your website has been very harmful to me over my talent. Now, I must go to my warehouse job after Youtube showered rich stars with more success for stealing my comedy or my music. That's why maybe Youtube should go to hell with their dirty stars. As long as there's a big war going on, they say that its first casualty is truth, but that depends on who started it...

Wars and Peace I thought I should elaborate a little more on my position in this war. I don't want people thinking I'm a deranged killer just because I support the idea of a physical response to the threat in the east. Peace is a noble cause, but I have little faith in the power of peaceful protest to end wars. One of the wisdom books in the Old Testament speaks of a time to every purpose under heaven, including a time to kill. Do you like Star Trek? Have you seen the one about the 'goody-two-shoes' pacifist who almost let Hitler win World War Two? That's what I'm worried about. And I'm not sure how effective protests will be in ending this war. All the peace marches of the 1960's may have made Bobby Kennedy a presidential contender, but then what happened to Bobby Kennedy? You see, when you're up against brute force, little can be achieved by civilized arguments. Of course, not everyone is cut out to be a soldier. Even someone creati...

Truth Is on Our Side The destruction in Ukraine is horrible. Today I made a button that says 'UKRAINE MATTERS' and showing today's date (3-24-2022) as a reminder that the fighting has raged for one full month. I did this for my president, even though, under current circumstances, I would rather shoulder a javelin than wear a button. We've seen a lot of close-ups from the ground of Ukraine's battered cities. The grinding toll on innocent and helpless civilians is as appalling as it is heartbreaking. And the reason we're seeing such stirring pictures of this war is because Putin started it. The Iraq War could have used a lot more close-ups in its coverage by our media, rather than the 'shock and awe' we were handed in its place, but that war was started by our side. At least Al-Jazeera's cameras filled the gap somewhat. Truth is often unpleasant, and I understand how people might want to blind themselves to it. I can especially see how ...

Let Me Help There doesn't seem to be much of a sense of urgency about the menacing forces in the east. The most effective non-military measure we could take in our defence, an energy embargo, is being phased in over the next ten years. NATO is working on a 'containment' plan, whatever that is. And, at the same time as Ukrainian cities are being blasted off the face of the earth, people on our side of the border take to the stage with their guitars to protest. Here are some tips from a survivor. Energy consumption can be cut drastically by lifestyle changes across the population, like cutting dependency on automotive transport and using one device at a time. Incentives could be introduced to make this happen - the sooner the better. Regarding NATO, unless we start showing some initiative, we will need more than a containment plan to get ourselves out of trouble. We need to up the ante on the weapons front, I think. Ground troops will quickly prove obsolete if...

Beware the Image Peddler Sadly, it is in wartime that we see our mass media at its worst, such as this latest story about Russian cosmonauts wearing Ukrainian colours on the space station. I'm sure it was by accident that this happened. And what are we supposed to get from that? Are we supposed to think that the cosmonauts are on our side against Putin just because of their yellow space suits? They're probably all MiG pilots, for Christ's sake. But we want to keep things peaceful up there in space, sure. I try to judge people by their actions, not their appearance. One's actions tell us what one is truly like. But we humans still have certain biases left over from our vine swinging days which are not so rational. Apparently, we are quite helpless against these unconscious tendencies to pass judgement strictly based on appearance. Such a response is a dinosaur now, and should be extinct in our enlightened world, but it still provides a road to your mind t...

Putin Is a Threat In the 1974 classic the Odessa File , a Holocaust survivor states that he bears no grudge against the German people: 'Peoples are not evil, only individuals are evil.' I couldn't agree more. And Vladimir Putin is evil. We need to appreciate the threat posed by this man when he sends his forces marching west. This isn't some mere Middle Eastern thug, but a military giant. He is a man of physical actions, and only physical force will deter him. He is an ambitious successor to Josef Stalin - who once bemoaned how the Tsar Alexander's armies had made it all the way to Paris in the early 19th century against Napoleon while his Red Army couldn't get past East Germany. The further west, the better, apparently, for these guys. I suppose war can be appealing in some ways. It gives a clear purpose. It unites the people. It produces heroes. Perhaps it's time to start thinking of war in a more positive way. Pacifism is out - unless it...

Laskavo Prosymo I'm proud and glad that we've opened our doors to Ukrainian refugees here in Canada. I wish them all enjoyable stays in my country, and I'm sure they'll feel welcome here. Let's hope their left behind loved ones survive to be reunited. I think the German Foreign Minister said it best today, referring to Russian gas: we're hooked - like junkies huddling under a damp, sagging tarp in a garbage strewn alleyway in the middle of the night... Oh yeah, couldn't have said it better myself. They're hooked, all right. Those Russians have tapped into the German economy with their pipelines like a syringe, and they've been pumping that sweet fluid into Europe, and now Europe's hooked. And you can't blame the Ukrainian president for being upset. Germany's habit alone could have financed Putin's ravaging war machine. Zelenskyy saw it coming from the outset and tried to warn his neighbours. Now let's hope it...

The Human Rights Gap I don't know how much my opinion is worth on this war. I'm just a ordinary working man. I draw cartoons and write songs, and I wrote a lot of poems that did well on TV as comedy scripts. I don't know how much of a poet that makes me. And I'm still in Vancouver, far from the front lines of this war, but I need to blog about it anyway. I saw four German parties forming a political coalition the other day that sparked a certain thought. By the way, did you know they have Christian Democrats in Germany? We need a party like that over here. All we only seem to have are Christian Republicans. Anyway, I got to thinking about how the issue of human rights has played into this war. It's been a higher priority for Democrats than for Republicans in recent years. While I was critical of the invasion of Iraq, back in the 2000's, because of the toll on their civilian population, I nonetheless think it's high time we all got together,...

I Didn't Watch It So what is this war about? Do you think it's about President Zelensky? I want to trust this man, and bitterly resent his being compared to known offenders of my copyright, like Saturday Night Live and Tom Hanks. Fuck Tom Hanks and fuck Saturday Night Live. There's a war on and people are getting killed out there. Zelensky is the president of a sovereign state which has been invaded by Russian forces. It would have happened no matter who occupied Zelensky's post. The story is not Zelensky, it is much larger than that. See what happens when a broadcaster like ABC spends all its time image peddling instead of doing real reporting? Now it's all they know how to do, and it is insufficient - at least for my needs. I panned their interview. On the other hand, DW News's interview with Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun gave me a clear picture of the current situation. She says that we must adjust our energy consumption to deprive the enemy of o...

Special Delivery I have been following the war, mostly on DW News. Again, I stand firmly with Ukraine. I hope the Ukrainians can stop Putin in his tank tracks, not just for their own sake, but because Poland may be next otherwise. Poland is a NATO country, which would drag my country of Canada into the war, and I don't want to be in a war. Who would want that? We need to avoid that until the last possible moment. But, for what it's worth, I have given some thought to how we might slip those replacement Migs across the Poland-Ukraine border. I suggest we disassemble them and disguise the parts as cleaning equipment, perhaps industrial vacuum cleaners or something. Yes, I'm sure Kyiv could use a good vacuuming after all those artillery shells. I'll tell you something else, my gasoline consumption is zero. Putin never got a cent out of me, because I can walk to work in ten minutes. I don't mean to joke around too much through such sad and serious time...

Counting My Blessing I should admit, first and foremost, that I'm quite sure I've been thoroughly brainwashed by our media. I'm the last person who would trust them after what they did to me, but I find myself their reluctant ally since this war broke out. Back in the 2000's, I criticized U.S. foreign policy, which I found unnecessarily punitive to civilians. For that I was practically branded an enemy of the state, and I'd rather not go into detail over how bad my life became over it. My songs and blogs were popular during the Iraq War - while in the hands of frauds. It's taken me all the way to now to recover most of what was lost of my property, a struggle that only increases embarassment for those countless people connected with its violation. Nonetheless, I consider myself better off than I might have been in a dictatorship. Sure, our leaders are corrupt. Sure, they lie, but they could be worse: the costs of my survival online to the image...

Viva Ukraine Ukraninans, my heart is with you at this time. I admire your bravery and pray for your deliverance from the clutches of tyranny. I'm old enough to remember Yeltsin, Putin's predecessor, and the one who made him Russia's leader. At the time Russians were being hit hard by the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact, lining up for their meals, and it was probably half because of Yeltsin's bills for room service at the Ritz, judging by the drunken state of him. But what a drastic mistake he made in choosing a successor. I wonder, could this all now be blamed on too much vodka back then?    Arguments Copyright Issues Comedy Sketches Cartoons Lyrics Poems More Statements Scripts Songs &#169 2022. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved.