Tears On My Birthday Cake, a Birthday song I wrote

TEARS ON MY BIRTHDAY CAKE

WRITTEN BY COREY STRATTON ON JANUARY 19, 2010



I can think of forty-one reasons to break down.

Let forty-one candles fall to the ground.

What little pride I have left is gone,

As I’m holding balloons with my party hat on.



I’m older now than ever before.

That nursing home’s knocking on my front door.

Soon I’ll need a walker and a hearing aid.

What little hair left on my head will have greyed.



Tears on my Birthday Cake,

Are pooling together and forming a lake.

When my time comes,

They’ll serve Beer at my Wake,

But right now I’m wiping up tears,

On my Birthday Cake.



Forty-one times I’ve heard that damned Birthday Song,

With waiters and waitresses singing along.

So happy and cheerful they sing out of tune,

As I get one year closer to my doom.




Tears on my Birthday Cake,

Are pooling together and forming a lake.

When my time comes,

They’ll serve Beer at my Wake.

But right now I’m wiping up tears,

On my Birthday Cake.



Sure I could be sad as I pick up the knife,

But I’m happy with what I have done with my life.

You may think I’m upset, you may think I’m annoyed,

But these tears on my cheeks are tears of joy.



Tears on my Birthday Cake,

Are pooling together and forming a lake.

When my time comes,

They’ll serve Beer at my Wake.

With these tears of joy running down my face,

I’ll have another piece of Birthday Cake.




Now, where did I put that Prune Juice?

Climate Change Is No Hoax

Here is a link to an article that appeared in The Vancouver Province today. It basically calls Global Warming a hoax. This is from a columnist from Edmonton who also claims that abortions are twice as likely to cause Cancer than second hand smoke. That sounded like a joke. But it wasn't. Following this, is my response.


http://digital.theprovince.com/epaper/viewer.aspx




I would find this article laughable if it didn't mean that more people will be duped into thinking that Global Warming is a hoax. I would be curious to know what Lorne Gunter's hidden agenda is. Any reputable Climate Scientist will tell you there is a 90-95 percent chance that Global Warming exists. (I should note that Scientists will say there is a slightly less than 100 percent chance that the sun will come up tomorrow.) Do you want to risk your kids, your Grandkids, your Great-Grandkids future? I don't. Mr. Gunter claims that Scientists have been tricking the public by manipulating numbers. Maybe there is some truth to that. I don't know. But if it is true, it would only be because the public isn't waking up to the crisis and they are trying to get our attention. They all have kids and Grandkids too.
　
I'm not going to try and convince anybody one way or the other, but I would urge you to use a little common sense. There are two sides as there often is. You have virtually all of the reputable Climate Scientists saying this is a real crisis, and you have the other side saying it is a hoax. The other side is a large group of Lobbyists paid by the Oil and Coal Industries. Many of them also tried convincing us that smoking does not lead to Cancer. Those are facts. Their goal here is to stall us as long as possible, so the Oil and Coal Industries can make as much money as possible. Surprise surprise, it's all about money. The Lobbyists goal is to confuse the public. Not hard to do actually. They could probably convince the public that the Earth is flat if they wanted too, but why would they? There's no money in that.
　
If you want to learn just how the Lobbyists are tricking and confusing the public, I strongly urge you to read James Hoggan's brilliant Climate Cover-Up. It will probably make you as mad as it made me.
　
While I am angered by ignorant people such as Mr. Gunter, I am disappointed in how irresponsible The Province is in putting this garbage in their newspaper. Could it be that Shell, Chevron etc... advertise in your paper? While that may help your profits in the short term, you won't sell many papers on a dead Planet.