Some catchup from previous posts.
The seventeen Canadian terrorist suspects have, or have not, been charged with all kinds of things, or not. The judge slapped a publication ban on all the proceedings. This means that the media can’t report on the trial or trials. Consequently, we can’t tell if it was a righteous bust or not.
I understand and respect the publication ban on the Young Offenders, as that is how the Young Offenders Act is written: Zero Coverage allowed. However, for the other dozen, I’d much prefer to see the goods. Not that I don’t have all the faith in government and the justice system required by a good citizen, but there are times when good citizens should apply a bit of scrutiny. This is one of them.
I haven’t written, except parenthetically, about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as I am a poor excuse for a Canadian: I don’t give a suede-covered flying copulative act about ice hockey. I think the Edmonton Petroleum Workers and the Carolina Atmospheric Disturbances are playing in the last game.
My understanding is the Carolina Atmospheric Disturbances won. I missed the game: I had to go out and buy a comb last night.
The World Cup is taking up the time of several dozen fellow employees in the Mothership cafeteria. They are glued to the tube. I appreciate soccer/football, as there is an element of skill to the game and this is their Big Show. Good for them.
I also see hundreds of cars driving around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) with little fan flags flying from their windows. You’ve seen them, the flag of Togo, or Brazil, or Croatia on a little plastic antenna that you wedge into your rear window.
There are other, more dedicated, fans who have painted their entire car with the colours of their team. I can only hope they did it with water-based paint that will scrub off, or there will have to be some explaining to the Significant Other about the state of the automobile.
Dubya has gone off script again. Today he’s demanding UN Security Council action on Iran (the one next door to Iraq, that isn’t invaded, yet) and their nuclear weapons insanity. His henchmen are flogging the possibility that Al Qaeda cementheads were going to poison the New York Subway with cyanide.
I’ve been in the NYC Subway. New Yorkers wouldn’t notice that everyone around them was keeling over unless they dropped their Starbucks and some of it splashed on them. Then, there would be hell to pay: “You’re payin’ for the dry cleanin, motherfu…gak!” Thud.
What is actually happening is the scare-mongers are trying to get you cranked up some more. It is the usual Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Al Qaeda, Box Cutters on City Busses, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and unidentified Black Man with a Gun rap.
I forgot the last coda of that rap: Al Gore is a putz and Global Warming is a hoax. Hillary Clinton wants to force your daughter to have an abortion. A Mexican Illegal Alien is coming to kick you out of your house. Someone from India is gong to take your job.
A frightened populace is a compliant populace. You can make 280 million people demand to be ear tagged, tattooed with a number and cavity-searched daily, if you frighten them often enough. By my take, the American population is nicely compliant right now.
RoadDave 