the Wonder of Giving Birth

the process of giving birth is one
of life's most amazing moments.
it's truly something
to inspire wonder!

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What is God doing?

What is God doing?
I don't get it at all.




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it's a New Day in Canada!

it's a New Day in Canada!


Thanks to the vagaries of our electoral system
and the fact that about 40% of the eligible voters didn't get off their asses to vote, Stephen Harper has the parliamentary majority he's been craving these many years.

Despite the fact that only 25% of the eligible voters in Canada voted for him, He will spend the next four years crowing about His Mandate, and can be even more dismissive of any suggestions that His ideas may be flawed in any way.

Get used to it...

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One night on the Ward

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the Last American Century

ye Olde Mappe of Thy Last American Century
circa 1901 - 2001

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Remember back during the Great Liberal Sponsorship Scandal hearings, and Mr. Justice John Gomery calling Jean Chrétien's decision to allow his name
to be printed on a series of golf balls "small-town cheap"?...

and Chrétien brought his briefcase and pulled
out a collection of golf balls that were gifts from people in small towns, including two American presidents named Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and former Vice President Al Gore?

Well it turns out that Stephen Harper
and the Conservatives learned a lot
from that experience...

big thanks to
Voice of tReason
sex, politics, good and bad ideas
for this


need a reminder?




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the War on Drugs 2011 update

The War on Drugs continues in America, ergo
in Canada, etc. I wondered if it might come up
for discussion during the current financial meltdown, especially in the US as the vig
on the Last American Century comes up
all due and payable.

But I didn't wonder about it much, and I certainly knew better than to Hope much. The first duty of
a contemporary organization is what's known
in some quarters as the ideology
of the Cancer cell -  survive.

 

Leaving aside the "moral imperatives" around drugs held by so many Puritan hypocrites,
the organizations vested in its future are
nothing if not well-organized*.

The numbers of people employed in
and profiting from it - from cops in cars to prison guards in watchtowers -  are huge.


They have enormous economic resources, along with exclusive access to information
and influential people.










The same can be said for the organizations
they seek to "end". From biker gangs to coke cartels, these organizations have a deeply
vested interest in the future
of the War on Drugs.












Strange bedfellows? Not really...



Like the "law enforcement community",
these organizations want the War on Drugs 
to go on and on. They want it to go on and on
for the very same reason - their future revenues depend on it, totally.

As long as the War on Drugs continues, prices
and the resultant earnings will remain artificially high, regardless of quality or long-term impact of their products.










When this many people, with all that money
and all those guns, want something to continue,
it will. Any "moral" brownie points that may accrue are a collateral benefit, a puff of rectal smoke to keep your eyes watering and away from all the ruined lives and the growing death tolls.

But leaving these and other moral/liberal/commie-inflected notions, I thought maybe the pissing away of so much money might draw the attentions of the fiscally focused, even briefly.


Ha ha.


Like the War on Terror, the War on Drugs will never end. One can still dare to hope, but the fix is in too deep.
It's not a conspiracy.

It's a convergence of self-interests.

It's the Market at work.

Caveat emptor.

* indeed, they are famous for making trains run on time, etc.

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