Hello folks
I had forgotten about this blog since last year, hence no postings.
It is now the end of May 2010. I'm at the Honda dealer waiting for an emmision test on my 2003 Accord. It has been a great car and I plan on keeping it until either it or I expire. I suspect I'll be the first to go.
Otherwise I'm still doing the same thing as last year. Nothing much has changed.
It seems to me that some bad things are happening in the world although not to me. I, for one, will be glad to see Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan next year and I gather the British government is considering pulling out too. Why not let the Afghans just settle things themselves and the last one standing can turn off the lights.
They are not ready for democracy as we know it and probably don't want it anyway. The same can be said for most of the countries in the middle east and elsewhere that are Muslim. At one time centuries ago Islam was a centre of knowledge when the west was recovering from the collapse of the Roman Empire. Since then they regressed into religious totalitarianism. That's fine with me as long as they keep it out of Europe and the Americas.
That's it for now. Bye for now and if I sound bigotted maybe I am or maybe I'm just realistic.
Today is March 26, 2011. The sun is shining but the temperature outside my window is minus 1 in the sun but the air is minus 7 or lower. I feels like the world is on the cusp of change and it has nothing to do with the weather. The Conservative Government of Canada has fallen in the House of Commons and an election will be called.
ReplyDeleteThe election will be a bull shit affair with nothing but mud slinging by the four parties and no new ideas or visions for the country. The Governing Conservatives were competent but it has been difficult to trust them and we worry that Canada is drifting into a lap dog position with respect to American military industrial complex. Canada could be an avatar for the US military in the middle east and Afghanistan. It seems to be the situation in Libya at the moment.
What is going on there anyway. Egypt had a ‘revolution’ earlier this year but it seems that the government is cracking down on people who thought they had won their freedom. Could it be that the American and Israeli managers have figured out how to restore ’stability’ to the region by oppressing the voices of the youth once again.
We don’t see voices from the “West” condemning people in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and other countries where people are being killed by their governors for daring to do what the Egyptians and others have done.
The nuclear tragedy that followed the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is still of major concern to the world.
The world economy is still fragile particularly in the US and the EU. Oil prices are climbing rapidly and the cost of fuel is going through the roof again.
The world is still spinning ... and I want to get off.
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