Obama's Legacy:

Instead of leaving office like a seasoned diplomat following two terms as president of the USA, Obama is leaving like a petulant teenager.

Following a frantic attempt to choose his own successor by joining in the election activities and promoting Hillary, Obama appears to be bent on creating as much chaos as he can to thwart Trump's early presidency.

The legacy he obviously intends to leave for Trump is muddied relations with Israel and the basis for another cold war with Russia. He turned hundreds of jailbirds loose and initiated legislation that would need to be undone by his successor. He seems bent on leaving nothing but chaos in his wake.

But no one's taking the bait. Vladimir Putin's response to accusations of electronic meddling and the abrupt expulsion of a bunch of Russian diplomats was reserved and worthy of an important leader. He refused to participate in a childish game. His associates labelled Obama's actions as those of a lame duck leader doing desperate things just before his term expired.

Despite such actions, the leftist media is working overtime to accentuate the negatives and ignore the positives regarding Trump while elevating the outgoing president to the status of sainthood.

Trump, on the other hand, is looking increasingly more relaxed and confident, as he ought to be. Despite the pained yelps from the left-wing press and Hollywood elites, he has the American electorate, including all those deplorables, firmly in his corner.

Stalin's grandson:

Interesting item in the electronic media Thursday announced the death of Evgeni Dzugashvili, Josef Stalin's 80-year-old grandson. Evgeni is said to have defended his grandfather's reputation over the years since Stalin(Man of Steel)'s death in '53.

Anyone who bothers with history at all knows that Josef Stalin's reputation was not the easiest thing to defend. The guy probably killed more Soviets than Hitler. 

The Ukrainians, as members of the Soviet Bloc, viewed his administration as so draconian, they welcomed the murderous Nazis as liberators and really nice guys when they rolled through the Ukraine in the early '40s.

The news item brings to mind the time in the mid-80s I was invited along with other members of the Canadian press to have lunch with a delegation from Avtoexport. We were going to eat at Josef Stalin's favorite Georgian restaurant in Moscow City Square. Stalin ate there because he was a Georgian. That's the Russian Georgia, not the American one.

Our Soviet hosts, who communicated through interpreters during the formal talks in the Kremlin, unexpectedly switched to very good English when we arrived at the restaurant. We were seated at a long banquet table where at one time Stalin was said to have held his wild vodka-fuelled parties. The guy I was talking with seated me at one end.

The Soviets were great hosts and, following a few toasts and numerous tasty courses, I was moved to ask him if this really was where Stalin liked to eat.

"This is the restaurant where Stalin held most of his private parties," he said. "As a matter of fact, you're seated in his favorite position at the table. It might even be his personal chair."

I didn't know whether the guy was serious or simply trying to freak me out, but I did experience the strange sensation of the hair on my head bristling involuntarily.

Such was Stalin's reputation for history buffs, and I consider myself among those.  That is what poor Evgeni Dzugashvili spent his days trying to defend in the courts and in private.

Poor guy.

Electric cars:

The speculation that electric cars will  equal in number internal combustion vehicles by the end of the second decade must be a real horror story for our politicians.

Right now there's probably whole hordes of bureaucrats frantically trying to figure out how to replace the revenue they get for taxing gasoline and Diesel. 

Here in Oakville, Ontario, a long-standing motor city, more and more electric cars are showing up all the time. There are Teslas, Toyotas, and a collection of other pure electrics plus dozens of gas/electric hybrids everywhere.

It is definitely not the best of times to be investing a lot of money into hydrocarbons, but don't tell the Arabs.

It seems like only yesterday--actually, the '70s--when any mention of electric autos brought on a sneer and comments to the effect that all one needs is a really long electric cord. The problem was building a battery with enough energy density to propel a car more than a few miles.

That is still a problem, but lithium ion has been refined enough to take a family car about 400 Km's on one charge, which is good. Rapidly evolving capacitor technology promises to do even better.

How far that car would go on the coldest days of a Saskatchewan winter is not being advertised. The only time I drove one of these vehicles was during the warm days of summer in a Detroit suburb.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk, the guy behind the Tesla, is investing fortunes into batteries and further research in that department. Big players in related industries are joining in. He currently has his engineers working on electrics that you and I can afford.

I'm not sure all that is exciting motoring news. I'm one of those people who experienced a loss of driving fun when the manufacturers introduced automatic transmissions. Since then there's been a steady introduction of new technology and a steady decrease in the need for a driver to exercise any motoring skills, and more important--stay involved with what he's doing.

We have surrounded ourselves with so many technological miracles and the politicians have surrounded us with so many laws and regulations that there is a steady erosion of the necessity for us to make any decisions on our own. I'm not sure that's good.

Today, liquor and cell phones are not the only distraction for suicidal drivers. The new cars have things like astral navigation, backup sensors, automatic this and digital that, which serve as built-in distractions.

Nor have all those electronics made life any easier. I've had my Astra three years now and still haven't figured out how to re-set the time on the dash clock.

I recall fondly my '53 Ford Customline which had a strictly mechanical radio station function. Just find the station you like on the dial, unscrew a push button, push it in all the way, then screw it back in and voila! your station is zeroed in. 

The clock worked the same way. Unproductive consultation with the operations manual unnecessary.

Why the 25th?

It is generally accepted that Christmas was attached to the winter solstice.

So, why the 25th? Why not the 21st?

It is possible that the high priests and shamans among our early ancestors were unable to pin down the exact turn-around of the season. It probably took them about five days before they could say for sure that Hey! the sun is coming back.

That gave them something to celebrate and worthy of having the birth of Jesus Christ attached to that date. That's good thinking on the part of Christianity's early spin doctors.

What! No Guillotine?

So the US electorate has achieved what it took the French a bloody revolution plus a guillotine to accomplish back in the final decade of the 18th Century.

While there was no Robespierre and no Louis Seize nor Marie Antoinette, there was a Hillary and a left wing feminist rabble tearfully determined to push her through some kind of a hypothetical glass ceiling.

Had it worked, that act alone would have affirmed the principles of political correctness and hyper inclusivity run amok in our present level of social consciousness.

But it didn't work. The US electorate refused to pick a president for any reason other than relative suitability for a very important role.

The Americans should expect great things from Donald Trump as President. He is, after all, a billionaire businessman with enough fiscal smarts to do that.

So far, simply by getting elected from a zero political starting point, he's gone ahead and achieved the highly improbable. With that kind of a start, he should have little difficulty doing things others might not have the initiative nor the imagination to even attempt.

My first blog on Trump for Prez appeared on Monday, 27 July, 2015. It can be sourced  again in the list on the right. If you have the time, re-read it just to compare what happened.

Boo!

Boo!

Hallowe'en is a festival of the imagination.

It's a good time for both adults and kids to put away their electronic gadgetry and reach back into their own abilities to create heroic and scary mental scenarios for the fright night.

Like all the other seasonal festivals, Hallowe'en gives us something to brighten up what is often a cold and dreary seasonal change. It celebrates the death of another growth cycle and warns of the looming gloom of the dark months to follow.

Our ancestors were never too sure they will survive the months ahead before the spring resurrection. That is what probably injected a note of fear into the occasion.

Have fun.

Oh, Those Poor Kids:

Today, Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett was featured posturing for the media on the perils of those poor aboriginal kids.

Apparently there are more of them in the care of social agencies today than there were in those endlessly criticized residential schools.

Her solution? Same old, same old. Throw more taxpayer money at them through both federal and provincial agencies.

The film clip published by the CBC showed Bennett agonizing about the plight of those poor native kids. Not once did she even hint that maybe it's time that the parents and the aboriginal administrators closest to the children should be expected to take charge and do something useful on their own instead of organizing activist rallies and beating drums for still more money from Canadian taxpayers.

I guess the politicians benefit from such situations in the same way they benefit from the Global Warming and green energy propaganda. They must find it easier to justify the extraction of more taxes from Canadians still lucky enough to be employed.

Media Bombardment:

What's happening to Donald Trump these days is not too different from what our local liberals did to Rob Ford, the late mayor of Toronto, a couple of years ago.

Of course, while the Ford media pile-on was over his alleged experimentation with psychedelics, the Trump pile-on is about his alleged groping of women that goes back as far as about 20 years. 

Some women take whatever opportunity they can get to enjoy a moment of personal media stardom. Everyone wants to be a Kim Kardashian.

It is not hard to do with media bent on manufacturing news where there is none by zeroing in on trivia including alleged heterosexual improprieties.

This kind of news used to belong in the tabloids offered to bored housewives at grocery checkout counters.

Carbon Pricing:

Now that our prime minister has re-affirmed our commitment to pay for carbon pricing at the Paris party, it ought to be fair for us to expect that all those participating leaders are going to move right along and tackle those nasty volcanoes.

Each time a volcano erupts, the carbon emissions are not rated in tonnes, but in cubic miles! It is variously estimated that there are about 1500 active volcanoes pumping not only carbon dioxide, but all sorts of dangerous emissions into the planetary biosphere.

How gullible do we have to be to take the politicians' word that car exhausts and smokestacks can make a difference?

The global warming due to human activity nonsense was initially launched by immature activists with lots of spare time on their hands. Opportunistic politicians saw it as yet another phoney disaster they can pretend they are saving us from when they need more tax money and/or votes.

Not all politicians are mindlessly opportunistic. Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan and the northern territorial leaders appear to be losing little sleep over humanity-induced climate change. Could be they have more respect for the thinking processes of the people who elected them.

But maybe we shouldn't be too hard on our new Prime Minister. Obviously, he's confident he can get away with such theories with those people who elected him.

Climate change will go on as it always has. The theory that we can make a significant difference is irresponsible nonsense. It's a hoax and a tax grab that will do nothing for environmental concerns here just as it has changed nothing other than increased taxes in all the administrations that have tried it so far.

But keep in mind that our brilliant teachers are busy programming our kids as early as kindergarten to believe in this politically-convenient mythology.

Possible Alien Invasion:

This week's collection of scary stories on the web features Stephen Hawking's warning that there may be unfriendly aliens lurking out there in the cosmos.

Let's look at the possibilities.

The nearest star outside the Solar system is variously estimated to be about four light years away. That means that if it were possible for solid objects (ETs) determined enough to come here at light speed, they would have to be in transit for more than four years. 

Since our science has established that light speed is the speed limit of the universe, interstellar travel for biological beings is unlikely if not impossible. 

So, aliens arriving here would have to be robots like our Mars probes or androids specifically designed to survive in the vacuum and radiation levels of interstellar space.

First evidence of intelligent life out there in the void would be gathered by the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) group, who are scanning the cosmos for coherent electromagnetic signals and, so far, not finding any.

Those signals can travel at the speed of light and until we detect them, it is correct for us to go on believing that as an intelligent species, we are pretty much alone, at least in our sector of the galaxy, and out of reach of marauders from space.

Sorry, Stephen, but unless and until we detect alien electromagnetic probes trying to monitor our environment, it ought to be okay for us to continue sleeping peacefully at night.

Problems with Stoners:

Young Trudeau's election triggered furious activity among stoners in the core of the city that elected him--Toronto.

And why not? He promised the legalization of weed when elected. Now we know the source of the rather heavy majorities he got in Toronto's city Core.

Now the stoners who jumped the gun on marijuana's availability are being shut down because it is not yet legally approved by the Liberals in Ottawa. They have to cool their jets if and until the process is done with.

Of course, it would be reckless for our politicians to jump the gun on this one. The fact that some US administrations have legalized pot is not necessarily a good example to follow. They are well aware that it might be smart to wait and see what happens to crime, traffic and survival statistics over a suitable time frame before making it legal for Canadians to indulge in this form of substance abuse.

Having sampled pot on a couple of rare occasions in my misspent youth, I am of the opinion that it can impair the ability to operate motor vehicles every bit as efficiently as Alcohol, and much quicker. The problem is, alcohol can be detected and evaluated at the traffic stop, while a cannabis high cannot.

So here's what they do. We had young neighbors whose faith forbade them to partake of alcohol, so they toked up on pot or whatever else they smoke for their jollies in the far east and topped that with one bottle of beer before staggering off on a Friday nite Rape and Pillage.

If they're stopped in traffic, the cop administers the breathalyzer and lo and behold, it comes up with only a small trace of inebriation. The cop shrugs his shoulders, turns around, and walks away.

That is probably why the cops have been raiding and shutting down all of the illegal joints that sprung up in Toronto like toadstools following a spring rain right after the election.

They should continue doing that until a foolproof roadside detection gizmo is perfected.

How Canada Elects Leaders:

My indirect participation in electing Canada's leaders happened back in the late '60s shortly after I joined the staff at Mississauga News.

Publisher Eric Watt learned the Liberals were presenting a new leader at a private do in Oakville, ON.

We drew straws and Mike Solomon, our Fleet Street-trained reporter (complete with shorthand) drew the short straw. Grabbing an office camera, a 35mm Beseler Topcon SLR with 1/1,000 sec. shutter and 1:1.4 lens, loaded with Tri-X film, Solly scooted off to the address.

There, he was lucky enough to have the camera at the ready when the leadership candidate took a dive off the high board at the private pool and Solly caught him doing a somersault, legs tucked in neatly in true Olympic form on his way down.

It was a good shot. Canadian Press immediately latched onto it and offered it to every newspaper across the whole country. It appeared in at least 40 papers and got a lot of people talking about it.

Wow! a leader who could do a somersault off a high board! Who could match that?

The Liberal spin doctors followed that up with society blurbs of the candidate dating then popular songbird Barbara Streisand, and topped that off with a date with Classical Guitar queen Leona Boyd just to make sure they had the whole social spectrum of the Canadian electorate covered.

Following a suitable pause, the clever handlers followed up with an announcement that this French Canadian candidate was courting the daughter of a prominent English Liberal from the other end of the country (BC). How convenient is that?

Since these were the days of Renee Levesque and other Quebecers who were agitating to get Quebec out of confederation and into their own clutches, this potential blending of the two solitudes looked good, too. A politically correct union was in the making.

Since those days also were the wild days of the Hippies with chaotic youth movements chasing psychedelic (chemical) highs everywhere, someone among the clever spin doctors took the first letters of the new leadership candidate's name and came up with P.E.T--PET. What can be more meaningful to the young voters who couldn't get enough of the shaggy-haired Beatles?

All of these carefully-scripted elements came together to get Pierre Elliott Trudeau elected.

The Liberal handlers were clever enough to make use of available demographics to determine the average mental age level of the electorate to secure a win.

I didn't check to see if Solly ever got over it, but since I was lucky enough to draw the long straw, I don't have to feel guilty.

Last year, they went ahead and did it again, this time courting young stoners with the promise to legalize pot. Only time will tell if that will be of any long-term advantage to Canada.

Trump the Grump:

Obviously, Trump is displeased with the way his image is being dissected in the media.

It may be that he doesn't understand media hype.

Media is in the business of dressing up every news item to grab the attention of a maximum number of viewers.

The electronic media in particular, is in the business of selling mouthwash, super-absorbent diapers and hair club products for men. Their aim is to hold the viewer's attention long enough to imprint these ad images in as many viewers' brains as possible and provoke them to rush right out and buy things. This is not an easy task.

Think news. It begins with the local burnings, killings and crack-ups. When they run out of those, they move on to the manufactured news--the antics of aggressive activist mobs for the sexually indeterminate, the Black Lives Matter, the irretrievably P.O'd feminists, the latest aboriginal demands complete with much thumping and stomping, and such.

When those run out, they move on to political no-nos--things Trump and Clinton had better not be caught doing.

Finally, when they've exhausted all of the above, they begin interviewing the mothers of kids that have gone astray and got themselves killed. The more tears, the better. When an innocent bystander gets shot on bad news days, she may be elevated to sainthood by the media faster than Mother Theresa.

For these and other nightmare scenarios, smart viewers will have an alternate channel dialed in for quick switch and their thumb poised at the ready. I recommend channels 265 and 284 for quick change. If you're a history buff, Channel 631 is a good bet.

On the really bad news days, they proceed to canonize cops who were killed in the performance of their duties. Everybody becomes a hero. 

Since it is impossible to have nothing but newsworthy events all the time, Trump has to accept the fact that he can get targeted for the smallest social infractions, and he's had some whoppers. Clinton somehow escapes the same microscopic scrutiny.

Sun columnist Thomas Sowell summed up the US presidential campaign brilliantly when he suggested that only Hillary can get Trump elected.

Early Programming:

Featured in the electronic media this week were a bunch of noisy rabble rousers busily bent on programming kindergarten level kids to become activists like their mommies when they grow up.

Lucky kids. They will not have to wait until they are teenagers before they can begin stealing bicycles and thumbing their noses at the cops.

These activists appear to see our society as not chaotic enough. What they need is total anarchy and disrespect for the law. Chipping away at police authority will do that.

If there are enough activists clamoring for reduced police authority in our current social consciousness, it won't be long before opportunistic politicians see it as a cornucopia of votes and jump in to sponsor it.

World Leaders

As predicted, this week the electronic media was full of Hillary good, Trump bad items, complete with pictures. 

The leader of France was pondering which mosques should be shut down to reduce home-grown terror.

The British leader was busy trying to sort out how to ease their way out of the European huddle as painlessly as possible.

The US leader was busy telling Americans what a fantastic leader Hillary would make.

Our Canadian leader was highlighted three days in a row as being the first leader ever to march in the Vancouver Gay Pride parade. 

Wow!

Not so Nice:

The latest chapter of Islam's war on the West delivered by a trucker named Mohammed reminds me of the last time I was in Nice.

It was in the early '80s. I was with a group of automotive writers from Canada and the US. We were preparing to rally cars to the International Auto show in Paris.

We were surprised to learn that people were blowing things up in the City of Light. Some automotive dealerships were being sent sky-high. Terrorism was not yet a daily media news event, but Arabs were suspected. At the time, it was news to us.

We were informed that it would be quite safe since we were accompanied by some tough looking guys from Interpol carrying suspicious-looking briefcases and featuring bulges in their tweed sports coats.

We thought this was perhaps unnecessarily dramatic, but figured, Oh, well. If that's the way they do things in France, who are we to question it?

But the process through customs was slow. The guy in charge either couldn't read English or was hired under some kind of a quota system that ignored actual qualifications. He was almost painful to watch.

And while this process was crawling along, we noted other passengers, wearing desert garb--hooded white sheets straight out of the Sahara--were waved on through, apparently no questions asked.

Naturally, we were quite mystified. Here we were, citizens of two countries which had made it possible for France to re-claim its sovereignty from the Nazi conquerors, being minutely scrutinized. Thousands of our boys gave up their lives to make it possible for Charles DeGaulle to posture as the liberating hero when they got to Paris. Yet, here we were being interrogated like criminals while people from the middle East were waved on through.

What crosses my mind now as I sit here writing this is that it is possible the French were practicing hyper inclusivity 40 years ago before it ever became the order of the day among the lefties here. No doubt they were world leaders with all that politically correct nonsense, too.

And now they are harvesting the results, and in the process, validating Donald Trump's chances for getting elected in the US. Let us hope the American electorate are paying attention to what's happening around the world.

In Canada, where we have been saddled with Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Privileges and those ridiculous Human Rights Tribunals looking over everybody's shoulder, it will take a little longer.

BLM Vs: LGBTQ:

The sexually indeterminate mob was held up Sunday in Toronto for a half hour by the Black Lives Matter mob with their own list of ridiculous demands.

Police Union boss McCormack was quoted as saying something to the effect that if the whole thing wasn't so stupid, it would have been ridiculous. I don't normally like to quote union leaders, but let's be honest. McCormack hit it squarely on the nose that time.

But that didn't stop all those opportunistic politicians from coming out in droves to join a whole crowd of potential votes.

While he was in office, late mayor Rob Ford politely declined joining the gay parade. He knew that the lefty media and some city councillors would gang up to sneer at his refusal, but did not hesitate to remove himself from that equation. He said he preferred to go to the lake with his family. How dare he?

Prime minister Steven Harper also had the personal integrity to decline the honor.

No one should be surprised if the BLM activists decide to stage their own parade next year, preferably on or about the time of the gay display just to show 'em.

Since there is no black in the rainbow flag, the BLM bunch can come up with something more appropriate to represent their slogan that Black Lives Matter.

If it were held on the same day, it would offer Justin Trudeau and Kathleen Wynn an interesting choice, wouldn't it? Where would they march to harvest the most votes?

Brexit

The British people's exit from the European union is a step in the right direction. Prolonging the huddle with the other European nations would have been definitely un-British.

Allowing councils and committees outside GB to handle their decisions for them would have been uncharacteristic of the Brits who, over the centuries, have displayed a strong tendency to do their own thinking.

But the British exit is not only a plan in progress. It is also a symptom of what is happening around this planet. It fits in well with that other significant electoral revolt--the Donald Trump phenomenon.

It seems the American electorate has had about enough of the power structure in their country and are prepared to see what someone outside the existing political loop might have for them.

It looks as if the evolution of our social consciousness might be taking us into another exciting era. Almost anything can happen.

The Orlando Slaughter:

Whatever the reason for the slaughter in the gay bar in Orlando, it might have been predicted.

The sexually indeterminate minorities are not hard to take in small doses, but when they organize into a mob that succeeds in bullying spineless mayors and unprincipled politicians into endorsing their every move, some push-back might be expected.

And not just from radical Muslims. Their aggressive activism will ultimately make radical Islam with its Sharia laws incrementally less menacing for the silent majorities.

At this point, young Trudeau's handlers, who haven't made many errors so far in getting him elected, should be agonizing over their decision to allow him to troll for Liberal party votes by joining the gay circus in Vancouver.

A quick re-think should be in order.

Premier Brad Wall

Every time we read something about what Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan says or does, we are reminded that not all politicians are climate change gullible and focused only on getting re-elected.

That is why Saskatchewanians, who obviously have more time to think than is available to busy Torontonians, keep re-electing him with a thumping majority.

And that's good.

Here in Ontario, we've come to expect that politics is a game that is being played behind closed doors, out of public view and not necessarily for the taxpayer's benefit.

Trump Again:

Those lucky Americans. They have a real choice for elections in the fall.

They can either go the politically correct, all-inclusive route to elect a woman with qualifications not easy to recognize or a man with no political skills, but also with no political baggage.

Too bad Canadian voters had not been offered a real choice. Of course, if we had, we'd probably have squandered it by opting for more of the same rather than potential for real change.

Green Energy?

The international news media reports that delegations from 195 nations around the planet have reached an agreement in Paris to thwart global warming.

We have to wonder how long it will take the taxpayers around the planet to catch on to the fact that all these green activists  have been living it up on the money their politicians have extracted from us to pay for all that flying and partying.

Besides our esteemed Prime Minister, there were some 350 partyers from Canada alone, according to some sources.

Are they enthusiastic about saving the planet? They ought to be. Next year they are going to do it all over again in some warm, exotic destination like Cancun. It should be quite a party. The champagne will flow freely and you and I will once again be paying for it.

Do we need to have some special qualifications to become green activists and join the party? If I can find some answers, I'll let you know.

Mobs:

Toronto's inner city space is overrun with noisy mobs these days. You'd think we actually had no procedures to redress social ills and no politicians with enough backbone to have them enforced.

The process of peaceful co-existence seems to have been subverted by noisy minority groups who have nothing better to do than to gather in the streets, bellowing loudly to draw attention to their causes.

There's the inner city feminist mob, the indeterminate sexuality (LGBT-whatever) mob, and, most prominent lately, the Black Lives Matter mob.

The BLM mob, bent on bringing attention to the killing of a black man with a hammer by a cop, has been receiving most attention from the electronic media lately. At its nucleus are a pair of stridently loud black females with a megaphone, an accusatory attitude and language suitable for launching bloody revolution.

We can only hope that at some point in their undertaking, they come to realize that their message would be more effective if it included all lives, not just black lives. And if, having achieved that, they might proceed to use their influence on their own community to take up that message.

Even better, they might get their community to cooperate with the police when witnesses to shootings should step forth to make law enforcement easier.

Let's hope their efforts evolve into a learning experience for them with achievable goals that will benefit all of us. 

The Ghomeshi decision:

Amateur analysts everywhere are expounding on the pros and cons of the Jian Ghomeshi trial.

Most of the pros come from members of the judicial fraternity while the Toronto inner city feminist mob remains unconvinced.

So far, haven't seen much from the shrinks--either amateur or professional--on the probable psychological profiles of the people involved.

It was mentioned at some point during the proceedings that Ghomeshi obviously liked his sex rough. Nothing new there. Tom cats do it that way all the time. Lots of people like their sex rough too, possibly to make it more interesting.

Obviously, each of the three plaintiffs also liked it rough, or they wouldn't have tried for return bouts. Since none were offered, they each retreated into a petulant sulk that stewed on for years.

Since there was no mention of families in the media, apparently none of the participants in this little drama had the imagination or the resilience to go on and establish normal human relationships including spouses and families of their own.

So, what can we assume from this? Was the whole cast, including Ghomeshi, a group of basically dysfunctional individuals? And while the lawyers in this case are going to be handsomely remunerated--well deserved in Ghomeshi's lawyer's case--can our society afford to dump a petulant load of crap like this in the laps of the judiciary every time someone's delicate feelings are hurt?

It's not easy to imagine that our forefathers who structured our laws to make society work smoothly, worried much about hurt feelings. 

Yet, in this case, the law worked just fine.

New cause for panic

I see the panic mongers are beginning to program the gullible among us to the effect that we are running short of water.

The We are going to die of thirst gang are going to add this to all the other panics soliciting funds such as:
--Human-generated Global warming,
--Human generated environmental degradation,
--Human-generated de-forestation,
--Human-generated air pollution,
--etc., etc.

Of all the hyped-up crap being offered in the media, so far, nobody has suggested that water shortages are confined almost exclusively to areas of third world human over-population. These are areas where people should not be living in the numbers recorded or there is no one among the leadership with enough initiative to get up and do something about it.

If the water they have to drink is unsuitable for human consumption, don't worry. Mother Nature does not hesitate to reduce the human infestations when unavoidable.

Massive Undertaking

Big headline in today's news is young Trudeau meeting with provincial politicians to tackle climate change.

Gee, if they can do that, maybe we ought to ask them to hasten the onset of spring and cancel next winter all together.

Now that the Climate change (Global Warming) cheerleaders have convinced the more gullible among us that we are responsible for what the climate is doing, it ought to be easy for us to see the logic in what our busy politicians are trying to do. Or maybe not.

What arrogance! And what abysmal disregard for the global forces that govern this planet's dynamics!

I can hardly wait to see what this new crop of geniuses is going to do next.