CBC Relaxed:

 Writers at CBC heaved a sigh of relief at the way the US presidential slugfest is being resolved. 

With that dastardly Trump out of the picture, now, at last, Trudeau and Freeland will be able to live up to their full potential, according to one CBC article.

Maybe the CBC editors should be reminded at this point that our PM was not exactly approved by the 
Canadian electorate. They were voting for legalized pot.

Trudeau and Freeland were sneaked in behind the promise of legalized weed by those clever devils in the Liberal backroom.

It's possible most US voters knew they were voting either for Donald Trump or Joe Biden. There was no carrot.

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Avoiding Infection:

Covid 19 has promoted the sale of an endless variety of disinfectant sprays and wipes. You can't enter any establishment without somebody offering to disinfect your dirty hands.

This ritual can create a whole string of new problems. How dependent are we going to become on these commercial wipes? Will we be able to navigate safely within our day-to-day environment?

Is washing our hands and brushing our teeth all it takes to keep us free of dangerous microbes? 

There is a whole army of friendly microbes occupying all of the areas that could support bacterial colonies on and in our bodies. We should hope that these microbes leave no room for foreign bacteria to grow less friendly colonies.

Those of us who have taken antibiotics internally have found that we have lost the ability to easily digest food. This condition is usually temporary, but not always. It lasts only until the resident microbes are replaced, but it could be uncomfortable for a time.

We live in a microbic environment. Most of them are beneficial, or at least non-threatening. That means they occupy territory which would otherwise be open to invasion by microbes of indeterminate nature.

Using those wipes gives us at least a 50 percent chance of acquiring microscopic tenants not necessarily open to friendly co-existence. 

It's like leaving your front door unlocked and open to uninvited guests.. 

Indigenous Summer?

 We're enjoying the traditional two weeks of beautiful summery November weather here in southern Ontario at the moment. We used to call it Indian Summer.

Is it still all right to refer to it in those crude terms? One never knows what those statue-toppling history revisionists are going to riot over these days.

How about aboriginal summer, guys? Does that suit your delicate, highly-evolved sensitivities any better?

Or, would it be even more suitable to refer to it as Indigenous Summer??

One can never be too casual with the terminology these days.

Presidential Slugfest:

 Back in the days when the post for US Prez was being contested by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Writer Thomas Walkom quipped in the Sun that only Hillary can get Trump elected.

If Biden makes it to the White House, is it fair to expect Walkom to quip that only Trump could get Biden elected?

Systemic Racism:

 Very unusual for people like NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to talk about systemic racism in Canada. He's probably among the best examples of why it happens. 

By expecting to bend the consciousness of the average Canadian to his personal preferences instead of joining theirs, he stands a good chance to provoke that kind of a response.

Is Singh an ambivalent Canadian? Whether we want to admit it or not, his religious attire is not quite what we're used to seeing, especially not in leadership candidates.

Similarly, by organizing into special interest gangs, the Black Lives Matter members cut themselves out of the herd then scream that they are being excluded.

Similarly, the indeterminate sexuality gang extravagantly parade their differences from what they perceive as the common herd then whine piteously that they are being bullied.

This is not unusual behavior. Incompetent individuals try to gain personal significance by joining gangs instead of tackling life on their own just as responsible people everywhere do. 

Apparently they fail to see that joining a special interest gang has the effect of visibly setting them outside the bounds of the prevailing social consciousness.

Of course, what would the electronic media do for fake news if members of these groups were to stop seeking political solutions to personal problems?

As for Singh, at least he's sticking his neck out on his own, and not trying to hurl rocks from an anonymous mob.

Cool!

 Now that the Global Warming and Climate Change alarmists have convinced everybody that we are in danger of being fried by the weather, we have to examine what is happening in the Calgary AB environs.

Minus 24C late October weekend temperatures in Calgary should have sent documentary researchers and writers scrambling to create new material for David Suzuki's Nature of things.

The new material should have happy, well-fed polar bears frolicking merrily on growing ice floes in Canada's Arctic.

Al Gore should be busy writing another book; this one on how hell is about to freeze over. And it's all because of human activity.

There has to be an explanation for the minus 24C temperatures experienced over the weekend. Maybe we ought to look to the thousands of like-minded climate scientists the UN invokes to warn humanity of impending planetary melt down.

In my 35 years on the Prairies, I can't recall such a frigid dip so early in the season. Maybe those climate alarmists at the UN can give it a shot??

Fright Night:

Covid 19 is the official Monster hiding in the far corner under our beds for Hallowe'en 2020. 

It's possible that all of us have come in contact with the corona virus over recent years. It has been suppressed by our natural antibodies in most of us and allowed to mutate into Covid 19 in others.

It has succeeded in gaining the upper hand in more vulnerable individuals and gained terminal status in the terminally vulnerable.

This leaves only advice on how to avoid infection for our medical gurus.

It's rather amusing to watch the propaganda arm of the United Nations switch their attention from such paper tigers as global warming and climate change to our struggle with this very real monster which is described as having no life of its own until it links up with its victim.

So far, we haven't heard what their 1,500 like-minded scientists think of the situation..