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.