Garbled Science:

The left-wing rabble were out in force with their bullhorns in Montreal and Washington Saturday protesting Donald Trump's scrutiny of the junk science behind global warming and climate change.

Bellowing loudly, their megaphoned cheer leaders' message was, How could that dastardly Trump possibly disregard the importance of science?

That's a deliberate misdirection aimed at children and the woefully underinformed. It's not about science at all. It is clearly about scientists and politicians--scientists who have been corrupted by politics and politicians with agendas in charge of issuing lucrative research grants.

Now that it is possible to view weather systems, glaciers and polar ice from space, some scientists take the opportunity to launch all kinds of scary theories. These include weather, climate, ozone holes, ice shelves, polar bears and almost anything else that will get them quick media attention. 

Clearly, technological evolution makes it easy for people so inclined to promote cynical climate-based political agendas for reasons we can only guess at. Maybe Al Gore can tell us more.

It is easy to speculate that access to generous scientific research grants has probably been made selectively available to scientists whose morals can be bent by politicians with schemes to easily extract more tax money from the electorate.

Look what the Green Energy propaganda did to Ontario. 

Science has become corrupted by politics.

The bottom line is that the current US administration is not declaring war on science, only on corrupt scientific/political relationships.

For the moment, let us just view this as an important part of Trump's Draining the Swamp initiative.

MOAB:

The US weapons specialists described their Mother Of All Bombs dropped on a terrorist infestation site Thursday as the biggest such non-nuclear weapon ever used in battle.

Not quite. Actually, it is 1000 lb lighter than the GRAND SLAM developed by British demolition specialist Barnes Wallis in the course of WWII. Wallis calculated that's how much explosive power was needed to crumble the heavily reinforced Nazi submarine pens along the coast in occupied France and in Hamburg.

It worked, too. The Grand Slam, delivered by British Lancaster Bombers, punched enough holes in those submarine pens to prevent the successful launch of Germany's state-of-the-art Type XXI submarine. This U-boat was so advanced that the first nuclear subs deployed by the allies a couple of decades later incorporated many of its features.

The Grand Slam was an evolution of Barnes Wallis's Tallboy bomb that preceded it, but was found to be inadequate for the really destructive blast needed to demolish the heavily reinforced concrete.

Wallis was perhaps better known for the bouncing bombs used by the Dambusters to  take out the Ruhr's extensive hydro complex powering Hitler's weapons industry deep within Germany.

And there's a Canadian connection here, too. Cmdr Jean Luc Fauquier took over the Dambusters squadron from Guy Gibson, its young leader, when he retired for medical reasons. Fauquier led the squadron on the heavy bomber sorties that followed, directing the drops from his speedy and agile Mosqito Pathfinder.

Smart Bomb technology was not yet a factor, so the Allies used Pathfinders in fast little Mosquito aircraft to get down low over the drop zone, locate the target and drop colored flares to mark the spot for the heavy bombers to zero in on. The modern MOAB is equipped with parachute, tail vanes with movable slats to correct descent to the target. No Pathfinder required.

Fauquier was a Canadian bush pilot before he joined the RCAF at the start of the war. He was a fellow Mississaugan, living on Broadmoor Ave at the time I interviewed him in '67.

One of his favorite targets was Hamburg, the site of some of those submarine pens. He said he had an awkward moment when, on a business trip in the years following the war, a German customer asked him if he'd ever been to Hamburg.

Another favorite target was Peenemunde where Werner Von Braun was building long-range V2 rockets for Hitler.

At the time of the interview, Fauquier was in the concrete business. He said he probably supplied more concrete in the Toronto area over the post war years than his Lancaster squadrons had demolished in Germany.

Note: Fauquier earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, The Distinguished Service Order and bars for both awards, all well deserved for his contribution to a successful end to the war.

Heavy cost of BS::

In Ontario, we are now paying ridiculous hydro rates as a result of about 40 years of media-hyped propaganda re: Human-Generated Environmental Degradation.

It is the Green Energy part of Save the Planet sloganeering that stampeded political minds like those of Dalton McGuilty and Kathleen Wynn into mortgaging the futures of all Ontarians whose lives are geared to the use of electricity. 

These avant-garde Liberal thinkers took electricity, a moderately-priced modern day necessity, and converted it into an expensive luxury not everyone can afford.

We know who supported the hyped up environmental propaganda and made sure it was presented as a steady diet to a gullible Canadian public. It was easy for people who watched CBC to mistake David Suzuki's apocalyptic environmental hype for serious scientific fact.

And there's no escaping it. Schools and universities are still teaching it. Incredibly, there are many people out there, including our Prime Minister, who actually think they can do something about climate change.

Climate will change when planetary dynamics trigger it. All we can do is try to adapt the best we can when it happens. It shouldn't be too difficult. Our ancestors did that with varying degrees of success for millions of years and there were few PhDs and Rhodes Scholars among them.

And, while young Trudeau can posture all he likes for the immature masses, all the politicians who signed the Paris Accord can, in reality, do exactly zip about it.

Among world leaders, the only one who appears to be aware of this and willing to ignore the hype is Donald Trump. Nor is there much evidence of China, Russia and India panicking over it.

M-103:

We don't know for sure if Iqra Khalid's Motion M-103 singling out Islamophobia as a political no-no is an attempt at selective free speech control or just a political fog meant to divert our attention from an unpalatable Liberal budget.

They were probably hoping that by the time we stopped arguing about that hot potato, an inflationary budget could be sneaked past us unnoticed. It's an old political trick.

Justin Trudeau has made a big deal of being a feminist and loading 50% of his cabinet with women. It is quite clear that experience, intellectual qualifications, administrative capability and overall suitability all take a back seat to sex. That comes first.

Evaluating Iqra Khalid by Justin Trudeau's own measuring stick, most men would probably rate her at least an A+. Not many women in his cabinet are so well qualified.

Trump Troubles::

Isn't there someone near Donald Trump who can rap his knuckles every time he reaches for that cell phone? Is it possible to delete his Twitter account? Surely there's a secure land line for him to use in the Oval Office.

Trouble with Trump is that he is not a politician. Neither does he think like one. He appears utterly incapable of smooth double-speak or telling lies convincingly.

Fortunately, these are the very qualities that make him so essential to the people who voted for him.

Chrystia Freeland:

The war of words between the Liberal spin doctors and the Russian undercover types re: Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau's Foreign Affairs minister, needs some clarification.

Apparently Russki spooks have issued a missive to the effect that her grandfather was editor of a Nazi publication back in the Ukraine during WWII. No surprise there. Lots of people did things like that.

Josef Stalin's administration of the Ukraine during the '30s was so draconian that the Nazis were welcomed by many as liberators and really nice guys when, a decade later, they rolled their panzers through the Ukraine.

When Joe needed food to prove to the outside world how efficiently his communist system was working, he sent his apparatchiks on a trick-or-treat expedition throughout the Ukraine, stripping it of anything edible. This resulted in the Holodomor (famine) that killed millions, according to reliable sources.

Following the war, many of the Ukrainians who had found it expedient to work for the Nazis because it was necessary to survive during the occupation, looked for exit visas to other countries. They had to avoid being identified as Nazi collaborators.

Among them were butchers, bakers and candlestick makers and maybe even a few editors. They were quietly absorbed into the Ukrainian communities in the western world. To Canadians, they were just DPs--Displaced Persons who needed a new life. It was the least we could do.

The ones who settled in my home town evolved into good Canadian citizens, a credit to their communities. Unlike some of the more recent immigrants from the Gulf states, who also got elected to Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, they did not bring their political and religious baggage with them.

This may or may not shed some light on our Foreign Affairs Minister's saga.

Vladimir Putin:

The lefty US media finds fault with the way Vladimir Putin and the Russians followed the recent US elections with unprecedented interest. 

No mystery there. The possibility of at last having a US leadership open to a logical degree of situational awareness might be viewed as a welcome change by the members of the Russian government.

Many of the scribes in the US Media Party busily working to hammer an uncomfortable wedge between the US and the Russian administrations are too young to remember what it was like to live under the constant stress of a cold war. Their reckless heroism comes straight from ignorance.

Vladimir Putin is described as a tough guy tolerating little nonsense. If he's managed to suppress the Islamic lunatic fringe, drain the swamp and keep the militant special interest mafias from corrupting spineless politicians within his borders, he rates an A++.

Apparently, he's done all that and his 90% approval rating at home reflects it.

It ought to be correct to interpret the election of Donald trump in the US as a fervent hope by the electorate that the same thing might be achieved in their back yard.

The politically correct media campaign is not limited to the US. An article appearing in MacLean's Magazine in Toronto warns the gullible that Putin is aiming to invade Canada. 

I don't think I'm going to lose much sleep over that one.