Blog Jam

 With our prime minister Carney looking towards helping with the "Golden Dome" costs, the gangster in the White House is planning his "doming" of North America. I am disgusted with this capitulation - as capitulation it is.

I fired off this email to our PM just now:

Please stop the nonsense with the Golden Dome. The gangster-fascist in the white house will demand more and more from Canada.  And you are going to allow him to surveil the owners of this country - Canadian Citizens? I elected you to defend Canada not to concede our sovereign rights to this Mafia Boss.

Please STOP. We all know he can't be trusted with our wallets, our children, or our sovereignty.

I feel a bit better and am joining a lot more in defending our sovereign country from this latest fiasco from what used to be the republic south of us.

Along with many other countries we now have wildfires burning out of control near where I live. The skies blur out, the sun blazes on.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-fire-aug-11-1.7605635

No rain for a couple of week and none forecasted until maybe Wednesday. Wells are running dry in many parts. Huge fines are put in place for outdoor fires of any kind or even walking through a forest. Naturally the same crowd of anti-maskers are now outraged about their "liberties". My question always is: please tell me how to tell the bad guys from the good guys?

The book I read a few years back is proving remarkably prescient.

On a lighter note:

I saw this wee bunch of common, ordinary clover under my feet the other day and it lit a tiny flame of hope in my heart for some reason.

And I just finished this incredible book of essays by one of my favourite writers of all time.  "My Three Fathers" is a great read along with so many other essays. She pulls you right into her life with tears and laughter.

Bowing and Scraping

Lately I've been taking a critical look at all the genuflecting, bowing and kneeling to other humans going on in the world. Still. In 2023. All over the place.

Every petty despot or tyrant, inherited wealth, inherited "positions" either through birth or election or anointment in some way commanding or demanding the respect of the tip of the hat or a curtsey or a bow or a kissing of rings or other such artifacts.

It begs the questions as to why we still do this. Remnants of slavery? Acknowledgement of our "betters"? Like what the almighty hell? At this stage of "progress" we all know that many of these so called icons of grandeur have been guilty of more transgressions than we can count.

Freshly ordinated Catholic priests in front of bishops carry it to a further extreme, as do many other religions.

In this age of supposed equality of all, it's just about laughable that so many attach such groveling servitude to others deemed their superiors when the truth has long been exposed about past slavery and appalling abuses of such privilege including genocides.

And sidebar big question: have they ever done anything to earn this outrageous reverence?