the shooter

it seems everyone is pissed at the navy for not doing DUE DILIGENCE ON SECURITY CHECK ON SHOOTER. this is all fine and dandy but if the navy had done a thorough background check and denied a security clearance to mr alexis would the world have been a safer place? shit no, there still would have been a crazy man walking around with lots of guns. in fact, had he been denied a security clearance i suspect he would have been even more paranoid and heard even more voices. if he couldn't get into the naval base would he have said, "gosh i better don't shoot anyone since i haven't got a valid security clearance?" once again, shit no! i think he would have taken his guns to a school or shopping mall and potentially done greater damage.

there will now be a great hue and cry for better background checks for security clearance passes but will this make the world a safer place? will all people denied a security pass be sent to the funny farm to be drugged and cured of their lunacy? shit no, they'll fall between the cracks and the mass shootings will continue. at the present time me and the roo are preoccupied with restoring an equitable distribution of global wealth so we will not be able to contribute to a solution, but i do see a possible solution to this crisis on the horizon. the king, aka bbc, recently did a post on THE UPCOMING ENVIROMENTAL DISASTER. that's the only solution i see to the problem of crazy people, enviromental disaster decimating the human race.

i love you sons of bitches,

exceptional??

the period of atonement is over. it's not that i've finished atoning, it's that i never should have started atoning in the first place. i didn't sign up for that supersticion.

to be exceptional or not to be exceptional, that is the question. obama says america is exceptional whilst putin says nyet, america is not exceptional.

of course America is exceptional, any idiot should be able to figure this out. but is America exceptionally benevolent? is america exceptionally peace loving? is america exceptionally free of corruption? of course America is NOT exceptionally benevolent, peace loving or free from corruption. but in america's defense, i can't think of any countries that do possess these attributes.

this raises the question; in what area is america exceptional? i have no clue and furthermore have no interest in defining what makes america exceptional. i do have one observation to make about america:

america is exceptionally polarized. the right blames the left and the left blames the right. the poor blame the rich and rich blame the poor. in my travels through cyber space i stop by several left leaning blogs opining that obama walks on water and his shit don’t stink and of course the right leaning blogs are opining that obama is satan incarnate. these people bicker back and forth and there is absolutely no way that one side is going to change the views of the other side. they just become more entrenched in their views and also become more and more polarized in their views of the state of the union. the states are not united.

if an american was to call me exceptionally ignorant of what is transpiring in america, he or she may be absolutely correct. shit, i’m exceptionally ignorant of many things going on in canada. i don’t give a shit about most things over which canadians incessantly argue. i really couldn’t give a shit if we have a liberal or conservative government. they’ll both tax the shit out me then tell me that i shouldn't do most of the stuff i enjoy.

as far as the public relations skirmish between obama and putin goes, put me in putin’s camp. obama does not have the god given right to bomb a sovereign country.

i heard this song on cbc radio and it made me real verklempt. in the past i had an exceptionally ignorant view of the cbc, canadian broadcasting corporation. i still think don cherry and hockey night in Canada suck farts out of dead horses but i love cbc radio.

mazel tov, i love you sons of bitches.

ouch

38 years ago i was a proud member of the canadian coast guard serving in the arctic. one of things i was told had to do with dying, don't worry about the ship sinking, it's the helicopters that'll kill you. well, IT HAPPENED AGAIN. i always hated flying in those things, not because of the safety threat but because of the noise and smell. several years ago when sonny was working in a mining camp in the yukon he sent me this picture:

this was a supply helicopter for the camp and he occasionally flew in it. in this case the transmission gave out just after take off at an altitude of about 10 feet. no one was killed, just a few broken bones and concussions. mamas don't let your babies grow up to fly helicopters.

at this very moment sonny is in the yukon working on an abandoned mine with a leaky tailing pond. it seems like yesterday he was a kid, then a university student, then an e.i.t. (engineer in training), then an intermediate engineer and now he's the lead engineer cleaning up mines. he's getting up to 16 billable hours/day on this project and the best part is, no helicopter rides!

i was in the dentist chair getting my broken tooth pulverized this morning watching the news channel when the news broke about the helicopter. it took my mind off the tooth for a nano second. it was a 2 hour appointment and lucky me, i have another 1 hour appointment next week to put the fucking thing back together. 2013, the summer of fucked up teeth: 5 cavities and 1 broken tooth. the dentist is getting a lot of billable hours out of me. can anyone guess what i did after the dental appointment?

a little fishing followed by ice cream. breakfast of champions!

i love you sons of bitches.

syria

it’s taken a fair bit of restraint to keep my nose out of the situation in syria but i can no longer keep quiet. from my limited knowledge of the situation, figuring this out is a tough nut to crack but what the hell, not knowing all the facts has never stopped me in the past.

the death toll so far is estimated to be greater than 100,000 over the past year or two. there has been a fair bit of saber rattling amongst foreign countries whose criticism is basically along party lines as to who is to blame. the west and most of the affluent arab world seem to support the rebels while those nogoodnik commie bastards, their allies and iran along with the hardline enemies of israel appear to be backing the current administration of assad.

so over >100,000 people die and there is moral outrage but no rush to action. then 300 people are killed in what is rumored to be as a result of chemical weapons. it seems the west is perfectly fine with huge numbers of people being killed with conventional weapons. after all, conventional weapons are a product of the military industrial complex. but then 300 people are killed by weapons that were not produced or sold by the military industrial complex. black market weapons! well, jesus fuck me christ, it’s a crisis! we must take immediate action. lo and behold, the democrats and republicans appear able to make a deal in a few days whereas they have been unable to agree upon health care or budget items for at least 6 years!

so the way i see it, it’s ok to slaughter >100,000 people with internationally sanctioned weapons but you better don’t use weapons that we don’t produce or we will take action and our action will be supported by legitimate weapons clearly manufactured by the military industrial complex. by using these weapons, the united states will compensate the military industrial complex for the revenue lost by syria’s blatant use of black market weaponry.

so that’s it. if you’re gonna slaughter people, follow the fucking rules or you’ll pay the consequences. business is business and the rules are clear. a giant fucking bomb on a missile is not a weapon of mass destruction but a squirt of sarin is a weapon of mass destruction.

i love you sons of bitches.

drum roll please.......

the time has come for all good coins to come to the aid their cyclist. after one adventurous year of cycling in mostly good weather. (only fools and peasants cycle in the pouring rain) the fruits of my labor have been tallied:

and the grand total is: 120 coins or $240 canadian. lucky me. now the question is what to spend it on?

who fuck knew canada had 2 warships? i guess prime minister harper felt he needed 2 boats in order to call himself an admiral. unfortunately is looks like we only have 1 qualified captain; 2 CANADIAN WARSHIPS COLLIDE. i suspect the ship at fault was under the command of a nine iron. this is only a guess but those guys can't drive for sour apples.

oh well, summer is almost over and it's time for all the little hooligans to return to the classroom. ha, ha!

$240! if that isn't nice, what is?