We went to bed around 3am and I listened to a bit of Coast. Talking about America and their geographical boarders. I read somewhere that there are something like 12,000 US custom/boarder patrols along the Mexican boarder and about 1,200 along the US Canada boarder. But there are some parts of the US/Canada boarder where you can easily just walk across a field and your in the US and Canada. That’s not good for both countries. The Americans are saying that, “were in Iraq to prevent terrorism from happening here again.” I got news for you folks, it’s already there inside your country waiting for the right moment. Every drug dealer in your neighborhood is aiding the terrorists. You think terrorists and insurgents are being funded by Iran? The terrorists are being funded by the lucrative poppy fields in Afghanistan. The poppy fields are Afghanistan’s natural resource where most of the poppies are processed to #4 grade heroin and shipped to mostly the US and Europe. The local drug dealer gets his supply of heroin most likely indirectly from Afghanistan. It’s a multi billion dollar industry that funds the Taliban and other terrorists activities. Tehran is little more then a supply depot for the Taliban/insurgents. “What do you need? Materials for another IED? Sure no problem.” Every time someone buys pot from a drug dealer they are indirectly supporting the terrorists. It’s easy to add up and follow the money. We should simply Agent Orange the poppy fields and cut off the Taliban source of income right? Easy enough to do. Thing is the US/allies won’t do this because it will upset the balance of power in the region. Perhaps this is why Iran wants to build the bomb bad enough incase the US/allies get balls and AO the poppy fields. Remember those WMD and suitcase nukes? I think they’re in the US possibly even here in Canada. Ok, that’s my rant for today.
Onto other things. This afternoon I’m going to head into work with my lovely wife. She just came back from paying the rent although we’re $70 behind but I get paid to take care of that on Friday. We need the transit pass to get to work. I’m also ok for insulin and coffee. Plus this week is Lodge week and I’ve got $15 for that. I’m looking forward to the lodge and having a beer.
Tonight I’m watching my Monday night wrestling, Raw and that should be fun. I watched the news at noon today. Oil is still fluctuating at around $80/barrel. The oil industry is watching over it’s shoulder wondering what Stallmach is going to do about revenues. The oil industry published a letter in the Journal yesterday saying how if there is an oil revenue increase the oil industry will invest a billion dollars less this year. Fine. Apparently the Government of Canada plans to spend about 8 Billion in tar sands investment. At least that’s the figure I heard. Tar sands oil won’t last forever.
Also after Raw, I’m going to work more on F. I’m closing in on the finale scenes of the beginning part of the story’s beginning middle and end. The Second rewrite is fun because I go read over the scene and make minor changes before the big rewrite. I often spend an hour or more just on one scene so it’s slow process but it’s fun to do. The hardest part is striking a balance between word count and the necessary idea that needs to be conveyed in the scene itself. Last night.
I began fooling around with Facebook. Yes I decided to wade into the Facebook waters afterall. So I went and uploaded a photo of myself to my profile taken last week. I need a haircut. I don't know what I'm goin gto do with Facebook just yet. So far I don't see any real value in it since I don't have a lot of friends. I can't find the apps menu but I'll ask people at work that are into Facebook.
Anyway that’s all for now
e. Jim
