Ramblings

I've been way too lazy to post anything lately but a few things have come up which I have to speak out on.

It's been recently revealed that the latest "foot" to have been found is a hoax. So now we just have the very normal situation of 5 random REAL feet having been found.

A sixth severed foot was found along the British Columbia coast this week, the sixth within the last year. Very strange. Even stranger was the police position that "It is a little mysterious, but we don't know if it is linked to others."

Don't know if its linked to the others???? Huh? In a television interview one cop suggested it still might be a coincidence.

Are you kidding me? I know the police have to keep an open mind but a trillion to one coincidence, I don't think so. Give me a freakin' break.

The U.S. Justice system never ceases to boggle my mind.

The dog fighting "referee" in the Michael Vick case was sentenced to a total of 14 years in prison. Six and half years for orchestrating the dog fight and seven years for trafficking in marijuana.

Six years?? In Spain Bull Fighting is the national sport, in Canada we allow thousands of seal pups to be bashed over the head till they die. We kill millions of cattle and chickens each year.

In Canada, trafficking in Pot won't even get you ANY jail time.

Yes the dog fighting is distasteful and should be illegal and punished. But six years? We have violent thugs and chronic thieves who barely get a few months in prison yet this moron gets 6 years? They are freaking crazy down there.

Lastly. There are a group of people I call the Wii people and no, they aren't those hooked on that Nintendo game.

It stands for Well Intentioned Idiots. Last Sunday in Vancouver a protest against the automobile was held where a portion of Commercial Drive was closed to motorized traffic. A Wii representative was on camera imploring us all to forsake our cars and stop building more roads, and he was really sincere about it all, really well intentioned. Too bad he is an Idiot.

The public will NEVER, NEVER give up their vehicles.

On that same day in Kelowna, where I live, I attended the Annual Boyd Automotive Fathers Day Show 'N Shine. That event featured the downtown streets filled with hundreds of automobiles and the thousands of us who were there to admire them. It was an Auto Love-In.

People love cars and they always will. For most of us being in our vehicles is where we can experience our music the way we like it and enjoy the most comfortable seat we own. It's a place where we are in total control, where we can say what we want (often to ourselves) or even yell and scream if we want to. Its the last domain of the independent individual.

Regardless of what the traffic is like or what the price of gas, our vehicles represent and place that we can call our own.

The Wii gang would be better off protesting against what goes in to the fuel tank and what comes out the exhaust pipe, not with the Automobile itself. There will always be cars, they may be electric cars or hydrogen fuel cell or solar or whatever, but there will always be cars.

And so I say: Build MORE ROADS.