Democracy Vs Dictatorships

I have been considering the claims of the religious fundamentalists about Iraq and the US policy in the middle east for some time, and I have concluded that the religious fundamentalists are correct. The US really isn't wanted and shouldn't be sticking their nose in the business of other countries.


Well , sort of. Kind of ... maybe it's not all the way the way you think.

*evil grin*

The purpose of a democracy is to empower the people. The comman man. The guy on the ground who just goes to work every day driving a truck , or cutting hair, or digging ditches, or whatever he does to get by, he aint rich, he aint powerful, he's probably not even particularily handsome. He is The Common Man.

The purpose of a Dictatorship, or Religious Theocracy, or most any other form of government, is to empower a few "special" people , maybe the rich , maybe the priest hood, but some small minority of people living in that country , and basically to rape and pillage the majority and turn them into slaves and chattle. (Witness the Muslim minority in Iraq's treatement of the Majority muslim and Kurds ).

So ... when I say "The US really isn't wanted ... " the question becomes ... Who is it that is not wanting them ?

The answer is , of course... the priviledged few who are living high on the hog arn't interested in things changing.

The oppressed majority , being constantly raped and pillaged by their so called "lawful government" are all for change. Any change... nothing could be as bad as what they have right now , right ? Oh yes conquer and force a regime change, we'll try anything once !

Yup. The actions of the US are not apreciated among the ruling elite of the world. Of course, since the purpose of democracy is to knock those ruling elite off their golden thrones and stop them from raping and pillaging the common people of their countries...something they are loath to stop ... this would almost seem a trite statement. One would think it obvious they do not like the USA , and in fact can never like them.

This also dove tails into this whole "World Opinion" stuff I keep hearing , why does the world hate the US so ? Well... the world doesn't ... the only people you are hearing from are the elites in danger of being de-throned. The silent majority stays silent , and usually uninformed, because if they face a firing squad (or worse) for openning their big mouths and complaining about their current situation.

Just an opinion , just an opinion.

So .... when do we invade Syria and conquer them ? And who's next after that ?

(Edited to add this part)

This comes back to the futility of terrorism in Iraq.

I mean , lets face it. Under the old regime, the cops walked down the street , picked up people , demanded a kick back. If you didn't have the money in your pocket, they shot you. They found pictures of prisoners being tortured, graves with 100 000 people inside of them... not because they were criminals, but because they were the raped and pillaged majority and the "special minority" did as they pleased to them.

Remove that , and replace it with the odd suicide bomber every now and then.

No dice.

Hear about a suicde bomber three towns over every few days... or face the corrupt cop on the street picking your pocket and killing you if you object every day ...which are you going to choose ? Suicide bombers are wasting their time. And their lives. And the clerics that are pushing them into it are equilly futile. They actually have to go out of country to find suicide bombers because there arn't any inside Iraq willing to do the job. The Iraqi's are frustrated at the slow pace of reform the americans impose... but they sure as heck aint going back to what they had before..no way in hell they'll do that. They'll risk hell and high water to avoid that.

Two Teired Health

Article

So what is a Two Teired Health care system ?

Well... this is a system where by the public health care system takes care of the poor people , like me , and the rich people get to jump ahead in line by going to private clinics , which charge a lot more than the government rates. Which most people can't pay , so there's a very short line up , and so they basically queue jump to the head of the line.

Oh ... and the doctors get paid more in private clinics. And they don't have to work as hard.

Which , if you're a smart doctor , means leaving public service behind and working for a private clinic only, for rich people only. But if you're a a dumb doctor, the rich peoples clinics won't have you , so you're stuck in public service.

Oh , and the rich peoples doctors ? They don't want the hard cases, only the easy ones that occur most commonly and are easy to fix. Hard cases they dump on the public health care system, because hey , Crohns Disease (as an example) only affects 7 people in 100 000 , so it's just not cost effective to bother with it. Leave it to the dumb doctors too stupid to work in the private sector of rich people.

Oh , and you're only mediocre rich ? You may use the rich peoples clinic until you run out of money , then back to the public sector for you with all the dumb doctors. Basically we fleece you for every dime and then dump you.

So how would I fix this ?

I was talking to a nurse recently , and she points out that the government deliberately limites the number of doctors, refusing to train more than 250 in a year even though thousands apply for the position.

Why are we even talking about a two tiered health care system when the government is already imposing an artificial shortage of doctors ? Just stop imposing the artificial limit, thats all. Whats your problem ?

Greed , of course is the problem. It all comes down to money. Some special interest group , probably the doctors themselves or some medical council , doesn't want to flood the market with doctors, their salaries might go down !

Stupid , self inflicted problem. I hate this.

Mind My Mask

Article


WASHINGTON (AFP) - A suspected American member of Al-Qaeda threatened attacks against Los Angeles and the Australian city of Melbourne in a videotape shown by ABC television on the fourth anniversary of September 11.


The threat was made by Adam Gadahn, a US national who converted to Islam


oops ! But I was wearing a mask when I made that tape ! Honest !


"Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing," said the warning.


It would have to be with god willing, because it certainly aint going to happen with ninnies like you in charge !


"We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators."


In other words , WE WANT TO BE THE OCCUPIERS AND DICTATORS ! Yeah right. Check out the article link , nice beard buddy.



ABC said US intelligence believed the man who appears on the tape is Gadahn, who comes from Orange County, California. He made a similar tape last year that US intelligence said was authentic.


Oops..pardon my mask. Didn't know it was optional.

Iran 5 years from nukes

Article

"We estimate, if everything goes right, if they throw all their effort into solving their problems, they might be able to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear weapon within five years," Gary Samore, editor of a new report, told BBC radio.


Ha ha. How about you have it today ?

Grind up some nuclear waste to powder, put it in a crop duster plane , over fly an enemy city. (Israel , in the case of these muslims) , start dumping.

Ditto mixing in said poweder waste to a couple of slabs of c-4 explosive and plantting them somewhere provocative. True it's not a "nuclear explosion" but the dust makes a hell of a mess.

These weapons inspectors couldn't find snow in the middle of winter. You want to allow these muslim terrorist / suicide bombers access to any kind of nuclear material ? Even just waste products that can't possibly go nuclear ? Yer crazy.

And so is Iran.

A while back the US ran photo's from its sattalites of the damb being built in egypt somewhere. Nice pictures of tunnels hidden underneath and everything. It was meant as a message to the russions (enemies at the time friends today) that their hidden missile silo's arn't so hidden.

Last year a tunnel connecting the us / canada border was spotted before it was even completed , cops waiting on both sides for the first load of drugs to go through before arresting everyone in sight. Anyone wanna guess how they spotted the tunnel ?

Anyone wanna guess on the odds of Irans nuclear reactor , no matter how well hidden , getting a visit by some high altitude bombers just before completion ?

If they're smart , this is just some political boondoggle to get some aid money out of the west. But they're a muslim state, they're probably not smart. They're probably trying to REALLY produce a nuclear weapon , with intention of lobbing it at their ancient enemy Israel. Religion and nuclear weapons . yech !

Hmmm... Bush is pushing some anti-abortion pro-prayer guy to the supreme court isn't he ? And he has nukes and is pretty churchy himself isn't he ?

yech !

Operation Go Home

Finally. The big day , or a big day.

Aug 30th. I'm allowed a light breakfast , and then clear fluids for the rest of the day
until midnight, because after midnight I have to fast , and then they operate on me
tommorow.

Heck with it. Don't eat anything , drink lots of water and apple juice. Check my pills,
the anti-biotics have run out. Phone the doctor, forget it ! I'm going in tomorow, he'll
worry about it then I can live for one day without anti biotics.

Drink my laxitive solution (which tasts terrible despite the lemon symbol on the front)
go to the bathroom a lot, go to bed early.

My freind shows up around 8pm , we go cruising. I'm allowed clear fluids right ? Jello
counts according to all the nurses. So we hit a grociery store in our travels and I
buy up some jello.

Go home. Man, that jello tastes good. Too good. Normaly I hate jello. Start hunting
all over the lable. IN really tiny print it says "Jello pudding" . PUdding. It isn't jello
at all.

AHHHH... I just blew my diet ! I'm gonna get in trouble !

Aug 31
I drink half a glass of water, get dressed, my sister escorts me down to the
hospital . Smoke a cigarette (she does , I'm a non smoker) and we go in. They have
to "prepare me" , which seems to involve stripping me naked , making me put on a
hospital gown , and a cruel and vicious nurse sticking an unusually painful IV in
my arm. I mean really , normally I only whimper when they do it, but I had to actually
yell on this one. I guess I drew one of the incompetant ones.

11am , I'm lying in bed. Looking at the clock. Surgury is at 1am. Sister comes in. we
chat for a bit. Then the nurse comes in , wants me to put on some special stockings
that help prevent blood clots after surgery (among other things). We make jokes about
me staring in the rocky horror picture show, getting a felt marker and drawing
fish netting on the stalkings. It kills a few hours. She goes out for lunch, I catch some
zz's in a fairly uncomfortable hospital bed.

2pm rolls around. The previous patient is taking longer than expected. But thats ok.
3pm Me and my sister chat computers and look at the clock a lot.
4pm Doctor shows up . Surgury is cancelled, we'll reschedule in a couple of weeks,
call in the morning.
AHHHHHH.... I've been starving for 2 days now and thats all you can tell me ???

Get dressed. Go home. PIG OUT !
Phone work. Guess I'm going in tommorow after all.
remind me to get a doctors note for this.

I don't feel so bad about the jello chocolate pudding any more. In fact, the moment I got home, it was the first thing I finished off.

Bye Bye TV

And I thought I was the only one who hated TV.

News Article



If you're a young Canadian between the ages of 18 and 34, you likely don't spend a lot of time in front of a television set. You're much more likely to be online, downloading music and movies, and playing games. You want choice. You want control.

In short, you're already scaring the pants off television producers and advertisers everywhere.

The internet is now the medium of choice for young Canadians. A recent Ipsos-Reid poll shows that Canadians aged 18 to 34 spend an average of 14.7 hours a week online and 11.7 hours listening to radio – a strong second-place finish for a medium once thought to be on the decline due to the internet's growing influence.

Television comes up third with 11.6 hours of average weekly viewing.


This is very interesting , as I sit here on my computer, listening to my mp3 player loaded up with downloaded music, bored because my favorite online game , World of Warcraft , is down right now and won't let me log in. (they always have problems... too many players I think. )

There is a TV in the living room, and because my internet is through the cable tv lines, I get some basic TV on it that I'm not paying for. But it's crap, and I wouldn't pay for it anyways. And , as you probably guessed by now, I'd rather be blogging and surfing the internet than watching the Boob Toob as I like to call it.

Behind me lies a selection of over 100 DVD's , favorite movies I've picked up over time , one here one there. I throw one into my computer every now and then and watch it when I'm really bored. The video place across the street offers trade in's, they'll buy you're old DVD's , but I don't do that. I want my collection to get larger , not smaller. I don't plan on dumping any of them. About once every two weeks I pick up another dvd to add to the collection. Maybe once a week in summer / fall when a spate of good ones come out.

My favorite TV show to quote (not to actually watch , I don't even know if it even runs anymore) is called This Hour Has 22 Minutes, the title being a comment on the fact that if you pull out a stop watch and time the TV for an hour, only 22 minutes of actual show will be there, and 38 minutes of commercials. Something that rings in my head every time I get dragged over to a friends place and they turn on the boob tube and a commercial pop's up.

There was a show called Highlander once, I rented a tape on it. Sucker ,it wasn't the movie, it was two tv episodes back to back. TV episodes. With the comercials removed. Ran 45 minutes for both episodes (according to the cover). Now if that doesn't turn you off TV (assuming you were searching for the TV version and not the original movie) nothing will.

Bye Bye Television.
I won't miss you.

CT Head Scan - Help Wanted

They're going to operate on me again in two days. Today I went in for a CT scan (Cat scan , whatever ). I should mention they're going to operate on my belly , and that they told me I would be drinking some kind of horrible stuff so I was to show up at 9:45am even though the scan wasn't until 11am.

Walk in , give my name. "So , how bad is it going to taste ? "
"Is what going to taste ? " asked the nurse.
"They said I'm supposed to drink this ugly stuff, thats why you want me in here early."
"Oh no. It's a head scan. You don't drink anything. "
?
"You're going to take pictures of my head ?"
"Yes. "
"But they're going to operate on my belly ? "
She looked at me.
I pull up my shirt and show her this ugly bandage on my belly with a tube running from it and everything. "I dont' think the doctor is going to be impressed with a few shots of my head when it comes time for him to cut open my belly. I think he wants shots of my belly , personally. "
Sighes, picks up the phone.

The new ... whatever it is , constrast liquid they make you drink so they can x ray you ? Tastes like water. But you wind up going the bathroom every twenty minutes for the rest of the day. Yah win some you lose some.

Got to watch hurricane Katrina coverage. Just one reporter repeating the same thing over and over. Down to catagory 4 storm, The Big Easy (New Orleans) about to get wiped. Foggy pictures of rain. Boring. Why did those people build a city 6 feet below sea level anyways ? I privately think New Orleans might not be there tommorow. We'll see.

Brother Love Hussein

Story

A letter from Saddam Hussein


"My soul and my existence is to be sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq," the letter said.


Tell me again about the 100 000 muslims you had executed because they were Shiite's and you were Sunni ? In effect, wrong kind of muslim kill them all...


"Life is meaningless without the considerations of faith, love and inherited history in our nation," the letter said.


Tell me again about how you invaded your neibours for oil because the kick back they were giving you wasn't big enough ? Desert Storm , Kuwaite , remember that ?


In addressing his correspondent, Saddam said: "My brother, love your people, love Palestine, love your nation, long live Palestine."


Unless they're the wrong kind of muslim. Or some other religion. Then kill them all.

Jordan rockets miss US Navy ship

Story

Three missiles have been fired from the Jordanian port of Aqaba, missing a US Navy ship but hitting Israel.

Two rockets missed the USS Ashland, an American naval ship docked in the port. A Jordanian soldier died when one of the two missiles hit the dockside.

The third missile landed near Eilat airport in neighbouring Israel, causing no injuries.

An internet statement, purportedly from a group which says it has links to al-Qaeda, said it was to blame.


I have to wonder. How did that internet statement read ?

Dear Infidel Dogs.
We the undersigned Terrorists did willingly and with premediatation fire off some rockkets at you. WE have to tell you about this on the internet because they kind of missed and didn't actually hit anything but our own people whom we are protecting, but you should be afraid of us anyways.

Get out , or we'll shoot more of our rockets at you. Maybe they might even hit you this time , instead of our own people.

Sincerely ,

Incompetant Terrorists Incoporated.

Softwood Lumber $ting

Story


Washington says its dispute with Ottawa over imports of Canadian softwood can only be settled by negotiation.

U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins said that, despite a North American Free Trade Agreement ruling this month that U.S. duties of 21 percent on imported Canadian softwood were illegal, his government would keep imposing the duties, worth about $100 million per month, the CBC reported Thursday.


Lemme see.

You negotiated to create NAFTA for a solid year , to solve this particular dispute (pardon me , I'm a canadian , I've been hearing about about the softwood lumber thing since I was a little kid and I'm over 40 now, so this has been going on for several decades)

You finally set up a council to solve it, it issues a decision...

I don't like the decision .. I'm not abiding by it.

*sigh*

Kiss Nafta goodbye. You just killed it.

You also killed any reputation America might have had of keeping it's promises. Why would anyone bother to negotiate with you over anything when in the end , if you don't like it , you just tear it all up and throw it away ?

Americans !

http://www.byebyekarla.com/

Ottawa Boy
Who is Dave Homenuck ?
Dave Homenuck was the original webmaster who felt it was his civic duty to jeapordize the personal security of Karla Homolka upon her release in
2005. His vulgar website the Karla Homolka death pool, encouraged users to place bets on the date of her demise (but encouraged patrons not to kill her themselves as that would be cheating) and posted the email addresses of those who contacted him to protest the existance of such a website.

Upon learning of this site the Canadian Coalition Against The Death Penalty purchased the URL to prevent
Mr. Homenuck and others like him from continuing to endorse the murder of Karla Homolka upon her release.

actually, I kind of agree with this. Mob Rule has always been a bad thing, even in these cases. Some smuck posting a Lets Kill So and So site doesn't sit well with me , no matter what her crimes. Lets the cops deal with it.

Radical Muslim Cleric to Return to Britain

Ottawa Boy

Story


LONDON - A fundamentalist Muslim cleric facing possible treason charges said Tuesday that he left Britain over the weekend and was in Lebanon but planned to return within weeks unless the government says he is unwelcome.


You're facing treason charges. I think you can take it as gospel that you're unwelcome.


He told British Broadcasting Corp. radio he had left Britain on Saturday to avoid being used by the government to pressure British Muslims with new measures. Bakri, who has lived in Britain for 20 years, said he traveled to Lebanon and was staying with his mother.


Sheesh ! Just because a few people got killed by bombs and you praised them ! And now the british bobbies want you to say blowing people up is a bad thing and you don't want to play ball ? Shocking !


But he insisted he would not inform British police if he knew Muslims were planning an attack.

"Islam forbids me to report any Muslim ... to the British police," Bakri said. "My job (is) to stop him, to hold him with my Muslim brothers even if it costs me my life."


we know. Because all non muslims are second class citizens and your job is to make their life hard until they convert.

Or they decide to make your life hard and boot you out or throw you in prison for being a pain. One way or the other ...

20-year mission in Afghanistan

Ottawa Boy

News Article

"Every time you kill an angry young man overseas, you're creating 15 more who will come after you," he said.

We have to worry about ticking them off ? What about them ticking us off ? That rule applys to the 3000 americans who died in the world trade center you know. And judging by the number of terrorists that keep getting deported here in canada because they have ties, or they were taking photo's of Parliment hill for their friends in Afghanistan to plan an operation or something , we're a target too !

All of this blather about don't tick off the terrorists, but they're already doing what they can to hit us, You can't tick them off any more than they already are.

Kick them in the balls, and when they fall kick them a few more times until they're out of it. What is this soft pedal stuff ? They're killing innocent civilians. Kill them all.

That could be me hopping on a bus and getting caught by some suicide bomber next, and at that point my sympathy for their cause is zero.

The Missing Part

Ottawa Boy

I'ts friday. I finally met with my doctor. Where upon he stuck another hose up my *ahem* with a camera on the end to look around, that was painful in itself.

Oh yes.. hte part they couldn't replace. I'll just send you over to surgery for that. No prob... just a little screw on thing it will take them 15 minutes ...

Surgury looks it over. Nope. There's a little tiny string or something inside that part that goes all the way up the hose and inside, or some strange thing like that. It can't be replaced without removeing the entire drain and putting in a brand new one.

Which is precisely what they did.

Litocain (sp?) needles hurt like heck ! But at least when it was in It was painless.

Now I know why no one carried that part. You have to go into the operating room with a doctor and 3 nurses and the whole nine yards to replace it. Not something you want to let a home care worker mess worth.

*sigh*

Fatal Jaywalker

Ottawa Boy

(article)


A cousin of Menezes, Alex Alves Pereira, said his family was upset and angry over the death, and he challenged police statements that he failed to obey orders, and jumped a ticket barrier at the Stockwell Underground station in south London.


To jaywalk. A term I ( in canada) associate with walking across the street in the middle of the road , or otherwise not at the usual crosswalk.

Thats what our friend the Brit / Brazilian worker who ran from the cops did. Why ? Because British cops typically don't carry guns , so hey , why not run from them ? It's a big fine to be caught sneaking on the train or jaywalking or some other minor traffic penalty. I bet people run from the british bobbies all the time.

And in these openning days of terrorism on the Brits where suddenly all the rules have changed , those slow to adapt to the changing circumstances get caught in the crossfire.

In the end I will lay you long odds that "Jean Charles de Menezes" was jaywaking or some such , had a long history of such petty traffic offences , and simply had no clue that the cops were suddenly armed and willing to kill.

I am somewhat concearned that they found his heavy coat suspicious (I'm using a similar dodge to hide a medical problem of my own ) but then again ... up here in canada, the cops have been armed for most of my life, if not all of it , and my first reaction would be to stop and raise my hands. I havn't run for anything , not even the bus, in over a decade.

In the end , this is an incidental traffic hazard. Don't run from the cops and you're fine.

8 Wasted Hours

Ottawa Boy

My Crohns Disease gave me an Abcess (look it up , it's desgusting). The solution was to attach a hose to this big golf ball sized lump in my stomach and let it drain into a bag for two weeks or so , then take the bag off when it stopped draining. Desgusting, but they gave me a doctors note for one week and I called work and got a weeks vacation for the following week , so I aint dragging that bag anywhere.

Home care worker comes in to deal with the "Drain" as they call it every day. Notices a piece on it is cracked and tends to leak some times. Oh we don't have that part. Turns out the home care worker has complete replacement parts for every piece of the drain. Except that one little piece. Tapes it up , orders me to the hospital. Well, it's saturday night, the wait time will be impossible, how about 6 am sun morning ? ok

Arrive at the hospital at 6am.
Actually get to see someone ( a nurse, not a doctor) at 11am. 5hours wasted sitting on an uncomfortable waiting room chair. Get put in a little examination room. Nurse comes in , looks over the tubing. Her response ? "We don't have that part. "
Yeah , I know. No one has that part. But you guys put it in !

Two hours later , a surgeon , two other nurses , and one "expert scavanger" nurse who apparently have been everywhere and seen everything drop by , look at and declare "I have no idea what that is. " to the part.

Eventually , around 2pm, they tape it up with water proof tape, nicely give me the roll of tape for my home care worker, and send me home with instructions to phone my doctor.

They dont' have that part. They have every other part for the drain, except that one.
8 hours in the hospital ... down the drain...

Karla Homolka

Judge denies serial killer media seclusion
Nationally reviled Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka has lost her court bid to keep the media away from her after her pending release from prison. Homolka, 35, was due to be released from a Quebec prison either Thursday or Monday ...

You're a serial killer, and you're getting out of jail at 35 ? So ... 3 people dead at your hands ... 15 years in jail ... the price of a human life in canada is 5 years in the slammer then eh ? I think you can live with a few flash bulbs going off in your face for the next few years until the circus dies down Homolka. It wont kill you , yah know !

However, Justice Paul-Marcel Bellavance denied the motion for the woman, who has legally changed her surname to Teale.


Hello Karla Teale !!!! Trying to dodge the lime light eh ? Nice try.


One day or other, after 12 years of detention, Karla Teale will have to face the Canadian public and the Canadian media


Actually , you can just slamb the door shut in their face and ignore the constant trampling on your lawn. And I'm sure you can find a great job as a female wrestler somewhere. The Canadian Terror or some such , you'll be famous, you can make a mint off this Homolka ! I mean Teale ! If you have any acting ability at all I'm sure half the movie houses in Canada and The States would love to cast you as an evil Villianess !


Under a plea bargain, she was not charged in the death of her 15-year-old sister, who died in 1990 after choking on her own vomit when she was drugged and raped by Homolka and her husband Paul Bernardo, who is serving a life sentence.


You did your own little sister ? And you got off scott free on that one ? Precocious !

Canadian Drugs

Canada to regulate drug exports to U.S.


The Canadian government is drafting legislation to regulate drug exports to the United States, and curb them if necessary to prevent domestic shortages.

Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United States of America, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh told reporters Wednesday.

He said new regulations were needed because he expects the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would allow large imports of prescription drugs, most of them sold online.


Ummm... what ?


Dosanjh said he was willing to consult with the industry that employs 5,000 people as the law was being drafted.


Ok...so an industry of 5000 people are managing to supply a population of 300 million with drugs. I'm not seeing a problem here. I heard rumours that a population of 30 million cannot hand over it's drug supply to a population of 300 million ...but I mean .. another 5000 , or even 50 000 , workers cranking out prescription drugs and selling them... thats just good for the country.

Why am I not seeing a problem on the Canadian side ? But I do see a problem on the American side, specifically the American Pharmacy Industry who's been overcharging the american public for years and would like to continue their practices. Sometimes I really gotta wonder who's dumping money where. Is it at all possible that our Hundred Million Dollar Man is getting his pocket lined just a little bit more with this business at the backing of these american drug corperations ?

I really gotta wonder sometimes.

Man are those cows ever Mad !

Yahoo Mad Cow Disease Article

Tue Jun 28, 5:56 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The latest case of mad cow disease has brought new talk of a national livestock tracking system, something the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee says the beef industry can create more quickly than the government.

So the beef industry , who's losing massive amounts of money in sales , is going to get the job of blowing the horn when they themselves produce a bad product ? How often do you think they're going to sound the alert ?

The industry is hoping to persuade the department to use the cattlemen's system instead of its own. Other groups of livestock producers are also resisting the idea of a mandatory system.

Oh no Mr Government Official ! We don't want someone else to watch us make and sell sick cows ! We'll do that ourselves ! Trust us ! Honest ! We can pretend to be neutril observers even though our very lively hoods are at stake here and we'd basically be ratting ourselves out ! This WILL work , honest !!!!

"We definitely do not believe that this should be a top-down operation where folks here in Washington know best how cattle producers should keep track of their cattle," Goodlatte said. "And we definitely do not believe the government should have control of this information, except when they need it."

"We definately will not tell you diddly squat if we can get away with it , that would seriously hurt our bottom line"

Not everyone likes the idea of an industry-run system. "You shouldn't have profiteering take place on a system that's for safety purposes," said Jess Peterson, spokesman for a rival cattle producers' group, R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America. "You need to have it run through the government."

Only smart thing I read in the whole news article.

So , The US is complaining that Japan and a few other places don't want their beef anymore ? And this is their solution ? Well if they didn't want it before , you think they're going to want it after you do this ???

Politics and medicine just don't mix. But they're trying , they're trying.

Elektra

Movie Review Time : Elektra

The hundred million dollar man is still in office, blah . More bombings in Iraq. Junk everyone talks about and knows about. Maybe I'll review a movie today.

Elektra

Staring Jennifer Garner (2005)

Don't expect a sequil to the Daredevil movie. They completely stole the charactar and dumped her into a new place. They also stole Stick , Daredevil's mentor , and put him up as her trainer.

Special Effects have now become passé , even an obviously b-rated movie like this one has good ones, though they are few and far between. Mostly you will see a lot of martial arts action and fighting.

The tale is that Elektra is an assassin for hire , out to kill some kid, then decides she can't do it. The Hand , Marvel Comics favorite martial arts villian group, gets a little miffed at her for that , and starts sending waves of assassins at her.

Interesting that while they steal Stick from Daredevil , they can't be bothered to stick with Elektra's background from the daredevil movie, they make a new one and ignore that.

Anyways, she's an excellent fighter it seems, but she's either overwhelmed by sheer numbers, or by an elite group of martial artists who actually have magical powers of one sort or another (thats where the special effects come in ) and she doesn't.

The movie is a good one , I would buy it on DVD when the prices go down , but I wouldn't go to the theatre for it. It isn't that great.

It is marred by a lot "emtpiness" . Most everything seems to take place out in the wilderness or in small rooms where there are no back ground actions going on , and there's only a very small number of people on screen at a time. I'm not sure if its the lack of extra's or they really should work more on the back ground music... but that empty feeling can be annoying sometimes. if I want to enjoy nature, I'll take a walk in the park , not put a dvd in the player.

Worthwhile ... but nothing special. Dont bother to try and find links to the Daredevil movie it's a hash job that stands by itself.