More questions than answers once again this week dear diary.
Some of them are semi-serious and others, not serious at all, but still worth recording if I’m going to fill this space well past deadline.
For instance, did Superman always know he could fly? If not, how did he find out? Did he have to learn how to fly? Did he rent a cape and then simply put his trust in it? Did anyone tell him he couldn’t fly before he took his solo voyage?
Is Superman and his X-ray vision a bigger deal than Eric Snowden and his “I know everything because I have this Internet stuff aced”?
These are all questions begging for answers and I haven’t even broached the topic of kryptonite.
Another question.
What happened to the Mike Duffy trial? It resumed, or at least was supposed to resume this past week. Funny how things we thought were so important, become a lesser ingredient on our political palates when governments change. The Senate debacles were supposedly so vital to Canada’s well being just a few short months ago and now, we don’t get a sniff of what’s going on in that court room because our national media types are focused on ISIS and Trudeau the Sequel, so Nigel Wright doesn’t seem to be as important.
Speaking of ISIS or ISIL, the United Nations Security Council, all 15 members, have issued a call to arms to take them out, or at least calm them down.
By the way, Canada is no longer a member of the Security Council, we got turfed for a number of reasons a couple of years ago. You’d have to ask Stevie Wonder, that Harper boy, what happened. All I know is, Canada lost a little bit of its mojo when we were stripped of that seat.
So, do all these strange sudden allies, we now have, in this common war against stupid hatred, work from the same page? We did in the Second World War, maybe we can do it again, although some experts on terrorism don’t like using the term “war” when speaking of ISIS, because they think it plays into their ego.
Really?
My humble response, is, who cares what ISIS/ISIL thinks beyond the selection of their next group of victims.
ISIS makes a whole bunch of money selling oil they steal from Middle Eastern countries and companies. They collect ransom money and sell contraband goods.
So, as our friend Brian Zinchuk from Pipeline News asks … who is buying this oil?
Good question.
Why aren’t our allies laying some hurt on those jokers? Instead of blowing up the tanker trucks that are delivering the oil, why not blow up the cargo ships or the refineries that are accepting the oil from ISIS?
While we’re at it, why find out what companies and countries are supplying them with guns and other armaments? Is big business and the gun lobby that big? A tougher suggestion … stop paying ransom money. This is a bit more controversial, but when it comes to dozens of lives versus hundreds of lives, I think we have an answer, as difficult as it may be.
Naturally, we must realize stopping the supply line, or the recipient of the illegal oil, is not that simple or easy, and there are tribal issues that will continually crop up to complicate the matter, but something must be done. The Paris massacre, the Brussels issue and the Russian plane bombing, have left us with one common conclusion. It has to be done by a coalition of the willing and strong, and it won’t be pretty. Ugly actions beget ugly reactions.
