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Sure and look at those food replicators from Star Trek. It just wouldn't work. The future is bound to be more like Oliver Twist's world where there's no free stuff and no shortage of moral panic.

You're suggesting there's some positive way to spIn this? From pointing out how incapable anyone is at holding our governments to account? You sure have a funny way of getting your daily dose of shits and giggles.

It takes roughly 50 - 60 gallons of gas or diesel an hour to run our boats at full power these days. We've had to add a fuel-surcharge. There still seems to be enough people willing to cough up the extra cost it takes to be a dedicated tourist around here. Fingers crossed. Tourism is kind of funny that way. A lot of people seem bound and determined to enjoy a little pleasure no matter how bad things get. Apparently movie houses did well during the depression. Mind you popcorn and a pop probably didn't set you back $25 like it does now.

It definitely sounds like Liberals to me. It doesn't look like Harper had anything to do with it at all.

Yabut they can't hit anything other than their own foot.

That's right, he didn't put enough effort into denying the Liberals the ability to abuse the system. You almost make it sound like he was in cahoots with the Liberals or the system both use. You mean like Harper the advisor to Carney and the Liberals? I'll pass thanks. I'm more concerned about the system, there's little about it that's worth cheering either.

Awwww. You sure are a delicate little snowflake aren't you? In the meantime its just another old grievance post like thousands of others where the inability to hold governments, especially Liberal one's, accountable is the central theme. This is definitely where Einstein would be mocking doing the same thing over and over again...you get the drift? Why, Harper wasn't behind any of this.

I'm sure his heart was in the right place he just wasn't able to accomplish what he set out to do is all. Hence, try try again.

But...I thought Harper fixed all this accountability in government stuff. So what happened, did he forget to add something, or not give it a constitutional foundation or something? Oh well, if at first you don't succeed try try again - and no, I'm pretty sure Einstein was mocking something else.

I know right? After growing up with the Science Center, 2001; A Space Odyssey and Star Trek I figured for sure I'd be living the dream in my condo overlooking Tycho by now. They'll probably hit the technological singularity a couple years after we're gone. It just comes with feeling doomed I guess.

No, I'm starting to subscribe to a more Wild In The Streets approach where we round up all the right-wingers and force them to take LSD. Naw, we just want to save the world.

I think the only sure fire way to deal with it is at the personal individual level. I've spent the last 20 years getting used to the idea we're doomed. For 30 years before that I laboured against the inevitable thinking back on all the crap I learned in high school. Yup, but I also think it's a two way street. We need a more objective population that's ready to meet our institutions part way in its shared responsibility for keeping societies shit in a more manageable pile. People have thrown out so many babies while bailing out their bathtubs...there's nothing left for them to climb on. We're also becoming less governable at the same time our institutions are less able to govern. In addition to bailing the tub we've also pulled the plug.

No it won't. Boomers are the most well adjusted generation since forever. Apparently it's because we had to grow up figuring out the stuff the world threw at us ourselves. We were out the door shortly after breakfast when Mom and Dad went to work and we were told to be home before dark. Nowadays you whiny little pampered brats can have your parents arrested for that. No offense, it probably wasn't your fault. My kids grew up having to keep an eye out for bears and the occasional wolf and cougar. Dogs usually work better than rocks btw.

We keep our food scraps in the freezer until compost pickup day. We hardly ever see them. Some 14 bears were shot hereabouts last year where people tried chasing them away. Some with rocks I imagine.

We should also be concerned about how freely people open their minds to the nonsense. The infosphere is like a modern casino - more dazzle and cacophony and the house always wins. Here, have another drink. How about a Dexedrine?

I'm always distracted by the cat videos and ships in big waves.

Enemies.

Road deactivation, creek cleaning, replanting slides. On old Interfor lands.

Einstein said the same thing about Zionist terrorists way back in the mid nineteen forties.

So are the US, Israel and anyone who imagines they have the moral or ethical background to chart the course they've taken to...fixing things.

Doesn't everyone? I was incorporated for 20 years, and tracking and planning budgets using spreadsheets 30 years ago. I was responsible for budgets totalling over half a million dollars to run 4-5 crews working out in the bush. Now I'm living the dream. Imagine that, an old lefty who owned a business and can use a spreadsheet living the dream. Does it defy everything you think you know or does it just make me more dangerous? Bwahahahaha!

No. That would be even stupider and Britain is essentially absent - it got away with their part in things. Britain certainly seems to have divested themselves of the effort. They've benefitted from the distance of time and the willingness of America to humiliate itself. Again, the Americans took democracy away from Iran. If they were serious about fixing that they should have had boots on the ground and been busy organizing the resisters by now. They should be planning an exit and rebuilding strategy with them and establishing a truth and reconciliation process to deal with crimes committed by both the Shah's and Ayatollah's regimes against Iranians.

Your misinformed view of the responsibilities involved. Without proper acknowledgement there can be no lasting reconciliation.

Not really. The point remains that it was Britain and America who set Iran on its ill fated course.

Don't forget that chance was taken away from Iran by England and America and the bloodthirsty authoritarian puppet regime they installed.