August1991

Make no mistake, this is the number to look at. As long as the government debt-to-GDP ratio is not rising, governments can borrow and spend. We Canadians are well within limits. Unlike people, the State can live forever. ===== But what are we collectively buying?

Americans, you have the term: Lawyer up. We Canadians have the term: Do you know somebody?

A Palestinian State. In Canada, Carney is about to recognise it. Well, Trudeau Snr recognised Red China.

Huh? Disagree. America has nothing to do with this war. ===== This is a stupid civil war between stubborn Slavs. It should never have started.

Huh? The idea that your prayer will change anything in the world/universe is absurd. ===== As I say, prayer is a person (you) talking to yourself.

Does the Eglinton Crosstown work? ==== True, the REM only has a few stations, to the south shore. And true, it has had numerous problems. But it now runs, uh, even on weekends.

We have these choices: Left A: Rabourin Left B: Sauve Sorta Left: Soraya (Her face is plastered everywhere like Melanie Jolie was.) ==== Leftists claim that a single, centralised way of doing things will save money, make things cheaper. Yet Leftists are first to disagree, divide, argue.

The Charter was written to restrict the powers of the State. ==== Trudeau Snr was a federalist. Levesque was a democrat.

We Canadians have huge potential - if we get along. ==== Trudeau Snr famously got along with Jack Horner.

Since 2008 or so, we are back to a multi-polar life. We Canadians are always prostitutes. But we get along. ==== I felt better during the Cold War. We were sleeping with the good guys.

Neither Trump nor Putin want to invade anywhere. Like Xi. They are all strong-men who want to dominate, but get along.

World War? No. Disagree. IMHO, we are close to another European cataclysm. === Europeans are about to kill each other - in another war.

Drunk, maybe. ==== Any human who travels beyond the protection of LEO will suffer sun rays, and random rays from the rest of the Universe. The sun rays are sort of predictable. The other rays are not. The only people who have travelled beyond LEO are the Apollo astronauts and a few Gemini astronauts.

American pre-eminence was the period after your Civil War, panic of 1873, panic of 1893. The so-called period, nowadays, of the "Robber Barons". You Americans became important. ===== Europe, Russia, China f*ed it up.

Humans can see light. Our eyes have evolved to see. We are surrounded by many other waves. We have micro-waves. We use phones. X-rays - scary. ===== Our sun sends rays. And the other suns in our galaxy also sends rays, randomly. We on this Earth are protected. ======== Anyone living on Mars, the Moon will suffer from Sun rays - and the random rays from stars outside our solar system, even our galaxy. We humans have evolved to live on Earth.

Huh? How many Newfoundlanders died in the foolishness starting in 1914. You Americans wisely avoided the disaster until 1917. And then, you made things worse. (I suspect that Wilson could not have made things better.) ==== Hitler was a direct result of World War I - the folly of August 1914.

Whatever. ==== I can predict the reply....

Agreed. The Balkan Wars, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire - changed the structure of peace. For 30 years, we ordinary people suffered between 1914-1945. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990s, changed the structure of peace. Let's get along.

Poland? 1939? Hitler, Stalin? Evil? Mao? ==== IMHO, in 2020, this has all the makings of the stupidity of August 1914. Let's get along.

Even atheists, we all talk to ourselves, inside our mind, constantly. This is prayer. Do you have a good conversation with yourself?

Islam is different. The Koran is the word of God.

Disagree. I foregive until you cheat. ===== Tit-for-tat is a good strategy.

Some people see prayer as a ritual, something to do. Other people view prayer as a request to God. I reckon that prayer is talking to oneself.

You made my point. AI doesn't understand irony. LinkSoul, we are laughing at you.

I recently saw the Hamilton musical. I too favour an independent central bank.