Random Stuff (or) Here There and Everywhere!

News from all over.............. NASA is now afraid that private interests will get back to the Moon before they do! Serves them right for pissing around all these years.

We should be out colonizing the solar system by now and trying to figure out how the hell we can get to the stars!

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Are we really in a police state? The secrecy coming from the US government is well documented, but now comes word that journalists here in Canada have tried to get info on the use of tasers from the RCMP under the "Access of Information act" ..... and the Mounties REFUSED!

Canada is good at conducting inquiries and this is a good time for another one!

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The World's tallest man (See article on him H E R E ) Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, who stands at eight feet five inches, was given a car by President Viktor Yushchenko.

Can't say those Ukrainians don't have a sense of humor. They gave him a "Mini Cooper!"

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Anna Falco of Toronto was at Casino Rama in Orillia and while waiting to get into a show decided to put a buck into a slot machine. She won 8.9 million bucks!!!

The guy behind her committed suicide!

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Mexico corruption rears it's ugly head again. Brenda Martin is a Canadian who has been in a Mexican jail for the last two years because....... (are you ready for this, the news just came out!) her former boss, Alyn Waage, was in an Internet fraud scheme that bilked investors out of $60 million.

He agreed to pay $500,000 bucks as a bribe to get out of jail.

Instead, he escaped and went to Costa Rica, so now the Mexican bandito's [cops and government officials] are holding Ms. Martin, (Who was a office clerk for Waage, and claims she is innocent!) for ransom until Alyn comes up with the half a million.

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The latest Arab initiative to restore Palestinian unity turned to shit amid fresh recriminations between rival Fatah and Hamas movements.

How in God's name are they going to reach a deal with Israel if they can't even agree amongst themselves?

It's no wonder that the Jews get most of the support in the West, the crazy Arabs keep shooting themselves in the foot!

Yet Al-Qaida keeps calling for new attacks and a "Holy War" against Jewish and American interests and civilians on behalf of the Palestinians!

There is something, and more than someone, seriously wacko over there!

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And this guest post by Greg Weston of Sun Media;

Imagine for a moment the reaction at the Pentagon to the news that America's premier surveillance satellite was being sold to some company up north in Canuckistan.

The sale would transfer all of the satellite's top-secret technologies to Canadian hands, and make its operations subject to the laws and national security considerations of Canada alone.

Now you have a good idea why a growing number of prominent Canadians are going ballistic over the planned sale of Canada's most advanced surveillance satellite to an American military contractor and arms merchant.

What would be ridiculous to the Americans is all but done in Canada.

Industry Minister Jim Prentice announced late last week the Conservative government wants another 30 days to review the proposed $1.35-billion sale of MacDonald Dettwiler Associates (MDA) to the space division of the U.S. giant, Alliant Techsystems.

No wonder Prentice is taking his time.

MacDonald Dettwiler owns and operates the newly launched Radarsat II satellite, spectacular Canadian technology that can "see" through the densest clouds, even at night, spotting objects the size of a car from its orbit 800 kilometres above Earth.

The firm is also mother of the iconic Canadarm robotic arm aboard the Space Shuttle, and most recently gave birth to Dextre, the amazing artificial "hand" installed on the outside of the International Space Station.

Sale of MDA gives the Americans well over a billion dollars of Canadian public investment in some of the most advanced, world-class technologies ever created in this country.

As we reported when the deal was first announced, Canadian taxpayers directly pumped $445 million into Radarsat II alone, or almost 85 per cent of its total cost.

Less than a month after the satellite was finally launched in December, it was sold as part of the MacDonald Dettwiler deal giving the company every dime of the proceeds. Taxpayers would get squat.

But the industry minister now reviewing the deal has a lot more to square than a satellite built by taxpayers and sold for someone else's profit.

For over a decade, MDA has been by far the largest recipient of government funding for Canadian space programs, support aimed at helping to make Canada a world leader in advanced robotics, and attracting the best and the brightest in the field.

A cursory glance at the contracts doled out by the Canadian Space Agency just in the past year gives a good indication just how dominant MDA has become to the national program.

In the first three months of 2007, for instance, the space agency doled out 227 contracts worth a total of $18.8 million for various hi-tech development projects.

While MDA only got 16 of those contracts, they were worth a whopping $8.2 million, or almost 44 per cent of all the financial support provided by the federal space agency.

In the 10 months before MDA sold itself to the Yanks, the firm was handed over $23 million in space agency contracts.

Only weeks before the deal was inked, the Canadian military handed MDA another $60 million contract for airborne radar.

All this is now in Prentice's lap with less than four weeks to sort it out.

As industry minister responsible for approving foreign takeovers of Canadian firms, Prentice has to establish that the MDA sale would be a "net benefit" to Canada.

But he also happens to be the minister responsible for the Canadian space program that is clearly at risk in the MDA deal.

Prentice is one of the most capable ministers in government today, and it will take all of his skills to avoid a rerun of the Avro Arrow disaster that crashed Canada's aviation industry for decades.

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site www.God-101.com

Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com

Saturday Morning Confusion. # 51

Mountie to be disciplined for using Taser on double-parked senior!

With all the uproar over the use of Tasers by cops, especially in British Columbia, I am really, really confused as to why they don't seem to get the message........ Oh wait, I forgot, they are above the law and don't care, one way or the other, on what the public thinks!

An RCMP officer in Kelowna, B.C., will be disciplined for using a Taser stun gun on a 68-year-old stroke victim over a parking violation.

Supt. Bill McKinnon said the incident grew out of a simple traffic stop that escalated when John Peters drove away.

John Peters admitted he first drove away when a police officer tried to give him a ticket for double parking. When the RCMP approached his car for the second time the officer had his taser drawn, ready to use.

Peters, 68, says he raised his arm to try to protect himself before an RCMP officer shot him with the Taser.

The officer stunned him with the Taser once while he was still in his car, and again when he got out, Peters said.

McKinnon said a stun gun should never be used when someone is seated in a car and the officer has been suspended from using the Taser. He will likely receive a written reprimand on his record, McKinnon said.

"We have determined the use of a conducted energy weapon while Mr. Peters remained seated in the driver's seat of his vehicle was indeed inappropriate," McKinnon said.

Peters told the "Perspective" investigative team that the RCMP apologized to him on Thursday before issuing the public statement.

"We in turn regret this particular action, and have apologized to Mr. Peters over this tactical error in judgment. I have ordered a Code of Conduct investigation in order to address the issue," said McKinnon.

However, the second use of the Taser on Peters, after he got out of the vehicle, was justified because Peters was combative and resisting arrest, McKinnon said.

HOLD ON A MINUTE KIDS, The cop tasered this old guy while he was sitting unarmed in his car, and then a second time because he got combative over being tasered the first time????

For this he gets a reprimand?????

That cop should be charged with "aggravated assualt" or "assualt with a weapon" ...... but we all know that's not going to happen, don't we!

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com

If I ruled the world!

The Janssen Manifesto

Part 1:

Here it is a Sunday afternoon and I have not been out all weekend because it is too hot! Instead, I sat in front of this damned computer, wrote in my own blog, and visited all sorts of others from literally around the world.

A realization slowly started to form in my feeble little brain that there are uncountable points of view on any major subject, with a particular emphasis on politics and religion.

Not only that, but the vast majority of people whose thoughts I read about on their “blogs” seemed to be totally out of their minds. (Or at the very least, seriously mis-informed about that of which they were speaking!)

In other words, they were full of shit!

This got me thinking about my dear old Mother who once said to me in a fit of pique and self-righteous indignation; “If I ruled the world, things would be a lot different!”

This sent me into a daydream about how I could go about solving all the big problems in the world and just for the hell of it, here I go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First, we might as well start with politics and close to home, which for me is here in Canada.

There are two big problems here. The first is Quebec and all their whining about how they are distinct and different and this and that.

It never stops - and they keep talking about getting out of Canada for a better cultural and economic life! (This in spite of the fact that someone, [Churchill?] once said; “The French are the greatest second raters in the world!”)

That is an easy problem to solve. We do not let them separate. We kick them out!

Separatists in Quebec keep telling the population how the province could do better on its own both culturally and economically. (Never mind that Quebec receives far more than it gives to the Federal government.)

They also would then be a country with 10 million people in a sea of over 300 million English-speaking people - and without the support of the Canadian Infrastructure.)

Could they pull this off? Of course not.

Just so there are no hard feelings - when they leave we will even give them Labrador so that they might find some more oil and minerals for their economy.

BUT, we need a connection to the Eastern part of Canada so we will take, (remember there are more of us than them) the South Shore to avoid partitioning the country.

For any non-Canadian who does not know, the South Shore is the part of Quebec on the south side of the Saint Lawrence River that extends in a small band from Ontario to New Brunswick.

This, by the way would also automatically solve the problem of bilingualism! There would not be any - so all the cereal boxes would be in English again.

The other problem is multi-culturalism. WE DO AWAY WITH IT!

Where the United States is described as a huge “Melting Pot;” Canada has stressed retention of national characteristics for recently arrived immigrants and this has led to chaos in certain parts of society.

When my relatives came here from Europe in the fifties it was a case of learning the language and fitting in with society.

The big thing was that you did it as a Canadian, and you did it according to the laws of this Country, not the laws of the place you came from!

These days everyone wants to pick and choose what sort of Canadian they want to be.

People from India want to join the Royal Canadian Police but insists on wearing their turban instead of a Mounties hat - on religious grounds. It does not occur to them that if they do not like it they just do not join. NO, instead we have to alter our institutions and customs to suit them instead of the other way.(Plus they would look like real assholes with a hat perched on top of their turban!!!)

Indian Sikh schoolchildren claim that they can take a dagger to school because it is their custom and religion from “Over There,” and why should they have to change just because they are “Over Here!”

Sikh extremists blow up Canadian airliners because ther are pissed about conditions back in India!

Muslims want to be able to impose an Islamic “Sharia Law” on their people instead of abiding by the laws of Canada, and when they are turned down, scream discrimination.

Then young Muslims and their families live here, collect welfare and all the social benefits the country has to offer them, live far better than they ever could have “back home,” and then plot to perform terrorist acts to further their cause of Islamic Fundamentalism. (A couple of dozen of them in Toronto of all places! What the hell do they have to bitch about the Canadian way of life.)

People come here, get their Canadian Citizenship and immediately go back to the country of their birth.

Then twenty or thirty years later, when there is ethnic or religious strife where they are living again, the first thing they do is plead with the Canadian government to bail them out and give them free passage back to Canada.

(As of this writing, it just happened again in Lebanon!)

SO,the solution is the end to Multi-Culturalsim, if you're going to be here, you're going to fit in here! Never mind the baggage from "back home, we don't need that shit"

There, that solved some of the major problems here in Canada. In Part two; we will straighten out the Middle East, and after that the rest of the World. Stay tuned!

Your Faithful Scribe
Allan W Janssen