Shut Up And Listen 90

Bombs Over Baghdad
I haven’t been able to get that phrase out of my head since Monday, and I have no idea why.
	The UN inspectors have yet to find anything in Iraq. They’ve searched everywhere: medical research facilities, various public service facilities (like water treatment plants), and of course, the ever insidious beer factories (at least that’s what I was told by some media source whose name I forget now because well, they tend to blend together over time). That’s right, a beer factory. I wouldn’t build any weapons there just because that’s the first place they’d look.
	People around the world are different, sure, but what’s one thing they all love: alcohol. I can just see the UN inspectors now . . .

Inspector #1: When do we go to the beer factory to “inspect” it?

Inspector #2: Yes! When?

Inspectors #3-89: BEER!

Lead Inspector: It’s the next stop, folks.

That’s the way it goes down. Now, me, if I’m going to build weapons, I’m going to do it in a tampon factory. No one is going to check out the tampon factory. Why would they? The men would be too embarrassed to go in, and the women probably wouldn’t want anything to do with tampons made in a Middle Eastern country (because many of their attitudes about women are centuries behind ours, so one could assume, that their feminine products are also). 
	But Saddam is a crafty fellow, so he probably already thought of this. So, I plead to the UN inspectors: CHECK THE TAMPON FACTORY!
	While we’re on the subject, I would like to mock all those people here in London who attended the anti-war demonstration in Victoria Park last weekend. I applaud you convictions, but have to ask are you guys fucking retarded? Huh? What kind of morons think that a demonstration in London fucking Ontario is going to do anything? Why didn’t you organize a bigger, much more public demonstration in a place that people actually pay attention to? I mean, that’s what I would do, but what do I know?

Kyoto
On Monday, the vote on whether or not to ratify the Kyoto Accord will happen in the House Of Commons on Parliament Hill. Hopefully, it will pass, and Canada can prove that it actually does care about the world beyond its borders. It looks like it will because it is the Prime Minister pushing it, and of course, his party has the majority in the House, so the odds are good it will pass. Here’s hoping though.